Have you read Gracia Burnham's In The Presence of M y Enemies?

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Still remember her and her husband Martin Burnham? The two American missionaries who were kidnapped by the Abu Sayaf Group on May 2001? Well she wrote a book recalling their year-long captivity under the militant Islamist group and i had the chance to read it. While reading the book, different emotions run through me. There's this SYMPATHY to those helpless hostages & civilians, who were just living their lives as peacefully as they could and yet suddenly an event had turned their lives into trouble. HATRED to the rebels who do nothing but kill and take innocent lives, who even uses the name of God in a blasphemous manner(the only thing that i will never understand on them). DISGUST to the government whose mouth has never complemented the actions of its hands and feet, who denies any forms of ransom yet negotiates in the dark with the terrorists. Seven years ago, it had became the headlines. Seven years later, still a national issue. The Abu Sayaf group may have been unheard this past few years, but do we need another Gracia Burnham? Another defenseless civilian get killed?