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Philippines: Muslims murder 20, injure 111 with bombs in cathedral during Sunday Mass

Jan 27, 2019 7:44 am By Robert Spencer

A glimpse into the future of Europe and the United States.

“20 Dead as Bombs Target Sunday Mass in Philippine Cathedral,” Associated Press, January 27, 2019:

Jolo, Philippines (AP) — Two bombs minutes apart tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, killing at least 20 people and wounding 111 others during a Sunday Mass, officials said.

Witnesses said the first blast inside the Jolo cathedral in the provincial capital sent churchgoers, some of them wounded, to stampede out of the main door. Army troops and police posted outside were rushing in when the second bomb went off about one minute later near the main entrance, causing more deaths and injuries. The military was checking a report that the second explosive device may have been attached to a parked motorcycle.

The initial explosion scattered the wooden pews inside the main hall and blasted window glass panels, and the second bomb hurled human remains and debris across a town square fronting the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, witnesses said. Cellphone signal was cut off in the first hours after the attack. The witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press refused to give their names or were busy at the scene of the blasts.

Police said at least 20 people died and 111 were wounded, correcting an earlier toll due to double counting. The fatalities included 15 civilians and five troops. Among the wounded were 17 troops, two police, two coast guard and 90 civilians….

Jolo island has long been troubled by the presence of Abu Sayyaf militants, who are blacklisted by the United States and the Philippines as a terrorist organization because of years of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings. A Catholic bishop, Benjamin de Jesus, was gunned down by suspected militants outside the cathedral in 1997.

No one has immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attack.

It came nearly a week after minority Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation endorsed a new autonomous region in the southern Philippines in hopes of ending nearly five decades of a separatist rebellion that has left 150,000 people dead. Although most of the Muslim areas approved the autonomy deal, voters in Sulu province, where Jolo is located, rejected it. The province is home to a rival rebel faction that’s opposed to the deal as well as smaller militant cells that not part of any peace process….

Aside from the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group, other militant groups in Sulu include a small band of young jihadis aligned with the Islamic State group, which has also carried out assaults, including ransom kidnappings and beheadings.

Abu Sayyaf militants are still holding at least five hostages — a Dutch national, two Malaysians, an Indonesian and a Filipino — in their jungle bases mostly near Sulu’s Patikul town, not far from Jolo….

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  1. christianblood says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 8:24 am

    The Pope, the satanic Hollywood and the West, the enablers of Islamists must be celebrating this, big time!

    More Oscars to Al-Qaeda please:

    • Joseph says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 3:36 pm

      Email maxim Bernier maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca
      I do every day with Islamic terror attacks, rapes, violence etc
      Do the same every day
      Tell him as I do to BAN ISLAM
      I’m from Quebec and I email; info@lacaq.org
      I do the same with them
      I also told CAQ if you ban Islam from Quebec I’ll vote to separate from Canada

      • christianblood says

        Jan 27, 2019 at 11:16 pm

        Joseph posted

        (..I also told CAQ if you ban Islam from Quebec I’ll vote to separate from Canada..)

        You are a good man, Joseph! Keep up the good work!

      • ninetyninepct says

        Jan 28, 2019 at 11:35 am

        Not every day, Joseph. He is very aware of migration and Liberal immigration failures. Your mails could get blocked when you send too much. Be respectful, not radical.

        Oh, another one from Joseph again. Delete.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 8:34 pm

      Note that christianblood has *nothing* critical to say about this mass murder of Christians in the Philippines. But he is still enraged over this awards show.

      Recall that christianblood has said many times that he wants to see the West conquered by Islam.

      • Baucent says

        Jan 28, 2019 at 7:13 am

        Ignore the guy, he’s a Putin troll, and actually cares nothing for Christians anywhere. Certainly he’s not bothered by the attack in Jolo.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 10:08 pm

          Certainly seems like it, Baucent.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 8:41 am

    Fight and kill the unbelievers until Islam is the only governance.
    Ring a bell? Koran 8:39

    • mortimer says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 9:25 am

      Yes, MC. Islam is a DEEN (governance … or in modern parlance an ‘ideology’). When most Western people finally understand this, half our work is done … the other half is to debunk the ideology and STOP PAYING THE ISLAMIC DICTATORSHIPS that are funding it.

