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Mozambique: Muslims murder at least 700 people and displace over 100,000 since 2017

Feb 24, 2020 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Imagine the international outcry if the roles were reversed, which would never and should never happen. But no one will take any particular notice of this.

“Islamic terrorism spreading in majority-Christian Mozambique; 700 dead, 100,000 displaced,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, February 21, 2020:

Over 100,000 people have been displaced and at least 700 have died in the majority-Christian country of Mozambique since 2017, as the spread of radical Islamic extremism in Africa is starting to plague the continent’s southeast region.

This month, the U.N.’s High Commission for Refugees said it is boosting its response in Mozambique’s northeastern Cabo Delgado province, an oil-rich coastal region on the Indian Ocean.

Although southeast Africa was once considered relatively peaceful compared to its counterparts in the north, there’s concern that the region is becoming a foothold for militants that appear to be aligned with the Islamic State.

The Institute for Security Studies, an Africa-based think tank, published a report last month stating that as many as 350 terror incidents have occurred in Mozambique since the local jihadi group Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jammah simultaneously attacked police and military bases in October 2017.

However, the UNHCR warns that the most recent weeks have proved to be the most “volatile period” as attacks are now spreading across most of Cabo Delgado’s 16 districts.

Cabo Delgado is one of the least developed regions in the country. According to UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic, hundreds of villages have been burned and abandoned because of the “indiscriminate campaign of terror.”

“Armed groups have been randomly targeting local villages and terrorizing the local population,” Mahecic said at a press briefing earlier this month in Geneva, Switzerland.  “Those fleeing speak of killings, maiming, and torture, burnt homes, destroyed crops and shops.”

Mahecic explained that there have also been reports of beheadings, kidnappings, and disappearances of women and children. Mahecic said the attackers, at times, warn locals when and where they will attack, causing a mad rush of residents to flee those areas….

According to ISS consultant Peter Fabricius, the insurgency morphed into a terror campaign directed mainly at unarmed civilians after it began with attacks on the military bases.

Fabricius reported in January that the death toll when including security personal, insurgents and civilians stands at over 600 since 2017. However, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders told AFP that at least 700 have been killed….

ASWJ is known locally as “Al-Shabaab” but is not believed to have any connection with the deadly Somalia-based terror group with the same name, according to AFP.

While ASWJ has not taken public credit for the attacks, the Islamic State terror network has claimed the responsibility of over two dozen attacks, according to ISS.

Last June, the Islamic State took credit for an attack on the Mozambique military by saying that the militants were “soldiers of the caliphate.” As reported by The Guardian at the time, the Islamic State claimed that Africa is a central component to its effort to create a global network of extremists.

“This raises questions about how IS and ASWJ are related,” Fabricius writes. “Is ASWJ the local affiliate of IS? Is IS simply claiming credit to boost its public stature, especially since the loss of face caused by the fall of its caliphate in Syria and Iraq?”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Mozambique Tagged With: Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jammah, Cabo Delgado


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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2020 at 9:03 am

    Thousands of African Christians are being murdered by Muslims every year and the world sees nothing. This is the racism of low expectations.

    • elee says

      Feb 24, 2020 at 10:50 am

      +1 with emphasis. First World will you sacrifice even the tiniest bit of your material comforts for the weak and undefended of Africa?

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Feb 25, 2020 at 8:22 pm

      huge +1 yet no cries of mass murder, racism, genocide, this is huge and the press is silent!

  2. Kenek says

    Feb 24, 2020 at 9:43 am

    Pious mozlems have murdered about 150,000 innocent people every year for the past 1400 years in the name of allah, the moon god. They have only increased in number. Liberals are just as concerned about this as they are about Stalins purges or Hitlers ovens. All the worst of humanity is revered by the hateful liberals/Demonrats.

  3. eee says

    Feb 24, 2020 at 10:52 am

    Read this and taste shame First World, they died on our watch.

  4. IslamKills says

    Feb 24, 2020 at 11:07 am

    Imagined if this was reversed….. Really?

    it has been “reversed”, and still no outcry.

    In fact, you care so little of humanity you even deny the holocaust.

    Gravenimage, go ahead and prove me wrong. Prove to me the “reversed” outcry.,

    if you can, I will convert to orthodox Christianity and curse Mohammed right here on the message board.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 24, 2020 at 10:46 pm

      The dishonestly named “IslamKills” wrote:

      Imagined if this was reversed….. Really?

      it has been “reversed”, and still no outcry.
      ………………………..

      Is “IslamKills” claiming that Infidels are slaughtering unbelievers in the name of their faith? Where would this be? Of course, “IslamKills” does not say.

      He also does not say why he is fine with Muslims butchering unbelievers in Mozambique–although I can imagine, Mass murdering unbelievers who have not submitted to Muslims is orthodox Islam. No other faith teaches this.

