Sharia Alert. "Nigeria - State's policies said to strangle Christianity," from Compass Direct:
LAFIA, Nigeria, January 15 (Compass Direct News) – As soon as Christians in this capital city of Nasarawa state tried to rebuild a Reformed Church building that Muslims burned down two years ago, more than 200 Islamists attacked the workers.
The rebuilding came to a halt, and the Nasarawa state government subsequently banned reconstruction of the facility. The church had been planted more than a century ago by missionaries of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa under the auspices of the then-Sudan United Mission, headed by German missionary Dr. Karl Kunn.
Islamic law prohibits building new churches or restoring old ones, based on the dhimma laws set forth in the Pact of Umar:
We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks' cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims.
The article continues:
“I personally witnessed the attack on the workers at the reconstruction site of the church,” said the Rev. Jerry Modibo, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Nasarawa state chapter. “The Muslims were chanting, ‘Death to Christians, death to infidels. This town is for Muslims, we don’t want Christians here.’”
The church was known as NKST, or Nongo u Kristu u ken Sudan hen Tiv, Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv. The Tiv are an ethnic group of central Nigeria. The congregation in the Angwan Tiv area of Lafia had lost their church building in religious rioting.
Angwan Tiv is just one of many areas of Lafia town where the government now forbids building churches, Modibo said. At the same time, he said, the Nasarawa administration has financed the building of mosques across the state with public funds. Some of these mosques have been built on the premises of various government ministries and agencies.
The church leader said Nasarawa state has also built mosques in the Governor’s House and in the state House of Assembly, or parliament.
“If you are traveling from Lafia to Akwanga through Keffi to Abuja, you will see mosques being built along the road,” Modibo said. “These mosques are being built by the state government in towns and villages like Shabu, Nasarawa Eggon, Akwanga, Sabon Gida, Keffi, and Gora. Yet no single church or chapel has been built for Christians in this state.”
Christian public servants recently raised funds to build a chapel within the confines of the office of the deputy governor, who happens to be a Christian, Modibo said.
“They were ordered by the governor to stop the building of the chapel,” he said. “But there are two mosques built by the government in the same premises. That is the kind of injustice confronting us in this state.”
Gov. Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu was not available for comment, and his commissioner for information and internal affairs, Suleiman Adokwe, declined to speak on these and other issues to Compass. “Religious issues are sensitive, and I cannot therefore speak on them,” Adokwe said.
Muslim Chiefdoms
Nasarawa state policies are strangling Christian presence in the central Nigerian state, Modibo said. Officials deny Christians appointments to government institutions; at the same time, they promote junior-ranking Muslims above Christians in public service positions.
Nasarawa state has 51 “traditional rulers,” or community leaders recognized by the government. Modibo said that of this number, only 10 are Christians – the other 41 are Muslims.
“Abdullahi Adamu, the governor, did this by creating more chiefdoms to favor Muslims, and meanwhile he was stifling Christian community leaders by making them second fiddle in the scheme of things in this state,” Modibo said.
Discrimination in public service, the Christian leader said, has become a lifestyle for Christian public servants in the state. Of the 18 commissioners in government service, he said, only six are Christians.
“Last year Gov. Adamu appointed 18 commissioners, and 12 are Muslims,” he said. “Yet Christians constitute the largest population of the state – if you visit all 29 local government areas of this state and take statistics of all the people of these areas, you will discover that Christians constitute well over two-thirds of the state’s 1.2 million population.”
In addition, Modibo said, in the past 10 years appointments of federal ministers and ambassadors – based on recommendations from the state governor – have favored Muslims.
“Only one Christian in the past 10 years has ever been appointed a minister, and even then he was not allowed to complete his term of office,” Modibo said. “The same scenario played out in ambassadorial appointments – only one Christian has been appointed an ambassador in the past 10 years from this state.”
In the Christian-majority state, elections have been manipulated to perpetuate Muslim political leadership, he added.
Modibo, also a pastor with the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ said Christians have made concerted efforts to dialogue with Gov. Abdullahi Adamu on these issues without success.
“Several attempts have been made by us to sit with the governor on a round table to discuss and find solutions to these issues, but our efforts yielded no results,” Modibo said. “In addition to personal contacts with officers of the protocol department, we have written thrice seeking to have an audience with the governor but have waited almost eternally.”
Pilgrimage to Justice
Nigerian state governments have assumed responsibility for helping to finance pilgrimages for Muslims to Mecca and for Christians to Jerusalem. Christians in Nasarawa believe the state has discriminated against them in this area as well.
In 2005, Nasarawa state budgeted and distributed 200 million naira (US$1.6 million) for Muslim pilgrims. The state budgeted 15 million naira (US$121,832) for Christians.
