Short-sighted and ultimately suicidal dhimmitude. "Red Cross Neglects Arrested Afghan Employee for Converting to Christianity," from International Christian Concern, December 14 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Washington, D.C. (December 14, 2010) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the Red Cross in Afghanistan (ICRC) has not intervened on behalf of a long-term employee who was arrested and imprisoned because he is Christian. This, despite that the Red Cross mandate includes "visiting prisoners" and "helping victims of conflict and internal violence, whoever they are."Sayed Mossa worked 15 years in ICRC's orthopedic department in Kabul assisting amputees. In late May, footage of Muslim converts to Christianity being baptized was aired in Afghanistan. The broadcast triggered nationwide protests and a government-led crackdown against Christians. On May 31, being a Muslim convert to Christianity, Mossa was arrested by security officers working with the Ministry of Interior.
Aid workers in Kabul immediately contacted the Red Cross after hearing of the arrest. "The Protection office told us that Mossa will be visited like the others and that we must not interfere with their job. We are not his family and they will not tell us anything. We told them that he has been sexually abused and his condition has deteriorated badly, but nothing could move them," said a friend of Mossa's who inquired about his safety. When Mossa's wife asked for help, the Red Cross paid her Mossa's salary, but reportedly said they would not intervene to liberate her husband. It was two months before Mossa's wife had heard where he was being held. She was not notified by the Red Cross, but by a released prisoner who had served time with Mossa.
In a final meeting with Reto Stocker, head of the Red Cross in Kabul, Mossa's friends were again told that ICRC is neutral and would not intervene. They were also asked to not make the case public.
In another breach of the Red Cross' mission, they refused to deliver hundreds of letters addressed to Mossa. Westerners organized the letter-writing campaign to both encourage the Christian and to publicly display the international community's concern over his plight. "They won't deliver the letters to Sayed. The Red Cross does not have the right to keep the letters from him. It's their responsibility to ensure he receives letters written to him via the Red Cross address," said an aid worker in Kabul who helped organize the campaign.
"If the Red Cross refuses to do something they stand for, shouldn't the world know about such a gross violation of their stated practices?" said another aid worker. "I mean, if donors support the Red Cross' work because of what they declare they do, shouldn't the Red Cross be reproved for their refusal to do (the work they are supposed to do)?"...
Yes.
I wonder if Oklahoma Judge Vicki Lagrange-Miles claims to be a Christian....Maybe the Red Cross will help her in a time of need...and then ...maybe not....disgraceful conduct by the Red Cross...
Appalling, absolutely appalling.
Sayed Mossa worked for the Red Cross for *15 years assisting amputees*—which makes him a model Christian, and one would suppose, a model Red Cross worker as well.
But now his case is too "politically incorrect" for the ICRC to involve itself.
Poor Henri Dunant must be rolling over in his grave.
The Red Cross was probably too busy handing out aid kits to the Taliban. Yes, they did that.
Or maybe they were preoccupied with giving sandwiches and drinks to the thug supporters of the Jena Six.
DO NOT support the Red Cross. They got the last drop of my O negative blood two years ago, and I have since told them IN WRITING they'll get no more.
Not surprising in the least. Most everything has been politicized and in the worst way. Be it science with the great fraud of man-made global warming, here the Red Cross or, more generally, Western Civilization, we live in the Age of Nonsense where the best which mankind has produced is now viewed in the negative (examples: civilization needs petroleum reserves as a source of energy and PC/MC folks feel badly about this; freedom of speech and religion are now under assault from the troglodyte system of belief known as Islam and way too many people who should know better by now are defending the troglodyte). And meanwhile the worst is assumed to be paramount in the matter of truth and morality (examples: Islam and environmental extremism). Extra dumb but the new reality. Ah, what a stupid age we live in----not the Middle Ages but the Silly Ages.
a few years ago, israel has offered to send in some of its ambulances with medical personnel and equipment, as a humanitarian relief to some country struck by a natural disaster (i forgot the details).
the wise people of the irc, had no problem accepting the aid, but the ambulances could not arrive as they were since they obviously had a star of david painted on them...
this organization is a disgrace!
they close their eyes to red 'crescent' ambulances used to deliver and smugle weapons to terrorists.... that's ok!
they have not lived up to their obligation to do everything in their power to visit the kidnappped israeli soldier gilad shalit, who is in captivity for over 4 years!!!
and no one even knows if he is still alive..... but that's ok!....
and now they totally leave a coleague behind enemy lines and they wash their hands off this poor afghani.....
god how i DESPISE all these hypocritical organizations....
Those jihadists will use anything and everything for the purpose of war. They're subhuman animals.
The Red Cross is a shadow of its former self and should be shunned by all those who cherish truth and justice. Yes, you're quite right, captain nemo, to despise hypocritical organizations, which in this nonsensical age we live in are approaching an uncountable number.
The ICRC is MANDATED by the international community, under the Geneva Conventions, to visit prisoners of war and civilian internees to verify whether they are being treated according to relevant international standards. In addition, it seeks to visit those held in situations of internal violence. ICRC detention visits aim to ensure respect for the life and dignity of the detainees and to prevent torture, ill-treatment or abuse.
http://www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/visiting-detainees/index.jsp
Contacts at the ICRC
http://www.icrc.org/eng/who-we-are/contacts/index.jsp
I quit supporting the Red Cross in 2001 when I learned that the donations sent for the 9-11 victims were being used to fund other 'emergencies' and that's how they do business. They go on television and solicit contributions after a natural disaster (or terror attack) and the money goes into their general fund to be spent when and where they deem appropriate. I sent money for the 9-11 victims and I felt like I had been scammed. As I recall, this was exposed by O'Reilly a few months after 9-11.
Another thing I don't like about the Red Cross is their refusal to accept food, water, linens, clothing, etc., even if it is new---they want only money.
Do not give money to the Red Cross, as it has now become subservient to its junior companion the Red Crescent. It is now a dhimmi.
I have a suspicion that The Red Crescent was formed with the express intention of infiltrating the Red Cross, and taking it over. This is how Islam operates, by invasion or infiltration.
We need to start new charities that express western values like freedom of consciencr. That will be hard to do but is probably doable.
Red Cross too busy doing their feel good outreach to Muslims. They must feel so righteous earning their brownie points. Sarc/off. Pathetic display of dhimmitude. Disgusting!!!