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British woman gunned down by Afghan militants on Kabul street; murdered for 'spreading Christianity'
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| October 0, 2008
Posted on 10/20/2008 3:05:06 AM PDT by Stoat
A British woman working for a Christian charity helping disabled Afghans was shot dead in Kabul as she walked to work early this morning, officials and the group said.
Gayle Williams worked for SERVE Afghanistan, which describes itself as a Christian charity, confirmed the incident but would not give any details.
'Our people carried out this attack in District 3 of Kabul this morning at 7am,' the Taliban's spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed told The Times. 'The reason that we killed her was because she was spreading Christianity."
'Two armed men sitting on a motorbike shot her dead. Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead,' Bashary said.
Afghan policemen pass by blood stains on a pavement in Kabul October 20, 2008. Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman working for an aid agency in the Afghan capital early today
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; antichristian; charity; christiancharity; christianity; christianpersecution; gaylewilliams; globaljihad; islam; jihad; kabul; muslim; muslims; persecution; serveafghanistan; taleban; taliban; waronterror
Also:
British aid worker shot dead by Taliban - Telegraph
Taliban insurgents have increasingly targeted aid workers this year in their campaign to spread an atmosphere of fear and undermine support for the Western-backed Afghan government.Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush just outside Kabul in August, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years.
Rising violence has already forced aid agencies to restrict humanitarian work at a time when drought and high prices are putting more people under pressure.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:05:06 AM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
Evil. May she rest in peace.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:07:20 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Yes, jihad is evil and so are the jihadis.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:12:58 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Stoat
Perhaps coming soon to a town square near you.
To: All
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:15:07 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Cindy
This further underscores the difference between evil Islam and benevolent Christianity. Prayers for her family and other workers.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:16:17 AM PDT
by
nobama08
To: Stoat
Does Barack Obama have any comment?
Or, for that matter, Colin Powell or George "Religion of Peace" Bush?
Cheers!
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:21:42 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Stoat
tragic. but doesn´t suprise me. the taliban are not famous for their tolerance against other thinking people (or people in generall).
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:23:34 AM PDT
by
austrian
To: All
More about SERVE Afghanistan:
SERVE Afghanistan - Home
The Afghan proverb 'Qatara qatara, darya mesha!', 'Drop by drop, a river is made!', summarises well an
important principle for us in SERVE. It is our belief that what might seem small, or as a 'drop' today, is the
beginning of a bright tomorrow.
I think none of us can adequately measure what these 'drops' mean in the lives of the people we are
touching. Eyes that were blind, that can now see! Faces of despair, now beaming with hope! An orchard,
where there once was a desert! Health, instead of sickness! A better future, in place of one filled with
poverty! This is what SERVE is all about, bringing hope to individual lives, and investing in the potential of
what these lives hold.
The SERVE team of Afghan staff and International expatriate volunteers has, in a tangible way, touched the
lives of thousands of Afghans. I commend the men and woman that have over the years made SERVE a
reality, for their commitment, dedication, and a job well done. I also want to especially thank our partnering
agencies, which have trusted us to be an expression of their own heart of compassion for the peoples of
Afghanistan.
A combination of civil war, political instability, economic ruin and severe drought continues to leave
Afghanistan as one of the poorest and neediest countries in the world. For the ordinary Afghan life is very
hard. For the most needy, the disabled, widows, children and the poor, it's unbearable. It's for those lives
hardest hit that SERVE has a special place in its heart. It's SERVE's hope that the fruit of these 'drops' today
will be 'streams in the desert' tomorrow!
Thank you for helping us, SERVING AFGHANISTAN.
**************************
SERVE Afghanistan's purpose is to
express God's love and bring hope by
serving the people of Afghanistan,
especially the needy, as we seek to
address personal, social and
environmental needs.
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posted on
10/20/2008 3:25:03 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
(’Our people carried out this attack in District 3 of Kabul this morning at 7am,’ the Taliban’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed told The Times. ‘The reason that we killed her was because she was spreading Christianity.” )
Since YOUR religion is the one that is dangerous to the world, would it be okay of “our people” (the civilized and free world) to begin killing you for spreading your Islamofacism??
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:18:20 AM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Vote FOR AMERICA . Vote McCain / Palin)
To: Stoat
If I were an aid worker in Kabul, I'd make myself an armed aid worker. A little muscular ballistic Christianity would go a long way I think.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:25:32 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Stoat
How tragic; radical Islam is without a doubt evil personified. They prove over and over again that they’re nothing more than subhuman savages.
And we’re letting these same people in over here in droves. What with political correctness and multiculturalism running amuck, I’m beginning to wonder whether there might be something to the Mayan calendar’s ending in 2012.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:37:40 AM PDT
by
Marauder
(Let's elect a man who fought against communism, not a communist.)
To: Stoat
The muslim world cannot be reformed, only quarantined from the civilized world.
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:37:45 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: SECURE AMERICA
Brave sumbitches ain’t they?
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posted on
10/20/2008 4:46:42 AM PDT
by
Ronin
To: All
UPDATE First pictures of British aid worker gunned down by Taliban motorbike killers 'for spreading Christianity' Mail Online
Gunned down: Gayle Williams, who was shot dead in Kabul, Afghanistan, this morning
Gayle was murdered shortly before she was due to arrive at the office. Reports say that two men on a motorcycle shot her and then fled the scene
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The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the killing, claiming its leaders had ordered the murder of Miss Williams because she was spreading the message of Christianity.But the British-registered charity she worked for, SERVE Afghanistan, said this was a 'convenient excuse' for the grim killing, which it believes was 'completely opportunistic'.
Miss Williams, from London, had been with the organisation for two-and-a-half years, helping to raise awareness of disabilities in Afghan communities and rehabilitating disabled people in their homes.
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A close friend of Miss Williams who did not wish to be named, told the Daily Mail: 'Although she will be sorely missed I will see her again. She will be wearing the martyr's crown.'Knowing Gayle she would not have wanted anything more for her life than to die in His service.'
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posted on
10/20/2008 1:34:22 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
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posted on
10/20/2008 7:26:12 PM PDT
by
AfghanJohn
(Wall Street Journal, Nov. 26, 2001)
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