Friday, February 21, 2014

Raymond Ibrahim: Kidnapped Nuns No Longer Bear the Cross


The following by Raymond Ibrahim is reposted here with permission of Middle East Forum:

Kidnapped Nuns No Longer Bear the Cross



by Raymond Ibrahim
World Magazine
February 18, 2014


Raymond Ibrahim
Raymond Ibrahim
A new video of the twelve Christian nuns kidnapped in Syria recently appeared. In it, the nuns are taped sitting in a room and being questioned by an unseen man, presumably a member of the kidnappers. He asks them how they are, if they've been mistreated, etc.

They respond that they are being treated fine, that they very much look forward to being returned to their convent, that they heartily thank the world for its concern, and that they continually pray that God grant peace to all nations.

Their words say one thing, their expressions and demeanor another. Put differently, as female captives of Islamic jihadis, what else could they say but what they were told to say? Even if one of them dared to say the "wrong thing," it naturally would have been edited out. Who knows how many takes it took to get the video—which includes a bizarre clip of the nuns having a snowball fight with their abductors—just right?


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