Muslims slit the throats of Christian students

Christian Children are Slaughtered

• The world is silent as Muslim terrorists slaughter Christian children in a Nigerian school.
• Note, wars cost money and the Islamic terrorists are financed by wealthy Middle East Arabs.  

Islamic militants have set fire to a locked dormitory at a school in northern Nigeria, then shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape through windows during a pre-dawn attack Tuesday. At least 58 students were killed, including many who were burned alive.

They "slaughtered them like sheep" with machetes, and gunned down those who ran away, said one teacher, Adamu Garba.
 

Soldiers guarding a checkpoint near the coed government school were mysteriously withdrawn hours before it was targeted by the militants, said the spokesman for the governor of northeastern Yobe state reports the UK Telegraph.

 

Female students were spared in the attack, said the spokesman, Abdullahi Bego, though girls and women have been abducted in the past by militants of the Boko Haram movement, whose name means "Western education is forbidden."
 

This time, the insurgents went to the female dormitories and told the young women to go home, get married and abandon the Western education they said is anathema to Islam, Bego said. All of the dead were teenage boys or young men.

Local officials buried the bodies of 29 victims and another 29 were taken to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, according to the hospital records and an Associated Press reporter who went to the mortuary. Most of the victims appeared to be between 15 and 20 years old, Bego said.

Eleven wounded survivors of the attack were being treated at the hospital.

Touring the smoldering ruins on Tuesday at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam decried the federal government's failure to protect the population.

"It is unfortunate that our children in schools are dying from lack of adequate protection from the federal government," Mr Gaidam told reporters.

He called on President Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more troops to the region.

Mr Jonathan, who rarely comments on individual attacks, said in a statement that he felt "immense sadness and anguish" by the loss of life at the school, and vowed that the military would "continue to prosecute the war against terror with full vigor, diligence and determination."

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The Religion of Peace™

Muslims Demolish Church in Anti-Christian Campaign



Police watch as Sudanese Church of Christ building in Omdurman is demolished.

(Morning Star News)

The Religion of Peace™

And Islamo-Fascist state sponsored terrorism against

Christians goes on and on. 

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities on Monday (Feb. 17) demolished a church building in Omdurman without prior notice, area sources said.

In what Sudanese Christians believe is part of a campaign by Islamist President Omar al-Bashir to rid the country of Christianity, bulldozers accompanied by local police and personnel from the National Intelligence and Security Services destroyed the Sudanese Church of Christ building in the Ombada area of Omdurman, across the River Nile from Khartoum, they said.

“The government has confiscated the land where the church was built – please pray for the church to get a place for worship,” a Christian who requested anonymity for security reasons said. “We had not any prior indication from the officials that the church would be destroyed; they have not even warned us.”

Workers tear down church building in Omdurman, Sudan.

(Morning Star News)

Officials gave no reason for the demolition except that, as it was located in a “Muslim area,” the 300-member church was not wanted there, the church member said. Another source, a church leader, confirmed to Morning Star News that authorities destroyed the building and confiscated the land without warning.

“We have orders from above to demolish this church building,” the police officer in charge of the demolition told the church member, sources said. “We do not want any church in this area.”

The orders came from the Ombada locality, or city council, the sources said.

Following the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, Sudan since 2012 has expelled foreign Christians and bulldozed church buildings on the pretext that they belonged to South Sudanese, but officials did not offer that basis in this case.

“Generally, the church is not wanted in the area,” the church member said.

Leaders of the church have yet to determine a site for worship this Sunday.

“Possibly the church will meet in a house of one of their members next week,” the source said.

Harassment, arrests and persecution of Christians have intensified since the secession of South Sudan, when Bashir vowed to adopt a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) and recognize only Islamic culture and the Arabic language.

Besides raiding Christian bookstores and arresting Christians, authorities threatened to kill South Sudanese Christians who do not leave or cooperate with them in their effort to find other Christians (see Morning Star News, July 12, 2013).

