“They were accusing him of refusing to become a Muslim and hence being an enemy propagating bad religion.”
Then they beheaded him and placed his head on his back.
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks.” (Qur’an 47:4)
“Muslim Extremists Kill Six Christians in Coastal Kenya,” Morning Star News, January 7, 2022:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Kenya, including suspected militants from Somalia, killed six Christians in southeastern Kenya between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Monday (Jan. 3), sources said.
Members and sympathizers of Somali militant group Al Shabaab were suspected of joining local Muslim extremists in attacks in Widho, Majembeni Mpeketoni, in coastal Kenya’s in Lamu County, area residents said.
The assailants, some dressed in Al Shabaab fatigues and others in Islamic attire, began by abducting a well-known Christian coconut tree seller, Francis Kaburi, forcing him down from one of his trees at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning (Jan. 2), said Joyce Wanjiru, the wife of one of the other slain Christians.
Her husband, Joseph Mwangi Maina, received a call from Kaburi at 1 a.m. on Monday (Jan. 3), saying that Muslims had abducted him, that his life was in danger and that they were holding three other Christians inside a shop belonging to John Murimi in Widho, she said. Murimi, Peter Maingi and Peter Musyoka had been meeting for prayer at the shop when the militants captured them.
“Then the call ended,” Wanjiru told Morning Star News. “The shop was then torched, and the three died inside there.”
At 2 a.m. the assailants arrived at Mwangi Maina’s house, his wife Wanjiru said.
“Kaburi called to my husband to get out of the house,” she said. “He then opened the door and went out.”
Speaking in the Somali language as well as in the Kiswahili common in Kenya, the assailants questioned her husband, Mwangi Maina, accusing him of refusing to return to Islam, she said. A non-Somali who had been raised a Christian in Kenya, Mwangi Maina converted to Islam seven years ago but returned to Christian faith two years later, she said.
“They were accusing him of refusing to become a Muslim and hence being an enemy propagating bad religion,” Wanjiru said. “Soon he was pleading with them not to kill him, and thereafter there was groaning and screaming from my husband. The children started crying very loudly, and the attackers forced us to come out of the house.”
Her children, ages 15, 12, 10 and 4, fled as the Muslim extremists set their house on fire, she said. Neighbors from Wanjiru’s tribe, Kikuyu, and her dialect arrived as the assailants left with Kaburi.
“My husband had just been beheaded and the head placed on his back,” Wanjiru told Morning Star News.
From there the assailants went to the house of Murimi, the Kenyan Christian not of Somali descent who had died in the fire set at his shop. Finding Murimi’s wife, Grace Wanjiru, and four children, ages 12, 10, 8 and 2, the assailants forced them out and set their house ablaze, sources said.
The attackers proceeded to the house of another non-Somali Christian, Maina Jigi. Area residents said that at about 2:30 a.m., the Muslim extremists set his house on fire, burning Jigi to death….
Somalis generally believe all Somalis are Muslims by birth and that any Somali who becomes a Christian can be charged with apostasy, punishable by death. Somalia’s constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any other religion, according to the U.S. State Department. It also requires that laws comply with sharia (Islamic law) principles, with no exceptions in application for non-Muslims.
Kenya ranked 49th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2021 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian; Somalia ranked 3rd.
Michael Copeland says
“Extremist”. What an unhelpful word.
As Robert Spencer has asked, Can you have an “extremist” piano-player?
The Morning Star News in Nairobi seem to be using this word as a cover word for “murderous”.
The UK government uses “extremist” to denote political opposition, with no connotation of murder:
““Extremism is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs…”
(UK “Prevent” strategy).
Islam’s book, the Koran, part of Islamic Law, instructs “Kill them wherever you find them”. A muslim who obeys this command is being observant. Yet somehow he is an “extremist”.
Cue Humpty Dumpty from Alice in Wonderland,
“When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
mortimer says
Well, they sure ain’t ‘moderate’ killers. No one in the media wants to be bombed by these same people, so wording does matter.
You and I know that jihad is not ‘extreme’, but a normative and canonical part of a Muslim’s life according to Sharia law.
Jihad is a compulsory, canonical duty for all Muslims.
Jihaad against the kuffar is of two types
https://archive.org/stream/Defense_of_the_Muslim_Lands/Defense_of_the_Muslim_Lands_djvu.txt – DEFENSE OF THE MUSLIM LANDS / The First Obligation After Iman By Dr. Abdullah Azzam by Dr. Abdullah Azzaam, PhD:
1)Offensive Jihaad (where the enemy is attacked in his own territory).
2) Where the Kuffar are not gathering to fight the Muslims. The fighting becomes Fard Kifaya with the minimum requirement of appointing believers to guard borders, and the sending of an army at least once a year to terrorize the enemies of Allah. It is a duty of upon the Imam to assemble and send out an army unit into the land of war once or twice every year. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the Muslim population to assist him, and if he does not send an army he is in sin.
And the Ulama have mentioned that this type of jihaad is for maintaining the payment of Jizya. The scholars of the principles of religion have also said: “Jihaad is Da’wah with a force, and is obligatory to perform with all available capabilities, until there remains only Muslims or people who submit to Islam.”
Michael Copeland says
Martyrs. Those Christians were killed for their faith. They are martyrs.
Islam, however, uses the word “martyr” to denote a muslim who “kills and is killed” (to obtain Allah’s promise of paradise in Koran 9:111), a very different phenomenon. Such a person is a self-killing murderer.
mortimer says
The vigilante Muslims who murdered an apostate are considered heroes.
Mohammed said, “So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
notnolib says
Barackkk and hubby Mike have ordered video of the event for date night. Barackkk enjoys fun videos from home. To them, they’re like cat videos on Reddit, and are known to give Mike a chubby.
OLD GUY says
Why do we the christians still recognize and support islam as a religion? It is apparent that Islam is nothing but a cover for a criminal dictatorship style of governance. What other religion in 2022 is slaughtering, raping and committing acts of violence on a daily basis against other religious groups? Islam is pure EVIL and a cover for the criminal power greedy leadership of the Muslim dictatorships.
Islamophobia is a cover up of Islam’s evil actions against mankind.