Senseless deaths, eh?

Frank Statesel of Overland Park, KS 

Six Americans, traveling across harsh lands to deliver medical treatment to detached peoples in parched sections of Afghanistan, are lined up and shot to death by Muslim terrorists (8/8, A14, “10 aid workers killed by Taliban”).

What crimes were these people accused of perpetrating against the country? They were allegedly preaching Christianity. It is a crime to teach anything but Islam, punishable by death.

Are these Muslim extremists so weak in their belief that they not respond to outside influence? The only response they know is to kill even those who approach the people with a loving hand extended.

How is it that anyone could fall into such a weak-minded teaching that espouses such hatred against mankind? How could they wantonly destroy such loving, and kind-hearted people in their midst?

Yes, these deaths were senseless. It was senseless to go to Afghanistan. It was senseless to go with a mission of “preaching” Christianity while America is involved in a war with Muslim extremists, if that was indeed what they were doing. It’s senseless to expect anything OTHER than death if you’re captured by or cross the path of extremists while traveling in a war zone.

So many on the Right are pondering “the wisdom” of building a peaceful community center (call it a Mosque, if you like) in America—where religious tolerance is alleged to be a core value. It’s apparently “in bad taste” to do so with the goal of pushing inter-faith understanding. 

Yet, this.

I wonder if Frank Statesel has an opinion on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”? One hopes he finds the entire debate to be senseless.