Re: Korean hostages

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:24:17 GMT, "Conway Caine"
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"The Highlander" <micheil@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:14:30 +0100, Bryn
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In article <whrri.383034$p47.134689@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Conway Caine <ccaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

"The Highlander" <micheil@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Taleban have just killed another Korean hostage to encourage Kabul
to meet their demands. Five.pm UK time.

Institutionalized savagery.

I sincerely hope that Korea has some highly specialised and well trained
elite forces and that they may find themselves unexpectedly deployed
abroad very soon.

The reality of what the Taleban represent can be seen by their history
during their sweep across Afghanistan which culminated in the
destruction of the world's largest Buddha in Bamyan, homeland of the
Hazara people who are Bhuddists. Family after family testified to
having had their women folk raped by Taleban militia. So much for
spreading the word of God.

The Taleban are not genuine Muslims; they are using the cloak of Islam
to return Afghanistan to a mediaeval state which will be totally under
their control. It's not for nothing that Afghanistan has been called
the Land of Cain, whose body is reputedly buried just five miles south
of Kabul at "Cain's Hill". The Taleban are Afghanistan's equivalent
of the Waffen SS and the Spanish Inquisition combined. The whole area,
from Waziristan to Pakistan is a sea of religious zealots whose
persecution of ordinary people has nothing to do with the teachings of
the Prophet, Mohammed.

The people of Afghanistan are paying in blood and murder for these
people's activities. Aid agencies cannot continue to work in a region
where simply being alive is treated as a reason to be killed. The
innocents will continue to live in a cultural slavery, where widows of
any age are forbidden to work, thereby ensuring their death if their
husbands are dead and they have no family to help them.

We live in a cruel world and often forget how lucky we are to have
established some semblance of the rule of law in our own lands.

How thin the veneer of Civilization even in the West.
Consider where Hitler led the German people.
And you could not have found a more cultured lot than the Germans.
Demagogues (even in my own country) armed with persuasive theologies truly
are to be feared.

It seems never ending. I watched a documentary about Putin and his
regime and his efforts to make sure that his favourite to replace him
when his term as Russian president expires is elected as the new
president of Russia. Two independent candidates put their names up as
possibles to vote for; both have now found themselves charged with
criminal offences and are awaiting trial...

Modern Russia is back where it started - a Stalinist regime where
civil rights are a smokescreen for rule by dictator.

I've been reading about Gordon Brown and the English reaction to him
as yet another of the hated Scots running their country. To my
amazement, they think he's okay and they're supporting him! Reader's
letters - often a good barometer - have been in favour of him. So
perhaps we've gotten lucky this time and given a new US president with
brains and guts, we'll maintain the UK-US partnership and keep the
nasties at bay!



The Highlander
Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,
togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus
toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!
.

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