Another Canadian Abducted
What is this, an epidemic? No sooner has CBC reporter Melissa Fung been rescued from her month-long ordeal of captivity in Afghanistan, quietly, modestly and feelingly telling the country of her brave decision not to succumb to the fear of death throughout her incarceration, than we learn of another woman, abducted in northwestern Pakistan.Melissa Fung travelled to Afghanistan to interview refugees, to tell their story, to inform Canadians and the world at large of their plight. She had a very good appreciation of the danger to which she submitted herself, but she had resolved to do justice to her calling as a news reporter. And then she became the news.
In this latest instance, a Vancouver woman who converted to Islam post 9-11 had travelled to the northwest area of Pakistan for reasons far different than Ms. Fung's. For Khadija Abdul Qahaar, formerly Beverly Giesbrecht, travelled to the area known as a refuge for both the Taliban and al-Qaeda for reasons of propaganda.
For material for her Web site, jihadunspun.com. And where better to obtain the material she sought than to travel to Pakistan's Frontier Region? Strange thing that, the way that disaffected Westerners and anti-Semites in particular, take so readily to ideologies and religions that target Jews as the fount of the world's problems.
Ms. Qahaar has taken it upon herself to support fanatical Islamists, their mission being misunderstood, she feels, by the world at large. Theirs is a just struggle against the oppressors who belittle Islam and bring misery to vulnerable Muslim populations. And while there is some element of truth in some of that, there is also vile infamy in her characterizations.
She takes great pleasure in apportioning blame solely to the United States for the current situation of Islamist jihadists terrorizing Muslim populations, Muslim countries, and extending their attentions to the world of Western democracies.
The World Trade attacks were just desserts "provoked by the American government under the guise of its foreign policy with less than pious motives, that served the interests of the Zionists and the privileged". The hateful spewing of a warped mind, blaming the Jews and the Crusaders.
The solution to all of life's wrongs lies in the piety of observant Islam, according to this woman. Who appears to have cooked up the potential for a scam where she has pleaded with visitors to her Web site to send money through PayPal or Western Union to effect her release, pre-capture.
Sad social reject that she is, having suffered the misery of a nasty childhood and an equally nasty young womanhood, finally finding salvation in the god of Islam. Nice, if that were the end of the story.
Troubling however, because of the searingly murderous hate she shares with the raving lunatics that inhabit Islamic jihad.
Labels: Canada, Conflict, Religion, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Friday, November 14, 2008
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