South Sudan’s secession has also served as a pretext for Bashir’s regime to deport Christians based on their ethnicity, sources said. In a report issued in April 2013, Christian Solidarity Worldwide noted an increase in arrests, detentions and deportations of Christians since December 2012. The organization also reported that systematic targeting of Nuba and other ethnic groups suggests the resurgence of an official policy of “Islamization and Arabization.”

Due to its treatment of Christians and other human rights violations, Sudan has been designated a Country of Particular Concern by the U.S. State Department since 1999, and in April 2013, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended the country remain on the list.

USCIRF noted the crackdown in a statement last year.

“With the independence of South Sudan, senior Sudanese government officials have called for a more comprehensive and rigid application of Sharia law in Sudan, where southerners who are Christian have been subject to a range of religious freedom violations,” USCIRF stated. “In particular, there have been credible reports of the destruction of churches, refusal to permit construction of new churches and other forms of intimidation and harassment.”

South Sudanese lost citizenship in Sudan and were ordered to leave by March 1, 2012, but thousands have been stranded in the north due to job loss, poverty, transportation limitations and ethnic and tribal conflict in South Sudan. South Sudanese Christians in Sudan have faced increased hostilities due to their ethnic origins – though thousands have little or no ties to South Sudan – as well as their faith.

Many foreign Christians have been expelled from the country, and others have fled.

Obama clueless as Putin makes his move in Egypt

Field Marshal Sisi is in Moscow to negotiate a $2 billion arms deal with Russia

Vladimir Putin - Master Statesman

• While Obama plays with himself, the Master Statesman Putin is bringing Egypt back into the Russian orbit.
• A $2 billion Egyptian arms deal will put Russians to work in their defense industry while American workers collect food stamps.
• See our recent article A Russian Navy Base in Egypt? - Obama's skill at foreign policy knows no bounds

Egypt completed a $2 billion arms deal with Russia and financed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Friday.

The Egyptian and Russian governments agreed to the details in recent weeks, a senior official told Al-Masry Al-Youm says the Jerusalem Post.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Egypt in November, signaling the Kremlin’s interest in rekindling the relationship that foundered during the height of the Cold War.

Putin’s reception of Sisi and Fahmy seemed intended to send a message to the West that the Kremlin still has influence in the Middle East’s most populous country and appears ready to supply Sisi’s interim government with air defense systems and other military hardware that Cairo had previously looked to Washington to provide.

The Russian arms deal in the works is reportedly to be financed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which together with other Arab nations around the Persian Gulf have promised $12 billion in aid to Egypt in support of the military-orchestrated ousting of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, which grew powerful during his yearlong term in office reports the Los Angeles Times.

In the excerpts of the Kremlin meeting aired by Rossiya-24 television, Putin and Sisi expressed their mutual admiration and interest in boosting economic and military cooperation after the Kremlin leader wished Sisi success in the forthcoming presidential election.

Putin described the relationship between Egypt and Russia as one of "long, traditional and in the full sense of the word historic partners” and based on "the undeniable sympathy our peoples have for each other," according to a Kremlin transcript of the meeting.

“I know that you have made a decision to run for president,” Putin said. “That's a very responsible decision: to undertake such a mission for the fate of the Egyptian people. On my own part, and on behalf of the Russian people I wish you success.”

MiG 29s going to Egypt

After an earlier meeting between the Egyptian and Russian foreign ministers, Lavrov told journalists that the two countries have agreed to “speed up the preparation of documents that would give an additional impulse to our military and military-technical cooperation.”

Egyptian military spokesman Ahmed Mohammed Ali told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency that the November meeting in Cairo had produced an agreement on how to enhance military-technical cooperation as well as collaboration in the fight against terrorism.

The news agency also quoted retired Egyptian Gen. Hossam Soualem as saying that Russia has pledged to supply Cairo with 24 MiG-29 fighter jets, air defense systems, the KORNET anti-tank missile complex and Ka-25, Mi-28 and Mi-25 combat helicopters.

