Jihadists Targeted Christians in Kenya Killings in Resort Town Chanting “Allahu Akbar” and killing whoever could not recite verses from the Koran

Among the dead were six children of church pastors in Mpeketoni, mostly boys, said one source.

[Muslims] selecting out Christian males as they killed more than 57 people

…. chanting “Allahu Akbar [God is Greater]” and killing whoever could not recite verses from the Koran.

You knew this was going to be the follow-up story. If you recall, during the Westgate mall massacre all the Muslims were released and the non-Muslims were tortured and murdered in cold blood.

Obama has said nothing of Muslims mass murdering Christians in his patriarchal homeland.

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Christians Targeted in Massacre by Al Shabaab in Kenya Killings in coastal town of Mpeketoni could top those of Westgate mall attack. By Our East Africa Correspondent
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 16, 2014 (Morning Star News) – Somalia’s Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels attacked a predominantly Christian town on Kenya’s coast Sunday night (June 15), selecting out Christian males as they killed more than 57 people, area sources said.

The estimated 50 Al Shabaab militants attacked two hotels, a police station and other buildings in Mpeketoni, in Lamu County, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Somali border, in a five-hour assault with guns and grenades that began after 8 p.m. Al Shabaab reportedly took responsibility for the attack, saying it was to avenge Kenya’s military involvement in Somalia and the killing of Muslims.

Sources told Morning Star News the assailants were chanting “Allahu Akbar [God is Greater]” and killing whoever could not recite verses from the Koran.

“The attackers entered my house, took my boy out of the house, then killed him by shooting him, leaving my wife and daughters inside,” one pastor told Morning Star News.

Pastors in Mpeketoni told Morning Star News the town is only 5 percent Muslim, and that most of the people killed were Christians. In two minibuses and two pick-up trucks, the gunmen entered the town, threw a grenade at a gas station and attacked an administrative police station. A pastor said gunmen then opened fire at a public venue where people were watching a World Cup soccer game, killing nine people.

Sources who visited Mpeketoni Mortuary today told Morning Star News they found 57 people killed in attack, though at press time officials said the toll stood at 48. Among the dead were six children of church pastors in Mpeketoni, mostly boys, said one source.
 
“As  I walked down the streets of Mpeketoni town, the situation looked very gloomy, as some bodies were still lying beside the road,” said a source who requested anonymity.

One source told Morning Star News that seven Muslims were killed by accident in the course of the attacks.

On Monday morning (June 16), several bodies were found on the outskirts of Mpeketoni town, some of them taken to a mortuary in Malindi, which could bring the death toll to more than 100, sources said.

While several banks were damaged by grenades, the police station was the hardest hit; sources said eight policemen were killed, several police vehicles were destroyed and the station lay in ruins. The militants reportedly went door-to-door asking residents their religion and killed them if they answered “Christian.”

Before arriving in Mpeketoni, the Al Shabaab rebels, who are linked with Al Qaeda, killed seven people in Kibaoni north of the town, sources said. Before arriving at Mpeketoni, the rebels also killed three people at Hongwe, they said.

Mpeketoni, on the mainland close to Lamu town, is fast-growing town more of than 50,000 people.

After the attack, the gunmen were said to have disappeared into the Boni Forest with police in pursuit.

Besides Al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attacks, some eyewitness said that they saw the Islamic extremist militia’s black flag.

“The attackers were speaking in Somali and Kiswahili language,” said one source. “Some of the attackers looked like Arabs with light skin.”

All area churches were affected in some way by the attack, including the Full Gospel Church of Kenya in the town center.

“The majority of the residents of Mpeketoni are Christians; less than 5 percent are Muslims,” said one pastor.

In mourning and weeping after a night of wailing, churches in Mpeketoni request prayer and financial support as they grieve the losses, pastors said.

The bodies found today on the outskirts of Mpeketoni could render the assault the deadliest since the Al Shabaab attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall on Sept. 21, 2013, which killed at least 67 people.

Kenya’s Christians have suffered other violence recently. On March 23, gunmen entered a Sunday morning worship service in Mombasa County and sprayed the congregation with bullets, killing at least seven Christians and leaving several others in critical condition. Two heavily-armed men wounded more than a dozen of the 200-member Joy in Jesus Church in the Likoni area of Mombasa, where a mosque said to have ties with the Somali Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab has caused tensions.

No one has taken responsibility for the attack, which reportedly involved a third gunman outside the church building shooting at Christians fleeing the attack. Church leaders suspected Islamic extremists had carried it out in reprisal for a raid by armed police on the Masjid Musa Mosque (now Masjid Shuhada, or “Martyrs Mosque”) on Feb. 2, in which more than 100 Muslims were arrested and at least two were killed; most of those detained have been released.

Suspected Islamic extremists likely killed Lawrence Kazungu Kadenge, 59, an assistant pastor at Glory of God Ministries Church, in the Majengo area of Mombasa on Feb. 2 for sharing his faith near the Musa mosque and alerting authorities to security threats, sources said. Some youths reportedly raised the black flag of Al Shabaab at the mosque that day, when the raid by authorities touched off riots.

