#Cameroonian Soldier

[mysteriouslytransparentwitch]

Here are my thoughts on Harry and Meghan's pseudo-royal tour. It's simply an ego tour. Being black and of Cameroonian origin but having 40% Nigeria like many because it was a vast kingdom.

Where was the history of Nigeria?

Why are soldiers injured? why we don't see Harry and Meghan wearing African designers (ah yes product placement)

Stop with these superlatives Nigeria fell in love with Harry and Meghan lol this obsession with being chosen by Africa as saviors or kings shows how uneducated they are and that their team is white!!!!

Taking selfies does not mean being adored or being better. It shows that in 2024 Harry and Meghan still don't understand the definition of being royal!!!!!

It was all about their ego...

In this little game they will lose in the medium term. Making countries black African and playing egotistical or talking about Diana as if Africa were staying in the 90s. Will turn against them. They are so obsessed with them and being in competition with the BRF (in their heads) they are going to look like walking idiots.

There are so many details that show that are lost.

I stop here.

William et Catherine au Pakistan

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Best World Cup Official Song

Relevant context and links to songs under the cut:

"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a song by Colombian singer Shakira, featuring the South African band Freshlyground. Co-written by Shakira and John Hill, it was released on 7 May 2010 as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Africa. Released in English and Spanish (with the title "Waka Waka (Esto es África)"), the song samples the original Cameroonian makossa song "Zamina mina (Zangaléwa)" by Golden Sounds and the lyrics encourage one to aim for their goals like a soldier on a battlefield.

Gloryland was the official song of the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in the United States. The instrumental version, largely based on the traditional spiritual song "Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down)", was performed by a formation named "Glory". With added lyrics for the World Cup occasion, "Gloryland" became a 1994 song by Daryl Hall and Sounds of Blackness. The song also appears on the official FIFA World Cup album Gloryland World Cup USA 94 under the title Soccer Rocks the Globe.

[aminainseattle]

favorite pan African leaders.

Thomas Sankara:Thomas sankara was marxist leninist, pan african anti imperialism. His ideology encapsulates the hearts and minds of all African people. He was assassinated by the french blaise compaoré, who then took control of burkina faso from 1987 till 2014 when there was an uprising.

Ruben Um Nyobé:Was an anti colonialist Cameroonian leader who was also slated by the French in 1958,nyobe pushed by economic and mental freedom from French and British imperialism, and he was the first African leader to claim independence in front of the un. 

Patrice Lumumba: was killed by the state of Katanga at the will of the Belgium and American government who orchestrated his death as well as millions of other Congolese people.after fighting tooth and nail for anti colonialism in 1960 the king of Belgium “granted” Congolese people their freedom in the most arrogant and aggressive manner possible. When Thomas Sankara responded saying that the wealth of the congo should be left to them, the western powers retaliated by paying some congolese soldiers to kill him. Ironically forcing him to eat the words of his independence day speech.

Muammar Gaddafi:threatened the west by trying to socio economically liberate Libya, he wanted to create a centralized African currency, that was made from gold, that would replace the dollar when trading with Africa. These revolutionary ideas are what got him killed by the french government in 2011

Marcus Garvey: is most favorite for his back to africa movement that connected all African peoples globally. Garveyism gave the b;lack community in the west the autonomy to fight for themselves without the help of their oppressors. 

Malcom X: was an african american revolutionary and devout muslim. He was loved all over the world by the black communities for his ideology that included black power, black economic autonomy, racial pride, and black self defense, by any means possible.

[au-crisis]

Cameroon Kaboom

2 July 2024

Last night, the entire West African Rainforest was blown up by high-grade TNT. Approximately 7,000 citizens from Cameroon and Sierra Leone have been killed, and an additional 20,000 have been injured.

Reports state that 25 Cameroonian soldiers were seen transporting TNT into the forrest late at night. The world mourns the lost of the fallen, and demands that the AU takes action in response to this tragedy.

[afriupdatenews]

Council chairman decries presence of Cameroonian soldiers in Taraba communities

Council chairman decries presence of Cameroonian soldiers in Taraba communities

Cameroonian soldiers. PHOTO: REUTERS/Bate Felix Tabi Tabe An alarm has been raised by the local council chairman of Kurmi in Taraba State, Amamzalla John Danladi Joseph over the alleged invasion of soldiers from the neighbouring Republic of Cameroon of some villages in his council. The foreign soliders, who according to him had invaded Mairogo and Tosso villages, are said to be going about…

[gwendolynlerman]

Separatist and irredentist movements in the world

Bakassi

Proposed state: Democratic Republic of Bakassi

Region: Bakassi, Cameroon

Ethnic group: Oron

Goal: independence

Date: 2006-present

Political parties: -

Militant organizations: Bakassi Movement for Self-Determination

Current status: low-level conflict

History

1884 - the British Empire starts to exercise control over Bakassi

1994 - Cameroon takes the matter of the possession of Bakassi to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

2002 - Bakassi stops being part of Nigeria

2006 - Greentree Agreement; Bakassi declaration of independence

2008 - new declaration of independence

2013 - Cameroon gains full sovereignty over Bakassi

In the late 19th century, Queen Victoria signed a treaty of protection with the inhabitants of Akwa Akpa (Old Calabar), which included the region of Bakassi, that enabled the British to take control of the territory. Later, the region became part of Nigeria.

