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In West Jordan, Utah, a spokesman for the Hassoun family, Tarek Nosseir, said Monday, "If he is still in captivity, we remind the captors of the saying of our beloved prophet: 'Be merciful to those on earth and mercy will descend upon you from heaven.' " In the airstrike on Falluja, the American military dropped the bombs in an eastern neighborhood, The A.P. reported.

But his logic -- if you cannot be merciful to all edible animals, you needn't be merciful to any -- is a recipe for moral indifference.

"We can no longer be merciful to these people," he told local television.

In what sense would it be "merciful" to children in distant countries if Carson were to quickly "finish the job"?

The Prophet Muhammad, he noted, had said that "if you are not merciful to Allah's creation, Allah will not be merciful to you".

Near the end of his news conference Thursday, Mitchell called on Commissioner Bud Selig to be merciful to the players named in the report.

This special year for the Catholic Church is intended for Catholic adherents across the world to show mercy, as God is merciful to them.

THE years have been merciful to Sister Madeline Dorsey.

On the subject of suicide, the Koran could hardly be clearer: "Do not kill yourselves; for surely God has been merciful to you".

He took a quotation from a classical Hebrew text and turned it into a slogan during the war: "He who is merciful to the cruel will end up being cruel to the merciful".

Although Olshan is merciful to all the cruel lovers, faithless spouses and angry children who live in this lonely place, the bracing clarity of his prose doesn't allow for false sentiment.