Yemen: Jihadists murder Christians for proselytizing

"America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009

A BRITISH engineer kidnapped in Yemen by armed killers was part of an evangelical group that may have been targeted as an act of revenge for its attempts to convert local Muslims to Christianity.

His captors have already killed three women members of the group and abducted a married couple and their three young children.

Yesterday, as his wife clung to the hope that he was alive, it was reported that two of the dead women – Anita Gruenwald, 24, and Rita Stumpp, 26, both German nurses - had “missionary materials” in their belongings when their bodies were found. Young-Sun Lum, 34, a South Korean teacher who called herself Magdalena after Jesus’s disciple, was the other victim.

They had been warned to stop trying to convert Muslims, according to German investigators. Mullahs had spoken out against their missionary activities and their books on Christianity had been confiscated....

Initial reports said the three victims had been shot and stabbed. Hamboush Hussein, general director of the local health office, said they had not been mutilated but had several gunshot wounds in the head, chest or back as if they had been struggling and trying to escape.

Britain has sent a team of counterterrorism experts to Sana’a because of the possibility of Al-Qaeda involvement. While the investigation continues the Foreign Office has imposed a virtual news black-out, withholding the British engineer’s full name. In Yemen he has been identified only as Anthony.

All the victims were members of Worldwide Services, a Christian relief group based in Holland that has been working at al-Jumhuri hospital in Saada for 30 years....

So, they are there trying to help the "poor" muslims and this is what they get. I really do not feel sorry for them though. They are Christians in a muslim country, that was the first mistake. The second was trying to do something good for the muslims. The third is that it is illegal in that part of the world to try to make a muslim stray from the death cult, islam.