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Aug 7 2012

Nigeria: Islamists storm church, massacre at least 16

Boko Haram again? Most likely.

The Nation – (via Weasel Zippers)

IT was like a scene from a war film. A crowd of worshippers in a church — perhaps praying, their eyes shut — and suddenly the eerie sounds of guns. Pandemonium. Blood, tears and anguish.

But it was no movie. All was real last night in Okene, Kogi State where unknown gunmen stormed a church and opened fire on worshippers, killing no fewer than 16.

Killed were worshippers of Deeper Life Bible Church opposite the Federal College of Education (FCE). Many were injured.

“We are shocked. It is serious,” a Pastor told The Nation last night.

The gunmen, who were said to be bearing sophisticated weapons, stormed the church during the Bible Study, a Monday programme, at about 7p.m., shooting indiscriminately.

The gunmen reportedly took the worshippers by surprise. They blocked all entrances into the church, preventing people from escaping as they fired indiscriminately at the worshippers.

A source said 15 worshippers died on the spot; one died in the hospital.

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Jun 3 2012

Nigeria: Boko Haram strikes at Christians again, blows up 15, 40 injured

Islam’s relentless war on “infidels” continues unabated. The Obama Administration, recall, insists there is nothing to see in Nigeria, that Islam has nothing to do with thousands of dead Christians.

(Telegraph) — At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded when a suicide car bomber drove into a Nigerian church compound and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service.

The bomber targeted the Living Faith church, in a neighbourhood near the airport in Bauchi, the capital of northern Bauchi state. The timed blast caught many people outside the church without any cover to protect themselves from the explosion, causing heavy casualties, witnesses said.

At least eight people were killed in the blast, as well as the bomber, Bauchi state police commissioner Mohammed Ladan said. He said security personnel stationed near the churches stopped the car from getting any closer to worshippers than it did.

More than 40 people suffered injuries in the blast, the Nigerian Red Cross said.

The powerful blast from the car destroyed part of the Harvest Field Church, sending walls of the building crashing down on worshippers still inside. Others suffered burns in the blast.

The death toll from the blast could rise. Police and soldiers surrounded the church immediately after the explosion, stopping emergency workers from going inside to collect the corpses of those killed. Witnesses who left the church after the blast said they saw as many as 10 dead.

Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Apr 29 2012

Islam: 8 killed in attack on church service at Nigerian university

More mayhem and slaughter of Christians courtesy of Islam. Recall that the Obama Administration insisted earlier this month that Islam has absolutely nothing to do with the attacks on Christians in Nigeria.

(ABC News) — Police say at least eight people have been killed in an attack on a church service at a Nigerian university in the northern city of Kano.

Explosions and gunfire rocked Bayero University, with witnesses reporting that two church services were targeted as they were being held on campus.

One of the services was being held outdoors, while the second was inside a building, but with an overflow audience outside, witnesses said.

Officials were unable to confirm casualty figures, but one correspondent counted six bullet-riddled bodies near one of the two sites and said other bodies had been seen on a roadside by the university.

Musical instruments and half-eaten meals could be seen at the site of one of the services.

An army spokesman confirmed the attack but could not provide a casualty toll.

Lieutenant Iweha Ikedichi said it appeared the attackers used bombs and gunfire in the assault.

Witnesses said the attackers arrived in a car and two motorcycles, opening fire and throwing homemade bombs, causing a stampede.

They said worshippers were gunned down as they sought to flee.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although the attack was similar to others carried out by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

Update: Death toll now at 16. The Islamonazis used bombs to draw out worshippers so that they could gun them down in cold blood in the street.

Kano: Gunmen attacked church services on a university campus Sunday in northern Nigeria, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshippers in an assault that killed at least 16 people, officials said.

The attackers targeted an old section of Bayero University’s campus where religious groups use a theater and other areas to hold worship services, Kano state police spokesman Ibrahim Idris said. The assault left many others seriously wounded, Idris said.

“By the time we responded, they entered (their) motorcycles and disappeared into the neighborhood,” the commissioner said.

After the attack, police and soldiers cordoned off the campus as gunfire echoed in the surrounding streets. Abubakar Jibril, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, said security forces refused to allow rescuers to enter the campus. Soldiers also turned away journalists from the university.

Andronicus Adeyemo, an official with the Nigerian Red Cross, said a canvas of local hospitals and morgues showed the attack killed at least 16 people. A number of people suffered injuries, though the aid agency did not immediately have an exact figure, Adeyemo said.

Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Apr 10 2012

Obama official: Islam has nothing to do with Boko Haram’s relentless slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians

This entire miserable administration has got to go. Every government agency must be swept clean of Marxist and Islamist sympathizers. The government is absolutely infested with these rodents.

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(CNS News) – Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said Monday that “religion is not driving extremist violence” in Nigeria–just one day after a Christian church conducting an Easter service was targeted by a car bombing that left 39 dead.

Similarly, on Christmas Day, the Nigerian Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, attacked a Catholic church in that country, killing more than 40 people.

“I want to take this opportunity to stress one key point and that is that religion is not driving extremist violence either in Jos or northern Nigeria,” Assistant Secretary of State Carson said Monday at a forum on U.S. policy toward Nigeria held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

“While some seek to inflame Muslim-Christian tensions, Nigeria’s ethnic and religious diversity, like our own in this country, is a source of strength, not weakness,” he added,  “and there are many examples across Nigeria of communities working across religious lines to protect one another.”

On Easter Sunday a church in Kaduna, Nigeria, was targeted by a suicide bombing that killed 39 and wounded dozens. Though no organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, it is suspected that Boko Haram, the Islamic terrorist organization, was behind it.  (more >>>)

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Mar 11 2012

Nigeria: Islamic suicide bomber kills at least 10 during Mass at Catholic church

Don’t expect an iota of outrage from either Muslims or anyone in the media over this. Outrage is saved only for infidels.

Meanwhile, over 5,000 school children in northern Nigeria are now at home after Boko Haram Islamic militants destroyed their schools in their campaign to impose Islamic Sharia law in the country.

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church in a central Nigerian city plagued by unrest, a state official said.

The bomb detonated as worshippers attended the final Mass of the day at St. Finbar’s Catholic Church in Jos, a city where thousands have died in the last decade in religious and ethnic violence. Security at the gate of the church’s compound stopped the suspicious car and the bomber detonated his explosives during an altercation that followed, Plateau state spokesman Pam Ayuba said.

The blast damaged the church’s roof, blew out its windows and destroyed a portion of the fence surrounding the church’s compound, Ayuba said. At least 10 people died, Ayuba said, while many others were wounded in the blast, including soldiers who also had been stationed at the church.

“He destroyed so many things,” the spokesman said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility though the city has been targeted in the past by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. The sect claimed a series of bombings in Jos on Christmas Eve in 2010 that killed as many as 80 people. The sect also claimed a similar church bombing on Feb. 26 on the main headquarters of the Church of Christ that killed three people and wounded 38 others.

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Mar 2 2012

Nigeria: Islamist sect Boko Haram burns down 7 schools

The madness never stops.

Reuters – Arsonists suspected to be members of Islamist sect Boko Haram have burned down seven schools in northeastern Nigeria the past few days, authorities said on Thursday, a new twist in the group’s increasingly violent insurgency.

Thousands of children have been left without schools in the middle of their term.

Boko Haram, an Islamist movement styled on the Taliban, is waging a low level insurgency against the government that is radiating out from its heartland in the remote northeastern city of Maiduguri right across the north.

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Mar 2 2012

Boko Haram strikes again as a Nigerian church is bombed, killing 4

How long will these monsters be allowed to perpetrate their savagery? As long as there is a UN and an Obama in the White House, that’s for sure.

Bombing victim from Yobe

Worldmag via Religionofpeace – A Sunday morning bombing outside the headquarters of a leading Christian denomination in northern Nigeria exploded what has been a brief season of calm in the Plateau State capital, Jos.

The Nigerian-based terrorist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack Sunday, which killed four and severely injured at least 38. In a tactic now familiar to victims of Boko Haram, a suicide bomber loaded a vehicle with explosives, and then drove through the security gate of the Church of Christ in the Nations (COCIN) headquarters, which includes offices, a church, and classrooms. The bomber apparently planned to crash the gate and detonate his vehicle inside the sanctuary, where hundreds had gathered for worship. Instead, the car’s tire blew and the vehicle hit a motorcycle, detonating only yards away from the church building.

The dead include a woman crushed by the vehicle explosion, a woman who only a week ago relocated to Jos after being displaced by similar attacks on Christians in Yobe State farther north, and a an 18-month-old child.

“On exploding, the bomber himself was in pieces,” said Mark Lipdo of the Jos-based Stefanos Foundation, who pointed out that the fourth victim killed was a church member initially injured in the attack. Bystanders, seeing him beside the vehicle in the immediate aftermath, presumed that he was another Boko Haram assailant and killed him.  (more >>>)

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Feb 24 2012

Nigeria: Boko Haram slices throat of 79-year-old Christian woman, stick Bible under her feet

Obama seen composing letter of apology to Boko Haram for the Christian woman having dulled their blade a little.

