Posted on 06/30/2021 9:52:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed its first suicide attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a jihadist monitoring site said.
IS claimed responsibility for a suicide blast in Beni in North Kivu province by a man named as "Abu Khadijah" who targeted "Christian disbelievers at a liquor bar", according to the US-based SITE intelligence Group, which monitors extremist groups.
IS also claimed responsibility for an explosion at a church in the same town on Sunday, as well as three other attacks on security forces in Ituri province to the north, SITE said late Tuesday.
Two women in the church were injured. The violence in Beni was blamed by Congolese authorities on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, whose leader Musa Baluku has pledged allegiance to IS. Experts are still unsure about the extent of links between the ADF, an Islamist group originally from Uganda, and IS, which has lost most of its territory in the Middle East but is expanding in Africa.
Authorities in Beni issued a curfew on Sunday and closed schools, markets and churches for 48 hours after three blasts over the weekend, including the bar and church attacks, as well as another near a petrol station on the outskirts of the town. The ADF is the deadliest of an estimated 122 armed militias that roam the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, many of them a legacy of two regional wars that ran from 1996 to 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at monitor.co.ug ...
I am presently reading a book about the war in Congo around the mid-1990s.
Saddest book I have ever read.
Kill and kill and kill some more.
Congo doesn’t need this.
The ROP bringing love and joy to the world.
Well, dead people are pretty peaceful...
Southern Baptists are safe unless they shop undercover. LOL
Have to be buried as well since they may have some sort of disease. Unsure of the lifestyle of mussie terrorists.
Well, burying dead folks is just the polite thing to do. tidiness and all that.
Bringing their special brand of “cultural enrichment” to Congo will likely lead to lots of muzzies hacked to pieces.
China will soon find this tiresome.
Let me help people figure out their denominations.
If while shopping in the grocery store you see someone you know from church and your first instinct is to rearrange your groceries in the buggy to hide your alcohol ... you might be a Baptist. LOL
If you can count on one hand the number of times you clapped in church and every time you did it you clapped on the down beat instead of the up beat ... you might be a Methodist. LOL
If you start dancing in church when you see the musicians walk onto the stage before the music has even started ... you might be a Pentecostal. LOL
If you visit the beautiful Peter's Basilica at the Vatican and it not once dongs on you the irony that the funding to build that from indulgences was the last straw that led to millions leaving the Catholic church to join the Protestant Reformation ... you might be a Catholic. LOL
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