Christian, Jew, or Muslim... ...how many live up to this example...?
Masalam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- This group of Amish is truly an example to us all Amish Community Forgives Killer and Raises Money for His Family *"The hurt is very great, but they don't balance the hurt with hate."* WND/TN* (Oct 5th, 2006)* In what's being called a stunning example of "the imitation of Christ," * WorldNetDaily* reports that the Amish community devastated by the cold-blooded murder of five of its schoolgirls is raising money for the killer's family. Dwight Lefever, a spokesman for the Roberts family, said an Amish neighbor comforted the killer's family and extended forgiveness to them after the shooting, the *Associated Press* reports. Barry Wigmore, reporting for the UK's *Daily Mail* wrote, "One of the few non-Amish guests invited to the funeral of seven-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersole, the first little girl to be buried, was Marie Roberts, the killer's wife. With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Roberts sat in the back of one of the 34 black horse-drawn carriages that were part of the funeral cortege behind Naomi's horse-drawn hearse. On the way from the church to the hilltop cemetery, the procession passed Mrs. Roberts' home where her husband, Charles, loaded up his guns before heading for the little village school on Monday." Reacting to the Amish outpouring of support for the killer's family, columnist Rod Dreher wrote: "Yesterday on *NBC News*, I saw an Amish midwife who had helped birth several of the girls murdered by the killer say that they were planning to take food over to his family's house. She said and I paraphrase closely "This is possible if you have Christ in your heart." And Journalist Tom Shachtman, who wrote a book on Amish culture called "Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish," told the *New York Times:* "This is imitation of Christ at its most naked. If anybody is going to turn the other cheek in our society, it's going to be the Amish. I don't want to denigrate anybody else who says they're imitating Christ, but the Amish walk the walk as much as they talk the talk." Amish expert Gertrude Huntington noted, "They know their children are going to Heaven. They know their children are innocent ... and they know that they will join them in death. The hurt is very great," she told the *Associated Press.* "But they don't balance the hurt with hate." *Source:* WorldNetDaily, AP, Daily Mail<http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52296> -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------- http://www.IslamAwakened.com/thisisislam.swf [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Save Aceh now! visit http://www.pusatkrisisaceh.or.id Click English section for contact Islam Relief Organizations Want to learn about Islam and Christian? visit: http://come.to/christian-islam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslim/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslim/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
