He Spent His Life Preaching ‘Coexistence’ With Muslims… Then The Unthinkable Happened
Image credit: Facebook/Richard Lakin
He could not imagine that people couldn’t learn to live together...
It often seems that the liberal mind is governed by emotion and wishful thinking rather than being grounded in facts and reality. One example of that behavior is the go-along-to-get-along, Kumbaya thinking of the coexist crowd, who believe that any problem can be solved by peaceful dialogue and mutual respect. That line of thinking assumes that the “other side” is reasonable and rational — something that’s not always the case in the real world — especially the volatile world of the Middle East.
The reality is that we cannot coexist with people who fervently believe that they must either dominate, enslave or kill those they deem to be infidels. Tragically, a former school principal learned that the hard way.
The 76-year-old former head of a Glastonbury, CT school, Richard Lakin, has died of gunshot and stab wounds after a Muslim terror attack on a bus in the city of Jerusalem. Lakin, an American-Israeli, was critically wounded in the terrorist assault two weeks ago, and died Tuesday morning.
Two Palestinian terrorists boarded the bus traveling between a Jewish and an Arab neighborhood in the city and opened fire on the passengers. After running out of ammunition, the bloodthirsty killers took out knives and began stabbing passengers.
Two men — Haviv Haim, 78, and Alon Govberg, 51 — were killed instantly, while Lakin, who was shot in the head and stabbed in the face and chest, was rushed to a hospital in Jerusalem in critical condition. Ten other passengers sustained moderate-to-light injuries in the attack.
A civil rights activist and one-time Connecticut elementary school principal, Lakin moved to Jerusalem with his family in 1984. He taught English to Israeli and Palestinian children, performed in musicals and never missed a peace rally.
Lakin had been making efforts to promote coexistence in Israel, but he misjudged the virulent nature of the hate that exists among some Muslims for non-believers, and ultimately he was murdered by Islamic jihadists simply because he was Jewish. They did not care that he wanted dialogue or that he promoted peace. The terrorists just wanted him — as well as all of the other passengers on that bus — dead.
One of his last Facebook posts saw Richard Lakin writing about the recent uptick in the number of terror attacks in Jerusalem:
“I have a strong sense that these “random” terror attacks are being orchestrated by the Northern Branch of the Islamic (Brotherhood) Movement in Israel. Their goal is the destruction of the State of Israel and of Coexistence between the Arab and Jewish communities.”
“He was just a deeply optimistic and hopeful person, and refused to be deterred by the grim political reality here,” said Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman of Kol Haneshama, the Jerusalem synagogue where Mr. Lakin was a longtime member. “He wasn’t oblivious to the reality, but it didn’t affect his basic existential nature. He could not imagine a solution wasn’t possible and that people couldn’t learn to live together.”
Read more: http://www.tpnn.com/2015/10/30/he-spent-his-life-preaching-coexistence-with-muslims-then-the-unthinkable-happened/#ixzz3qNb3PjkI
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