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The woman walking to Aleppo to 'end the Syrian war'
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Posted on 12/23/2016 9:42:46 AM PST by TigerClaws

A woman in Germany says she has been so angered at the reports of civilian deaths in Syria that she is organising a march from Berlin to Aleppo to try to bring an end to the war.

Anna Alboth said she could no longer sit and watch news reports without taking action herself.

So she is organising the Civil March for Aleppo, a 3,400km (2,100-mile) walk that will retrace the footsteps of refugees who managed to escape the war in Syria and make to the safety of Germany.

The journalist, who has already welcomed a Syrian refugee into her own home, said the bombing of hospitals in Aleppo had brought matters to a head for her.

Anna Alboth with refugee children Image caption Anna Alboth has been supporting refugees in Berlin for some time "I was having dinner with Syrian women I know in a refugee centre and they were showing me photos of a lot of people who had died," said Mrs Alboth.

"People like me in safe countries can't take it any more, and we see this as a chance to transform things.

"Refugees who hear about it say that if we are willing to give up our comfortable lives to do this, then it is a real demonstration."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: germany; syria
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Children's crusade...

Didn't the woman who tried doing something like this a year or two ago wind up murdered? Fairly quickly, too.

1 posted on 12/23/2016 9:42:46 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Dead Woman Walking


2 posted on 12/23/2016 9:43:38 AM PST by freedomlover
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She should take about 500,000 migrant men with her


3 posted on 12/23/2016 9:45:07 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: TigerClaws

Ah, the ignorant, being led by the blind, gleefully walking to their death.


4 posted on 12/23/2016 9:45:21 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, ISIS is going to have another hostage soon.


5 posted on 12/23/2016 9:45:45 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: TigerClaws

Maybe she can escort the “refugees” back to their own country.

Especially the tens of thousands of unaccompanied men of military age.


6 posted on 12/23/2016 9:46:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TigerClaws

Almost as brilliant as taking a hiking vacation in Afghanistan.


7 posted on 12/23/2016 9:46:34 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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Another gullible, dumb-@ss white woman


8 posted on 12/23/2016 9:46:37 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: TigerClaws

Like the dude who tried to live among the grizzly bears, this will not end well.


9 posted on 12/23/2016 9:47:00 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: TigerClaws

This has shades of Rachel Corrie all over it.


10 posted on 12/23/2016 9:47:09 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: TigerClaws

Is there anyone taking odds on whether she makes it there? And if she gets out alive?


11 posted on 12/23/2016 9:47:13 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: TigerClaws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children’s_Crusade


12 posted on 12/23/2016 9:47:42 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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If I remember correctly, raped, sex slave and then murdered.


13 posted on 12/23/2016 9:49:12 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: TigerClaws

Liberalism is a mental disorder.


14 posted on 12/23/2016 9:49:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: silverleaf

Not entirely a bad idea. If all those migrants could be mustered to go back there and add their forces to peace keeping, they’d be in a far better place.

The kicker is, would they WANT to. I think they’re largely nihilistic, and think something like hey, if we can go somewhere and raise hell, let’s do it, for tomorrow we die anyhow.


15 posted on 12/23/2016 9:49:53 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TigerClaws

bless her if this is a sincere gesture and not just a publicity stunt

but

someone had better stop her before she gets there
(for her own safety)


16 posted on 12/23/2016 9:50:28 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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I was going to say moron and then I see it’s a journalist.


17 posted on 12/23/2016 9:51:02 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: TigerClaws

Moslem fighters and terrorists do not treat females well, and especially Christian women


18 posted on 12/23/2016 9:51:18 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: TigerClaws

Maybe she can escort the “refugees” back to their own country.

Especially the tens of thousands of unaccompanied men of military age.


19 posted on 12/23/2016 9:51:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, she could be ‘Walkin to New Orleans.’


20 posted on 12/23/2016 9:52:13 AM PST by lee martell
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