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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/25/international/middleeast/25LEBA.html
Killing Underscores Evangelist-Muslim Enmity
(New York Times) Neil MacFarquhar - With hymns and prayers, fellow missionaries eulogized Bonnie Penner Witherall, grieving for the 31-year-old American who was killed by a gunman last week at the prenatal clinic of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Sidon, Lebanon, where she worked. Last spring a small but influential Muslim monthly denounced the group as a Zionist organization: "They destroy the fighting spirit of the children, especially of the Palestinian youth, by teaching them not to fight the Jews, for the Palestinians to forgive the Jews and leave them Jerusalem."