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Islam, Religion of Peace

In Kabul, at Cure International Hospital, an NGO-operated facility that employs international medical personnel, specialized treatment of disabled children and women takes place. The one-hundred bed facility is known for the quality of its medical treatment, far outdistancing government hospitals. Women are treated for problems such as fistula, arising from genital mutilation. And premature babies get a boost on their life at the hospital.

In Afghan society where fundamentalist Islam is practised, traditionally women were never treated by male doctors. There were hospitals that treated female patients only, and the female surgeons that practised in them had to wear full-body covering just like their patients. Afghan men traditionally do not wish other men to view their wives.

And on Thursday, an Afghan police officer newly assigned to the unit guarding the hospital turned his gun on three American doctors at the facility. One of the doctors was hosting three visitors from the U.S., according to General Mohammad Zahir, the Kabul police chief. Ainuddin, the police officer, fired on the Americans as they entered a security vestibule at the building's entrance, killing three of the men, wounding a woman.

Entering the interior courtyard, he continued to fire at foreigners until he was shot by fellow officers. One of the dead was a Cure International doctor who had lived and worked in Kabul for seven years. His Chicago family named him as paediatrician Dr. Jerry Umanos. He had worked as a paediatrician for over 16 years at the Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago before moving to Afghanistan in 2006.

There has been an increase in attacks against conspicuous foreigners in Afghanistan. Many of those attacks have targeted journalists. They have followed on the more numerous attacks by Afghan soldiers against their coalition allies, in the infamous green-on-blue shootings before NATO members pulled most of their militaries from the country in anticipation of the full withdrawal soon to come.

While some people were fearful the facility might be closed after the killings, leaving people to become reliant again on poorly funded public hospitals, others felt sympathetic to the killings. "The foreigners have been here too long" one man said, whose female relative was undergoing surgery in the hospital. "People are tired of them."

When a car pulled up shortly after the shooting, the driver was advised to leave the area by police. When it was explained to him that an officer had shot and killed three foreigners, the driver responded: "Good for him that he killed the infidels."

This, of course, is the universal sentiment in Afghanistan of a pious people, dedicated to their religious faith, the very faith that is described by Western leftists as well as Western Muslims who do nothing to protest against the violent jihad that emanates from Islam, as the foremost Religion of Peace.

Labels: Afghanistan, Fundamentalism, Health, Heritage, Humanitarian Aid, Islamism, Jihad

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, April 26, 2014