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They welcomed him in
fellowship, he turned
on them in hate
CHARLESTON, S.C. —
When Angela Brown saw
the Facebook post about
a shooting at Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal
Church, her mind imme-
diately leapt to her aunt.
Whenever the doors to
Emanuel were open to its
flock, Ethel Lance was there.
“This was her home,” said
her niece, standing in the
shadow of its soaring spire,
tears streaming down her
face.
So many people felt
that way about “Mother”
Emanuel.
Founded in 1818 by a
free black shoemaker, the
church stood as a bea-
con in a port city through
which many legions of
Africans passed on their
way to bondage across the
growing nation. Torched by
angry whites after one of
its organizers led a failed
slave revolt, Emanuel rose
from the ashes to serve as
a stop on the Underground
Railroad, even as state lead-
ers banned all black church-
es and forced the congrega-
tion itself underground.
The current brick Gothic
revival edifice, completed in
1891 to replace an earlier
building heavily damaged in
an earthquake, was a man-
datory stop for the likes of
Booker T. Washington and
the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. Still, Emanuel was not
just a church for the black
community.
Trade dispute exposes
turmoil in smaller
House Democratic
caucus struggling to
regain power
WASHINGTON
—
Congress’ upheaval over
trade has exposed turmoil
within a House Democratic
caucus that’s grown smaller
and more liberal in recent
years as moderates have
been ousted in successive
election bloodlettings.
Those who remain must
answer to ideologically driv-
en voters and labor unions
fighting their own battles
for survival, even if it means
sidelining their own leaders
and humbling their presi-
dent in the process.
The result is a minority
caucus dominated by some
of its most liberal members,
leaving the few remaining
centrists to question wheth-
er that will make it harder
for their party to retake the
seats they need to regain
the House majority anytime
in the next decade.
Just as the tea party wing
of the Republican Party
has pulled the entire GOP
to the right and hampered
attempts at compromise on
Capitol Hill, some now fear
a similar dynamic is taking
shape on the left.
“The real question is, are
we going to try to broaden
our caucus,” said Rep. Gerry
Connolly of Virginia, who
unlike most Democrats is
an outspoken supporter of
President Barack Obama’s
trade agenda. “That means
listening more to some of
these swing districts and
suburban districts which
have a different economic
outlook.”
Syrians, Iraqis
describe nation of
fear inside Islamic
State group’s realm
ESKI MOSUL, Iraq —
Inside the Islamic State’s
realm, the paper testifying
that you have “repented”
from your heretical past
must be carried at all times.
Many people laminate it just
to be safe. It can mean the
difference between life and
death.
Bilal Abdullah learned that
not long after the extremists
took over his Iraqi village,
Eski Mosul, a year ago. As
he walked down the street,
an Islamic State fighter in
a pickup truck asked direc-
tions to a local mosque.
When Abdullah didn’t recog-
nize the mosque’s name, the
fighter became suspicious.
“He told me my faith is
weak and asked, ‘Do you
pray?’” Abdullah recalled.
Then the fighter asked to
see his “repentance card.”
Abdullah had been a police-
man until the IS takeover,
and policemen and soldiers
are required to have one.
So are many other former
government loyalists or
employees — even former
English teachers, since they
once taught a “forbidden”
language and tailors of
women’s clothes because
they once designed styles
deemed un-Islamic.
Abdullah had left his card
at home. Terrified, he sent
his son running to get it.
“They are brutal peo-
ple,” he told The Associated
Press. “They can consider
you an infidel for the sim-
plest thing.”
Sunni tribes,
abandoned by Iraqi
forces at Ramadi
HABANIYAH, Iraq —
Parading across a desert
base, hundreds of Sunni
tribesmen who graduated a
crash training course stood
ready to take on the Islamic
State group on behalf of
a government that many
believed left them to die at
the hands of the extremists.
Among them were tribes-
men who watched as Iraqi
forces abandoned Ramadi
a month ago to the Islamic
State group. Their suspi-
cions toward the Shiite-led
government in Baghdad
could be seen as they
pushed forward to receive
their first government sal-
ary in 18 months, with one
brandishing a Kalashnikov
assault rifle as he neared
the front.