Egypt's new comic superhero fights Islamophobia

Faster Than A Speeding Burqa

Sorry, but all the propaganda in the world will

not change my mind about Islam. 

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Qahera, a new web-based comic heroine who fights social problems affecting women in Egypt.

Qahera, the Arabic word for ‘Cairo’, is on a mission to combat “misogyny and Islamophobia, among other things,” said 19-year-old comic designer Deena Mohamed, whose work is presented in Arabic and English.

The name Cairo “has so many strong meanings, like ‘vanquisher’ and ‘conqueror.’ It seemed appropriate for a superhero,” Mohamed said in Albawaba News.

“It seemed only natural for her to combat sexual harassment in Egypt, because she mostly deals with issues that frustrate me, and this was a significant one that needed to be addressed,” Mohamed added.

She made Qahera veiled “because she combats Islamophobia that veiled women face to a large extent due to being very recognizably Muslim, and because there’s already such little representation of women in hijabs that isn’t dehumanizing.”

Tunisia adpots a moderate Constitution with Freedom of Religion, Women's Rights

Interim Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa addresses the media after the new government presentation
ceremony at the presidential palace in Carthage near Tunis.

A Moderate Constitution

Women's Rights and Freedom of Religion make Tunisia

one of the most progressive in the Arab world.

After decades of dictatorship and two years of arguments and compromises, Tunisians on Sunday finally have a new constitution laying the foundations for a new democracy.

The document is groundbreaking as one of the most progressive constitutions in the Arab world — and for the fact that it got written at all. It passed late Sunday by 200 votes out of 216 in the Muslim Mediterranean country that inspired uprisings across the region after overthrowing a dictator in 2011.

"This constitution, without being perfect, is one of consensus," assembly speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar said after the vote. "We had today a new rendezvous with history to build a democracy founded on rights and equality," reports the Associated Press.

The constitution enshrining freedom of religion and women's rights took two years to finish. During that period, the country was battered by high unemployment, protests, terrorist attacks, political assassinations and politicians who seemed more interested in posturing than finishing the charter.

The new constitution sets out to make the North African country of 11 million people a democracy, with a civil state whose laws are not based on Islamic law, unlike many other Arab constitutions. An entire chapter of the document, some 28 articles, is dedicated to protecting citizens' rights, including protection from torture, the right to due process, and freedom of worship. It guarantees equality between men and women before the law and the state commits itself to protecting women's rights.

"This is the real revolution, many democratic constitution don't even have that," said Yahyaoui. "It will have a real impact on the rest of the Arab region, because finally we can say that women's rights are not a Western concept only, but also exist in Tunisia."

Tunisia has always had the most progressive legislation on women's rights in the Arab world and Yahyaoui believes the long period of writing has made people comfortable with its contents.

One of the most hotly debated articles guarantees "freedom of belief and conscience," which would permit atheism and the practice of non-Abrahamic religions frowned upon in other Islamic countries.

It also bans incitement to violence and declaring a Muslim an apostate — a fallen Muslim — which leaves them open to death threats. In response, conservative law makers insisted that "attacks on the sacred" be forbidden, which many see as a threat to freedom of expression.

Constitutional scholar Slim Loghmani said despite some drawbacks, the constitution is an "historic compromise between identity and modernity" that can serve as a model for other countries in the region seeking a balance between an Arab-Islamic heritage and contemporary ideas of human rights and good governance.

"It's a step forward in the nagging question of cultural identity in Arab countries," he said, lauding in particular not just freedom of religion but what he calls the freedom "not to have a religion."



Secular Tunisians protest

 

Secular Tunisian demonstrators wave their national flag during a demonstration
against the country's Islamist-led government in Tunis on August 24, 2013.

‘Black Hawk Down’ - US military is back in Somalia

We Are Back in Somalia Again

Have the generals and politicians learned their

lesson in tactics and strategy?

The US military has sent a small number of “uniformed trainers and advisers” to volatile nation of Somalia for the first time since 1993, when two US helicopters were shot down and 18 Americans were killed during the “Black Hawk Down” mission.

