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   Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:23:16 JST Flick ??

   https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-70-missing-people-found-34682991

   At least 70 bodies have been found beheaded in a church with most having been held hostage.

   The horrific discovery was made in an abandoned village in the DR Congo this Friday. The victims, reported to be hostages of the ADF rebels, were found in a Protestant church in Kasanga, where people had left after repeated attacks. […]

   The ADF - Allied Defence Forces - are affiliated to ISIS and they are seen as the most deadly armed group in the region. […]

   The dead in the church massacre are understood to be among the dozens of people who have been reported missing since last Wednesday in the village. Horrific details from local media have revealed that they were decapitated using machetes.

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:23:16 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Flick Oh my God, horrendous. No protesting over any of this though, funny that.

     When will it sink in that this is a death cult on the march.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:24:16 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Flick #progress
     These people were clearly Islamophobic.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:24:26 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Flick Terrible, and not a whisper of condemnation.

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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:24:27 JST Flick ??

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     “This latest awful incident is a continuation of the escalating threat posed by ADF militants in the country’s north east region. In 2014, the group intensified attacks in Beni territory in North Kivu province, and since then attacks have spread to the territories of Irumu and Mambasa in Ituri province, and now it’s affecting Lubero. In the last month alone, the group have killed more than 200 people in Baswagha chiefdom,” the charity said, citing a local news website.

     They said that, in 2024, 355 people had been killed in DRC for their faith whilst an estimated 10,000 were internally displaced, which is ten times more than 2023.

     “Houses have been looted and burnt, schools relocated, churches and health facilities closed, and several Christian villages have been abandoned altogether,” Open Door said.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:28:54 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Flick Place your bets for which political pundit comes out with this.
     My money's on the Archbishop of Canterbury or Nish Kumar, especially if they think one of the executioners might be trans.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:50:05 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Flick OJ or Lammy?

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     @HebrideanHecate @Flick Good call. I might put a fiver on them.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 22:04:19 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Flick Grauniad puff piece: Christians might think they have a right to worship, but they need to understand that their colonialist past makes them the aggressors here.
     
     Talcum X on Bluesky: These Christians might have been beheaded, but it was worse for me during lockdown.
     
     David Lammy tweet: While we condemn murder, we want to remind people that Islamophobia has no place in he global new world order.
     
     Ash Sarkar podcast: It's too early to speculate, but this reaction might have gone a bit too far.
     
     Nadia Whittome press statement: This is clearly a result of the previous government's stance on trans rights.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 22:05:51 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Flick Thing is, this is actually what they might say and it would not even surprise me, this is where we are, heaven help us.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 22:11:03 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Flick In a way, the devalued currency of insults is working. At one point people didn't want to be accused of being bigots, but so few people did that it wasn't a problem.
     Then the accusations grew as a way of controlling public thought.
     Now the accusations are everywhere and people are realising that they are weapons.
     Once people understand that (in the case of transphobia and Islamophobia) these are made up words that have a similar meaning - ie nothing less than total capitulation to their religion will be acceptable - it becomes easier to understand and choose a response accordingly.