Thursday 21 August 2014

When the World was a Sheltered Child and You Had Problems

You prayed the Rosary, Foley. Not meaning all the world was a sheltered child, but much of the Western world was.

Here is a link to your article:

Phone call home
A letter from James Foley, Arts ’96, to Marquette.
http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1318951203&archive=


It seems your executioner spoke English with a British accent. I wonder how many well educated Arabs do so, to avoid the US accent of Israelis, while also avoiding the stain of speaking with a totally non-Western accent.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Sts Euprepius and Quadratus,
Bishops of Verona
21-VIII-2014

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