Posted on Feb 20, 2020
Outlook - The mother choosing to love her 'enemy' - BBC Sounds
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Latifa Ibn Ziaten, a Moroccan mother to five has been awarded the highest honour in France, the Legion of Honour, and has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Latifa's son, a French soldier, was murdered in Toulouse in 2012. Since then, Latifa has reached out to her ‘enemy’, working closely with people at risk of radicalisation in prisons and schools, and has convinced at least three young men not to go and fight in Syria.
Outlook - The mother choosing to love her 'enemy' - BBC Sounds
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I know of several people (strangely enough almost all women) who have decided to love instead of hate...and I just stand in awe. I am not sure it is even human to be able to forgive at that level. I couldn't do it. And losing a child...for any reason... is something I hope I never have to deal with. I remember my Mother's words (she lost three children while she was alive...and all to tragic circumstances): "You learn to laugh again Kevin...Life is meant for the living...you just never laugh with innocence again." I am not that tough.
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