“Even this amount was not released for the sponsorship of Christian pilgrims after its approval,” Modibo said. From 2000 to 2005, Muslim pilgrims to Mecca sponsored by the state totaled 6,220, while the state supported only 355 Christians – and many of those encountered difficulties in obtaining the assistance, Modibo said.
“We have been facing a lot of tribulations, trials, and frustrations here in Nasarawa state,” he said. “The church here is facing the most difficult period of her life.”
Modibo noted that Proverbs 31:8-9 advocates speaking up for those who cannot speak for themselves, defending the rights of the destitute, and letting justice flow.
“So, we are demanding that there be justice and fairness to all,” he said. “All religions in this state should be treated fairly.”
This is just typical Islamist policy in motion. Maybe someone should let the Ethiopians know.
Maybe we should treat mosque building in the same manner....
Repeat 1000 times.
Islam is the Religion of Peace.
As long as our leaders in the West continue with the above, this will continue.
Remember when you hear someone say Islam is a tolerant religion the words the Muslims speak:::
"The Muslims were chanting, ‘Death to Christians, death to infidels. This town is for Muslims, we don’t want Christians here.’”
"Abdullahi Adamu, the governor, did this by creating more chiefdoms to favor Muslims, and meanwhile he was stifling Christian community leaders by making them second fiddle in the scheme of things in this state,” Modibo said.
....Islam must dominate,Islam must dominate,Islam must dominate........warn your neighbors...........
"These mosques are being built by the state government in towns and villages like Shabu, Nasarawa Eggon, Akwanga, Sabon Gida, Keffi, and Gora. Yet no single church or chapel has been built for Christians in this state.”
....Islam must dominate , Islam must Dominate, Islam must dominate.....Zombies from hell....
In Texas Muslims want to build a Mosque next to a pig farmer and are upset that the pig farmer was there before they even knew what Texas was when deciding to migrate. The Texan has probably been passed down his lively hood from family generations but he is being challenged because of the offence that a Mosque is being build near his unclean animal farm.
You read this story in Nigeria and you think how ridiculous all the demands and rights that they them selves would not give you if you decided to build a church in a Muslim country or Muslim a dominated region. DOUBLE STANDARDS maybe?
The West should trade culture assimilation or freedom like they trade technology and medicine to these people because in the battle ground of religion Christianity is being sanded down by the Muslims who demand stupid rights in the WEST AND EUROPE ALONE whist totally having no regard for other religions in their own lands as at most Christianity conversion is a crime if not a death sentence for some.
Any historical evidence is covered up if the West don't get to escivate Biblical historical sites first. Even if they found the holy grail they would deny it ever existed and this even happens to a church being built because they don't fit in then the West should demand equal rights as they do from the West. In a way I am glad Iraq is being turned to a democracy because it's about time they learned to give, no wonder Saddam stood so long because selfishness lack of equality and basic humanity is the way of living and became the norm.
Assalamau Laikum all,
I cannot agree with violent sentiment of removing chtristians. Gentle persuasion and debate must be the order of the day.
Muslims don't need to worry...christianity is a dying faith (in this part of the world anyway).
The Most important mantra should be that every kaffur has the right to Islam...no matter what his earler faith or lack of it.
With this right Islam will dominate anyway....no need for stupid violence.
Every Muslim has a right to Christianity, only the Muslims will kill him if he makes that decision.....If a Christian leaves Christianity, the Christians will pray for him and wish him well....Big Difference.....
Here is information about the growth of the Christian faith in Africa. It is explosive. Here is the statistics.
http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps151.shtml
Islam is losing ground everywhere, The number of Islamic converts to Christianity is mounting every day...
Islam is 6th century phenomenon that has festered humanity suffering for far too long....
The best thing is that more Muslims are coming to faith in Christ are coming into the Christian faith. Africa is proof positive.
Assalamau Laikum Bigcatgurl,
If Islam is a false religion as you peoples keep saying it is ...then so is christianity.
I say this because it is unlikely that Jesus was born off a virgin Mary....this in turn makes it unlikely that he was the son of God.
I concede that he was a gifted prophet...but son of God....that I don't know.
There are so may fairytales in Christianity...as in Islam I concede ....it is causing me great concern for mulsims to leave one set of fairy tales for another...best to stick with "the devil you know".
There are a lot of controversial issues in Christianity like the virgin birth because it's down to faith; if God cannot do such a thing then he cannot make the world either. But the thing is that prophecy from the Old Testament fits too well and there are too many fulfilments already. If Christianity in the West is dying then it is of no surprise as that is also part of prophecy because the Anti-Christ will do just that and persecute Christians to extinction that is why Jesus the son of man will come down because mankind will ultimately be wiped out. So if people say Christianity will be hated, people put to death for it in having standing up to the belief as for example a captive hostage has to endure then that is the sign of the times. The devil wants and needs people who will eventually side with him and what more willing for the Muslims to cut the heads off in this day and age with the sword to produce the Tribulation saints that will reign with Christ for the 1000 years of peace on earth. The system could be of various elements off combined religions but with one purpose to exterminate God's elect.
