“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
Note that “Congo’s army has struggled to contain the ADF.”
Why are so many jihad groups better trained and supplied than the national armies that come out to oppose them?
“Islamic State-linked rebels kill at least 43 in attack in eastern Congo,” Associated Press, April 2, 2026:
GOMA, CongoAP — Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed at least 43 people in eastern Congo, officials said Thursday.
Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, killed the civilians Wednesday night in Bafwakoa village. The Ugandan Islamist group operates on both sides of the porous border.
“They set fire to houses in the village,” Samuel Banapia, a member of civil society in the area, said by phone.
Congo’s military said in a statement that 43 villages [sic] were killed, while local officials said the toll was at least 56, with several people missing and at least two taken hostage.
Congo’s army has struggled to contain the ADF as it battles several other rebel groups in the east. The most prominent is the Rwandan-backed M23, which last year seized major cities in the east….
PRCS USN (ret) says
Some claim this will not stop until Christ returns “in a flaming fire” to execute Justice and bring vengeance.
The horrible results of that fantasy cannot be denied.
This will end when rough men are willing to do violence on their behalf.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Congo (which I still mentally call “Zaire” to avoid confusing it w/ the other country on the Congo river w/ that same name) is pretty much a failed state, and should ideally be broken up into multiple individual states. That way, some of them can be more functional, normal states. Some of it to their east can be annexed to Rwanda and Burundi, since those countries seem to be reasonably functional
OLD GUY says
I have to say, there is one thing that Muslims/Islam are good at. The destruction of society and murder of men women and children for no reason but a belief in what they call a religion.