Cameroon decided to take the matter to the ICJ, as it claimed possession of Bakassi. The Court ruled that the territory belonged to Cameroon. Nigeria and Cameroon signed the Greentree Agreement to resolve their border dispute.

However, Bakassi’s inhabitants opposed the transfer to Cameroon and declared independence. This led to clashes between Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers, as well as between Pro-Nigerian militia and Cameroon.

The Bakassi independence movement can be framed within the wider Ambazonia struggle.

Oron people

The Oron people are a multi-ethnic tribe that is mainly found in Cameroon and southern Nigeria. They speak Oron, a Cross River language of the Atlantic-Congo family.

There are around 1.4 million Oron. The main religion is Protestant Christianity, but they also have their own cosmology based on ancestral spirits, life after death, and good moral values.

The Oron Nation is made up of nine clans: Afaha Ukwong, Ebughu, Afaha Ibighi, Effiat, Etta, Afaha Oki-uso, Afaha Idua (Iluhe), Afaha Okpo, and Afaha Ubodung.

Vocabulary

Afaha - clan

Ãkpákip Ōró - Oro Nation

Nsíŋ Oro - Oro language

[dear-indies]

good afternoon can you please give me poc facelaims with horror resources born between 1990-2001 ?? and thank you

Women:

Go Min-si (Sweet Home) Korean.

Go Youn-jung (Sweet Home) Korean.

Melinda Shankar (Slasher) Indo-Guyanese. 

Manon Bresch (Mortel) French-Cameroonian.

Kiana Ledé (Scream) African-American, Mexican, Cherokee, Swedish.

Keke Palmer (Scream) African-American. 

Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (The Order & Blood Quantum) Mohawk. 

Jaz Sinclair (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) African-American / Italian, Irish, Swedish,

Tati Gabrielle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) Korean / African-American.

Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) Korean / German.

Sonoya Mizuno (The Domestics & Maniac) Japanese / English, Argentinian.

Aoi Yū (Tokyo Ghoul) Japanese.

Kara Royster (Supernatural) African-American / French-Canadian, Irish, possibly other.

Clark Backo (Supernatural) Black Canadian.

Amber Midthunder (Only Mine) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Hudeshabina Nakoda Sioux, Sissiton-Wahpeton Oyate Dakota Sioux, Norwegian / Chinese, English.

Hannah John-Kamen (Killjoys) Nigerian / Norwegian.

Anya Chalotra (The Witcher) Indian / English.

Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and The Winter Soldier) Afro-Jamaican / Irish. 

Anna Lambe (Trickster) Inuit - bisexual. 

Zazie Beetz (Joker) African-American / German. 

Carmela Zumbado (You) Cuban.

Alba Flores (Money Heist) Spanish Romani. 

Men:

Brandon Soo Hoo (Bedeviled) Chinese.

Kiowa Gordon (Blood Quantum) Hualapai, English, Scottish, Danish, Manx.

Forrest Goodluck (Blood Quantum) Navajo, Hidatsa, Mandan, Tsimshian, 1/8th Japanese, 1/8th Norwegian, some French, English, and German.

Mustafa Alabssi (Black Summer) Syrian - deaf.

Avi Nash (The Walking Dead) Indian.

Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) Korean.

Tyler James Williams (The Walking Dead) African-American.

Lucien Laviscount (Supernatural, Scream Queens) Afro-Antiguan / English.

Chance Perdomo (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) Afro- Dominican and Guatemalan.

Shamier Anderson (Wynona Earp) Afro-Jamaican. 

John Boyega (Attack the Block) Yoruba Nigerian.

Chris De'Sean Lee (Legacies) African-American. 

Aria Shahghasemi (Legacies) Iranian.

Ryan Potter (Titans) Japanese / Ashkenazi Jewish, Swedish, English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.

Emilio Sakraya (Warrior Nun) Moroccan / Serbian. 

Ludi Lin (Mortal Kombat) Chinese. 

Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer) Caxcan Mexican / European.

Alberto Rosende (Shadowhunters) Colombian / Cuban, 

Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) Mexican - queer. 

David Castañeda (The Umbrella Academy) Mexican. 

Non-Binary:

Sivan Alyra Rose (Chambers) Chiricahua Apache, Afro Puerto Rican - genderfluid - she/her they/them - pansexual.

Chella Man (Titans) Hongkonger, Jewish - trans genderqueer - he/him - deaf.

All of which have resources! The older suggestions have younger roles! I’ve placed those not specially from horror media but worth mentioning at the end of each list and @consultthemuses also helped me with this masterlist so sending a big thanks their way! 

