How many well meaning white people have died trying to help the Middle East? I wish they would spend their efforts on their own kind.
Kayla Jean Mueller is another case study in pathological altruism, like Rachel Corrie. They were both attractive young women with many opportunities to marry a wide selection of quality men. Who influenced these young women to these self-destructive paths? Did they have parents, friends, teachers, counselors or clergy who pushed them in this direction?
JERUSALEM — Kayla Jean Mueller, the 26-year-old American held captive by the Islamic State in Syria until her recent death, sharpened her activist skills and aid work during a brief stay in Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2010.
Mueller was captured in August 2013. The Islamic State claims that she was killed last week when a Jordanian fighter jet bombed the building where she was being held in the north-central Syrian city of Raqqa, the group’s de facto capital.
The U.S. administration confirmed her death Tuesday after examining photographs of her body that were sent to her family, but did not confirm the cause.
The aid worker from Arizona arrived in the region to work with Syrian refugees in 2012. Two years earlier, she spent two months in Israel, working with African migrants in Tel Aviv and volunteering in the West Bank with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement.
