Executed Brit aid worker helped Yolanda victims

The news of aid worker Mr. David Haines, the third beheaded victim of the jihadist ISIS saddens all of us. Mr. Haines, a member of the International organization ACTED, was the first one to respond to typhoon Yolanda victims last November 2013. ACTED stands for Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, which swiftly sends assistance to victims of calamities and related incidents. ACTED is a service organization committed to helping others. We were lucky ACTED, acted at once seeing the devastation the typhoon brought to our fellowmen in the Visayas.

It pains humanity and especially the victims of Yolanda that Mr. Haines was brutally murdered by the terrorist ISIS members who defy reason in their call for Jihad. Today even unarmed soldiers, volunteers, Red Cross workers – those who help others in distress— are no longer spared. Terrorism has gone to its lowest level. It is also saddening that Muslim Filipinos have publicly proclaimed their allegiance to the Islamic State like the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). Others may have joined only out of curiosity or adventure. But all these are misadventures in return.