      We should have no trade with Islamic countries that are exporting jihad.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 9:21 am

    That HUMMING SOUND is Pope Frank HUMMING LOUDLY with his fingers in his ears, so that he won’t hear that MUSLIM TERRORISTS have ATTACKED and MURDERED MANY ROMAN CATHOLICS.

    No, the Dhimmi Pope can’t hear you.

    • Rufolino says

      Jan 28, 2019 at 4:10 am

      And he doesn’t WANT to hear you !

  4. WPM says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 9:24 am

    The current leader of the Philippines was trying to appeasing the Moslems there with the idea they could have their own separate nation . It works the same as Israel offering a separate nation at least three time in 70 years to the Moslem separates there the “Fakestians” .The Jihadist never want just half the loaf to share with “the worst of people” Christians and Jews ,they want the whole loaf .Islam will have peace with other people non-believers when the other people are dead or enslaved. As far as Christianblood idea that the current leaders of the Philippines are in bed with “Hollywood” or even overly friendly terms with the west ,the current leader has a shoot to kill on anyone seen involved with drugs, has kill many political leaders who opposed him ,given a cold shoulder to America leader,s advice closing many American military bases there. The Jihadist hate all Christians including Russian and Greek Catholic churches ,you are the one here on this web site celebrating and cheering on Jihadist attacks on the west .If the western Europe , North America, and large parts of Asia fall under the Sharia law what makes you think your “mother Russian” your “only true Christian nation” in your eyes will be not also be destroyed ?They the Jihadist hate you as much as they hate us , the current Pope is a fool ,so are many western leaders ,so is the current Russian leader who is putting many Moslems in key position in his military, granting special Sharia laws to be passed in Moslem majority form USSR states to be run by puppet dictators overly friendly to current Russian leaders. The worlds largest Mosque is being build is Moscow do you think it might have better attendance then the mostly empty churches attended on Sundays in Moscow at this time?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 8:37 pm

      Good post, WPM. And you are right about Duterte–he is murderously “tough” on drug addicts, but regularly appeases Islam.

  5. christianblood says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 9:58 am

    WPM

    When I talk about enablers of islamists, that is not about Philippine leaders it is about the West that are the real enblers of islamists, including islamist jihadist all across the world! The West hates Christians and love and support islamists! Please watch the Arab scholar below who tried to donate his books about political islam to Canadian libraries. They rejected his books, called them ‘islamo-phobic’ and called him an islamo-phobe. That is what I am talking about and this is not just a few people here and there that are doing this, The whole damn Western world, including the Pope, the Vatican, the media, academia and the political establishment elites are Anti-Christ to the core and openly pro-islamist! Watch the the clip below:

    https://www.memri.org/reports/egyptian-canadian-writer-said-shoaib-western-imams-who-praise-islamic-caliphate-are

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 9:17 pm

      christianblood

      WPM

      When I talk about enablers of islamists, that is not about Philippine leaders it is about the West
      ………………………….

      This is true. christianblood does not care how much Russia, or China, or the Philippines suck up to Islam–in fact, he most often praises it. But he *hates* the free West.

      And, as I’ve noted, he actually says that he wants to see the West conquered by Islam. He has even demanded that God allow this to happen soon. He can’t wait.

      • christianblood says

        Jan 27, 2019 at 11:18 pm

        gravenimage

        You are right, Graven! Can’t wait!

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 27, 2019 at 11:26 pm

          Now why would this be, if christianblood were a real Anti-Jihadist?

          Any decent person–like the Anti-Jihadists here–want the West to wise up, and work to make that happen.

          He might even want to see us conquered by someone else–Russia, say, or China. Ugly, but at least not Islamophilic.

          But instead, Christianblood wants to see the most powerful non-Muslim block in the world conquered by Islam. When I have pointed out that even if he does not care about Westerners–obviously–that this would also hurt Russians and all other Infidels in the world, he has said that he does not care.

          *Very* troubling.

        • Baucent says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 7:16 am

          Christianblood is a false brother as mentioned in the New Testament. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. He may even be a muslim.