AP (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Police discovered the body of a 79-year-old Christian woman killed in northeast Nigeria, with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: “We will get you soon,” a witness said Thursday.

The slaying raises religious tensions in Nigeria as a radical Islamist sect increasingly targets Christians in its bloody attacks. While police said they knew of no immediate suspects in the killing, witnesses blamed the attack on the sect known as Boko Haram, which has been blamed for killing at least 305 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

The dead woman was identified as Shetu Haruna Malgwi, a Christian living in the city of Maiduguri in Nigeria’s Muslim north. Assailants apparently attacked Malgwi on Wednesday, a day after she returned home from receiving an eye treatment in the city of Kaduna, Borno state police spokesman Samuel Tizhe said.

Her killers slit the woman’s throat, then wrote a note with red pen they left on her chest, witness Audu Ibrahim said. Ibrahim said the woman’s family believes the message is for her son, who is a pastor of a local church where the 79-year-old sang in the choir.

Authorities found a Bible placed under the woman’s feet, Ibrahim said. Police continue to investigate the killing and no arrests have been made, Tizhe said.

Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, is carrying out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law and avenge Muslim killings in Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.

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Feb 21 2012

Video: Meet Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Meet the Boko Haram, Nigeria’s savage, Islamonazi species that the Obama Administration and the UN go out of their way to ignore.

on Feb 21, 2012 – Boko Haram is threatening to turn Nigeria into an Islamic emirate. The sophistication of their attacks has many worried over the group’s links to global terrorists.

UPDATE: Speaking of the devils. That was fast.

Daily News (h/t Religionofpeace) – 30 killed in Nigeria market attack

Kano – Suspected Nigerian Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri on Monday, killing at least 30 people, a medic and a witness said.

Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram stormed the fish section of Baga market and sprayed stallholders and vendors with bullets, traders said, reporting that women and children were among the dead.

“The number of dead could not be less than 30,” a Maiduguri hospital nurse said.

The military confirmed the assault on the market but denied any civilian deaths, saying security forces had killed eight assailants and safely detonated bombs planted by the attackers.

“At about 1.30pm (1230 GMT) this afternoon at Baga market of Maiduguri metropolis some gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked and shot civilians at the market,” Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, spokesman of a special military unit in the city, said.

He said several people had been wounded but that there was “no civilian death at this time”.

The military “immediately came to the rescue of the situation and safely detonated three bombs planted by members of the sect and shot and killed eight members of the sect,” Mohammed said.

However, one trader who have his name as Mairami, said six gunmen stormed the food and commodities market and “opened fire indiscriminately. At least 30 people including women and children were killed.”

Another vendor by the name Gana gave a similar account of the attack in the city, the stronghold of Boko Haram which has been blamed for a deadly wave of bombings and shootings mainly in the north of Africa’s most populous country.

Witnesses said the gunmen set off eight homemade bombs inside the market, destroying stalls. The entire market was deserted after the attack.

“The gunmen just opened fire killing people. I saw three military vans piled with bodies leaving the market. There were several explosions after the shooting,” Gana said.  (more >>>)

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Dec 25 2011

Nigeria: Islamist group Boko Haram blows up church during Christmas Mass, kills 27

This is how Islam reminds infidels that it is the “religion of peace”. See bottom for just a sampling of what Islam has been up to in Nigeria over the past year. There will be no condemnation of this latest butchery from the UN, EU, or the Obama Administration, as usual. One country, however, did immediately condemn the attacks “in the strongest terms”.

UPDATE: Death toll rises to 39, scores wounded in multiple attacks. Authorities acknowledge they could not bring enough emergency medical personnel to care for the wounded.

UPDATE: Death toll now up to about 100.

(BBC) — Bomb blasts targeting Christmas Day church services in two Nigerian cities have left at least 28 people dead, with three more attacks on other towns.

The Islamist group Boko Haram said it had attacked St Theresa’s Church in Madalla, near the capital Abuja, killing 27 people.

A second explosion shortly after hit a church in the central city of Jos. A policeman died during gunfire.

Three attacks in northern Yobe state targeted a church and security forces.

Two hit the town of Damaturu, and a third struck Gadaka. Yobe state has been the epicentre of violence between security forces and Boko Haram militants.

National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) spokesman Yushau Shuaibu told the BBC that the latest Abuja explosion had happened in the street outside the church.

He said the church – which can hold up to 1,000 people – had been badly affected by the blast, and the number of dead was likely to rise.

Unconfirmed reports say that emergency responders have been attacked by groups of stone-throwing youths.

