Live Breathe and Die

Archive for December, 2008

The AP photo below, from FoxNews, gave me a lump in my throat.  This little two-year old boy is in a pain that no child should ever have to suffer.  His parents, both in the same room with him, most likely shot in the head in front of him.  They were killed in cold blood in Mumbai, India because they were Jewish.  This little boy, half soaked in the blood of his parents, was found next to their motionless bodies.

Maybe its more painful to think about when you have a child. It’s beyond anyone’s imagination the pain this child feels today and how it will affect him for his entire life. Little Moshe, clutching his ball in the photo, burst into tears at a memorial service for his parents as he cried out; “mother.”

This is the second image I will always carry with me when I think about radical Islam. The first image is of the burning towers on 9/11.  The only connection is that radical Islam represents senseless murder. These people, who practice this brand of hate, are surrogates of the devil.

It wasn’t enough that six million Jews had to die during the war. Jews and Christians in Muslim strongholds are murdered every day. Like little Moshe’s parents, they did nothing wrong.

Moshe’s parents were part of a movement called Chabad-Lubavitch, which seeks only to do good. Just as Christians have fanned out around the world to help the hungry, sick and displaced peoples of the world, both groups have been murdered in Muslim countries for being Christians or Jews. Victims of senseless murders.

Everyone who reads these words should stop and pray right now.  Pray that the image of this little boy’s dead, tortured parents will not haunt him throughout his childhood. Pray that he will somehow know happiness again in his life.