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Friday night movies: rescuing baby birds

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Here’s one with a hummingbird.

Here’s another one:

They’re so cute! I love birds! Making friends with wild birds is the best thing in the world!

The Color of Paradise

This is a movie from Iran. Here’s a review from Christian Answers.

Excerpt:

The story focuses on the life of an 8-year old blind boy, Mohammad (Mohsen Ramezani), who spends the school year in an institute for the blind in Tehran and the summers with his grandmother and sisters in the hills of Iran. His widowed father, Hashem (Hossein Mahjub), is late in picking up Mohammad for summer vacation and even wishes to leave him behind at the school. His aversion to his son is painful to watch. The reason for his attitude becomes apparent when they arrive at the grandmother’s house in the country and Hashem visits the home of the Islamic woman he wishes to marry. He hides the existence of his son from her family, hoping to find favor with them. He has already told his mother he wants to put Mohammad in apprenticeship with a local carpenter, who is also blind. Hashem’s antipathy toward his blind child is his fatal flaw and error, and precipitates the tragic sequence of events that follow.

It’s not overtly Islamic, it’s just really good.

Watch the first few clips and then I will comment. (If you only have time for one clip, watch clip 3)

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Clip 3:

Clip 4:

You can watch the whole movie on Youtube.

Sometimes people are born with characteristics that they can’t help that cause other people not to care about them. But we should really be seeing other people like God sees them. He doesn’t care about accidental external things. He cares what people are like on the inside.

News

52 Christian hostages killed by Al Quaeda Baghdad church attack

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UPDATE: The number of victims who were killed is up to 52, now.

The SA Times Live reports on an Al Quaeda attack on a Christian church in Baghdad.

Excerpt:

Thirty-seven worshippers were killed and 56 wounded in a hostage drama at a Baghdad church, says an official.

“The latest toll is that 37 of the hostages were killed and 56 wounded,” an Iraqi interior ministry official said after Sunday’s attack on the church, claimed by an Al-Qaeda group.

He said that seven security forces personnel also were killed and 15 wounded, but did not specify if any were Americans.

Five attackers were killed and eight arrested, he said, adding there had been more than 100 worshippers at the Sayidat al-Nejat church in central Baghdad when the hostage-takers stormed in.

The SITE monitoring group said Monday that Al-Qaeda group The Islamic State of Iraq claimed its fighters were behind the attack

This story makes me think about some of my Christian co-workers who voted for Obama because they thought the Iraq war was too expensive. Christians need to care about other Christians in other countries, and we need to think about the most effective means for making their lives a little safer. Thank God that our forces were deployed so they could do something about this. To stop terrorists, you need good men armed with weapons. Talking doesn’t work.

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Man chases down kidnapper’s vehicle to rescue young girl

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Story from ultra-leftist MSNBC of all places. (H/T Mara)

Excerpt:

A man who rescued an 8-year-old girl who had been abducted by a stranger says he was “beyond scared” as he forced the alleged kidnapper to stop his truck and hand over the child.

At about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, Victor Perez, 29, recognized the truck from media reports about the girl, who was taken while she played outside a home in Fresno, Calif., at 8:30 p.m. Monday.

He gave chase in his own vehicle and repeatedly tried to force the alleged kidnapper’s truck off the road. Eventually, Perez saw the girl’s head in the truck’s window.

“He kept getting away. He kept going round my truck. The last time I completely said, ‘Either he crashes into me or he stops.’ He stopped and pushed the little girl out,” he told NBC station KSEE 24 News.

After being forced out of the truck, the girl ran to safety.

“The first thing she told me, ‘I’m scared,'” Perez said. “She was shaking. I said, ‘You’re all right now.'”

[…]Perez told CNN that he saw a vehicle matching the description of the one used in the abduction — an older-model, reddish-brown Chevrolet with a white stripe on the side — as he stood outside his house talking with his cousin about the abduction early Tuesday.

“I thought, that could be the truck,” Perez told CNN Tuesday night.

“I had a split-second decision to decide to call 911 or go after it,” Perez told ABC News. “I decided to go after it while my cousin was dialing 911. I took a chance to go and ask a question to see if that was the man that we’re looking for.”

He got into his 1988 white Ford pickup, and began to follow. As he tried to cut off the truck, its driver reportedly told him, “I don’t have no time,” and claimed his battery was dying.”The second time I reached him, the way he acted — yes, I was, for a split second I was nervous until I saw the little girl and all fear was out the window after that,” Perez told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“I didn’t have no fear. I wasn’t thinking of me no more. I was just thinking we need to get that little girl to safety,” he added. “I wasn’t going to give up. … I couldn’t give up.”

“I kept telling him, ‘That’s not your little girl.’ We argued. We exchanged words,” Perez told CNN, admitting that he had wondered whether the motorist had a gun. “I was beyond scared.”

“He was hiding her — like pushing her down. I thank God he put me here to help out that little girl — that’s for sure,” he added.

On the fourth attempt, he forced the vehicle to stop.

This man is a hero! We need to make a big deal out of him in order to encourage more men to be heroes.