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September 14, 2006

Islamic jihadists attack Catholic school in Kashmir

Topics: Understanding Islam

As Robert Spencer describes the event, these misunderstanders of Islam attacked the school before the Pope made his remarks - "Muslim militants attack Catholic school in Kashmir":

Muslim fundamentalists attacked a Catholic school in India's Kashmir valley on Monday, demolishing a wall and smashing windows and furniture.

The Good Shepherd Mission School in Pulwama is run by a popular missionary priest, Father Jim Borst of the Dutch Mill Hill order, who has been in the region since 1963. Although Muslim militants persuaded the state government to begin proceedings to expel the priest in 2004, Christian groups campaigned successfully to reverse that order. A leading retreat preacher, Father Borst is credited with initiating the translation of the Bible into the Kashmiri language. The elderly priest-- now in his 70s-- is regularly sought by local Muslims and Hindus, as well as Christians, to comfort the sick and suffering.

During the September 11 attack on the missionary's school, the Muslim militants involved shouted slogans denouncing all Christian missionaries.

As we pointed out in our previous piece, Islam is in very dire need of reform - from within, but unfortunately, the likelyhood of that occuring doesn't appear to be forthcoming anytime soon.

Posted by Richard at September 14, 2006 10:09 AM

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