Desire for martyrdom evidently cuts both ways

You may have read that last year about 1,200 South Korean evangelist missionaries and children descended upon Afghanistan, and were promptly kicked out. This wasn't exactly a case of the Afghan government being meanies, but as we now see a move for the aggressive evangelists' own good. That missionary group claimed they'd return, and now at least 18 (15 of them women) are held by the Taliban:

"In the largest abduction of foreigners since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, several dozen fighters kidnapped the South Koreans at gunpoint from a bus in Ghazni province on Thursday, said Ali Shah Ahmadzai, the provincial police chief.

'They have got until tomorrow (Saturday) at noon to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, or otherwise we will kill the 18 Koreans,' Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, told The Associated Press on a satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. 'Right now they are safe and sound.'"

You know this is a country where apostasy is punishable by death, yet blithely insist on a proselytizing summer vacation. The Afghan government said the group apparently snuck in, not registering their trip or requesting security. This is not fun and games, people. This is an enemy that will slice of your head -- and your child's; heaven knows what responsible parent brought the kids on the first trip -- without a second's hesitation. Playing purposely into the hands of homicidal bastards seems to go against the common sense and care that God expects us to take with our lives and our bodies.