May 27, 2010, - 1:14 pm
Do You Give to Red Cross? You’re Funding Taliban/Qaeda
I’ve never been a fan of the Red Cross and have always advocated that people not give to that organization. Whether it was providing cover for Nazi death camps during the Holocaust or providing aid and comfort to Hezbollah and HAMAS terrorists during their various wars against innocent Israelis and other victims (and saying it would aid Al-Qaeda, too), the organization is despicable. That’s not to mention the non-stop Red Cross aid to Palestinian and other Islamic terrorists, the use of Red Cross ambulances to transport HAMAS terrorists and their homicide belts, and disgusting way the Red Cross treated Israel’s version of the Red Cross, the Magen David Adom (Red Star of David), pursuant to Muslims’ demands.
But, now, the Red Cross has yet another sickening notch on its belt. If you gave to the Red Cross, thinking your money was going–for example–to Haitian relief efforts, it might have, instead, gone to help Taliban terrorists fighting and killing American soldiers, as the Red Cross continues to use its funds to help Taliban terrorists. It’s a safe assumption that your Red Cross donation is funding Talibanis because, as I’ve noted before, the American Red Cross gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) for these efforts, as it did for Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. And we also know, however, is that money is a fungible good, and if you gave to the Red Cross for one set of victims, that gave the International Red Cross more money to give to the Taliban, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Afghanistan.
The international Red Cross said Wednesday it would continue giving first aid training and kits to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, despite drawing angry e-mails from around the world and criticism from an Afghan official after the practice was publicized.
The International Committee of the Red Cross trained “over 70 members of the armed opposition” in first aid last month. . . .
The courses started in 2006 and the neutral group will continue as long as they are needed, said Red Cross spokesman Christian Cardon.
“It’s the core of the ICRC’s mandate to make sure that people are cured whether they are from one side or the other side,” he told The Associated Press.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper on Tuesday quoted an unidentified official in Kandahar’s local government as criticizing the first aid training, saying the Taliban did “not deserve to be treated like humans.”
Cardon said the Red Cross also received angry e-mails from people around the world in response to the article. But he insisted that in Afghanistan most officials well understood and accepted the group’s 151-year history of treating all war wounded regardless of their background or affiliation.
Even the usually far-left international law experts say the Red Cross does NOT have to do this.
Andrea Bianchi, a professor of international law at Geneva’s Graduate Institute, said the Red Cross wasn’t obliged to provide training and medical kits to the Taliban but appeared to have chosen to do so for practical reasons.
The smug attitude and arrogance of the Red Cross on this is even more grating.
“We are quite confident that it (the report) will not affect our operations.”
More from The Guardian, which broke the story:
The Red Cross in Afghanistan has been teaching the Taliban basic first aid and giving insurgents medical equipment so that fighters wounded during battles with Nato and Afghan government forces can be treated in the field, it was revealed today.
Don’t give to the Red Cross. Don’t give to the American Red Cross. Don’t give to the International version. Either way, you don’t know exactly where your money ends up. And one thing you know for sure: Red Cross money and resources help Islamic terrorists, including those fighting and killing American soldiers.
We’re coming up on Memorial Day. Several of the soldiers who are newly dead died in Afghanistan and are gone from this earth because the Red Cross healed men who ultimately killed them.
They are turning over in their grave.
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Do some research on the ARC and see how they stood by and did nothing during the Holocaust. No Jewish person should have anything to do with them anyway and this doesn’t surprise me in the least. They were always seeking my Mother out to lend some of her local celebrity luster and she would given them a piece of her mind before hanging up on them. Their behavior towards legitimate Katrina victims was disgraceful. There was a lot of chaos in the first few days following and that included uncertainty as to who was eligible for what. Lots of rumors. We went innocently trying to figure it out and were treated like the scum of the earth. BTW, I took a wheelchair because my MS had flared after a few days with no a/c. And still they acted like we were Bonnie and Clyde. We did determine we were not eligible and said, sorry we heard lots of conflicting info and left.
We had occasion to observer the Salvation Army in action, Total difference so I don’t care if they are a “missionary” organization. That is NOT their motivation during disaster relief and they are WONDERFUL. They are the only ones I’d donate to in those circumstances.
mk750 on May 27, 2010 at 1:50 pm