(Washington Post Op-ed) Colbert King: Christians in the Crosshairs

Hiding the Christian name on his ID with his thumb, Joshua Hakim approached the gunmen and showed them the plastic card. “They told me to go. Then an Indian man came forward, and they said, ”˜What is the name of Muhammad’s mother?’ When he couldn’t answer they just shot him.”

That’s the way it went inside the Westgate Premier Shopping Mall in Nairobi last Saturday. If you said when asked that you were Muslim, you were let go. If you answered no, you stayed. And maybe died.

More than 60 patrons in that upscale mall in Kenya’s capital breathed their last that day, shot dead by Islamist militants from Somalia who call themselves al-Shabab. The massacre was not al-Shabab’s first attack on non-Muslims….

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One comment on “(Washington Post Op-ed) Colbert King: Christians in the Crosshairs

  1. Capt. Father Warren says:

    This is what has been repeated over and over in the U.S. media. This link to [UK] Mail Online, suggests very much otherwise:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434278/Kenya-mall-attack-torture-claims-emerge-soldiers-Eyes-gouged-bodies-hooks-fingers-removed.html

    We better at least entertain the idea that this incident was a trial run for an attack on the US. Plan for the worst, pray for the best.