I think it's wonderful that young women want to practice motherhood before they actually have children of their own. It's great that they would tend to an infantalized and dysfunctional gang like the Palestinians. If she were my daughter I'd rather she went to work as a volunteer at the local RSPCA or some such, but still, this kind of thing is good experience for taking a position in the local English government. Even better, though, would be if a girl like the one above were to come tend to me. I have a pile of laundry I haven't tackled in ages, and I hate to think of the dishes to be washed. I'm not exactly harmless, and girls who are having trouble with their growing into adult relationships with men might find me a bit cranky on that side, but I'm certain I won't kidnap any of their parents. So, what a deal am I! I'm accepting volunteer girls as of now. Please forward your details to the link below.

Ah, yes, I'm sorely oppressed by the fascist system.

Posted by: sonofwalker at December 29, 2005 10:14 AM

Hoist. Petard. Own.

Posted by: Hugh at December 29, 2005 10:39 AM

She obviously comes from the Norman Kember school of nincompoopcy.
What was she actually doing that was of any use after she left the UN? Was she actually doing anything of any use with the UN? She seems to be neither a medical practitioner nor an agriculturalist?

Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at December 29, 2005 11:41 AM

Acting toward Muslims with kindness and Christian charity: a tragic account

I write this brief account of my Coptic Egyptian family and the result of their kindness to Muslims to enlighten some of the kindly people on this forum to the danger of kindness to Muslims. Also, I am fed up by infidels on this board advocating on behalf of Muslims in the name of fairness, civility, and humanity. Moreover, as humans we learn more from stories than from abstract concepts, facts and figures which lack a human dimension.

I come from what was once considered a very wealthy family. My Great Great grandfather owned hundreds of acres of fertile land in Upper Egypt in which he grew cotton in the first years of the twentieth century. He was a kind old man, a devout convert to the Anglican faith from his native Coptic Orthodoxy. He was extremely generous and he gave to anyone who asked him without paying attention to the needy person’s religion. One day, a so called Muslim friend, a man who speculated in cotton on the cotton exchange and lost enormous amounts money which he owed to the exchange and his creditors, came to my kindly ancestor and asked him to sign a paper to guarantee his obligations or he will be ruined. He just needed time to set his affairs in order, or so he said. My grandfather trusted the man and felt sorry for him and his family, so he signed. Later, the Muslim man liquidated his assets and faked a backdated transfer to his family. My kindly Great Great Grandfather was left holding the Muslim man’s huge debts; his assets and all his earthly possessions were seized and sold in auction for pennies on the dollar, gobbled up by his “Muslim friends”. He lost his huge compound built by Italian architects and every last piece of his possessions. He was forced to move into a mud brick single story house and lived in abject poverty until his death. Yes, without exaggeration, from nearly a palace into a mud shack. He believed that he was acting as a Christian and bearing his cross in life like Job of old. His saintly wife never blamed him for his foolishness. It took his Grandchildren decades to claw themselves out of the hole that their grandfather have placed them in, working hard with honesty and perseverance until they became somewhat wealthy. However, some of them never learned from the stupidity of their ancestor and repeated his mistakes because they wanted to act like Christ. They handed their land to Muslim sharecroppers who were expelled from their village by a powerful Muslim clan. They were ragged refugees with children, so a relative of my grandfather gave them a small house in the front of the enclosed plaza inhabited by the extended family, becoming the only Muslim neighbors. That foolish relative died and his children died soon after… The once wretched Muslim family grew rich and powerful over the years, and they seized the vacated houses and lands of my distant relatives and tore them down and built a massive house. Over the years, they showed their true colors, becoming increasingly belligerent toward their Christian neighbors, making their life a living hell. The fact that they owe everything to the charity of Christian benefactors did not temper their Islamic hostility, but in fact it made it stronger because of the inferiority complex that they have. One time they shot my elderly grandfather in the shoulder with a shotgun and he miraculously survived. My uncle and his boys have the tragic fate of constantly battling the Muslim neighbors and their friends, which is a hanging death sentence on their heads.

In conclusion, with all due respect to Jesus Christ and his pacifist teachings, and all the kindly Christians working to elevate the suffering of Muslims, kindness to Muslim is the height of stupidity because to be kind to them is to be unkind to one’s descendents and the truly innocent victims of Islam who deserve the kindness, but alas, they get none. To take vipers to your breast is to invite a fetal venomous bite.

Posted by: have_mercy at December 29, 2005 12:24 PM

They were bundled into a white Mercedes

So much for the "poverty" that's allegedly driving (no pun intended) desperate Palestinians to do what they do.

If only I had a white Mercedes...*sigh*....poor me....

Posted by: yadayada at December 29, 2005 12:59 PM

That would have been originally stolen in Tel Aviv. Apparently there is a thriving car theft/ringing "business" there,and the favourite vehicles are mercs.

Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at December 29, 2005 1:31 PM

Valuable object lesson to be learned here, all round, not just for the kidnapped, but other would be Samaritans too. Although as we seen, some cannot be deterred.

Curious though, what will be bartered. Of course, there will be a price to pay for the return of the kidnapped.
I hope they all come back undamaged, but wiser.

Posted by: pr126 at December 29, 2005 2:20 PM

I hope the owner gets the car back.

Posted by: sonofwalker at December 29, 2005 3:41 PM

Mother,Father and Daughter....all pillocks

Posted by: marilyn at December 29, 2005 4:28 PM

Gaza is the turd in the swimming pool of all Earth

O when will someone please get that turd out of there ?

think of the Children !

[ Indeed Satan Lives At Mecca ]

Posted by: Crunchy Jello at December 29, 2005 6:36 PM

I saw something like this at the circus where a tiny minority of hijacker clowns kept coming out of the white Mercedes, first a few, then 19, then hundreds, and eventually thousands, millions, even brazillions of them. My parents told me to shut up and mind the show. Uh uh. You can fool me once but never again. I figured it out when I was child. I don't fall for it any more. You park the Mercedes, you wait for it to get stolen, and then you punch the ignition button. Eventually even Muslims figure it out. A child can figure it out. A dhimmi idiot gets kidnapped, her parents get grabbed, the criminals take off in a stolen Mercedes? Like you want to pay them for that? Who can be that stupid? We'll sit back and shut up and watch the stupidest act on Earth, and people will sit and pretend it's amusing. It's not funny at all. It's humiliating to have to witness it. Even kids would be embarrassed by it. It's a circus.

Posted by: sonofwalker at December 29, 2005 8:40 PM

Serves her right for siding with the enemies of Israel, and off the West.

I hope she gets held longer then most Dhimmis do to get the pro-terrorism disease out of her.

Posted by: Druze at December 29, 2005 10:36 PM

Now were these do gooders mulsums who just went over to help the palis and got caught up in their game?

I mean who eles would go there??

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Posted by: Catherine at December 30, 2005 12:52 AM

I heard that they were to be freed or have already been freed. Seems to me this was a complete set-up.

Posted by: IceDragon at December 30, 2005 4:41 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4570590.stm
The BBC says that their release is expected this evening.
Anyone else round here smell halibut?

Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at December 30, 2005 5:41 PM

Yep, they've been released:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/30/hostages.freed/index.html

Remember when kidnapping in Yemen almost became a tourist "experience" and governments had to caution their travellers not to seek out their own kidnapping? I wonder if that's what the Palestinians are going for...

Posted by: Shinoliite at December 30, 2005 6:07 PM