Gunmen storm Kenya university; at least 15 dead, many hostages feared
Al-Shabab gunmen have attacked a college campus in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya, shooting indiscriminately in dormitories and killing at least 15 people and wounding 65 others, police said. Kenya’s National Disaster Operation Centre added that 280 of 815 students had been accounted for, with efforts under way to track the others.
Witnesses said explosions and heavy gunfire rocked Garissa University College early on Thursday. Ambulances were seen driving injured students to local hospitals.
The attackers were holding an “unknown number of student hostages,” the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement. Some “50 students have been safely freed,” the organization said.
Terrified students streamed out of buildings, some men shirtless, as arriving police officers took cover, witnesses said. Even as security forces cornered the gunmen in a dorm where they could be holding hostages, survivors described a harrowing scene, where people were mercilessly gunned down and bullets whistled through the air as they ran for their lives.
The Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre said on its Twitter feed that “65 have been received by the Garissa Level 5 Hospital from the #GarissaAttack." The number of wounded has been escalating steadily throughout the event.
Most of the wounded had been hit by gunfire and four were in a critical condition, the center tweeted, and four had been airlifted to Nairobi for treatment, it said.
These guys are going bat-shit Kra Kra, Iran is negotiating a nuke and were up in arms about some law in Indiana that wont effect 99.9% of us in our lifetimes.
Poor Kenya, in 2013 there was the West Gate Mall attack, now this school. Then their son from Washington, DC will come for a home visit. (I kid, I kid).
Couldn’t help but notice in one article that the Islamic gunmen specifically targeted Christian students. I see this is no big deal to the MSM per their SOPs just more of Barry’s “random acts of violence”.
He’ll probably insist, as always, that Islam is a peaceful religion so there’s no way these people can really be called “Islamic terrorists”, because it is logically impossible for there to be terrorists in this 100% peaceful religion. Besides, Christians have done FAR worse to Muslims, so they’re the real threat to peace.
I think the selling point would be to the treatment of homosexuals by ISIS and Islam in general.
That doesn’t work. They’ll just throw a red herring. You say ISIS slaughters homosexuals, they’ll point out that some Christians refuse to bake wedding cakes for gay weddings, and that’s just as bad, if not worse, than anything ISIS does. You try to argue back, and the response is “ONE MORE WORD OUT OF YOU, AND I WILL CALL YOU A RACIST HOMOPHOBE!!!”
This isn’t surprising. When I was in Mombasa I saw a lot of persons of middle eastern decent as well as ones that had the Somali look. When I asked the local constabulary about the new villas and construction he told me that it was the influx of pirate money. The gov’t turns their eye away from it because it provides jobs and supports the economy.
I’m willing to not call it a Muslim problem as long as they admit that it will only be solved by Muslims. It’s not a Muslim problem, but needs a Muslim solution.
A Muslim solution for the world’s Islamists problem makes about as much sense as a German solution to Nazism.
People may close their eyes real tight, click their heels three times, and wish it all away. However, Islamist ideology isn’t going away and mainstream Muslims feed the problem, not diminish it.
We aren’t willing to kill enough of them to solve the problem. The only way this is going to end is if enough less radical muslims kill the crazier muslims. When they get bled dry in a Thirty Years War kind of way and they get tired of the dying, that’s when it ends. In that way, ironically, BHO’s lack of engagement brings out the repressed violence in the ME. That isn’t his actually strategy, but his lack of engagement and willingness to engage ground troops leads to the outcome.
