Nigeria: Muslim opposition candidate rejects election results, 40,000 displaced in violence

“We left our homes for fear of attacks from the mobs,” said a Christian woman in Kano. "Jonathan rival rejects vote result as thousands flee Nigeria unrest," from the Daily Nation, April 20 (thanks to Twostellas):

The Muslim opposition candidate in Nigeria’s presidential polls rejected the results today but urged calm after deadly post-election riots, amid a rush to help nearly 40,000 displaced.

Authorities say many were killed in the violence, which saw corpses burnt beyond recognition and bodies reportedly thrown into wells, but have refused to give a toll, saying it could spark reprisals and would be inaccurate.

There were reports of fresh clashes in the northern state of Kaduna overnight, with a community leader telling local radio “the killing was unbelievable and the destruction is colossal.”

One government official, explaining authorities’ reluctance to release an overall death toll from since the vote on Saturday, said, “I wouldn’t like to use the term massacre... some places it was terrible.”

Curfews and military patrols appeared to have brought an uneasy calm to many areas Wednesday as the thousands who fled their homes in fear took refuge at police and military barracks, sleeping in the open under trees.

The Red Cross said it had counted around 410 people wounded in the violence that began sporadically in the country’s mainly Muslim north before spreading to some 14 states on Monday. [...]

Authorities have however argued that the rioting was not based on religion or ethnicity but was instigated by those unhappy with the victory of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian.

And why were they angry with Jonathan's victory? Because he is a southern Christian, and they are northern Muslims who are enraged that he succeeded a Muslim and that a Muslim is not in power:

Jonathan took over in May 2010 following the death of his predecessor Umaru Yar’Adua, a northern Muslim who had not finished his first term, prompting bitterness in the north over its loss of power.

In the most intense rioting Monday, mobs roamed the streets with machetes and clubs, pulling people out of cars and setting homes on fire. Reprisal attacks intensified the situation.

For fear of attacks

In the main northern city of Kano, a Christian woman taking refuge at a police station said she had fled through back alleys with her three children after she saw smoke and heard shouting.

“We left our homes for fear of attacks from the mobs,” said Mary Okechukwu, 36. “Many have gone back to their homes, but ... I will not risk my life and that of my children.”...

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why do these muslims act like this, destroying and killing anyone who opposes them? Don't they realize they only hurt their cause evil, though it is? They act like spoiled brats who need a good lick'en!

Authorities say many were killed in the violence, which saw corpses burnt beyond recognition and bodies reportedly thrown into wells, but have refused to give a toll, saying it could spark reprisals and would be inaccurate.
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I've already commented on this elsewhere, but consider—Nigerian authorities are implying that they cannot acknowledge the savagery of Muslims, because that would lead to Christian revenge and the victimization of Muslims.

Hence, Muslims are portrayed as victims and infidels as assailants, even though the truth is the *exact opposite*.

Because they're savage, subhuman barbarians, that's why.

So does that mean the UN and the French are going to bomb this guy out of the country, just like they did in Cote D'Ivoire?

I wonder if this is going to cut down on the amount of spam reaching our mailboxes.

I sure as hell hope so.

"Authorities say many were killed in the violence,...but have refused to give a toll, saying it could spark reprisals and would be inaccurate."

Get used to it folks...the deliberate censorship of information in order to maintain social peace. Already a fact of life in Europe (Muslim-on-native violence is rarely reported on), it's coming to a neighborhood near you.

John, it seems like you're new here so in a nutshell, muslims do this because it what islam teaches them to do. A muslim is allah's greatest creation (after muhammad) and must never be (if circumstances permit) ruled over by non-muslims. They are just being pious muslims. Disturbing, isn't it?

Lets see if I have this right. Muslims win, everything is okee dokee. Muslims lose, then they kill you.

Lets see if I have this right. Muslims win, everything is okee dokee. Muslims lose, then they kill you.

