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Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder 20 in rampage, fourth jihad attack in three days

Apr 16, 2014 4:21 pm By Robert Spencer

Nigerian ChildNot to worry. Obama Administration official Samantha Power is on the case, denouncing religion-inspired violence in…the Central African Republic and everywhere else that Muslims are victims. But not in Nigeria, where the Islamic jihadists can apparently act with complete impunity, secure in the knowledge that the Nigerian government can’t stop them and that no other force has the will to do so.

“Islamic extremists kill 20 Nigerians during rampage,” from the Associated Press, April 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants have struck for a fourth time in three days in Nigeria, killing 20 people including a traditional ruler in attacks in the northeast, local government and security officials said Wednesday.

The unprecedented string of attacks has many questioning the role of politicians in the insurgency and the ability of Nigeria’s military to contain the 5-year-old Islamic uprising that has killed more than 1,500 people this year, compared with an estimated 3,600 from 2010 to 2012.

“Once again, the sophisticated methods of the bombers and insurgents, the audacity of their open attacks and the devastating stealth with which they operate … calls into question the strategy of the Nigerian security forces and their commitment to the fight,” The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria said in an editorial Wednesday.

“As Nigeria bleeds all over, a more heart-rending phenomenon is the politicization of the insurgency,” the independent and authoritative newspaper said. “The ruling elite seems conscienceless enough to be exploiting the crisis, in symbols and in substance.”

Just last week the emir of embattled Gwoza district had appealed to the government to “save our souls,” saying his people are being attacked daily.

By Tuesday, he was dead.

“They simply walked right into the palace of the monarch and shot him in his bedroom, and on their way out they also shot his guard before fleeing,” said politician Hyeldi Bwala.

Wednesday morning, gunmen attacked the village of Wala, in Gwoza district, and killed 18 people, according to a local government official and intelligence agent. They both spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to reporters.

The attacks come after Monday’s massive explosion at a busy bus station killed at least 175 people in Abuja, the capital, and Tuesday’s abduction of about 100 young women writing final exams at a school, also in Gwoza district.

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  1. harriet says

    Apr 16, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    anyone tell the Pope yet?

    • Islamisdeath says

      Apr 16, 2014 at 9:42 pm

      The pope says islam is a peaceful religion an Abrahamic religion like Christianity. He’s fine with it evidently.

      • umbra says

        Apr 18, 2014 at 8:05 am

        The present pontiff is a jesuit. SJ for social justice.

  2. King Dave says

    Apr 16, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    Goodluck Jonathan says he doesn’t need the three Northern states of Nigeria to win the next election. Which also suggests he is not really interested in defeating Boko Haram. After all, he doesn’t want to lose the bags of gold the Obama administration gives him to fight terrorism

  3. Champ ✿ says

    Apr 16, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    Insane! …that precious *Baby* has a black eye! And I have a 6 month old g’daughter and I would feel outraged if anyone ever gave her a black eye!! …wow these SOA’s are so evil and sick. God help us!

    islam and company bring nothing but hell on earth …

    • Islamisdeath says

      Apr 16, 2014 at 9:44 pm

      Islam abuses all that are weaker from cruel halal slaughter to women and children. Islam is satanic. I truly believe it is satan’s religion.

      • Champ ✿ says

        Apr 17, 2014 at 1:19 am

        I wholly agree, Islamisdeath!

  4. David, Thailand says

    Apr 16, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    Western leaders and mainstream media, in league with the looney liberal progressives, care little for blacks in black countries. They prefer to pretend they care abundantly about blacks in white countries, because that allows them to spread lashings of white guilt.

    To them, only whites are racist and only blacks can be colourblind. Only certified fools and politicians could be so rigid that white means filth and bigotry. Often they are white, but they overcome this handicap by delegating the filth and bigotry to others. And we fall for it each time.

    They are the fascists pretending to fight fascism, and the racists fighting racism. These sick individuals demand equality whilst giving their favoured minorities a legup called positive discrimination in the hope this might help make them appear equal.

    That’s what racism is about, in a mad world going proudly madder.

    And this gives them the added incentive to ignore or brush aside the exploits of Boko Haram and other Islamist groups that target Christians, especially black Christians.

    • Islamisdeath says

      Apr 16, 2014 at 9:49 pm

      I agree with you 100%

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Apr 17, 2014 at 8:42 am

      I just hope my Nigerian friends are safe and I agree wholeheartedly with you.

  5. duh_swami says

    Apr 17, 2014 at 6:09 am

    ‘And then there were none’…If the Sons of Allah keep killing Christians at a fast rate, soon they will get them all. If the Gov can’t stop it, they should at least arm the Christian villages etc so they at least have a fighting chance.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 17, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    The Islamic militants are at it again,as exposed in the above article.With all the murderous violence which is inspired by the book of violence and killing which is the Quran, Sura 9:11. 47:4. Such evil and madness engaged in by those who put in practice the brutal and vicious affronts of the militant jihadism of Islam does being to mind the Wisdom of the Bible.Which teaches in Ecclesiastes 9:3.
    “The hearts of men are full of evil and their is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” [N.I.V.]

  7. dlbrand says

    Apr 17, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    Why do “we” largely remain, in face of Islam, refusing to acknowledge the provable facts of it? And in doing so, stand by and watch, witness, hear tell of atrocities done if not daily, darn near to it by those following the basics tenets and teachings of Islam?

    We took out Saddam, but “we” built up Islam. Praised it, defended it, supported it; did so, no less, at the cost of lives and limbs–and that cost continues to pile up.

    Why?

    Because our elected officials, for the most part, continue to believe in the imaginary creation and figment of some fools imagination: the imaginary “Moderate” Muslim, who lives by his own guidance, not the guidance of the Prophet of Islam.

    Cowards and fools, all who believe a Muslims is one guided and sworn to other than the way of the “Prophet” of Islam.

    That way, all in it, is easily provable beyond a shadow of a doubt. Yet the sound united voice of the people, freedom-loving people, across this globe has yet to united in calling for the banning of the practice of the way of Muhammad.

    Yes, it will be war. Yes we will have both hell and the devil to pay. Be assured, from the Muslim’s perspective, that war is one in which they are already fully engaged. Hence, the near-daily pile-up of the dead, the maimed, the disfigured at/by the hands of the believers.

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Apr 17, 2014 at 3:58 pm

      I fully agree with you. Islam is death to us all and we must take on the dark demon and defeat it once and for all. The pipe dream of an uneducated man covered with honeyed words till you delve.

      • dlbrand says

        Apr 17, 2014 at 4:36 pm

        Thank you, “goldie.”

        Indeed, many of us already clearly grasp Islam, know, precisely what it teaches and demands.

        How thus can we, with those irrefutable facts on Islam in view, do less then demand the practice of it be banned? That, or state, fully aware of just what Islam is, we have no problem with it in our nation, our cities, and if not already in your neighborhood or country side, the soon-to- be- there sound of the call to prayer.

        In brief, I said it often times before: in this yet to be declared war against Islam, we will only have significant meaningful measurable progress when we start counting the Mosques, one by one, we shut down, then tear down, and the same with madrassas here in our nation.

        That process can only began once the practice of Islam is no longer legal in this nation.

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