20 Dead as Muslim Bombers Target Sunday Mass in Philippine Cathedral

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The death toll continues to rise as Muslims wage a holy war on this Catholic-majority nation. The Philippines has been under siege by Muslim fighters for years. A full-on jihad is raging in the Philippines. Bloody terror. The Philippines has made extraordinary concessions to the violent Muslim uprising. But as we know, that only leads to more violence and more demands for an even bigger Islamic state. And so Islamic terror rages on in the Philippines. Worse, these supremacist savages are rewarded. The modern-day manifestation of the caliphate, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), had “observer status” in the “talks” between the Philippine government and the jihadist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Muslim terrorists slaughter and the OIC “mediates.” The Philippines (a former American protectorate and 95% Catholic country) has had to give up territory and “share wealth” with these jihadi rebels. But they still aren’t satisfied, and keep on killing.

“20 Dead as Bombs Target Sunday Mass in Philippine Cathedral,” Associated Press, January 27, 2019:

Jolo, Philippines (AP) — Two bombs minutes apart tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, killing at least 20 people and wounding 111 others during a Sunday Mass, officials said.

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Witnesses said the first blast inside the Jolo cathedral in the provincial capital sent churchgoers, some of them wounded, to stampede out of the main door. Army troops and police posted outside were rushing in when the second bomb went off about one minute later near the main entrance, causing more deaths and injuries. The military was checking a report that the second explosive device may have been attached to a parked motorcycle.

The initial explosion scattered the wooden pews inside the main hall and blasted window glass panels, and the second bomb hurled human remains and debris across a town square fronting the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, witnesses said. Cellphone signal was cut off in the first hours after the attack. The witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press refused to give their names or were busy at the scene of the blasts.

Police said at least 20 people died and 111 were wounded, correcting an earlier toll due to double counting. The fatalities included 15 civilians and five troops. Among the wounded were 17 troops, two police, two coast guard and 90 civilians….

Jolo island has long been troubled by the presence of Abu Sayyaf militants, who are blacklisted by the United States and the Philippines as a terrorist organization because of years of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings. A Catholic bishop, Benjamin de Jesus, was gunned down by suspected militants outside the cathedral in 1997.

No one has immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attack.

It came nearly a week after minority Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation endorsed a new autonomous region in the southern Philippines in hopes of ending nearly five decades of a separatist rebellion that has left 150,000 people dead. Although most of the Muslim areas approved the autonomy deal, voters in Sulu province, where Jolo is located, rejected it. The province is home to a rival rebel faction that’s opposed to the deal as well as smaller militant cells that not part of any peace process….

Aside from the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group, other militant groups in Sulu include a small band of young jihadis aligned with the Islamic State group, which has also carried out assaults, including ransom kidnappings and beheadings.

Abu Sayyaf militants are still holding at least five hostages — a Dutch national, two Malaysians, an Indonesian and a Filipino — in their jungle bases mostly near Sulu’s Patikul town, not far from Jolo….

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brock marks
brock marks
5 years ago

and not a mention in the main stream media about this

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

Accepting Muhammadist sovereign regions will always come back to haunt those that entrusted terrain to Muhammadists.
The goal of Muhammadists is clear, they want a global caliphate.
That’s why it’s wrong of Trump to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia or new Muhammadist Nigeria or to allow Saudi Arabia which owns the biggest share of Twitter to control social media in America.
How long before Trump sells weapons to Abu Sayaf?
Have those that left terrain to Muhammadists not thought of the forcibly declitorized & raped girls, of the atheists & the incitement to the unjust Muhammad-war, law & tyranny?
This shows what an inconsistent ideology nationalism is.
Only globalism is the way.
The danger with deals with Muhammadists is furthermore that those that are responsible for those deals might be Muhammadists.
The same is going on in the USA, Mosques, Mosque morning loudspeakers, forcible declitorization unpunished, an Anti-mosque protester jailed for 15 years in Florida, censorship of media & Wikipedia.
& African slaves in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).

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5 years ago

” Mamma mia !! Islam and Catholicism are the same respectful, peaceful and diverse religion !! ”

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Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago

That one should retire and focus on introspection.

poetcomic1
poetcomic1
5 years ago

China and Burma are the only countries ‘dealing’ with Islam in ANY effective way. That these methods are horrendous just proves the horrendousness of what they are dealing with.

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago
Reply to  poetcomic1

Yes, people have a right to defend themselves.

Tabludama
Tabludama
5 years ago

Religion of Hate alert.

patd
patd
5 years ago

When you have a functioning brain cell and know muslims, this is nothing new. The parasites have a 5.6% pop there and years ago a realist explained the actions of these worthless feral animals. At 5% they attack, destroy, and kill to rid the society that they invaded of non-muslims. When they hit 10% all hell breaks lose. All nations need to kick these ignorant parasites out and kill any that remain! The only good muslim is a dead muslim as they ALL follow their doctrine of hate that requires these actions.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

But they still drag out the old line.
Islam is a peaceful non-violent religion.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
5 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

And they tell the same old lie, because they work for the father of lies.

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago

Egypt, Syria, and now Philippines? And I suppose Turkey, and even Jordan.
Who is the President of the Philippines? Is it Duterte?
Is the UN involved?
Any outcry from any nations? Anyone?
As one can see from this and every other examples, there really is no discussion.
This is an example of domination and whatever it takes to achieve the final solution.
One side gets attacked and killed, the representatives of the other side want to discuss.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
5 years ago

The muslim savages can not and will not live in peace with anyone anywhere.

Roberta
Roberta
5 years ago

But Islam had nothing to do with it….

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Roberta

It must have been the Wiccans or Buddhists!

baitmando
baitmando
5 years ago

Muslims are the lowest form of filth on earth.

Capesnake
Capesnake
5 years ago

An infection can’t be reasoned with, only killing it will you survive.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

I wonder what Pope Traitor will say? Or will he say anything at all?

James Jones
James Jones
5 years ago

He can’t say anything different from what his line has been so far, it would risk calls of “hypocrite” ; in fact he may even double down on it using this incident as proof of the “need for brothership” between the religions.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

I wish the U.S. could do more to help the Philippines, most Filipinos I know are really nice people! And their country deals with Muslim terror on a very regular basis!

spudmans1
spudmans1
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

We liberated them from the Japanese in World War 2 at a tremendous cost of US soldiers and citizens

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
5 years ago

Amass forces, go through the island and eliminate. remove all mosques and traces of the repugnant ideology of islam.
Period.
Throughout history islam has tried to conquer the whole world by force, leaving nothing behind but destruction.
On the otherhand left wing twatts teach our children that it is the British white man who is to blame for slavery. The difference is where we have been the country flourishes. Where islam takes up residence, there is nothing but unrest.

Bill
Bill
5 years ago

This is what their Leftist/Progressive comrades would like to do to all churches

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