The Seleka rebels are Muslims who ousted the country’s Christian president and replaced him with a Muslim, and terrorized the CAR’s Christian population until they formed “anti-balaka” militias — the balaka was a kind of machete that the Muslims had used to kill Christians — and began to fight back. The international media has focused entirely on Muslims as victims of Christian atrocities. No atrocities by anyone are ever justified; the coverage has been astonishingly one-sided. Here, as in so many places, Islamic jihadists began the conflict, and there would be no conflict without them.
“Catholic priest is killed in Central African Republic,” AGI, April 19 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
(AGI) Vatican City, April 19 – A Catholic priest, Father Labbe Christ Formane Willbona, was murdered in the north of the Central African Republic, allegedly by a group of armed shepherds of the Fulani ethnic group, considered to be close to the former rebel group of the Seleka. The news was released by Vatican Radio. Father Willbona was returning to the hamlet of Paoua, where he was the parish priest of St. Kisito church, when armed men opened fire. Local security sources reported that the corpse was mutilated before being buried. . .
John C. Barile says
” . . . ?”
EYESOPEN says
I guess we will have to ask Bishop McManus and the Vatican how that “inter-faith dialogue” is working out in CAR. Methinks not so well.
Diane Harvey says
McManus doesn’t trifle himself with the murderous details about Muslims.
In fact, at the moment he’s either stirring another martini or pouring himself another tall one.
Salah says
The islamic Beast is raging, the islamic Beast is dying.
“..the number of Catholics in Africa has increased from one million in 1902 to 330 million in the year 2000” (sheikh Al-Qataani)
…and counting.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
Jakareh says
The people of the CAR should not allow one Muslim to remain.
raylanfear says
Where is the outcry and condemnation? http://wp.me/p2GpDB-dg
Defcon 4 says
Dollars to donuts the HuffPo doesn’t even bother to report this story — because they just posted a news story last week about the poor, persecuted musl0nazis of CAR.