Islamic jihadists are apparently able to operate with complete impunity in Nigeria, with government and law enforcement officials either unable to stop them or, because they share their worldview, unwilling to do so.
“Officials: Another explosion in Jos, Nigeria,” Associated Press, May 24, 2014:
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A bungled bomb killed three people, including a suicide bomber, in Nigeria’s Jos city Saturday night, a police official said, four days after twin car bombs blamed on Islamic extremists killed at least 130 people in the central city.
The senior police official said the bomber dropped a bag holding explosives at an outdoor theater crowded with people watching a European soccer cup final. He said the bomber and two others died. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not the official spokesman.
The venue is not far from the bustling marketplace that was targeted in Tuesday’s attack.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the latest attack.
But the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which has been threatening to sell nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls into slavery, has been waging a two-pronged campaign of urban bombings and rural attacks on northeastern villages.
Separate car bombs in April killed about 100 people in Abuja, Nigeria’s central capital, and a car bomb that exploded prematurely Monday killed at least 24 people in northern Kano, the country’s second most populous city.
The attacks appear to be in defiance of an international campaign to rescue the girls and a commitment made at a summit of Nigeria, its neighbors and Western leaders in Paris a week ago to unite to wage total war on Boko Haram.
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and his government are confronting national and international outrage at their failure to rescue the abducted girls.
Thousands have been killed in the 5-year-old Islamic uprising that aims to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state, though the country’s population is almost equally divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south….
The majority Christian city has been tense since Tuesday’s attack….
Police have refused to comment on residents’ reports that a man wearing a suicide bomber vest was arrested April 17 and warned that several Boko Haram insurgents had orders to plant bombs at churches and public places in Jos.
Jay Boo says
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan would not need outside help if the nations that now offer that same outside help hadn’t been interfering with his anti-Islamist efforts in the first place while denying Boko Haram is a terrorist organization supported by foreign Muslims.
Nigeria needs well armed non-governmental vigilantly squads that are not accountable to Western interference in order to be on equal footing with Boko Haram.
Jay Boo says
Islam is all about the ‘me’ not the ‘you’.
Fooling the Fools
Other Muslims may praise the suicide bomber.
Oh for the glory to be at the center of such an ‘honor’
Wise up would-be suicide bombers.
They have already forgotten ‘bout – you’
You are merely a clichéd plot device reused.
When other parasitic Muslims praise your name they are really thinking about their own glory not you.
The martyr is only a soon forgotten discarded tool.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Wise up would-be suicide bombers.
Oh I dunno. If he drops his bomb and blows himself up, he’s a martyr and is admitted to Jannat, Moslem porno heaven. He gets a throne, babbling brooks of wine, fruit and cheese plates, a permanent erection, piles of 11-yr old virgins, and even a hidden pearl if he’d like to swing that way.
Belief in Jannat is directly proportional to Moslem bravery.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The senior police official said the bomber dropped a bag holding explosives at an outdoor theater crowded with people watching a European soccer cup final. He said the bomber and two others died.
Can’t anybody do anything right anymore? You’d think that in the world we live today that we could at least count on the mujahidin to be able to pull off a mass murder operation without a hitch. But here we see that dozens of socialist soccer fans went unscathed. As I recall, the Holy Prophet damned soccer and declared the game a crime against Sharia. He said it was just a bunch of limp sissies playing in their underwear who never scored.
bettina says
I didn’t know soccer originated that far back in time, APF? And did that mosatan character really damn the sport as un-Islamic?
Also, I find that the title of Holy Prophet hurts my eyes. Kindly try something better — like, stinky psycho-freak scrotum, or…?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
While a genius visionary, even his acolytes admit that the Holy Prophet Mohammed had a distorted sense of time. He butchered the order of the Judaic prophets, for example, getting some off by thousands of years.
mortimer says
The Nigerian Army and national police are no doubt RIDDLED with JIHAD SYPATHIZERS!
This emboldens the jihadists to murder Christians…their main target.
THIS IS AN ALL-OUT WAR ON CHRISTIANS by MUSLIMS.
gravenimage says
Islamic jihadists are apparently able to operate with complete impunity in Nigeria, with government and law enforcement officials either unable to stop them or, because they share their worldview, unwilling to do so.
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That pretty much sums it up—this is what a society looks like when it reaches 50% Muslims and they make the final violent push for dominating the remaining Infidels.
More:
The senior police official said the bomber dropped a bag holding explosives at an outdoor theater crowded with people watching a European soccer cup final.
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How many times have Jihadists murderously targeted those innocently watching soccer games? Watching a ball game is Haram, but *slaughtering* those watching a ball game is completely Halal.
God, I hate Islam.
Here’s just one story:
“That didn’t take long: Somali jihadists issue ban on watching World Cup soccer, start killing to enforce it”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/that-didnt-take-long-somali-jihadists-issue-ban-on-watching-world-cup-soccer-start-killing-to-enforc
dumbledoresarmy says
And here’s another one.
From 2010.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/dozens-killed-in-multiple-bombings-in-uganda-police-chief-suspects-al-qaeda
“Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda’s capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV, killing at least 30 people. Foreigners, including Europeans and possibly Americans, were believed to be among the casualties…”.
Another report on that attack in Uganda in 2010 (hope the link still works)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/12/2950722.htm
“Cup revellers killed in Ugandan explosions
“Two separate explosions have rocked the Ugandan capital Kampala, killing at least 23 people who had packed into bars to watch the World Cup final.
The United States embassy says one American was among those killed.
One attack targeted the Ethiopian Village restaurant in the Kabalagala district, a popular night-life spot which was heaving with soccer fans and is popular with foreign visitors.
The second attack struck the Kampala Rugby Club which was also showing the match…”.
The final death toll was more than 70 people.
Al Shabab came out and said they did it.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/somalias-al-shabaab-jihadists-claim-responsibility-for-uganda-bombings