        • WPM says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 7:59 am

          He thinks they the Jihadist will not attack and destroy Russia after they conquered much of the free in his worlds antichristian world of the west. They the Jihadist hate Russian non-Moslem people as much as they hate Roman Catholic in the Philippines ,atheist in Germany, Hindus in India, Buddhist in southeast Asia and North American agnostics. I do not see other people from the west here cheering online posts here about Jihadist attacks in Russia ,I think murdering innocent people because they are not Moslem or the “wrong” kind of Moslem is a an insult to God. I think the present leaders of the west are very flawed in their policies in dealing with Saudi Arabia ,Jihadist ,Islam immigration ,and Jihadist of money, power and influence in the west. I think the current Pope is a fool of the first order, You Christianblood do not see any problems with Russia appeasing Islamics to further trouble in the “decadent West .You are very anti-Semitic blaming the “joos’ for backing Jihadist groups world wide with no evidence .You defend Shiite Islam Sharia over Western countries, do you think if the west fell under Sharia they would let Russia flourish in peace ?Jihadist attacks in Russia, America, Philippines,Europe effect everyone it is all part and parcel of Islam ruling the world. Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam both have the same murdering, slaving ,child abusing, raping, supremist ,stink on them world leaders who partners with either one are not looking in the long term of protecting their own people. The leaders today of the nonIslamic world both in the west and the east are not looking at the long game of Islam world rule.

        • christianblood says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 10:41 am

          WPM & Baucent

          The West and Islam are allies! They both hate Christians and want them dead! I hate them both! Both are pure evil!

        • WPM says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 11:04 am

          What does this youtube clip have to do with the Philippines leadership appeasing Jihadist, (this clip is about Canada leadership appeasement which I also agree is wrong}what does this youtube clip have to do with Russian leadership letting the biggest Mosque in the world being built in Moscow. What is the difference between Shiite Sharia law being enforced murdering ,raping ,killing enslaving unbelievers ,and Sunni Sharia law being enforced ,murdering, raping ,enslaving unbelievers??How is this clip related to your accusations the both Israel and America together created ISIS and other Jihadist groups ??Last time I check the Philippines is not consider a “western country” or in lock step with all Americas foreign policies ?If the West goes full blown Sharia what makes you think the Shiite Jihadist will stay warm and friendly to you only “truly Christian Country on earth “Russia? What about jihadist attacks that have happen in Russian in the last 20 years that have increased? What about former USSR nations that are on their way with full blown Sharia law being the law of their land?

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 10:17 pm

          WPM wrote:

          He thinks they the Jihadist will not attack and destroy Russia after they conquered much of the free in his worlds antichristian world of the west.
          ………………

          True, WPM. christianblood regularly links to a site (The Saker) where Muslims suck up to Russians, telling them that they are the “real” Christians–unlike those decadent Westerners–and that Muslims respect them and will always consider then allies.

          Not just ugly stuff, but also oddly naive.

  6. tedh754 says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 11:17 am

    They were obviously angry at the foreign policy of the Philippine government.

    • Georg says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 12:52 pm

      Yea, some might even be underemployed or been denied a prayer space near vending machines.

  7. Ade Fegan says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    Merciful ???????????

    • Georg says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 12:55 pm

      When Mein Koran uses words such as “merciful” it is only referring to a bigoted god currying favor on his bigoted adherents. Leftists probably know this, for the most part, but pretend not to because the prospect of this death cult destroying decent governance and people is just too enticing.

  8. PRCS says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    “The head of the world’s largest body of Muslim-majority countries has strongly condemned the bombing of a Catholic church in the Philippines that killed 20 people and wounded nearly a dozen.

    The general secretary of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Yousef Al-Othaimeen has also expressed his “deep indignation” at Sunday’s terrorist attack.

    He says the OIC firmly rejects all forms of violence, extremism and terrorism, whatever their sources or motives.”

    But, he doesn’t speak for all Muslims and his assertion simply does not comport with Islam’s texts and traditions.

    Qur’an 8:39
    Sahih International: And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease – then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.

    And, of course, he did not provide his definition of “extremism”.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 9:33 pm

      Yeah, what crap from the OIC. They regularly try to water down any defense against Jihad:

      https://www.albawaba.com/news/oic-counter-terrorism-measures-need-be-line-humanitarian-law-972844

  9. somehistory says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 2:35 pm

    Terrorism: Harm and threats to civilians to force governments to change policy.
    moslim terrorism: harm and threats to everyone to force everyone to change and embrace islam and bow down to their beast and serve satan the devil as “god.”

