While I had read about the hideous ISIS attack in Bangladesh elsewhere, not until I happened to look at a local news site did I learn that one of the victims was a Berkeley economics student. It appears that she was hacked to death.
As is typical, our national leadership is describing the murders as “senseless”:
Abinta Kabir, a rising sophomore at Emory University’s campus in Oxford, Georgia, was killed in the attack, the school said in a statement. Kabir, who lived in Miami, was in Dhaka visiting family and friends.
The State Department said Saturday that a U.S. citizen was “among those senselessly murdered in this attack,” but did not identify the citizen. It was not immediately clear whether it was Kabir.
The family of the Berkeley student has a slightly different explanation, however:
“Terrorists killed her for being a Hindu.”
Horrible and despicable as it is, the deliberate, organized murder of people because of their religion (or lack thereof) is anything but senseless. The word “senseless” implies a lack of reason or motivation. Like an earthquake, tornado, or other natural disaster. If the State Department really believes its own words, it’s an admission that the United States has no strategy at all.
Little wonder these stories are so under-reported.
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5 responses to ““Terrorists killed her for being a Hindu.””
the 5 republicans on the supreme court had a strategy in nov. of 2000 and that has occurred since can be blamed on them.
No strategy? We are importing Islamic murders and rapists.
That is a strategy.
Sure Cap. Now go take your meds.
Heroic Emory student REFUSED ISIS terrorists’ offer to leave besieged Dhaka cafe to stay and be slaughtered with his two female friends
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3672538/How-heroic-Emory-student-spurned-ISIS-terrorists-offer-leave-besieged-Dhaka-cafe-stay-die-two-female-friends-17-innocent-hostages.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours#Adolf_Hitler_on_the_Battle_of_Tours
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Albert Speer, Hitler’s Armaments Minister, described how Hitler expressed approval of Islam, saying that Hitler had been particularly impressed by what he had heard from a delegation of Arabs. When the Muslims had tried to penetrate Central Europe in the 8th century, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours; if they had won that battle, the world would have become Muslim. Theirs was a religion, Hitler said, that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. Hitler considered that Islam was perfectly suited to the “Germanic” temperament and would have been more compatible to the Germans than Christianity.[58]
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