Your Opinion: Unfair comparison

Dear Editor:

Talking heads and media pundits are fond of using comparisons to explain an event. However, finding events that match in all important details are as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. A most difficult task to compare oranges to oranges.

Recent comparisons between Crusades that began a millennium ago with he current atrocities of terrorists aligned with the Islamic State In Syria (ISIS) smack of comparing a ripe orange with an unripe persimmon.

Possibly a more recent comparison might at least be compared to a ripe orange and a ripe apple. In 1904, Charles de Foucauld, began a hermit's life in the most desolate Sahara dessert among Tuaregs [Libya]. In December 1916, a gang of Senousist Islamists descended upon the French priest's dwelling.

Crisis Magazine of Sept. 15, 2014 , Victim of Jihad: the Life and Death of Charles de Foucauld, includes: "There was an eyewitness to what happened next. The dragging of the priest from his refuge, his silence and lack of resistance combined with what appeared to be a profound sense of peace; his being forced to kneel as his captors offered him the chance to renounce his Savior - to confess the Shahada. He declined to do so. Subsequently, during a disturbance, he was shot in the head. His body, still in a kneeling position with his hands tied behind his back, was left in the sand whilst his murderers ransacked his home and oratory, later getting drunk on altar wine. When they had left the next day, those living nearby came and buried the man they had come to regard as their friend." (www.crisismagazine.com).

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