{"id":6564,"date":"2013-09-26T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2013-09-26T10:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:33:02","slug":"bloody-weekend-trend-of-muslim-rage-against-infidels-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/bloody-weekend-trend-of-muslim-rage-against-infidels-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Weekend: Trend of Muslim Rage Against ‘Infidels’ Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0The Blaze<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Muslim slaughter of non-Muslim \u201cinfidels\u201d saw an especially dramatic weekend in the nations of Pakistan and Kenya.\u00a0 Even so, these are simply the latest in a long list of jihadi attacks on the Christians of both nations.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, September 22, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Islamic suicide bombers entered the All Saints Church compound right after Sunday mass and blew themselves up in the midst of some 550 congregants, killing, according to the latest count, nearly 90 worshippers, including many Sunday school children, women, and choir members, and injuring at least another 120.\u00a0\u00a0 The now destroyed Protestant church was built in Peshawar some 130 years ago.\u00a0 The Taliban claimed the attacks.<\/p>\n

According to Margrette<\/a>, a parishioner who survived (though her sister\u2019s status was unknown), \u201cI heard two explosions. People started to run. Human remains were strewn all over the church.\u201d<\/p>\n

(For an idea of the after-effects of Islamic suicide attacks on churches, see\u00a0these pictures<\/a>\u2014warning: graphic<\/strong>\u2014of the Islamic terrorist attack on the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Iraq, when some 60 Christian worshippers were slaughtered after jihadis raided their church, opening fire on the worshippers before detonating themselves.)<\/p>\n

Armed attacks on churches are hardly uncommon in Pakistan, even though Christians are less than 2% of the population, while Muslims are 97%.\u00a0 In 2001 Islamic gunmen stormed St. Dominic\u2019s Protestant Church, opening fire on the congregants and killing at least 16 worshippers, most women and children.\u00a0\u00a0Last Christmas<\/a>, \u201cwhen Christian worshipers were coming out of different Churches after performing Christmas prayers, more than one hundred Muslim extremists equipped with automatic rifles, pistols and sticks attacked the Christian women, children and men.\u201d\u00a0The attack came in response to fatwas condemning Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n

As for Muslim mob violence (as opposed to preplanned terrorist strikes) this is a common fixture that regularly flares up against Pakistan\u2019s Christians and other minorities, most often in the context of \u201cblasphemy,\u201d that is, offending Islam or its prophet. A few months ago, in March, because one Christian was accused of blasphemy, some 3,000 Muslims attacked the Christian Joseph Colony of Lahore, burning\u00a0two churches<\/a>\u00a0and 160 Christian homes (see pictures of Muslim rage in action\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

According to one Christian eyewitness, \u201cThe police was doing what it does best\u2014nothing! Their bias towards Christians is quite evident, because when the Muslims were raiding our church and property, they just watched, but when we confronted them, they started hitting us with batons and used live ammunition to deter us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2009 in Gojra, eight Christians were burned alive, 100 houses looted and 50 homes set ablaze after another blasphemy accusation.<\/p>\n

Thousands of miles away in Kenya (83% Christian and 11% Muslim), on Saturday, September 21, Islamic terrorists linked to neighboring Somalia\u2019s Al Shabaab (\u201cthe youth\u201d) raided the Westgate shopping mall, slaughtering, as of today, September 24, at least 62 people and injuring at least 150.<\/p>\n

Among the Islamic terrorists are\u00a0several Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet, to anyone following events in Kenya closely, this jihadi raid simply follows a long line of attacks targeting, as in Pakistan, Christians, often in their churches.\u00a0 \u00a0For example, in just the four months between April-August 2012, at least 14 Kenyan churches were attacked by Al Shabaab-linked Islamic terrorists, with many Christians killed.\u00a0\u00a0 Since then, even more have been attacked, often by hand-grenades, leaving many dead, again, often including women and Sunday school children (see Kenyan church attack section in\u00a0Crucified Again: Exposing Islam\u2019s New War on Christians<\/em><\/a>, p. 75-76).<\/p>\n

In the mall attack, the jihadis further made it a point to try to differentiate between Muslims and non-Muslims, to slaughter only the latter.\u00a0 According to\u00a0Elijah Kamau<\/a>, \u201cThe gunmen told Muslims to stand up and leave. They were safe, and non-Muslims would be targeted.\u201d\u00a0 Another Christian eyewitness who managed to escape\u00a0said<\/a>, \u201can Indian man came forward and they said, \u2018What is the name of Muhammad\u2019s mother?\u2019 When he couldn\u2019t answer they just shot him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al Shabaab boasted of its care to distinguish between \u201cinfidels\u201d and Muslims in a barrage of Twitter messages: \u201cOnly Kuffar [\u201cinfidels\u201d] were singled out for this attack. All Muslims inside #Westgate were escorted out by the Mujahideen (Islamic Holy Warriors) before beginning the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an old jihadi tactic often used when attacking places other than churches, which do not require this extra care (presumably, according to jihadi thinking, everyone inside a church deserves death, whereas a Muslim may be in an open mall).\u00a0 For example,\u00a0in Nigeria in October 2012,<\/a>\u00a0Islamic militants stormed the Federal Polytechnic College, \u201cseparated the Christian students from the Muslim students, addressed each victim by name, questioned them, and then proceeded to shoot them or slit their throat,\u201d killing up to 30 Christians.<\/p>\n

And in\u00a0\u00a0September 2011<\/a>, Muslim militants \u201cwent to shops owned by Christians at a market at about 8 p.m., ordering them to recite verses from the Quran. If the Christian traders were unable to recite the verses [and thus proving they are not Muslim], the gunmen shot and killed them.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it is good that the world has been exposed to these two latest attacks on non-Muslim \u201cinfidels,\u201d let there be no mistake: these are no \u201caberrations,\u201d but rather the natural culmination of jihadi hatred for non-Muslims, chief among them Christians, which has been manifesting itself with increased frequency in both Pakistan and Kenya for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0The Blaze\u00a0 Muslim slaughter of non-Muslim \u201cinfidels\u201d saw an especially dramatic weekend in the nations of Pakistan and Kenya.\u00a0 Even so, these are simply the latest in a long list of jihadi attacks on the Christians of both nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225,227,230],"tags":[366,192,1017,30,478],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1HS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2017,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-state-departments-skewed-standards\/","url_meta":{"origin":6564,"position":0},"title":"The State Department’s Skewed Standards","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Earlier this month in the\u00a0West Bank, \"settlers attempted to burn two mosques, and vandalized an IDF base as part of the latest 'price tag' attacks. 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