Taliban Kill Christian Aid Worker

From: Brett Hulett

The attacks against Westerners in the middle East continued today when a 34-year old woman from Great Britain was murdered. The woman, Gayle Williams of Great Britain, was in Afghanistan aiding handicapped Afghans. However, some groups felt Williams was preaching the ideas of Christianity and felt this was unacceptable. One of the spokesman for the group that murdered Williams claimed she was "proselytizing" and trying to convert Afghans to Christianity. One of the leaders of Williams' charity group, SERVE, stated that these allegations couldn't be further from the truth--"It's not the case that they preach, not at all, They are here to do NGO (aid) work."
Still, this sort of hostility is becoming more common with the passing years. Last year, 23 aid workers from South Korea were taken hostage, two of which were later killed. Many Afghan cities are in near states of chaos--wealthy Afghans are being targeted and kidnapped, and anyone suspected of spreading terrorism is taken hostage and in some cases, murdered. the sense of insecurity is growing; with increasing bomb threats and a certain recklessness of many individuals, the country is being torn apart at its core.