Lost amid the latest news from the Middle East is another tragic report from the African continent ~ Christians Targeted in Massacre by Al Shabaab in Kenya ~
Somalia’s Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels attacked a predominantly Christian town (of Mpeketoni) on Kenya’s coast Sunday night (June 15), selecting out Christian males as they killed more than 57 people, area sources said […]
Sources told Morning Star News the assailants were chanting “Allahu Akbar [God is Greater]” and killing whoever could not recite verses from the Koran.
“The attackers entered my house, took my boy out of the house, then killed him by shooting him, leaving my wife and daughters inside,” one pastor told Morning Star News […]
While several banks were damaged by grenades, the police station was the hardest hit; sources said eight policemen were killed, several police vehicles were destroyed and the station lay in ruins. The militants also reportedly went door-to-door asking residents their religion and killed them if they answered “Christian.”
Besides Al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attacks, some eyewitnesses said that they saw the Islamic extremist militia’s black flag.
“The attackers were speaking in Somali and Kiswahili language,” said one source. “Some of the attackers looked like Arabs with light skin.”
All area churches were affected in some way by the attack, including the Full Gospel Church of Kenya in the town center.
“The majority of the residents of Mpeketoni are Christians; less than 5 percent are Muslims,” said one pastor.
The targeted violence against Christians in Kenya escalated last fall with the attack on a shopping mall. As the UK Independent reported ~
The (June 15th) assault is the worst since last September when al-Shabaab gunmen attacked Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, killing 67 people. At the time, al-Shabaab said they would continue their attacks until Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia.
But Kenya has said it will not withdraw its troops, who are deployed as part of an African peacekeeping force battling militants.
The troop withdrawal demand is really just a convenient ploy to kill more infidels… as the “Religion of Peace” continues its relentless reign of terror.
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