The Christian militias are called “anti-balaka.” A balaka is a machete. They call themselves that because they were formed to fight back against the Muslims who were murdering them with machetes. The mainstream media, true to form, has depicted the conflict in the Central African Republic as a series of unprovoked attacks by the nation’s Christians against Muslims. That is not actually the case. Actually, the Christians began fighting back to defend themselves against jihad attacks, thereby earning themselves the everlasting opprobrium of the mainstream media.
“‘Islamic state’ leaflets trigger uproar in CAR town,” by Sylvestre Krock for the Turkish Press, February 27:
BANGUI – Leaflets calling for the creation of an Islamic state in the northern Central African town of Ndele have triggered uproar among residents on Thursday.
The leaflets are believed to have been distributed by a group calling itself the “Association of Revolutionary Youth”, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter in the town.
In the handbill, the group calls on humanitarian agency staffs and government workers in Ndele to leave in preparation for the establishment of an Islamic state in the town, which lies east of the Bamingui-Bangoran National Park.
But the move drew mixed reactions from Muslim and Christian residents.
President of the Ndele local council Kassara Aziza (a Muslim) denounced the handbills and underlined strong ties between Muslims and Christians in the town.
Nguerebanda David, a retired Christian teacher from the town, described calls for the independence of the northern part of Central African Republic (CAR) and the creation of an Islamic state as a “passing summer`s cloud”.
CAR descended into anarchy in March 2013 when Seleka rebels – said to be mostly Muslim – ousted Francois Bozize, a Christian, who had come to power in a 2003 coup. The rebels later installed Michel Djotodia, a Muslim, as interim president.
In the months since, the country has been plagued by tit-for-tat sectarian violence between Christian anti-balaka militias and former seleka fighters.
Violence against Muslims has intensified since Catherine Samba-Panza, a Christian, was elected interim president in January.
Christians, who constitute the majority of CAR`s population, accuse Muslims of supporting former seleka rebels blamed for attacking Christian homes, looting property and carrying out summary executions.
Salah says
At least some Christians decided to fight back, with zero help from the “free” world!
Jay Boo says
I must be getting too cynical about the MSM.
When I first read the title of this I thought it said:
“LEFTISTS call for creation of Islamic state” in Central African Republic
Thankfully, leftists are not yet doing that.
Wellington says
Your initial mistake, Jay Boo, was a completely understandable one. And those not understanding such an initial misunderstanding as yours are understandably not understandable at all because such people don’t understand really anything that is truly understandable.
Jay Boo says
Well said,
The only way that in-denial leftists will acknowledge the stink of Islam is if they are cornered by the truth and have their smug noses rubbed in Islam’s carnage.
mortimer says
The denialism has to stop. Obama’s delusional followers are responsible for the deaths of the innocent when they look the other way.
Aid must be linked to human rights. Arab countries do not stop the violence and make no contribution to world peace, but rather they stir up insurgencies and terrorism on every continent.
joseph e. says
This is stupid! Non-Muslims are fighting back, not because a Christian was overthrown, or because a Muslim became president but because the Muslim population under the protection and practice of the Seleka rebels attacked and looted with impunity non-Muslims in their very own native homelands in which Muslims were peacefully accommodated. The hurt of this betrayal of the goodwill of the non-Muslim population is being expressed by the response. I don’t support the violence but I understand it thoroughly.
I also don’t like the characterization of the anti-balaka as Christians as if revenge and violence is the hallmark of the faith. This is a conflict initiated by 15% of the population, the Muslim population against non-Muslims. Christians make up some 50% of the population and traditionalists (that’s what we Africans call animists) make up the rest. The CAR has traditional courts that try cases of witchcraft with government approved witch doctors as court investigators. What I am saying is that for many who would be identified as Christian they would have to deny their faiths in order to participate in anti-balaka revenge attacks. Christians though are members of the anti-balaka in self-defense which would include destroying Muslim property in order to dislodge them from residing within their vicinity. Security in most of Africa is mostly communal with little if any government involvement and so it is often necessary to expel undesirable elements as the Muslims have proven themselves to be. Ironically it is the Christian church that is heavily involved in the security of Muslim lives just as they were with those of non-Muslims. This conflict is really one between a religion and other peoples and not between two faiths.
eib says
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What I am saying is that for many who would be identified as Christian they would have to deny their faiths in order to participate in anti-balaka revenge attacks. Christians though are members of the anti-balaka in self-defense which would include destroying Muslim property in order to dislodge them from residing within their vicinity.
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Some will deny some of the tenets of their faith to save their community.
It’s happened before.
It will happen again.
Some must die for others to live.
Some must risk damnation to save their families and communities.
They have chosen the path of resistance instead of being refugees.
Their courage should be inspiring to us all.
Villa Dijual Dibali says
At least some Christians decided to fight back
eib says
Increasingly, and so that at least some survive, they’ll have to organize and fight back.
The choices are becoming binary– life or death, survival or extinction of an entire culture and community.
Mrs. Rene O'Riordan says
The Christians and non-Christians who took to defending their homes and families against the muslim atrocities were absolutely correct in doing so. It is wrong to stand there and allow a criminal to hurt those who are under your protection. St. Thomas Aquinas would agree with these CAR Christians. – r
eib says
I know whose side I’m on.
MSM manipulation and silence do not affect me.
Too bad people sacrifice a good course of thought and action for “open-mindedness” and “lack of bias.”
It’s bias that makes the world, it’s bias that will save it.
Gary Woods says
Coming to a town near you.
Desain Website says
At least some Christians decided to fight back
Hotel Murah Di Jakarta says
OK .. Nice ..
Hotel Murah Di Jakarta says
Like Moslem ..