A security source told Agence France-Presse that one of the Damaturu explosions was a suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of the State Security Service.

In Jos, a blast close to the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church was followed by gunfire that left one officer dead, government spokesman Pam Ayuba told Associated Press.

Two explosive devices found in a nearby building were disarmed as military were deployed to the site.

BBC Africa editor Martin Plaut says the attack in Jos, in Plateau state, could have even more serious consequences than the attack in Abuja.

Previous Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Nov 30 2011

Nigeria’s Fulani Muslims slaughter 45 Christians

And still not a peep out the UN or the White House regarding the non-stop barbarism coming from Nigeria’s Muslims.

CDN (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Fulani Muslim herdsmen along with Muslim soldiers have killed at least 45 ethnic Berom Christians in Plateau state in the past week, Christians in this northern-central Nigerian town said.

Smaller attacks beginning on Nov. 20, reportedly over allegations by Fulani Muslims of cattle theft, preceded an attack on a Barkin Ladi church on Nov. 23 that killed four Christians, and an assault the next day left 35 Christians dead in Barkin Ladi and nearby Kwok village, according to area Christian leaders.

Church attendance was decimated yesterday as thousands of Christians have left the area.

“Christians are fleeing the town because we have no guns to fight back,” said one woman in a group of six Christians trying to leave Barkin Ladi. “Muslims have guns, and they have their soldiers fighting for them, so we have no choice but to leave town.”

[...] Gyang lamented that Muslim soldiers brought to town to restore order joined their fellow Muslims in killing and maiming Christians.

“Muslims soldiers took sides with their fellow Muslims and were shooting and killing Christians,” he said. “They also had soldiers guarding mosques in the town, but none was sent to watch over our churches, and that is the reason Muslims were able to burn the Baptist church in the town.”  (more >>>)

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Nov 6 2011

Nigerian Islamists Boko Harem go on bloody rampage, burn churches, kill at least 150

The Islamonazi group in Nigeria, Boko Harem, went on a major offensive, destroying and killing everything in sight. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see what kind of hell these maniacs have been wreaking in just this past year alone. Yet, not a word about these savages at the UN, or from the mouths of Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The Australian — Up to 150 people were killed in a wave of gun and bomb attacks in northern Nigeria, which were claimed by the Islamist Boko Haram sect.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday condemned the assaults, which included at least five suicide bombings and directed security agencies “to ensure the arrest of perpetrators of these heinous acts”, said his spokesman, Reuben Abati.

As bodies piled up in the morgue, a rescue official said the death toll stood at 150.

The UN Security Council issued a statement condemning the attacks “in the strongest terms”, and expressing condolences to victims’ families.

The bomb and gun attacks targeted police stations, an army base and churches in the cities of Damaturu, Maiduguri and two other small towns.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram group claimed responsibility. “We are responsible for the attacks in Borno state and Damaturu,” said Abul Qaqa.

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Sep 12 2011

Nigerian Muslims shoot, hack to death 14 Christians

The massacres continue in Nigeria.

Reuters (h/t RoP)- Gunmen killed 14 members of an extended family in a midnight raid on a village in central Nigeria on Saturday, witnesses said, continuing a two week cycle of violence between Muslims and Christians in which at least 70 people have been killed.

A Reuters reporter on the scene with local officials saw 14 bodies from the raid. Witnesses said they were all from one Christian family, and had been shot or hacked to death by Muslim Fulani herdsmen.

“In the night around 12.30 a.m. we heard a strange noise. Those people who came to attack us were speaking the Fulani language and they were pointing at houses. They all dressed in military uniforms,” said local council chairman Moses Dalyop.

“One pregnant woman who was in labour was among those killed. They shot victims and (others) were macheted to death.”

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Sep 6 2011

Another 18 Christians slaughtered by Muslims Nigeria

Here we go again. Just yesterday I posted on another slaughter. (See the ever-growing list below.)

Outlook India (via RoP) – Eighteen people were killed in communal violence in flash point Central Nigerian city of Jos after a mob attacked a village, an incident which lead to widespread riots and violence.

The people were killed in Christian villages by assailants suspected to be Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Jos.

According to a witness, the attackers came about 9 pm into, Kuru and Mararaban-Jama’a villages situated at the entrance of Jos city in Opel Vectra saloon cars and used an hour to attack the villagers with guns and machetes.

In another village, Zakaleo, four persons were killed by setting their rooms on fire and the villagers on discovering the incident, wailed profusely as they prepared to give the victims mass burial.

