Kayla Mueller's Response to ISIS Captivity
“Even in prison, one can be free.”
“For over 2.5 years I was overwhelmed by the greed of people and the snuffed out cries of the suffering all over the world,” she wrote in 2006 in a high school scholarship essay.
But she came to realize that “I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you,” Kayla wrote in a letter to her father in 2011.
“I will always seek God. Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love; I find God in suffering. I’ve known for some time what my life’s work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering,” she wrote.
Images of children suffering in the early stages of Syria’s ongoing civil war prompted Mueller to leave her home in Arizona, in December 2012, to help Syrian refugees. Kayla found the work heartbreaking but compelling.
Mueller was captured by Isis on Aug. 4, 2013, in Aleppo, Syria — 10 days before her 25th birthday. Given to the senior leader of Isis at the time as a war trophy. She was held with 3 Yazidi women, and they were all systematically raped by him.
They all had an opportunity to escape, so Kayla urged them to go without her, knowing without the language and as a foreigner she could easily cause them to get caught. They escaped with her letters. She was a hostage for 18 months, and killed in early 2015.
Besides raping her repeatedly, there were reports of torture. The very hands to relieve suffering experienced horrifying suffering as they ripped out her nails. I suspect the torture had to do with her being pressured to convert to Islam. Most missionaries and Christians working among Muslims experience pressures to convert as well.
The reason I suspect she was being pressured to convert is because of the very last thing she wrote to her parents was a clear declaration of her allegiance. Kayla quoted Jesus Christ, who was quoting the Shema of Deut 6, which is the exact opposite of the recitation of the Islamic Creed.
Mark 12:28-30. "The first of all the commandments is hear O Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.”
Kayla Mueller, a young woman of 26 years, our sister in Christ, Courageous and faithful to the end.
Source of both Letters Kayla wrote to her parents
Link to description and brief footage of Kayla's hostage video
مدونة تور كايلا مولر رد كايلا مولر على أسر داعش
La réponse de Kayla Mueller à la captivité dans l'ISIS
Tanggapan Kayla Mueller Terhadap Penahanan ISIS
