According to the site Christian Persecution:
About 30% of the population of Burkina Faso is Christian, with two-thirds of these being Roman Catholic. Like Christians in other African countries, the Christians of Burkina Faso are increasingly threatened: a previous report noted that “as many as 82 pastors, 1,145 Christians and 151 households have fled from violence in different locations in the Muslim-majority nation.”
Yet the persecution of Christians in Burkina Faso and elsewhere continues to be largely ignored by the international media and human rights operations.
The Washington Post has reported about Burkina Faso, stating that “Islamic militants have been singling out Christians for execution in a remarkably honest exposé of the situation.”
Post writer Danielle Paquette noted that jihadist death squads have been checking people’s necks for Christian symbols, killing anyone wearing a cross, crucifix, or some other Christian image.
“A spreading Islamist insurgency has transformed Burkina Faso from a peaceful country known for farming, a celebrated film festival and religious tolerance into a hotbed of extremism.” But the world remains mostly silent, and not only silent, but oblivious to the threat of the global jihad. Also, this is precisely why the West must fight Islamization, unless it intends free societies to become mirror images of Sharia states.
“WaPo: Islamist Militants ‘Targeting Christians’ in Burkina Faso,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, August 22, 2019:
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Islamic militants have been singling out Christians for execution in a remarkably honest exposé of the situation.
Post writer Danielle Paquette noted that jihadist death squads have been checking people’s necks for Christian symbols, killing anyone wearing a cross, crucifix, or some other Christian image.As Breitbart News reported last month, Burkina Faso Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré has publicly condemned the ongoing, targeted slaughter of Christians by Islamic radicals, warning it could lead to the elimination of a Christian presence in Burkina Faso.
“If this continues without anyone intervening, the result will be the elimination of the Christian presence in this area and — perhaps in the future —in the entire country,” Bishop Dabiré told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a Catholic organization providing assistance to persecuted Christians around the world
Since January 2019, there have been five major jihadist attacks on Christians in the country, ACN reported in July, the last of which happened in late June.
“It happened in the neighboring Diocese of Ouahigouya,” the bishop said. “The Islamists arrived and forced everyone to lie on the floor. Then they were registered, and four of them who were carrying crucifixes were killed for being Christians.”
After the massacre, the jihadists told the other villagers that if they did not convert to Islam, they would also be killed.
These targeted killings “followed attacks on churches in the West African nation that have left at least two dozen people dead since February,” Ms. Paquette stated in her Wednesday piece.
“A spreading Islamist insurgency has transformed Burkina Faso from a peaceful country known for farming, a celebrated film festival and religious tolerance into a hotbed of extremism,” she said…..
mortimer says
These Muslim bigots are merely following what their bigoted religious teaching requires them to do: SHOW HOSTILITY to non-Muslims. Their vicious bigotry is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. (Islam’s leading clerics say so below.)
Al Walaa wal Baraa is Islam’s required, obligatory, compulsory, ‘ESSENTIAL TEACHING’ of hatred and hostility to be directed against kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said:
“There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.” (W-B is ‘Islamic apartheid’)
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and hate the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
For more on Al Walaa wal Baraa, look here: http://westindanger.com/wb/walaa-baraa.html
Angemon says
They’d better not count on the Pope to save them…
Mario Alexis Portella says
I’m a Roman Catholic priest and I hate to admit it, but unless proven the contrary, you’re right!!!
GreekEmpress says
Father Portella,
Do a lot of the other priests and parishioners where you live share your opinion? We are Eastern Rite (Greek-Ruthenian) and a lot of us can’t fathom some of the things he says and does. I would be really interested in your opinion.
somehistory says
More and more moslims are feeling the invincibility in the slaughter of Christians. The “world” learns of it and either cheers or turns a deaf ear.
Jesus Christ said His disciples would be persecuted due to the hatred the “world” has for Him and His Name. This same hatred extends to His followers and moslims are acting on the hatred they feel. With increasing impunity.
CogitoErgoSum says
I would think that most Muslims would as be as outraged by this story as anyone else. I see no indication that the murdered Christians were offered the opportunity to convert to Islam or, in refusing that, being given the opportunity to pay the Jizya in return for being allowed to live as Christians. These Muslims in Burkina Faso are not acting in accordance with the Quran or, if they are, it’s not being reported by the press. All Muslims should be outraged by this. Why aren’t Muslims everywhere speaking out? They should be letting the world know about the true beliefs of Islam. Oh, wait ………, these guys aren’t really Muslims. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
revereridesagain says
If I believed in hell I would wish the Dems to it directly for demanding millions of illegal future voters be allowed to swarm our borders while not only ignoring these poor, innocent victims of that vicious religion with which they have made common cause but accusing everyone who calls attention to their plight a racist or phobe. As somehistory writes, they are allowing these monsters to acquire a feeling of invincibility — because they will insist that this means Allah must will it, of course.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
From what I’ve seen personally, most or all Nigerians brought into the US as legal immigrants are Moslems. They must’ve come here as refugees seeking asylum. From themselves.
gravenimage says
Burkina Faso: Muslims targeting Christians, killing anyone wearing a cross, crucifix, or some other Christian image
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Horrifying–these poor Christians.
Muslims are doing this all over Africa and the Middle East.
Battle says
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.