Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Is there anyone out there who is not fascinated by the story of John Chau.The 26 year old missionary who glibly invaded an island in the Indian Ocean to convert a stone age tribe to Christianity, only to find they weren’t very welcoming.  In fact they shot him with arrows, tied a rope round his neck and then threw the body on the beach as a warning to others.It’s not like John Chau was not forewarned.  These guys on the Sentinel Islands have been repelling the 21st Century since the day they were first discovered.  There was the epic TV shots back in the day when an islander spent some time one sunny afternoon shooting arrows at a circling helicopter.John Chau’s family has asked that the islanders are not prosecuted for the so called crime, which shows that the arrogance of the missionary extends to his family. Chau was trying to enter a prohibited island.  He was not only breaking the Indian law but the law of the people of Sentinel Islands.  Which they then enforced.  With their arrows. They upheld their so