‘Are You Muslim or Christian? Death to Christians!’

Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On April 3, 2015 @ 12:45 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments

Muslim wholesale slaughter of Christians struck again on April 2 in Kenya. Gunmen from the Somali Islamic group, Al Shabaab—“the youth”—stormed Garissa University, singled out Christian students, and murdered them, some beheaded. A total of 147 people were killed in the attack—making this jihad more spectacular than the 2013 Al Shabaab attack on a Nairobi mall, which left 67 people dead (then, Islamic gunmen also singled out Christians for slaughter).

According to eyewitnesses present at Garissa University, the Islamic gunmen were careful to separate Christians from Muslims before they began the carnage of the former. After all, although Kenya is 83% Christian, it is approximately 11% Muslim. Joel Ayora, who survived the attack, said gunmen burst into a Christian service, seized worshippers, and then “proceeded to the hostels, shooting anybody they came across except their fellows, the Muslims.”

Collins Wetangula, vice chairman of the student union, said he could hear from inside his room where he was hiding the gunmen opening doors and inquiring if the people inside were Muslims or Christians: “If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die.”

The fact that Christians were singled out and slaughtered has received little attention in the mainstream media: most mention it, but only towards the very bottom as an incidental, peripheral matter of little significance (see for example the BBC’s minimal treatment near the bottom of its report); others portray it as a new tactic or phenomenon.

In fact, Al Shabaab has a long history of singling Christians out from among Muslims for slaughter. The following are just a few examples from Kenya that took place in the last few months, most never reported on any mainstream media:

•December 2, 2014: Al Shabaab gunmen launched an early morning raid on quarry workers sleeping in their worksite tents near the city of Mandera, along the Somali border. Christians and Muslims were separated before the Christians, thirty-six of them, were beheaded or shot dead.

•November 22, 2014: Al Shabaab attacked a bus and massacred 28 of its Christian passengers. Again, Muslim passengers were separated and left unharmed.

•August 24, 2014: Al Shabaab abducted a group of traders near the island of Lamu. The militants eventually released three of them, because they were Muslims, but beheaded the fourth, a Christian.

•June 15, 2014: Approximately 50 militants from Al Shabaab went on a killing spree in Mpeketoni, a predominantly Christian town on Kenya’s coast. They chanted “Allahu Akbar,” killed whoever could not recite verses from the Koran, and went door-to-door asking residents their religion, killing those who answered “Christian.” More than 57 people were killed, including six children of church pastors.

The only time in Kenya that Muslim jihadis do not inquire about the religious identity of their potential victims is when they attack churches—such as when they set fire to Covenant Church and roasted Christians alive (they destroyed a Catholic church on the same night); or when two heavily armed jihadis entered the Joy in Jesus Church in Monbasa during Sunday service and “sprayed the congregation with bullets, killing at least seven Christians”; or when “youths,” in the words of Reuters, “threw petrol bombs at two Kenyan churches on Christmas day.”

The logic is that whoever is inside a church—visiting Muslim or practicing Christian, man, woman, or child—deserves death without question.

Separating Muslims from “infidels” and releasing the former occurs with great frequency during jihadi attacks and is hardly limited to Al Shabaab’s incursions in Kenya (inasmuch as it is good to kill an infidel, it is bad to kill a fellow Muslim, according to Islamic law).

Some of the 21 Coptic Christians who were beheaded last February in Libya were abducted in similar fashion. On January 3, around 2:30 a.m., masked men burst into a housing complex in Sirte, Libya. They went room to room checking ID cards to separate Muslims from Christians, handcuffed the latter and rode off with them. According to Hanna Aziz, a Copt who was concealed in his room when the other Christians were seized in Libya, “While checking IDs, Muslims were left aside while Christians were grabbed…. I heard my friends screaming but they were quickly shushed at gunpoint. After that, we heard nothing.”

Last October 2012 in Nigeria, Boko Haram Islamic jihadis stormed the Federal Polytechnic College, “separated the Christian students from the Muslim students, addressed each victim by name, questioned them, and then proceeded to shoot them or slit their throat,” killing up to 30 Christians.

This is the jihad on Christians that is raging all around the world wherever Muslims make for sizable populations—the jihad that will eventually go viral in the West according to Islam’s unwavering Rule of Numbers.

When it comes right down to it, Mohammed and Jesus are at odds and cannot be reconciled.

If both religions or the philosophies that govern them emanated from the same God then peace could be reached or the two leading prophets of our times would find common ground.

The precise problem is that both prophets have been elevated above God, both claiming to be one as God but both different.

Only a restoration of belief in the simple pre-Jesus and pre-Mohammed GOD would suffice but then religion organized by man to be followed by men would lose their hold on mankind.

Follow God without those prophets and you will be at peace. You can read the Law and know both how to live and what you are personally responsible to God.

Man cannot require a prophet to intercede his behalf absolving himself of personal responsibility to God. Man is not lost or in need of being saved on Earth – the Devil is in those details that let the mind operate in the GREY area thus allowing Man to determine RIGHT and WRONG or GOOD and EVIL.

If one strips away the arguments, both of, and between Prophets, and simply focuses on a personal relationship with God (or without God) it boils down to worshiping simply God, following simply God’s word.

I am eternally grateful for a man called Jesus who came to give the word of his God to the Gentiles. Worshiping the God of the Jewish People was the light or the way, and not the man who spread His word.

If in fact the Jewish God has made Jesus a prophet among men he should be worshiped in the true tradition of those Biblical prophets before him, but even more to the point God could not have ordained a prophet named Mohammed based on the Holy Koran.

Without the Christians, today the Jewish may be no more than a historical artifact along with the do-do bird or dinosaurs. Without those who practice Mohammed’s teachings there would not be eternal war between men representing two distinct Gods.

Neither prophet’s followers allow dissent to believe in only the Jewish God, thus both set philosophically forever their followers against God’s People the Jews and in practice make it unacceptable to be outside their organizations run by Man – it is this quandary that in itself allows those who only follow God before these two prophets of our time to be personally responsible to no man but to God Himself, standing alone to be judged. A Man that worships God knows what God requires from the Torah and clarification by examples of the Jewish history - Man does not need another Man to share or add a requirement to Worship.

I choose God and am at peace with Him - after two years in Israel I have found adding prophets as a requirement to worship Him simply a license to steal at every level or twist of human interaction.

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