Viral: Executed Japanese journalist’s peace tweet

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Viral: Executed Japanese journalist’s peace tweet

AFP

A poignant tweet by murdered journalist Kenji Goto on the virtue of being calm was spreading rapidly on social media Tuesday, February 3, days after he was apparently beheaded by Islamist militants. “Close your eyes and remain patient. It’s over once you get angry or yell. It is almost like praying. Hating is not the role of humans; judgement is God’s domain,” Goto’s 4-year-old tweet read. “It was my Arab brothers who taught me this,” he tweeted in Japanese on September 7, 2010. The message had been retweeted more than 25,000 times in Japanese, with English versions also widely circulated.

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