Thursday, March 23
Ungrateful, anti-military remarks to follow, no doubt
Three Christian Peacemaker Hostages Freed in Iraq by British Special Forces
If these three had been true to their principles, they would have refused to accompany their "evil" military rescuers. So much for pacifism.
And the Toronto guy can go back to the Catholic Worker house downtown, and continue encouraging alcoholics, the mentally ill and the just plain lazy and stupid to persist in their sickness and sloth, while blaming their condition on "Society".
UPDATE: I'm listening to the official statement of the Peacemakers on the radio. Lots of stuff about "the root cause" of the kidnappings being "the illegal occupation of Iraq". Lots of praise for "our Muslim brothers and sisters." Not a word of gratitude to the uniformed men and women who saved their colleagues.
What a smug, self-righteous and utterly graceless performance.
Creeps.
British Special Forces should send the Peacemakers a bill for their rescue.
Oh, and check this out:
* IMPORTANT UPDATE (3:35PM): That's what I read this morning. Now the quote says the kidnappers must have realized that their hostages were people of great faith. Which makes infinitely more sense, naive or not. A mighty big presumption on Kent's part -- that a gang of thugs he's never met, whose religion promotes very different ideas about "martyrdom" -- was as moved by the hostages' "great faith" as he apparently is.
Anyway: Via Dr. Dawg in Kate's combox.
If these three had been true to their principles, they would have refused to accompany their "evil" military rescuers. So much for pacifism.
And the Toronto guy can go back to the Catholic Worker house downtown, and continue encouraging alcoholics, the mentally ill and the just plain lazy and stupid to persist in their sickness and sloth, while blaming their condition on "Society".
UPDATE: I'm listening to the official statement of the Peacemakers on the radio. Lots of stuff about "the root cause" of the kidnappings being "the illegal occupation of Iraq". Lots of praise for "our Muslim brothers and sisters." Not a word of gratitude to the uniformed men and women who saved their colleagues.
What a smug, self-righteous and utterly graceless performance.
Creeps.
British Special Forces should send the Peacemakers a bill for their rescue.
Oh, and check this out:
In reaction Kember's friend, Bruce Kent (...) said the miltants holding the hostages 'must have been people of great faith.'*Not the rescuers, mind -- the kidnappers! You can't make this crap up! This is yer morally unmoored "progressive" Christianity, folks. I'm plum disgusted.
* IMPORTANT UPDATE (3:35PM): That's what I read this morning. Now the quote says the kidnappers must have realized that their hostages were people of great faith. Which makes infinitely more sense, naive or not. A mighty big presumption on Kent's part -- that a gang of thugs he's never met, whose religion promotes very different ideas about "martyrdom" -- was as moved by the hostages' "great faith" as he apparently is.
Anyway: Via Dr. Dawg in Kate's combox.
