“It looks like Afghans are created by God to be killed by human machines.”
NIAMATULLA
The 30-year-old high school teacher from Kandahar, who like many Afghans used only one name, was speaking after a bombing in his city that killed at least 41 people. (New York Times)
“The idea that there’s a social gospel and a spiritual gospel is an invention of the devil. There is only one gospel, and it is a whole gospel for whole people.”
RICHARD LAND
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was quoted by World magazine. (RNS)
“She is free to practice whatever she believes in. No problem. She can practice in my house. I have no problem. We love her. It’s our daughter. She being a Christian doesn’t mean she’s not my daughter.”
MOHAMED BARY
The father of Fathima Rifqa Bary, a 17-year-old girl who fled her Muslim parents’ house claiming she fears an “honor killing,” was speaking on the national television program “Good Morning America.” (ABC News)