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Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah, both Pentecostalist Christians, are accustomed to taking risks for their faith. A decade ago, Nalliah, a Sri Lankan-born Australian, narrowly escaped being caught with 400 smuggled Bibles in Saudi Arabia, where preaching Christianity is a crime. Scot, who grew up Christian in Muslim Pakistan, fled to Australia in 1987 after he was charged with blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad, an offense punishable by death. In March 2002, the Catch the Fire Ministries, of which the two men are pastors, held a seminar on Islam in Melbourne. Scot, who presented the course, says...
...Iraq? For one thing, using oneself as a weapon can be a relatively effective tactic against an enemy with far superior firepower. And extremist Muslim suicide bombers believe that their sacrifice guarantees them "martyrdom" and a passport to paradise. (That said, suicide attacks aren't unique to Islamist insurgencies. Sri Lanka's mostly Hindu Tamil Tigers have probably conducted more such attacks than any other single group...
...Signing is one thing, but implementation is another. All peace-minded people should support it as it can pave the way for greater collaboration." NIMALAN KARTHIKEYAN, assistant general secretary of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, on the government's approval of a controversial plan allowing Tamil Tiger separatists to share $3 billion in aid for the island's tsunami victims...
...virtues of this singular insulation are acknowledged by even the government's critics: while superpower tensions have torn Indochina asunder, civil and incivil wars have haunted even such tiny neighbors as Sri Lanka, and booming Asian powers like Singapore and Japan have had to bear the costs of sudden prosperity, Burma has remained serenely on the geopolitical sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped...
...President thinks that one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives." KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels...