ADF has the same beliefs and ideology as Hamas, the Islamic State, and myriad other jihad groups. No one seems to think this unity is worthy of notice or any concerted defensive action.
“Muslim Extremists Suspected of Killing Tourists, Beating Christian,” Morning Star News, October 20, 2023:
…In western Uganda’s massive Queen Elizabeth National Park, a Ugandan Christian tour guide, Eric Alyai, and a foreign married couple were shot to death on Tuesday (Oct. 17) by suspected Islamic terrorists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Kasese District, sources said.
Alyai, 40, British tourist David Barlow and his South African wife, 51-year-old Celia Barlow, were killed at 6:30 p.m. along the park’s Katwe Road between L. Nyamununka and Kabatooro, according to security agencies.
An area resident who witnessed that attack while fetching firewood told Morning Star News that she heard the sound of bullets and hid. When the Muslim extremists approached the tourists’ vehicle, they shouted, “We know you are the people who are supporting Christians in Uganda and coming in the name of tourists,” according to the resident, whose name is withheld for security reasons.
“Then and there they fired on them and then later burnt the vehicle to ashes,” the source told Morning Star News.
Alyai was known to take tourists to Christian-owned hotels in Kasese, which helped generate income for the local church, and he also took Christian tourists to churches in Kasese, sources said.
Authorities suspected ADF terrorists in the killing, according to security group Crisis24. Originally based in western Uganda, the ADF has operated in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province since the late 1990s.
The ADF is considered one of the most lethal of more than 120 armed groups in the eastern DRC. In 2019 the ADF split into two factions, with one merging into the Islamic State Central Africa Province. The U.S. government in 2021 designated the ADF as a foreign terrorist organization with links to the Islamic State….
T. Jefferson says
Why are these murderers called extremists or “ radicalized” when they should be called faithful?
Peacelover says
+
they’re afraid of admitting the truth
More Ham Ed says
Just three words:
A disarmed society.
.
.
.
And not enough ham.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
ADF? One thing I have noticed is that this new generation of jihadists take non-Islamic, but left-leaning Western names. Allied Democratic Forces in Uganda, Popular Front of India in India (which has no Hindus, and is committed to a shariah state in that country, and which is not popular w/ anyone except muslims!)
I hope a day comes when these groups – ADF, PFI are accused of shirk or whatever and find themselves head to head w/ the likes of Boko Haram, Lashkar-e-Toiba and so on just on the basis of what they named themselves 😈
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
There are dozens and dozens of islamic jihad terrorists groups.
From where I sit, they seem to be a lot more similar than they are different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jihadist_groups
icanseeclearlynow says
Morning Star News is like all other media when it comes to spinning and hiding the truth…..
‘Muslim Extremists Suspected Of Killing’… by slyly adding the word ‘extremists’ it leads people to conclude theres two streams of muslims when there aint