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| Four killed in latest church attack... |
| 2002-08-09 |
| Crazed killers in Pakland continue their introspective struggle for personal perfection against unarmed people who've never done them any harm... At least four people were killed and 23 wounded in a grenade attack on a missionary hospital outside the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Friday, the second incident against Christians in less than a week. A hospital official told IRIN by telephone from the historic town of Taxila, 25 km northwest of the capital, that one nurse, two nurse assistants and one of the alleged attackers were killed in the attack. "At 7:45 a.m. people were coming out of the church when two hand grenades were thrown at them," Joseph Lal, administrator of the Taxila Eye Hospital, said. "It killed three people and wounded 23, six of them seriously," he added. It takes a peculiar kind of heroism to attack people walking out of a church... According to another hospital official there were three attackers. One stayed behind at the entrance and two went in to throw the grenades. Early reports indicate that one of the attackers was killed but there was no immediate comment from the authorities of how he died. Presumably the security guards got him. Or, being a product of the jihadi training courses, one threw a grenade and killed his accomplice along with a few others... "After the diplomats, obviously the missionaries are a target now," a senior government official told IRIN in the capital Islamabad. "The diplomats have been provided good security but missionaries do not have as much security so they can be easy targets." "Jihad" means holy war — the same thing Crusade means. Seems like there's a new Jihad starting every month. When was the last Crusade? The eye hospital, established in 1929, has long been serving people from all over Pakistan and was popular for the free treatment it provided to the poor. The chapel, inside the hospital in front of a sprawling lawn, was set up in 1950s. "This is simply evil. The hospital has done so much good work for Muslims and everyone," an Islamabad resident told IRIN upon hearing the news. Muslims have no need to feel gratitude... Shahbaz Bhatti, chairman of All Pakistan Minority Alliance and a leading Christian rights activists, told IRIN from the hospital that everyone was "saddened and angry" at the site. "These incidents are a reaction of pro-Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces against the Christian community," Bhatti said. "And this will continue because the government has failed to provide security as we had repeatedly asked them to do." The solution, of course, is to pull all Christian organizations and any Christians who want to go, out of Pakland and leave it to the xenophonic intolerance of its Muslim inhabitants. Then, in a year or two, we can be treated to pathetic film footage of these goobers walking around with the eyeballs falling out of their heads because they ran the eye doctors out of their country. Maybe we can have Eye Summits, the way the Africans have Food Summits... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |