“I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’
But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’
Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.”
― Malala Yousafzai
It’s 12 : 30 PM on day 1719 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Amos 1, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing –Politically Cyprus is part of Europe, but geographically it is in Asia. The island in the eastern Mediterranean is divided internally between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. – feed myself French toast with banana for breakfast, make sandwiches for our sisi’s (housekeeper’s) neighborhood with sisi’s help as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run – (thank you sisi for all your help) – and promote my Educate Generations campaign– $3 000 raised so far so grateful.
A few days ago I read The Nigerian Girls Who’ve Become Boko Haram’s Best Killers sometimes when I read stories like that I can’t help but picture myself doing to the Boko Haram what they have done (and are doing) to those innocent girls I’m not proud of my evil thoughts and I want to change it because for that brief period of time that I picture myself harming the Boko Haram I’m no different from them so from now onwards I choose not to hate even the most evil among us.
We should hate sin. For there is no life, love, joy, peace or anything good in sin. And as Christians, Jesus tells us to forgive our brother/sister, neighbor and enemy. And to pray for them. Forgiveness does not require us to be emotionally adjusted to the sinner. It is an act of will in accordance with the will of God.
I believe that we should stop evil (even with deadly force) where it is sanctioned by law. This does not mean the execution of such force is without moral, emotional and other challenges. In the old testament, a violation of the ten commandments was punishable by death and executable by the human community.
Of course, our real enemy are spiritual beings – fallen angels and demons. By prayer, we can cast them out, bring them down, smash their schemes, and deprive them of the empty victories which they pursue.
The people of Boko Haram, ISIS, Hamas, etc. are demonized and they desperately need deliverance. And not just them…
I do hate sin I just refuse to let that hate consume me.