It saddens me that the very ppl who lied, and plunged Iraq into War are safe and secure in the knowledge that they will not be kidnapped while those who seek to help Iraq are...
Dear brothers, please consider our love for you and for the hostages in your custody. It'd be wonderful if you could treat them with care and release them for home. Thanks so much.
Let me be perfectly clear: You are doing your cause NO GOOD and a great deal of harm to threaten the killing of innocent people. Acts such as this make the perpetrators MY ENEMY, and the enemy of all humankind.
As near as I am able to tell, you are threatening to kill your own best friends, and to alienate your allies--those of us, like myself, who have urged peaceful solutions in Iraq and everywhere else on our small planet.
The Christian Peacemakers, as well as the Muslim Peacemakers, are working for the good of all persons, including those who have captured them. Let them go about their work!
May Allah, the great Creator of us all, grant you peace and lead you to release these men who live the love of Allah every day through their loving acts for the people of Iraq.
releasing the hostages would indeed show the captors are more concerned with God's ways than is the US government - but why do I think the verbal rationale(s) for war are real?
The people who have been taker are not for the war. They're for the peace. All taking these people will do is fill your country with less people for peace and more for war
In solidarity and in the hope of liberation of all peoples I pray for their release.
Peace be with you,
Raymond Epp
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
