And as always, the world yawns. Yet just consider the international publicity, and outcry, this would provoke if the perpetrators and victims were reversed.
"3 pastors killed, 20 churches demolished in Nigeria violence," from the Baptist Press, August 13 (thanks to DFS):
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BP)--Twelve Christians, including three pastors, were killed and 20 churches were demolished in Nigeria amid escalating religiously motivated violence, prompting a call for government intervention.Conflicts between Christians and Muslims have gone largely unchecked by the Nigerian government, and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom this year placed the African nation on its list of "countries of particular concern."
International Christian Concern, a U.S.-based human rights group, is asking people to sign a petition calling on Nigerian officials to bring perpetrators to justice and work to prevent further attacks. The petition is accessible at persecution.org/suffering/petitions. ICC also is asking concerned citizens to contact the Nigerian Embassy in Washington at 202-986-8400.
In a report Aug. 6, ICC said the attacks that occurred July 26 in Maiduguri were instigated by Boko Haram, a group that opposes Western education and fights to impose sharia law throughout Nigeria, including areas that are largely Christian.
Sabo Yakubu, a husband, father of seven and pastor of a Church of Christ congregation, was hacked to death by a machete, ICC said. Also killed were Sylvester Akpan, pastor of National Evangelical Mission, and George Orji, pastor of Good News of Christ Church.
"Mohammed Yusuf, the Islamic sect leader who initially said their targets were government property and security agencies, later changed and started setting ablaze churches and killing pastors who had nothing to do with their activities," Yuguda Zubagai Ndurvuwa, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said in a statement reported by ICC....
Thanks to the their timid, corrupt and spineless politicians, Christians are destined to donate their votes and tax-dollars to their own demise.
Then again, in a democracy, people get the government they deserve.....
Nothing new here. Just more sorry-ass examples of Islamic intolerance (and insecurity), notwithstanding the ad nauseam parsing, the ever so predictable contextual arguments and endless explanations by those who continue to exculpate Islam when it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that Islam is spiritual totalitarianism and a burden to mankind.
The Christians in Nigeria are doomed in the long run. Hopefully, Kenyan's will take in this example of Islamist supremacism.
In my opinion ...the Muslims are waging a religious war on a grand scale...and it appears no one is really paying attention..
Everywhere Islam goes, death and destruction follow.
They're just following their role model, the ideal man Mohammed.
In one day, Mohammed help behead (Koran 47:4, 8:12) between 600-900 Qurayza Jews in Medina in 627 A.D.
This is the Baptist Press, right?
They ought to know what's happening. Indeed, if one reads the report, it is crystal clear that Muslims are engaging in unprovoked violent attacks on Christians, not the other way around.
And yet even the Baptist Press fails to tell the whole truth.
Look at this line - "Conflicts between Christians and Muslims have gone largely unchecked by the Nigerian government".
If they were going to tell the plain truth, here's what they should have written - "Muslim attacks upon Christians have gone largely unchecked by the Nigerian government".
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In my opinion ...the Muslims are waging a religious war on a grand scale...and it appears no one is really paying attention.."
Muslims are in a WORLD WAR with any and all who are not muslim, they are just permitted to lie about it per their 'god' and somehow the last 200 (or 1400) years don't come into the equation for far too many people.
IMO, islam is not a religion but a form of government with a false entity as its head that they themselves can't even challenge. They use religious type rhetoric to build the base.
Let us look at the usual headlines: Muslims kill Christians in Egypt, Muslims kill Christians in Iraq, Muslims kill Christians in Pakistan, Muslims kill Christians in the Philippines, Muslims kill Christians in Somalia, Muslims kill Christians in Indonesia, Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria, and so on and so forth. Yet to point all of this out is hateful according to Western-based Islamic apologists. We're supposed to pretend that Islam views Christianity as an "Abrahamic faith" and pretend that 1,400 years of warfare against Christians never happened, or if it did, does have anything in the least bit to do with Islamic theology. Meanwhile, the mujahideen can rest assured that they can keep murdering Christians and burning down churches because Westerners are to afraid of being called Islamophobes and racists by the likes of Ibrahim Hooper, Ahmad Rehab, and Shahid Malik.
The only thing Baptists have ever killed is fun.
One of my favourite lines that I use, because I’m a lousy gambler, and therefore I don’t, except for the odd lottery ticket, is, “Gambling is the Devil’s work.”
But from what the my ex-Baptist now atheist wife tells me, just substitute, “Gambling” for anything fun, and the line makes complete Baptist sense. No wonder they have such an insight on what is happening in Nigeria, ‘cause only another belief system so ill-bent on not having any fun would be able to operate in a muslim controlled sector of the planet.
