That American-based Christian outfit World Vision that was attacked and bombed yesterday in Pakistan is based in Federal Way. They’re suspending all efforts in Pakistan following the attack.
From the New York Times:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Six Pakistani employees of the American Christian charity World Vision were gunned down Wednesday, and seven others were wounded in an attack on the aid group’s offices in a remote village in northern Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities said about a dozen masked militants stormed the building at about 9:30 a.m., pulled the staff members out of their offices and herded them into a single room, then started shooting indiscriminately. The attackers set off a bomb as they left, destroying the offices, which are located in North-West Frontier Province, in the village of Oghi, near the disputed region of Kashmir. […]
World Vision is among the largest Christian charities in the world, and says it has thousands of staff members working in almost 100 countries on projects related to disaster relief, development, health and other issues. It is among many international aid groups that have had operations in northern Pakistan since October 2005, when a devastating earthquake killed thousands.
The attackers were doing what their god told them to do! Right or wrong, they are doing it! Because their god told them to!
Ingrates, all of ’em.
Merry, do you have any fucking clue what you’re talking about or are you just a pathetic racist? Seriously, do you have ANY understanding about what’s going on in Pakistan and why or do you just regurgitate the “muslims is bad” Fox News/Stranger line?
It’s so nice of the Stranger to speak up about Pakistan. It’s fucked up that it takes a few white folks dying before the Stranger decides to write something. Obama drops bombs on brown Pakistani children and the Stranger is silent. White folks die and the Strangers speaks. Yay, liberalism
@ “Jerry Seinfeld”: They must have been caucasian Pakistanis then?
Fuck. You do know that World Vision is not only one of the largest aid operations in the world, but .. ready? .. even though they are Christians, they DO NOT allow their members to proselytize and try to convert people and hand out bibles and such? They just go in and help people out.