Evidently, they began their journey and made it as far as Tajikistan, wherever they were captured and murdered. Because Islam is peace and evil is a made-up concept.
A grainy cellphone clip recorded by a driver shows what happened next: The men’s Daewoo sedan passes the cyclists and then makes a sharp U-turn. It doubles back, and aims directly for the bikers, ramming into them and lurching over their fallen forms. In all, four people were killed: Mr. Austin, Ms. Geoghegan and cyclists from Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Two days later, the Islamic State released a video showing five men it identified as the attackers, sitting before the ISIS flag. They face the camera and make a vow: to kill “disbelievers.”The left doesn't believe that we should take at face value the threats that come to us. They have watered-down the meaning of words like Nazi, and Fascist, and They believe that borders are outmoded concepts and that nation-states are relics of another era. Unfortunately, they paid with their lives for their naivete.
It's a sad tale, and a cautionary one. There is evil in the world, and not everyone is peaceful.
When I heard about this the other day I chalked it up to "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
ReplyDeleteI really can't find it tragic (except for their loved ones they left behind). Tragic is when you die of something unforeseen, or when you know the dangers but go in harms way anyway despite the danger. To willfully blindfold yourself to the dangers of the world, to be like the monkeys who neither saw nor heard evil but close to insist it doesn't exist, well I honestly can't have much sympathy for them.
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Ditto Mark.
ReplyDeleteDarwin is smiling somewhere. Trouble can find you without you actively placing yourself near it.
The NY Times is probably mourning the fact that they probably lost 4 socialist voters. That is the tragedy they see.
Stupid, not tragic. They 'believed' the crap they heard in DC... sigh
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