    Of course, moslims are all mentally ill or they wouldn’t be misbehaving. (not being serious here).
    moslims are never satisfied, but unceasingly seek to shed the blood of Christians, Jews and others as a way to show how superior they believe themselves to be. Believing as they do that shedding innocent blood is the way to be with the mass murdering, raper of children, lying slimy creep and son of satan.

  10. Eur says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Oh my god. Muslims are monsters. The Philippines should be divided into two parts and ban Islam in the north. This is the future that awaits us in the West

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2019 at 9:36 pm

      Dear Eur, I don’t think that Dar-al-Harb should allow Jihad terror to force them to cede land to Islam. This is, in fact, what Jihad terror is for.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    Philippines: Muslims murder 20, injure 111 with bombs in cathedral during Sunday Mass
    ……………….

    Just horrifying.

  12. Lydia Church says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    Terrible!!!

  13. Marigold says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 3:41 am

    I heard on ABC that ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Church in the Philipines..They also said Pope Francis had condemned the attack.When I think of how I can still go to Mass in peace and safety I realise how heroic these gentle people are for daring to remain faithful to their Roman Catholic faith by regular Mass attendance.This is especially so in a province noted for its Islamic militancy.I know many Philipinos amongst my acquaintances and have always found them to be a lovely, generous,Christian people.My heart goes out to them!

  14. Baucent says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 7:22 am

    Apparently there are only 2,000-3,000 brave Christians living on Jolo Island, and 440,000 muslims and it’s the base for the Abu Sayyaf terrorists. So this attack in killed and wounded has effected nearly 5% of the Christian population which is horrific.

  15. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 7:34 am

    The Philippines military should surprise raid and search – with overwhelming force – *every* known mosque in Jolo city and surrounds. Search those bunkers – those foci of jihad – from attic to basement, and all associated premises. Find explosives? drugs? bloodstains? contraband? mysterious stashes of cash? *anything* indicating illegal, criminal or outright military / jihad/ terrorist activity? – arrest the imam and all other head honchoes, give them the third-degree, and raze the mosque to the ground.

    If the muslims then, screaming ‘victim’ and ‘revenge’ attack another church *anywhere* in the Philippines.. raid and raze *more* mosques.

    And rescind all previoius concessions, deals, agreements, etc, made with Muslims. Because – in light of the precedent set by the Treaty of Hudaybiyya and the the fact that the core texts of Islam forbid forbid all permanent friendship/ alliance with Infidels, approving only temporary and expedient false ‘friendship’ – NO deal made with Muslims can or should be relied upon. Best not to make any deals. Make no concessions. Give the mohammedan mobsters NOTHING.

    • JM says

      Jan 28, 2019 at 9:22 am

      I agree entirely. There can be no compromise with the evil that is Islamic ideology, which the West should be stopping from spreading, not encouraging. Otherwise, there will be more and more violence and bloodshed as dar al islam encroaches on and takes over dar al harb lands. It is a war. How is it that so few people in the West understand this?

  16. Rafael says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 9:03 am

    If it wasn’t for the Spaniards that arrived to the Philippines in 1535 when Islam was moving into this archipelago and stopped the muslim advance and made the Philippines the only catholic country in south east Asia Islam would be at the gates of Tokio nowadays.
    The Spaniards did a great job for the West expelling islam from their homeland, leading the Lepanto defeat of the Otomans and coping with islam in South East Asia before it was too late for the philippinos.
    God Bless Spain and shame to the coward Pope Francisco

  17. No Muzzies Here says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 11:48 am

    There’s reality, and then there’s TV news. This murder perpetrated by Muslims was presented on my local TV as “a bomb blew up in a church.” We were told that it was unknown who was responsible.

    The ignorant viewer would remember that, think that it was an accident, and never find out that it was a deliberate bombing by Muslims.

  18. poor defence says

    Jan 28, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    I don’t understand why Duterte doesn’t send in the military to sort out these Islamic terrorists. He needs to protect the peace-loving Christian Philippinos.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 31, 2019 at 12:01 am

      Unfortunately, he regularly appeases Muslims, even palling around with Jihadists.

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