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March 10, 2006
Tom Fox: Why He Was There
The murdered body of Tom Fox, one of the four Christian Peacemaker activists who were abducted last November, was just found in Iraq.
All I can do right now is to post a section from Tom's last email out of Iraq. I post these words not just to remember him, but mainly to remind myself that he would not want me to write about his murderers what I really want to write at this moment:
U.S. forces in their quest to hunt down and kill "terrorists" are, as a result of this dehumanizing word, not only killing "terrorists," but also killing innocent Iraqis: men, women and children in the various towns and villages.It seems as if the first step down the road to violence is taken when I dehumanize a person. That violence might stay within my thoughts or find its way into the outer world and become expressed verbally, psychologically,
structurally or physically. As soon as I rob a fellow human being of his or her humanity by sticking a dehumanizing label on them, I begin the process that can have, as an end result, torture, injury and death."Why are we here?" We are here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exist within us. We are here to stand with those being dehumanized by oppressors and stand firm against that dehumanization. We are here to stop people, including ourselves, from dehumanizing any of God's children, no matter how much they dehumanize their own souls.
Posted by zeynep at March 10, 2006 11:45 PM
Comments
he sounds like he was a brave and good man.
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at March 11, 2006 03:29 AM