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“Use a nail gun to nail the heads & crucify them”: The persecution of Christians, February 2023

In all cases involving forced marriages of underage minority girls, the accused first rapes the victim then uses the cover of an Nikah (marriage certificate) to escape punishment

Newsroom March 21 09:01

The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of February 2023:

Democratic Republic of Congo: On February 12-13, Muslim terrorists massacred 22 people in the 95% Christian-majority nation. The terrorists were members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), “a Ugandan armed group that has operated in east Congo for decades…. It has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and stages frequent deadly raids on villages.” Although Reuters claims that “There was no indication as to the motive” of the attacks, others are more forthright. Discussing the ongoing terrorization of the DRC, the human rights group, Open Doors, wrote:

“These predominantly Christian communities are attacked by an Islamic extremist group with a clear Islamic expansionist agenda…. The ideology, the agenda of establishing a ‘caliphate’ in the region, and the way they operate is the same, and we can see how they afflict terrible suffering on innocent people.”

Similarly, speaking of an earlier attack on his village, when the ADF slaughtered about 20 people, a Christian clergyman further shed light on their motivations:

“They tried to force some of our Christians to convert to Islam. They also tried to force my wife and our four children to convert to Islam, but when they refused to convert, they shot my wife in the head while our four children were cut into pieces with a Somali sword… the rebel militants intend to establish an Islamist state ruled by sharia [Islamic law].”

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Nigeria: On Sunday, Feb. 5, Muslims raided and killed at least five people in Christian villages. Witnesses say that the terrorists were heard to chant Islam’s cry, “Allahu Akbar” [“Allah is the Greatest!”], as they opened fire on the fleeing Christians.

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