But no, Islamic "radicalization" couldn't happen within Nigeria. "Religious mayhem claims 30 in Bauchi," by Ali Garba for the Guardian (Nigeria), December 28:
No fewer than 30 persons, including four soldiers from the 33 Field Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, may have been killed in a fresh clash between members of an Islamic sect called kala-kato and security personnel in the Zango area of Bauchi Metropolis in the early hours of yesterday.
The kala-kato (which means "he has said") sect claims to be an off shoot of the original Maitatsine sect of the 1980s.
Among the victims who died were 15 children between the ages of three and seven.
A cripple, Yusufa Abba, was said to have been slaughtered like a ram by the sect members.
A number of houses in Zango were set on fire by members of the sect who went on rampage demanding the release of their leader arrested by the authorities.
Affected, was Gambo Nabarasi whose house opposite the sect's enclave in Zango area was burnt down completely. When The Guardian visited the Federal Low-cost House Estate, which is near the scene of the clash, sound of gunshot exchange between security personnel and the members of the sect still rent the air. [...]
About four innocent children who fell victims were burnt when their parents' house was set ablaze by the rampaging sect members.
According to an eyewitness, Ibrahim, who is one of the neighbours to the sect members, said that the residents started to sense trouble early yesterday when the preacher of the sect embarked on a sermon insulting other Moslem sects.
Ibrahim said that the preacher called other sects infidels.
"I live at the Zango Main Road but this street is called Saidawa. I was at the open preaching of the sect yesterday night (Sunday) and this morning (Monday) when the preacher questioned the rationale behind the killing of the dreaded Boko Haram members when all the sect members were preaching against is reality," he said.
He added: "One of the listeners challenged the preacher and he was dealt with there while another who called on the people to leave the venue of the preaching was killed instantly and before we knew what was happening, the sect members had taken to the street burning down people's houses and maiming others. It is very unfortunate this is happening again in Bauchi," Ibrahim said. [...]
This will be the third religious crisis in Bauchi this year including the dreaded Boko Haram in June which claimed many lives and property.
Al BeBeeCeera desperately tries to avoid the 'M'-word. Not a whiff about Islam either, only this:
The BBC's Caroline Duffield reports from Lagos that Kala Kato is a non-conformist Muslim sect made up of poor tradesmen, labourers and other working people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8433203.stm
"a non-conformist Muslim sect"- that's a new one. Are they any different to the conformist sects?
"Ibrahim said that the preacher called other sects infidels."
There's that Muslim sensitivity for ya....they call you an "infidel" and immediately the Muslim love appears and people die....even if they are other Muslims...
At some point in time you would think some Muslims would wise up to the fact that Islam isn't all it's cracked up to be...
And for about 1400 years it has been proven that where ever Islam appears and grows strong ....the quality of life rapidly declines...
Compare Islams Five Pillars of Faith against Christianitys Ten Commandments and decide which one actually gives you really quality rules to guide your life by....
One seems only to steer you to obey the "faith" and the other seems to steer you to the ways of living a healthy and valuable life...
Oh yeah, if you decide to leave your Christian religion or any other non Muslim religion, you are not threatened with death threats or death....only Islam does that. And Islam is the only religion that forces people to join (under the threat of death if they don't).
When you investigate Islam and the history of Islam , you will discover it is much more than just a "religion"....much more...and it is not good for you...
Was any Kool Aid consumed by sect members?
Nigeria is not known for suicide bombers...that's true. What it IS known for is "confessional riots". i.e., the media's euphemism for Muslim mob and arson attacks on Christians and Christian churches.
Remember the 5000 who were killed in such violence at Kano in northern Nigeria earlier this decade when Christians resisted the imposition of Sharia? Remember the other "flair ups" in which additional thousands were killed? Upwards to 10,000 people - mostly Christians, have been killed in such violence this decade in Nigeria.
Question: How many Palestinians have been killed during the same period? Answer: Far fewer.
Response: Where then is the international outrage? Answer: The victims are mostly Christian, hence, there is no outrage.
Ibrahim said that the preacher called other sects infidels.
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Of course he did. Through the handy doctrine of Takfir, even other Muslims can instantly become "infidels" or "apostates", and are thus fair game for any savaagery.
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Among the victims who died were 15 children between the ages of three and seven...
About four innocent children who fell victims were burnt when their parents' house was set ablaze by the rampaging sect members...
A cripple, Yusufa Abba, was said to have been slaughtered like a ram by the sect members.
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Children and disabled people. Truly, we see here the 'bravery' of Muslims. "Slaughtered like a ram" here likely means poor Abba had his throat cut.
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The kala-kato (which means "he has said") sect claims to be an off shoot of the original Maitatsine sect of the 1980s...
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Mohammed Marwa Maitatsine was an Islamic "scholar"—why is it only in Islam that one regularly finds such murderous "scholars"?
The following is from Wikipedia:
But in that period (the early 1970s) he began to receive acceptance from religious authorities, especially after making hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. As his following increased in the 1970s, so did the number of confrontations between his adherents and the police. His preaching attracted largely a following of youths, unemployed migrants, and those who felt that mainstream Muslim teachers were not doing enough for their communities.
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How predictable are these points? His starts to receive support from "religious authorities" not because of the content of his preaching, but because he showed himself a "good Muslim" by making the Hajj.
He attracted the obligatory "youths", who always seem so ready to commit violence in any Muslim land.
There is the usual point about about the discontent stemming from dissatisfaction that leaders, or the government, or whatever, are not "doing enough for their communities"—which Westerners always interpret as not putting enough into education, or not creating enough jobs or opportunities—but which these Muslim "youth" more likely see as being "insufficiently Islamic"—either not doing enough to spread Islam, or not imposing a strict enough version of Shari'ah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Marwa_Maitatsine
The reporter for this 'Guardian' version of the story is, to judge by his name - Ali Garba, a Muslim.
Note the headline that the 'Guardian' gave the story:
"Religious mayhem claims 30 in Bauchi".
Let's re-word that for greater accuracy, shall we?
How about this? - "Muslim mayhem kills 30 in Bauchi".
The Reuters version of this story, as relayed through Australia's ABC news
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/29/2781866.htm?section=justin
had a somewhat more truthful headline (I don't know whether the ABC editors or Reuters themselves were responsible for it) -
"Nigerian police clash with machete-wielding Islamic sect"
but the body of the story gives us the Nigerian national police spokesman putting forward what has got to be a contender for Understatement of the Year:
"It was a minor misunderstanding between a religious sect and the public".
(This after paragraph 1 has informed us that "as many as eight people were believed to have been killed, including two soldiers, in fighting between members of an Islamic sect armed with machetes and the security forces").
Eight dead bodies on the streets and it's 'a minor misunderstanding'.
'Misunderstanding' = 'screaming Muslim riot suppressed, after a pitched battle, by the police and the army'?