Posted on 11/21/2018 7:34:22 AM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 11/21/2018 8:11:27 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
An American tourist was killed by arrows shot by protected tribesmen living in one of the world's most isolated regions tucked in India's Andaman islands, police said Wednesday.
John Chau, 27, had taken a boat ride with local fishermen before venturing alone in a canoe to the remote North Sentinel Island where the indigenous people live cut off completely from the outside world.
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Another idiot that won’t be contributing to the gene pool. Good riddance.
I just finished reading “The River of Doubt” about Theodore Roosevelt’s trip there at the age of 54 into uncharted territory where no outsider had ever gone before.
Pretty amazing. Good book.
Why didn’t Captain cook learn from Magellan?...................
because peter looked a lot like sandy duncan in those green felt tights.
The first 45 I bought as a kid was ‘Dizzy’ by Tommy Roe, but the first 45 I had given to me as a kid was ‘Scarborough Fair’ by Simon and Garfunkel..............
I know.
Fascinating savages. Eventually they will all die out from inbreeding
There are Muslims converting to Christianity in some truly horrific countries where doing so is a death penalty. Some of these converts who left those countries have been asked how they were able to convert without contact with someone. Their reply was that Christ came to them in a dream(s).
He should have kept one foot in the canoe, put the other on the beach and demanded asylum.
‘Cook’ not ‘Hook’.......................
The same reason modern liberals haven learned from Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba, Venezuela, ...
Dunning-Kruger.
Communism and contact only haven’t worked because the wrong people were doing it...
... and I’m smarter than all those peoples who tried it in the past!
That is why dropping Leaflets from 500’ is much safer way to communicate.
If They want to Reply then They can follow the directions on the back on how to make a Paper Airplane and launch it.
No doubt!..................
Don’t get involved in a blood feud by being belligerent.
Missionary:
One who attempts to persuade or convert others to a particular program, doctrine, or set of principles; a propagandist.
I’m sure the indigenous people on that island have their own beliefs good or bad and they should be just left alone.
The guy broke the law to begin with when he was illegally ferried by fishermen to the island.. contact is heavily restricted by the Indian government to protect their indigenous way of life and prevent the spread of diseases.
No different than the caravan at our southern border trying to get into this country “illegally”.
Good stuff. I went with Runaway by Del Shannon, some stuff by the Ventures, and all that other real music I still listen to and enjoy :)
It is the murder of a good Christian missionary.
Lots of anti Christian zeal in this thread.
God bless his efforts.
We allow our tribal people to indicriminately kill people in the US too
How do we know that it hasn’t? Even so, it’s more likely that Islam has been brought there by seafarers.
“protected” says it all. They will not be prosecuted for killing the evil racist colonialist Whitey.
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