Living While an Infidel

LIVING WHILE AN INFIDEL (LWI): THE GARISSA UNIVERSITY MASSACRE

The mass murder of nearly 150 Kenyan Christian college students by Islamic predators is but the latest manifestation of a phenomenon that is now so common in places all around the world that we would be well served to give it a name. I propose we call it, “Living While an Infidel” (LWI). The latter refers to the phenomenon of non-Muslims who invite death upon their heads for no other reason than that they are not Islamic.

On April 2, at around dawn, no more than ten Muslims besieged Garissa University. The latter is in a town—Garissa—with a large Somalian population that is located approximately 90 miles or so from the Somali border. The murderers were members of Shabab, an Islamic paramilitary outfit and Al Qaeda faction that justified the mass murder on the grounds that Garissa is actually Somalian territory, a “Muslim land under colony” courtesy of Kenya. The Kenyan government, according to Shabab, used the university as the agent by which it sought to “spread its Christianity and infidelity.” When it was all over, the carnage consisted of the bullet-perforated corpses of 147 young Christians.

Westerners are continually reminding the more “benighted”—less Politically Correct—of their fellows that the Muslim butchers waging jihad against their non-Muslim neighbors also target other Muslims for destruction. This is true, but lest it be exploited to serve a PC agenda—as it invariably is—we should note that those Muslims who meet the same fate as that of their non-Islamic counterparts are often regarded on the order of “collateral damage.” For example, Shabab not only separated Islamic from Christian students during its most recent foray into mass murder, it employed the same tactic back in 2013 when it preyed on innocents at a crowded shopping mall in Kenya. The Times: “During the shopping mall attack, gunmen separated Muslim from non-Muslim civilians by asking religious trivia questions,” questions regarding the names of “the Prophet’s mother” and his “first wife.” All 67 of the “‘non-believers’ were killed on the spot.”

Shabab further weakens the line, a favorite of the likes of President Obama, that the killers that fill its ranks aren’t really Islamic because they kill Muslims as well as non-Muslims, when it seeks to defend its actions by warning that “all Muslims must stay far away from the enemy and their installations so as not to become human shields for them [.]”

The point is that while Islamic jihadists are of many lands, they are of one mind and heart when it comes to infidels: the latter are to either convert to Islam or die.

However, truth be told, even this is only theoretical, for in practice, as the Garissa massacre among countless other instances of Islamic-on-Everyone and Anyone violence readily reveals, victims are given no choice: Judging from the escapades of Muhammad’s spiritual posterity, it would seem that being an unbeliever demands nothing less than capital punishment.

In other words, these poor Christians in Kenya, like Christians, Jews, and the non-Muslim prey of homicidal Islamic aggression everywhere, are guilty of nothing other than Living While an Infidel (LWI).    

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/jack-kerwick/living-while-an-infidel-lwi-the-garissa-university-massacre/