Religion of Peace Watch #7654

You are well aware of the French stand on Iraq. Be nice to the terrorists and they won't hurt us. WRONG! The little nation of Nepal is learning that lesson along with the French:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A militant Iraqi group said it had killed 12 Nepali hostages and showed pictures of one being beheaded and others being shot dead, the worst mass killing of captives since a wave of kidnappings erupted in April.
The announcement of the killings, made in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site Tuesday, came as France intensified its efforts to save two French reporters held hostage by a separate group as a deadline set by their captors neared.
The Nepalis were kidnapped earlier this month when they entered Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm.

...The killing of men from a tiny country that has had nothing to do with the invasion or occupation of Iraq will send shockwaves through foreign companies doing business here.
"We have carried out the sentence of God against 12 Nepalis who came from their country to fight the Muslims and to serve the Jews and the Christians ... believing in Buddha as their God," said the statement by the military committee of the Army of Ansar al-Sunna.
The group posted a series of photographs showing the killing as well as a video. The recording showed two masked men, one in camouflage, holding down a hostage. One of the men then used a knife to behead the hostage and then hold his head aloft.
The video then showed a group of hostages lying face down and being shot by a man using an automatic rifle. It then showed bodies splattered with blood and bullet wounds.

Update: The Nepalese are pissed and taking it out on the Muslims.

And the French continue to hang tough but will either back down or Chirac will suffer grave political consequences:

AMMAN (Reuters) - A 24-hour deadline set by kidnappers of two French journalists in Iraq expired late on Tuesday with no word on their fate after a day of frantic efforts by France to drum up Arab support to free them.
The kidnappers holding reporters Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot have demanded France scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
The killing of 12 Nepali hostages by a separate group of Iraqi militants highlighted the gravity of their plight.
Arabic television station Al Jazeera quoted a statement on Monday evening from the Islamic Army in Iraq saying they had extended a previous deadline to France by 24 hours to repeal its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
However, a senior Arab League official said on Tuesday that contacts in Iraq had said the deadline would pass on Wednesday rather than Tuesday. Al Jazeera's 4 p.m. EDT news bulletin, 24 hours after it broadcast the statement, passed with no report of any new statement or news on the fate of the reporters.
President Jacques Chirac, refusing to back down over the headscarf ban, led a broad diplomatic push to appeal to the militants holding Malbrunot and Chesnot, shown on Arab television on Monday fearing for their lives.

France did not participate in the Iraqi invasion, they have done everything to appease the radical islamists and they still have hostages taken. Wake up France.