that some people just won't take No for an answer?

[Juells]

news.sky.com/story/evangelist-killed-by-tribe-made-several-trips-to-forbidden-north-sentinel-island-11560960

It was illegal to go there.
He'd been hit with arrows when he went there previously.
The locals wrecked his canoe on a previous trip.

Some people just won't take a hint, no matter how strong.

Plus didn't care if they all died from diseases they had no immunity to, just so long as they died in Jesus.

What a supremely arrogant thing of him to do. Apparently he wrote a diary entry saying he didn’t understand as he’d been so nice to them

I just read about this. No sympathy. What an arse.

Clearly didn’t know much about colonial history did he... 🙄

Yeah, he deserved it tbh.

The people of North Sentinel Island have on several occasions violently rejected any attempts from outsiders to make contact. They refuse interaction with all. And they almost certainly don’t have the genetic immunity to survive exposure to common viruses.

I have no sympathy for any prick who thinks he’s entitled to inflict his presence and beliefs on a group who have refused any engagement with the wider world.

Of course it was a man. It’s always men forcing themselves on people who aren’t interested. His beliefs were superior and had to be validated by everyone else. Other men need to watch and learn.

Not to mention, 7 fishermen have also been arrested for helping him and will probably languish in terrible prisons while their families struggle. And yes, they could have refused, but it’s hard to refuse when you’re poor and someone is offering you a shit load of money to do something.

I really don't get why he was determined to go there. It was almost like he wanted to be killed. I wonder if he had MH issues.

Yeah, it's a bizarre arrogance that meant he insisted on going back there, despite the risk he posed to a native people, living happily for 30,000 years.
I read the story thinking those 'missionaries' are a really special breed of ignorant, off spreading the 'word of God' to other cultures who neither need or want it.

Nominate for a Darwin Award? How ironic if he won one.

I have no sympathy for him either. Leave them alone. They have every right to defend themselves in any way necessary. They're probably a lot happier than a lot of people living in the modern world!

@fadedred - pmsl

Agree with no sympathy. Another religious zealot determined to make everyone bow before their god no matter what. Arrogance and egotism masked as compassion.

He's a fucking idiot and I think he deserved it, though I feel sorry for his family. Nothing can justify something that would expose these people to disease and completely wipe them out. I find missionary work to be highly arrogant anyway, but to expose them in this way to disease should be a manslaughter offence.

I hope they didn't touch his body after they killed him or they could still get infected with something that was quite harmless to the missionary.

Also agree that I hate missionaries. WTF was he thinking?

He invaded their territory and I think they're cool. They defended themselves. Enough said.

I'm not going to celebrate someone's death, and I feel sorry for his family as its extremely unlikely that they will be able to recover his body.

I have a bit of a geeky interest in indigineous tribes and the North Senitalese are known for being extremely hostile and violent to the point that the Indian government ceased trying to contact them many many years ago and now only do the occasional pass by to check they still exist. No one really knows much about them and they clearly don't want contact and will almost certainly have no immunity to common diseases so they shouldn't be contacted.

I was really upset by some of the Twitter comments on this. Plenty of people seem to think that this tribe would welcome 'civilisation' if only they knew how much better their lives would be if they embraced the modern world. I couldn't get over some of the arrogant displayed by (predominantly) white, evangelical Christians who felt that this missionary was totally right to do this. The human race is an absolute mess and these tribes do well to stay away from it.

Do you remember that bunch of evangelical women that went charging into Afghanistan, and had to be rescued? Like this story to start with, it was originally suggested they were tourists. But of course, they weren't 😡

Did he really think that they would welcome him with open arms and convert to Christianity? Did he when consider the diseases he could have spread to them? I'm not happy that he died but what an idiot.

I think it’s pretty clear he wasn’t ‘all there’.

I feel sorry for his family but it’s yet another example of people trying to interfere with a culture they view as “inferior “ , usually with the excuse that God told them to.
Supremely arrogant and I really don’t blame the islanders for behaving how they did

Apparently the lovely people at Christian Concern want the islanders to be 'brought to justice'.

www.ibtimes.co.in/what-international-christian-concern-us-fringe-group-demands-murder-charges-against-sentinelese-786337