The forces of ignorance are always most threatened by those who carry the torch of knowledge. It should be clear which side is which in this story.

Daud Hassan Ali had an unusual dream for his native Somalia. He was a nomadÂ’s son who lived in Britain for years, but he recently returned to his troubled homeland to teach English. Early Monday, he paid for it with his life.

Witnesses said that Mr. Daud and three foreign teachers, a Briton and two Kenyans, were killed by Islamist insurgents during a midnight raid on one of the few English-language schools in south-central Somalia.

A spokesman for the Shabab militant Islamist group said the teachers were killed by accident after they were caught in cross-fire. But several residents of Beledweyne, the town where the attack happened, said Mr. Daud and the other teachers might have been singled out because they were suspected of preaching Christianity.

When I go to school this morning, I'm likely to face nothing more than a couple of smart-mouthed wannabe thugs trying to disrupt my class. I'm unlikely to find myself in danger of being injured, much less killed, for trying to teach my class.

Not so for teachers in areas of the world where Islamism hold sway. Interesting, isn't it, that those who bring new ideas and new knowledge just happened to be the "accidental" victims, when teachers are killed every week by Islamists who accuse them of contradicting some aspect of Islam. And given the comments about their preaching Christianity, that is simply more evidence of the desire of the dark forces of the most backwards form of Islam attempting to put out the True Light -- a goal which they can never achieve.

انه لا إله إلا الله ، ويسوع هو الابن انجب له

There is no God but God, and Jesus is his only begotten son.

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