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"The members of his Muslim sect went on rampage, demonstrating against America and the state of Israel, over claims that it was the prayers of Christians over the aborting of the gospel event of 2004 that caused their leader to be involved in an auto crash."
"Nigeria: Islamist group attacking Christians in Kwara state," from Compass Direct News, August 14:
ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) – Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area Christians said.
At least three Christians have died and several others have been injured in attacks with machetes and other weapons since June, clergymen said. They said the attacks began after the death in May of Dr. Ali Olukade, head of a local group of Islamists called Tibliq, possibly patterned after the worldwide Tablighi Jamaat missionary movement.
Dr. Olukade was critically injured in an auto accident in 2006, and after extensive recovery efforts he succumbed to his injuries in May. His extremist followers, according to the Rev. Cornelius Fawenu, secretary of the Kwara chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), believe that his death was the result of prayers by Christians upset when Muslim threats cut short a major event by German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke in 2004.
Islamic uproar over the evangelistic event in Ilorin forced it to a venue outside the city, and Bonnke had to “abort” three days of the planned five-day event, Rev. Fawenu said.
When the local Tibliq leader was injured in the car crash in 2006, Rev. Fawenu said, “The members of his Muslim sect went on rampage, demonstrating against America and the state of Israel, over claims that it was the prayers of Christians over the aborting of the gospel event of 2004 that caused their leader to be involved in an auto crash. Dr. Olukade, the Muslim sect’s leader, died in May 2008, and since then Muslim fanatics have embarked in serial killings and attacks on Christians in the city.”
The group from the Tibliq movement in Ilorin, Rev. Fawenu said, had spear-headed opposition to the evangelistic event.
The Kwara chapter of CAN has received 10 reports of Christians attacked by the Muslim extremists in the past two months, Rev. Fawenu said, adding that he believes unreported assaults on Christians average about four daily.
Facts on even the confirmed reports, however, are few. Last month the state CAN chapter petitioned the inspector general of police to investigate the attacks on Christians in Ilorin, which Rev. Fawenu said resulted in the death of a former leader of an Evangelical Church of West Africa congregation known only as Pastor Habila. The former church leader was assaulted in the Oke Oba area of Ilorin in June and died on June 15 from his injuries, Rev. Fawenu said.
“The corpse of another Christian victim was found along stadium road, with his Bible beside him, on June 18,” Rev. Fawenu said. “So also, a young Christian girl living near the stadium road was also murdered in the same manner within this period.”
The Kwara state CAN leader said he did not have the names of these victims but that their deaths resulted from attacks that fit a pattern of other area assaults – taking place after dark as Christians either went to or returned from church services.
Another church leader injured from an attack, he said, is known only as Pastor Olagunjo. Rev. Fawenu said the assaults have reduced attendance at Christian worship services in the state.
Posted by Marisol at August 16, 2008 12:00 AM
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Credulous Muslim primitives projecting again.
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at August 16, 2008 12:41 AM
No wonder why Nigeris is sliding back into the stoneage with mindless savages like that running around.
Posted by: Dumbo at August 16, 2008 2:01 AM
Christian prayers kill muslim extremists?
AMEN to that!
Posted by: DaveMate at August 16, 2008 6:01 AM
Are these Mohammedan actually admitting God answers Christian prayers? If so, wouldn't that make the statement in the Koran that Christians and Jews are apes and pigs or the worst creatures in the eyes of God false? And if those verses in the Koran are false, wouldn't that make the whole thing false?
Silly Mohammedan, showing your lack of reasoning and the false beliefs of your pedophile prophet yet again.
at August 16, 2008 7:30 AM
...went on rampage, demonstrating against America and the state of Israel...
???? Huh?
nabi ZK (pbum)
Posted by: zonie kafir at August 16, 2008 7:48 AM
A previous article on Christians in Nigeria:
"During the Biafra War of 1967-1969, which was triggered by a massacre by Muslims of Christians, the entire Western world stood by and allowed the Muslims of the North to slaughter the Christian, mainly Ibo, south. These Muslims were aided by outside Muslims, including Egyptian pilots who strafed and bombed Ibo villages, killing tens of thousands -- without any opposition, anti-aircraft fire, anything.
