Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
An Islamic terrorist group attacked an open-air market in western China, leaving 31 people dead and close to 100 injured.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that terrorists drove off-road vehicles into a market in Urumqi and began to throw bombs into the crowds of shoppers. One of the vehicles was then abandoned in the center of the market and exploded as the terrorists fled the scene.
Witnesses say the majority of the dead are elderly people who visited their market to get fresh food for their family’s daily meal.
The attack comes as Chinese officials crack down on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, who they accuse of launching the Tiananmen Square attack last October and an attack on a train station in Urumqi last month.
An expert in ethnic relations in China says the attacks show a shift by the Muslim group. They had previously focused attacks and actions against military targets and government installations; now they are targeting innocent civilians with the intent of causing maximum casualties.
