Democracy of Hypocrisy
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Ways with words and words with ways
Vancouver woman kidnapped in Pakistan pleads for life on video. Canadian Khadija Abdul Qahaar, formerly known as Beverly Giesbrecht had been kidnapped in Pakistan in November and a video depicting her pleading for her life has been released. She is expected to be beheaded by the end of March if the Taliban kidnappers do not receive a ransom of $2 million. The video shows her crying as she says her
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time is very short and my life is going to end. I'm going to be killed, as you can see. I need some kind, someone to help me, the Pakistani government and my own country and somebody must move now, because my life is going to be over. I want to go home. So, these people are serious. Please help me.
Ms. Qahaar is the owner and publisher of a controversial pro-Islamic web magazine called Jihad Unspun which has been criticized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, which flagged it as "a Canadian pro-terrorist website". She had been visiting the tribal regions near the Afghan/Pakistan border to collect material for a documentary for the Al-Jazeera network when she was kidnapped.
Poor woman, I wonder how she feels now, after converting to this religion and then posting a controversial website and then getting screwed over by the supposed people she supports, the irony is through the roof on this one.
I must also say to anyone even having an inkling to wish to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan, if you do so, then you are a fool. This may happen to you and if it does, it is your own fault.
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03/20/09 @ 10:50:45 pm
I have sympathy for those captured by terrorists, but it's ultimately up to the local government to prevent this kind of thing, so if you go to a country where the government can't be trusted, you're in the wild west (east in this case) where monsters rule.