On Oct. 19, 2013, suspected Islamic extremists in Mombasa killed pastor Charles “Patrick” Matole of Vikwantani Redeemed Gospel Church following riots associated with the same mosque. Matole had received death threats.

UPDATE: Daily Mail has this:

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Clearing the bodies: Witnesses told how about 30 gunmen – believed to be members of Somali terror group al-Shabaab – arrived in the town in minibuses at 8pm yesterday before bursting into residents homes, shooting dead any man they thought was not Muslim.

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Cowardly: At least 48 people were killed in the raid and two hotels were set on fire before the gunmen fled into surrounding undergrowth

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Kenya: Residents look at slain bodies of people killed when unidentified gunmen attacked the coastal Kenyan town of Mpeketoni – the latest in a string of Islamic militant attacks across two continents that have shocked the world

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Bodies piled high: Last night’s atrocity saw at least 48 people killed when gunmen in two minibuses sped into a town on Kenya’s coast, shooting soccer fans gathered to watch a World Cup match in a television hall and targeting hotels and a bank

Another resident, John Waweru, said his two brothers were killed because the attackers did not like that the brothers did not speak Somali.

‘My brothers who stay next door to me were killed as I watched. I was peeping from my window and I clearly heard them speak to my brothers in Somali and it seems since my brothers did not meet their expectations, they sprayed them with bullets and moved on,’ said Waweru.

In Kenya, dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town for hours, killing those who weren’t Muslim and those who didn’t know the Somali language, officials and witnesses said today. At least 48 people were killed and two hotels were set on fire.

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The assault in Mpeketoni began on Sunday night as residents watched World Cup matches on TV and lasted until early on Monday morning, with little resistance put up by Kenya’s security forces. Cars and buildings still smoldered at daybreak.

Authorities blamed al-Shabaab, Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked terror group, who have vowed to carry out terror attacks to avenge the Kenyan military presence in Somali. Along with its Somali fighters, the group also has many Kenyan adherents. By midday Monday the group had not claimed responsibility.

Like the gunmen who attacked Nairobi’s Westgate Mall last year, the Mpeketoni attackers gave life-or-death religious assessment, a witness said, killing those who were not Muslim.

  

Kenyan officials and residents on Islamists’ killing in Kenya

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Carnage: Police said Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamist group was most likely to blame for Sunday night’s assault on the town of Mpeketoni

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Horror: Sunday’s assault is the worst since last September when Al Shabaab gunmen attacked Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, leaving 67 people dead

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About 30 gunmen raced into Mpeketoni in two minibuses, the kind used as public taxis in Kenya, and hit two hotels, a bank and a police station with guns and at least one explosive device

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Brutal: Kenyan residents at the scene of one of the bodies of those killed in Mpeketoni. Police said the attackers targeted only men in the village, leaving women and children alone

At the Breeze View Hotel, the gunmen pulled the men aside and ordered the women to watch as they killed them, saying it was what Kenyan troops are doing to Somali men inside Somalia, a police commander said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to share such details of the attack.

Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the attackers fled into the nearby wilds, known as the Boni Forest after a ‘fierce exchange of fire’ with security forces.

He said 20 vehicles had been set on fire.

At a news conference, Ole Lenku was forced to defend the government’s security record after a string of attacks. He also warned opposition politicians against inciting violence, saying it was possible the attack was linked to politics. The claim was immediately dismissed by security experts who are now a staple of Kenyan news shows.

Mpeketoni is about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of the tourist center of Lamu. Any tourism in Mpeketoni is mostly local, with few foreigners visiting the area. The town is 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border and 360 miles (600 kilometers) from the capital, Nairobi.

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Death toll rising: Authorities have blamed al-Shabab, Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked terror group, for last night’s atrocity in Kenya

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A burnt out van in the town of Mpeketoni following an attack by Somali militants

Kenya has experienced a wave of gunfire and explosive attacks in recent months. The U.S., U.K., France, Australia, and Canada have all recently upgraded their terror threat warnings for the country. U.S. Marines behind sandbag bunkers are now stationed on the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.

The Interior Ministry said that at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, two minivans entered the town. Militants disembarked and began shooting. Kenya’s National Disaster Operations Center said military surveillance planes were launched shortly afterward.

Lamu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the country’s oldest continually inhabited town. The region saw a spate of kidnappings of foreign tourists in 2011 that Kenya said was part of its motivation for attacking al-Shabaab in Somalia. Since those attacks and subsequent terror warnings, tourism has dropped off sharply around Lamu.

At least 67 people were killed in September when four al-Shabaab gunmen attacked an upscale mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Kenya sent its troops to Somalia in October 2011.

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The attack happened in Mpeketoni, which is about 30-miles southwest of the tourist centre of Lamu

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Authorities have blamed al-Shabab, Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked terror group, for the attack last night

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Local people from Mpeketoni in Kenya photographed after the attack by Somali militants last night

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Dangerous: Mpeketoni is about 60 miles from the Somali border and few foreigners visit the region

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