While talking heads and politicians in the West love to talk up the dangers of ‘Christian Nationalism’, you almost never hear about certain other groups with an established history of murdering their rivals in cold blood.
To hear how they’re portrayed in the news, you might almost think of ISIS or Al Qaeda, or the other similar splinter groups as political entities — rather than what they see themselves as: religious zealots willing to kill explicitly because they think it brings them closer to their god.
When you stop to remember what’s happening in other parts of the world, where unarmed men and women are being butchered for the crime of kneeling before the wrong God, the overheated leftwing ‘Christian Nationalism’ rhetoric seems sophomoric and clownish by comparison. Especially in light of their deep aversion to associating any jihadist attack with the same religious impulses behind the world’s other jihadis.
With all of the buzz and excitement of the news cycle, or conflicts that the media have deemed newsworthy (Ukraine and Gaza, for instance) it’s easy to miss stories like the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least 70 bodies have been found beheaded in a church with most having been held hostage.
The horrific discovery was made in an abandoned village in the DR Congo this Friday. The victims, reported to be hostages of the ADF rebels, were found in a Protestant church in Kasanga, where people had left after repeated attacks.
Due to fighting involving the ADF, people had been forced to move to nearby villages in the war torn country. “70 bodies were discovered in the church. They were tied up near the locality of Mayba,” said Vianney Vitswamba, coordinator of the local community protection committee.
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The dead in the church massacre are understood to be among the dozens of people who have been reported missing since last Wednesday in the village. Horrific details from local media have revealed that they were decapitated using machetes. —Mirror
What do we know about ADF?
According to the State Department website:
Rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) established ties with ISIS in late 2018. Before its ISIS affiliation, the ADF previously attempted outreach to Islamist terrorist groups for multiple years, including online posts by some ADF members in 2016 and 2017 referring to their group Madinat Tauheed Wal Mujahedeen while displaying an ISIS-like flag. ISIS publicly recognized ADF as an affiliate in late 2018 and claimed responsibility for ADF attributed attacks starting in April 2019 after an attack on an Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) base near Kamango on April 16.
They are an ISIS affiliate. They are beheading dozens of kidnapped and bound hostages in a church.
Maybe, just maybe, this ‘Christian Nationalism’ bogeyman the left loves to duck behind is every big as phony as their IVF scaremongering and the Russian collusion hoaxes.