The war was brought on by the Jihad against the Christian Ibo and other Christian peoples of southern Nigeria by the Hausa and Fulani Muslims of the north (Islam itself was spread most recently in the 1804 Jihad declared by Othman Dan Fodio), and by the desperate attempt of the Ibo (Igbo) people to free themselves from Muslim aggression. Tens of thousands of civilians were murdered --- by the Egyptian pilots who repeatedly bombed and strafed them.
Great Britain, France, the United States, all of Europe, did nothing to help the Christians. Col. Ojukwu, in his Ahiara Declaration (for the full text, google "Jihad Watch" and "Posted by Hugh" and "Ahiara Declaration"), said that the Biafrans were fighting off a "Jihad" that was being waged against them -- and the word was not being used figuratively.
Only two states recognized Biafra: Ghana and Israel. The rest of the Infidel world turned its back, pretending to believe that it was more important to "keep the largest black African country whole" even if this meant the appropriation of southern oil wealth by the Muslims who controlled the army and repeated aggression against the Christians of Nigeria -- an aggression that continues to this day, in the steady spread of sharia, in the attacks on Christian peoples. Usually the press only reports the Christian attempts at retaliation, not all that goes before -- and furthermore, describes this as "communal violence" rather than Muslim aggression which the Christians must ward off.
There may yet be another Christian uprising. All the oil is in the south. The Muslims have been applying Sharia to Muslim and non-Muslim alike in several of the Nigerian states. They forced a Christian journalist, making an innocently joking remark about how "Muhamamd would have appreciated the girls in the Miss World Contest" (which contest was closed after violent Muslim protests), to flee for her life to England. The suppression, almost entirely unreported in the Western world, of the Christians in the south, many of their population centers still occupied by the Muslim-dominated army, continues.
One way to embolden the Nigerian Christians is to rediscover, and talk about, the Biafra War, and how terrible the behavior of the Muslims -- the Egyptians in particular -- was during that war, and how pusillanimously the entire Christian or post-Christian world behaved. And make sure the Biafrans, that is those Christians who long to rebel, know that this time they will be given arms and other kinds of support and will not be abandoned.
And what would do the most good is not in Nigeria itself, but if the American government, instead of wasting resources on the ungrateful, and largely non-existent "Iraqi" people, were with a few thousand soldiers to seize the southern Sudan and Darfur, and while tens of thousands of grateful black Africans demonstrate their joy and gratitude (so different from the whining, demanding, sullen, and essentially hostile even if occasionally feignedly-friendly-in-order-to-obtain-more-handouts-and-more-American-goodies behavior of the "Iraqis"), who will dare, at the U.N. or the E.U., to deplore such obviously humanitarian intervention? And it will be a signal, a three-way signal:
1. To the Arab League, and to Muslims, and especially to Egypt: your plans in East Africa to extend the Dar al-Islam all the way through Ethiopia will not be permitted. This is the end of this little game of mass murder that has gone on too long. And Ethiopia will not be subject to threats from Egypt about diverting some of the headwaters of the Nile for irrigation projects.
2. To the Chinese, signing oil deals with the Sudan -- sorry, no can do. We are more interested in the wellbeing of the black Africans whose country this once was (a hundred years ago, 80% of the country was non-Muslim and non-Arab) than you communists-turned-ruthless-capitalists-and-exploiters have shown yourselves to be. Well, too bad.
3. To the black Africans of southern Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, and everywhere that local Muslims are becoming more aggressive, especially where Saudi money is transforming mosques into something less syncretistic and easygoing than had heretofore been the case: this is what the Western world, can do. Sursum corda. It need not make the mistake made in the First Biafra War again. We now understand Islam, and your plight, better. So keep at it.
[Posted by Hugh at December 14, 2005]
at August 16, 2008 7:56 AM
ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) – Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area Christians said.
Just when I think I've heard it all! Say, why not blame Christian prayers on mohammads death; aren't prayers supposed to be ex-temporal (effective outside of time?)
How about blameing Christian prayers for events that haven't happened yet -- maybe even have some riots somewhere in France -- after all, if you're gonna go nuts, you might as well go off the scale I guess.
Geeeez!
at August 16, 2008 8:26 AM
Muslims are the most illogical, ignorant people in the world, bar none.
Don't they realize that Christians do not pray for the death of anyone? If they did, if the power of prayer actually worked that way, there wouldn't be a muslim alive today! Not only that, they are granting unto the Christian God the power to control everything, even car accidents. Where was their allah then? Surely their allah is greater than the Christians' God? (And spare me the argument that they are the same entity, please.)
