Nigerian soldiers (BBC)
The violence in Nigeria has been widely reported as Christians attacking Muslims. Most reports ignored the fact that those attacks were in response to many earlier attacks by jihadists. By early April, 1,500 Christians had been killed, and 173 churches destroyed.
This is not to say that anything the Christians might have done, or might do, is justified. But it exposes the hypocrisy of the media establishment. First, jihad violence against Christians is ignored. Then, retaliation by Christians is reported as if it were unprovoked violence against Muslims.
A flash from Compass Direct, with thanks to FreedomNowNews:
JOS, Nigeria, May 7 (Compass) -- Fresh religious violence has erupted in Yelwa town in the central state of Plateau, Nigeria, two months after Muslim militants killed a pastor and 48 members of his church there on February 23. The latest Muslim-Christian clash has resulted in the deaths of 350 people and the disappearance of 250 women and children, according to police reports.Meanwhile, more than 120 people were reportedly killed and thousands more displaced by inter-religious violence in the northern state of Taraba in late April.
The latest crisis in Yelwa erupted in the early hours of Sunday, May 2. Victims who fled to the state capital of Jos said that more than 1,000 houses and religious buildings had been destroyed by fire. ...
According to news reports yesterday from the Associated Press and Agence France Press (AFP), land disputes between members of the predominantly Christian Tarok tribe and Muslim Hausa-Fulani farmers sparked the violence in Yelwa. A Muslim city councilman told AFP reporters that at least 630 persons, most of them Muslims, had died in the fighting.
Local Christian sources said the crisis is linked to recent attacks on Christian villages in the area by Muslim extremists. They believe because only Muslims remained in Yelwa following the February 23 murders, aggrieved Christians carried out last Sunday's attack in reprisal for the earlier assault.
Muslim-Christian violence broke out in the northern state of Taraba in late April, causing the death of over 120 people and leaving thousands more displaced.
The crisis reportedly erupted on April 27 in Sarkin Kudu and Dampar villages in Ibi local government area of the state. Local sources said an Easter Sunday attack by Muslim militants on Christian villages in the nearby state of Plateau provoked the Taraba violence.
"Christians in Plateau state believe that these two villages, Sarkin Kudu and Dampar, are operational bases for Muslim militants who use them to attack Christian villages in that state," Alhaji Lawal Mohammed, a Muslim and the chairman of Ibi local government council, told Compass. "And because of this, the religious crisis has now spread into our state."
The Muslim political leader confirmed the 120 casualties, adding that he is shaken by the crisis. Mohammed then called on the Nigerian government, as a matter of urgency, to deploy soldiers to the area in order to check the spread of anarchy.
In response to the tensions, Plateau state officials have created a peace committee to network with Taraba, Benue, and Nasarawa state governments. The peace committee is seeking a viable solution to the religious conflict that has engulfed the three states in recent months.
"We have contacted Taraba, Benue and Nasarawa states to check their borders to prevent unnecessary encroachment," Michael Botmang, deputy governor of Plateau state, told Compass yesterday. "On our part, we have sent enough security personnel to the borders to prevent an influx of the Muslim militants."
Over the Easter weekend, Muslim militants launched attacks against predominantly Christian villages in Plateau. Government sources reported only three Christian victims from those attacks, as opposed to the 20 deaths reported by eyewitnesses. About 20,000 refugees fled the area as a result of the violence."
Am I wrong, or does common sense tell us that Christian religious groups do not attack their neighbors and murder them! The basis of the Christian religion (the reformed one, of course) is in the Ten Commandments, one of which is 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'and the bottom line is to love not hate. And doesn't the evidence of the past 10 years show us that the basic drive of the Muslim religion seems to be massacre, enslavement and dominance?Or am I wrong here?
Now that the Muslims are getting their butts kicked, they call for the Nigerian government to intervene. They began the jihad; Christians refused to roll over and be slaughtered. Olusegun Obasanjo could have halted this from the time that nut in Zamfara state instituted Shariah. God help Nigerian. They're on the way to a civil war begun by Muslims.
To Patricia:
If I recall correctly the commandment is better translated as "You shall not murder". All killings are not murder.
There are certainly passages in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament that implies mass killings. In a documentary about Rwanda I saw people interpreting their enemies as Gods enemies. Enemies that should be eliminated to the last person.
"long live" even your own cult does not live by the quran, but the hadith.
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"Patricia" Christians have the right to defend theirselves in war. Less anyone forget there is a war going on. This is not civil retaliation. If your neighbor attacked you once, and is preparing to attack again, it is not wrong to defend yourself in war. "turn the other cheek" does not apply here.
Obviously the UN will have something to say, but would have nothing to say about the April attack.
The Bible has three types of law: church, civil and moral.
Within civil law, a Christian or Jew has the right to defend him/herself. There is the concept of "justified war".
Most people do not understand that the 10 Commandments are the moral law - and then say "Thou shall not kill" as a civil law - which it is not.
jihan
Actually, the 10 commandments are what our Western societies, and escpecially American laws are based on.
Are we a democracy or a republic? A republic.
"A republic for which it stands, One nation under God"
If we were in a democracy, then the laws would be based on majority. But in a republic, there is a basis of law that is already predetermined. The Bible was the predetermining factor. Our judges use to be theologians. When they would walk out of the court and say they were going to chambers and review for a ruling the majority of the time the Bible was under their arm and they were going to see what the Bible had to say about the issue.
You see, in our republic certain moral issues are ruled on by God and they cannot be changed. Such as murder. In a democracy the majority makes the law, so if they voted that murder was ok and the majority won then murder would be ok.
But in our republic those things cannot be reversed, they are not subject to negotiation. This is the reason why the liberal left is trying to remove religion from the public and the law. This is why the liberal left has gotten into the church and trying to change the view of what the Bible says so that they can then say "look at the new interpretation from the church we can now change that law".(such as homosexuality)
Laws that our republic can rule on are laws that are not addressed in the Bible. Now of course the liberal left is still always trying to change those interpretations. Such as abortion. The issue had come to court many times prior to Roe vs. Wade, but there was always the same ruling. Then the liberal side got doctors that said a fetus in the womb was not alive and not human, so it is not murder. So they changed the status of the baby to not be protected by the law.
This is why the liberal left and islam are not necessarily on the same side but have the same agenda and work well together. They are trying to get rid of the Bible of the Western world. The liberal left thinks they have a friend, but the will find out that they don't. Islam will use them for their purpose and throw the liberals away when no longer needed.
Are we having a religous war? yes.
Are we having a moral war? yes.
The success of the western world has been the Bible. But where are we looking to now........?