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Congo: ‘They tried to force some Christians to convert to Islam’ — Muslims raid Christian villages, murder 20

Dec 2, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer 11 Comments

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)

“Jihadist Militants Slaughter Christians in Congo, Sources Say,” Morning Star News, December 1, 2020:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Suspected members of an insurgent jihadist group slaughtered 20 Christians in villages in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between Nov. 20 and Nov. 25, area sources said.

The Islamic State-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected in the attacks on villages in North Kivu Province, said a local clergyman who lost his family in an assault on Mayitike village, about 20 miles northwest of Beni town, on Nov. 20.

“They tried to force some of our Christians to convert to Islam,” the clergyman, whose name is withheld for security reasons, told a Morning Star News contact. “They also tried to force my wife and our four children to convert to Islam, but when they refused to convert, they shot my wife in the head while our four children were cut into pieces with a Somali sword.”

The source said he was away from his village the day of the attack and thus his life was spared.

The jihadist insurgents, who have been active in predominantly Christian, northeastern Congo for 20 years, accelerated attacks on civilians after the DRC army launched a large-scale offensive in October 2019. The clergyman said the rebel militants intend to establish an Islamist state ruled by sharia (Islamic law).

The Morning Star News contact who interviewed the clergyman in his home said she found people in Beni town in terror on Nov. 27.

“There was a throng of Christians flooding the streets in a helpless situation, as well as radical Muslim extremists surrounding five churches,” she said. “Ten girls had been raped and 15 girls abducted from the Anglican Church and Roman Catholic Church, with 14 Christians admitted to a hospital in critical condition with injuries to their heads, and others with fractured hands and legs due to the use of guns, machete, clubs, Somali swords and axes.”

Founded in the 1990s in western Uganda, the ADF is one of several insurgent groups operating in northeastern Congo. The U.S. Treasury Department in December 2019 imposed sanctions on ADF leaders for mass rape, torture and killings and other human rights abuses of civilians.

Villagers including displaced persons told Morning Star News that Islamic extremist militants in the past month have also attacked the villages of Kabumba, Mutwangano, Beni, Baeti, Kokola, Biangolo, Lisasa and Mutido. In that time more than 50 Christians who refused to recant their Christian faith were killed, especially women and children, the clergyman said….

The DRC’s population of 89.4 million people is nearly 92 percent Christian and only 1.7 percent Muslim, according to the Joshua Project.

Photo by MONUSCO Photos – Goma – North Kivu, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46293748

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  1. Carol says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 8:05 am

    “Si vis pacem, para bellum” is Latin for “If you want peace, prepare for war,” credited to Vegetius Renatus

    “Death smiles at us all, but only the brave smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius

    “Politeness has never defeated an existential threat.” — Chateau Heartiste

    “History is written by the victors, and it’s written in blood.” — Churchill

    “Qui audet adipiscitur!” is Latin for “Who dares, wins!” credited to the founder of the British SAS (i.e., Special Air Service), Sir David Stirling

    “The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.” — Robert Anton Wilson

    “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

    “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” ― Leon Trotsky

    “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — General George S. Patton

    “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare

    “Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.” — unknown

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    • Carol says

      Dec 2, 2020 at 8:07 am

      “Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight.

      Christianity has been saved in Europe, solely because the peoples of Europe have fought. If the peoples of Europe in the seventh and eighth centuries, and on up to and including the seventeenth century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over, the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would have been at this moment Mohammedan and the Christian religion would have been exterminated.

      Wherever the Mohammedans had complete sway, wherever the Christians had been unable to resist them by the sword, and Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressors.

      The Civilization of Europe, America, Canada, Australia, and NZ exists today only by virtue of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization; victories through the centuries from Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century. During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today, nobody can find in them any “social values” whatsoever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influences are concerned.

      There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, Canada, Australia, and NZ only because during those thousand years, the Christians of Europe have possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do — that is, to beat back the Moslem invaders.” — Teddy Roosevelt, former POTUS

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  2. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 8:31 am

    Nazis by any other name…

    Reply
  3. Palladini says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 9:38 am

    Islam- The religion of Peace – BULLSHIT!

    Reply
  4. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 9:39 am

    “Does Islam or does it not force people by the power of the sword to submit….? Yes!”
    Osama bin Laden

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  5. Johnny B says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 3:31 pm

    We’re forced to hear about racism, sexism, lgbtqsometingsomething…. 24/7. Even if most of us never experience any of those things in our daily life. 20 Christians executed by Muslims, just forget about it, that doesn’t matter 🙁

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    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2020 at 1:09 am

      It is true that all too few in the West ever hear about such atrocities.

      Reply
      • Halaku says

        Dec 3, 2020 at 10:38 am

        If at all they do, the headline will be something like ” 20 killed in Congo Clash” Or, “Dozens killed in Nigerian Riot”

        Reply
  6. James Lincoln says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    Johnny B,

    Sadly, it does not fit any narrative currently promulgated by any of the fake news sources…

    Reply
  7. Infidel says

    Dec 2, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    How are Muslims so brazen in sub-Saharan African countries like Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Mozambique… where they are just an asterisk in terms of a percentage of the population?

    Reply
  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 3, 2020 at 1:08 am

    Congo: ‘They tried to force some Christians to convert to Islam’ — Muslims raid Christian villages, murder 20
    ………….

    God, I hate Islam.

    Reply

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