Misunderstanders of Islam think they have to defend Islam with murder. Where did they get such a crazy idea? And when will Honest Ibe Hooper and Boy Reza Aslan explain to Boko Haram how they’re getting the Religion of Peaceâ„¢ all wrong, wrong, wrong?
“Hotel blast in northeast Nigeria kills 2; 8 hurt,” by Njadvara Musa for the Associated Press, April 25:
An explosion at a hotel killed two people and wounded eight others in northeastern Nigeria only days before the state’s gubernatorial election, police said Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the blast came as a radical Muslim sect vowed to keep up its fight.
Police chief Mike Zuokumor said the blast went off Sunday evening in Maiduguri, a town that has been wracked by violence related to a radical Islamic sect. The group known as Boko Haram had released a statement earlier Sunday defending its deadly attacks on police and religious leaders.
“All the people that we are killing, including ward heads, politicians, the police and the army have erred, because they are associating themselves with the government in its effort to arrest our Muslim brothers and sabotage Islam,” the group said in its statement released Sunday….