Militants Divide Kenya Miners by Religion, Then Begin Killing (Warning Graphic Image)

[Warren Stupidity]

The Kenyan miners were marched off in the predawn dark on Tuesday, some barefoot, others shirtless.

The Somali militants methodically separated the Christian workers from the Muslims and took the Christians to the side of a hill, near a gravel pit. Then they ordered the disbelievers to lie face down.

According to the Kenyan authorities, the militants killed 36 people, most of them young men. Many were shot in the back of the head, at close range, and some were decapitated. It appeared all the Muslims had been spared.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/world/africa/mandera-kenya-quarry-shabab-killing.html?_r=0

Of course, as we have learned here, religion is not a cause of violence.

[bvf]

1. Clearly politics is to blame. n/t.

[mr blur]

2. OK, religion was to blame for this. But it was the WRONG religion!

See?

[rug]

3. Cart, horse.

The goal of the Shabab, she said, is “to draw down indiscriminate fire on the Muslim population” and to goad the Kenyan security forces into counterproductive dragnets and purges.

In Kenya, the Shabab have now become the enemy everyone fears. They have been cast out of nearly all of their former strongholds in Somalia by a coalition of East African forces, including the Kenyans, and in September, American commandos killed the longtime Shabab leader.

The group has lost all the major income-producing ports it once controlled. With the Islamic State gaining strength in Iraq and Syria, the Shabab are no longer a magnet for foreign fighters.

Means, end.

At least you did not selectively boldface this time.