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Burkina Faso: Muslims enter village, start hunting for Christians, murder four Christians for wearing crosses

Jul 17, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“And their saying, ‘Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.’ And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but another was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.” (Qur’an 4:157)

“The Jews say, “Ezra is the son of Allah”; and the Christians say, “The Messiah is the son of Allah.” That is their statement from their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved. May Allah destroy them; how they are deluded!” (Qur’an 9:30)

“Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people and remove the fury in the believers’ hearts. And Allah turns in forgiveness to whom He wills; and Allah is Knowing and Wise.” (Qur’an 9:14-15)

“All 4 wore crosses—new Burkina Faso attack leaves believers dead,” by Lindy Lowry, Open Doors USA, July 11, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

They had just gathered to share stories and the happenings of the day—like West African communities often do in the evenings–when strangers entered their village in northern Burkina Faso. Before the group left, they had killed four believers and had set fire to the shop of one of the Christians they executed.

Our field is reporting that on Thursday, June 27, unidentified armed individuals entered the village of Bani (about six miles from the town of Bourzanga), looking for Christians. According to testimonies gathered from survivors, the militants told everyone to lie down and proceeded to look for Christians by asking for first names or looking for anyone wearing Christian insignia (like crosses).

The deadly search yielded four men: David Zoungrana, his younger brother Philippe, Theophile Ouedraogo and Ernest Kassoaga. They were all wearing crosses. Contacts on the ground tell us that when they saw crosses, the assailants singled them out. All four were taken aside and executed.

At this stage, we don’t know their ages or anything about the families David, Philippe, Theophile and Ernest left behind. Just that they followed Jesus—and their faith was part of them. They weren’t afraid to make a public statement of their belief in an area known internationally for its display of seven adobe mosques–six of which are built at the top of Bani’s main hill.

Before the terrorists left the village, they torched the shop that belonged to Zoungrana. Then they moved on to another village, Pougrenoma, also in the Bourzanga region. There, they warned residents against calling in any government officials or military forces, indicating they would return. They also told Christians to convert or risk execution.

New Burkina Faso attack brings death toll to 27

The details of the latest attack are eerily similar to the onslaught of killings targeting Christians and churches in Burkina Faso this year. These latest murders bring the death toll of Christians killed in attacks since February to 27. In several attacks, including this one, the armed terrorists challenged Christians to convert or die….

Photo by Adam Jones, Ph.D. – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22141163

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Filed Under: Burkina Faso, Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Bani, Bourzanga, David Zoungrana, Ernest Kassoaga, Philippe Zoungrana, Theophile Ouedraogo


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  1. Jaladhi says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 11:12 am

    This is true Islam and Muslims!! They only believe in killing, raping, looting, invading… and many of these guys are given, visa, asylum to “improve” diversity in our country!! Hold on ..the future is very bright thanks to the liberals! Disgusting!!

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 3:22 pm

      “Kill them wherever you find them” is the instruction in the Koran (2:191, 9:5).

      As Walid Shoebat asks, “What part of “Kill” does the West not understand?”

      • Christianblood says

        Jul 17, 2019 at 7:14 pm

        Because of the teachings of the hateful supremacist islamic beliefs, muslims are crazily self-righteous and spiritually and morally blind. Islam has totally decimated the muslim’s self-awareness and because of it, most muslims have no or very little self-awareness. There is no golden rule in islam, no love for humanity in islam and no righteousness or decency or mercy in islam. Islam teaches, promotes, commands and authorizes hate, beheading, stoning, religious genocide, sexual slavery, child marriage, terrorism, discrimination, religious supremacism, violent jihadist activities and hateful warmongering. Islam is an evil, satanic cult full of hatred, ignorance, spiritual darkness, violence, crucifixions, burning-people-alive, amputations, stoning, beheading, flogging pple to death, suicide-bombing, wickedness, mass murder, honor-killing, throwing homosexuals off high buildings, barbarism, cruelty, extreme brutality, wickedness, supremacism, bloodshed, savagery, assassinations, wife-beating, instant divorces, false beliefs, demonic practices, cruel halal slaughter, female genital mutilation, jealousy and death. islam and those who practice its evil, satanic teachings are the purest forms of evil on planet Earth!

        • Angemon says

          Jul 18, 2019 at 4:14 pm

          “Because of the teachings of the hateful supremacist islamic beliefs, muslims are crazily self-righteous and spiritually and morally blind. Islam has totally decimated the muslim’s self-awareness and because of it, most muslims have no or very little self-awareness. ”

          Including your precious little shias in your precious little Iran.