Almost right. It's more like this:

Muslims win, everything is okee dokee for Muslims and they are free to kill you. Muslims lose, then they kill you.

Don't expect Cunning Caliph Hussein Obama, the suspected Islamic Trojan horse and Muslim Brotherhood agent, to intervene to save the persecuted Christians! Christians are being murdered in mass number mercilessly in this oil-rich Nigeria, but did Hussein called for intervention like the way he proclaim like an Islamic messiah, help including millions of dollars for Muslim terrorist-rebels to gain power like in oil-rich Libya, Egypt and and Ivory Coast (now a fraud Muslim president is ruling Ivory Coast after being assisted by Caliph Hussein)? Further, Hussein even was cunning enough to support such violent Islamic terrorists revolution in the Passover message - what a hijack to the Jews and Christians, especially the murdered and persecuted ones!

Do you see any TV Christian Evangelists protesting or even announcing the events as they really are?...

big-pete, these Muslim barbarians and murderers are just aping their creator of Islam, the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (including sexual slaves such as young Jewish captive girls), and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, in order to construct pure Arabian kingdom and legitimize his and his tribe’s evil Arabic socio-cultural practices- As a non-Arab ex Muslim, I detest such savage imperialism by the Arabs on non-Arab lands and people through this evil cult, Islam, which god is the Devil!

Cornelius, they already do that in Canada, and have been for years. White on non-white crime is trumpeted for weeks, with much hand-wringing over racism. When a non-white commits a crime, they are often reluctant to even publish the name of the perp, the story will be some small thing in the inner pages somewhere, and even then it'll probably only be in a local Sun newspaper. I mentioned here last year about a Somalian who was in Calgary court for beating on his wife, with the excuse that "this is how we do things in Somalia" (the judge didn't buy it, and told him he's in Canada now, bless his heart.) I only found this story in the Calgary Sun (and not the Herald.)

Pics? From what I've seen lately, only if the guy is white or Native. Oh, a newspaper in Newfoundland published my psycho ex's Alberta address in their newspaper. Street, house #, and all. I really doubt they would have done that if the guy wasn't an uncarded Metis and wasn't born here. Now, as far as I know, psycho ex never actually killed anyone (though he came close to doing me a couple of times, and I endured many, many death threats) - I doubt they would publish the name, pic and full address of an immigrant who committed an "honour killing".

Not that I really feel sorry for him, and if someone breaks into the place and beats the crap out of him, so much the better. But it IS unfair.

That's how they are, the mahoundians, when something isn't to their liking they get violent. They have no other arguments. But don't be mistaken, the riots have nothing to do with Islam,the religion of peace(TM).

Do you see any TV Christian Evangelists protesting or even announcing the events as they really are?...
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Actually, John Hagee Ministries has a lot to say about Israel and its main enemy--Islam. I usually watch it while getting ready to go to Sunday mass.

Franklin Graham has made several schockingly true statements--all quite unflattering, but true--regarding Islam.

There's another guy, Jack Van Impe, sort of a second coming preacher who routinely rips Islam.

The only place I never hear anything honest about the threat of Islam is at my parish. They could slit every throat in the congregation and my pastor would invite them for doughnuts after mass.

Muham Democracy on the move through out Northern Africa and the Middle East. (Beachbirdie got it) If their candidate wins they can kill Christian and other non-Muhams because its allowed in their Sharia handbooks; if their candidate loses they can kill Christians and other non-Muhams to influence the removal of their adversaries and the installation of their candidate so that they can continue killing Christians and other non-Muhams without breaking the laws of a non-Muham justice system.
Almost 1400 years of this form of Muham Democracy has put us in this position of having to choose between Global Civil War with the 'almost' unthinkable mission of eradicating Muhammadism completely or everyone caving in and becoming one of them and having one big global Muham Fest. Yippeee

I'm glad you got away from him.

