This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when a Muslim in Minnesota in 2016 asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In April 2022 in Nigeria, Muslims stormed a brothel, telling people to recite the Qur’an, and murdering ten people who could not do. Also in Nigeria, in January 2022, a man recounted that Fulani jihadis stopped him and started beating him. Then they asked him if he was Muslim or Christian; when he said he was Christian, they intensified the beating. In Burkina Faso in November 2021, Muslims asked villagers if they were Christian or Muslim, then killed the Christians. In Mozambique in June 2021, Muslims were hunting for Christians door-to-door. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, while releasing six others who could recite them.
In Mali, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” took hostages, freeing those who could recite the Qur’an. In September 2013 at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, Muslims murdered people who couldn’t answer questions about Islam. In June 2014, Muslims murdered people who could not pass an Islam quiz. In November 2014, Muslims murdered 28 non-Muslims who couldn’t recite Qur’an verses. In April 2015, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” stormed Garissa University College, and only shot those who couldn’t recite Qur’an. In a Bangladesh restaurant in July 2016, the jihadis spared those who could recite from the Qur’an. In July 2017 in Kenya, Muslims asked Christians to “recite Islamic dogmas” and murdered them when they couldn’t do so. In May 2018 in Belgium, a Muslim who murdered four people told a hostage that he wouldn’t harm her since she was Muslim and was observing the Ramadan fast. In September 2018 in Kenya, Muslims murdered two non-Muslims for failing to recite the Qur’an.
“ADF Kasese attack: 42 confirmed dead, CDF joins division commander,” by Steven Denis Matege and Samuel Amanyire, New Vision, June 17, 2023:
…9:30am: Toll at 42
Death toll in Kasese ADF attack currently stands at 42.
22 students killed in attack
17 Students killed by bomb as rebels left the school
2 residents
1 security guard
Authorities are yet to establish the actual number of those abducted by the rebels.8:30am
When the rebels attacked Kasese district-based Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe town council under the cover of darkness on Friday, survivor accounts indicate that the whole area was also facing an electricity blackout. The blackout was a recipe for the success of the rebel attack on the facility.
I hid behind dead bodies, says a student
Mumbere Bright, one of the three students who survived the attack says he hid behind the dead bodies of fellow students to live to see another day.
According to him, the rebels shot the locks of the door to the dormitory after failing to forcibly enter the structure.
“The rebels immediately shot dead the student who was at the entrance after entering the dormitory,” Mumbere says.
“The rebels asked for Muslims among the students, but there were none. The rebels said they do not kill fellow believers. They slaughtered every student in their sight using pangas, axes and sharp objects,” he adds.
According to Mumbere, several students hid under their beds in vain as the rebels shot indiscriminately. Mumbere only survived because he was sandwiched between fellow students who did not make it.
8:00am
‘We do not kill breastfeeding women’
The school director’s wife, Masika Brenda, says she survived being killed by the rebels because she was breastfeeding.
In her account, when the rebels entered her house, which is also within the school compound, they were forced to shoot the lock of the bedroom door.
The rebels found Masika breastfeeding her baby in an attempt to muffle its cries so that they would hopefully leave the area without raiding her bedroom.
On seeing her breastfeeding, the rebels told her that their beliefs discourage them from killing breastfeeding women.
Instead, the rebels chased her and her children from the house and set it ablaze.
The rebels made off with three sacks of posho and two of beans from Masika’s store….
“ISIS-linked rebel group attacks Ugandan school, killing dozens,” by Isaac Yee, Larry Madowo, Bethlehem Feleke and Chris Lau, CNN, June 17, 2023:
Armed rebels attacked a school in western Uganda, killing at least 41 people, mostly students, and abducting six others, Ugandan officials have said.
Some were hacked to death with machetes while others died when their dormitories were set on fire, military spokesman Felix Kulayigye told CNN.
About 20 members of the ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group attacked the Lhubirira secondary school late on Friday, according to Uganda’s military.
The school is situated along Uganda’s border with Congo in the town of Kasese, and educates children between the ages of 13 and 18. Of the dead, 39 were students and two were from the local community, local officials said.
Authorities were still trying to extinguish the fire by Saturday morning. The military suspects more dead bodies may be found, but said there was no one still alive trapped in the school….