[creepingsharia]

“Kidnapped, Raped, Humiliated, and Forced to Convert to Islam”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2019

Martyred on Christmas Day: Islamic State in Nigeria videotaped the slaughter of 11 Christians

by Raymond Ibrahim

The following are some of the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of December, 2019; they are categorized by theme:

The Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria:  The Islamic State in West Africa Province released a video of the execution of 11 Christian aid workers on the day after Christmas.  The brief video shows one Christian being shot followed by 10 others being beheaded by masked jihadis standing behind the tied hostages. “This message is to the Christians in the world,” a man’s voice narrates over the footage. “Those who you see in front of us are Christians, and we will shed their blood as revenge for the two dignified sheikhs, the caliph of the Muslims, and the spokesman for the Islamic State [who were killed by the U.S.]”  Before being slaughtered, the captives reportedly made pleas, including to Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari, to save them.  Buhari, who has himself been accused of turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria—and even abetting it—condemned the executions, adding that “these barbaric killers don’t represent Islam.”

A separate report cited by Fox News found that more than 6,000 Christians have been slaughtered by Islamic terrorists since 2015—a thousand of them in just 2019.  According to the report,

They attack rural villages, force villagers off their lands and settle in their place — a strategy that is epitomized by the phrase: “Your land or your blood.” In every village, the message from local people is the same: “Please, please help us! The Fulani are coming. We are not safe in our own homes.”

The nomadic Fulani herdsmen “seek to replace diversity and difference with an Islamist ideology which is imposed with violence on those who refuse to comply,” Baroness Caroline Cox commented. “It is—according to the Nigerian House of Representatives—genocide.  Something has to change—urgently.  For the longer we tolerate these massacres, the more we embolden the perpetrators. We give them a ‘green light’ to carry on killing.”

Kenya: After armed Muslim militants stopped and stormed a passenger bus near the Somali border on December 6, they proceeded to separate the 56 passengers into Muslim and Christian groups—reportedly by asking them to recite the Islamic shahada (creed); 11 of those who would or could not due to their Christian faith, were paraded out of the bus. “They were told to lie on the ground face down and were shot at close range,” one report said. “The militants then ordered the bus to leave with the rest of the passengers.” The attackers apparently also relied on whether a passenger appeared to be local (meaning likely Muslim) or not (meaning likely Christian).  “The majority of the population in this region is Muslim,” Rev. Nicholas Mutua, a Catholic priest, explained. “The non-locals had come from other parts of the country and they would definitely have been Christians.” “One of the Muslim men gave me Somali attire, and when the separation was being done I went to the side of the Muslims, and immediately we were told to get [back] into the bus,” a survivor recalled. “As the locals were getting back into the bus, the non-locals who were left behind were fired upon with gunshots.”   Separating Muslims from Christians before slaughtering the latter has long been the modus operandi of Islamic terror groups.  In the Garissa University College massacre of 2015, when militants slaughtered nearly 150 people, a survivor explained how the Islamic terrorists burst into a Christian service, seized worshippers, and then “proceeded to the hostels, shooting anybody they came across except their fellows, the Muslims.”  Another witness said the gunmen were opening doors and inquiring if the people inside were Muslims or Christians: “If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot.  With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die.”

Burkina Faso:  On Sunday, December 1, Islamic terrorists stormed a church during service and opened fire; 14 worshippers were killed and many injured.  The gunmen fled on motorbikes following the massacre.  Discussing this incident, a separate report offers statistics:

Burkina Faso’s Christian minority used to live in relative peace. Now the violence and persecution of Christians has quadrupled in the last two years and is expected to increase by [another] 60%…  Radical Islamic groups such as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and other local insurgents have pushed nearly half a million people from their homes.  Sunday’s attack comes after a Catholic priest was executed in February, five Christians were killed during an attack on a Church service in April, and 13 Christians were killed in a Church arson attack and procession in May. Most recently was on October 26 when unknown gunmen stormed a Christian village and reportedly killed 12 and abducted several others.

Cameroon:  In just the first half of December, Islamic militants “began an onslaught of attacks on Cameroonian Christians that left 7 dead and 21 captive to the terrorist group.”  According to the report:

On December 1, gunmen opened fire at a funeral in Mayo Sava district, in the far north of Cameroon. Four were killed and three were wounded. In another attack on the same day, militants ransacked homes and looted them of food and basic necessities. The next night, three more people were murdered and another was injured in another looting of Zangola village. A few days later on December 5, militants methodically searched for children and young adults and kidnapped them. In the middle of the night they came and stole nine girls and twelve boys from their homes, ranging from 12 to 21 years old. Four of the captives managed to escape. While en-route to their base, the Boko Haram militants attacked Tahert village where one girl was injured and a motorbike was stolen. Nearly 300 people have been killed in Cameroon in 2019 by Islamic militants, with 80% being civilians.

