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Several killed, abducted in Daesh-linked group’s attack on DRC village
TRT World, April 20, 2023
Rebels from Allied Democratic Forces attacked Samboko village in Beni territory, killing at least 20 people and taking hostages, according to a civil society group.
At least 20 people have been killed and others abducted in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province as extremists from the Allied Democratic Forces, believed to be linked with Daesh, attacked civilians.
The ADF attacked Samboko village in Beni territory on Wednesday, according to Mamove civil society organisation president Kinos Katuho.
Congo’s army deployed to the area and freed two of the hostages after a battle with the rebels, he said.
Conflict has been simmering for decades in eastern Congo where more than 120 armed groups are fighting, most for land and control of mines with valuable minerals.
Others, on the other hand, are trying to protect their communities.
‘Looting and kidnapping’
Since April last year, ADF attacks have killed at least 370 civilians and abducted hundreds, including several children, according to the United Nations.
The group, which originally operated in North Kivu province, has spread to neighbouring Ituri, where more than 144,000 people were displaced between January and February, according to the UN.
Efforts by Congo’s army and Ugandan forces to push them back have yielded little results….
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Ramadan in DR Congo: Muslims attack village, murder at least 20 people, take hostages
APR 22, 2023 8:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
The taking of hostages is primarily for money-making purposes, though some captives may be enslaved. “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance).
Decapitated statues in a church in Angers: a (Muslim) man arrested
translated from “Statues décapitées dans une église d’Angers : un homme interpellé,”
TFI Info, April 19, 2023
According to our information, a man was arrested after damage was committed on April 12 at the Sainte-Madeleine church in Angers (Maine-et-Loire).
Statues were decapitated and crosses broken.
The suspect was identified by his DNA. A man was arrested in the investigation into the damage committed on April 12 at the Sainte-Madeleine church in Angers (Maine-et-Loire), the police-justice service of TF1 / LCI revealed this Wednesday. He is suspected of several acts of vandalism, namely the beheading of 12 statues and statuettes, as well as damage to three metal crosses and a broken stained glass window.
The author known to the police
According to our information, the suspect, Brahim B., 40, already known unfavorably to the police and justice services, was identified thanks to traces and clues taken in the church, which allowed a DNA analysis in laboratory. He was arrested Tuesday morning at his home and taken into custody. He was subsequently hospitalized, his psychiatric examination having revealed an incompatibility with police custody.
OK, I've never heard that phrase before. I thought all criminals had an incompatibility with police custody. Perhaps it's a translation glitch?
What I have seen many, many times on this blog is evidence that devout Muslims are mentally ill. European governments could use that fact to segregate devout Muslims from society before they act out of obedience to the Quran and start destroying things and people.
The damage had been discovered by the priest on his way back from lunch on April 12. “What is striking is to see that the statues have been decapitated. But we can imagine the violence that must have been behind it and we would like to know that it was the motivation of such a person to do such a thing when entering a church, a place of worship. For us, it’s not just stones, they are symbols of our faith,” lamented Father Magloire Djaba Tossou in the TF1 report at the head of this article.
Are the statues symbols, or idols?
Christians arrested in Libya on charges of preaching
and apostasy from Islam
CNA, April 18, 2023:
Last week Libya’s Internal Security Agency launched a campaign in the city of Tripoli to arrest Libyan citizens and foreigners accused of apostasy from Islam and preaching Christianity.
The security agency did not specify the number of those arrested and refrained from publishing their names, stating only their initials.
The agency released a video of six Libyans — including a girl — as well as a Pakistani and two Americans with their faces blocked out in which they confess to the charges.
The two Americans worked at the Gateway International School in the Tripoli suburb of Zawiyat al-Dahmani that specializes in teaching English.
The government agency said that the two Americans and the wife of one of them belonged to the Assemblies of God Christian missionary organization. It was not revealed whether the wife was arrested or not.
The Americans were accused of secretly turning the school into a center for preaching the Christian religion.
The Internal Security Agency noted that the organization to which the Americans belong plays an important role in “seducing Libyans in various ways” to deviate from the Islamic religion.
In an official press release, the agency stated: “The Libyan people are proud to belong to their religion and consider it the solid foundation of their unifying national identity and regard any violation or abuse of it as a hostile act that threatens national security and seek[s] to sow discord and disunity among its people and those who comprise it.”
The Internal Security Agency “is keen to monitor suspicious activities and appeals that threaten the Islamic identity of our society, including the crime of apostasy and incitement to it.”
“Attacking our true religion is no different from acts of extremism and terrorism, and through monitoring and investigation, the agency monitored the rise in activities hostile to true Islam, targeting our youth of both sexes, many of whom left the country,” the statement said.
If Islam was indeed a 'true' religion, it wouldn't have to be protected by acts of terror against apostates or other religions. Christianity can stand criticism and competition - Islam cannot, because there is no truth in it.
A member of the Supreme Council of State and the Political Dialogue Committee in Libya, Salem Musa Madi, announced on his Facebook page that his son Sifaw had been abducted in Tripoli on March 26. On April 6, he reported that he was apprehended by the Internal Security Agency on charges of converting to Christianity.
Open Doors reported that the current number of Christians in Libya is 35,400 (0.5% of the population)….
Libya ranks fifth on the organization’s list of countries where Christians face the greatest persecution…
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APR 21, 2023 2:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said:
“If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
This means that Islam exists only because of fear and terror. Christianity exists because of love and Jesus Christ.
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