Prayer sent up for Jill Carroll. Her deadline is only in a few hours. Please Pray
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Date: Jan 20, 2006 - 08:34 AM
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Prayer sent up for Jill Carroll. Her deadline is only in a few hours. Please Pray
As the kidnappers' deadline is fast approaching for the killing of Jill Carroll we must pray that a spirit of mercy and compassion will touch these Muslims who keep telling us their religion is a religion of peace. Don't they understand by killing this young idealist they will make a martyr instead of a victim.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Revenge Brigade apparently kidnapped Jill Carroll, a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor, Jill is only 25. After Jill was abducted Jan. 7 in Baghdad. She appeared Tuesday in a video aired on Al-Jazeera, in which her captors threatened to kill her unless the U.S. military released all female Iraqi prisoners within 72 hours. That deadline is only a few hours away.
Earlier Thursday, another segment of the video was released that shows the 28-year-old woman -- dressed in traditional Arab garb -- kneeling or sitting, with three armed gunmen standing nearby.
As her possible execution loomed, her mother, Mary Beth Carroll, publicly pleaded with the kidnappers "to release this young woman who has worked so hard to show the suffering of Iraqis to the world."
The father of Jill Carroll on Friday asked her kidnappers to free her, saying they should, Don't kill my daughter but rather use her to be your voice to the world. She loves the people of Iraq.
Jim Carroll on to say "I want to speak directly to the men holding my daughter Jill because they may also be fathers like me,"
"My daughter does not have the ability to free anyone. She is a reporter and an innocent person. Do not sacrifice an innocent soul ... as a father, I appeal to you to release my daughter for the betterment of all of us. And I ask the men holding my daughter to work with Jill to find a way to initiate a dialogue with me."
Also, There is a growing corus of Arab leaders calling for Carroll's release, beseeching her kidnappers to free her in the name of God.
CAIR issued a "partial" list of nearly 50 "American Muslim leaders, scholars and organizations" who want Carroll set free. The organization also has sent a delegation to Iraq to help secure Carroll's freedom.
In its statement, CAIR said, "We, the undersigned representatives of the American Muslim community, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Jill Carroll, a journalist with a well-documented record of objective reporting and respect for both the Iraqi people and Arab-Islamic culture."
"We ask that her captors show mercy and compassion by releasing her so that she may return to her family. Certainly, no cause can be advanced by harming a person who only sought to let the world know about the human suffering caused by the conflict in Iraq."
Carroll's friends and former co-workers said on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Thursday they hope her fluent Arabic and knowledge of the Middle East may help convince her captors to release her unharmed.
"The kidnappers who took Jill need to know that Jill is only an innocent journalist ... who only went to Iraq only to convey the truth, to tell the stories of the Iraqi people," close friend Natasha Tynes said. "She had nothing to do with the war that happened in Iraq."
Mary Beth Carroll said she was still in shock from the turn of events.
"They've picked the wrong person," she said during an exclusive interview Thursday morning with CNN's Soledad O'Brien. "If they're looking for somebody who is an enemy of Iraq, Jill is just the opposite."
In her statement, Carroll said, "Taking vengeance on my innocent daughter, who loves Iraq and its people, will not create justice."
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