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Politics : The Truth About Islam

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9841)9/6/2007 9:57:18 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) of 20106
 
Pastor: Korean Hostage was Killed for Refusing to Convert to Islam
Christian Today ^ | September 5, 2007 | Eric Young

christiantoday.com

The youth pastor who was leading the group of 23 South Korean aid volunteers in Afghanistan was killed for refusing to convert to Islam, the head pastor of the church revealed after the final 19 former hostages arrived home.

“Among the 19 hostages who returned on the second (of September), some were asked by the Taliban to convert and when they rejected, they were assaulted and severely beaten,” ...

“I heard from the hostages that they were threatened with death,”... “Especially it is known that the reason Pastor Bae Hyung-kyu was murdered was because he refused the Taliban’s demand to convert.”

A hospital chief also said on Monday that some of the five South Korean men freed from captivity last week reported being beaten by their Taliban abductors for refusing to convert to Islam and for protecting their female colleagues.

Mirajuddin Pathan, the governor of Ghazni province, had also said he received reports that “various Taliban commanders were fighting over the women hostages” and that “[t]hey were abused over and over", according to ABC News.

Ally countries such as Canada, Germany and Afghanistan have publicly criticised Seoul for negotiating with the Taliban – which they consider a terrorist group – and seemingly giving into them.

(Excerpt) Read more at christiantoday.com ....
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