    • Lydia Church says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 8:03 pm

      This is why the koran is false and the Bible is true… and it’s NOT the same God!

      And YES, Jesus DID die for our sins, there was no substitution for the substitutionary atonement.

      And muslims will be muslims… as we know…

  2. mortimer says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 11:26 am

    Imagine the outcry from the godless Leftard journalists if four Muslims were killed for wearing a hadj cap or a head scarf. We would never hear the end of it.

    But when Christians are killed by Muslims for wearing a cross around their neck, the media suddenly go silent.

    Silence means APPROVAL.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 3:50 pm

      Silence means APPROVAL.
      —
      worse yet, the very profession of those in the media – journalism – means that their silence is professional failure at best, propaganda and lies at worst. and today, my default position on the media is that they are only lying when their mouths are open, or their articles are published.

      +1

  3. David Behar says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 11:44 am

    The US should stop all payments to the government, until the terrorists have been eradicated.

  4. CRUSADER says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 11:59 am

    Save The Persecuted Christians:

    https://savethepersecutedchristians.org

    + + + Wear The Cross Wherever + + +

    • Christianblood says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 7:13 pm

      CRUSADER

      I always have a huge Orthodox Cross on me, always!

    • Lydia Church says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 8:04 pm

      Everywhere!

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    Mohammedans can tell you where Mohammed is buried.
    They cannot tell you where Issa is buried.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 3:37 pm

      Isn’t Mohamhead buried in a wall near the Mecca mosque
      — a stone’s throw from the Ka’aba meteorite?

      Isn’t it correct that stones are to be thrown at the Shaytan
      shadow formed on that same wall?

      • CRUSADER says

        Jul 17, 2019 at 3:43 pm

        Don’t you get the sense that this Ka’aba cube is merely
        a copy of the Judeo conceptions about Abraham and Ishmael
        and that the Arab just wanted something divine they could borrow
        for their own use, as if that would make them spiritually connected?
        — as if that would make them righteously holy as a people?

        Golden Door opened only twice a year.
        Tent covering as if it were a tabernacle.

        What do the four corners which they circle round like automatons
        really represent? (Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni, Black Stone)

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 9:48 pm

      Muslims believe that Isa is still alive somewhere. Remember, Allah saved Isa from death on the cross . The Muslims believe Isa will someday return and abolish the Jizya so that on that day all the Christians and Jews will have only two choices: conversion (or reversion) to Islam or death. It looks as if these Muslims in Burkina Faso have just decided to forget about the Jizya and go ahead with the killing before Isa has a chance to do his job.

      • CRUSADER says

        Jul 17, 2019 at 10:34 pm

        Isa is not Christ.

        Isa is just a person the Muslims propagandize as Jesus.
        Their “Isa” is supposedly the one with the proper message
        — that of Islam. And their “Isa” is to slay Christians when the
        End Times come.

        This is stealing, then distorting, then slandering, then misleading,
        and finally, blaspheming. Islam stems from Lucifer/Shaytan.

        Know the tree by its fruit!

  6. Angemon says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    Another day, another islamic atrocity in a 3rd-World country… 🙁

  7. Martel Sobieski says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    SELECTING NON-MUSLIMS FOR SLAUGHTER is a Sunna of Muhammad. From Sahih Bukhari, we have a whole chapter devoted to documenting that Muhammad would halt planned attacks on villages IF HE HEARD THE ADHAN. The TITLE of the chapter in Bukhari is very important; it tells us the fiqh or the reason why a certain hadith is placed where it is.

    https://sunnah.com/bukhari/10/8

    (6) CHAPTER: TO SUSPEND FIGHTING ON HEARING THE ADHAN (Muslim call to prayer)

    Anas bin Malik said, “Whenever the Prophet went out with us to fight (in Allah’s cause) against any nation, he never allowed us to attack till morning and he would wait and see: IF HE HEARD ADHAN HE WOULD POSTPONE THE ATTACK AND IF HE DID NOT HEAR ADHAN HE WOULD ATTACK THEM.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 8:38 pm