“See the soldiers’ checkpoint very close; even if they did not hear the cries of the people at least they saw the flames of fire from the burning houses but they refused to come on time,” said Timothy Buba, the chairman of the local government.

The Commissioner of Information and Communication in the state, Abraham Yiljap confirmed the attack and described it as an outrage.

“Every Nigerian and every lover of human race should rise in condemnation over the happenings in Plateau State; the killing and maiming of innocent lives,” he said.

Residents of the villages resorted to violent demonstration following the attack blocking the highway leading into Jos. They burnt tyres and attacked vehicles such that vehicles going out of and coming into the city were stuck.

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Sep 5 2011

Nigerian Muslim youths hack to death Christian family of 8

Nigeria seems to have taken over the position as #1 Islamic armpit of the world.

I have posted many stories about the horrific bloodshed Muslims are perpetrating against the Christian community in Nigeria (see below), but could have posted dozens more.

Reuters (via RoP) – JOS, Nigeria – Muslim youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs from the two faiths against each other and civilians.

More than 40 people have been killed in the ethnically and religiously-mixed area since last Monday when Christian youths attacked some Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the city of Jos, capital of Plateau state.

Plateau state spokesman Yiljap Abraham took journalists to the house in the village of Tatu, where the bodies of the eight victims from the latest attack were still lying on the bloodsoaked floor.

On Sunday morning, in another village in Plateau called Riyom, police found a bomb planted in a marketplace which had failed to go off because its battery had run flat, Sergeant Willford Egwu told journalists.

Plateau state, straddling the “Middle Belt” between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south, though normally peaceful, has sometimes been a flashpoint for tensions between the two faiths.

Unrest there is a new security issue for President Goodluck Jonathan, also coping with near-daily attacks in the northeast by Islamist sect Boko Haram, which authorities blame for an August 26 bombing of U.N. offices in Abuja that killed 23 people.

Suspected Boko Haram militants shot dead an outspoken Muslim cleric who had criticised the group, Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan Mohammed from Nigeria’s joint military task force told Reuters. The men shot him in a raid on his home on Sunday in Maiduguri, the city at the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency.

On Saturday at least four people including one soldier were killed in clashes between local youths and security forces in the town of Biu in the northeast near Maiduguri, a senior police officer told Reuters.

“The fracas broke out on Friday night when the youth ambushed one soldier and killed him close to the Army Barracks in retaliation to the killing of a woman and the arrest of four Islamic clerics,” the source said.

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Aug 17 2011

Another 15 Christians butchered in Nigeria

More Ramadan slaughter. Muslim piety in action. I’d ask where’s the outrage from Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, but they are too busy castigating Israel for not kowtowing to Turkey. Truly, when was the last time Obama, Clinton, the EU, or UN ever gave a rat’s ass about either Christians or Jews?

It’s only day 15 of Ramadan, and this is the scorecard as of today, via Religionofpeace.com.

Christian Concern (h/t RoP)- After a recent lull, there has been a fresh outbreak of violence in Nigeria which has resulted in the deaths of at least 15 Christians.

Last week Plateau State, of which Jos is the capital, was subjected to a series of attacks. After allegations of an animal theft, Ferom was attacked twice on 4 August with eight members of one family killed in the first attack and a further three people killed in the second. On 14th August, Muslim rioters took to the streets in north Jos and killed three Christians by machetes. The Residents of Jwol community reported an attack on Friday in which one person was killed. There was another slaughter at Hiepand leaving at least 8 dead, some with gunshot wounds.

Residents claim that the police and army were complicit in these attacks and produced a helmet, a blood-stained military belt, cartridge cases, and 5 military identity cards in evidence.

Previous Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Jul 11 2011

Nigerian Islamists bomb another church, 3 dead, 7 critically wounded

Christians continue to come under fire in Nigeria.

SULEIJA, Nigeria (h/t Weasel Zippers) — An explosion near a church outside the Nigerian capital on Sunday killed at least three people, officials said, the latest of a spate of deadly blasts to hit Africa’s most populous nation.

The military meanwhile said it had killed 11 alleged members of an Islamist sect blamed for a series of attacks in a shootout in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Saturday night, but residents alleged soldiers shot civilians.

Sunday’s explosion outside the All Christian Fellowship Mission was in the town of Suleija, which was also the target of a deadly bomb attack at an electoral office on the eve of April’s parliamentary elections.

Police initially reported two people dead, but a Red Cross official later put the death toll at three, with seven critically wounded.

Church pastor Joseph Olowosagba said services had ended, but some members were still inside when the explosion went off outside of a window. (more >>>)

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Jul 4 2011

Nigerian Islamists blow up another beer garden, kill 10

Nigerian Muslims really hate infidels beer.

