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Taliban Agents Stalking Christians In Kabul

Compulsion

They just got done murdering Gayle Williams...

Aid worker Gayle Williams, from the Christian charity Serve Afghanistan, was killed in the capital Kabul. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said she was shot because she was teaching her religion. "This woman came to Afghanistan to teach Christianity to the people of Afghanistan," he said. "Our (leaders) issued a decree to kill this woman. This morning our people killed her in Kabul." Two gunmen on a motorbike targeted the 34-year-old as she walked to work alone at about 8am local time. "She was a person who always loved the Afghans and was dedicated to serving those who are disabled," Serve Afghanistan said in a statement.

... so now apparently they've got some time on their hands:

Kabul's Christian community is on high alert amid claims that their congregations are under surveillance by Taliban agents after Monday's killing of Gayle Williams, the Christian charity worker shot dead in the street on her way to work. Afghan intelligence officials have warned Christians they may be followed home from church. Investigators close to the murder inquiry said yesterday they were considering the possibility that Ms Williams knew her killers... regular churchgoer in the same neighbourhood said his staff had been warned not to walk outside because of threats against Christians. He said: "All of us are having to be careful about what we do, where we go and what we say."

Maybe the Pope can arrange a high-level meeting with Sunni leaders to hash this out. You're saying no?

References:
* British Aid Worker Killed In Kabul [Sky News]
* Christians in Kabul are warned: you are being watched by Taliban agents [Independent]
* Meeting between Pope and supreme Sunni imam cancelled [Hot Air]

Previously:
* President Of Israel Vs. Archbishop of Canterbury On Modern Democratic Culture
* Great News - Nuclear Armed Islamic Country With Notoriously Unreliable Safeguards Now Going Bankrupt
* Afghan Student's Death Sentence For Women's Rights Blasphemy Reduced... To 20 Years In Prison

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