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ISIS Beheaded 70 Christians in Congo · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, Jay Fallon, thank you for listening.
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  This is the slippery slope. So bit of sad news to talk
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  about. Very, very sad news.
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  Disappointing that I haven't seen any more about it across
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  regular mainstream news news outlets here in Australia
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  anyway. 70 Christians were beheaded. 70 Christians were
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  beheaded in Congo. Believe it was in the church by
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  ISIS. The ISIS is still still going
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  strong in some parts of the world.
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  I'll bring up a couple of articles and we'll listen to
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  there was a report done on CBN. I'm going to bring up this this
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  expert on on issues over there in the Congo and what's
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  happening there. But yes, 70 fairly makes me it
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  makes you wonder. I mean, with all the things
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  going on here in Australia and you look at, you know, having a
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  hard time, you think you're having a hard time when you're
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  going through something, a struggle and then you hear
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  things like this and it's barely even talked about.
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  Definitely not in hardly anything in mainstream media,
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  like I said. Anyway, we'll, we'll read
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  through this article together, OK?
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  This headline from Christianity Daily.
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  Tragic mad massacre 70 Christians beheaded in DRC
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  church attack Following on the video, here is just a picture of
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  people sitting with crosses I think mourning. 70 Christians
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  were found beheaded inside a Protestant church in the North
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  Kiwi province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to
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  reports stating that the victims had been kidnapped by suspected
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  Allied Democratic Democratic forces toward terrorists.
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  The attack occurred in the village of Maiba last Thursday
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  around 4:00 AM, with the armed group ordered residents to
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  quietly evacuate their homes, which led to the abduction of at
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  least 20 Christian men and women.
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  Following the kidnappings, concerned local residents
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  convened to plan a rescue, but the ADF terror group surrounded
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  the village and managed to capture 50 more believers.
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  Those abducted were subsequently taken to a Protestant church in
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  Kasanga, where they were later found to beheaded, according to
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  the ministry Open Doors, The International Christian Concern
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  AUS based persecution watchdog labelled the incident a brutal
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  massacre, noting that the IDF held the hostages for several
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  days before executing them. So Lord knows what went on, you
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  know how they treated the women and children, whatever they did
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  while that was going on. ICC President Jeff King
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  commented on the horrific nature of the incident, saying this
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  recent massacre was 70 Christians lost their lives is
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  not an isolated incident but part of the grim tapestry of
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  violence that has claimed over 6,000,000 lives in the DRC over
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  2 decades of an of a on and off war.
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  The vast majority of the DRC residents are Christian, so this
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  is a religious genocide carried out by radical Islamic
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  terrorists. He emphasised the need for
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  action beyond prayer, advocating for an all African military
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  force to intervene in this failed state to restore order
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  and save countless more people from becoming victims of this
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  endless cycle of bloodshed. So I just want to go to this
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  video that came up on on YouTube and just have a listen to what
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  this expert in this region has to say.
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  Dexter. What can you tell us about this
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  absolutely barbaric atrocity? OK.
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  Well, first of all, it took place in the Democratic Republic
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  of Congo, which is a huge country with about 105 million
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  people that right now is basically in a conflict with
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  neighbouring Rwanda over territory in Kivu, OK.
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  And the violence was perpetrated by an organisation that was
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  affiliated, that is affiliated with ISIS.
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  And The thing is, is that there are some people who have argued
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  that they are essentially working on behalf of Rwanda
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  because Rwanda is a neighbouring country that covets and is
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  actually taking control of an awful lot of the mineral
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  resources in Kivu. And So what this conflict, what
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  this violence has done is demonstrated that the the Congo
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  cannot protect its citizens from violence in Kivu or in North
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  Kivu. And So what people are are
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  worried about is that this is essentially an attempt to kind
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  of destabilise the Democratic Republic of Congo and legitimise
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  Rwandan claims to the minerals in the region.
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  And I don't want to underestimate or downplay the
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  ideological hatred by the perpetrators of this this group
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  who murdered these Christians. But The thing is, is that it's
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  taking place against the backdrop of geopolitics in in
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  Africa. And what has happened is.
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  And so if the Congo under the leadership of Felix, Chief
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  Cicada, can't protect its borders, essentially it's going
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  to have to go for help outside the country and the people live
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  there. And that's why people are
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  worried about it. The Congolese that I've spoken
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  to here in the States say, I, I said, wait a minute, this are
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  you telling me that the Rwandans are supporting this attack?
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  And they said yes. And I said, but Rwanda is a
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  Christian nation. And they said yes, but this will
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  help destabilise the region where all of these minerals that
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  are used for the iPhones that we make that we use in our lives.
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  And so clearly there there's there's an ideological and a
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  theological component going on, but there's also a strategic
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  issue as well. So did you hear that supposedly
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  Rwanda is some kind of Christian nation?
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  How about yet they're supporting or behind supporting this
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  attack, supporting the the takeover because they're looking
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  for the minerals module that verse the love of money is the
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  root of all kinds of evil. Look, there's nothing much more
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  to say about this. What what can you say?
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  It's absolutely disgusting. It's just good that the more
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  people know about it and that we report on it and talk about it
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  and let people know this is going on here in Australia, what
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  we can we do. I mean, because Australia gets
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  so focused on itself, so focused on, you know, all the, all the
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  popular things, you know, so, so focused on lashing out of Donald
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  Trump when he says something they think is wrong against the
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  against Zelensky, you know, so focused on all these other
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  things that really don't have any bearing on our lives.
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  But yeah, we don't want to speak out on things.
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  This this has been going on for a couple of years over in the
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  Congo. And yet it's not, it's not
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  something popular in the Western world to to talk about.
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  That's the unfortunate thing. Anyway, I just thought I'd
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  quickly get on and share about this.
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  Please share, like and share. You know, we need to talk about
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  it a lot more so that we may just bring more attention to it
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  and pray for the people of Congo, these people, these
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  families that are affected times.
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  Anyway, my name is Jay Fallon. Thank you for listening to the
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