Lee Yoo-eun
By Lee Yoo-eun
While 23 captives were shivering with growing fear in the hands of Taliban, a Korean site intentionally distributed images mocking a famous Islam prophet and posted the fact that no one was in fact a real doctor or nurse among the Saemmul church medical service volunteers.
The Internet post spread to world media, including Aljazeera, and led them to report on it. Many supposed that this could have effectively aroused the Taliban militants' anger toward the hostages.
It has been over two months since the hostages returned home safely, but the anti-Christian torrent in South Korea is far from fading away. Everywhere from news coverage, newspaper editorials, to the Internet, are angry debates on the Saemmul church's mission work in the government-forbidden region and ferocious protests about Korean churches _ some of them even verging on terrorism against Christianity itself.
Some extremist groups advocate reducing the number of churches in half or ...|
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