(at least) 40 000 people displaced (the lucky ones) as security forces find burned bodies, bodies down wells etc.

after an announcement that the muslim candidate rejects the poll decisision.... let that sink in.

imagine if hed won. cart blanche.

the appropriate headline/sub heads would read:

IDIOT REJECTS DEMOCRATIC DECISION. 40 0000 DISPLACED AS RESULT.

MUSLIM REVENGE RAMPAGE OVER ELECTION LOSS.

THOUSANDS WANTED FOR INCITING CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS WAR.

POLITICIAN ARRESTED AS MOBS MURDER INNOCENTS.

RELIGIOUS GENOCIDE IN WAKE OF POLLS. LEADER ARRESTED.

spoilt, disfunctional children.


(at least) 40 000 people displaced (the lucky ones) as security forces find burned bodies, bodies down wells etc.

after an announcement that the muslim candidate rejects the poll decisision.... let that sink in.

imagine if hed won. cart blanche.

the appropriate headline/sub heads would read:

IDIOT REJECTS DEMOCRATIC DECISION. 40 0000 DISPLACED AS RESULT.

MUSLIM REVENGE RAMPAGE OVER ELECTION LOSS.

THOUSANDS WANTED FOR INCITING CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS WAR.

POLITICIAN ARRESTED AS MOBS MURDER INNOCENTS.

RELIGIOUS GENOCIDE IN WAKE OF POLLS. LEADER ARRESTED.

spoilt, disfunctional children.


To Mr. Spencer:

PLEASE MAKE A PROMINENT POST about Pastor Terry Jones going to Dearborn this Friday -- a very courageous man. He needs support, maybe bulletproof shielding, and maybe some armed lookouts. The authorities are trying to block him.

We should expect the Princes of Fools (Sarkozy, Cameron, Hussein) to wring their hands and deliberate on how best to "protect civilians" in Nigeria, which enjoys more oil than Libya.

Otoh, the Mahoundian oppression and massacre of Christian civvies may be so low on the political agenda that it negates both oil and humanitarian concerns.

'Muslim opposition candidate rejects election results,...'

Oh dear! The will of the people versus the will of God. And God must win every time. Well, only if you believe Islam, of course.

The Biafra freedom movement followed a muslim reaction to the killing - not proven to be political - of a muslim leader who was harassing Christians in central Nigeria. The northern savages have major allies in the OIC tyrannies; the southern Christians, Spiritualists and Animists have none. Hussein O avoided the country during his travels to his homeland.

Arthur:

Spencer can speak for himself, but there are compelling reasons why he won't back Terry Jones. First of all, Jones' "church" doesn't get tax free status because it is financed by use of voluntary labor at the entity's furniture store. Second, in principle, there is no reason to signal rejection of ersatz "religious" texts by burning them. Third, Jones hasn't demonstrated that he has a shred of either scholarship in comparative religion, or astuteness in current affairs. Fourth, Jones has at best 4 dozen followers. Fifth, "courage" can't be attributed to some remote person who puts frontline targets of the muslim enemy, in jeopardy.

If you want to help Jones, send him copies of Spencer's books.

The Muslim men have been BRED through centuries of evolution to be violent and evil. i.e.:
1) The men that survived and thrived in the Muslim community were those that were VIOLENT. It's in their DNA.
2) The women that survived in their culture were those that were SUBMISSIVE.
They are not thinking . . there's no need to think . . They rage and kill.
What WE do (or don't do) makes no difference! If we hurt their feelings, burn a book, draw a cartoon . . etc. They USE that for a reason to kill. But the real reason they kill, is THEY MUST KILL, it's in their DNA. There will always be a reason!
We are stupid to accept the reason . . because the REAL reason is...it's genetic!

Arthur wrote:

To Mr. Spencer:

PLEASE MAKE A PROMINENT POST about Pastor Terry Jones going to Dearborn
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Arthur, if you want to send a message to Robert Spencer or anyone else on the Jihad Watch board, go to the JW home page and scroll down the left-hand side until you see the "contact" box. You can email from there.

