Comments on: Kabul 24 by Henry O. Arnold & Ben Pearson

By: Quilly

Quilly — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:12:10 +0000

Kay — and it is truly amazing when it is the victims who are promoting the forgiveness and understanding!

By: Quilly

Quilly — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:11:07 +0000

Oh, Betty — I have read many books from cover-to-cover in one day. If I love a book, I hate to put it down! In this one, there was just too much suspense to quit reading! I pretty much felt like the imprisoned people felt, and I wanted them safe!

By: Musings

Musings — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:09:40 +0000

It’s great to have books that promote more understanding and kindness in this world.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:09:07 +0000

Dr. John — this was a quick read. It took me less than 6 hours and was very eye opening.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:08:34 +0000

The SNI folks weren’t found guilty of proselytizing. When the judge realized there was no evidence against them, he called for a continuance of their case, and then refused to schedule further court time for them.

By: Betty

Betty — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:08:10 +0000

Sounds like a great book! I don´t think I´ve ever read a book cover to cover in one day! Sounds interesting!

By: Dr. John

Dr. John — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:05:36 +0000

It does look like a good book to read but I just finished ordering six books.

By: the amoeba

the amoeba — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:32 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kamran-pasha/bible-and-guns-why-soldie_b_195973.html

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:49:55 +0000

Kelley — the Taliban says they were proselytizing. The newspapers claim they were proselytizing. The book claims they were NOT, and that the evidence brought against them at trial was so meager (their own personal Bibles and a few videos) that all pretense of them being religious prisoners dissolved and it became immediately apparent they were political hostages.

And I share your thoughts on the power of the gospel. I once asked a friend of mine who was pressing me to convert to her religion why it was she was forbidden to listen to anything I had to say about mine. I told her it seemed her religion, if it were the truth as it claimed, wouldn’t have to be intimidated by the beliefs of others. Then I told her that God gave us all free choice and I was very skeptical of any religion who tried to take that away.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:35:16 +0000

Polona — most likely so. I got mine from the Publisher and he shipped through Borders Book Store (huge chain store here). I also don’t know if it’s been translated into any other languages. It is a reasonably new release so possibly not.

By: southlakesmom

southlakesmom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:43:05 +0000

Heather is from the next town over to us — the one we lived in before here (but after Vegas).

Proselytizing to Muslims isn’t illegal just under the Taliban — under any Muslim government, it is a death penalty offense for the converted and potentially one for the proselytizer. If they’re foreign, they just get kicked out of the country if they’re lucky. We have friends who were kicked out of Egypt. When my dad was in Saudi Arabia, their home church was broken up — too many foreigners meeting together must be a conspiracy of Christians. The company they worked for totally backed the Saudi government.

My reaction — how powerful must the Gospel be for them to fear it so? Do they not think their belief system is powerful enough to defeat the ‘infidel”? Not much confidence in their version of god! Scripture says even Satan knows who Jesus is…and what the long term plan is.

By: polona

polona — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:01:46 +0000

sounds like a book worth reading… but i suppose the only way for me to get it would be buying from ebay or amazon or somesuch site…

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:37:05 +0000

Susan —

I told Amoeba that this book was like reading a 282 page news article. What I really liked was that I got many scenes from the perspective of several different people. We see what happened to Diana and Heather from their perspective. Then we see the same event from Georg’s perspective. Then we see the same event through the eyes of the other women.

At first, the hostages were seldom together as a group, so each event played out differently for each sub-group and that was shared. It helped round-out my experience as a reader to see everyone’s differing views, actions and reactions. Most of the story is told from Georg’s viewpoint — probably because he was the SNI director.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:31:07 +0000

Karen — you’re going to make me clean my windows, aren’t you?

Oh, and I think definitely club worthy. This book would definitely lend itself to a contemplation of the limits of faith: Are there any? Would your faith sustain you? And a discussion of modern day miracles.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:30:35 +0000

Melli — while the overall view of the inhumanities is depressing, the book is not sensationalized and we are not made to “watch” the torture. Moreover, one of God’s miracles is that none of the 8 hostages were physically tortured, though they lived with the threat moment-by-moment.

And, the book is full of hope and light. The ending — the choices made by the freed prisoners — will blow you away. You’ll definitely know that God is with them.

The book and the news stories at the time vary greatly. I was surprised by how much the story differed from what I was lead to believe by the press articles of the time.