Wise words from a man named Lotayef

I am so impressed with this dear man. What a community leader.

Montreal man in bid to free hostages
Dec. 7, 2005. 04:25 AM
OAKLAND ROSS
STAFF REPORTER


"A Montreal Muslim headed for Baghdad last night in a last-ditch bid to save the lives of four Christian peace activists — including two Canadians — facing a death sentence in battle-scarred Iraq.

"The main goal of my trip is to voice very clearly, on the ground in Iraq, in Arabic, the conviction that these people are not spies," Ehab Lotayef, 47, said before boarding an Air France plane bound for Paris on a one-man peace mission sponsored by the Canadian Islamic Congress. "There is no reason for any of them to face this outcome."

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But Lotayef said he could not stand by while the hostages are in danger of losing their lives.

"I felt it was a duty that we do something more than issue a press release," he said. "I am following the example of the (Christian Peacemaker Teams) themselves, who put themselves in harm's way to help a people with whom, in the normal way of thinking, they are not connected.

"So it is a responsibility for me — religious, human, call it what you will — to help them."


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