Sickness and squalor fi sabil Allah: The medical workers wouldn't even have had to have been preaching openly to provoke the jealousy of the Taliban: filthy infidels performing greater acts of mercy than the mujahedin could dream of is a liability when absolute supremacy is the name of the game. More on this story. "Badakhshan, Taliban kill eight people for being 'Christian missionaries'," from Asia News, August 7:
Kabul (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Eight foreigners and two Afghans of the International Assistance Mission (IAM), a Christian charitable organization providing aid and medical assistance to the Afghan people were killed by the Taliban in the district of Kuran wa Munjan in the region of Badakhshan , northeast Afghanistan. Gen Kemtuz, one of three Afghan translators, is the only survivor. The organisation in question is Swiss based International Assistance Mission, which offers medical assistance.
Dirk Frans, IAM Executive Director said that doctors - all opticians - were returning to Kabul from the region of Nuristan, after a two and a half visit, through Badakhshan, considered the safest route. The IAM lost contact with the doctors vehicles on Wednesday and it is presumed they were attacked between Wednesday and Thursday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders through spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid who claimed that the doctors were in possession of Bibles translated into Dari, the local language. "Yesterday - he said - " one of our patrols confronted a group of foreigners. They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all". He added that they were "American spies" and that they were looking for information on extremist strongholds.
Dirk Frans has strongly denied this claim: "We have been working in Afghanistan since 1966. They know that we are a Christian institution, but we certainly do not distribute Bibles". He added that all of the victims were doctors and that IAM only provides medical assistance.
The names of the eight victims are already known but have not yet been made public. They include six Americans, a Briton and a German. The bodies have been transferred to Kabul. The group's leaders, said Frans, had worked in Afghanistan for decades.
The region of Badakhshan, bordering Tajikistan, is one of the few regions of Afghanistan that the U.S. has stolen control of from the Taliban after the 2001 invasion. The region is considered safe, although the local population has shown signs of revolt in recent times.
The mentality of the Muslim Taliban is a prime reason Pakistan and like places never seem to progress to a more prosperous time and place...As long as Islam remains...so too does poverty, misery, and death...
The kindness and love of Islam is appalling....
These 'aid workers' should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place.
Their demise was sadly inevitable given when you account for the large number of aid workers butchered by the Muslims before and during our occupation.
Muslims and aid workers don't mix.
Taliban on murder of aid workers: "They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all"
That's all they can do. Just like their murderer Muhammad.
Taliban Vermins (video)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/07/taliban-vermins.html
Yes, like they were on a mission to convert the population to Christianity under the guise of medical doctors. It's sad that these unselfish doctors and aid workers who go to these backward countries to aid the people would be executed by these barbaric ingrates.
Taliban on murder of aid workers: "They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all"
And this is what we could expect from them when we leave.
The parents of Dr Karen Woo, one of those murdered, are outraged at the suggestion that she was proselytising, as she was a 'devout' humanist.
"We have been working in Afghanistan since 1966. They know that we are a Christian institution, but we certainly do not distribute Bibles".
An still that was not enough to save them.
Apologists, progressives, liberals, et al. consider: These people were murdered because they were NOT muslim. Let that sink in. They were NOT muslim, just like you.
But, you might say, these were “bad” muslims, radicals, extremists. They do not follow the true islam, the religion of peace. They have “hijacked” islam for their own nefarious purpose. You might then point to anacdotal stories or have personal experiences with “good” muslims who were kind and tolerant and loving to prove that most muslims are “good”.
I am positive that these murdered aid workers had the exact same experience right up to the moment they were machine gunned to death. Doesn’t it EVER make you wonder how the “good” muslims can just sit back and witness atrocity after atrocity done in the name of their precious faith against those that want only to help and remain silent? To do nothing in defense of their faith and their (infidel) friends? Does it make you wonder that should you ever run afoul of “bad” muslims if your “good” muslim friends would even bother speak out for you or attempt to assist you in anyway?
Probably not but then again ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Dx6NhB5T4&feature=related
Christian aid workers are providing care and kindness that Muslims refuse to give....
Giving "aid" to those whose dogma tells them to subjugate, enslave, and kill you if you resist, is folly.
There are plenty of poor and appreciative people who need aid.
Don't strengthen your mortal foes.
These 'aid workers' should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place.
You must be taking smart pills...Just a few more and you will be smart...
And to think that Afghanistan was once a peaceful Buddhist country. Once the Islamic barbarians take over, it's HELL. No good deed will go unpunished, the good samaritan killed. Hell! Why do we even bother with these primitives? No amount of (Christian) charity can save them.
From the AP story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100808/ap_on_re_us/afghanistan_civilian_victims
"We are heartbroken by the loss of these heroic, generous people," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in Washington. She condemned the Taliban for the deaths and what she called a "transparent attempt to justify the unjustifiable by making false accusations about their activities."
The term "false accusations" suggests that the aid workers were suspected of committing a crime. Even if they shared the Bible teachings with patients, that shouldn't be a capital offense.
This is so sad and a total waste of educated fine human beings. I know the herculean efforts it takes to become a doctor, an effort I couldn't make.