A small cell of less than two-dozen US military personnel has been stationed in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, since last fall in an effort to advise and coordinate with African troops fighting Al-Shabab, an Islamic militia with ties to Al-Qaeda, three US military officials told The Washington Post.

Last summer and fall, US military officials indicated the Pentagon will become more involved in Somalia. The Pentagon’s top policy official in Africa, Amanda Dory, told Congress in October the US military would “increase our presence in Mogadishu in tandem with the State Department” but did not elaborate reports RT News.

Three anonymous US military officials told The Post US Africa Command sent a small amount of advisers to Mogadishu in the fall to coordinate the cell with Somali security forces and a regional coalition of African troops.

The Pentagon declined to comment on the plans.

The clandestine deployment ends two decades of America’s unofficial policy that prohibited any long-term US military presence on the ground in Somalia despite the country being considered a failed state and teeming with pirate and militant Islamic organizations.

The Central Intelligence Agency has also operated a base in Somalia for some time, financing Somali forces fighting Al-Shabab and other entities. Journalist Jeremy Scahill has documented the CIA’s secretive movements in Somalia.

In 2011, he revealed the existence of the CIA’s counterterrorism center at the Mogadishu airport. He also reported on a secret prison in the US-funded Somali National Security Agency, which according to his sources, was used by the US to interrogate prisoners.

In recent years, the US has spent over US $500 million to train and arm an African Union security force of over 18,000 soldiers amid ongoing chaos and famine in Somalia. Most of the forces are trained outside Somalia by US contractors and uniformed military advisers. The US has also spent around $170 million to boost the often-ineffective Somali national army.

The African Union forces control most of Mogadishu, though Al-Shabab still holds most of the country. Al-Shabab has led insurgent efforts in Somalia, against the country’s Western-backed leaders, in recent years. It announced a merger with Al-Qaeda two years ago, though how much of a threat they pose to the US is disputed by American analysts.

Black Hawk Down (2001) - Official Trailer [HD]

One of the Greatest War Movies
No movie can ever recreate the horrors faced by men in combat.  But it is fair to say that the great Ridley Scott's movie Black Hawk Down comes damn close.  But the question of the day is, did anyone in the Pentagon watch this film before invading Iraq and Afghanistan?  I doubt it.
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Some of Ridley Scott's best films are Alien (1979), the sci-fi classic Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Matchstick Men (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), Robin Hood (2010), and Prometheus (2012).

Are US Generals Able to Read?
This is one of the great unanswered questions of our time.  For sure we know that our generals and politicians do not read military histories of the Revolutionary War. 
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Those dirty backwoods farmers of our Revolution were the terrorists of their day tarring and feathering Royal officials, burning homes and crops of Loyalists and shooting British soldiers in the back from cover.  If IEDs had been invented you know the Brits would have slaughtered while marching on every American road.
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I know this.  You know this.  But our "best and brightest" from West Point appear to be clueless about the incredible military power of guerrilla tactics and people's wars. 
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Our generals forgot, if they ever knew, about the guerrilla warfare horrors of the Apache Wars (1849 to 1924) and the Philippine War (1899 to 1913) as well as our failures in Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.  Now we are dipping our toes back in Somalia.

Morocco rounds up 45 terror cell members

Members of Moroccan terrorist group Fath Al-Andalous recently
received up to 15 years in prison.

Cracking Down on Jihad

• Moroccan security forces have dismantled 114 terror cells and thwarted 266 terrorist plots, including plans to strike diplomatic missions, Jewish synagogues and Christian churches.

Morocco's public prosecutor referred more than 45 alleged members of a terror recruitment cell to a Sale criminal court.

The suspects arrested December 26th in Sidi Slimane, Sale, Fnideq, Tetouan, Larache, Ouazzane, Fes, Khouribga, Nador, Zayo, al-Aaroui, Tangier, Mohammedia, Rabat, Marrakech, Tan Tan and Laâyoune are accused of being members of Sham al-Islam.