Muslims have carried out numerous attacks at beer gardens over the year, as posted here last week. But not just beer gardens (see links below). The slaughter going on there in the name of Islam is one of the more unreported stories going on in the world.

KANO, Nigeria (h/t Weasel Zippers) — A bomb blast at a police beer garden killed at least 10 people Sunday in the troubled northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri where Islamists are active, a military source and a witness said.

Hours earlier, a leading politician was shot dead in the same city, while police sources and residents reported a wave of shootings overnight Saturday that killed nine people, including three retired police officers.

“The bomb was planted at the middle of the ‘mammy market’ and at least 10 people have been killed and several others seriously injured from the explosion,” said an army officer who preferred not to be named.

The so-called mammy market beer gardens are open air pubs and eateries found around police or military barracks, open to both security personnel and civilians.

Brigadier-General Jack Okechukwu Nwaogbo, the commander of a crack military unit deployed a week ago to curb the unrest in the area, confirmed the attack, saying they had so far recorded eight deaths.

“There has been a bomb explosion at a market belonging to the police in Wulari area of the city,” Nwaogbo told AFP on the phone from Maiduguri.

Previous Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Jun 27 2011

Nigeria: Muslims attack beer garden, kill 25 injure 30 with bombs and gunfire

Boko Haram member

Boy, it sure is a good thing that Islam is a religion of peace. Imagine if it were a religion of violence. Beer gardens have been regular victims of Islamic terrorists in Nigeria.

Beer, bad. Slaughtering people in the name of Islam, good.

AFP (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Suspected Islamists hurled bombs and fired on a beer garden in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 25 people and injuring about 30.

The two men came on motorbikes and sped away after the shock attack, police and witnesses told AFP.

“The attackers, believed to be Boko Haram members, threw bombs and fired indiscriminate gun shots on a packed tavern at Dala Kabompi neighbourhood, killing at least 25 people and seriously injuring around 30 others,” a police superintendent said.

An army captain, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “It will be difficult to say with precision the number of casualties, but it can’t be less then two dozen.”

Emmanuel Okon, who sells roast beef on the fringes of the tavern, said: “I just heard a loud bang followed by sporadic shootings and plumes of black smoke filled the area with people screaming and running in all directions.

Previous Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Jun 17 2011

Nigerian Muslims bomb church, kill 3 children

More Islamic sunshine out of Nigeria.

Kano (h/t Weasel Zippers) — A bomb exploded near a church in northern Nigeria Thursday and killed three children, police said, with Islamic militants blamed for a rash of attacks in the area.

“A bomb went off in a house adjoining Eyn church in the town of Damboa, killing three children playing nearby,” Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubabakar told AFP.

That attack was blamed on radical Islamists in the Boko Haram group that is active in northern Nigeria.

Boko Haram has been blamed for several bombing in the north, targeting police stations and churches. It has also been accused of shooting dozens of people including policemen, community and religious leaders.

Also known as the Nigerian Taliban, Boko Haram has pushed for the creation of an Islamic state. It launched an uprising in 2009 which was put down by a brutal military assault that left hundreds dead.

Previous Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

Jun 12 2011

Nigerian Muslims blow up cathedral, kill 16 Christians

One of dozens of stories this week that you will never hear about from the mainstream media. As far as Western governments and their media megaphones are concerned, it’s always open season on Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus.

Muslims can destroy ‘infidel’ holy sites and burn their Bibles and sacred texts, and you will never hear one condemnation coming from the UN, EU, or the Obama Administration. But if an ‘infidel’ so much as looks at a Koran the wrong way, not only will the religion of perpetual outrage leap to their feet with shouts of jihad, Western leaders and media will join in the chorus.

(CNA).- An extremist Islamic group is being held responsible for a series of recent attacks in Nigeria, which have left 16 dead and destroyed the Catholic Cathedral of St. Patrick in the northern capital city of Maiduguri.

“St. Patrick’s Cathedral was seriously damaged, windows and doors destroyed, the whole building was shaken to its foundations by the violence of the explosion,” said Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri.

On June 7, an armed group suspected to be members of Boko Haram set off a bomb at the cathedral as well as two police stations. The damage is the latest in a series of coordinated attacks by Boko Haram, which claims to seek a more widespread application of sharia (Islamic law) in Africa’s most populated nation.

The extremist group – with a name that translates to “Western education is a sin” in the Haussa language –  has carried out almost daily attacks in and around Maiduguri in recent months. Its targets have been politicians, law enforcement, and religious and traditional rulers opposed to its ideology.