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at August 16, 2008 9:09 AM
Christians are taught to ask the good Lord to CONVERT the persecutors. (Biblical reason for this goes right back to the TaNaKh, the Hebrew Scriptures: G-d does not desire the death of the wicked, but that they should turn from their wickedness, and live).
Here's one of the petitions from the Litany in the Anglican Prayer Book:
"Forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers; and turn their hearts.
Hear us, good Lord."
If this evil Muslim leader had suddenly experienced a change of heart - if he had converted to Christianity, say, like a certain Paul/ Saul of Tarsus once did, on the road to Damascus - *then* I think one could safely say that Christian prayers might have had something to do with it.
Christians do not presume to curse, not in the way that the Muslims are accusing them of doing. Two of Jesus' disciples once lost their tempers with an inhospitable set of villagers and asked Jesus to call down fire from heaven (as the prophet Elijah once did); but Jesus flatly refused.
We know, however, from the testimony of, inter alia, Nonie Darwish and William Lane, that Muslims are explicitly taught formal curses to pronounce against the Kafir; that the bitterest of curses, curses that from a Christian POV might be called occultic, even black-magic style ill-wishing, are pronounced against Jews, against Christians, and against all kafir, inside the mosques, over and over, week in , week out.
And since Muslims are used to cursing and ill-wishing Christians, they naturally assume that Christians do the same toward Muslims. As John C observed - they're 'projecting again'.
On this site I - a Christian - have frequently expressed white-hot anger and disgust at the actions of Muslim individuals or groups, and the revulsion I feel when I observe the cruelties of jihad and of sharia oppression.
I fully support those necessary actions, at the political level, which Hugh would call 'civilisational self-defence' - at least in part because the existence and defence of an 'Islam-free zone' means that would-be defectors from Islam, the Ali Sinas and Hirsi Alis, have somewhere safe to run to, and Christians retain a platform from which to pour such things as radio broadcasts into dar al Islam.
But as a matter of Christian obedience I must pray, first and foremost, not for the death of Muslims but for their liberation from the awful bondage that is Islam. I name Osama bin Laden, Hassan Nasrallah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Hezbollah, the House of Saud, and the rest, before my Lord: I dare not presume to tell Him what to do about them; I pray - that they may encounter His justice, and His grace. If I can't think of anything else to say - it's just 'dear Lord, DO something!'
Throughout the 30 Days of Ramadan, I will be praying not for the destruction of Muslims, but for their liberation, as human beings, from what I believe to be one of the most soul-destroying ideologies ever invented by humans or, perhaps, inspired by demons.
Each Friday I pray quite simply: for the Defeat of the Jihad; for the Salvation of the Muslims.
Both the TaNaKh and the Christian scriptures tell me that with YHWH nothing is impossible.
I would be willing to bet that if the Nigerian Christians *were* praying for Dr Olukade they were probably praying for a miracle of grace: for the Lord to open his eyes and turn his heart and bless him with the knowledge of the truth. I very much doubt they would have been asking God to crash his car!!
at August 16, 2008 9:45 AM
Muslims claim to honor Jesus as a prophet, then proceed to ignore everything he ever said, and to deny everything he ever did. Otherwise, they would know that Christians don't pray for such things.
In fact, I can't think of any other faith, for that matter, that allows its adherents to do so.
Posted by: Abscedere at August 16, 2008 11:32 AM
Let us please bear in mind that this murderous rampage had nothing to do with Christian prayers. It is just a pretext. Unable to come up with any tangible grievance, such as a quran being defaced, they manufactured an excuse for slaughter. They aren't as credulous as they feign to be. They are just jihad-mongers, because it is in their best interests.
Posted by: Monty at August 16, 2008 3:23 PM
Well then, these Muslims should convert to Christianity since they don't believe in their own power of prayer.
No faith?
Posted by: herself at August 17, 2008 3:01 AM
"The members of his Muslim sect went on rampage, demonstrating against America and the state of Israel, over claims that it was the prayers of Christians over the aborting of the gospel event of 2004 that caused their leader to be involved in an auto crash."
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The sleep of reason produces monsters.
Posted by: gravenimage at August 17, 2008 6:14 PM
May he end up in Hell!
Posted by: American at August 18, 2008 1:15 PM
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