From June 18th, but still of interest, I think.
[PJMedia] The news out of Uganda Saturday was horrifying. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that authorities in that country had "recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo." The rebels were members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which despite its name is actually an Islamic group with ties to the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) and aspirations of establishing a caliphate in Central and East Africa. While the world’s attention has been focused on Ukraine, climate and COVID hysteria, and the alleged crimes of Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
, the global jihad, which most Americans regard as a relic from 2001, has been newly resurgent in Africa.
The massacre, according to AP, took place at Lhubiriha Secondary School in the town of Mpondwe, which is near the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
. The ADF, says AP, "has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern Congo." Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Mayor Selevest Mapoze "said that some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory and others were shot or hacked with machetes." By the time soldiers arrived on the scene, the entire school was ablaze and there were "dead bodies of students lying in the compound," according to Ugandan military front man Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye.
Uganda’s New Vision reported Saturday that only three students survived the attack. One of them, a young man named Mumbere Bright, recounted that "the rebels immediately rubbed out the student who was at the entrance after entering the dormitory." He added, "The rebels asked for Moslems among the students, but there were none. The rebels said they do not kill fellow believers." After that, "they slaughtered every student in their sight using pangas, axes and sharp objects."
The fact that the rebels hoped to separate Moslems from the other students before beginning their massacre is noteworthy. The Qur’an forbids Moslems to kill fellow Moslems (4:92); regarding non-Moslems, however, it repeats the injunction to "kill them wherever you find them" (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5), although subjugating them under Islamic rule is also offered as an option (9:29). There have been many instances in which jihadis separated Moslems from a crowd before killing the non-Moslems. Even in the U.S., a jihad terrorist in Minnesota in 2016 asked mall shoppers if they were Moslem and then stabbed non-Moslems.
Similarly, in April 2022 in Nigeria, jihadis stormed a brothel, telling people to recite the Qur’an, and murdering ten people who could not do. Also in Nigeria, in January 2022, a man recounted that Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...jihadis stopped him and started beating him. Then they asked him if he was Moslem or Christian; when he said he was Christian, they intensified the beating. In Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
in November 2021, jihadis asked villagers if they were Christian or Moslem, then killed the Christians. In Mozambique in June 2021, jihadis hunted for Christians door-to-door. In the Philippines in February 2019, jihadis murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, while releasing six others who could recite them.
In Mali in 2015, jihadis screaming "
It is noteworthy that so many of those incidents took place in Africa. If the jihadis succeed in attaining their goals, Christians and other non-Moslems all over the continent will be forced into a humiliating inferior status featuring all manner of institutionalized discrimination. The second-class status prescribed for non-Moslems under Islamic law makes Merrick Garland’s two-tier justice system look like Blind Justice personified.
Now we see the same phenomenon of Islamic supremacism and jihad violence in Uganda. Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system...
jihadis strike virtually every day in Nigeria, and are active in Somalia, Mozambique, and elsewhere in Africa as well. The governments of the various states in which the jihadis operate seem unable (or, in Nigeria’s case, unwilling) to stop them. It could be that a distracted world could someday soon find to its horror that ISIS, a group that most people thought had been stamped out years ago, has established a new caliphate comprising much of Africa. This would give a whole new piquancy to the mass migration of young African men into Europe, and have far-reaching geopolitical implications.
Related:
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Allied Democratic Forces: 2023-06-19 Uganda military embarks on pursuing perpetrators to rescue abducted students
Allied Democratic Forces: 2023-06-18 Authorities blame ISIS-linked group for deadly attack on Ugandan school, 25 dead
Allied Democratic Forces: 2023-06-20 Uganda: UN experts say ADF financed by Islamic State group
Allied Democratic Forces: 2023-06-19 Uganda military embarks on pursuing perpetrators to rescue abducted students
Allied Democratic Forces: 2023-06-18 Authorities blame ISIS-linked group for deadly attack on Ugandan school, 25 dead