Oct 21st, 2008 | People survey

Does the killing of social worker Gayle Williams in Kabul amount to a Muslim vs, Christian War developing in Afghanistan which could spread worldwide?


Death of a Good Samaritan: Taliban Says Aid Worker Killed for 'spreading Christianity'   So far this year 29 aid workers, employed by one of the 100-plus agencies in the country, have been killed.  Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility yesterday for the murder of a British aid worker in Kabul, accusing her of spreading Christianity. Gayle Williams, 34, was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as she walked to the office of the Christian charity Serve….. Mullah Azizullah, imam of the nearby Shir Sham Mina mosque, called last Friday for the people to stop missionaries and proselytising activities. "We know for sure that the foreigners are proselytising Christianity in Afghanistan, some of them do it in daylight and others undercover," he said. "I took a list of their institutions to the intelligence, the police and the ministry of religious guidance but they didn't do anything. The sharia calls for the killing of those who convert and the people who proselytise should be killed too." …..Mike Lyth, the Carlisle-based chairman of the board of Serve (Serving Emergency Relief and Vocational Enterprises), said Williams had been working with the group for two and a half years, helping to rehabilitate disabled people into the community. He said that she would have changed her route to work or the time of the journey every day.

He dismissed the Taliban's claim that Williams was killed because she was spreading Christianity. "That's just an opportunistic jumping on the bandwagon" he said. "It certainly has no truth to it at all. We are Christians - that is what gives us the motivation to go into a dangerous and difficult country to try to help but she was not involved in proselytisation."

He said Serve had a strict non-proselytising policy. Some Taliban claims of responsibility for killings in Afghanistan have turned out to be inaccurate in recent years. See: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/230997.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1078997/She-died-doing-Lords-work-Mothers-grief-aid-worker-killed-Taliban-Christian.html


Does the killing of social worker Gayle Williams  in Kabul amount to a Muslim vs, Christian War developing in Afghanistan which could spread worldwide?


15 votes, 147 views , Add a comment
 
 
Poll tags:People, Religion, Christians, Muslims, Assasination, Social Worker, Hatred

 
Add your comment
Update your status line


 
Log in using your:

* Username
* Email address
* Password
 
Buddy icon
* Gender
     
* Birth date
Country
City
 (your vote will still count)
Embed Flash Widget
Embed Java Script Widget
Copy & paste the embed code to your site.