[blam]

Islam, busy making friends worldwide.

[blam]

Breaking News:

Deadline Extended for 23 Korean Hostages

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Given past events, I can’t imagine why a group of Korean Christians (esp most of them being women) would even be in Afghanistan. That said, I must ask why is it that these “spokesmen” for the taliban are still breathing?

[EGPWS]

Taliban threatens...

That's the dogma of terrorism.

Some are compelled by belief to talk to them and come to reasonable terms with them to stop the death and mayhem that THEY have created.

It "ain't" gonna' work.

[El Gato]

Islam, busy making friends worldwide.

"Friends" like the ROK military, we should be glad they have. ROK ROEs are likely to be a bit more "relaxed" than US or UK.

[windsorknot]

More good tidings from the ROP. May God be with these Koreans.

[VOA]

...the South Koreans - Christian evangelists - are being held,...

South Korea...a country with a large number of Christians.
And I was suprised when The Los Angeles Times actually printed an
good article about a Christian evangelist (from Germany?, Sweden?)
that was working with South Korean Christians to try to evangelize North
Korea.
One of their exploits was attaching radios with a frequency dial
to ballons and letting them drift into North Korea so that the
strays might find their way into the hands of the suffering masses
of North Korea.

(IIRC, legal radios in North Korea have no frequency selector...
they are preset to the official guvmint station).

Another interesting tidbit in that LA Times article...
before the Communists took over, Pyongyang (sp?) of North Korea
had so many Christian houses of worship that it used to be known
as "The Jerusalem of Asia".

When I read the article, all I could think was that the propaganda
officers at The Los Angeles Times must have headed to happy hour
and some un-monitored grunts actually let the article go to press.

[TaxachusettsMan]

Go look at the ASSOCIATED PRESS version of this currently running on Yahoo . . .

You would NEVER KNOW that they are CHRISTIANS!

Far be it from the Islamo-philes at the AP to report the story accurately:

Once again, members of That Great and Peaceful Religion of Islam are showing us that NOTHING has changed since they slaughtered, raped and pillaged their way across the then Christian Middle East . . .

When the hell - if ever - are we all going to wake up to the inherent violence and genetic barbarism of Islam?

A false religion spawned by a false "prophet."

[epow]

Korea should turn their Tiger division loose on those taliban murderers. Those boys aren’t exactly known for going easy on the enemies who they capture. I bet old OSB would be found within a week if the Koreans got hold of someone who knows where he’s holed up.

IIRC the Tigers had a kill ratio of about 25 to 1 against the North Vietnamese regulars.

[Gritty]

According to Joel Rosenberg (author of Epicenter), South Korea is #2 in the world for sending out Christian missionaries (the USA is #1). The Koreans apparently concentrate on Muslim countries in Asia - a stalwart and hazardous undertaking.

Afghanistan has a budding Christian community which both the government and the Taleban are trying to wipe out. Before September 11, 2001, there were only 17 known Christians in the entire country. Today, there is an estimated 10,000, dozens of baptisms occur every week, and people are snatching up Bibles and other Christian literature as quickly as it can make it into the country.

Little wonder the Taleban is frightened.

[Squantos]

Tali-whackers do NOT want the ROK Marines on their trail........