Climbers killed by Taliban
The Washington Post reports that 10 climbers who were about tackle Nanga Parbat, the nnth tallest mountain in the world and the second tallest in Pakistan, were murdered by Taliban dressed in Pakistani police uniforms in their base camp. Ostensibly, they were killed in retaliation for drone strikes on their bases in Pakistan;
In all, 10 people were killed, including five from Ukraine, two from China and one from Russia, according to preliminary information from Pakistani authorities. At least one Pakistani guide also was killed. At least one Chinese tourist survived and was rescued from the area, known as Fairy Meadows, officials said.
Pakistan’s interior minister said a U.S. citizen was killed in the assault. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said four bodies have been identified, including those of a Chinese American, two Chinese and one local guide who is thought to be a Nepali national.
Meanwhile, it appears that even Buddhists are getting fed up with the way Muslims are treating them and they’re becoming radicalized themselves. In another Washington Post link from ROS, there’s a “Burmese bin Laden” who has vowed to stand up to Muslim extremists;
“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” Ashin Wirathu, a spiritual leader of the movement and very popular figure in Burma, said of the country’s Muslims, whom he called “the enemy.” He told the New York Times, “I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist.”
Wirathu calls himself “the Burmese bin Laden” and was recently labeled on the cover of Time magazine as “the face of Burmese terror.” A prominent Burmese human rights activist, after a lifetime of fighting government oppression, now warns that Wirathu’s movement is promoting an ideology akin to neo-Nazism.
So, I guess you can poke with a bear with a stick for just so long.
Category: Terror War
I understand and applaud the effort to be free of and push back against the Tallywhackers, but the name “the Burmese Bin Laden” gives a negative image. How about instead “the Burmese Churchill”?
Just because Buddhists are peaceful, it does not mean they don’t know how to fight. But that title is a bit much.
@1 If he’s calling himself that, I suspect he’s revealing his ROEs and target selection process based on the namesake….perhaps we in the US will actually take our heads out of our 4sses at some point and start believing the threat that these types of individuals and their world view are for the rest of us. Wirathu might be motivated by anti-muslim sentiment at the moment, we will see if it all rests and ends there. I suspect it does not.
Emperor Baracka thinks those mean nasty Catholics are the world’s real scourge…move along people, nut’in to see here.
Just because they identify themselves as ‘Buddhist’ doesn’t necessarily equate with peaceful. Buddhist afterlife beliefs were strong in Shinto too, and it took a whole hell of a lot of US Marines and Soldiers to dig those boys out of the islands in the south pacific. Religion can be a hell of a motivator in warfare; Just look at Europe from about 450-1680 as an example.
@4, Yeah, if only the Catholics would close their schools, the world wouldn’t be “divided”.
If the Taliban want people to believe it’s about religion, they should adopt more peaceful means of — wait, what am I saying? Sorry, I was just meandering there.
The Taliban are sport hunters. The drones are just an excuse to hunt people for sport and kill them. They must have read “The Most Dangerous Game”, and found a target that doesn’t take it lying down.
That whole “Buddhists are so peaceful” thing is noce, but about like Christianity’s peaceful precepts- there’s been a hell of a lot of Buddhists who were about as peaceful as Charlemagne. Even in Christianit, Christ only tells you to turn the other cheek once, He didn’t advocate making a practice of it.
Because he’s not the Burmese Churchill. Equating him to a fascist is not overstepping things. Burma has deep ethnic problems that I’ve witness first hand. On top of that they have a large, docile muslim population which has done little to nothing aside from exist to inspire the hatred of this buddhist nut…
Interesting juxtaposition of stories here. On the one hand, I have limited sympathies for a group of people murdered while they have placed themselves in a risky situation. They knew (or should have) the possibilities and opted to take the risk.
On the other hand, I have a lot of sympathy for those wishing to defend themselves and their way of life on their own turf.
@8 “Peaceful as Charlegmange’..I love it! Listen; Someone had to defend Christian Europe from…itself, by kicking it’s ass and unifying it by forcer, and who better than the grandson of a guy named “Charles the Hammer”?
But…Somehow the French have lost that Frankish zest for conflict. They sure don’t seem to be doing much to hold back the second wave of the Islamic Invasion.
@11-ANCCPT, Shit, the French have folded up the tent and gone home-decades ago. When the announcement came out about the re-unification of Germany around 1990-France surrendered.
@11 Well put. “But…Somehow the French have lost that Frankish zest for conflict. They sure don’t seem to be doing much to hold back the second wave of the Islamic Invasion.”
You think. The French have promised to get in the fight though. They have promised to export only their most inferior table wines to Islamic countries. You have to love the French don’t you. Their motto is, “a friend is need…is a pest”. But on the reality side, they opened their doors to Muslims from anywhere, so now let them watch as their country becomes an Islamic converted nation, as is happened all over Europe.
#12, USMCBRIT, Disney Europe had to stop shooting fireworks shortly after they opened. The reason? After Each volley, French Military Personnel kept showing up to surrender!
I wonder who the 0bamatollah is going to blame first for this mess? Maybe he’ll blame the Roman Catholics, just look, no,… wait,… How many of the hijackers on 9/11 were buhddists, Christian, Hindu, or Shinto?…… How many times have African Christians carbombed mosques during muslim holy days?……….
The area where those hikers were killed is remote, lying at the foot of the Himalayas. Tourism in that area is one of the few means locals have of making a living.
What those murdering Taliban bastards did was nothing more than killing for sport, and may they be bitten by wild boards and die of gangrene for it.
Ex fixed it “may they be bitten by wild boars”. Not enough tea yet ? Joe
@14-Proud, I visited France back in the early ’70s. Didn’t care for the people (in the cities) and they did not like Americans, the arrogant assholes. I don’t imagine it’s changed any. As to Disney Europe-that whole country lives in Fantasy Land, and as Sparks @13 says-they’ve made their hog stall, so let them lie in it!
@16 – Joe, durn burn it! I swear I proofread that before I clicked. Must be the wickregremlins interfering again.
Yes, it should be ‘wild boars’.
I thought this might apply
http://youtu.be/gcyA0Ef73qY?t=9s
I’ll try hotlinking – may not work 🙁
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You know, I was in France a couple years ago with the Mrs. It was awesome. Paris is beautiful, and the people are just like big city people anywhere…If anything New Yorkers are far, far ruder. The countryside is gorgeous, and you can’t turn around without bumping into history of some sort. I would go back in a hot minute.
But, with a 25% unemployment in the young muslim male population, and the growing tendency of that particular subculture to self segregate and rule themselves via extralegal Sharia courts, France (and the UK)could be in very, very deep shit if they aren’t careful. The English Supreme court has all but given them the go ahead to run these courts, and has allowed the use of sharia law as precendet in the british common law system.
This will not end well.