They entered the town and started “shooting people.” This is utter barbarism, but remember: opposing it makes you just as much of an “extremist” as the perpetrators of this savagery.
“‘Islamists’ attack Kenyan coastal town,” BBC, June 15, 2014 (thanks to King Dave):
Suspected Islamist militants have attacked hotels and a police station in the Kenyan coastal town of Mpeketoni, military officials say.
Witnesses reported seeing buildings on fire and hearing gunfire in the town, which is near Lamu island.
It is not yet clear if there are any casualties.
Kenya has suffered a number of militant attacks since 2011 when its forces entered neighbouring Somalia to combat al-Shabab fighters.
Kenya’s Standard newspaper said on its website the attackers had stolen weapons and vehicles from the police station, which was on fire.
It said local residents had fled to nearby forests.
The paper also quoted a witness as saying he had counted six bodies in the street, but this could not be confirmed.
Kenyan army spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir said gunmen entered Mpeketoni, a busy trading centre, and started “shooting people”.
The “assailants [are] likely to be al-Shabab,” Major Chirchir said….
Joseph says
Pope Francis:
“Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
Evangelii Gaudium #253
Guess these killers weren’t “authentic” Muslims. At least according to Pope Francis. And yet everyone with any sense knows very well that these killers were indeed “authentic” Muslims.
Any other Catholics on here embarrassed by the Pope’s obvious ignorance of the true nature of Islam?
eib says
The Pope is not a Muslim.
He has no business, nor has the Vatican any business, telling us what Islam is or is not.
Study history, study the Middle Ages, study Lepanto, study the Armenian and Greek genocides of the 1900s to 1920s.
Study 9/11 and you know all that you need to know about Islam.
Dr Nath Duru-Obisi says
There is nothing authentic about any religious organization that opposes the painful crucifixion and glorious resurrection prophesied many years by the old Testament Prophets , witnessed by New Testament Apostles and others announced by the Angels from Heaven and performed by He through who God is reconciling the world to Himself.We know anti-Christ is already here in preparation to become fully in charge after the imminent rapture.How would one speculate on possibility of the remarkable authority the defeated Lucifer would use to fight back even in the present dispensation? Emphasis are placed on the utterances and attitudes of highly placed authorities in the curent dispensation.The dorminant position of Islam is to oppose Apostle Peter’s pronouncement that there is no other name given among man whereby we can be saved except the Name of Christ Jesus given His humiliating torture and death, and impeccable resurrection. A religious organization established some 600 years later after these verifiable events and dening the central redemptive work of Christian God through He who knew no sin, 100% God and 100% man and pursuing the tendencies of another god and is beclouding the reality with utterances that seeming can be associated with peace seeking but fraudulent. Anyone who in-whatever form shows sympathy to or admission of the inadequacies is merely misleading himself and misguiding the ill informed. However, it is not late top repent which is the only reconciling approach to our God because the Son of Man Has power only here on earth to forgive sins including wrong teaching of highy placed and poorly informed personalities
Saleem Smith says
When those Muslims started shooting people in Kenya they were killing for Islam and Sharia and likely screaming Allahu Akbar! prayers to their evil non-existent Islamic god Allah.
We ex-Muslims know that both Muhammad the prophet of Islam and Allah are the stuff of pure fiction. Mohammedanism is a human invention that only an idiot could believe to be a true or respectable religion/ideology.
pork sandwich says
You said it, big boy!
Please keep commenting on JW but don’t get yourself killed by one of the “true believers” 🙂
Jay Boo says
I read somewhere that Allah (the god of the whole universe and beyond) would sit up late at night and devise schemes in order to deceive some humans just to see the end up forever in the torments of hell.
It is such an amazing coincidence how Muhammad would also take the same kind of perverse pleasure at suffering of others.
tsotsi says
U blaming only da Quran Chapters, read Luke 19v27 Jesus wz callng those who deny hm sayng; bring them infront of me i wll cutoff their neck. Then in dc chapter are u telng that Jesus wz criminal?
Stand Fast in the Liberty says
Um, the passage you are quoting is a parable that Jesus was telling as he was teaching. He is quoting the rich nobleman who was the subject of the story. It was the nobleman who said that about his enemies.
Try researching a little bit before making such an absurd comment. Jesus never harmed anyone, which is the total opposite of mohammed, who went around killing people, ordering people to be killed, stealing from those he attacked and then taking their wives and children as slaves. Don’t forget the raping of captive women. Even if he did arrange a hasty “marriage.” I’m sure no one asked the bride for her consent.
harbidoll says
we are officially at war with “unofficial islam”. whatever- doesn’t change anything.
Michael Copeland says
Coming soon …. to a town near you
joeb says
As far as I can determine, there are about 1m people still going on vacation to Kenya every year, the vast majority from the US and Europe.
Who are these lunatics?
King Dave says
Meanwhile Islamic bigots continue operations in Kenya, hardly noticed when their daily body count is in the dozens rather than the hundreds
onisac says
If I was a Islamist militant and my enemies wouldn’t defend themselves, I’d probably keep right on doing what I have been doing. Civil laws are only as good, as the enforcement of such laws.
Think about it. Why should they end their savagery?
dumbledoresarmy says
It’s looking as though these Christian communities in Africa – in places like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Central African Republic, Nigeria – need an Orde Wingate, to create a new “Gideon Force”.