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Article: Gift of the Masai; Sacred offering should not be refused.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2002
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Byline: Tony Blankley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Please call the U.S. State Department (Bureau of African Affairs, Chief of Bureau Walter H. Kansteiner 202-647-7371) and tell him not to sell the 14 Masai cows. Let me explain.
Earlier this week the New York Times reported that a tiny village of Masai tribesmen, located in the remoteness of the Uganda/Tanzania/Kenya border areas, had only recently heard of the terrorist attack of September 11. At first they couldn't understand how people could die jumping from a building (they live in huts a man cannot even stand up in).
Once the horror was described to them, they quickly collected 14 of their finest ...