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Taliban Video Shows Kidnapped U.S.-Canadian Family (White Wife "Defiled in Front of Her Children")
Breitbart ^ | 12-20-2016 | John Hayward

Posted on 12/21/2016 2:59:33 AM PST by brucedickinson

A new video from the Taliban features Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped while hiking through Afghanistan in 2012.“My children have seen their mother defiled,” she added ominously, as the children sat in Boyle’s lap. Also ominous: she referred to the boys as her “surviving children.”

“They want money, power, friends. You must give them these things before progress can be made,” she said of her captors in the Haqqani Network, a notorious hostage-taking criminal gang allied with the Taliban. Reuters explains that the “friends” she referred to are three senior Haqqani members held by the Afghan government.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: isis; obama; taliban
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To: Jack Hammer

Darling, let’s go on a second honeymoon. Perhaps, somewhere off the beaten track. We can get up close with the locals, live amongst them.
Oh please, please, please!


81 posted on 12/21/2016 7:36:25 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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To: stockpirate

Is it just me this morning, or is the article horribly written?


82 posted on 12/21/2016 7:51:27 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
Your post made me laugh! I imagine a liberal going to Hell, meeting with Satan and saying: "Hi...I understand what you are doing here, and what your viewpoints on things are, I respect that. I have some suggestions on how you might improve things, make it more inclusive here, and so on..."
83 posted on 12/21/2016 8:13:27 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: brucedickinson

Sympathy for the kids being brainwashed to be terrorists - you know they are.

Zero sympathy for the couple.


84 posted on 12/21/2016 8:21:46 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Jack Hammer

Recreational hike at 7 months pregnant. SMH


85 posted on 12/21/2016 8:28:19 AM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Thunder 6

“Life is tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid.”


86 posted on 12/21/2016 8:29:11 AM PST by AFret.
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To: HamiltonJay

HamiltonJay, please don’t take this personally (because I certainly don’t intend this as any kind of personal attack)

I don’t feel that pointing out the profoundly STUPID and “poor choice” they made in traveling to Afghanistan in any way decreases the level of responsibility assumed by the Afghans who took them hostage.

I simply don’t feel these two things are a zero-sum equation. That is, strong condemnation isn’t mutually exclusive. And I do feel that strong condemnation for the parents of these children is in order. Keep in mind I am condemning both sides in this very strongly, but for different reasons.

I feel that this man and woman share just as much responsibility for endangering their own lives, the lives of their children, the lives of any other westerners who may have been emboldened to travel there hearing about their story, and any of our military personnel who may be endangered having to rescue them (if it comes to that) as the muslim captors have for taking them hostage.

Sure, walking through a bad neighborhood can get you hurt or killed, and it happens to people who don’t know any better, they get lost, pull off the highway to get gas, whatever.

But people who knowingly go to places where westerners are routinely taken hostage and sometimes brutally killed deserve all the abuse that may be heaped on them.

In our society, there seems to be this movement to brand “judgment” of others as close-minded, wrong and hateful. I couldn’t be more in disagreement.

The stigma associated with judgement by a society is intended to serve a variety of purposes, and one of those is to warn simple-minded, stupid, arrogant, or misguided people (who are unable to think things through for themselves) away from dangerous activities which may harm them and those around them.

I see what these selfish, stupid people have done with their young children as being no different than taking a boat out into the water, chumming for man-eating sharks, and taking their children in the water with them to observe the sharks in their natural habitat so they can learn more about them, and see that sharks don’t really eat people, it is a prejudice by humans that has demonized the sharks so that we fear them. We should be their friends, and to demonstrate it, we will swim with them.

Or put the way I see it, their trip is no different than taking a hike into the Afghan countryside, offering themselves up for western-hating muslim zealots, and taking their children in the countryside with them to observe the Afghan muslims in their own country so they can learn more about them, and see that Afghan muslims don’t really kidnap and kill Westerners, it is a prejudice by Westerners that has demonized the Afghan muslims so that we fear them. We should be their friends, and to demonstrate it, we will wander through their country with them.


87 posted on 12/21/2016 8:38:25 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: brucedickinson
I've heard of extreme ways to diet, but that there is ridiculous.


88 posted on 12/21/2016 9:25:17 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: brucedickinson

OK why on earth did they think it was smart to HIKE THROUGH F***ING AFGHANISTAN????


89 posted on 12/21/2016 9:26:54 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: brucedickinson

Trump should (quietly) order the military to rescue any and all hostages at any (enemy) cost on day 1.

And do not announce any successes like a victory lap like Odumbass did when other people got bin laden for him.
It will just make it harder to rescue others. If all get rescued THEN announce it alonge with the number of enemy you killed to do it.

It’s not a low priority item that can wait a few weeks.


90 posted on 12/21/2016 9:30:47 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: rlmorel

I it is a most arrogant attitude to say “I can help you” to someone who has not asked for it.


91 posted on 12/21/2016 11:03:20 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: FreedomNotSafety

I give that a little leeway...I think you are right in most cases, but I work in Healthcare and do that all the time.

But I am constantly on the lookout for people looking around like they don’t know where to go, and ask them unsolicited if I can help them. But, it is a different case.

I understand completely the context you said that in.


92 posted on 12/21/2016 11:21:44 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: KavMan
WTF would you go to Afghanistan?

Sounds like they were just taking a walk across Asia and Afghanistan got in the way.

93 posted on 12/21/2016 12:07:00 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Reno89519

The kids are already home. Afghanistan born. US and Canada would be accepting them as unaccompanied minor refugees.


94 posted on 12/21/2016 8:05:33 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: FreedomPoster

Yes, as someone who voted for W twice I was disappointed in that comment (”Islam is a religion of peace”). It is nice to see so many people in the West waking up to the fact that their governments, and the enemedia that enables them, are enemies of free people. Oddly enough, Third Worlders have known this for decades.


95 posted on 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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