Pakistan: Naveed Masih, a 24-year-old Christian man was found hanging from a tree, dead, because he had earlier prevented Muslim men from harassing and pressuring a married Christian mother to convert to Islam.   Due to this, “a mob of 20 individuals attacked Naveed’s house,” the report says. “The mob beat Naveed and damaged many of the family’s belongings. The mob further threatened Naveed to not interfere with their efforts to convert the Christian woman.”  Two months later, he was lured to a supposed parley.  When he arrived at the meeting point, “he was brutally tortured and he was hanged from a tree as a result of protecting a Christian woman’s faith,” his father, Herbert, recalled:   “Carrying your son’s dead body in your arms is heartbreaking and unbearable.  It almost ended my life when I had to shoulder my son’s funeral….  My family is still under threats to withdraw the case against the culprits.  However, I have nothing to lose now.”

In a separate but similar incident in Pakistan, after sexually abusing him, two Muslim men killed Daud (“David”) Masih, a Christian teenager, on December 14 in a factory.  According to a local Christian activist, “Daud and his elder brother started working at the embroidery factory during the night shift about three months ago. They were additional breadwinners for the family as the mother is sick and their father is a day laborer.”  Weeks before the murder, Masih had complained about the “unethical behavior from his Muslim co-workers.”  Because the owner of the factory did not seem to care or intervene, Masih stopped going to work, until the owner assured him of protection.  He was abused and killed on the same day he returned to work; one of his murderers is allegedly the brother of the owner.  Last reported, the individuals accused of the crime have not been arrested and were pressuring and trying to bribe the victim’s family to drop the case:  “Although I am a poor Christian woman, I want justice for my son and punishment for those who killed Daud,” his mother said. “I will never go for compensation or reconciliation, as my son was killed brutally.”

Attacks on Churches

Philippines:  During Sunday Mass on the evening of December 22, Islamic terrorists detonated a bomb just outside Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Cotabato, a city on the island of Mindanao.  Twenty-two people were injured in the explosion, 12 of whom were soldiers patrolling the church as part of security measures adopted during the Christmas holidays.  Parish priest Zaldy Robles, who called it “a cowardly act on the eve of the Christmas celebrations,” said “casualties would have been unimaginable” had the bomb reached the inside of the church.  In 2009, a similar bomb attack on the same cathedral in Mindanao killed five people and injured 34.  Most of the Philippines’ Muslim minority live in Mindanao, which has been a hotbed of terrorism in recent years.  Among other attacks, “Islamic State-affiliated terrorists were blamed for twin suicide bombings at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cathedral in Jolo, Sulu Province on Jan. 27 [2019], which killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100. Jolo is a small island off the coast of Mindanao.”

Iraq: The Catholic Church of Divine Wisdom in Baghdad, built in 1929, was invaded on the day after Christmas in what was described by one report as a “hostile takeover attempt”: “Details remain scarce. Security footage of the invasion show that an Islamic leader was present amongst the invaders, who attempted to open the gate and remove the cross.”  Later reports revealed that the church had been “marked for demolition by the authorities, together with some surrounding buildings, as part of a redevelopment programme in the city,” but that “local residents say the project is driven by commercial and political forces, and does not take into account the significance of the church for the community.”

Indonesia: Several reports appearing around Christmas indicated the difficulties churches experience during the holiday season.  In “Aceh Christians forced to celebrate Christmas in a tent,” the BBC reported on December 23 that:

Christians in the Indonesian province of Aceh are preparing to celebrate Christmas in makeshift tents in the jungle.  Their churches were destroyed four years ago by Islamic vigilante groups and the police.  Indonesia – the world’s largest Muslim population – has a pluralist constitution that is meant to protect the rights of followers of all the major faiths.  But Church leaders in Singkil Aceh say the local authorities are stopping them from rebuilding….

Separately, authorities on the Indonesian island of Sumatra banned Christians from celebrating Christmas in private homes.  According to Sudarto, the director of an intercommunity initiative, “They did not get permission from the local government since the Christmas celebration and worship were held at the house of one of the Christians who had been involved. The local government argued that the situation was not conducive.”  He added that the ban on Christians to celebrate Christmas and the New Year “has been going on for a long time [since 1985], so far they have been quietly worshiping at the home of one of the worshipers, but they have applied for permission several times. Yet the permit to celebrate Christmas was never granted. The house where they performed worship services was once burned down in early 2000 due to resistance from residents.”

Discussing yet another incident, the Jakarta Post reported on Christmas Day that “Christians in Jambi city, Jambi, still struggle to find joy on the eve of the holy day since the authorities sealed a number of local churches in the city….  Several Christians in the region were aghast when they were welcomed by a notice plastered on the closed front doors of the Assemblies of God Church (GSJA) informing them the church was sealed on Dec. 24, instead of the customary Christmas prayers and services.”  This church is among three churches in the area to be closed down by the Jambi city administration following protests by local Muslim residents who cited the lack of building permits.  “This is the second Christmas celebration to feel depressing for us,” said its pastor Jonathan Klaise on Christmas Eve.  “It’s a difficult situation. We have no other choice but to cope with it…  We can only hope that we will soon be able to pray in our church.”

