Welcome home, my sweet child!
Posted on 06/29/2009 6:07:12 AM PDT by lizol
Coming from Poland, I daresay he was a Catholic.
He made the right choice. Who knows, along the way......miracles may happen by invoking his memory and asking his intercession in heaven.
Praying for him.
Amen to that quote from Revelation.
Welcome home, my sweet child!
...Amir said he was kept in the same cell where Stanczak was held for a month before the Polish man was decapitated.A Pole who was "very stubborn"? That's an ethnic characteristic/stereotype, and I daresay I inherited some of that from my Mom, who is half Polish (we like to call it tenacity).
Amir said Taliban soldiers guarding the two-storey prison building in South Waziristan, a lawless tribal district bordering Afghanistan, frequently chatted with him and one day they mentioned the abduction and killing of Stanczak.
'Our people were keeping an eye on his movements for several months. We were expecting that we could exchange some of our mujahidin in the government's custody for him,' Amir quoted a guard as saying.
Because Stanczak was a high-profile target, the Taliban made extensive preparations to kidnap and shift him to a safe place from Attock, some 100 kilometres from Islamabad.
'You know the Indus River lies between Attock and North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) and our people could not use the bridge to cross it because it is heavily guarded. So we bought a boat to transport Piotr across the border,' the guard, who identified himself as Abdullah, told Amir.
From NWFP, Stanczak was moved to the Tirah Valley of the adjoining Khyber tribal district, and a month later to the Taliban's stronghold of South Waziristan, a 14-hour drive through muddy mountain tracks.
'Piotr never showed any sign of nervousness or fear. He would finish the food we gave him and sleep well. We all admired his courage. It was not an easy decision even for our commander to kill Piotr,' Abdullah said. 'That's why he gave him a last chance,'
'But he was very stubborn and refused our goodwill gesture to save his life,' Abdullah was cited as saying by Amir.
'Piotr said first we should release him. He will go back to his country, consult his family and read about Islam and only then deicide about converting to Islam.'
This surprised everyone but we had to kill him because principles are principles - we gave him a chance and he lost it, the guard told Amir. 'But undoubtedly he was a brave man.'
Piotr Stanczak, pray for us.
Thanks for the ping/post, Pyro7480.
A new martyr, indeed. God bless his family.
“A stromg man, none of us know how we would react under his circumstances.”
Amen.
‘Piotr said first we should release him. He will go back to his country, consult his family and read about Islam and only then deicide about converting to Islam.’
Simply AMAZING!!
I don’t know, I don’t think that I would chance it, based on the scenario during the Tribulation when we’re told in revelation that people will have to either take the mark or be killed for their belief, and there’s no “taqiyya” for Christians in that situation. I would just pray that God would give me the grace and strength of His Holy Spirit to bear losing what I can’t keep anyway-my mortal life-in order to not lose my immortal soul. The early Christian martyrs made that choice. I know we Americans in modern days don’t even have an inkling what persecution for one’s faith is, but I pray that when it came to a choice between my flesh which will die and return to dust anyway, and my soul which will either spend eternity with my Saviour or in eternal torment, God’s Holy Spirit would see me through. There is a verse in the Bible which I can’t just remember at this time, which says as much. (And there’s a good reason for memorising as much Scripture as possible, against the possible day when we don’t have access to God’s Word in print).
Yes, his mortal life, a poor trade for eternity in damnation, torment, and separation from God.
Those who don’t want to kill “infidels” aren’t devout, according to their own Koran.....
That’s it...Until all these roaches are exterminated this will continue....
May Mr. Stanczak rest in peace, truly a brave man. Unlike the animals who blame everyone but themselves as they execute him. It strikes me how they hide their own identities, grotesquely murder him over what must have seemed a long several minutes, but remove their shoes out of some twisted sense of decency.
O Piotr, please pray to Lord for us, sinners.
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