Nigeria: Muslims bomb church, ambush churchgoers, murder fourteen Christians

Will the Islamophobia never end? "Bombing on Nigerian church leaves 11 dead," from AGI, November 25 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

(AGI) Kaduna, Nov. 25 - Yet another bloody Sunday for the Christians in northern Nigeria, with 11 people killed in a bombing on a church near Kaduna and three more killed in an ambush as they were going to mass in Kano. Once again, the group likely to be behind the attacks is al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram, which carried out several other attacks in this region.
In Jaji, 30 km from Kaduna, two suicide bombings struck the protestant church of St Andrew's, inside the barracks. Shortly after mass, one suicide bomber drove a minibus, loaded with explosives, against the church. About ten minutes later, when a group of soldiers and civilians had gathered on the spot, another terrorist detonated a car bomb, which left 11 killed and about 30 injured. Most of the victims were members of the Church choir. It is not clear how the bombers managed to enter the barracks, considering the massive measures taken to prevent Boko Haram attacks.

In the Muslim-majority state of Kaduna, several attacks on churches have been attributed to the Islamic fundamentalist group. In October, a suicide bombing left eight dead and about 100 wounded in another region of the state. In the outskirts of Kano, two men on a motorbike opened fire on a car with a Christian couple and their child on board, as they were going to mass. The woman and the child were killed immediately, while the man died in hospital. The couple's other child, in the car too, was unharmed. Motorbike assaults are frequently used by Boko Haram. The suspicion that Boko Haram is behind these attacks is based on the fact that they came the day after the Nigerian government announced it would offer rewards - for a total of $1.7 mn - to whoever will provide useful information for capturing the 19 leaders of the terrorist group. The list features the main leader, Abubakar Shekau, the reward for him being $250,000; the reward for those who will help the local authorities arrest Shekau's four main aides (Habibu Yusuk, Khalis Albarnawai, Momodu Bama e Mohammed Zangin) is $125,000. . .

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duh_swami | November 25, 2012 11:38 AM | Reply

Living in Fear of the Religion of Peace...The Movie, must be playing at every Nigerian theater...I wonder what it is that Boko Haram is misunderstanding about Islam, that causes them to engage in continuous murder?

Stephanie | November 25, 2012 11:44 AM | Reply

Latest political Medina jihadi verse, dictated by the illiterate Muhammad, p.67 "… created later by Mulsim philosophers and mystics who gave esoteric interpretations to Muhammad’s asinine words"

Allah, Qur'an 9:5 "Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, 7th RAMADAN, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed (Muhammad was a treaty breaker), THEN KILL the Mushrikun (disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, e.g. Christians who believe in Trinity) WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM"

Ibn Kathir (THE greates Sunni Qur'anic commentator) "...means, on the earth in general"

gravenimage | November 25, 2012 11:45 AM | Reply

Nigeria: Muslims bomb church, ambush churchgoers, murder fourteen Christians
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*This* is what happens when Muslims reach 50% of the population—a massive, bloody push to murder and dominate the Infidel population.

Don't think it won't happen in Europe, as well, if they ever get the chance. Oh, wait—it already *has* happened in Europe—in those parts of the Balkans where Muslims make up a majority or near majority.

(AGI) Kaduna, Nov. 25 - Yet another bloody Sunday for the Christians in northern Nigeria, with 11 people killed in a bombing on a church near Kaduna and three more killed in an ambush as they were going to mass in Kano.
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This kind of attack does several things—it makes it easier for pious Muslims to identify their Christian victims, it demoralizes the victims even more than a similar attack not linked to church attendance would, and—most of all—it makes sure the victims fully realize that they were being targeted *as Christians*.

Once again, the group likely to be behind the attacks is al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram, which carried out several other attacks in this region.
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Yes. And yet, how many ordinary Nigerian Muslims are speaking out against the violence being done to their non-Muslim countrymen? As in other places with widespread Muslim violence against Infidels, the silence is deafening.

In Jaji, 30 km from Kaduna, two suicide bombings struck the protestant church of St Andrew's, inside the barracks.
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This is a "two-fer". Not only murdering Christians, but murdering the soldiers that might defend Christians against just these sort of attacks.

Shortly after mass, one suicide bomber drove a minibus, loaded with explosives, against the church. About ten minutes later, when a group of soldiers and civilians had gathered on the spot, another terrorist detonated a car bomb, which left 11 killed and about 30 injured.
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Very, very common Jihad terror tactic. Not only do they murder, but they then set off a second attack that targets those attempting to help the victims of the first attack. This tactic has become so common now that some would-be rescuers must think twice before helping the victims of Jihad terror, lest they fall victims to a second attack.