I consider this another deadly incident where the failure to recognize the workings of the cultists of death. there is information out there but there are also fools who refuse to read it, and those who try to hide it.
What if these doctors and millions of other victims of the death cult had recognized and known islam for what it is? Would they have gone to this islamic hell hole to do good? Hell no unless they were accompanyed by a company of marines who are armed to the teeth with cobra helocopters flying over head as guards. If they were only reguler readers of jihad watch and other similiar sites that tells it like it is. They would have known and acted accordingly. They would have been safe and sound. Perhaps they would have gone to one of the many countries that respects them and is gratefull for their efforts.
Also from the AP Story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100808/ap_on_re_us/afghanistan_civilian_victims
"Team leader Tom Little, an optometrist from Delmar, New York, had been working in Afghanistan for more than 30 years. He and his wife, Libby, reared three daughters in Kabul, sticking it out through the Soviet invasion of the 1980s, and the vicious civil war of the 1990s, when Afghan warlords rained rockets on the city.
"They were briefly expelled with other Western aid workers in August 2001 but returned after the Taliban were ousted from power three months later. Little supervised a string of hospitals and clinics offering treatment for eye diseases."
I find it amazing that this family stayed in war-torn Afghanistan for 30 years. They must have become very familiar with the Muslim culture and accepted the fact that their lives were often at risk. I never met Tom Little but I attended his church in upstate New York a number of years ago.
desidue, I agree. When there are thousands of places and millions of people in non-Muslim lands who desperately need help, why would good Samaritans want to go to these dangerous, ungrateful, islamic hell-holes, unless they are thoroughly ignorant of the real, evil nature of islam, thanks to the false and misleading information fed to them by their own media and governments.
To that extent, the American media and government are culpable in these needless deaths of good people.
What the religion of people is, is not important at all when they are medical helpers and they were that. This group was working very hard for being a blessing of the poor Afganistans. The evil nature of the Islam is here again showed. And al the moslims who were there protesting hysterical against a cartoon or a book, WHERE ARE THEY NOW??Now 10 precious medical helpers are killed, WHO IS RAISING HIS VIOCE??.
Big silence no protest at all. I saw the fiancé from the English doctor, they should be married this month.
This is Islam. Islam is not peace at all. Islam is war against all what is beautiful, precious and worthful. It's an evil religion taking all the love that is to share and is changing the world more and more in a fearful place.
Not 1 moslim had raised his voice in abhorrence about this evil fact,who stays in silence agrees, that's for sure.
And that's the evil of the Islam, no peace at all.
For their own good obviously not.
Would you apply the same warped idiot logic to the catastrophe now enveloping Pakistan?
Forget it? We shouldn't be there? Let them deal with it themselves?
In fact whilst at it stop all aid?
Then watch as it really collapses into Islamo anarchy. You know that thing those Muslims are really good at along with the subsequent begging bowl.
As a commentator on another forum put it
I think missionaries who prey on 3rd world poor pushing religion for food and aid are of a depraved mentality that knows no lows.
Ooops. The above was supposed to be in reply to Islamic Empire.
This story illustrates one of the many differences between Christianity and Muslimism. Christians are commanded to love and do good to their neighbor, Muslimism isn't, killing, robbing and exploiting your neighbor is good enough and is based entirely on hatred of God and man.
Now "Islamic Nation" above states, "These 'aid workers' should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place", and this illustrates something we need to be aware of. Muslims are playing by a completely different set of rules. It's okay for them to come here, spread their "religion" anywhere at any time but Christians ARE NOT PERMITTED to practice theirs in any "Islamic" lands, even if they're their to help the sick & poor. No, no, no, instead they wants to build a 'super mosque' at the 911 site as a memorial to those who died (do they ever tell the truth?).
Why don't they take their mosque money and care for their own in 'Islamic Lands"?
So what do we do? They answer is simple, "Round them up & move 'em out!".
" These aid workers should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place ".
You really seem to give a damn about your fellow Muslims, don't you ?
You are vile.
" These aid workers should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place ".
That is one comment I actually agree with by the vile Islamic empire.
It is pointless and useless to help the afghanis in any way. They will only praise their allah for providing them aid, not the west. the west will still be hated. Look at the example of Aceh, where we rushed in aid to these people who were hit with the tsunami. or the Iran earthquake relief. all is forgotten it' s back to becoming better muslims and hating the west even more.
I say let all the rich muslims take care of their poorer bretherners. and I know they won't.
Take all "aid" money from Pakistan and give it to India.
For every non-Muslim slaughtered by the Taliban wipe an entire village of the map - men, women, childre and goats. No wait, the goats should be saved.
Islam is a filthy ideology that the world would have CRUSHED by now if it weren't hiding behind some ludicris claim of being a religion.
It is time to DESTROY it.
paul: don't bother with this a...hole. Islamic empire
You're right. We should let them starve and go untreated for illnesses, it's what they deserve anyway just like the rest of the ungrateful infidel-hating followers of your satanic and primitive death-embracing cult, and whilst we're at it, we should also kick scum like yourself out of the West.
Paul Hoffman re Islamic Empire:You are vile
Just like the person whose life he seeks to emulate. 2nd thought - a pale imitation maybe.
Jihad against dentists and optometrists...