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Nigeria: Islamic jihadists blow up bridge, abduct wife and children of policeman

May 11, 2014 2:56 pm By Robert Spencer

boko-haram5This kind of action appears to be meant to emphasize that the government can (or will) do nothing to stop them. Meanwhile, as British and American forces arrive, “a well-known Nigerian Islamic scholar…warned that having foreign soldiers on Nigerian soil could escalate the conflict and draw foreign extremists to the West African nation. Ahmed Mahmud-Gumi, speaking in northern Kaduna city Friday, said it ‘may trigger waves of terrorism never seen before.'” In other words, don’t fight back against the jihadists; it will just provoke more jihad.

“Insurgents abduct wife, 2 kids in Nigeria,” by Michelle Faul and Ibrahim Abdulaziz, Associated Press, May 10, 2014 :

YOLA, Nigeria – Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday as an international effort got underway to rescue 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.

News of Friday night’s attack came amid growing condemnation by Muslims in Nigeria and abroad – and by some Islamic militants online – against the Boko Haram terrorist network and its acts.

A team of French experts arrived Saturday in Nigeria to help look for the girls, said an official in President François Hollande’s office in Paris. He said they are expert in collecting intelligence from technical and human sources and in image analysis.

British security experts arrived Friday to join Nigerian and American forces, and Britain said its aim is not only to help in the crisis, but also to defeat Nigeria’s homegrown Boko Haram terrorist network.

International outrage at the prolonged failure of Nigeria’s military to rescue the girls was joined Saturday by U.S. first lady Michelle Obama. In a radio address on the eve of the Mother’s Day, she said she and President Barack Obama are “outraged and heartbroken” about the April 15 mass abduction.

“In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters,” she said, referring to Malia, 15, and Sasha, 12. “We see their hopes, their dreams and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now.”

One of them, the Rev. Enoch Mark, described his despair and anger at the military for not yet finding his two abducted daughters.

“For a good 11 days, our daughters were sitting in one place,” he said. “They camped them near Chibok (the town from which they were abducted), not more than 30 kilometers, and no help in hand. For a good 11 days.”

He said it is all “very painful. I know my daughter, very obedient and very religious … she wanted to be a doctor.”

A well-known Nigerian Islamic scholar, meanwhile, warned that having foreign soldiers on Nigerian soil could escalate the conflict and draw foreign extremists to the West African nation. Ahmed Mahmud-Gumi, speaking in northern Kaduna city Friday, said it “may trigger waves of terrorism never seen before.”

“Foreign terrorists are eager to engage foreign forces, making Nigeria just another battleground” like Afghanistan and Iraq, he said….

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  1. Benjamin says

    May 11, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    Interesting how all the condemnation disappears when muslims are being butchered by these terrorists like how they blew up the mosque in Nigeria. The internet equivalent of stepping over muslim body parts to get to the other side. In your ferocious hatred of muslims, you can’t see that these terrorists are a bigger threat to muslims than they will ever be to christians.

    As for “sharia” creeping in, well, I could understand it if Islamic polygamous marriages were being for forcefully written into law by the Supreme Court, what an outrage that would be. How DARE a minority change our lifelong definition of marriage. Oh wait. The homosexuals have already changed it. And where were these rabidly fanatical christians who raze (by their own admission) mosques and muslims at a moment’s notice? NOWHERE. Bunch of spineless gutless cowards preying on the most vulnerable members of society. Cowering with fear against the mighty gay lobby but chest pumping against women with headscarves. Pathetic cowards.

    • Bamaguje says

      May 11, 2014 at 7:39 pm

      “Interesting how all the condemnation disappears when Muslims are being butchered by these terrorists like how they blew up the mosque in Nigeria” – Benjamin.

      Why should we infidels give a damn when Muslims slaughter each other? Whether it’s in Iraq, Syria, Somalia or Nigeria.
      In fact we should encourage them to kill each other and wipe themselves off the planet, thereby ridding humanity of Islam scourge. It would be good riddance to very bad Muslim rubbish.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 11, 2014 at 8:20 pm

      The snake (PBUH) sheds its skin; yet its fangs still shine in crescent light.
      It comes not to embrace but to smother and bite.
      Satan’s Serpent Servant is deaf to each futile plea.
      Islam is about submission, rest in peace.
      It may shed its dead skin, but it is still much the same within.
      Islam crawls in the shadows. This snake is deaf to hideous screams.
      Islam is not about compassion or mercy.
      Islam slithers out of death and deceit.