Attacks on Muslim Converts (“Apostates”)  to Christianity

Uganda: A Muslim man with three wives abandoned one of them and their three children on learning that she had converted to Christianity.  Problems began for Florence Namuyiga, 27, when she took her eldest son, aged 7, to the church that she had been secretly attending following her conversion last May. “That evening, while back at home, my son began singing some of the Christian songs that were sung in the church,” she explained. “My husband began questioning me where the son picked such kinds of songs, but I kept quiet. He then turned to our son, who narrated what he saw in church of both men and women worshipping together in one big hall. Thereafter we went to bed with no communication with my husband.”  Then, on November 29, her husband, Abudalah Nsubuga, 34, insisted she to go to Friday mosque prayers.  “I refused,” she said. “He started beating me up with sticks, blows and kicks.

When I fell down, he left me and went to the mosque. I began bleeding with serious injury on my left arm. That evening he did not come to the house but slept in the house of one of my co-wives.”  On the next day,

He arrived [home] and pronounced [ritual Islamic] words of divorce and threatened to kill me if I remained in the homestead…  There and then I left the homestead, leaving all my belongings behind….  I have been supporting my three children by washing peoples’ clothing around the village.  Indeed life is quite difficult for me and the children. I have realized that following Jesus is not easy. Sometimes I spend sleepless nights thinking on my future and that of my small kids, especially their school fees.

Iran: On December 20, Mohammad Moghiseh, the head of Tehran Revolutionary Court, sentenced nine Muslim apostates to a total of 45 years in prison.  “These Christian converts have objected to the verdict issued by the Tehran Revolutionary Court and are awaiting final appeal,” the report states. The day before sentencing, on December 19, the US Treasury Department accused Mohammad Moghiseh and another Revolutionary judge of violating justice and abusing the rights of religious minorities and others.

General Abuse of and Discrimination against Christians

Tajikistan: A Christian pastor who was sentenced to three years in prison on the charge of “singing extremist songs in church and so inciting religious hatred,” was released on December 18, 2020, after serving two-and-a-half years.  In 2017, authorities had raided the Good News of Grace Protestant Church in Khujand. Many of the congregation were beat, lost their jobs, and faced other forms of repercussions in the wake of the raid on their church.  Pastor Bakhrom Kholmatov, a 43-year-old married father of three, was then sentenced on the aforementioned charges.  According to the report,

Officials claimed that Christian songs found on his computer and the book More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell are “extremist materials.” They alleged that religious “experts” recognised the songs Praise God, O Unbelieving Country, Army of Christ and Our Battle is Not Against Blood and Flesh as ��extremist and calling people to overthrow the government.”

“I’d like to express my huge gratitude to all the people who supported and prayed for me, my family and my church,” Kholmatov said in a statement. “All these three years I felt your prayers, they helped me to stand, they helped my precious wife and children, they helped the members of my church who were left without a pastor, then kicked by the authorities out of our building.”

Iran:  “The Iranian regime has begun cracking down on evangelical Christians in Iran in the run-up to Christmas,” Al Arabiya reported on December 15. “Security officials routinely arrest Christian citizens during the Christmas season, according to the 2019 US Commission for International Religious Freedom report, which found the regime arrested 114 Christians during the first week of December in 2018.”   Dabrina Tamraz, who experienced persecution as a Christian before she managed to flee the Islamic republic nine years ago, shed light on the plight of Christians by recounting her own experiences:  “Christmas celebrations make it easier for Iranian authorities to arrest a group of Christians at one time,” said the escapee who currently resides in Europe.  During a family Christmas gathering in Tehran in 2014, “My brother opened the door only to be confronted with about 30 plain clothes officers who pushed their way in. They separated men from women and conducted strip body searches. Three people, including my father, were arrested and charged with acting against national security and conducting evangelism.”  The report adds that “The Iranian government considers evangelism—the sharing of the Christian faith—a criminal act.”

As another example of the persecution and discrimination Christians routinely experience around Christmas, the annual Armenian Christian market at Tehran’s Ararat Club, which was supposed to be held between Christmas Eve and the New Year, was canceled by officials.  According to that report,

In a situation where the economy is declining and the business market is sluggish due to the policies of the Islamic Republic … this cancellation for preventing ‘Christian propaganda’ is an irrational decision.  The cancellation of the market, which is a clear sign of discrimination and inequality, has received widespread criticism in the Armenian community… Every year on the eve of Christmas, pressure on the Iranian Christian community by various government agencies is increasing, including arresting Christian activists, obstructing the business of Christian sellers, even those who sell Christmas decorations!…  Christian compatriots are subject to double discrimination, whether in the labor market, employment, job position or in violating their right to run private businesses.

