If the harassment of girls’ schools and barbershops is not enough to make you detest Afghanistan’s version of militant conservative Islam, the latest kidnapping of Korean Christian aid workers ought to make you sad, irate, both. US press never makes a big deal out of kidnappings when they don’t involve US or UK lives, but some stories have reached even us. I broke into tears reading the pleas of the father of two hostages. This is so wrong.
My message to terrorists of every kind: Your cause loses every ounce of my sympathy when you target nonviolent aid workers. You are no different than every other imperial power that reverts to the colonial method of using violence in order to secure your fleeting earthly power. Life is God’s to define, not yours, and you idolize yourself and your own human power to make the ultimate ethical choice when you take human life. The fact that you cannot differentiate between aid workers and soldiers or mercenaries bearing arms proves the pathetic incapacity of your human power to substitute for God’s imminent wisdom, wisdom that I know speaks to your heart as much as all of ours. Why can you not listen?
I am so mad. And so sad. Please stop this violence.
