"Islamist sect Boko Haram has previously blown up telephone masts and offices of phone companies, saying they help the security forces catch its members." And meanwhile, "armed police have been guarding major churches." Will the Islamophobia never end?
"Suicide bombers hit cellphone firms in north Nigeria," by Augustine Madu for Reuters, December 22 (thanks to Izuchukwu):
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two suicide car bombers attacked the offices of two mobile phone operators on Saturday in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, killing themselves but no civilians, police said.India's Airtel and South Africa's MTN were the targets.
Islamist sect Boko Haram has previously blown up telephone masts and offices of phone companies, saying they help the security forces catch its members.
"The one who hit the Airtel office was shot by military men before the bomb exploded ... at the MTN office the car rammed into the fence but no civilians were killed," Ibrahim Idris, the chief of police in Kano, told Reuters. Both bombs went off.
A military source said one security guard was injured and has been taken to hospital.
MTN and Airtel Nigeria's parent company Bharti Airtel, India's top cellphone operator, gave no immediate comment.
The national emergency agency confirmed the bombings and said it was not aware of any civilian casualties. The security forces have played down the death toll in previous bombings.
At least 2,800 people have died in fighting in the largely Muslim north since Boko Haram launched an uprising against the government in 2009, watchdog Human Rights Watch says.
The sect wants to impose strict Islamic law on a country of 160 million people split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.
The group has previously targeted churches on Christmas Day and security has been increased in all the major northern cities, although security experts say given the scale of Christian worship in Nigeria they cannot protect everyone.
Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city after the southern commercial hub Lagos, was the site of Boko Haram's deadliest attack which killed at least 186 people in January in coordinated bombings and shootings.
Armed police have been guarding major churches in Kano this week and additional police checkpoints have been set up around the majority-Muslim city, a Reuters witness said....
Security experts say they believe Boko Haram is seeking to spark a religious conflict by targeting Christians in a country where ethnic violence has flared up periodically in recent years, in some cases killing hundreds in the space of hours....
No kidding, really?
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One of the main reasons for the suicide/ homicide attackers is that they are mind programed into believing the myth/doctrine of a paradise with many virgins for the jihadist who dies for the cause of Islam. These false teachers,being the imams and mullahs, who thorougly indoctrinate their students into this type of doctrine/myth from the Quran were predicted in the Bible. Which reads " For the time is coming when[people] will not tolerate[endure}sound and wholesome instruction, but will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, and they will turn aside from hearing the truth and wonder off into myth and man made fictions." Second Timothy 4:3,4. Furthermore, the man,Muhammad, who started this all was just one of the "many false prophets[that]have gone into the world." First John 4:1 Moreover. Islam has its own false message , false angle and the teachers of it,the imams and mullahs, are accursed by God, - Galations 1:6-9.
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