Pakistan:  “A 14-year-old Christian girl from Zia Colony, Karachi, was kidnapped, forcibly converted and married off to a Muslim man,” Asia Times reported on December 3. “Our daughters are insecure and abused in this country,” the mother of Huma Younus, explained. “They are not safe anywhere. We leave them at schools or home but they are kidnapped, raped, humiliated, and forced to convert to Islam.”  The eighth grade student was seen by neighbors being forcefully dragged into a car by three armed men.  “She was kidnapped by Abdul Jabar, a Muslim,” her father said.  After the girl’s family went to police, Jabar sent documents to the family over WhatsApp: “He asked us not to be worried for Huma as she is now his wife and has entered into Islam”; however, “the religious conversion documents are fake,” said the mother, noting that the date of the document of the 14-year-old’s alleged conversion is the same date of her abduction.  “My daughter’s life is in danger. She could be tortured or killed. I beg the authorities to recover my daughter as soon as possible.”   “Christian girls are being abused and forcefully converted,” Fr. Saleh Diego, Director of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Karachi, said while discussing this latest incident:

The kidnappers are misusing religion for their motives and spoiling the lives of hundreds of young girls from the marginalized Christian community….Huma must be recovered with no further delay. This unethical and illegal practice must also be stopped and the kidnappers of Huma and other girls must be brought to justice and punished for their crimes.

To date, police and courts have largely been unresponsive.  “Abducting for the purpose of forced conversion and marriage is a major issue in Pakistan,” Asia Times concludes. “Most of the victims are Christian and Hindu girls and young women, forced to wed against their will to much older Muslim men.”

United Nations: According to a December 4 CBN News report, “Christian Syrian refugees … have been blocked from getting help from the United Nations Refugee Agency … by Muslim UN officials in Jordan.” One of the refugees, Hasan, a Syrian convert to Christianity, explained that Muslim UN camp officials “knew that we were Muslims and became Christians and they dealt with us with persecution and mockery. They didn’t let us into the office. They ignored our request.” “Hasan and his family are now in hiding,” the report adds, “afraid that they will be arrested by Jordanian police, or even killed. Converting to Christianity is a serious crime in Jordan.”  Timothy, another Jordanian Muslim convert to Christianity, confirmed: “All of the United Nations officials [apparently in Jordan], most of them, 99 percent, they are Muslims, and they were treating us as enemies.”  Addressing this issue, Paul Diamond, a British human rights lawyer, elaborated:

You have this absurd situation where the scheme is set up to help Syrian refugees and the people most in need, Christians who have been “genocided,” they can’t even get into the U.N. camps to get the food. If you enter and say I am a Christian or convert, the Muslim U.N. guards will block you [from] getting in and laugh at you and mock you and even threaten you…. [saying]  “You shouldn’t have converted. You’re an idiot for converting. You get what you get,” words to that effect.

Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book, Sword and Scimitar, Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

About this Series

The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed in 2011 to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that occur or are reported each month. It serves two purposes:

1)          To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.

2)          To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.

Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed dhimmis, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.

Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.

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Cameroon

Through the hills to Cameroon and Central Africa.

I then got lost.

I was so pleased and relieved to be back on the bike that I ploughed on my way happily without regular due regard to my maps. Amateur error. That negligence cost me. I lost the trail and was completely in the wrong place. The trails became increasingly gnarly and were often no more than footpaths, and none of them showed on the map. I fell twice, picking up some very respectable bruises the second time. Added to the difficult trails was the consideration that I might inadvertently cross the border and find myself in Cameroon without a passport stamp, as the villages I passed through seemed to alternate between belonging to Nigeria and belonging to Cameroon. After a while I paid a local to guide me to a village from where, if the maps were true, there was a track going in the right direction. 

I finally made it to Mayo Darle in Cameroon and got my passport stamped. However, I also had to get a passavant stamped to bring my bike into the country (as with every country). The chap whose job it was to sign the passavant took nineteen hours to arrive. Yes. Nineteen.

I spent the night nearby at a military checkpoint with a friendly soldier, who took me out for some food.

Roderick chose the following morning to prove that he is now a fully-fledged rooster.

I had been alerted to this new and unwelcome development a couple of days before when Roderick started experimenting with his crowing. At the time I had thought his attempts impressive but with hindsight I realise he was just warming up and readying himself for a time when he was sharing a room with me (which is unusual) and a Cameroonian soldier. He started at 5.20am and was so pleased with himself and his new found ability that he did not let up for quite some time. 

The police chief did not arrive to sign my passavant until 1pm.

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Cameroon: Five soldiers killed in Far-North attack by gunmen

Cameroon: Five soldiers killed in Far-North attack by gunmen

Five Cameroonian soldiers were killed in an unclaimed attack on a military post in the far north of the country, where the Cameroonian army is fighting Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, sources told AFP on Tuesday. local.

