{"id":9087,"date":"2025-11-03T22:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:58:31","slug":"franklin-graham-slams-radical-islam-after-hundreds-massacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=9087","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Graham slams radical Islam after hundreds massacred"},"content":{"rendered":"


By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, November 01, 2025<\/span>Local residents take part in a demonstration in Omdurman on October 31, 2025, to protest against the Rapid Support Forces’ reported “atrocities” in El-Fasher in western Sudan. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they had arrested several of their fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the city of El-Fasher, including a man identified by AFP in multiple execution videos. The RSF, at war with the army since April 2023, seized El-Fasher — the army’s last stronghold in western Darfur — on October 26, after an 18-month siege. <\/span> | EBRAHIM HAMID\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

Evangelist Franklin Graham condemned the face of \u201cradical Islam\u201d in Sudan after receiving videos showing paramilitary fighters executing civilians following their capture of the city of el-Fasher. Graham said the footage, which includes people being shot in the head and \u201cpiles of bodies,\u201d was too graphic to share publicly.<\/p>\n

Sudan\u2019s Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, seized el-Fasher on Monday, taking control of the last government-held city in Darfur after a months-long siege, The Associated Press reported. The RSF had already expelled Sudanese army troops from the region in recent weeks, marking a new stage in a war that has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced over 14 million.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Sudanese government reported that more than 2,000 civilians were killed since RSF entered the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the face of radical Islam. We\u2019ve been working in Sudan for over 30 years, and our hearts break for this country,\u201d Graham, the president of Samaritan\u2019s Purse and son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, wrote on Facebook, calling on people to pray for civilians being \u201cmurdered as you read this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham claimed\u00a0RSF fighters were \u201cjust killing for the sake of killing,\u201d calling the group\u2019s actions evidence of radical Islam.<\/p>\n

\u201cA massacre is taking place in Sudan, and the world has pretty much ignored it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Videos show RSF fighters carrying out executions in and around el-Fasher after taking the city from the Sudanese Armed Forces, according to the BBC, which said its reporters had verified the videos.<\/p>\n

One clip, geolocated to a university building, showed an armed man in RSF attire shooting an unarmed man sitting among dozens of corpses. Another video showed a fighter known as Abu Lulu opening fire on nine unarmed captives with other RSF members cheering.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify reported that several of the executions appeared to take place outside the city, in sandy rural areas with few landmarks, but at least one video was verified to be inside el-Fasher.<\/p>\n

Satellite images reviewed by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab appeared to confirm the aftermath of mass killings, showing body-sized clusters in areas of the city not previously disturbed.<\/p>\n

The United Nations coordinator for Sudan, Denise Brown, told the BBC she had received \u201ccredible reports of summary executions\u201d of unarmed men in el-Fasher following the RSF\u2019s entry.<\/p>\n

Killings of unarmed civilians or surrendering combatants violate the Geneva Convention and are classified as war crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling for “urgent international action” amid reports of civilian atrocities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The images and reporting emerging from El Fasher are horrific,” CSW\u2019s Founder President Mervyn Thomas said in a statement. “Images of RSF fighters humiliating, torturing and killing civilians are just a snapshot of the devastating violence that civilians in El Fasher have been enduring for the past 18 months and are now being subjected to without any protection. We are also deeply disturbed by the number of RSF fighters who appear to be children recruited to perpetrate unimaginable violence. CSW calls on the international community to ensure the protection of Tawila, where many have fled, and to insist on unhindered humanitarian access to the region.”<\/p>\n

The RSF, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, emerged from the Janjaweed militia that terrorized non-Arab populations in the Darfur genocide during the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

The militia\u2019s founder, Sudan\u2019s former President Omar al-Bashir, was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and genocide in 2009, the AP reported.<\/p>\n

Dagalo, a native of Darfur from an Arab camel-trading family, expanded the RSF by incorporating Arab militias and financing the group through livestock and gold mining. His forces grew to an estimated 100,000 fighters and took part in conflicts in Yemen and Libya, often with backing from Gulf nations, including the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The Sudanese army has filed a case at the International Court of Justice accusing the UAE of breaching the Genocide Convention by supporting the RSF. The UAE rejected the case as a \u201cpublicity stunt.\u201d The army also accused Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar of aiding the RSF with weapons and troops.<\/p>\n

Since the fall of al-Bashir in 2019, Dagalo has acted as a central power broker in Sudan, including playing a leading role in a military coup and the collapse of a transitional government.<\/p>\n

The current war began in 2023 after the breakdown of a fragile alliance between Dagalo\u2019s RSF and Sudanese army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan.<\/p>\n

Both factions have replenished their ranks using foreign weapons and fighters. The RSF has launched drone strikes on army positions across Sudan using technology sourced from countries such as Turkey, China, Iran and Russia.<\/p>\n

The RSF\u2019s latest offensive into Darfur has stoked fears of Sudan\u2019s disintegration. The group has declared its intention to form a parallel government in the areas under its control, including large parts of Darfur and Kordofan. The RSF had previously retreated from Khartoum, Sudan\u2019s capital, but resumed attacks there earlier this year.<\/p>\n

As of this week, the Sudanese army controls most of the country\u2019s north and east, including Khartoum, while the RSF holds nearly all of Darfur and parts of Kordofan. The RSF\u2019s predecessor, the Janjaweed, committed mass killings in the same region between 2003 and 2005, and many of those fighters are believed to have joined the current force, BBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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