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2014 at 7:08 pm

      “Benjamin” wrote:

      Interesting how all the condemnation disappears when muslims are being butchered by these terrorists like how they blew up the mosque in Nigeria.
      ………………………………

      What *utter rot*. Jihad Watch runs stories *all the time* about bloody Muslim-on-Muslim violence—Muslim violence against other-sect Muslims, Muslim violence against “apostates”, and Muslim violence against those considered “insufficiently Islamic”.

      You should, rather, ask why there are *so many* vicious stories of Muslims oppressing each other. blowing up each others’ Mosques, and slaughtering each other—what does *this* say about Islam?

      More:

      The internet equivalent of stepping over muslim body parts to get to the other side. In your ferocious hatred of muslims, you can’t see that these terrorists are a bigger threat to muslims than they will ever be to christians.
      ………………………………

      More crap. Many here—including myself—have noted the threat that Islam presents to its own deluded votaries.

      And your reference to our “stepping over muslim body parts” is grotesque—who laid out those body parts in the first place? The victims’ pious coreligionists.

      As for the idea that these “terrorists”—notice that “Benjamin” doesn’t call acknowledge that they are pious Jihadists—”Mujahideen”—he doesn’t note that Boko Haram *targeted* Christians here. They released most of the Muslim girls they kidnapped, but are still holding the Christians.

      He also does not tell you that there is an out and out *genocide* against Christians in Iraq, and Sudan, and Syria, and here in northern Nigeria.

      More:

      As for “sharia” creeping in, well, I could understand it if Islamic polygamous marriages were being for (sic) forcefully written into law by the Supreme Court, what an outrage that would be. How DARE a minority change our lifelong definition of marriage. Oh wait. The homosexuals have already changed it. And where were these rabidly fanatical christians who raze (by their own admission) mosques and muslims at a moment’s notice?
      ………………………………

      “Benjamin” is trying to imply here that “fanatical Christians” are “razing”—what an odd term—Muslims. Where are Christians mass-murdering Muslims? He implies that this *is happening in the United States*. What an utter lie. Back it up, creep.

      He also implies that we should just roll over and let brutal Shari’ah become the law of the land.

      Note, also, his virtual apologia for the barbarism of polygamy. *Ugh*.

      More:

      NOWHERE. Bunch of spineless gutless cowards preying on the most vulnerable members of society. Cowering with fear against the mighty gay lobby but chest pumping against women with headscarves. Pathetic cowards.
      ………………………………

      Lots of crap here. While there are certainly masochistic Muslim women pushing for polygamy, the main push is from Muslim men., Hardly surprising, given how misogynist polygamy is.

      Note, too, that he refers to our opposing violent Jihad and sanguinary Shari’ah—laughably—as “preying on the most vulnerable members of society”.

      And this, insanely, is how pious Muslims *see it*—if they are not in a position to oppress, rape, and slaughter Infidels, then they are “persecuted”. Sickening and grotesque.

  2. Jay Boo says

    May 11, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    “a well-known Nigerian Islamic scholar…warned that having foreign soldiers on Nigerian soil could escalate the conflict and draw foreign extremists to the West African nation.”
    ——–

    JW’s not to worry because, Al Jazeera sponsored NPR in collusion with BBC has offered repeated reassurance that:
    Boko Haram is just a rag-tag home-grown grass-roots insurgency made up of ‘Self-Radicalized’ extremists that misinterpret the ROP.

  3. Jay Boo says

    May 11, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    Note:
    Where are all those donations collected at the local ‘moderate’ mosque really going to?

    NPR has volunteered to offer up an answer about Boko Haram’s source of funding in advance without even being asked, which is in itself a bit incriminating of Islam.
    NPR claims it is a total mystery and therefore has to assume it must be mainly from robbing banks.

  4. Ralph says

    May 11, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    What else do you expect from MUSLIM’S… They are the SCUM of the Earth and Follow Satan… Just think; the Muslim’s will make good fuel in Hell.

    • Richie says

      May 11, 2014 at 5:02 pm

      I wont dehumanize all Muslims, as I hope they leave the religion and denounce it for what it is. Islam is evil, and only Muslims- who leave Islam can bring that cult to an end

      • Jay Boo says

        May 11, 2014 at 8:28 pm

        To focus only on the followers of Islam is to give the ideology a free pass to slither away under the cover of calls of Islamophobia against Muslims.
        Let’s give the rank snake-pit of Islam the true honor it has rightly earned and reveal all its filth instead.

