Ivory Coast Islamists Accused of Massacering 1,000 Christians

News coming out of the Ivory Coast over the past 48 hours is painting a bleak picture involving a thousand civilians hacked to death with machetes by forces loyal to Muslim leader Alassane Ouattara:

U.S. pushing Muslim to replace Christian – WND – “The Ivory Coast is facing the forced Islamist takeover of its government, a move being pushed by the United States and United Nations, whose leaders reportedly are ignoring the nation’s own procedures that determined Laurent Gbagbo, a Christian, legitimately was re-elected president, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin…

The constitutional council had determined that there was sufficient evidence of vote-rigging in the northern part of the country controlled by Islamists to make the final determination that Gbagbo, the incumbent president, had won the hotly contested election last November.”

The next Rwanda? ‘In all districts of Abidjan there is gunfire’ – Herald Scotland – “A massacre in a Roman Catholic mission compound in the heart of the Ivory Coast’s cocoa-producing region could come to be seen as a crucial moment in the West African state’s escalating civil war… Early reports suggested that more than 800 people, largely from the Gbagbo-supporting Gueré tribe, were killed in a single day at the sprawling Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, 300 miles west of Abidjan towards the Liberian border. The attackers seem to have been largely soldiers descended from Burkina Faso immigrant Muslim families loyal to Ouattara.”

Ivory Coast: aid workers find 1,000 bodies in Duekoue – UK Telegraph – “Charity workers who reached Duekoue said it appeared the killings had taken place in a single day, shortly after the town fell to troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the man internationally-recognised as having won last year’s presidential election.”

Saudi Scholar – The World is in Need of Leadership, the Day is Coming When Islam Will Rule the World Again

Saudi Islamic Scholar Dr. Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif: “These events are paving the way for a greater thing to come.  They are paving the way for a great Islam that is coming with force, because the world is in need of leadership … Only Islam is left to lead the world.  The Prophet Muhammad foretold this clearly in several hadiths.  Islamic leadership is coming, whether people like it or not.  Therefore, we must become soldiers of this emerging leadership…”

Ahmadinejad: Arab World Conflicts Will Lead to Collapse of Zionist Regime

“The latest conflicts in the Arab world would eventually lead to the collapse of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday.

‘The latest conflicts will leave no chance for the Zionist regime [Israel] to survive as all the involved countries are against the occupation of Palestine,’ Ahmadinejad said.

He added that the Arab states should be careful not to rely on the United States and its allies, ‘as their ultimate aim is to save’ Israel.

Very soon a new Middle East without Israel and the U.S. would emerge …”  Read more.

El Baradei: We’ll Fight Back Against The Zionist Regime If Israel Attacks Gaza

“Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that ‘if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.’

In an interview with the Al-Watan newspaper he said: ‘In case of any future Israeli attack on Gaza – as the next president of Egypt – I will open the Rafah border crossing and will consider different ways to implement the joint Arab defense agreement.'”  Read more.

Muslim Brotherhood Advocates Egyptian Modesty Police

By DAVID E. MILLER – “Officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s leading Islamic group, have called for the establishment of a Saudi-style modesty police to combat ‘immoral’ behavior in public areas in what observers say in another sign of a growing Islamic self-confidence in the post-Mubarak era.

In the political sphere, the Brotherhood led a successful drive to get voters to approve a package of constitutional amendments. On the street level, at least 20 attacks were perpetrated against the tombs of Muslim mystics (suffis), who are the subject of popular veneration but disparaged by Islamic fundamentalists, or salafis. After some initial hesitation, Islamic leaders have publicly praised the revolution.

‘This is incredibly worrying to many Egyptians,’ Maye Kassem, a political scientist at the American University in Cairo (AUC), told The Media Line.” Read more.

 

As Floods Recede, Disease Breaks Out in South Asia

“Illness – mostly from respiratory problems – has struck more than 20,000 residents in flooded provinces in the South. They are seeking or receiving treatment at government clinics, hospitals, or from mobile medical units, Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said yesterday.

Mobile medical units had made 667 visits to 18,378 patients seeking treatment for respiratory problems (60 per cent), foot rashes and diseases (23 per cent), and skin rashes (5 per cent).

Sixty-nine patients needed psychiatric counselling, with seven suffering deep depression due to relatives killed in the flooding and to property damage and losses.

Quoting the latest update yesterday by the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand, Jurin said 45 people had been killed in the flooding in the South- 19 in the hardest-hit Nakhon Si Thammarat, 10 in Surat Thani, nine in Krabi, three in Phatthalung, two each in Trang and Chumphon.”  Read more.

 

 

NASA: Mysterious Fireball Season Set to Light Up Night Sky

“Spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, which means that birds are chirping, flowersare blooming — and fireballs are lighting up the sky, NASA says.

For some mysterious reason, the number of fireballs — dramatic meteors that blaze brighter than any planet when they burn up in Earth’s atmosphere — peaks at this time of year.

‘Spring is fireball season,’ said Bill Cooke, of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Center, in a statement. ‘For reasons we don’t fully understand, the rate of bright meteors climbs during the weeks around the vernal equinox.'” Read more.

 

 

Radiation in Japan Seas: Risk of Animal Death, Mutation?

By Christine Dell’Amore – “If radioactive material from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant—disabled by the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami—continues to enter the ocean, marine life could be threatened, experts say.

In the past week, seawater samples taken near the nuclear power plant, on Japan’s eastern coast, have shown elevated levels of radioactive isotopes, including cesium 137 and iodine 131, according to the New York Times.

All life on Earth and in the oceans lives with exposure to natural levels of ionizing radiation—high-frequency radiation with enough energy to change DNA. Most such genetic damage heals, but the addition of human-made radiation can make it harder for the body to repair broken genes.” Read more.

 

Iran Christians Face Blasphemy Trial, Death Sentence Possible

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service – “Five detained members of one of Iran’s largest house church movements were to face a trial Monday, April 5, on charges of ‘blasphemy’ which carries the death penalty in this strict Islamic nation, a church representative told BosNewsLife.

Pastor Behrouz Sadegh-Khandjani, Mehdi Furutan, Parviz Khalaj, Mohammed Beliad and his wife Nazly Makarian Beliad, of the Church of Iran denomination, are already serving a one-year prison sentence for ‘crimes against the Islamic Order’ at the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz.

Now the other ‘trial of the servants of the Church of Iran has is been set for April 5. They have been accused of blasphemy against Islam,’ said a church representative with close knowledge about the situation.” Read more.

 

State Dep’t and U.N. Silent About Latest Anti-Christian Violence in Ethiopia

By Lambert Mbom – “While the Obama administration cited human rights atrocities in Libya as part of the reason for U.S. and U.N. military intervention there, neither the State Department nor the United Nations have apparently condemned an outbreak of violence in western Ethiopia, led by Muslim radicals. Since early March two Christians have reportedly been killed, more than 3,000 displaced and at least 69 churches destroyed.

Also, leading human rights organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First appear not to have publicly condemned the attacks.”  Read more.