American Couple Believing 'Evil Is A Make-Believe Concept' Bike Through Territory Near Afghan Border. ISIS Stabs Them To Death. Screenshot: CBS This Morning ByHANK BERRIEN August 16, 2018 1.4m views A young American couple who took a year-long bike trip around the world, believing that evil was a make-believe concept, took a fatal route in Tajikistan near the Afghan border, where alleged ISIS terrorists stabbed them to death. Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, 29, quit their jobs last year in order to make their trip. Austin was a vegan who worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Geoghegan, a vegetarian who worked in the Georgetown University admissions office. Austin had a personal blog on which he wrote in June 2017, “I’ve grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige. I’ve missed too many sunsets while my back was turned. Too many thunderstorms went unwatched, too many gentle breezes unnoticed.” Their trip, which lasted 369 days, took them from the southernmost tip of Africa in Capetown, South Africa, to Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Montengro, Kosovo, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and finally Tajikistan, where they were murdered along with two other cyclists, one from Switzerland and the other from the Netherlands. While in Morocco, Austin wrote: You watch the news and you read the papers and you're led to believe that the world is a big, scary place. People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil. People are axe murderers and monsters and worse. I don't buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own—it's easier to dismiss an opinion as abhorrent than strive to understand it. Badness exists, sure, but even that's quite rare. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind. No greater revelation has come from our journey than this. Austin also had some contemptuous words for President Trump: On the television across the room, Al Jazeera plays softly. Donald Trump has just announced his plans to move an embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and the Muslim world is visibly upset. Leaving Rabat a week earlier, we'd pedaled right by a massive peaceful demonstration against the relocation. The television broadcasts footage of protests just like that one stewing up all across the Maghreb, the Middle East, and beyond. As a clip plays of a sullen Trump waddling across the screen, I do my best to disappear into the soft plush of the couch cushion behind me. But American as we may be, no one here seems to mind. Then, on July 29, 2018, as they were riding their bikes with two other cyclists in Tajikistan, five men exited their car and stabbed all the bicyclists to death. The New York Times reported: A grainy cellphone clip recorded by a driver shows what happened next: The men’s Daewoo sedan passes the cyclists and then makes a sharp U-turn. It doubles back, and aims directly for the bikers, ramming into them and lurching over their fallen forms. In all, four people were killed: Mr. Austin, Ms. Geoghegan and cyclists from Switzerland and the Netherlands. Two days later, the Islamic State released a video showing five men it identified as the attackers, sitting before the ISIS flag. They face the camera and make a vow: to kill “disbelievers.” CBS News added, “ISIS followed an initial claim of responsibility in print with a video showing the five purported attackers pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” Update: This article originally said the bikers rode through ISIS territory. They were biking through an area of Tajikistan which is "near ISIS territory" according to pluralist.com. https://www.dailywire.com/news/34581/american-couple-believing-evil-make-believe-hank-berrien
Update: This article originally said the bikers rode through ISIS territory. They were biking through an area of Tajikistan which is "near ISIS territory" according to pluralist.com. Thanks for posting that this was FAKE NEWS, but thanks for your professional diagnosis of 'TDS', I am sure that psychiatry degree from Trump University came in handy.
It is not fake news, they were stabbed by ISIS while biking. The update was included in the article to indicate that they rode near ISIS territory. You enjoy being selectively pedantic. What is the problem? Then end result was the same, ISIS killed them. What are you disputing? You are TDS Patient Zero. A true TDS case study. You even watch Tucker Carlson...I could not stomach watching Rachel Maddcow just to see what the other side is saying. You have true TDS devotion!
So they thought they were in a safe area, some ISIS guys passed them and killed them. They were in a larger group, others died some survived. How does their view of the world or Trump matter? Others there had other views I'm sure. Trump was hardly relevant to the surviving or dead Europeans.
The very update on the post says its fake news, this is what you guys do, post some bullshit with big headlines while none of you manage to read the 'update' they post days later until the fake news have been internalized by every moron repeating the same crap. And I don't have problems with Trump except for his lying, raping of children & women, his blatant corruption, treason and general boorish behavior, I know for you Cons those are virtues, but just because I hate vile creatures doesn't mean I suffer from some made up mental disorder that people who don't even have a GED made up.
Two liberal utopian democrats who disliked Trump chose to take a bike ride near ISIS territory and got stabbed, case closed. Do you have any proof that Trump rapped children? You use the word "pedophile" constantly but do not have any evidence to back it. Just a couple of photos with Trump and his daughter. These same type of photos exist for Biden, does that mean he is a pedophile? No. Please, cite the article that says Trump raped children. This is way bigger news than a man who may or may not have grabbed a boob back in the 1980s. I will withhold my TDS diagnosis contingent upon evidence. Anything short of that is merely the angry ramblings of an older person who hates the current president.
And a bunch of other people doing the same route. Does it give you pleasure that they were killed? It seems to be the case that you are feeling triumphant about the deaths of a group.
It matters not if they were biking "in" or "near" ISIS territory. The tragedy is they naively thought it safe to bike unescorted thru a dangerous area. Politicizing their deaths is wrong. Tis sad it happened, condolences to their families.
Thanks for admitting that you posted fake news, now its 'near ISIS territory' even though the article 'updated' saying it was fake news, a legit news organization would update the title as well but since this is for Con consumption, the fake news is allowed to remain so that Trump U graduates can assign their psychiatric evaluation on the victims. Your empathy for your fellow citizens is noted, two Americans died at the hands of religious conservatives like you who hate liberals as much as you do but you side with them instead of good people. This is the reason why decent people like me hate you and your pedophile leader.