Thus, this technique not only allows Jihadists to slaughter more people, it makes those who hesitate feel both cynical and guilty.

Of course, you can be sure that the vicious Jihadists aren't feeling any guilt...

Most of the victims were members of the Church choir. It is not clear how the bombers managed to enter the barracks, considering the massive measures taken to prevent Boko Haram attacks.
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"Members of the Church choir"—*good God*. Here are some joyous Nigerian choirs performing, incorporating liturgical music and traditional African drumming and clapping.

Note the caption "Hausa section". Since most Hausa tribespeople are Muslim, these choirs are likely made up mostly of Muslim converts to Christianity. Even amid the terrible Jihad violence of Nigeria today, some people are choosing good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-KjL9RF50

dumbledoresarmy | November 25, 2012 4:55 PM | Reply

Associated Press version here (via a Canadian news outlet; and read the comments; have fun clicking up or down)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/25/nigeria-church-bombs.html

Nigeria car bombs kill 7 at church

A Nigerian account:

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/108573-military-says-11-died-in-jaji-church-attack.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=military-says-11-died-in-jaji-church-attack

Military says 11 died in Jaji church attack

How Nigeria's 'Vanguard' newspaper reported it:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/how-suicide-bomber-rammed-into-jaji-church/

How suicide bomber rammed into Jaji church

Nota bene - Comments are attached to this article. Read them and you will see that there are not a few very Islamosavvy Nigerians out there.

dumbledoresarmy | November 25, 2012 5:45 PM | Reply

Remember the Muslim jihad terror bombing of St Rita's Catholic church in Nigeria last month?

Whilst scratching about on the internet trying to find out a bit more than what Reuters, Associated Press and AFP are prepared to tell us about this latest Muslim attack on Christians in northern Nigeria, I came across an account of the aftermath of that earlier attack.

http://www.voanews.com/content/thousands-morn-church-bomb-victims-in-nigeria/1541985.html

Thousands Mourn Church Bomb Victims in Nigeria

Excerpt:

"**Almost a dozen children, many still wrapped in bandages, fill the front pews of this packed church. They are survivors of the bomb blast that went off two weeks ago at this same Kaduna Roman Catholic church. ** {my emphasis - dda}.

" While parishioners pray for their health, this man, Matias Peter, weeps for his lost niece....".

The reporter should have written 'his murdered niece'.

Read it all, it's heartbreaking and it's also infuriating, because those Christian leaders who are quoted by the - MUSLIM - stringer who supplied the report are all showing a dangerously dhimmified mindset.

They still think Boko Haram is only after the government...not after Christians qua Christians. They think wrong.

The Catholic archbishop of Northern Nigeria sounds as though he desperately needs to read the books of a certain Catholic Mr Robert Spencer, and get a clue:

"Archbishop Mathew Man-oso Ndagoso is the head of the Roman Catholic church in northern Nigeria. At the service, he calls for unity between Muslims and Christians. {ARRRRRGH. That is not possible, Archbishop, not possible, not so long as Muslims take to heart surah 48: 29 and all the other hateful surahs forbidding Muslims from befriending either Christians or Jews or any other kind of Infidel..- dda}

"Despite decades of sectarian violence, there is no war between the two major religions in Nigeria..".

Wakey wakey, my dear Archbishop. The Christians are most assuredly *not* waging war upon the Muslims (despite sporadic outbreaks of anger when driven beyond all reasonable endurance by atrocities such as this blowing-up of the Sunday School class at St Rita's) but the Muslim ummah through its sharia assassins - boko haram - *is* waging war against the Christians.

Dar al harb, dar al Islam. In the 7th century the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, declared undistinguishing and exterminating warfare upon every person on earth who refused to recognise Mohammed as a 'prophet' and bow to Islam.

Merely by being Christian, Archbishop, you and all your flock and every other Christian in Nigeria is identified by the pious orthodox Muslim as an inhabitant of dar al harb - the region of War - and dar al harb must be warred against by Muslims until everyone in it has been 'converted', or crushed and turned into dhimmi near-slaves of Muslim overlords, or...KILLED.

Another proto-dhimmi:

"Diji Haruna Obadiya, the chairman of the youth branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna State, says Islamist militants have a beef with the government led by President Goodluck Jonathan, not Christians in general."

'Islamist militants [don't] have a beef..with Christians in general"???

You could have fooled me, Mr Obadiya.

From where I sit, what I see is a ceaseless barrage of attacks and threats aimed at driving out - or else KILLING - every last Christian in northern Nigeria. And when Northern Nigeria is purely Muslim, when it is Christenrein, 'purified' of those najis kuffar, the Christians, then the Muslim campaign of terror will continue...against the *rest* of Nigeria, to Islamify that too, by fraud and by force.

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