So, I guess it’s ok for her to be killed. //sarc
I cannot imagine the pain her parents are enduring.
I know parents who have kids doing the Peace Corps thing. And my own daughter has made multiple trips to Haiti.
Sometimes I want to shake these kids. The good news is that they come back to the U.S. and want to shake their friends for being so naive about the world.
Yes. Having travelled outside the USA, I try to tell people that the ‘poor’ in the USA generally live better than the ‘middle class’ in most other countries. I am frequently attacked for being insensitive. This world would be a better place if all the bleeding hearts actually had to experience the ‘real world’.
“The good news is that they come back to the U.S. and want to shake their friends for being so naive about the world.”
Yeah, how dare their friends not be all broken up about the places that wallow in ignorance. How dare them think about their own lives, a trip to the beach, their own education and future, the person they love, maybe about saving up the down payment for a house.
Maybe people who come up shaking you with an assaholic lecture are the obnoxious ones. I see that as “look at me!”, “look how exotic and cool I am”.
And in my experience, the shaking is usually intended to shake money out of my pockets for their next fun adventure. Go on their own dime, and leave me alone after.
“I cannot imagine the pain her parents are enduring.”
Yes, probably in the knowledge that they were 100% behind her activities.
I’m not down with any western female going to a third-world country to “help” the locals.
She put herself in the situation, knowingly, and was there to provide aid and comfort to terrorists and their supporters. Her parents knew the risks as well and just like the mother of some thug scumbag shot in the commission of a crime; it sucks to be them, their child chose poorly.
Maybe she was killed in an airstrike, maybe she was not a captive at all, but was working to get the kenyan to trade her for GITMO terrorists. Maybe ISIS grabbed her just because she was American and didn’t care that she was an overall supporter of their cause. Maybe she refused to become a burka wearing wife of one of them and they killed her for talking back to them.
Bottom line, she assumed room temp knowing full well all of the risks. She chose poorly.
Everyone’s decisions about where they are and what they are doing have consequences; to include death when you insert yourself into dangerous situations.
I don't think that was the meaning intended. But it shows the true face of Islam. Either she was used until they tired of her and murdered her, or they used her as a human shield. Same net effect.
It is not “okay” for her to be killed, but actions have consequences. She put herself in that situation. It is no ones bad deed that killed her.