Long-time Moroccan jihadist Brahim Benchekroune and fellow former prisoner and compatriot Mohamed Mazouz launched the al-Qaeda inspired group in Syria reports All Africa.

Many Moroccan mujahideen have joined
their counterparts in Syria.

Their stated goal: to "consolidate the doctrine of jihad and train a unique generation of jihadists".

Mazouz recently appeared in a video at a Syrian camp, while reading a statement calling for jihad and for providing financial support and weapons to mujahideen in Syria against Bashar al-Assad's regime.

According to the interior ministry, the terrorists planned to commit attacks on the kingdom upon their return from Syria.

The ministry said a former terrorist prisoner was suspected of playing a pivotal role in efforts to raise money and recruit.

The arrests come as part of a sweep by Moroccan security agencies that netted scores of salafists, including those who had expressed support for the Sham al-Islam group.

"The Moroccan security agencies are cracking down on all extremist activities," Mohamed Agdid, a retired DGST officer, confirmed to Magharebia.

"Most of those who depart to fight in Syria don't have previous records, and they go to Syria via Turkey," he said.

Abdellah Rami, a Moroccan researcher specialising in Islamic groups, said, "The biggest centre that supports al-Qaeda's ideology is now based in Syria."

"The new group was created on the backdrop of differences between the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra (JAN)," he told Magharebia.

He added, "In spite of the name which refers to the Levant, most of the group founders are Moroccan. The group was founded under Moroccan leadership and Syrian trainers."

Rami added that other Moroccan salafists, including Abdellah Tabark, a former bodyguard of Bin Laden, and Anas Halaoui, co-ordinator of the National Committee for the Defence of Islamic prisoners, might have departed for Syria to join the group and fight against al-Assad's forces.

In the decade since the Casablanca suicide bomb attacks, Moroccan security forces have dismantled 114 terror cells and thwarted 266 terrorist plots, including plans to strike diplomatic missions, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, and the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

America's Oldest Friend
King Mohammed VI and Lalla Salma of Morocco with their children.
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Relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States date back to the earliest days of U.S. history. On December 20, 1777, Morocco became the first country to give a naval salute to the new nation.  Formal U.S. relations with Morocco date from 1787 when the United States Congress ratified a Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two nations.  The treaty was signed by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Muhammad III in 1786.
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Renegotiated in 1836, the treaty is still in force, constituting the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U.S. history, and Tangier is home to the oldest U.S. diplomatic property in the world. Now a museum, the Tangier American Legation Museum is also the only building outside of the U.S. that is now a National Historic Landmark.

King Mohammed VI and Lalla Salma of Morocco 

Tunisia - The Rise of Islamo-Gangsterism

Tunisian troops were deployed in Kasserine last year to battle jihadists holed up in
Jebel Chaambi, along the Algerian border.
[AFP/Abderrazek Khlifi]

Drug Smuggling in the name of Allah

Tunisia faces Narco-Jihadism on their borders and

Islamist extremists in their Parliament.

(Magharebia.com)  -  Tunisia is losing control over its borders with Libya and Algeria, according to the International Crisis Group.

The country's frontier has become a hotbed for extremists, jihadists and criminals. Hard drugs, weapons, and explosives were entering Tunisia on a regular basis from Libya, the research body said in a November 28th report.

The northern half of the Tunisian-Algerian border is being used for the growing and smuggling of cannabis, as well as small arms trafficking.

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal recently revealed that terrorist groups in Tunisia were funded from drugs proceeds.

During a meeting on December 12th with Algerian civil society addressing the issues of security and drug smuggling, Sellal said that he had informed Tunisian authorities that terrorist groups in Jebel Chaambi were funded from the proceeds of drugs that cross the western borders towards the eastern borders.

Algerian media quoted Sellal as saying that the amount of confiscated goods represented only one tenth of smuggled goods.

