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| OIC condemns Korean abductions |
| 2007-08-02 |
| (AKI/AsianAge) - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which represents 57 mostly Muslim countries, has condemned the killing of a second South Korean hostage in Afghanistan, saying such "savage acts" can never be sanctioned under Islam. The bullet-riddled body of Shim Sung Min was found by Afghan police in Ghazni province on Tuesday. "We are saddened by the killing of the second hostage," said the organisation's Jeddah-based general secretariat in a statement. "We call for an immediate release of the remaining hostages." "We remind those who are holding the South Koreans hostage that kidnapping and taking innocent civilians hostage run counter to the tenets of Islam," the statement said. "Islam preaches peace, moderation and coexistence." Twenty-three South Koreans citizens were abducted on July 19 on a highway as their bus travelled from Kabul to Kandahar. They were members of a Protestant church group on a 10-day relief mission to Afghanistan. Most are women in their 20s and 30s and include teachers and nurses. On Monday, Al Jazeera TV broadcast a grainy video showing several of the hostages cowering in fear. Some of the women were wearing headscarves. An Al Jazeera anchor said the footage was obtained from a source outside Afghanistan. The Taliban abductors are demanding the release of at least eight of their members from various Afghan prisons. However, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has pledged not to swap prisoners for hostages. A spokesperson for the Afghan president told TV networks on Monday that Karzai does not want to turn hostage-taking into an industry. Analysts say the Afghan government seems to have drawn a line, especially after it was heavily criticised in the past for striking a deal with the Taliban. Pope Benedict XVI also criticised the Taliban saying the abduction of missionaries was a "grave violation of human dignity." Addressing a crowd at his summer residence near Rome, the pope appealed to the perpetrators to stop their actions and return the hostages unharmed. "Unfortunately the usual practice of exploiting innocent people for their own ends is spreading among armed groups," he said. "It is a grave violation of human dignity that clashes with every elementary norm of civility and rights and gravely offends divine law." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Who died and made these clowns official interpreters of the faith? Doesn't an Ulema or some similar bunch of dorks have to make these kinds of high and mighty pronouncements? And there is always an ulema who will sanction the most bloodthirsty barbarity that the 'faithful' come up with, so there you go. It's like protestantism, but worse. (heh) |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2007-08-02 23:51 |
| #4 Send a strongly worded message to Perv: the US will nuke a major Pakistani city every day until the Korean hostages are freed and the taliban run out of the Northwest Frontier Provinces. Begin with Islamabad/Rawalpindi (a nice twofer, and perv's home). Use VERY LARGE nukes - in the 5mt to 50mt range. Make sure the wind is blowing toward Pakistani held Kashmir. Also take out the money men by nuking Riyadh, and using US military troops as occupation forces, including in Mecca. Shoot any Arab that disagrees, no matter how politely. It's time for the United States to become the mean, bloodthirsty warmongers the Arab world depicts us as. Let them see the real thing, and quake in their curly-toed shoes and burka. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-08-02 17:36 |
| #3 Abduction on July 19, strongly worded comdennation on August 2; by this infidel's count, there were 14 day (inclusive) until they decided it was time. you would almost think they were copying the UN's useless play book or something..... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-08-02 13:56 |
| #2 "Islam preaches peace, moderation and coexistence." Another tick on the "If you some something loud enough and often enough, some will begin to believe it" meter. Keep telling yourself that, you goons. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-08-02 09:15 |
| #1 To repeat this message...Press 2. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-08-02 08:24 |