“The situation in Maiduguri is very tense,” Bishop Doeme told Fides news on June 8, recalling that only “two weeks ago, another Catholic church was the target of an attack with explosives, as well as a secondary school.”

On June 6, an Islamic religious leader, who opposed the cult, was killed in an attack in Biu, a town south of Maiduguri. The group also claimed responsibility for bombs that killed at least 16 people hours after President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in on May 29.

[...] Riots have killed at least 500 people in Nigeria after the April elections, with the two northern states of Kaduna and Bauchi states being the hardest hit by violence. An estimated 40,000 people have fled those areas in recent months.

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May 8 2011

Nigerian Muslims slaughter 17 Christians, including wife and 3 children of pastor

Osama bin Laden is dead, but his spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world, for what bin Laden preached and practiced was, in fact, true Islam.

Obama may be running around the country spiking the football, but killing the other team’s mascot won’t matter in the least as long as the West refuses to acknowledge who the enemy is and what they stand for.

Liberalism and its concomitant political correctness have sapped the West’s will to defend itself, and the Muslims know it.

ABUJA, NIGERIA (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Christians in northern Nigeria were mourning Saturday, May 7, after Muslim attackers reportedly killed 17 Christians, including the wife and three children of a pastor. Several Christian homes were also burned in the village of Kurum in Nigeria’s tense Bauchi State, said advocacy group International Christian Concern (ICC).

ICC told BosNewsLife that it learned about the massacre Friday, May 6. “It is not right for anyone to kill another person, life is precious and a gift from God,” explained ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, Jonathan Racho. No more details were immediately available, but the attack was the latest in a series of recent incidents in which hundreds of people died.

“Since 1999 in Bauchi state, several Christians have been killed but no one has been brought before justice. The government has to intervene. The government has to be fair to all its citizens,” said Reverend Turbe Ngodem in published remarks.

Reverend Ngodem is the General Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria in Bauchi State. Since the introduction of Sharia, or Muslim, law in northern Nigeria in 1999, thousands of Christians have been killed by Muslim extremists, according to several rights groups and churches.

Apr 26 2011

Post-election rampage in Nigeria leaves heaps of charred Christian corpses

Remember those charred Christian corpses in Nigeria that I mentioned a week or so back?

This is what happens when Muslims don’t get their way. This ought to cause outrage in the West, but it won’t even be reported.

Islam is incompatible with democracy. If they don’t like what it produces, they refuse to accept it. If they can use it to gain power, they will mouth the words to the applause of Western dupes.  Once power is seized, however, democracy will be thrown aside along with anyone who stands in their way. ‘Democriah’ is one vote, one time.

Will the West wake up to the horror that is Islam before it is too late? Nope.

USA Today (AP) — Burned corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above this city where rioting broke out again Tuesday among Muslim opposition supporters who were angered by the announcement that the Christian incumbent president had won the election.

On the outskirts of Kaduna, burned out minibuses and cars littered the highways, and at least six charred bodies could be seen. Skull caps and sandals were strewn nearby, left behind by those who frantically fled amid the chaos.

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Apr 20 2011

Muslims continue to riot, burn, and slaughter in Nigeria after election loss; Christians retaliate

Charred body

I posted a couple of times (links below) about Nigerian Muslims rampaging in outrage after having lost badly in last week’s election.

It looks as though they have yet to have vented their indignation and continue to attack Christians, burn churches and people, and frolic among the carnage that African Muslims find so sporting.

More stories of atrocities are emerging, revealing charred cars and bodies along the road, and people hacked with machetes.

Muslim rioters have torched homes, churches and police stations.

AINA is reporting that International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Muslim rioters have killed more than 100 Christians and burned down more than 40 churches. The rioters, they say, even destroyed the homes of many Muslims who supported President Jonathan Goodluck.

WaPo says that reprisal attacks by Christians began almost immediately, with one mob allegedly tearing a home apart to look for a Quran to prove the occupants were Muslims before setting the building ablaze.

And so yet another African civil war is unleashed in the name of democracy.

Washington Post - Charred bodys of post election violence is seen on a street in Kaduna, Nigeria, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Burned corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above this city where rioting broke out again Tuesday among Muslim opposition supporters who were angered by the announcement that the Christian incumbent president had won the election .

KADUNA, Nigeria — The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria’s Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation’s presidential election.

Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in Kaduna after results showed Nigeria’s Christian leader beat his closest Muslim opponent in Saturday’s vote. Reprisal attacks by Christians began almost immediately, with one mob allegedly tearing a home apart to look for a Quran to prove the occupants were Muslims before setting the building ablaze.

