Here as elsewhere, the idea is to terrorize the Christians into fleeing, so that the land can be fully Islamized. The imperative is to Islamize the entire world.
“At Least 17 Christians Killed in Mozambique Islamist Violence,” Barnabas Aid, September 14, 2025:
Islamic State Mozambique (IS-M) have claimed the killing of 17 Christians in Cabo Delgado Province in the past three weeks.
In just one attack in Muidumbe district on August 26, the terrorists murdered four people and burned down 29 houses.
These attacks are part of an escalation in violence in Cabo Delgado, including skirmishes between IS-M and troops from Mozambique and Rwanda engaged in counterinsurgency operations.
In early August international experts reported that 60,000 people had been displaced by the violence.
More than half a million had already fled northern Cabo Delgado since the Islamist insurgency began in 2017.
IS-M has also set up roadblocks to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid to the region. Travellers are being intercepted and, if they are Christians, charged a tax of around $150-$460 to be allowed to continue their journey.
IS-M has been waging an insurgency in Cabo Delgado since 2017, slaughtering thousands of people.
The group was praised in the IS magazine Al Naba at the beginning of August. The same article contained a demand for Christians to convert to Islam, accept subjugation by IS, or face death.
somehistory says
The devil (the actual one) is in the details, the source of this massive slaughter wherever mobs of muzzies have no fear of governments sending in armies to stop the murders. In most of, if not all, of these African nations, the people in government are also muzziescum or they work with them to take out their hatred for Christianity and Christ on people who can’t defend themselves.
I pray that the few Christians remaining keep their faith and know the promises will be kept.
Troybeam says
Stand tall, protect yourself and stay true to Christ.
Would you just stand there and have these animals kill you without defending yourself?
Would rather die fighting for my beliefs than let them slaughter me. Even in todays world the old ways to protect a village could make a huge difference between life and death.
Fear is paralyzing and how one deals with it means life of death.
jerry glenn says
Muslims will be Muslims.