Better dead than saved by the infidels
Not long ago, a U.S. Senator caused a stir with her comments about all the nice things Osama bin Laden had done for the Muslim world:
Sen. Patty Murray -- never known as one of the sharpest tools in the drawer -- was having a casual chat with honor students at a Vancouver, Washington high school on December 18 when this Democrat unleashed a series of real whoppers about Osama bin Laden. “Why are people so supportive of him in many countries?” she asked. “He has been in many countries that are riddled with poverty...He’s been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.”
Sen. Murray was digging herself a public-relations hole, carrying on as if al-Qaeda was an appendage of the Salvation Army serving kids breakfast, earnest servants of the poor who just happen to be killers in their spare time. Not even Osama would dare flood al-Jazeera with this sap. Plain and simple, the liberal democrat from Washington was making it all up as she went along, going above and beyond the al-Qaeda public-relations line.
But then she dug even further. Murray placed the apparently compassionate superstar terrorist on a higher moral plane than the United States. While Osama allegedly built hospitals and day care centers, “We have not done that. We haven’t been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?”
Sadly, I hear this sort of thing all the time - that if we just did more to help the poor people of the Muslim world, they'd start liking us. (Routing Saddam and the Taliban, and protecting Balkan Muslims from genocide isn't enough, I guess.) Now, UNICEF - almost certainly with significant support from we Western devils - has launched a program to vaccinate children in blighted Nigeria against polio.
Here's the response they got:
A northern Islamic state in Nigeria that is at the heart of a spreading Africa polio outbreak declared Sunday it would not relent on its boycott of a mass vaccination program which it called a U.S. plot to spread AIDS and infertility among Muslims.
"Kano state will not participate in tomorrow's polio campaign. Our team made the discovery of contaminants first, remember," state government spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule told The Associated Press, referring to tests the state says its scientists conducted on the polio vaccine last year.
"Unless we are convinced by our committee (of health experts) that the oral polio vaccines are safe, the exercise remains suspended in Kano state," Sule said.
U.N. aid agencies insist the door-to-door drive to inoculate 63 million children in 10 west and central African countries, including Nigeria, is critical to stemming a growing polio outbreak spreading out from Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north.
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In October, similar door-to-door drives were blocked entirely in Kano, Zamfara and Kaduna.
Residents in other northern states where volunteers tried to administer the oral vaccine house-to-house to toddlers and infants were frequently turned away by residents. Homeowners at times reportedly set dogs upon the volunteer health workers.
And in Afghanistan the other day, the Taliban attacked a helicopter carrying Western workers who were building a medical clinic:
An Australian pilot was killed when a lone attacker sprayed a US company's helicopter with gunfire as it prepared to take off from a southern Afghan village.
Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer said the pilot's wife and child in Adelaide had been told of his death. His identity has not been released.
Four foreigners and an Afghan interpreter yesterday flew in the helicopter to inspect the construction of a health clinic in the village of Thaloqan, about 64km south-west of the provincial capital, Kandahar.
The group was about to leave when a man armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle attacked the helicopter and then fled, said Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for governor of the Kandahar province.
The Australian pilot was killed and an American woman who was helping set up health clinics in the region was seriously wounded, a US Embassy spokesman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
That's not the first time Westerners have been killed for the crime of bringing medical care to impoverished Muslims:
A Yemeni shot dead three American doctors and critically wounded a US pharmacist [in December, 2002] at a missionary hospital in the south of the impoverished country.
Yemeni officials named the gunman as 32-year-old Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel and said he was an Islamist militant who had told police after his arrest that he had shot the two men and two women to "cleanse his religion and get closer to Allah."
The US embassy confirmed the victims were US citizens and said they were working at the Jibla Baptist hospital in Ebb province, some 170 km (105 miles) south of the capital Sanaa.
"The gunman confessed to being a member of (Yemen's) Islamic Jihad group and said he shot the Americans because they were preaching Christianity in a Muslim country," one Yemeni official said.
Witnesses said Kamel had entered the hospital posing as a patient, then opened fire on the four Americans at the outpatient clinic when it was his turn to receive treatment.
What will it take for the likes of Sen. Murray to understand that this has nothing to do with our alleged "failure" to help people in the Third World, and everything to do with a nihilistic, unpacifiable ideology of destruction? |
