They’re Just Trying to Make Your Easter Holiday Better

“We are not bad guys, we are just here to make your Easter holiday better,” is what Garissa University College massacre survivor Maureen Manyego, 21, told Standard Media she heard taunting terrorists say to fellow students as she hid in a wardrobe. "(We are here to kill and die with you). We are not afraid of death. You are dying to pay for the arrogance of your political leader [President Uhuru] who has refused to pull out their military officers from Somalia. As long as Kenya's military are in Somalia, it will be paid with its citizens' blood," the gunman reportedly said.”

Who among us will ever forget that as the death toll climbed to 148 on Good Friday, students were made to wait in line to be shot in the head, hearing gun shots as they stood there and how some were even forced to make telephone calls to their parents to tell them they were about to die? The words of 20-year-old Garissa student, Elizabeth Namarome Musinai, who told Yahoo News that she said to her father during the attack at dawn on Thursday: “There are gunshots everywhere! Tell Mum to pray for me--I don’t know if I will survive” will remain indelible during the rest of the lives of all who heard about them. “Later that day, at about 1 p.m., a man called back on the line demanding that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta be contacted within 2 minutes and told to remove troops fighting al-Shabab extremists in neighboring Somalia. (Christian Post April 3, 2015)

“He called back when the 2 minutes had passed and learned that the family did not contact President Kenyatta. He told the family: "I am going to kill your daughter." They heard three gunshots then the phone went dead. When Elizabeth's father, Fred Kaskon Musinai, called back the phone the man answered and said, "She is now with her God."

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Is it misplaced ‘Freedom of Expression’ that allows radical Islamist terrorists to continue to spread their vile messages over social networks like Twitter and to recruit with impunity over the Internet? When are any authorities going to force the social networks to slam the door on the advance of terrorism through ‘Net communication? During and after the latest terrorist attack on Kenyan students forced to stand in line before being shot in the head, this is what Freedom of Expression was up to in the West: Pizzerias were being shut down by radical homosexuals on the basis that they were being discriminated against. Although neither could have possibly known the “Easter Holiday” attack was imminent, Freedom of Expression in America brought the film, ‘Killing Jesus’ based on Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly’s book of the same name to National Geographic Television on Palm Sunday. Today the story of geologist Dr Aryeh Shimron, who claims to have found “virtually unequivocal evidence” of the tomb of Jesus, “his wife Mary Magdalene and their son Judah”, is walking on stilts all over the Internet. Reports from O’Reilly’s lessers, (earnest, young bloggers) like Julie at Connecticut Catholic Corner in a post called ‘Bill O’Reilly’s Dumb Jesus’, criticize America’s most popular talking head for portraying Christ the way he never was, “clueless” and “stumbling”. (Connecticut Catholic Corner). Anti-Christians will pore over every word about Dr. Shimron’s find, even though Dan Brown was there long before him in his 2003 book, ‘The Da Vinci Code’. Freedom of Expression means everyone’s entitled to their opinion--especially on Palm Sunday, Easter Friday, and Monday. In this upside-down secular leaning world, we all need to make the words of Elizabeth Namarome Musinai our own: “Tell Mum to pray for me.”