(I, of course, do not insinuate that Baptists are complicit in any way, or are to be equated with a belief in Isla
Why do Muslims kill Christians (and members of other faiths)? 'Cause they can't compete with other religions.
It is interesting that when watching the news these days the majority of bloody mayhem and chaotic civil unrest is coming from Muslims practicing Islam.
The fact that Muslims are continuing in modern times to kill non-Muslims without justification can only be suppressed or self censored in the media for so long before the flood gates break open and the terrible truth about Islam becomes more widely known.
"[Muslims] later changed and started setting ablaze churches and killing pastors who had nothing to do with their activities" -- Yuguda Zubagai Ndurvuwa, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria
That Christian chairman, Ndurvuwa, seems a little ignorant of Islam. Setting ablze churches and killing pastors has everything to do with the activities of the Muslims.
Everyone call the Nigerian and Kenyan Embassies to complain and let them know what you know. Let Baptist churches know also espcially black Baptizt churches.
Everyone call the Nigerian and Kenyan Embassies to complain and let them know what you know. Let Baptist churches know also espcially black Baptizt churches.
Everyone call the Nigerian and Kenyan Embassies to complain and let them know what you know. Let Baptist churches know also espcially black Baptizt churches.
The Baptists are still spending their stimulus money and are scared to death their elected officials may not appropriate more funds. Besides Pelosi, Boxer and Reid still think this muslims thing is just a cute phase that some suburban middle class teenagers are going through. Until Pelosi is in a burka and veil- since anything anti Christian and anti european male is superior and doesn't make her feel guilty- she and her liberal co-horts will support the muslims. Our President, hasn't apologized to everyone on behalf of the wrongs committed by America, yet.
Obama is still waiting for Assad and Ahmadinijad to send back smily faces on their e-mails.
I'm sure the Christian pastors were just "fundamentalist right wingers" and deserved what they got from their peace-loving Muslim neighbors.
They must have provoked it somehow.
Not wearing an identifying badge of humiliation. Rebuilding a church. Something really offensive.
Maybe they told a joke at a Mohammedan's expense, like:
"Why did the Muslim cross the road?".
That alone should merit death.
How dare they conflate a Muslim with a cross!
TILLY - nice to see you posting here again. Were you having problems with IntenseDebate?
You're right, the word has to be got out to the black churches in the USA.
As well as the Baptists, the Church of Christ churches should be sent this story - since it was a Church of Christ pastor who was one of those murdered by the Muslims.
And since, in Nigeria, Christians of *all* stripes - Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Churches of Christ, *everybody* - are being attacked by Muslims (as also in every other part of the Islamic world), the news should be put right in the face of *every* major Christian group in the USA and elsewhere in the west.
Don't forget Catholic churches that have predominantly black congregations - e.g in places like New Orleans, and in areas with a large Haitian presence.
Sudanese and Nigerian Christians who have fled the jihad and are now in the USA and Canada - and some even in Australia - will have to be encouraged and assisted to do even more than they are now doing, to raise the alarm. Ethiopian and Coptic immigrants in the West can also be encouraged to speak up.
The usual Muslim lies and they know they are lying.
Let me try to clean that up a bit.
There. Does that help?
every effort should be made to stop Islam from taking over...because once Islam takes over ....you cannot get out..
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/016679.php
Mahoundians go after the Sunday people when they can't find any Saturday people...Of course this has nothing to do with Islam...
I was noticing the same trend. They go for Jews first, if none are available they target Christians, after that they'll target Sikhs and Hindus (again, this depends on availability), and finally will settle for killing "heretic" Muslims when there are no kuffar around. It is as the late Samuel Huntington said, Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. Again, what is the common element here?
Our wonderful president is going to send money to help the fight against Christians....... remember what he said in Audacity of Hope .... I will stand with the Muslims....
as long as the mosque continues to tolerate such intolerant behavior by "brothers," other persuasions should not consider the less active brothers of the mosque as able to live peacefully within society, since so many just can't be tolerant, can't endure pluralism.
Mohammed Yusuf, the Islamic sect leader who initially said their targets were government property and security agencies, later changed and started setting ablaze churches and killing pastors who had nothing to do with their activities"
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Of course, Yuguda Zubagai Ndurvuwa is wrong about this. Both attacking any government that is not Islamic--or is considered "insufficiently Islamic"--*and* murdering non-Muslims and destroying their places of worship--are all very much the "activities" of devout Muslims.