The five soldiers, including an officer, were killed Monday night in the village of Sagme near Fotokol, according to local sources and relatives of the dead soldiers. Three…

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He is a hero to many, but a notorious criminal to the Cameroonian government for vandalizing colonial era statues and monuments built by French colonialists in the economic capital Douala. 41-year-old Andre Blaise Essamadescribes himself as an activist who aims to replace all the colonial statues in the city with those of national heroes who fought for the bilingual country’s independence. He gained national attention after he launched his campaign in 2015 when he beheaded the statue of French colonial hero General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque erected in Douala since the colonial era. He flaunted his conquest by sharing on his blog and on social media professional photographs of himself posing with the statue’s head. Essama was arrested and sentenced by a Douala-Bonanjo court to three months in prison and fined for “destruction of public property” after he pulled down the French colonial “statue of the unknown soldier” in the city centre days after the first “conquest”. He demanded a statue of Ruben Um Nyobé be erected in those spots in honour of the anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader who was slain by the French army. In 2016, Andre Blaise Essama again beheaded the repaired statue of the French general which fetched him six months in jail after refusing an offer to pay for its repair instead of a prison term. A few months after his release from prison in December 2016, the activist erected a statue of John Ngu Foncha – a pivotal figure in the unification of the British and French Cameroons – at a busy intersection in the city. He was hailed by his growing supporters for erecting the statue which did not see the light of day. Unidentified angry looking policemen pulled the statue down in a few hours and dragged it away. https://face2faceafrica.com/article/cameroonian-nationalist-chopping-off-heads-colonial-statues-cameroon?fbclid=IwAR2bQNCdrGdDwoN7zU4_3Sxzk30CFUI3aThBSQlldMz3GV8B8TKbKCiB0rU https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGOKVvHGZK/?igshid=cqnif2j0lzag

[worldcupsongstournament]

Best World Cup Official Song

Relevant context and links to songs under the cut:

"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a song by Colombian singer Shakira, featuring the South African band Freshlyground. Co-written by Shakira and John Hill, it was released on 7 May 2010 as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Africa. Released in English and Spanish (with the title "Waka Waka (Esto es África)"), the song samples the original Cameroonian makossa song "Zamina mina (Zangaléwa)" by Golden Sounds and the lyrics encourage one to aim for their goals like a soldier on a battlefield.

Boom is a song by American recording artist Anastacia, which served as the official song of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. Co-written with and produced by Glen Ballard, it was released as a single on March 20, 2002. The song was included on The Official Album of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, as well as on the collectors edition of Anastacia's second studio album Freak of Nature (2001).

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Gerard Cédric Berger-Lacroix is a 38-years-old African-European man. Born of a Cameroonian mother, Nadine Berger, and a French father, Cyril Lacroix, Gerard was mostly raised in France, his home city Strasbourg in the north-east of the country.

Since childhood Gerard had showed a disposition towards the military career, thanks to his love for precision, schedules and hard work; his family could not expect anything less, since the Lacroix’s had a military history of great relevance.

His studies were focused on his future as an operative soldier, the peak of it was the admission at the illustrious École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr where he impressed most of his superiors thanks to his dedication, his determination, his love for his country and his innate skill as a leader. Gerard’s military career started officially on his 22nd birthday as a special operative on the German-French border, where hundreds of rebellious omnics had formed a command centre. In six months, Gerard’s war merits gained him a place as his unit’s commander, and later commander of the entire platoon. What Gerard excelled at was covert ops, information gathering and espionage-oriented missions; he was offered a place in DGSE, France’s external intelligence agency, but he preferred to continue his career inside the military.

Gerard’s platoon worked closely with Overwatch during the Omnic Crisis, and in particular, due to its deployment, with Overwatch member Reinhardt Willhelm. When the war was won, Lacroix’s name was suggested as a member for the newly founded Overwatch covert team Blackwatch.

There, Gerard worked closely with Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison (under the callsign “Prophète”) to flesh out the team and its objective; and it became clear that one of Blackwatch’s main objectives had to be stopping Talon.

Shortly after, in Paris, Gerard met the étoile ballerina Amélie Guillard. He was 27. In a year, he and Amélie got married. In the meanwhile, Gerard’s career inside the organization proceeded fast. Thanks to his successful operations devised against Talon, Lacroix was assigned his own squad, named Overwatch Anti-Terrorism Division (OWATD) whose duty was to operate espionage and counter-espionage missions against major terroristic organizations (Talon, Beznă, and several others); to put it in Morrison’s words, Gerard’s division was “Blackwatch’s public façade”. For five years Gerard (known as “Le Étranger”) had been more than a thorn in Talon’s side, costing their criminal empire great losses in money and operatives. Talon’s counter-attack didn’t take long though: Amélie, Gerard’s wife, was kidnapped and Gerard moved heaven and earth to retrieve her from their hands.

Bringing her home, anyhow, didn’t help Gerard to cope with his burning sense of failure and disappointment in himself… on the contrary, it only caused him more fears. Gerard was not, indeed, a fool, for just a fool would think Talon would give up the ace up their sleeve so easily as they had given up on Amélie. He hated himself for thinking ill of his wife, yet he could not rest at night, watching her ever so peacefully closing her eyes and cuddle next to him. You are just being paranoiac, elle est ta mignonne Amélie, Gerard. And yet, she had that gaze… Lacroix made a deal with an old friend of his, Jean Dupont, now working for France SS; had Gerard stopped reporting for more than six hours, he had to be considered dead. Amélie attempted to poison Gerard on Christmas day. Gerard was 33. Thankfully, Jean rescued Gerard before it was too late, but there was no turning back for Amélie. And, in a certain way, for Gerard too.