To John P:

I agree that burning books is not, as a general matter, indicative of high moral or intellectual principle. I also agree with all of your other points, and I would like to add that I have heard that the pastor is bigoted in many respects. He is clearly not a very intelligent person.

BUT HE IS CARRYING OUT WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE ONLY STRATEGY LIKELY TO BE EFFECTIVE IN THE SHORT RUN: he is using the power of freedom of speech (probably the most important bedrock principle in the foundation of the U.S.) to deliberately bring out Islamic insanity. And he is doing so at tremendous risk to his own life. Most people conclude, after seeing the Islamic response to the pastor, that however bigoted he might be the Islamists have proven themselves to be completely insane.

I don't know anybody else who is openly using that strategy. The reason that I believe that strategy to be the only effective one is this: The development of events since Mr. Spencer's contributions to the education of the world about Islam have convincingly demonstrated that merely putting the facts out is not enough. Mr. Spencer has completely and irrefutably proven his case, BUT VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE LISTENING.

As things stand, if Islamic insanity is not brought to the forefront of American consciousness, everybody from Obama to to Bush 43 to Hillary Clinton to the Washington Post and the NY Times to the American generals have been given a free hand to tell lies about Islam. Mr. Spencer is portrayed as a rabid Muslim hater and distorter of the true teachings, while the Islamists are seen as rational, peace-promoting, and open-minded. THIS SITUATION IS UTTERLY PERVERSE.

If things develop in accordance with current trends, Islam will continue to expand in the U.S. until its intrinsic inhumanity is rejected by Muslims themselves in large numbers. That will take possibly 100 years or more, and will result in a lot of damage to the American social fabric, and lots of bloodshed.

Regarding the risk to soldiers in Afghanistan by the pastor's conduct, those soldiers have immersed themselves amongst people who are armed and utterly insane, and they will remain at increased risk every time some provocative event occurs in the world.

To gravenimage:

The reason I post my ideas here is so that others can see them, and criticize them or support them as they deem appropriate. I learn something from each response I get.

Anna, I think the answer is much simpler.

History demonstrates that everyday people, regardless of genetics, are more than capable of committing the most brutal of acts. What most need is a belief system that tells them that what they are doing, no matter how heinous, is right. Nazis, communists, islamists all receive absolution for their evil from their belief systems. They all give their adherents permission to commit otherwise unthinkable acts.

Genetics could be a factor but given the violence that flourishes wherever islam takes root I feel it's primarily the ideology.

Arthur wrote:

To gravenimage:

The reason I post my ideas here is so that others can see them, and criticize them or support them as they deem appropriate. I learn something from each response I get.
..........................

Fair enough, Arthur. Some posters are unaware of how to contact Robert Spencer directly. I haven't seen you posting here for a while, and wasn't sure if you were familiar with the system or not.

Anna wrote:

The Muslim men have been BRED through centuries of evolution to be violent and evil...the REAL reason is...it's genetic!
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While I do believe that centuries of inbreeding have been quite deleterious for Muslims, I don't believe Islam has been around long enough to make much of an actual difference in their genetics.

In addition, you have new "reverts" who are every bit as savage as Muslims who have followed Islam for centuries—as well as entirely rational apostates from Islam, many of who come from a long Islamic lineage.

The decent Germans of today are not different genetically than their Nazi parents and grandparents, nor are the Taiwanese much different from the Communist Chinese. The civilized South Koreans are not different genetically from the oppressive and oppressed North Koreans–in fact, many families have members on both sides of the border.

Like poster Big Pete, I believe the primary issue is ideology. Islam is a terrible creed. It dissuades the development of reason, encourages the very worst traits of human behavior—such as violence and bullying—while it squelches or punishes many of a person's best instincts.

Even the best people living under such a philosophy are likely to be all too tolerant of evil.

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