The Crisis Group report warned that the continuation of this situation would contribute to the emergence of so-called Islamo-gangsterism. These gangs blend jihadism and organized crime with contraband networks operating on the borders and eventually move these phenomena to the cities.

The study called for improved relations between central authorities and residents of the border areas in addition to closer relations between Maghreb countries.

Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya are seeking to further security co-ordination to protect their borders through regular meetings to assess the situation and exchange information about the movements of terrorist groups, the activity of smugglers and drug dealers, and the reduction of organised crime.

During his December visit to Tunisia, Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Sadiq Abdulkarim said that Tunisia represented important strategic depth for Libya. Abdulkarim stressed the need to eliminate smuggling between the two countries through sustainable development.

As a preventive plan to curb smuggling, a free economic zone on the Tunisian-Libyan border is expected to be created this year, according to a December 12th statement from Libya's economy minister.

Tunisian Islamists

Smuggling has negative repercussions on the national economy, according to economics professor Abdjalil Badri.

"Smuggling is economic terrorism that weakens the state through attrition and sabotage of the economy," Badri said. "The goal is to impoverish the state, which is what terrorist groups are looking for to strengthen their presence and establish control over the country."

Badri warned that governments were "no longer able to control the hemorrhage of smuggled goods to the north and south".

The trade of contraband goods is a livelihood for many young people in Tunisia, especially residents of the border areas and some inland areas.

Nabil Nassri, a 28-year-old from Sidi Bouzid and a smuggled fuel dealer said it was "a profitable source of income as well, although it is hard work but the risk is better than unemployment".

Security forces thwart smuggling operations on a daily basis, especially on the Libyan border.
"We are working day and night to fight smuggling and trap smugglers," explained Lotfi Makhloufi, a security agent. "We have been able to thwart many operations, where we have confiscated a number of times smuggled weapons and explosives, as well as food, alcoholic beverages, and drugs."

"Honestly, controlling the border is not an easy thing due to its length, extensiveness, and the ruggedness of the desert," Makhloufi added. "It requires the availability of advanced electronic equipment that outweighs the equipment used by smugglers to transport their goods. This is what we hope for in order to eliminate smuggling and crack down on all smugglers and terrorists."

Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly

The 217 seat body is sharply divided between different factions

of Islam from secularists to Islamists.

Political groups	Ennahda (90)   Democrats (35)   CPR (14)   Ettakatol (13)   Unaffiliated (65)
American readers please do not be confused by these free multi-party elections.  Have no fear, this moment will pass and you will return to the corrupt two party American elections where your Masters tell you that you are allowed only two parties in legislatures.

Radical Islamists in Tunisia

Christian mob destroys third mosque in CAR

Christians Strike Back!

'We don't want Muslims here; they must leave'.

An angry mob on Friday destroyed a third mosque near Bangui, the violence-wracked capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).

The destroyed mosque had served a Muslim community of about 100 members in Bassekotto, located 7km from Bangui.

"No one was injured in the morning attack," Imam Ahmed Tijan Naib of Bangui's central mosque, told Anadolu Agency.  He said the attack had taken place at about 10am before Muslims had started converging for weekly Friday prayers reports the Turkish Weekly.
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Efforts by an AA correspondent to reach the area's local imam were unsuccessful, as the latter's cell phone was turned off.

An eyewitness told AA that a group of about 80 Christians had come with hammers, pipes and sticks and began destroying the mosque before eventually setting it ablaze.

"You could see the hatred in their faces. They kept chanting, 'We don't want Muslims here; they must leave'," Naib said.

It was the third mosque to be destroyed recently in or near Bangui, which has witnessed widespread sectarian violence in past weeks.  One mosque was destroyed in Fouh earlier this month. Another was destroyed in Gobongo, some 10km from Bangui, on December 20.

CAR, a landlocked, mineral-rich country, descended into anarchy in March, when Muslim Seleka rebels ousted Christian president François Bozize, who had come to power in a 2003 coup.
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The country has since been plagued by tit-for-tat sectarian violence between the self-styled Christian militias, known as "anti-balaka," and former seleka fighters.

