This Week's Islamic Massacres > At least 50 murdered, 100 kidnapped in DRC

 

Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims murder at least 52 people, take over 100 hostages, in series of jihad attacks

Aug 20, 2025 9:00 am By Robert SpencerLeave a Comment

“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).

ISIL-backed rebels killed at least 52 people in eastern DR Congo, UN says

Al Jazeera, August 18, 2025:

Rebels backed by ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 52 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this month, according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) in the country, as both the DRC army and Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group accuse each other of violating a recently reached US-mediated ceasefire deal.

Attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) targeted the Beni and Lubero territories of the eastern North Kivu province between August 9 and 16, MONUSCO said on Monday, warning that the death toll could rise further.

The renewed violence comes as a separate conflict between the DRC army and the M23 group continues to simmer in the east of the country, despite a series of peace treaties signed in recent months. The government and M23 had agreed to sign a permanent peace deal by August 18, but no agreement was announced on Monday….

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Suspected Islamist rebels kill 30 in Congo’s North Kivu province

by Jean-Yves Kamale, Associated Press, August 16, 2025:

KINSHASA, Congo — Suspected Islamist rebels have killed at least 30 people in a series of attacks in Congo’s North Kivu province in recent days, a Congolese military official said Saturday.

The killings took place in Bapere village between Wednesday and Friday, according to Col. Alain Kiwawa, the military administrator of Lubero territory where the village is located.

“We have more than 30 people dead, and at least a hundred who are being held hostage,” Kiwawa told The Associated Press.

A civil society leader, Samuel Kaheni, the president of the Bapere civil society organization, added that several houses were burned and victims were mostly killed with knives.

The attacks are the latest in a string of recent attacks by Islamic State-aligned Allied Democratic Force (ADF) after its members killed nearly 40 people last month in an attack on a Catholic church in Ituri. Most of the victims were killed with machetes.

The ADF, with roots in neighboring Uganda, operates in the border villages between Uganda and Congo. Both countries have launched a joint armed operation against the group, but the group has only increased its attacks in recent months.

The incidence of ADF attacks adds to the complicated security challenges in the eastern region of Congo, where dozens of other armed groups are fighting, and the central government is battling the M23 rebels, which have taken control of Goma and other key cities….

This Week's Islamic Massacres > Islamic Genocide of Christians - silence from media

 

Mozambique: Islamic State jihadis behead Christians, burn church and homes: ‘Silent genocide’

Aug 12, 2025 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

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It’s “silent” because Israel and Jews can’t be blamed, and because it doesn’t fit the establishment media paradigm in which Muslims are always brown victims and Christians are always white oppressors.

ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: ‘Silent genocide'

by Danielle Wallace, Fox News, August 7, 2025:

International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a counter-terrorism research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. – is sounding that alarm about what it describes as a “silent genocide” taking place against Christians.

The Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) recently released 20 photos boasting of four attacks on “Christian villages” in the Chiure district, in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, according to MEMRI.

MEMRI said the photos show ISIS operatives raiding villages and burning a church and homes. The images also allegedly depict the beheadings of a member of what the jihadists consider “infidel militias” and two Christian civilians. Rampaging jihadist groups celebrated the killings. Photos also showed the corpses of several members of those so-called “infidel militias,” according to the institute’s analysis.

“What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community,” MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital.

“That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa – take over the whole country or most of several countries – is dangerous,” Fernandez, a former U.S. diplomat, said. “It’s very dangerous for the national security of the United States let alone the security of the poor people who are there – Christians or Muslims or whoever they are.”

The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) also recently released several photos of their own documenting a July 27 attack against the Christian village of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province. Islamic State-affiliated soldiers opened fire at a Catholic Church and set fire to homes, stores, vehicles and possessions. At least 45 people were killed, according to MEMRI. The photos show burning facilities and the corpses of Christians.

Fernandez explained to Fox News Digital that the goal of these jihadist groups is “eliminating Christian communities,” as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are “given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’”

“Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.”…

Cabo Delgado, Moz

 

This Week's Islamic Massacres > 50 Al-Shabaab killed in Somalia; Over 60 killed in Togo this year; Fulani Herdsmen kill 17 more Christians in Nigeria

 

Over 50 militants killed in Somali battle

Fighting has erupted in the town of Bariire as part of ongoing operations to retake territory from an Al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group

FILE PHOTO. Soldiers from the Somali National Army ©  Ed Ram/Getty Images

The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) has confirmed that more than 50 Al-Shabaab militants were killed during intense fighting on Friday in the southern Somali town of Bariire.