But money and weapons
alone won’t be enough to
repair the mistrust between
Baghdad and the Sunni
tribes it now needs to bat-
tle the Islamic State group,
which holds about a third
of the country and neigh-
boring Syria in its self-de-
clared “caliphate.”After Iraqi
forces abandoned Ramadi
and then turned to Shiite
militias for help, both sides
remain suspicious of each
other, threatening any effort
to work together.
Iraq’s Sunnis long have
complained of discrimina-
tion and abuse since the
2003 U.S.-led invasion that
toppled Saddam Hussein’s
Sunni-led dictatorship and
replaced it with a govern-
ment dominated by the
country’s Shiite majority.
But the collapse of Iraqi
forces in Ramadi on May 17
crystalized the fears many
Sunni tribesmen had when
their pleas for help went
unanswered.
Republican
presidential hopefuls’
new insight on faith in
public life
WASHINGTON
—
Republican
presidential
contenders railed against
abortion rights on Saturday
as they courted religious
conservatives, promising
Christian values would guide
their personal decisions and
public policies should they
win the presidency.
Perry was among nearly
a dozen presidential hope-
fuls in Washington this week
for one of the nation’s pre-
mier gatherings of Christian
activists.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush called his Catholic
faith “an organizing part of
my architecture.” Ohio Gov.
John Kasich said religion
gives him more empathy
toward the poor. And Sen.
Ted Cruz of Texas cited his
Christian values in lashing
out at the Supreme Court.
The Faith and Freedom
Coalition’s annual confer-
ence began the day after
nine
African-Americans
were shot to death inside
a historic South Carolina
church, offering a grim
backdrop to the three-day
meeting designed to give
religious activists a closer
look at the large class of
GOP candidates and others
considering bids.
An officer kills a
veteran and Las Vegas
becomes test for
training to reduce
deadly encounters
LAS VEGAS — By 2 a.m.,
nearly five hours had ticked by
since Stanley Gibson’s last call.
“I want to come home,” the
43-year-old Gulf War veter-
an told his wife, Rondha, his
voice edged by post-traumatic
stress disorder.
But Rondha Gibson did
not know where to find him
until a white Cadillac, bathed
in spotlights, filled her televi-
sion screen. “Local man shot
by Metro police,” a headline
announced.
On that night in 2011,
local leaders had just start-
ed
acknowledging
two
decades of shootings by Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department officers. But
Gibson’s death was a flash
point.
2 cousins — 1
American, 1 Irish —
who died in balcony
collapse had a twins
bond
COTATI, Calif. — Two
cousins who were among
the victims killed when
a balcony collapsed in
Berkeley were remembered
Saturday as kind, fun-loving
young women who shared a
bond of twins even though
they grew up an ocean apart
— one in California and the
other in Ireland.
Ashley Donohoe, 22, of
Rohnert Park, California,
and her cousin Olivia Burke,
21, of Ireland were mourned
Saturday at a Catholic Mass,
where those in attendance
wiped away tears but also
laughed as a priest shared
memories of the best
friends.
A bagpipe player led a
brief procession of heart-
broken family and friends
carrying the coffins into St.
Joseph Catholic Church in
Cotati. Wreaths of white
flowers and emerald green
ribbons decorated the
church.
When Burke turned 18,
Donohoe traveled to Ireland
and surprised her. Burke
often traveled to California
to spend time with her cous-
in, said Rev. Daniel Whelton,
who led the service at
the same church where
Donohoe was baptized.
Black churches
targeted because of
importance to African
American community,
life in America
WASHINGTON — The
black church has long been
the cornerstone and sanc-
tuary for African-American
life. It’s also long been a
target for racists and white
supremacists trying to
strike blows against the
African-American psyche.
The latest attack came
Wednesday in Charleston,
South
Carolina,
when
21-year-old Dylann Storm
Roof joined a prayer meet-
ing inside historic Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal
Church and, according to
authorities, shot nine people
dead, including the pastor,
the Rev. Clementa Pinckney,
and other ministers.
Why Roof targeted that
particular church is not yet
known. A friend of the sus-
pect said Roof told him that
he felt black people were
“taking over the world” and
that something needed to
be done for the white race.
What is clear is that in
the days since the carnage
inside one of the nation’s
oldest black churches, other
black churches have begun
gathering their faithful to
process the tragedy, forti-
fy themselves for the jour-
ney toward forgiveness and
renew their commitments
to the social activism that
has made them targets for
hate through the ages.
By wire sources
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