According to UN estimates, more than 400,000 people – nearly ten percent of the country's 4.6 million-strong population – have abandoned their homes as a result of the violence.


Christian militiamen walking in a clearing near Bangui,
capital of the Central African Republic.
See more at Reuters News.
(AP Photo)

Christians fight back against Muslim takeover in Africa

A Christian man chases a suspected Muslim Seleka officer in civilian
clothes with a knife near the airport in Bangu.
Photo: AP Photo/Jerome Delay

A Crusade in Central Africa?

"All the meek shall inherit is a burial ditch

or the chains of slavery."

BANGUI, Central African Republic — Dozens of young men stood waiting for storm clouds to pass, as wind stirred up swirls of red dust on the largely deserted street in Central African Republic’s capital. Through the drizzle, they spotted a man in a flowing white robe traditionally worn by Muslims, hand-in-hand with his adolescent son.

The style of dress was enough to confirm that this was their enemy.

Hungry for revenge, the crowd descended upon the pair. The man’s terrified son broke away, and fled on foot, abandoning his father as the knife-wielding mob clutched the middle-aged man.

Muslim rebels known as Seleka overthrew the government of this majority Christian nation nine months ago, sparking mounting sectarian violence that prompted former colonizer France last week to deploy troops to Bangui in an effort to stop the bloodshed reports the New York Post.

In a city where more than 400 people died last week in two days of tit-for-tat violence between Christians and Muslims, it was clear Monday there is still enough pent-up rage left that a crowd will try to kill a man on sight.

The angry mob insisted their victim served as a general in the Muslim rebel movement accused of carrying out atrocities against the nation’s Christian population, including tying victims together and throwing them off bridges to drown. “Seleka! Seleka! Seleka!” screamed the men as they encircled the Muslim man in a tornado of anger.

Mobs of Christians attack suspected Muslim Seleka members near the airport in Bangui.

Photo: AP Photo/Jerome Delay

In this case, French forces intervened just in time, firing into the air as a warning. “I am a merchant! I am a merchant!,” the man cried as the French pulled him away, his back covered in dirt and his gown ripped off. His tearful son came back, his white shirt covered in blood, and the French ferried them to safety.

Other Muslims were not as fortunate. In the Benzvi neighborhood, a mob descended upon two ex-Seleka leaders leaving their home Monday afternoon. One got away. The crowd took up the only weapons they had against the other, witnesses said.

“People picked up rocks from the ground and stoned him to death,” said Junior Dagdag, 28, pointing to the pool of blood and stones in the middle of the road, where the victim’s car burned and smoke plumed into the sky. “Some brought his body to the hospital while others set his car on fire.”

The latest round of violence began Thursday, when armed Christian fighters who oppose the ex-Seleka forces in power attacked the capital and were later repelled by the ex-rebels.

Already 1,600 French forces are on the ground. French helicopters buzzed overhead while dozens of military vehicles, including armored personnel carriers, snaked through neighborhoods where tensions ran high. French forces came under attack near the airport but the area was later secured.

President Michel Djotodia had demanded that the fighters who brought him to power remain in their barracks Monday so that French forces and African troops from a regional peacekeeping mission could secure the city. Fed-up Christians sought to enforce the law themselves, chasing anyone they suspected as being part of Seleka – even in civilian clothing – off of the streets.

Emmanuel Yakanga, 53, a Christian, said he walked by a group of Christians harassing some men they accused of being Seleka and that he understands their anger. Even as ex-Seleka elements promised to disarm and hand over their weapons to the French, Christian neighborhoods are coming under attack nightly, he said. Yakanga’s 17-year-old niece was fatally shot on Thursday, he said.

“This talk of disarmament is merely superficial. They’re just going to keep their weapons elsewhere,” Yakanga said of the ex-Seleka.

Libyan Parliament Votes To Install Sharia Law

Welcome to NATO-liberated Libya

It's a battle between the "moderate" Islamists 

and "ultra" Islamists.