According to the statement released by AUSSOM on Sunday, the joint operation—conducted in coordination with the Somali National Armed Forces (SNAF)—targeted positions held by the al-Qaeda-linked group in Bariire, a strategic agricultural hub located 73 kilometers southwest of the capital, Mogadishu. 

AUSSOM rejected recent media claims suggesting that its own forces had suffered heavy casualties during the clash. Ambassador El Hadji Ibrahima Diene, Special Representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson (SRCC) for Somalia, said that AU and Somali forces “are determined to recapture Bariire town and other territories still under Al-Shabaab control to ensure lasting peace and security for the people of Somalia.”

READ MORE: The US is about to hit ‘Add to cart’ on another forever war

Al-Qaeda-linked insurgent groups, Al-Shabab in particular, have been carrying out regular attacks in several African states, including those in the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Mali, and Somalia in East Africa. The group continues to carry out raids, bombings, and targeted assassinations in an effort to destabilize the Somali government and regional security structures.

In July, a military helicopter deployed under the AU mission crashed at Mogadishu’s international airport, killing five personnel.

Previously in the same month, another helicopter, operated by Burundian troops, made an emergency landing in the Middle Shabelle region during an evacuation mission. While Al-Shabaab claimed to have shot down the aircraft, AUSSOM stated that the chopper was forced to land due to a technical malfunction. All crew members survived that incident.

READ MORE: Peacekeepers killed in helicopter crash in Somalia (VIDEO)

In a separate attack in May, at least 10 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the Damanyo military base in Mogadishu, targeting a group of teenage recruits waiting to enlist. Al-Shabaab later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Togo: Muslims have murdered at least 54 civilians and eight soldiers in jihad attacks this year

Aug 6, 2025 9:00 am By Robert Spencer3 Comments

The government forces cannot defeat the jihadis. Who is arming and funding the jihadis?

Togo confirms over 60 killed in Al Qaeda-linked attacks

Africa News, July 30, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

As insecurity spirals in Togo, the country’s foreign minister says a group affiliated with Al Qaeda has killed at least 54 civilians and 8 soldiers so far this year.

The comments to news agency, Reuters, was a rare official acknowledgement of the death toll in attacks.

Robert Dussey said there have been 15 incidents in northern Togo, which borders on Burkina Faso, perpetrated by the insurgent group Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin.

Togo has seen a rise in jihadist activity in recent years, as groups linked to Islamic State and Al Qaeda spread from the West African Sahel region….

Nigeria: Muslims murder seventeen Christians in jihad raid on village in Plateau state

Aug 7, 2025 11:00 am By Robert Spencer6 Comments

The overall objective is to drive the Christians out entirely, or at very least reduce them to a tiny, subjugated minority, and to impose Islamic rule over the whole country. And to do the same thing in neighboring states.

Fulani Herdsmen Kill 17 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria

Morning Star News, August 5, 2025:

ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Monday morning (Aug. 4) killed a Christian woman in a village in Plateau state, Nigeria, the latest of 17 Christians slain in the area since July 15, sources said.

The herdsmen raided Njin village at about 10 a.m., said resident Dorcas Ishaya.

“Fulani herdsmen are at it again,” Ishaya said in a message to Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “This morning at 10 a.m., Monday, August 4, they attacked Njin village in the Kopmur area of Mushere chiefdom, in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau state, killing a Christian woman.”

Area resident Ezekiel Tongs added in a message that the assailants robbed and torched properties.

“These herdsmen did not just attack the village but also carted away domestic animals from houses of Christians,” Tongs said. “Many houses have been burned down, and many Christians displaced.”

Nigerian troops were reportedly dispatched to the area.

Ishaya also said that two Christians were shot and killed in an ambush in the Bokkos area on July 15, “and their bodies burnt to ashes.”

A community leader from the area, Yohana Margif, said on Friday (Aug.1) that armed Fulani herdsmen have driven Christians from nine villages that they are now occupying….

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.

“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.

Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds….