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Showing posts with label Islamic Massacres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamic Massacres. Show all posts
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan implements Sharia to a great degree, but it is still not an Islamic emirate, with a Muslim cleric at the helm. As such, it is made up of heretics and apostates who can lawfully be killed in jihad massacres such as the one we see here.
“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)
Suicide bomber, gunmen attack security post in northwest Pakistan, killing 15 security personnel
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber backed by gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing 15 members of the security forces, the military said Friday.
In a statement, the military said troops repelled the overnight assault in Tank, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and killed 12 militants.
The military blamed the attack on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.
The group is separate from but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of providing sanctuary to TTP militants, an allegation Kabul denies….
According to the military, the attackers attempted to storm the checkpoint but were pushed back by security forces before ramming an explosives-laden vehicle into the perimeter wall, triggering a powerful blast that severely damaged the checkpoint.
Nepal: Muslim mob attacks Hindu pilgrimage, one killed, 24 injured
Nepal is 81% Hindu, but everywhere Islam goes, it causes strife with non-Muslims. Terror, indeed, is the Qur’anic imperative: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
Nepal violence: Muslim mob attacks Hindu Kanwar Yatra over DJ music, 1 killed, curfew imposed in multiple districts
Nepal has tightened security and imposed curfews in several districts after violence erupted in Sunsari district of Koshi Province, leaving one person dead and 24 others injured. The unrest began after Muslims attacked the Hindu Kanwar Yatra over DJ music, prompting authorities to extend restrictions and increase security across sensitive areas.
According to the District Police Office, Sunsari, the incident took place around 10:15 pm on Sunday, 26th July in Dewanganj Rural Municipality-3, Kaptainganj. Police said Police said a group of Hindu youths carrying a DJ sound system while heading to offer water to the Koshi River entered a predominantly Muslim locality.
The little argument soon escalated into a clash between members of the two communities, with both sides throwing stones and attacking each other. As the situation worsened, teams from the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force intervened, and police fired several rounds to disperse the crowd.
The violence claimed the life of 30-year-old Om Prakash Mehta of Dewanganj-3. Senior Superintendent of Police Yogendra Singh Thapa, spokesperson for the Koshi Province Police Office in Biratnagar, said 24 people, including security personnel, were injured. Those injured include 10 Nepal Police personnel, five Armed Police Force personnel, and nine civilians. They are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Biratnagar and Sunsari….
30 Christians Slaughtered in Nigeria as Study Highlights Threat from Islamic Fulani Militias
A recent brutal attack in Nigeria left 30 Christians, including 11 children, dead, underscoring the severe and escalating violence disproportionately targeting believers in the region.
A brutal attack in Nigeria last weekend that left 30 Christians dead, including 11 children, underscores the growing danger facing believers in that country and offers further evidence that the violence is disproportionately targeting Christians, experts on the region say.
The attack unfolded just before midnight on Sunday, July 26, when suspected Islamic Fulani militants went from house to house in the village of Naridon in the Kauru Local Government Area, killing residents without regard for age or sex.
The victims included 21 from a Catholic church and nine from ECWA (Evangelical Church Winning All), according to Open Doors.
The oldest victim was 87, the youngest 3. Among the dead were eight children under 10.
The overarching goal is to terrorize the civilian population into submitting to Islamic rule. Terror is a tool in this enterprise because the Qur’an prescribes it:“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” — Qur’an 8:60
At least 10 civilians killed in new rebel attack in eastern Congo
Suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 10 civilians Mangina Mayor Nicolas Kambale, said Thursday.
The attack, which tool(sic) place overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, occurred in the district of Mangina, located in the Beni territory of North Kivu province, said Kambale.
He said the assailants “wielding knives and firearms launched simultaneous attacks” in separate villages taking advantage of the darkness.
“Ten people were killed, but the death toll remains provisional as the search for several missing people continues,” he told reporters in Beni.
Kakule Vunyatsi, a civil society leader in the district, said they started hearing gunshots at around 6 p.m. local time (1600GMT) on Wednesday.
He urged the military to pursue the attackers in their hideouts to help restore security.
In addition to the killings, Vunyatsi said the rebels burned several houses and damaged property.
The latest attack brought the death toll from ADF attacks in the area to 14 in just 48 hours and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes, according to local media….
Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims murder 16 people, including gold miners, in jihad massacre on village
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 16 people, including miners, were killed in the latest attack by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, local authorities said Thursday.
The attack took place Wednesday afternoon in Mandeite village in Mambasa territory, 165 kilometers (about 102 miles) southwest of the provincial capital, Bunia, Janvier Kinyongi, a local official, told reporters in Bunia.
“Many of the victims are gold miners. The death toll is provisional as attacks are still being reported in the vicinity,” he said.
The attack came days after suspected ADF members abducted several people in the same area.
The ADF remains a major threat to the civilian population in the Democratic Republic of Congo….
The ADF, which has been active in eastern Congo for several years, is affiliated with the ISIS (Daesh) militant group….
US condemns brutal murder of pastor’s family in Nigeria who warned ‘fear has become a way of life’
Mourners gather at the funeral of Christians killed Aug. 28, 2025, in Kauru County, Kaduna state, Nigeria. | Christian Daily International-Morning Star News/Iliya Tata
The United States has condemned the recent killing of nine relatives of Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a Nigerian pastor whose earlier appeal had warned that “fear has become a way of life” in the country’s Middle Belt.
Frank Garcia, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, raised the killings with Nigerian officials the previous week and said that more had to be done to stop such attacks, according to a statement from the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs.
Garcia called the continued violence against Christian communities and other at-risk groups in the region “deeply alarming.” The agency said perpetrators had to be held accountable and security strengthened without delay.
"We extend our deepest condolences to the victims’ families and all those affected. As I discussed last week with Nigerian officials, we must do more to prevent violent acts like those yesterday," the statement reads.
"The perpetrators must be held accountable, and urgent action is needed to strengthen security and protect Christians and other vulnerable communities. The United States remains committed to working with the Nigerian government and our partners to combat terrorism, counter violent extremism, and ensure that Christians and all Nigerians can live and practice their faith freely without fear of violence or persecution."
The renewed focus had followed a video of Dachomo seeking U.S. intervention that President Donald Trump reposted.
In his prayer request Thursday, Dachomo wrote of walking each day into villages gripped by fear, comforting widows whose husbands were killed for their faith and praying with children left orphaned overnight. His team traveled knowing they might not return, heard gunfire at night, and kept on because the love of Christ compelled them, he wrote.
Nigeria’s roughly 230 million people divide almost evenly between Islam and Christianity, with Muslims forming the large majority in the northern states, 12 of which apply sharia law, and Christians predominating in the south. The Middle Belt, the central band that takes in Benue, Plateau, Kaduna and Nasarawa, is where the two faiths mix and where most of the killings tied to Christian communities occur.
Radical Islamist groups have killed dozens of people in the country’s north in July, among them nine of the pastor Dachomo’s wider family, according to Truth Nigeria, which first reported the deaths.
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The July 11 attack on Rev. Dachomo’s family hit a remote village to the south of Jos, the Plateau state capital.
Several other attacks in Plateau and Benue states followed.
One left four people dead 56 miles to the southeast of Jos, in an area thought safe because nothing of the kind had struck there before.
Gabriel Dewan, a former speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, told a mass funeral for the victims this week that the killings had come after unidentified helicopters were seen setting down in Fier district forests, in the Takkas area of the Pankshin Local Government Area, Truth Nigeria reports.
Dewan said that when helicopters land in isolated spots in the country’s northeast and northwest, it means weapons are reaching terrorists, and he urged the police and army to clear those areas. He said those responsible had to be arrested and prosecuted, and he asked for the U.S. role to reach the Middle Belt states.
The condemnation came amid fresh debate in the U.S. Congress and closer cooperation between Washington and Abuja on counterterrorism.
Members of the U.S. Congress recently raised the bloodshed and the Nigerian government’s response to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz.
During a hearing this week, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, said Christians remained the main target of radical Islamists and that Muslims who spoke out faced danger too. He named Boko Haram, the jihadist group ISIS West Africa and Fulani militants, and said more had to be done.
"Yes, we are taking the persecution of Christians very seriously," Waltz said. "And we've seen the Nigerian government move as a response to the president's attention, our attention. ... They're cooperating with us more than they were on counterterrorism. They're cooperating in terms of their security force capacity. They still have some work to do, frankly, in terms of the Sharia law that is in place in many of these local provinces. And make no mistake, churches are being burned, pastors are being executed, people are being arrested literally for just wearing a cross around their neck."
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, criticized Nigeria’s handling of the crisis in a post on X and praised the House for keeping attention on it. Nigerian officials, he wrote, had created conditions that let mass violence proceed against Christians and other faith minorities through blasphemy and sharia laws, while turning away from jihadist attacks.
Cruz said he was pushing a bill to sanction the officials responsible. Those officials, he said, had run a public relations campaign against critics rather than answer U.S. concerns.
"They were confident in that campaign and in their ability to continue the status quo, and I am heartened that the House has just definitively proven them wrong," Cruz wrote.
Surely Imam Hassan Musa couldn’t have had anything to do with the murder of Pastor Bernard Mulongo, right? After all, Islam is a religion of peace, right? A Muslim cleric must know that above all people. So an imam certainly wouldn’t get involved in an act of violence over Islam, right? He knows that when Allah says “Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5), he doesn’t really mean it, right?
Pastor Bernard Mulongo, Morning Star News
Young Pastor Killed after Religious Debate in Uganda
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An imam who debated a pastor at an interfaith dialogue in Uganda is a suspect in the killing of the church leader after the event on Saturday (July 18), sources said.
Bernard Mulongo, a 25-year-old pastor at New Restoration Church of Christ in Butebo District, was killed nine miles from Mbale in Jami village late that night, his traveliing companion said. He is survived by his wife and two children, ages 4 and 7.
A pastor present at the interfaith dialogue and debate, David Omala, said Imam Hassan Musa was angry with the Pastor Mulongo after the event, at which two prominent Muslim women publicly converted to Christianity.
Pastor Mulongo spoke convincingly at the debate, and afterward Musa warned him, “Bernard, you deserve death for blasphemous deeds and leading our people to that false religion. It is not right for you to use the holy book, Quran, to mislead our members,” according to Pastor Omala.
He added that Musa made additional comments encouraging violence against Christians….
Pastor Muloong left the radio station in Mbale city with a friend, Robert Mukisa, on the same motorcycle, Mukisa said. On the way to the place where they were lodging, when they were nine miles from Mbale, several men on motorcycles passed them and stopped ahead of them, he said….
Pastor Omala said he later received a telephone call from an elder of Pastor Mulongo’s church informing him that he had been killed in Jami village. The pastor called Pastor Mulongo’s father, and they rushed to the site….
Musa is a suspect in the killing, and at this writing the imam was absconding, sources said. Police were investigating but have made no arrests. The pastor’s family has called for a thorough investigation into the killing and for those responsible to be prosecuted….
