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Kenya: Muslims hack Christians to death for refusing to recite the Islamic confession of faith

Aug 23, 2017 12:05 pm By Robert Spencer

“The three men were held at machete point and ordered to recite the Shahada. When none of them did, the attackers began to tie them up. When the men resisted, they were hacked to death. Then the attackers went to the home of Joseph’s older brother, Charo, who was in his late forties, and killed him.”

The Qur’an famously says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.

“Kenyan Christians killed for refusing to recite Islamic Shahada,” World Watch Monitor, August 22, 2017:

Three Kenyan Christians were hacked to death by Al-Shabaab militants on Friday night (18 August) after they refused to recite the Islamic prayer of faith. A fourth Christian – the mentally challenged older brother of one of the three – was also killed.

At around 9pm, Changawa Muthemba, who was in his forties, was dragged out of his home in Kasala Kairu, Lamu County, by a group of armed men and taken to the nearby home of his brother-in-law, Joseph Kasena, 42, where a 17-year-old neighbour, Kadenge Katana, also happened to be at the time.

The three men were held at machete point and ordered to recite the Shahada. When none of them did, the attackers began to tie them up. When the men resisted, they were hacked to death. Then the attackers went to the home of Joseph’s older brother, Charo, who was in his late forties, and killed him.

Joseph’s wife, Caroline, who is in her late thirties, watched everything happen and is “severely traumatised”, according to a local source. Their 17-year-old daughter, Zawadi, was out of town at the time….

According to the source, Al-Shabaab militants and their sympathisers are “deeply embedded” in the local communities of wider Lamu and Tana, which are in coastal Kenya, near the border with Somalia where Al-Shabaab originated.

“They move around freely and often are at odds with the Kenyan farmers, deliberately sending their animals to feed on their crops,” the source said. “Locals complain that the police are not doing anything about the situation and even show preferential treatment to the herders. Earlier that day, some locals met with the Somali herdsmen, who threatened them. But this was not the reason for the attack; it only provided the opportunity for it. Al-Shabaab knew these men as Christians, and Joseph as a church elder.”…

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Filed Under: Al-Shabaab, Featured, Kenya, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Changawa Muthemba, Joseph Kasena, Kadenge Katana


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  1. marblenecltr says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Home of Obama’s father, if not Obama himself. Message to Michelle: slavery is practiced there today, black on black, following the teachings of the Qur’an (of a faith with which your husband agrees.)

  2. Alien Republican says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    Who cares ?

    • JawsV says

      Aug 23, 2017 at 2:33 pm

      You don’t care that Muslims are murdering Christians in Africa? Why not?

      • underbed cat says

        Aug 23, 2017 at 2:44 pm

        For me, that would be the only reason I would send troops, to fortify and protect the Christian villages from savagery. There is no religious tolerance in Islam they use terror and force submission, without a human soul when they gain control thru preaching tolerance, it is just dawah..to move in areas so they have no fear, until they arrive.

      • Alien Republican says

        Aug 23, 2017 at 4:50 pm

        I mean literally “who cares” ? Tell me WHO ? Judging be the behaviour of the media the value of a subsaharan, non-muslim Arfrican life is zero. So much for “BLM”.

        • Kay says

          Aug 24, 2017 at 1:17 am

          It needs to make the news.

  3. underbed cat says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 2:45 pm

    For me, that would be the only reason I would send troops, to fortify and protect the Christian villages from savagery. There is no religious tolerance in Islam they use terror and force submission, without a human soul when they gain control thru preaching tolerance, it is just dawah..to move in areas so they have no fear, until they arrive.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 24, 2017 at 7:54 am

      These Christian villagers in Kenya need an Orde Wingate (look him up). They need an equivalent of the Haganah.

  4. Keys says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    Forward To: Pope Bergoglio

    • john spsielman says

      Aug 23, 2017 at 5:35 pm

      do you mean dope francis

      • rich says

        Aug 23, 2017 at 9:36 pm

        “Dope Francis”. Hadn’t heard that one before. Beautiful. Thanks for the smile.

        • GladAllOver says

          Aug 24, 2017 at 3:51 am

          Frances is much worse than a Marxist Inspired Dope. He is a Demon masquerading as a Fraudulent So-Called God Fearing Pope?!!!! Tell me, why is he always meeting with That former Nazi Collaborator George Soros? Hat is quite Holy of him isn’t it??!!!

      • Ray says

        Aug 24, 2017 at 9:16 am

        Not sure if your Catholic, but you are being disrespectful to the Pope. You don’t have to agree with his opinions, but respect the office. He’s the vicar of Christ. I don’t agree with several things he says. He makes me wonder were he’s comming from sometimes but to be disrespectful to the vicar of Christ is dangerous business. I don’t know God wants us calling anyone a Dope, especially not the pope.

        • James says

          Sep 19, 2017 at 12:32 am

          Well said. And well put.

    • Kay says

      Aug 24, 2017 at 1:20 am

      Pope Francis is asking us to implore the God of mercy and peace to free the world from the inhuman violence of terrorism.

  5. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 4:59 pm

    Kenya is at the forefront of the fight against islamic terrorism in Africa and US aid has recently been significantly increased.

    Good news, but there needs to be proper oversight and assistance too, or the money is liable to aid only the corrupt, thus making their problem worse.

    Whatever the outcome, Kenya is undoubtedly more deserving of military aid, than Pakistan.

  6. somehistory says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    satan’s children learn their evil lessons well.

  7. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    Compulsion has only to do with making you believe in your heart what you are saying, not the words from your tongue. See the nuances of Islam?

    Making you profess the shahada is not “compulsion” in religion.

    Muhammad himself had no problem threatening to behead those who refused to profess Islam.
    ibn Hashim “Biography of the Apostle” pg 134 “Muhammad sent Khalid al-Walid to the tribe of the Haritha and told him ‘Call them to accept Islam before you fight them, if they refuse fight them.” They entered Islam by force. He (Khlaid) brought them to Muhammad (who said) ‘if you had not accepted Islam I would have cast your heads under your feet.'”

    Dr. Muhammad al-Buti “the Jurisprudence of Muhammad’s Biography”: “What is required of an infidel or one who confuses other gods with God, is to have his tongue surrender to the religion of God (Allah) and subdue himself to the prophethood of Muhammad. But his heartfelt belief is not required at the beginning. It will come later.”

  8. Lydia says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Because that is what muslims do, kill others for their faith.

    And that is what Christians do (real ones, like me), die for our faith.

    All are faithfully following the dictates of their faith.
    ( :

  9. James Stamulis says

    Aug 24, 2017 at 6:42 am

    Heh Obama doesn’t it just warm your heart the way Islam lives up to what you call the religion of peace?

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