Posted on 04/21/2017 5:01:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
Twelve seconds of silence is an awkward eternity on television. Amr Adeeb, perhaps the most prominent talk show host in Egypt, leaned forward as he searched for a response.
“The Copts of Egypt … are made of … steel!” he finally uttered.
Moments earlier, Adeeb was watching a colleague in a simple home in Alexandria speak with the widow of Naseem Faheem, the guard at St. Mark’s Cathedral in the seaside Mediterranean city.
On Palm Sunday, the guard had redirected a suicide bomber through the perimeter metal detector, where the terrorist detonated. Likely the first to die in the blast, Faheem saved the lives of dozens inside the church.
“I’m not angry at the one who did this,” said his wife, children by her side. “I’m telling him, ‘May God forgive you, and we also forgive you. Believe me, we forgive you.’
“‘You put my husband in a place I couldn’t have dreamed of.’”
Stunned, Adeeb stammered about Copts bearing atrocities over hundreds of years, but couldn’t escape the central scandal.
“How great is this forgiveness you have!” his voice cracked. “If it were my father, I could never say this. But this is their faith and religious conviction.”
Millions marveled with him across the airwaves of Egypt.
So also did millions of Copts, recently rediscovering their ancient heritage, according to Ramez Atallah, president of the Bible Society of Egypt which subtitled and recirculated the satellite TV clip.
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There is a difference between the charity of forgiving the murderer, and the foolishness of allowing the murderer to kill, if you have the means to stop him.
Real Muslims aren’t moved by anything.
It is a call to true spiritual conversion to Christ.
God see humanity much differently than we do.
I’ll take His opinion over yours all the time.
Catholic Christian here: Pope Benedict XVI said mercy does not take the place of justice, abolish justice or substitute for justice. If it does, it is false mercy; in fact, it makes one an enabler of evil.
False "mercy" is cruel to the innocent. It is even cruel to the perp, because it does not confront him with the truth of the repulsive evil of his deed, and his desperate need to repent or suffer everlasting horror.
Instant, automatic forgiveness is no good. It is cheap grace. It is easy-believe-ism. It is the equivalent of waving your hand, when someone else has been bayoneted in the stomach, and saying, "Well, OK, no biggie."
Not that the Amish, the Copts, etc. are wrong for publicly forgiving the savages who killed their loved ones. Far from it. It´s just that they must also confront evil with truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: and STOP that twisted soul from doing evil again. That´s what we owe the evildoer, in the name of mercy.
Agreed
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