Posted on 10/14/2008 10:00:56 PM PDT by xjcsa
About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
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The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.
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Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf.Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
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Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," [Obama] declared.
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Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins.
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Fawning YouTube video from Reuters of Odinga confirming that they're cousins here.
What WAS the purpose of your trip to Kenya, Senator?
Spread it far and wide.
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
I don’t think that Odinga or his cousin see it as any thing other than business as usual to flat out lie to the voters about their true intentions.
A whole lot of BO voters aren’t gong to like what they voted for if he wins. Others will be like frogs in hot water. And the rest are people who intended to take us down all along.
I don't know how much Obama had to do with the rampage, but he seemed unsettled by it during the NH primaries which is when it was going on. I thought then he was afraid his possible involvement would come out, but it seemed that he was trying to play peacemaker at that point.
If he urged Odinga to accuse the guy who won of voter fraud, then he was partly complicit for what followed. Knowing the culture as he would have, he would have known the outcome.
I see this as a horrible, terrible tragedy regardless if Obama was implicated or not. Or if he never was involved in any way whatsoever. I saw the youtube video. He was standing there with Odinga. It was more than your usual family reunion.
It's too late to go read the whole article, but am I in an alternate universe here? Isn't the Times in the bag for Obama? Why would they dredge this up? The MSM seems to have deliberately kept a lid on it because of the aftermath.
I think I was wrong. It is the Washington Post that is more liberal I think.
The Washington Times is a generally conservative paper.
Obama shows his bad judgement once again, campaigning for and funding Odinga, a man allied to Islamic extremists and whose supporters killed innocent civilians and burned and destroyed 800 Christian churches.
I dont know why McCain hasnt made this an issue.
When Odinga lost to Kibaki, Odinga turned his murderous gaze toward the Christians who voted for Kibaki.
Odinga's communist, muslim and other anti-government hordes then ransacked villages, burned down churches and murdered Kenyan Christians.
Why this isn't front page news is beyond my understanding.
Obama supported a monster, and Obama has not officially dropped support for Odinga.
Yes, the Washington Times is a rational, logical good paper that presents actual facts.
The Washington Post is a left wing rag sheet that serves as the Propaganda Arm for THE DNC, Nancy Piglousy et al, an ACORN, along with the Love Lorn Colunmns for Barney Frank and his gay boyfriends at “FANNY” MAY!
I don't think Obama is inclined to violence personally, no indication of that, but surrogates doing it with his tacit approval or making no attempt to squelch it, is one of the things that is so ominous about him.
I guess the libs argue that Bush the Elder was a bad guy when he was head of the CIA. They can spin out of anything.
Has there been anything like this? I mean any congressman going overseas to campaign for someone, yet alone a third world despot?
It’s unconscionable. Unfortunately, the undecideds are too dumb to grasp any of this. Thank you public education.
Why are they treating Obama with kid gloves? The race card?
Here we are, just want to live our lives, the way we once knew them even before some of us went overboard on consumerism, and we are threatened within and without with losing it all, incrementally now, but it doesn't bode well for the future, the divisiveness and mood out there. Guess I can only speak for myself on that.
Almost Midnight Ping, and check out comment #13, too.
Has ANYONE heard the McCain campaign mention this? WTF is this, another “untouchable” subject, like Rev. Wright? See how gently Bambi treats your side, Mac. Good luck with that.
Well put to you and all of the above.
At this hour all I can muster is a big - SHEESH.
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