Overwatch declared him and Amélie dead. The first hypothesis formulated involved Talon in the murder of the Lacroix spouses. Gerard never bothered to correct Overwatch; Gerard was no longer Gerard indeed.

Born again with the name “Le Pendu”, Gerard’s only life goal is to destroy Talon piece by piece to pay them back for the existence they robbed him of… and to bring Amélie back. He has raided one of Talon’s facilities in Europe, only to acquire insight and data on Project Widowmaker. In this occasion, Gerard has stolen the blueprints of Widowmaker’s Recon Visor.

[au-crisis]

Mysterious Delivery to Cameroon

9 June 2024

Reports out of Cameroon show that a ship bearing the Israeli flag was recently docked at the port of Cameroon, transporting "a lot of delivery crates". While the contents of the crates is unknown, soldiers from the Cameroonian army were seen receiving them.

A citizen on the seen state, "the military presence seems a little weird, but I can smell the wafts of sweet, sweet grapes from the ship. Is the army having some sort of fruity party?"

[julianaduenas-blog]

Who Sampled Who?- Quotation or Interpolation

Well, Shakira sampled Golden Sounds (also known as Zangalewa), a makossa group from Cameroon in her 2010 Fifa World Cup hit, Waka Waka (Esto es Africa).

Though it sparked some controversy by South Africans who were hoping for South African musicians to be chosen as headliners for the event, this song achieved became popular all over the world— I was in Colombia during this event and believe me, this song played everywhere we went. Apparently, the original song (below) was also popular in Colombia in the 80s (known there as “The Military”) when it was brought to the country by West African DJs— not surprising information since Shakira was born in 1977.

While it doesn’t use direct audio from the song, Shakira sings the main chorus (in another key) of the song and the main rhythm of the original song has been recreated, also combining it with some Colombian/Latin American rhythms. The chord structure for the song has also been kept throughout the verses that Shakira and the South African Afro-fusion band, Freshlyground, added. 

Even some of the original imagery of the song was kept. The original song is by the band, Golden Sounds, which was made up of Cameroonian military members and (though the ultimate meaning is debated) it is essentially the lament of a soldier. Shakira’s lyrics uses imagery of someone preparing for battle, though of course relating it to being on the soccer field. 

Both are fun songs— I think Shakira was definitely onto something in sampling this song since it was so popular in the 80′s in her home country, and continued to be popular in many parts of Africa for years following. 

[inkasarmored]

Some points about Armored Cars for Cameroon

Armed forces in Cameroon have been receiving new armored cars cameroon. Recently, they received Panthera T6s and Tygra 4X4 armored personnel carriers. These vehicles are deployed with elite Rapid Intervention Battalions, which operate in the southwest and northwest regions of the country. These vehicles also have the capability of carrying out operations against Boko Haram militants. There are multiple threats to Cameroon, including Boko Haram, terrorism, and armed groups.

Armoured Chevrolet Silverado HD pickup truck

With a hefty towing capacity and a luxurious interior, the Armoured Chevrolet Silverado HD pick-up truck offers both heavy-duty capability and maximum protection against bullets. It's available in 2500 HD and 3500 HD configurations and features a powerful V8 engine, heavy-duty transmission, and 4-wheel-drive AWD system. It's also capable of serving as a patrol truck and can be used for law enforcement and military applications.

The Silverado HD's first generation didn't come with crew cabs. In 1999 and 2000, buyers who wanted a crew cab had to opt for the C/K series truck. With a new design, platform, and powertrain options, the second-gen model welcomed customers with a more streamlined appearance. The second-generation Silverado HD also featured revised suspension components and a boosted stiffness level. Hydraulic body mounts added to the rigidity of the vehicle.

Armored Chevrolet Suburban SUV

The Armored Chevrolet Suburban SUV is one of the most popular armored vehicles in the world, offering an exceptional combination of performance, space, and off-road capabilities. Built on a truck-based platform, this SUV is armored with a thick frame that provides a high degree of protection against explosives. It has seating for up to seven passengers and an ample amount of cargo space. It is ideal for law enforcement and military personnel who must be on the move but also have a vehicle that can withstand heavy-duty munitions and bullets.

Tygra 4X4 Armoured Personnel Carrier

The Cameroonian Armed Forces have taken delivery of a new Tygra 4X4 Light Armored Personnel Carrier (LAPC). The LAPC is a highly capable vehicle that is based on a Toyota 79 Series chassis. It is specifically designed for urban and cross-country patrol as well as border security. It has a crew of six and ample space for mission equipment.

The Chadian Army advanced into Cameroon and Nigeria on 16 January 2015 to support Niger in their campaign against Boko Haram. This was a massive undertaking involving 2,000 soldiers and 400 vehicles. The Black Scorpion was photographed in the initial push but was subsequently withdrawn from the media. The vehicles were also heavily damaged by IEDs, and it is not known how many Black Scorpions were lost in the initial campaign. The Chadian army subsequently acquired a number of new armored vehicles.