(Afghanistan via Wikipedia) As crazy as it seems to those of us in the West, Muslims in the Middle East continue to be angry over a Quran being burned by some marginal church in Florida. In Afghanistan today the riots continue all over that country, stores are being destroyed, cars are being burned, hundreds [...]

The pictures are still horrific and engender in us all a remembrance of where we were when we first heard about the 9/11 attacks. Nearly 3,000 died and two wars resulted from the event and we can now say that the world is a much smaller place than it use to be. But how shall [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) The top US General in Afghanistan says that the planned burning of Qurans by a Florida church on September 11 could damage the war effort there and put the lives of American troops in danger. Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview that the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes [...]

(Image by Oxfam International via Flickr) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, August 27 (CDN) — “Authorities on Wednesday (Aug. 25) recovered the bodies of three Christian relief workers who had been kidnapped and killed by members of the Pakistani Taliban in the flood-ravaged country.” Response: Pakistan is in the midst of one of the greatest floods in recent [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) More on the Medical team that was slaughtered by the Taliban. It appears that the assailants used info gleaned from the group’s Facebook page to track them to the Nuristan area. From the NY Post: Intelligence sources told The Sunday Times it appears the Taliban tracked the medical team for days. Other [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) A team of Christian medical volunteers including 6 American doctors providing care to poor villagers in remote northeast Afghanistan were lined up, stripped, and shot to death by the Taliban. Later the Taliban bragged about doing this evil deed. Here’s an account from the Christian Science Monitor: The execution-style killings of 10 [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) A 7-year-old boy was publically hanged by Taliban militants in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province. According to reports, the child was accused of ‘spying’ for the Afghani government. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai responded to the news: “A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a [...]