      • Salah says

        May 12, 2014 at 2:11 am

        “..only Muslims- who leave Islam can bring that cult to an end”

        Well said, Richie. Islam can only be destroyed from within. Most Muslims were simply born in this environment. They are mostly uneducated and, most of all, unable to leave Islam without risking their lives.
        Things are slowly but surely changing thanks to modern technology.

        To our Muslim friends: *THIS* is your prophet…

        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

  5. jewdog says

    May 11, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    Has anyone thought of simply having agents buy the girls back if they are for sale to the public? At 12 and change per girl, it sounds less expensive and safer than more elaborate schemes right now.
    Once they are back a military solution can be advanced.

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2014 at 7:23 pm

      I doubt it, Jewdog. It’s not as thought they are holding the slave auction in downtown Abuja. I believe they are selling them to other Jihadists—some of them abroad.

      But Infidels *have* bought slaves before, in order to set them free. There are Christian groups in Africa who do so today.

      It is controversial, since it offers Jihadists an incentive to kidnap more slaves—but I’m going to save my condemnation for the Jihadists, and not for anyone trying to help the victims.

  6. Jay Boo says

    May 11, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    Happy Mother’s Day greetings
    from disgrace of Muhammad’s Islam.

    Wild dogs should not lower themselves to lift one hind leg to his grave.

  7. Truthsayer says

    May 11, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    In 1990 Nigeria led ECOMOG (Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group – a West African multilateral armed force) to intervene in the Liberian civil war. It may have been more a success at looting than peace keeping (ECOMOG was also referred to by the Liberians as – Every Car or Movable Object Gone) but it does show that there was military capacity when there was will.

    So why is the Nigerian government apparently doing nothing to eradicate Boko Haram and other Jihadists?
    Is it for fear of reprisals from their own Muslim population – which is large?
    Is it constrained because the military must comprise of a similar proportion of Muslims?
    Or is it, as a cynic may ask, because the president is just waiting to boost his own pension with British and American aid money when they come in to help?

  8. Jay Boo says

    May 12, 2014 at 10:56 am

    PRISONER EXCHANGE
    —The MSM and others condemned Nigeria for executing its Boko Haram terrorists.
    If they had not interfered there would be no prisoners to exchange and these girls might not have been kidnapped in the first place.
    —Hillary Clinton refused to declare Boko Haram a terrorist organization and NPR/BBC whitewash it with a label of ‘grass roots insurgency’.

    They have the nerve to criticize the government of Nigeria when they have been running interference for Islam and flaunting their cherished non-Islamophobia record.

  9. gravenimage says

    May 13, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    Nigeria: Islamic jihadists blow up bridge, abduct wife and children of policeman
    ………………………………..

    If the policeman is Christian, this is perfectly Halal, since Muslims can always kidnap Infidels.

    And if he is Muslim, this is *still* perfectly Halal, since he was working for the “apostate” or Infidel regime, and as such—through the handy Islamic doctrine of Takfir—he can thus be regarded as an “apostate” himself, and hence be subject to all the barbarism that Muslims inflict on the “filthy” Kuffar.

    More:

    This kind of action appears to be meant to emphasize that the government can (or will) do nothing to stop them.
    ………………………………..

    Yes—what we are seeing from the Nigerian “authorities” is an appalling mix of ineptitude, dhimmification, and infiltration by Mohammedans who may be anything but keen on foiling pious Jihadists like Boko Haram.

    More:

    A well-known Nigerian Islamic scholar, meanwhile, warned that having foreign soldiers on Nigerian soil could escalate the conflict and draw foreign extremists to the West African nation. Ahmed Mahmud-Gumi, speaking in northern Kaduna city Friday, said it “may trigger waves of terrorism never seen before.”
    ………………………………..

    Better not oppose Jihad—it will just cause more Jihad. We hear this from pious Imams everywhere, for two reasons.

    The most obvious is that they hope we will just roll over in the face of *any* Jihad violence. The second, of course, is that if we do not they can—as they see it—blame us for any further Jihad violence their vicious coreligionists see fit to dish out.

    More:

    “Foreign terrorists are eager to engage foreign forces, making Nigeria just another battleground” like Afghanistan and Iraq, he said….
    ………………………………..

    Why is it that so *very many* pious Muslims *all over the world* are poised to aid Jihadists that Taqiyya artists are quick to assure us are completely “un-islamic” in their waging of Jihad?

    Now *that* is something that this Islamic “scholar” hopes you won’t ask…

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