“Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.” (John 16:2-3)
There were 22 dead and 64 wounded. Many of the survivors have lost limbs – and twelve of those children. The bomb was detonated by 22 year old Salman Abedi, who detonated the device in the foyer of the arena just after Ariana Grande had finished the last song of her concert. Her fans are overwhelmingly young girls. The youngest to die in the attack was an 8-year-old girl. The Sydney Morning Herald noted Grande’s new album was a paean to female empowerment. The album is named A Dangerous Woman. “Such women are antithetical to everything ISIS represents and are too subversive of its insane medieval views of women’s roles” found in traditional Islam. Thus the Herald concluded that the “Manchester bombing was a hate crime against women and girls.”[i]
FOX News went one pointed out that the attack signaled a new level of terror. ISIS now feels free to purposefully target women and children. “On Tuesday an article was circulated on pro-ISIS channels, on the messaging app Telegram, under the hashtags #Manchester and #Britain, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. The post reads in part: “A Muslim is allowed to inflict punishment equivalent to the harm that was done to him. Therefore it is permissible to kill the [enemy’s] children, women and elderly. This is justice. We kill their women, children and elderly as they killed our women, children and elderly, in order to break their hearts and humiliate them, in light of the verse, ‘So whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you’ [Koran 2:194]”[ii] However the targeting of children is only new in the West. The Religion of Peace has long made it a practice not to discriminate on the basis of age in their murderous sprees in places like Sudan and the ISIS-controlled territories. And one cannot forget the Beslan, Russia school siege in which Chechen rebels took over a school and held over a thousand hostages. 186 school-aged children died in that event.
While the Manchester bombing dominates much of the news, a war is raging in the Philippines between US-trained government special forces and “rampaging jihadis.” The Daily Mail reports that “ISIS-linked militants reportedly captured nine Christians, tied their hands together and shot them dead.” A policeman was also captured and beheaded at an ISIS checkpoint.[iii]
Meanwhile Europe continues to cater to Islamic immigrants, hiding their crimes, ignoring the explosion of rapes and other crimes and calling for more immigration. They are engaging in cultural suicide. One case in Sweden is particularly informative of the insanity that is gripping much of Europe. A 70-yuear-old woman is being prosecuted – and facing up to 4 years prison – for using Facebook to accurately point out that some Muslim immigrants “set cars on fire and urinate and defecate in the streets.” “This violates the law on incitement to racial hatred, according to the prosecutor.”[iv] It is all part of a pattern. In France, the media regularly suppresses news about the tens of thousands of car burnings that occur there. In the UK the national identity of rapists is hushed up by the authorities. And the God of the Bible is fast disappearing from the culture that gave us the Reformation and other movements that defined the expression of our Faith. In all the official reactions that I heard regarding Manchester, there was no mention of God or prayer. Only “thoughts” were sent out to the victims. It was a sad thing to hear. Europe is in the process of surrendering that continent to the Religion of Peace with its culture of repression and death.
[i] Anne Sommers, Manchester bombing was a hate crime against women and girls, May 26, 2017
[ii] Perry Chiaramonte, Manchester bombing signals new ISIS strategy of targeting children, FOX News, May 25, 2017
[iii] Christians ‘are tied together and shot dead by ISIS militants,’ Daily Mail (UK), May 25, 2017
[iv] Sweden: 70yo Woman Prosecuted For Complaining About Migrants Defecating In The Streets, Information Liberation, May 13, 2017
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