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2004-09-08 Caucasus
The Teacher Chose Death (Beslan Hero)
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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-08 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 How far this little candle doth throw its beams... so shines a good deed in a wicked world
Posted by lex 2004-09-08 12:08:55 AM||   2004-09-08 12:08:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yanis (Ivan) Kanidis honored life and his murderers embraced death. That is the difference between us and them.
Posted by Douglas De Bono  2004-09-08 12:09:49 AM|| [http://www.DouglasDeBono.com]  2004-09-08 12:09:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn,

This is true heroism. God speed Yanis Kanidis. And this is why the cowardly, vile Islamists will lose, they don't have an inkling of the fiber found in the hearts and souls of free peoples...

Posted by Francis  2004-09-08 12:17:33 AM||   2004-09-08 12:17:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Unlike the scum that killed him, this man truly earned a place in Paradise. He was the sort of man we all wish we were.
Posted by RWV 2004-09-08 12:18:24 AM||   2004-09-08 12:18:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Evil will always bring out the best in mankind, too.
Rest in peace, Yanis.
Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-08 12:20:01 AM||   2004-09-08 12:20:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 May he rest in peace and be remembered till the end of times.

Thus spake Zarathustra
Posted by Zarathustra  2004-09-08 12:36:44 AM||   2004-09-08 12:36:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Blessed is he, who gives his life to save his friends
Posted by GreatestJeneration  2004-09-08 1:03:38 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-09-08 1:03:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 These are terrorists not rebels.
Posted by Anonymous6339 2004-09-08 1:17:47 AM||   2004-09-08 1:17:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I can only hope that we never run out of truly courageous people like that. We will not lose so long as we have strength like that to draw upon.

Islam "Martyr" = someone who kills a lot of people in the process of killing himself.

True Martyr = someone who dies a death in faith, a death in an act of good, a selfless death for others, giving himself that others may live.

That in itself illustrates the difference between Islamofascism and the West (especially Christianity - this fellow was likely Eastern Orthodox)

I hope he is getting a firm Welcome Home in heaven - for such selfless defense of the innocent surely earned his way, demonstrated his faith far above the evil that confronted him.

Yanis, may a squadron of Angels hurry you to Heaven.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-08 1:31:13 AM||   2004-09-08 1:31:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Rest well, friend. My donation will be in your name.
Posted by Seafarious  2004-09-08 1:43:07 AM||   2004-09-08 1:43:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 If we were to start a Rantburg Profiles in Courage series, Mr. Kanidis would be among the first I would profile.
Posted by Steve White  2004-09-08 2:13:21 AM||   2004-09-08 2:13:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 OS - well said!
Posted by B 2004-09-08 2:19:57 AM||   2004-09-08 2:19:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 wow, he's a hero, in my mind should be a legend, very brave
Posted by Shep UK 2004-09-08 3:08:13 AM||   2004-09-08 3:08:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 #11 If we were to start a Rantburg Profiles in Courage series, Mr. Kanidis would be among the first I would profile.

Steve,

That is actually a very good idea. I think a site dedicated to those who have made great sacrifices in the war against Islamofascism would be a tremendous asset. It might even help to convince some of the fence sitters.
Posted by DanNY 2004-09-08 7:13:09 AM||   2004-09-08 7:13:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 The hostages who escaped told how the teacher repeatedly risked his own life in order to save the children.

A true teacher. Too bad his teachings probably won't reach those who are most in need, as in the terrorist's children. He certainly reached out to touch the lives of his own pupils. I hope they build a monument to him. How ironic that one complete foreigner would shed so much light unlike other foreigners who brought only darkness.
Posted by Zenster 2004-09-08 7:28:54 AM||   2004-09-08 7:28:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Steve, Fred, the Rantburg Profiles in Courage is too good an idea not to do it.

Mr. Kanidis, rest in peace, brave friend.
Posted by Mike  2004-09-08 9:08:33 AM||   2004-09-08 9:08:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 I also like the idea of a Rantburg Profiles in Courage series. Please make it, Fred.
Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-09-08 10:08:51 AM||   2004-09-08 10:08:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Greater love has no man than this, that he lay his life down for his friends. Rest in complete and entire peace, my friend. Fred, I love the idea of a RB Profiles in Courage. Start with Mr. Kanidis, include FDNY/NYPD and I have a feeling that more like them will be added to the Profile soon, although I pray not.
Posted by BA  2004-09-08 11:26:54 AM||   2004-09-08 11:26:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Old Spook:

Very, very well said. Thank you.
Posted by jawa 2004-09-08 11:58:57 AM||   2004-09-08 11:58:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Good idea, I'll ghost it for half my usual fee.
Posted by Arthur Schlessinger Jr 2004-09-08 12:45:56 PM||   2004-09-08 12:45:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 I'll start on it this evening.
Posted by Fred  2004-09-08 1:12:38 PM||   2004-09-08 1:12:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 As Angels Look Down

The sunlight broke thru on the schoolhouse that day
With flowers in hand, parents leading the way
No thought to what waited on that side of town
A hush filled the Heavens…As Angels Look Down

The horrors, the crying, the filth and the hate
Some tried to escape, for most it’s too late
Blood smears the gym floor, bombs all around
They prepare for their coming…As Angels Look Down

Amid threats and a butt stroke, Yanis stays strong
Pressing his point, without giving ground
Through the hole run the children, a terrorist turns round
A grenade flies their way…As Angels Look Down

The carnage is terrible, lifeless parents and kids
On the floor torn apart lies Teacher Kanidis
A hero to survivors, while on high he’s surround
He and his children…As Angels Look Down
Posted by RN  2004-09-08 1:49:05 PM||   2004-09-08 1:49:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Excellent poem, RN. *cries*

John 15:13 Greather love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends.

When reading that account, I saw Jesus working through Kanidis.
Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-09-08 2:02:14 PM||   2004-09-08 2:02:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 
After this it was noised abroad that Mr. Valiant-for-truth was taken with a summons by the same post as the other, and had this for a token that the summons was true, "That his pitcher was broken at the fountain." Eccl. 12:6. When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it. Then said he, "I am going to my Father's; and though with great difficulty I have got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder." When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river-side, into which as he went, he said, "Death, where is thy sting?" And as he went down deeper, he said, "Grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Cor. 15:55. So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.


John Bunyan
Posted by Ptah  2004-09-08 6:51:09 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2004-09-08 6:51:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 May God Rest his soul.

Fred, remember to include the people who attacked the Flight 93 hijackers.
Posted by Korora  2004-09-08 7:24:37 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]  2004-09-08 7:24:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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