      Love the moniker: MARTEL —- SOBIESKI

      732 AD thru 1683 AD ~ what a span of heroism!!!

  8. Jack says

    Jul 18, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    Islam is a “false religion.” With deference to my Muslim friends, Islam is not peaceful. The history of Muslim aggression, violence or force are manifest. The Battle of Tours (10 October 732) also called the Battle of Poitiers, Charles “The Hammer” Martel
    Siege of Vienna in 1529 (September 27 – October 15)
    The Battle of Vienna 11-12 September 1683
    Spain expelled the Moriscos/Muslims by birth but converted to Christianity by force or by voluntary act, 1609-1614 and then continuing to 1727
    And let’s not forget how the Turkish Muslims perpetrated the genocide of 1.5 million Armenian Christians starting in 1915?
    And let’s remember all the atrocities perpetrated by Muslims in recent times such as The World Trade Center Towers massacre: During the September 11 attacks of 2001, 2,996 people were killed (including the 19 hijackers) and more than 6,000 others injured. These immediate deaths included 265 on the four planes (including the terrorists), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon.
    And let us remember all the terror and murder spread and perpetrated by Muslims in Europe. And now we add to the list the 290 or so Christians who were murdered in Sri Lanka.
    And then there is the Indonesian Muslim mass murdering of Christians in East Timor.
    Oh, and lets no forget the Muslims who are perpetrating terror in Philippines.
    Oh, and let’s not forget the Weigers or Uighurs that have caused violence in China.
    Just check out the history of Muslim atrocities, see the List of Islamist Terrorist Attacks.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks

    Make no mistake, Islam is a virulent “cancer” and it is tragic how so many are deceived and follow the cult of Muhammad; the crusader Muslims are a plague on humanity. As is common with diseases, banishments and quarantines work. Maybe the time has come.]

  9. Linda Rivera says

    Jul 18, 2019 at 3:28 pm

    Coming soon to your village, your town, your city, your nation, massively imported by TRAITOR Western leaders.

  10. dlbrand says

    Jul 18, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    “Remember … them which suffer adversity,” as though it were you yourself the onc suffering in that body, “as being yourself also in the body.” (Hebrews 13:3.)

    They had stinging tails like scorpions,
    and their power to hurt, given to them …
    was in their tails.

    Their King is the Prince of the bottomless pit
    Whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon,
    And in Greek, Apollyon
    [and in English, the Destroyer].

    …………………………………………….

    Then a Great pageant appeared in heaven ….
    I saw a woman clothed with the sun,
    with the moon beneath her feet….

    Suddenly a red Dragon appeared….

    Then there was war in heaven; Michael and the angels under his command fought the Dragon

    and his host of fallen angels….This great Dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil,
    or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world….

    ………………………………………………….

    furious [this] Dragon set out to attack the rest of her children—
    all who were keeping God’s commandments and confessing that they belong to Jesus….

    (The Revelation, Living Bible Paraphrased, Tyndale, 11th printing, 1972;
    Chapter 9:vv: 10 – 11; 12: 1, 3, 7, 9, 17 respectively)

    “‘Strike above the necks;—meaning the necks. ‘Strike them in every fingertip’—hand and leg. ‘That is because they were hostile to God and His prophet,’” that there, the basic tenet of Islam concerning all who did/do the same actions – show hostility to “God and His prophet.” (Al- Waqidi, Routledge, P. 67.)

    And how were they hostile; what actions did “God” and “his prophet” count as hostility to that alleged prophet?

    “They disbelieved in God and repudiated His prophet. “ (Ibid.)

    Therefore, as Watt relates, as touched on above, “After the conquest of Mecca and the battle of Hunayn,” when Muhammad met hard resistance in the men of Tabuk, Muhammad’s policy concerning Christians changed. (M.Watt. Muhammad at Medina, Oxford, P. 319.)

    Conveniently, when it was clear many of the Christians were refusing to embrace Islam, thus, “ A revelation came commanding war on them until they submitted.” (Ibid.)

    From thenceforward, “Fight against those who do not … practice the religion of truth, of those who were given the Book, until they pay the tribute (jizyah) off-hand, being subdued,” the standard policy of Muhammad concerning Christians. (ibid.)

    “The passage as a whole,” provides Watt, “marks the transition to a policy of hostility to the Christians.” (Ibid.)

    (http://www.debibrand.org/)

  11. Marigold says

    Jul 19, 2019 at 3:53 am

    How many TV viewers in the West has heard of Bukina Faso? Hardly any and they are not likely to with the sparsest of coverage on Christian persecution by all the MSM outlets.They were martyrs giving witness to their Christian faith by wearing crosses round their necks which the Father in his mercy and goodness assures them of a place in Heaven.

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