Obama's unconstitutional war in Libya is turning out just great.

Libya’s national assembly voted on Wednesday to make Islamic law, or sharia, the source of all legislation, in an apparent bid by moderate Islamists to outflank ultra-conservative Islamist militants who have been gaining influence.

Two years after the NATO-backed uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is still in messy transition, with no new constitution, a temporary government and nascent security forces struggling to contain militias and former rebels reports Reuters News.

The immediate impact of the statement was not clear in the already overwhelmingly Muslim country, though it could affect criminal and financial legislation.

“The legislative system does not contain many laws that contradict Islamic law so it is easy to say sharia would be the sole source of legislation,” said Ibrahim al-Gharyani of the National Forces Alliance party.

Blast from the past Cartoons

Missionary killed, churches torched by Muslims in Cameroon

In April last year, churches were targeted by

suspected Boko Haram militants. Some victims
had their throats cut, while others were beaten
to death or burned alive. Here is one of the
survivors, whose name is being withheld
to protect his security.

(Cameroon Human Rights Monitoring)

A missionary has been killed and several churches set ablaze in attacks by Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram in neighbouring Cameroon.

The Nigerian missionary, David Dina Mataware, with the Christian Missionary Foundation (CMF), was killed on November 13 by suspected Muslim Boko Haram militants in Ashigashia, a village which straddles the Nigeria-Cameroon border.

He was murdered on the same day as the kidnapping of a French priest, Father Georges Vandenbeusch, but the death was not reported by the media, a church leader told World Watch Monitor, even though both incidents happened in the same area.

The kidnap was claimed by Boko Haram “in an operation co-ordinated with Ansaru”, its spokesman told Agence France Presse. Ansaru is a Boko Haram splinter group that has attacked several Western and Nigerian targets. It claimed responsibility for the kidnap and murder of seven international construction workers earlier in 2013 reports World Watch Monitor.

Mataware had worked with CMF since 2010. CMF is a Nigeria-based mission agency active in Cameroon since 1989. Its ministry is focused on the tribes of Mandara, Kanouri and Guemergou in the district of Mora in northern Cameroon.

“An undetermined number of armed men crossed the border and entered into Cameroon at midnight. On their way back, they attacked the CMF compound. Unfortunately, one of the six missionaries had his throat cut. Five others managed to flee,” said the church leader, who wished to remain nameless.
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Cameroon is a secular country in Central Africa. Approximately 70 per cent of the population is at least nominally Christian and most of its population in the North are Muslims.

Over the weekend of November 15-17, a number of incidents took place alongside the porous border of Nigeria and Cameroon. Local sources contacted by World Watch Monitor say dozens of properties, including Ewy church in Tourou (in Cameroon) were attacked while at least one church was set ablaze and destroyed on the Nigerian side of Ashigashia.

At least four people were killed and many others wounded and transferred to health centres. Despite the reinforcement of security forces in the area, villagers fear continued attacks from Islamist militants from Nigeria.

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Nigeria, Chad and Niger formed a Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in 1998 to fight transnational crime, especially small arms traffic crossing their common borders. But the emergence of Boko Haram saw its mandate expanded to include counter-terrorism.

The force’s recent operations include clashes in April with Boko Haram elements in Nigeria’s northeastern Baga area. At least 187 people were killed, and thousands of homes were burnt down. Many residents accused soldiers of burning their homes, while military forces disputed the accusations, blaming the insurgents.

In August, Boko Haram gunmen attacked MNJTF forces in Malam Fotori, Borno State, on the border with Niger, sparking a shoot-out in which 15 insurgents and two soldiers were killed, the army said in a statement.

Cameroon, which shares a 1,690km border with Nigeria, is not part of the MNJTF. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan this month called for Cameroon’s support in combating Boko Haram.

“Cameroon has lived in denial that if it doesn’t get involved in the fight against Boko Haram, then Boko Haram will not get into Cameroon,” said Mohammed. “One way of putting this problem in check is that every country in the region must make border control a security priority.”

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