Islamic genocide of Christians spreads to East Africa
The Islamic genocide of Christians in Africa has spread to Mozambique, where ISIS-linked terror groups massacred Christian civilians last week.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported that the Islamic State – Mozambique Province (ISMP), a group designated as a terror organization by the US in 2021, recently released 20 photos showing the carnage from its attacks on four Christian villages in the Chiúre district. The terrorists raided the villages, burned houses and a church, and beheaded several Christians. Two were civilians and others were members of what the terrorists called an “infidel militia.”
Christians are increasingly targeted by Islamists in Mozambique, a predominantly Christian country. Father Kwiriwi Fonseca, a Passionist missionary in Mozambique, issued a plea for help in May after a wave of Islamic attacks: “All the newly displaced mentioned having fled because of direct attacks on their villages, involving looting, arson, kidnappings, and selective murders … many Christians are suffering. Some chapels have also been burned, as have their houses. The social projects no longer work, and the people are in despair.”
Over 42,000 people—half of them children—have been displaced as a result of Islamic attacks in Chiúre district, according to the United Nations. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has refused to blame Islamists for the massacres, only vaguely referring to them as “armed groups.”
Recent attacks in the Congo
Attacks on Christians appear to be spreading wildly across Africa. The rampage in Mozambique came just days after jihadists from the ISIS affiliate Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) stormed a Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and slaughtered at least 43 worshipers, including 9 children and 19 women. Several others were wounded. According to reports, the terrorists used machetes to carry out the attack and then proceeded to loot and burn down nearby shops in the northeastern town of Komanda.
That was the second such massacre in the DRC this year. In February, the ADF rounded up 70 Christians in the village of Mayba, took them to a church in Kasanga, Tanzania, and slaughtered them.
A ‘silent genocide’
These systemic massacres are referred to by some as a “silent genocide,” given the silence from international media and political commentators who regularly express outrage over the so-called “genocide” of Islamists in Gaza.
"What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community," MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital last week.
“The goal is eliminating Christian communities,” he continued. “Yes. Completely. Basically with these jihadist groups, they push down from safe havens that they have; they want to eliminate all the Christians in that area, take that over and keep pushing, keep pushing as far as they can go. Non-Christians, say, the Muslim population … are given a choice: either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation. Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join; Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.”
Recent massacres in Syria
The systematic mass slaughter of Christians by Islamists is not contained to the Congo. Earlier this month, Syrian forces executed hundreds of Christian and Druze civilians with the aid of Bedouin tribes in the Sweida province. The attacks came just weeks after Islamic jihadists massacred Christians at the Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church in Damascus on June 22nd. The suicide bombing and shooting attack killed at least 25 Christian worshippers and wounded 63 others.
