10 years since the terrorist attack at Garissa university in Kenya
Uzay Bulut reminds everyone of the horrifying tragedy when jihadists committed murder at Kenya's Garissa university:
This month marks the ten-year anniversary of when Islamic terrorists stormed the Garissa University College in Kenya, murdering 148 Christian students and injuring at least 79.This is exactly why Kenyan authorities must put a stop to jihadist activities within the country. And also why there'll be no choice but to eventually go to war against Somalia's jihadist entity that enabled these horrors. A serious case must be made as to why the day's coming when there'll be no choice but to go to war against Islamofascism in Africa.
On April 2, 2015, gunmen took over 700 students hostage at the university campus. According to the witnesses, the terrorists asked the victims about their religion and segregated the Muslims from the Christians, intending to execute those who identified as Christians.
Student Collins Wetangula told the Associated Press that when the militants stormed his dorm, he could hear them demanding if residents were Muslim or Christian.
“If you were a Christian, you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun, I thought I was going to die.”
“All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots; nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are,” he said. “The gunmen were saying sisi ni al-Shabab” (That is Swahili for “We are al-Shabaab.”)
The siege ended the same day, after all four of the attackers were killed.
The terrorist group al-Shabaab took responsibility for the attack. The group had also claimed responsibility for a deadly 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. This incident left 67 people dead and over 150 wounded.
Since then, Islamic terrorist attacks in Kenya and many other African nations have remained ongoing. In the latest incident, on March 23, 2025, al-Shabaab killed six police personnel after assailants attacked a base near the Somali border.
Labels: Africa, Christianity, islam, jihad, misogyny, racism, sexual violence, Somalia, terrorism, war on terror
