800,000 displaced in Mozambique, 7,600 displaced in Burkina Faso, and the world yawns. This doesn’t fit their favored narrative of Muslims as victims, and so as far as the international media is concerned, it isn’t happening.
“Nearly 800,000 have fled brutal Islamist advance in Mozambique,” Catholic Culture, June 14, 2021 (thanks to Tom):
An estimated 70,000 residents of Palma, a city of 75,000 in northern Mozambique, have fled the city in the past three months, the UN refugee agency announced on June 11—bringing to nearly 800,000 the total of those displaced by the Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province….
Launched in 2017, the insurgency is led by Ansar al-Sunna, with support from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
Neighboring Tanzania is refusing to admit refugees, and “those pushed back from Tanzania end up in a dire situation at the border and are exposed to gender-based violence and health risks as many are sleeping in the open at night in extreme cold without blankets or a roof over their heads,” said Babar Baloch, spokesman for the UN refugee agency.
Father Kwiriwi Fonseca of the Diocese of Pemba told Aid to the Church in Need that the jihadists have abducted hundreds of boys and girls.
“The terrorists use these children and forcibly train them to fight in their ranks, whereas the girls are raped and forced to become their ‘brides,’” he said. “In some cases, when they have grown bored with them, these girls are simply thrown out.”…
Joe says
The main focus needs to be on the Zionists not on a trivial story like this.
gravenimage says
So Muslims terrorizing and murdering people is “trivial”, but the main focus for some reason has to be on the civilized Israelis?
My guess is that “Joe” here more commonly goes by something like “Jabbar”…
DavidR says
Some Black Lives don’t matter as much as others.
gravenimage says
Not to most leftists, anyway…
Infidel says
Does Mozambique not have a government, or are they as failed a state as other African countries like Congo or Somalia? At this rate, the muslims will do to all of Africa now what their ancestors did in the 8th century when they overran everything from Egypt to Morocco
gravenimage says
Pretty much, Infidel:
“Mozambique situation highlights ‘extreme danger’ of failed states”
https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2021/04/07/mozambique-insurgent-attack
gravenimage says
Mozambique: Nearly 800,000 have fled brutal and advancing Islamic jihadis
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Just hideous. The Jihad is expanding expoentially in Africa, and few seem to notice.
OLD GUY says
800,000 people found out that ISLAM is dangerous and brutal. Why can’t the western political leaders figure it out also. Seems to me that ISLAM is the worst thing to happen to mankind. It.brings nothing but violence and murder where ever it shows up. Time to stop the migration invasion of muslims and islamic followers.
Otis says
Countries such as S.Africa, Tanzanian, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Angola have a capable military might that can wipe out these terrorists.Failure to help Mozambique, we should rest assured that jihadism will come into their countries.It has reached a point whereby Islam should not be tolerated in Sub- Saharan Africa at all.