Kenya: Bus Passengers Defy Militants Seeking to Target Christians in Attack

[cigaretteman]

Somali militants sprayed a Kenyan bus with bullets on Monday, killing two people, but a passenger said he and fellow Muslims had defied demands from the attackers to help identify Christian travelers. The attack took place in Mandera, in northeast Kenya. Abdi Mohamud Abdi, a Muslim who was among the passengers, said that more than 10 Shabab militants had boarded the bus and ordered the Muslim passengers to split away from the Christians, but that they had refused. “We even gave some non-Muslims our religious attire to wear in the bus so that they would not be identified easily,” he said. “We stuck together tightly. The militants threatened to shoot us, but we still refused and protected our brothers and sisters. Finally they gave up and left but warned that they would be back,” he said. Julius Otieno, the deputy county commissioner, confirmed the account, saying that the militants “were trying to identify who were Muslims and who were not” and that the Muslim passengers had refused to help.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/w...-attack.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Damn Muslims.

Oh, wait.

 

[CeMar_Clone]

Somali militants sprayed a Kenyan bus with bullets on Monday, killing two people, but a passenger said he and fellow Muslims had defied demands from the attackers to help identify Christian travelers. The attack took place in Mandera, in northeast Kenya. Abdi Mohamud Abdi, a Muslim who was among the passengers, said that more than 10 Shabab militants had boarded the bus and ordered the Muslim passengers to split away from the Christians, but that they had refused. “We even gave some non-Muslims our religious attire to wear in the bus so that they would not be identified easily,” he said. “We stuck together tightly. The militants threatened to shoot us, but we still refused and protected our brothers and sisters. Finally they gave up and left but warned that they would be back,” he said. Julius Otieno, the deputy county commissioner, confirmed the account, saying that the militants “were trying to identify who were Muslims and who were not” and that the Muslim passengers had refused to help.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/world/africa/kenya-bus-passengers-defy-militants-seeking-to-target-christians-in-attack.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=6&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/world/africa/kenya-bus-passengers-defy-militants-seeking-to-target-christians-in-attack.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

And your point? Still muslim terrorism.

Oh, and get back to us when christians start doing the same thing.

 

[mstp1992]

And your point? Still muslim terrorism.

Oh, and get back to us when christians start doing the same thing.

Protecting Muslims?

Just admit you're a bigoted asshole. Admission of your faults is the first step toward recovery.

 

[The Tradition]

Good on these particular Muslims and continued shame on these particular militants.

 

[mstp1992]

Good on these particular Muslims and continued shame on these particular militants.

Can't disagree with you.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

And your point? Still muslim terrorism.

Oh, and get back to us when christians start doing the same thing.

Can I have this guy get back to you? Let him tell you what he got up to less than a month ago...

 

[unIowa]

And your point? Still muslim terrorism.

Oh, and get back to us when christians start doing the same thing.

My guess is it will only take a few short years, or less, for him to be able to get back to you with similar/relatable stories. When the backlash finally does come it will be swift and unmerciful IMO.

Not cheering for it to happen but we have seen this story before. It isn't going to end well for someone and white folks seem to excel in mass organized violence...just saying.

 

[theIowaHawk]

We agree that attacks on people are wrong, right? And that doing so in the name of (or against) religion is still wrong, right?

Why is this a partisan issue?

 

[The Tradition]

Can I have this guy get back to you? Let him tell you what he got up to less than a month ago...

How do you know he's a Christian? It's an awfully Muslim-looking beard he has going on....

 

[The Tradition]

We agree that attacks on people are wrong, right? And that doing so in the name of (or against) religion is still wrong, right?

Why is this a partisan issue?

It becomes a partisan issue when the subject turns to profiling in an attempt to stop attacks on people. It's far better that the 83-year-old woman from Iowa City be strip-search at the airport instead of the shady-looking 25-year-old guy from Yemen who was behind her in line, because... well, we wouldn't want to be guilty of profiling.

 

[unIowa]

We agree that attacks on people are wrong, right? And that doing so in the name of (or against) religion is still wrong, right?

Why is this a partisan issue?

Because this is America!

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

How do you know he's a Christian? It's an awfully Muslim-looking beard he has going on....

Well, his confession/rant and the mountain of evidence of his radical Evangelical Christianity, for starters.

 

[The Tradition]

Well, his confession/rant and the mountain of evidence of his radical Evangelical Christianity, for starters.

What evidence? All I heard was a statement about no more baby parts. Do you think Muslims are pro-choice?

 

[Funky Bunch]

We agree that attacks on people are wrong, right? And that doing so in the name of (or against) religion is still wrong, right?

Why is this a partisan issue?

Isn't that Thomas Barnes in your avatar? Or is i confuzed?

 

[theIowaHawk]

What evidence? All I heard was a statement about no more baby parts. Do you think Muslims are pro-choice?

Probably, as long as it is the man's choice.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

What evidence? All I heard was a statement about no more baby parts. Do you think Muslims are pro-choice?

You're acting as though I would think that they both don't equally suck.

 

[lucas80]

And your point? Still muslim terrorism.

Oh, and get back to us when christians start doing the same thing.

Goodness! I posted a story only a few weeks ago about a captured American soldier who as a POW literally had a pistol pointed at his head by a German commandant demanding that he point out the Jews in the camp. He refused, and the German stomped off. You could google it and enlighten yourself, but I suspect you are much happier in your bitter cocoon.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Just more Muslims doing what conservatives claim they don't do.

We agree that attacks on people are wrong, right? And that doing so in the name of (or against) religion is still wrong, right?

Why is this a partisan issue?

Because some people want to hold every person who holds to that religion responsible for the acts of a few that claim they do.

 

[The Tradition]

You're acting as though I would think that they both don't equally suck.

But that's the point about stereotyping. When there's a mass shooting now days, people immediately speculate it was an Islamic terrorist attack (even though the vast number are committed by people who aren't Muslims). But if the shooting at an abortion clinic, people immediately speculate some radical Christian extremist (and usually, that's true). All that said, I don't know why Islamic terrorists wouldn't target an abortion clinic. And we have nothing to indicate this guy was a Christian extremists instead of a garden variety nutjob.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

But that's the point about stereotyping. When there's a mass shooting now days, people immediately speculate it was an Islamic terrorist attack (even though the vast number are committed by people who aren't Muslims). But if the shooting at an abortion clinic, people immediately speculate some radical Christian extremist (and usually, that's true). All that said, I don't know why Islamic terrorists wouldn't target an abortion clinic. And we have nothing to indicate this guy was a Christian extremists instead of a garden variety nutjob.

With all due respect, BS...
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/us/robert-dear-planned-parenthood-shooting.html?referer=&_r=0

 

[The Tradition]

With all due respect, BS...
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/us/robert-dear-planned-parenthood-shooting.html?referer=&_r=0

Sounds like a nutjob to me. Certainly didn't act like a Christian, as your story says.

 

[theIowaHawk]

Sounds like a nutjob to me. Certainly didn't act like a Christian, as your story says.

THERE. IT. IS.

He isn't a Christian, because Christians wouldn't do something like that, ergo lunatic.