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Arirang TV has repeatedly referred to the hostages as "aid workers." They are missionaries who went there to proselytize, and here's the proof. This was lifted from one of the missionaries' cyword pages, and as you can see, they were teaching Afghan children to chant Christian prayers in Korean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIS0rkPMKt0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmetropolitician%2Eblogs%2Ecom%2Fscribblings%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fmetrop%2F

Just to be clear about my feelings ... The government tells people, for their own safety, to put on seatbelts, and punishes them if they do not. If someone refuses to put on a seatbelt, arguing that it is their "right", and they have an accident, then I feel sympathy for their pain and/or death, but I also think that they were foolish.

The government repeatedly told this church not to send members to Afghanistan. And what did they do? They defied them and went there anyway, and posed, giggling and flashing "V" signs, in front of a sign that says, "Do NOT go to Afghanistan unless you really, really have to."


I hope that the remaining hostages come home safe, and I'm sorry that one of them has died, but I also think that they were all foolhardy, and that the church leaders should be held accountable for sending them in harm's way.

[denistron]

I agree with your argument about the seat belt. It is however unfortunate that we can argue a justification for human suffering.

They shouldn't have gone there in the first place. But they did of their own will. It is a war torn country. Not a place for the faint hearted. If they didn't expect that they could die, then they were either uneducated of the dangers, or ignored them.

Some could argue that the church may have pushed them into going. And they would probably be right. But going was a choice made of their own free will. It's a shame for those who will now die.

No one is responsible but them. They did it to themselves.

If anyone can figure out a way to save their lives, I am all ears.

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Is that really the same group of missionaries responsible for the video?

Muslims have suicide bombers and Christians have suicide missionaries. It's the circle of life.

I thought we were past the stage of debating whether they were missionaries or not, but here's some more proof. Ability to read Korean is important.

Upper left: they're singing Christian songs inside a mosque. Yes, they are dressed in local clothes, probably the only smart thing they did.
Upper right: visiting a very dangerous site in warlord territory to sing more Christian songs.
Lower right: an account of going into one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, after being warned away by locals. Their driver was a Muslim who would stop five times a day to pray at the side of the road (pictured), and they would pray that someday he would know the truth.
Lower left: a sampling of Korean comments on the CyWorld page after they discovered the hostage's cyworld page.


Over here are some pictures of them visiting an important Muslim grave and having a Christian singalong.
http://blog.naver.com/shid22?Redirect=Log&logNo=110020240011

[billybrobby]

I totally agree. I don't know a lot of details about this case, but on the surface it seems that this expedition, tragic as it is, was a spectacularly moronic idea. I was raised christian; I went to church every sunday for years until I grew out of it, and these people have had no luck convincing ME to sing their silly songs.

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shutup, the lot of you.These people did something alot of you spineless cowards would likely not be willing to do: They put their lives on the line for what they believe and they risked their lives to spread the word. One of them was even martyred.
That takes GUTS to go to a muslim country tospread christianity. They knew it was wore torn, they knew it was Islamic, but they did it anyway! Those Koreans are brave and courageous anddeserve respect and admiration for putting their lives on the line for what they believe. May God bring them all back safely.

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I think that one reason that they've gotten themselves into so much trouble is that their antics are treated with such patience and tolerance here.



Now, replace the Korean Buddhist monk with a muslim imam, and I think you'll see what I mean. Unfortunately, this is a tragic example of what happens when Koreans, as they so often do, don't treat countries that they're visiting with enough respect.

And the American station CBS broadcast an interview with one of the hostages.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707270010.html



Look at this picture. They thought they were going to Disneyland or something. They had no idea what they were getting into. I'll say it again: The church leaders need to be held accountable. On the far right is the poor guy who got killed. R.I.P.

[swetepete]

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But you could make that same argument, regarding the suicide boat that hit the Cole, or the hijackers who hit the WTC.

Guts and putting your life on the line for what you believe in isn't innately praiseworthy, IMHO. I mean, come on, the Nazis filled those prerequisites, and nobody thinks we should respect them.

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