Kenya attack

The Kenya Defense Force and the US military are working together to defeat terrorist attacks, like the one reported in yesterday's post when one soldier and two civilians were killed at the camp in Kenya last Sunday.

 "US Africa Command -- which is responsible for military relations with nations on the continent -- said Africa Command and Kenya Defense forces repelled the attack."

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Al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab claimed to be responsible for Sunday's attack, but they more commonly target civilian Christians.

Nine Christians traveling by bus in December were ordered to recite the Islamic creed. When they didn't do it, they were "paraded out of the bus and shot dead at close range by those believed to be Al-Shabaab militants."

"In 2018, Fredrick Ngui Ngonde and Joshua Ooko Obila were killed in a similar manner for declining to recite the Islamic creed along the Garissa Masalani road."

"In 2015, 148 students at Garissa University were killed by gunmen while the Muslim students were freed."

There are incidents where non-extremist Muslims have tried to defend Christians. In at least one case, that individual suffered the same punishment.