The rioting in Kaduna and elsewhere across Nigeria’s north left charred bodies in the streets and showed the deep divisions in Africa’s most populous nation, as politics mesh with religious and ethnic identity in the country of 150 million people.

While curfews now stand in many areas, it remains unlikely the unrest will be soothed before the nation’s gubernatorial elections next Tuesday — meaning even more attacks could threaten this young democracy.

“Nigeria has spoiled … there is no peace,” said Rabiu Amadu, a 33-year-old technician in Kaduna. “I don’t think any of us are safe.”

Christians and Muslims have lived and worked alongside each other for centuries. However, results from Saturday’s election showing President Goodluck Jonathan’s more than 10 million vote lead over Muslim candidate Muhammadu Buhari spread accusations of rigging in a nation long accustomed to ballot box stuffing.

In Kaduna, 111 miles (180 kilometers) away from the country’s capital of Abuja, burned corpses with machete wounds dotted a highway Tuesday morning. Skulls caps and sandals mixed with the charred remains of burning roadblocks, left behind by those who frantically fled amid the chaos.  (keep reading >>)

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Apr 19 2011

Nigerian Muslims riot, burn, kill after Christian incumbent wins big in Presidential election

Another election in Africa, another round of violence by Muslims.

Although observers have called the vote the fairest in decades, and that the Christian candidate President Goodluck Jonathan won easily, Muslims need no excuse to do what they do best, burn, slaughter, and cause mayhem.

The Red Cross said many people were killed after Muslim youths torched churches and homes in anger after polls showed Jonathan, from the southern oil-producing Niger Delta, had beaten Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler from the north.

AP writes: “The damage is immense. A lot of buildings have been torched: houses, businesses and religious centers,” said Umar Mairiga of the Nigerian Red Cross. More than 270 people had been wounded and some 15,000 had been displaced by the violence, he said.

(CBS News)  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Angry opposition supporters in Nigeria’s Muslim north set fire to homes bearing ruling party banners Monday and heavy gunfire rang out in several towns as election officials released results showing the Christian incumbent had gained an insurmountable lead.

Results from Saturday’s election released live on national television indicated President Goodluck Jonathan had a commanding lead of more than 10 million votes with only two states left to be announced. The Muslim north had largely voted for former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari’s party brought a formal complaint Monday afternoon to the nation’s electoral commission over vote tallies, alleging massive rigging in Jonathan’s homeland. The letter also alleged that the computer software used to tally results had been tampered with in northern states to favor the ruling party.

“What is being exhibited to the world is not collated from polling units but … a lot of manipulations,” the letter read.

In a statement, the federal police blamed the violence on “persons who failed to accept the results,” denying it came from religious or ethnic roots. Election officials said they would finish releasing election results later Monday regardless of the ongoing violence.

Witnesses said youths in the northern city of Kano were setting fires to homes that bore Jonathan party banners. Heavy gunfire also could be heard. An Associated Press reporter there saw hundreds of youths carrying wooden planks in the street, shouting “Only Buhari” in the local Hausa language.

“What I am looking for now is rescue, the mob is still outside. I need rescue,” said Mark Asu-Obi, who was trapped inside his Kano home with his wife and three children. “There are hoodlums all over the place. It’s not just my place that they are attacking. I am not a politician. I am an independent observer.”

In Kaduna, home to the oil-rich nation’s vice president, angry young men burned tires in the streets and threw stones at police and soldiers trying to restore order, witnesses said.

“Right now, I’m holed up in my room. There’s gunshots everywhere,” said Shehu Sani, a civil rights leader. “They are firing and killing people on the street.”

Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawal described the fighting there as an “uprising.” In neighboring Katsina state, a mob attacked a prison and freed 42 inmates, police spokesman Abubakar Mohammed said.

Apr 12 2011

Nigeria: 1000 Machete-wielding Muslims attack, torch village; elderly feared burned up in their homes

Armed with guns and machetes, a 1000 Muslims set upon a non-Muslim village and completely destroyed it, burning elderly people in their homes. We can expect Hillary Clinton, France, and the UN to swoop in any minute… And side with the Muslims.

Catholicculture.org – Armed with machetes and guns, 1,000 militants attacked the village of Bar Arewa in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi on April 7. “Almost every home in the village was destroyed, and some elderly people were reported to have been burnt to death in their homes,” according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

The group is part of a larger band of 2,000 militants that has been attacking non-Muslim villages.

15% of the nation’s 146.5 million people are Catholic, according to Vatican statistics. 50% are Muslim, 25% are Protestant, and 10% retain indigenous beliefs.