Imagine the international outcry if a Christian terror group, if there were such a thing, murdered eleven Muslim civilians. But this is just another news story that will be like the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.
“Eleven Congolese Christians killed in ADF Islamist militant attack,” Barnabas Fund, February 25, 2020:
Eleven Christians were killed in an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Mutwanga district, north-east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on 18 February.
A local Christian leader contacted Barnabas to confirm that the ADF deliberately targeted Christians in the attack.
Attacks by the ADF are common in the region, reported a Barnabas contact. “There is a pattern, every time the military in the DRC mount an operation against the ADF, the civilians are attacked as retribution,” he explained.
Many people, including Christians, have fled the area to Kasindi town, about 30 miles away, and some have taken refuge in neighbouring Uganda.
The ADF Islamist militant group has wracked majority-Christian DRC with violence for more than 20 years, killing many Christians. Archdeacon of Eringeti, Ngulongo Year Batsemire (60), was murdered by ADF militants on 29 January, after refusing their demands he convert to Islam.
Earlier the same day, ADF militants murdered at least 30 people in a series of raids on four villages in Beni territory, Nord Kivu province. ADF militants repeatedly carry out abductions and target Christian property. Over 200 Christians, including women and children were abducted and a church mission hospital was looted by the militants, during a raid on Boga city, Ituri province, on 23 August 2019.
mortimer says
These unarmed Congolese Christians were targeted because of their faith … as an example of Islamic retribution. Mohammed slaughtered many unarmed civilians who rejected his prophethood.
Most Western people are unaware that such acts of revenge are normative and canonical Islam, rather than aberrations.
Honor is restored to a Muslim through the shedding of blood. No kafir is ‘innocent’. All kafirs deserve to be killed only because they reject Mohammed. The citizens of an entire kafir country can be held responsible because they pay taxes to support their military which attacks jihadists overseas. Islam thus considers all civilians legitimate targets for revenge in settling a matter of Islamic honor.
-K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”
-K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”
-K.5:33 “The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari
-Imam AbdulLatif ibn AbdurRahman rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be hostile against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t hostile against the mushrikeen, then it can’t be said that he acts upon Tawheed, nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
elee says
Cant follow your cite to K 11.173. Typo? As always thanks for sharing.
Ray Jarman says
As many of us have been opining, the lack of news about Islamic atrocities against Christians, Jews and now Hindus makes most of the mass media complicit in these massacres. Also, as Robert Spencer points out, if even one Muslim is harmed, much less an entire village, the entire world wide press is all over it and the phony out pouring of tears would be never ending. Even now the news stations continue to reflect upon the attack against the mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand as a rebuttal of sorts when an attack by Muslims can’t be over looked. I am also discouraged by President Trump and Boris Johnson as they are also silent.
TruthSeeker says
The fake news media have blood on their hands with their one sided reporting
gravenimage says
Thanks to the Barnabus Fund for reporting this atrocity.
Frank Anderson says
Another reminder about US law, which probably does not apply outside the US. 18 United States Code Section 2, available online, “Anyone who aids, abets, counsels or acts in furtherance of a federal felony is equally guilty.”
Last time I looked, war crimes are among federal felonies.
The Constitutional definition of Treason is found in Article III Section III as giving aid and comfort to enemies of the US, with no requirement of a “time of war”. Islam declared world never ending war 1400 years ago.
To me, lying about these attacks, pretending they do not exist or are somehow in “righteous” outrage is giving aid and comfort to the enemy of the US and the World. Where should that take us?
Pirates centuries ago were considered “enemies of all mankind”. They could be executed on sight with the barest of legal process. The only difference I see with a traditional pirate and modern jihad terrorist is that the crimes take place on land, sea and air.
What have I missed?
Michael Copeland says
“…utterly incompatible with civilised society”
David Hume
eee says
Some Muslim pirate history: Muslims took over the North African coast after liquidation of the Vandal kingdom there. For the next thousand years they pillaged and plundered kafir commerce on the high seas. Whenever some European ruler objected they would reply that they did this because their scriptures said they could and should do it. Crusades and other expeditions got sent against them from time to time. Thomas Jefferson demanded they stop and got the usual answer, which spurred him to acquire a Koran; I dont know if he read it or what he concluded. U.S. Marines went to the shores of Tripoli in the first years of the 19th century but didnt really shut down the operation for good; they were still at it when the French occupied Algeria in 1838. They kept operating from unoccupied lands adjacent; when Joshua Slocum circumnavigated solo at the turn of the 20th century, he had to run for his life from Muslim pirates. Theyre still pursuing the trade wholesale in Somalia and the Straits of Molucca. it would appear, then, that the only time when there were Muslims in the world and no Muslim piracy, was before they had subjugated a suitable base for nautical plundering. Oh and one can never extinguish the Muslim propensity for this; the only way to deal with Muslim piracy is to incapacitate them.
Frank Anderson says
eee, I cannot cite a source. I have read that Thomas Jefferson did indeed read the koran and understood from his reading what was needed. It takes extreme effort to read a standard koran, which is published in scrambled order of “longest chapter first”, to see what are the “final, final” pronouncements, because so many were changed along the way. Jefferson saw enough through his efforts to understand that islam has declared itself an enemy to everything in our Constitution. I think he would smile in a big way for a copy of Bill Warner’s books. It may be too late for him; but not for us.
gravenimage says
Good post, eee.
Just two small points–Jefferson had actually purchased his Koran some years before the Barbary pirates began pirating our ships.
Then, one of the few clear cut modern triumphs over Jihad is that the US, European countries, and few others have pretty much completely shut down Islamic piracy in the horn of Africa. This should be widely celebrated, but oddly is hardly mentioned.
elee says
First story I can recall reading about these Muslim massacres that also mentioned anything about anyones military. If the purpose of soldiers and weapons is something other than preventing these occurrences, then what is it?
gravenimage says
Agreed, elee. Unfortunately, the Congo is such a mess right now I don’t imagine they can protect their own people.
gravenimage says
Democratic Republic of Congo: Jihad group murders eleven Christians in revenge for military action against it
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These *poor people*.
God, I hate Islam.
Sam Morris says
They need to track down and kill every Muslim in DRC.