Posted on 08/09/2010 6:29:17 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
KABUL, Afghanistan – One gave up a lucrative practice to give free dental care to children ... Others had devoted whole decades of their lives to helping the Afghan people through war and deprivation.
The years of service ended in a hail of bullets in a remote valley of a land that members of the medical team had learned to love.
The bodies of the 10 slain volunteers - six Americans, two Afghans, a German and a Briton - were flown Sunday back to Kabul ... friends and family bitterly rejected Taliban claims the group had tried to convert Afghans to Christianity.
[snip] "We are heartbroken by the loss of these heroic, generous people," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in Washington. She condemned the Taliban for the deaths and what she called a "transparent attempt to justify the unjustifiable by making false accusations about their activities."
The group had spent two weeks treating villagers in a remote valley in northern Afghanistan for eye diseases and other ailments before being ambushed by extremists on their way back to Kabul.
[snip]
Team leader Tom Little, an optometrist from Delmar, New York, had been working in Afghanistan for more than 30 years. He and his wife, Libby, reared three daughters in Kabul, sticking it out through the Soviet invasion of the 1980s, and the vicious civil war of the 1990s, when Afghan warlords rained rockets on the city.
[Spokesman] Nedam said the medical group had never talked of religion with Afghans.
"Their mission was humanitarian, and they went there to help people," said Nedam...
"He [Dr. Tom Little] was part and parcel of that culture," said David Evans of the Loudonville Community Church, New York, who had worked with him to deliver aid.
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Comment?
Sometimes, people choose to bring God’s wrath down upon themselves and their children — and it’s best to let them have that which they have chosen.
Your thoughts?
Maybe, they were killed BECAUSE they were NOT Muslim! Period.
Saving lives is definitely against the muslim tradition.
Are you speaking of the Taliban?
Sadly, This statement seems to suggest that if the group had tried to convert Afghans to Christianity then the killing would have been justified....
As Jesus said, “By their fruit, you will know them.”
Christians bring help and life to others. Muslims bring vicious death. Both will have their reward.
Wow! I used to live in the Albany, NY area and used to attend Loudonville.
“Vengeance is mine” says the Lord. “I will repay.”
I thought Obama’s tribute to these brave souls was particularly touching. /s
Stop it ... immediately ... by whatever means.
There's not a one of us ... not you nor me ... that has not experienced something in life where we wished it would just stop .. immediately.
Develope the will to kill .. or be killed.
The Pulp Fiction version is better:
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
...just another example of Muslims contributing to the world of peace and science....ain’t that right Odumbo.
Wasn't that in the same speech where he condemned the black racist murderer for the workplace shooting in Connecticut?
I utterly despise the man.
It is tragic, yet despite it all - God knows what He’s doing. He will take what was meant for evil & use it for good.
I do understand the Taliban murderers - they serve their father - the devil. And the devil always comes to steal and to kill...and he uses his followers to exact his agenda.
Yes, I do believe these people weren’t “missionizing” as you say. As believers, they knew they could simply live-out the love of Christ, pray for the lost, and deliver healing in the region. They also knew what Muslims don’t know - that individuals cannot “convert” anyone to Christianity. They knew that it is only the Father Who can draw men to Himself.
Like the Grizzly Man but with medical degrees. Some people learn the hard way that you can’t change the nature of savages.
Some months ago there was a blog entry ascribed to a Marine stationed in Afghanistan (at least supposedly) wherein he, among other things, says the Taliban are purely murderers and murder and killing is all they understand. This story makes me believe that.
That said - this is all part of His plan.
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