O Lord, how long will you look on?
Rescue my life from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.

I will give you thanks in the reat assembly; among throngs of people I will praise you.

Let not those gloat over me who are enemies without cause; let not those who hate me without reason maliciously wink the eye.
Gary Keith Chesterton | 07.31.07 - 10:07 pm | #

A year or two ago The New Criterion carried a review of a play about Rachel Corrie, the young woman who was killed in Israel while trying to stop the bulldozing of a Palestinian house. (I believe the Israelis who say it was an accident, but that's not really my point.)

The play of course more or less canonizes her as a martyr. The review ends with a list of roughly fifteen Israeli women and girls named Rachel who had been killed by Palestinian suicide bombers and who are the objects of perfect indifference on the part of the fashionable West. A useful perspective, I thought.
Maclin Horton | Homepage | 08.01.07 - 10:32 am | #

The Malki's are very good folks - it was neat to see you blogging about them.
Monica | Homepage | 08.01.07 - 11:52 am | #

I meant, the Roth's of course, but had Malki's name on my mind. She was by all accounts a generous and beautiful soul, herself.
Monica | Homepage | 08.01.07 - 12:02 pm | #

Precious in the eyes of the Lord are the deaths of His faithful ones.

HBO apparently feels differently....
Maureen | Homepage | 08.01.07 - 4:39 pm | #

It is so sad but true, throughout history people have, and still do horrendous deeds in God's name. Are they all evil people, or are some just horribly misguided by false dogma, or religions that are of man, and not of God?
I read a very moving post on (Octogenarian), that may merit your attention. "They kill In the name of God".
walt | Homepage | 08.01.07 - 5:39 pm | #

The Manson girls smiled, too.
SouthCoast | 08.01.07 - 9:11 pm | #