Kenji's prayer: The words that the beheaded Japanese journalist left behind.

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"Close your eyes, and stay patient.

It's over once you get angry, and lose it.

It is close to a prayer.

Hatred is not our karma;

Judgment belongs to the realm of the gods.

They were my Arab brothers who taught me that."

So read a past tweet by the beheaded Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto.　
I am sending my love to Kenji's loved ones, my foreign friends, and especially our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world who send their prayers to his family and people in Japan. 


「イスラム国」に殺害された後藤さんの過去のツイートが注目を集めている。

「目を閉じて、じっと我慢。

怒ったら、怒鳴ったら、終わり。

それは祈りに近い。

憎むは人の業にあらず、裁きは神の領域。

そう教えてくれたのはアラブの兄弟たちだった。」