      More:

      In fact, you care so little of humanity you even deny the holocaust.
      ………………………..

      Is “IslamKills” referring to the Holocaust where around 6 million Jews were massacred by the Nazis? If so, Robert Spencer and other contributors to Jihad Watch have taken a stance against this atrocity many times. I have also done so myself on hundreds of occasions in the almost 15 years I have been posting here.

      In fact, the only people here who have condoned the horrors of the Holocaust are a handful of vicious Muslim and neo-Nazi trolls who post here on occasion.

      Or is “IslamKills” implying that some unnamed Infidels have slaughtered millions of Muslims in the name of their Islamophobic creed here and that we somehow haven’t noticed? Who knows?

      More:

      Gravenimage, go ahead and prove me wrong. Prove to me the “reversed” outcry.,
      ………………………..

      This is always a bad sign when apologists for Jihad start ranting about me on threads where I haven’t even posted yet…

      And I didn’t write this–Robert Spencer did. “IslamKills” needs to know how to read a byline.

      Certainly, on the few cases where there has been violence by Infidels against Muslims–targeted or not–there has indeed been a huge outcry, out of all proportion to the outcry against cases like this one, which receive hardly any coverage. This is quite obvious.

      More:

      if you can, I will convert to orthodox Christianity and curse Mohammed right here on the message board.
      ………………………..

      Well, this is just bizarre. While Robert Spencer is Orthodox Christian, I am not. Under some circumstances I would certainly be very flattered at being confused with Robert Spencer, but this is just odd. By the way, I don’t have a beard or wear glasses, either…

      Let’s just say that I don’t expect “IslamKills” to change his creed.

      And I would only expect someone who actually opposes the horrors of Jihad to curse the hideous war lord, caravan raider, pedophile, slaver, rapist, and mass murderer “Prophet” Muhammed–and this certainly does not include the vile “IslamKills”.

      I expect him to go on doing what he has always done here, and continue to spout apologia for the savagery of Islam–including the murders of these poor people in Mozambique. *Ugh*.

      • James Lincoln says

        Feb 25, 2020 at 5:20 am

        gravenimage,

        A wonderfully written, factual evidence-based takedown of “IslamKills”.

        Very doubtful that “IslamKills” has the mental capacity to understand this.

        IslamKills postings reflects a low IQ muslim / muslim apologist troll.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 25, 2020 at 8:54 pm

          Thank you, James–I agree.

      • Jeff Gonez says

        Feb 25, 2020 at 9:52 am

        It was inevitable that the barbaric muffinhead trolls would infiltrate here.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 25, 2020 at 9:00 pm

          At any given time we have a number of trolls here, Jeff.

          Ones like “IslamKills” are a particularly nasty subset because with their usernames they hope that unwary people will assume that they are actually Anti-Jihadists. Over ten years ago there was a notorious troll here using the name “Americana” who had similar aims.

  5. gravenimage says

    Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Mozambique: Muslims murder at least 700 people and displace over 100,000 since 2017
    …………………….

    *Hideous*, and yet most Westerners know nothing about this.

  6. WithPurpleAbandon says

    Feb 25, 2020 at 8:50 am

    Ever since Boko Haram started to rear its ugly head in Nigeria, Islamic fanaticism has grown exponentially continent-wide, it seems. Even in countries where you’d least expect it to turn up. A sign of the times we live in. A while ago with the Northern Mali Conflict, this all seemed confined to Saharan countries, mainly. But from Nigeria and Somalia (with al-Shabab) onwards, it’s clearly spreading to the Sub-Sahara and is rapidly making inroads into Central Africa and beyond. A country like DRC for instance wasn’t particularly known for ethnic strife on confessional grounds, but that too seems to have changed, as of late. Plus, there are sizeable minorities of Muslims in countries like Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

    On the other hand, majority-Christian countries in the West already get a full assault from jihadists, so you ‘d have to wonder why things would be any different in Africa ? I think it’s already becoming apparent that any country having to live with muslim minorities is going to see at lot more of this: muslims always want to feel as if they are living in a muslim-majority country, contrary to statistical demographics. And that’s all down to the typical arrogance of the Islamic ideology.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2020 at 9:03 pm

      Grimly true.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Feb 25, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    No not the loving Muslims. Why does this keep happening with this peaceful loving ISLAMIC religion?

    Maybe the ISLAMIC MUSLIMS are showing their true colors, as the RAPING, MURDERING, TERRORIST that they are. Make no mistake they intend to bring this loving religion to every country in the world.

  8. Sandra Russo says

    Feb 26, 2020 at 4:41 am

    The roles WERE REVERSED, when the Rohingyas were displaced from Myanmar, and the world was outraged. Where is the outrage now, when the reverse is happening in Africa? And globalists want to bring Africans to Europe. Why? Do they want them to murder Christians in Europe too?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 26, 2020 at 11:44 pm

      Good questions, Sandra.

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