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28 November, 2001: "Criminal Heroines"By Kathy Kinsley However happy I may be about those Aid workers being rescued, I was a bit disgusted by President Bush's treating them as heroines. No matter how we may feel about the laws of the Taleban, they did break those laws. Dayna Curry said: "Eighty percent of the charges against us were false.'' Doesn't that mean that twenty percent were true? Further, they intend to go back and do it again. Heather Mercer said: "I think who we are as Christians, as people who love Jesus, is just naturally in the overflow of our lives - that comes out. So I don't imagine that when we have a chance to go back, we'll change who we are." What bothers me most about this is that I suspect they would not have been feted by President Bush had they been arrested for teaching Buddhism or Hinduism. We might have rescued them, but they would have gotten a well-deserved lecture about breaking laws of countries they were in.
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I agree with both posters to an extent but disagree with your conclusion about us only supporting them because they are christians. The world and the US was outraged when the Taliban blew up the Bhuddist statues and condemned them for it. I have to agree with craig to an extent in that while I don't suggest billing them I have to wonder what they were thinking about. Faith and determination go a long way but there is such a thing as unnecessarily putting yourself in harms way which these missionaries obviously did.
If the missionaries in question had been fighting on behalf of the civil rights of women instead of carrying a religious message would anyone here be critical of their purpose there. One of our most famous American Martrys is Martin Luther King Jr. and he was willing to break what he called "unjust laws" in order to carry the message of civil rights.
What bothers me is that no one is questioning why they were there at all.We should condemn these moronic do-gooders for requiring the USA to spend even one dime trying to rescue them. If we can bill reckless backcountry hikers and skiers for the costs of rescuing them, we should be able to bill these missionaries.
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