We have a choice in the Western culture that you can decide on your faith without persecution, it's better the devil you know but it's better to choose one where you at least can get out alive than forever serve the devil. But I think mass immigration is deluding the elect into persecuting it' own Christian heritage for the sake of an Islamic one that has the agenda of world domination, I say there are dark forces at work that keep blinding the open hearted and keep safe the agenda of watering down Christ's own words. The more you read into it the more you can see the patterns and this has been warned that this must take place.
I am not sure if becoming an atheist is any better because eventually you will see religion as the cause of the world’s problems.
Becoming a Muslim has so many restrictions in its law and in religious worship as being inseparable it causes apartheid where integrating laws that separate those who believe with those who don't believe.
Christianity can have a democratic element to it and it always had done hence why so many people feel free to migrate to these Western nations and build Buddhist buildings or Synagogs and Mosques freely without being harassed. Everyone is welcome and the problem is that instead of the Christians teaching their side of things and the governments holding on to their heritage they sweep it and hide away from these new comers to the land give in to other pressures that they don't want to tolerate anything that is religiously not their own path so it's an honour for lets say a Muslim to win a court case stating that crosses should be taken down from schools.
Islam or the Roman Catholic Church may head way for an end of age system of dominance it could any system that one day will hold a noose round the whole of man kind but don't be fooled if you think you have won if that system you support because it will be powerful until the beast system is crushed by which ever God you believe as Judaism religions seem to have that in common.
Jews Chrisians Muslims Mormans or Moonies are all waiting fot the Messiah and if the prophecies start to fullfil then it's the signs from these books that will say which is more true than the rest when it happens. But also you will find confusion as people do now as to which is true and that is all part of the pre-deception anyway.
What you see in Nigeria is what Christians will have to put up with in worldly full scale. Other events in history could have stired the same emotions during the times of the plague or the world wars but still we are here to tell the tail as mankind but yet even then the signs were not fullfilled as they are slowly doing now more than any other time Biblically.
this law of omar is just one example that should show us that the only strategy for dealing w. slami is total war & unconditional surrender
i predict this will happen
Naseem said,
There are so may fairytales in Christianity...as in Islam I concede ....it is causing me great concern for mulsims to leave one set of fairy tales for another...best to stick with "the devil you know".
hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Your reference to the "devil" in this case is priceless. I couldn't have put it any better myself. Did you intentionally make fun of Islam and yourself for being a slave to it, or was it just another example of your well-documented cognitive deficiency.
Thanks again Naseem, I really needed that laugh.
Islam is the only "religion" in the world try to rule at the point of a gun. Islam is the only religion spreading death without provocation.
Islam is denying other religions rights to exist..Islam is deny there are other religions...
As Islam tries harder to conquer, it moves closer to self destruction and will eventually die....as a direct result of its own actions...
"There are so may fairytales in Christianity...as in Islam I concede ...."
Maybe atheism is the answer?
Muslims don't need to worry...christianity is a dying faith (in this part of the world anyway).
Yes you are right.is a dying faith where you are.thanx to the murderous muslims killing them off,BUT YOU AS A MUSLIM SHOULD WORRY AS the Government of Pakistan has taken various measures to deal with this problem (Ahmadiyya issue). I hope that the whole Muslim world will take similar steps to crush this curse with full force.
Till such time that punishment of death for apostasy is not imposed, the evil of Qadianism cannot be uprooted.
Dr. Asrar Ahmad, religious mentor of Mian Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister: The Daily Din, 18 July 1998
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-do-moslems-explain-this.html
"Christians constitute well over two-thirds of the state’s 1.2 million population.” from the article above.
Then the Christians should arm themselves and sieze power. Once in power they should impose the conditions that the Pact of Omar imposed on Christians back on the Muslims.
“The Muslims were chanting, ‘Death to Christians, death to infidels. This town is for Muslims, we don’t want Christians here.’”
Then these newly armed Christians should meet these Muslims with deadly force. As Patton said "kill enough of them and they'll stop fighting."
In the mean time, the Christian Ibo states in the south should impose exactly the same conditions on their Muslim minority that the northern Muslim states impose on Christians.
Wake up and smell the sharia. Dar al islam, dar al harb.
I think the new breed of Demoncrats has been going to schoo, over ther eor something.
All this is starting to ring a bell...