Nigeria: Muslims rampage, ten killed, 3 churches set ablaze

“Even as I talk to you now, Christians are still being attacked and many are fleeing out of Bauchi.” Feel the love.

"Nigeria: Ten Killed, Three Churches Set Ablaze In Bauchi," from Compass Direct:

BAUCHI, Nigeria, December 13 (Compass Direct News) – Ten persons have been killed and three churches set on fire after Muslim high school students in this northern Nigerian city began a rampage on Tuesday (December 11) that spilled into the city. Today tensions were still high in the area.

An eyewitness at the high school said the Muslim students attacked their Christian peers after unidentified people pulled out two foundation blocks of a high school mosque under construction.

Area Muslims joined the attacking students, resulting in the deaths and damages in the city, including the burning of dozens of homes belonging to Christians.

The identity of nine of the 10 people killed has been kept secret as the Bauchi state government has ordered security agents to remove the corpses and bury them in a common grave. Eyewitnesses told Compass they were buried this morning.

The 10th person killed was a Christian security agent with the State Security Service, identified by eyewitnesses only by his surname, Bogoro, a member of the Church of Christ in Nigeria in Yelwa.

The three churches set aflame in Bauchi after Muslim students began attacking Christian students at the Government Day Secondary School (also known as Baba Tanko Secondary School) in the Yelwa Tudu area of Bauchi are Pentecostal: Elim Church, Redeemed Christian Church of God, and the Assemblies of God Church.

In addition, area Muslims set fire to dozens of houses belonging to Christians. Among the houses burned was that of the Rev. Umaru Sule, associate pastor of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA ) of Yelwa Makaranta, and that of the Rev. Maina Joshua of Kagadama.

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The Rev. Timothy Dogari, pastor of ECWA Church Kagadama, told Compass that Muslims also targeted his church since the disturbance broke out.

“We have had to mobilize ourselves to keep guard over this church building, as Muslims have tried in the past three days to burn it down,” he said. Rev. Dogari, who said he was nearly killed in the rampage, said many homes of Christians have been destroyed and many people injured.

“Even as I talk to you now,” he said today, “Christians are still being attacked and many are fleeing out of Bauchi.”

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I sense organization behind these "mobs". Perhaps the Christians of southern Nigeria have a right to a homeland just like the Kosovars do... calling NATO... calling NATO... oh wait.. that's right Heir Bush works for the House of Saud.

Free Biafra!

Murder most foul--and not just murder, indescriminate murder! Whomever allegedly pulled the bricks away could just as easily have been Mohammedans as anyone else.

Why does America not see this madness? Why do they (we) not see that Mohammedans seem to carry a gene for rabid overkill, even on the smallest evidence of their having been "wronged".

The practitioners of this religion are insane! Why do we allow them in our country. They're only waiting to behave the same way in America as they do in Nigeria. Already they froth at the mouth.

"Wretched refuse", indeed!

Those poor misguided Christians. Don't they know that the muslims were just throwing a house warming party? If the muslims seemed upset it was simply because the Christians forgot to hand out the marshmallows, chocolate bars, and graham crackers.
Once again the "religion of peace" is being misunderstood by the infid.... errr non-belie.....ummm, oh yes the uninformed fellow believers.

The only answer to such problems is to get Muslims out of Nigeria and bring them to the West.

The identity of nine of the 10 people killed has been kept secret as the Bauchi state government has ordered security agents to remove the corpses and bury them in a common grave.

There seems to be alot of secretiveness and denial going on when it comes to identifying victims of Islamic violence, in many different countries.

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