Nigeria: Muslim commits mass murder with jihad/martyrdom suicide bomb at Catholic Church

Will the Islamophobia never end? Eid mubarak in Nigeria: "Suicide bomber hits north Nigeria Catholic church," by Godwin Attah and Jon Gambrell for the Associated Press, October 28 (thanks to Izuchukwu):

KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday at a Catholic church holding Mass in northern Nigeria, injuring a number of worshippers and killing several people, officials and witnesses said.
The attack happened in the Malali neighborhood of Kaduna, a city on the dividing line between Nigeria's largely Christian south and Muslim north where religious rioting has killed hundreds in recent years. The car tried to force its way past the gate at St. Rita's Catholic church just before it exploded, witnesses at the church said.

Yushua Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, also said initial information suggested the attack was by a suicide bomber in a car. He said "a number of casualties" had been taken to local hospitals, but could not give a specific number. Saidu Adamu, a spokesman for Kaduna state government, said it appeared some people had been killed, but officials still were uncertain how many died....

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes as the Muslims in the nation are celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday in Nigeria. In recent days, rumors have circulated that the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram, which is responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, might try to launch an attack during the holiday. The sect has demanded the release of all its captive members and has called for strict Shariah law to be implemented across the entire country. However, the group, which speaks to journalists in telephone conference calls at times of its choosing, could not be immediately reached for comment....

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Jayke Feltz | October 28, 2012 7:12 AM | Reply

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Tom Billesley | October 28, 2012 7:44 AM | Reply

Reuters Oct 25, 2012: Bishops seeking to revive Catholicism are worried by Islam [Tom Heneghan]
(Reuters) - A drive to rekindle Roman Catholicism's missionary zeal is struggling to counter the challenge of Islam, a religion with an arguably more direct message and a greater institutional hold on its faithful.

Is there a more direct message than a suicide bomb?
The "greater institutional hold" refers to the sanctioned fate of apostates.

Kyrillos William, the Catholic Coptic bishop of Assiut, painted a stark picture of the situation facing Egypt's large Christian minority - about 10 percent of the population - since the upheavals of the Arab Spring.
"Every day since the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power, we see new steps towards the Islamisation of the state," he said. "Christians continue to be considered second-class citizens and many of their rights are not recognized."

In a remark that Church leaders interpreted as criticism, a senior Egyptian official has said the Church's many schools and hospitals, which are used mostly by Muslims, gave it a presence in society much bigger than its actual size.

"Some extremists demand that we leave the country," the bishop said. "We've told them: 'No, this is our country and we're staying'."

In West Africa, where Christianity and Islam are vying for new followers among the many people quitting traditional religions, bishops felt Catholicism had a double disadvantage.

"The rapid expansion of Islam and especially the spreading of fundamentalism in West Africa enormously worries the Church," said Bishop Nicodeme Anani Barrigah-Benissan from Togo.

"It only takes one day to become Muslim but it is impossible to renounce this religion later," he said. By contrast, he added, it takes at least three years of study for an adult to become a Catholic, and the baptized can leave at will.

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salah | October 28, 2012 8:48 AM | Reply

"..bishops felt Catholicism had a double disadvantage."

And yet:
"..the number of Catholics in Africa has increased from one million in 1902 to 330 million in the year 2000"
Sheikh Ahmad al-Qataani on al-Jazera TV.

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html

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AnneCrockett | October 28, 2012 11:31 AM | Reply

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dumbledoresarmy | October 28, 2012 1:38 PM | Reply

A bit more here - same AFP report - in a Nigerian English-language newspaper online. And the newspaper permits Comments!

Click on the link, scroll down and read the Comments (and have fun clicking 'Like' on those you agree with; you will find quite a few).

There are Nigerian non-Muslims who know *exactly* what is going on - Jihad - and they are seriously pzzed off.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/kaduna-church-bombing-sparks-reprisals/

Here is one poster, 'obamajack2' who is clearly aware of the Global Jihad:

"I said it again until Christians learnt to retaliate before the bombing will stop.

"Our Muslims brothers celebrated sallah few days now, our Christians brother wished them a happy sallah celebration they thanked us with bomb.

"Christians should learn from history, without the lunch of crusade & knight by the early Christians to checkmate muslims jihadist there wouldn't have had some people called Christians today in the world. If not that Christians in former Yugoslavia tackled musilms with the same force there wouldn't have had peace by now until Christians will be wiped out or converted by force.

"Right now if not that Burmese are tackling muslims with higher force peace will elude them in near future.

"The southern oil that keep us as one Nigeria for long has been found in Lake Tchad basin now, why not divorce this forced marriage?

because I believed that we are going to live in peace as a separate nation than one nation. "

To which a Muslim, 'abdul rahman' instantly responded with the usual nonsense about 'don't blame us all' (though Muslims, of course, engage in collective punishment and collective blame of The Infidels, all the time):

"u should blame those responsible for d bombing not enrire muslims...cos i believe every set of people have negativity nd positivity....u can't unleash terror to innocent people for someone else's crime"

to which the well-informed 'obamajack2' responded acerbly:

"They are muslims propagating islamic faith through jihad way, maybe according to what they learnt from koran. Remember that those Christians they are killing & bombing their churches are innocent people too bcos they never committed any crime agaisnt them."

In that same comments thread, *another* clued-up Nigerian non-Muslim, 'blamaco11':

"Please you people stop putting "Peace" and Islam in the same sentence.They dont go together. Stop paying lip service to this peace talk.
A religion(and culture) that is as intolerant as Islam is can never be a peaceful religion."

One encounters similar clear-headedness in any Comments thread in any Nigerian English-language news outlet.

dumbledoresarmy | October 28, 2012 2:14 PM | Reply

Australia's ABC has noticed this attack, and reproduces the Reuters version.

Here:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-29/8-killed-as-bomb-laded-jeep-rams-nigerian-church/4338346

Click on the link - they're *also* reproducing an AFP picture of the interior of the church, after the attack.

dumbledoresarmy | October 28, 2012 3:14 PM | Reply

And this link

http://rt.com/news/nigeria-suicide-bomb-church-428/

if you scroll down, will show you the *outside* of the church showing the damage as seen from outside; and three pictures of the injured Nigerian Catholics.

The *comments* to that particular story, all appear to be by seriously deranged Mohammedans.

gravenimage | October 30, 2012 9:12 AM | Reply

Eid mubarak in Nigeria: "Suicide bomber hits north Nigeria Catholic church"
......................

Eid Mubarak indeed. And yet, you don't find Christians celebrating Christmas and Easter with savage violence against the unbelievers...

Compare and contrast.

gravenimage replied to comment from dumbledoresarmy | October 30, 2012 9:20 AM | Reply

Dumbledore's Army wrote:

The *comments* to that particular story, all appear to be by seriously deranged Mohammedans.
......................

Here's one of the most grotesque, DDA, from a poster named "witek":

"Wahhabis, Salafist, Al-Qaida, Boko Haram are not real Muslim. Those are the names of terrorist organisations created, financed and directed by Zionists' (Ashkenazi non-semitic Jews) MOSAD/CIA criminals."

Ah, yes—all of that savage Jihad violence, all over the world, done in the name of Islam, is actually pulled off by the CIA and Mossad.

How can this fool believe that *anyone* finds this credible?

enoughie | December 16, 2012 11:33 AM | Reply

Muslims commit mass murder not only against Christians in the Muslim world, they also commit mass murder (on an enormous scale) against other Muslims. See here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuWktr5FqJE

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