Clearly the jihadists of Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, are quaking in their boots over the international media attention that is finally being focused on them, and the vows by all sorts of world leaders to hunt them down and stop them. No doubt they are laughing at all this false bravado, because they know that’s exactly what it is.
“Suicide Bombing Hits Christian Pocket of Kano, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, May 19, 2014:
JOS, Nigeria, May 19, 2014 (Morning Star News Morning Star News) – Christian sources said an apparent suicide bombing in a Christian area of northern Nigeria’s city of Kano Sunday night (May 18) killed about 20 people, more than the police tally of five.
The police death toll for the bombing at about 10 p.m. includes the bomber. The Rev. Murtala Marti of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Kano told Morning Star News by phone that about 20 people were killed in the attack in the Christian “foreign quarter” of the Muslim-majority city.
“The bomb attack occurred on Sunday night along Gold Coast Road in the Sabon Gari area here in Kano,” Marti said. “Twenty Christians were killed in the bomb blast, but police authorities are saying only five died.”
The Kano city Christian leader said that that Christians were killed along the road and in nearby restaurants and bars, though originally the likely target of the attack were three area churches.
“Most often the plot is to get at churches, but when it becomes impossible for the terrorists to get there, they usually detonate their bombs anywhere Christians are gathered, either in churches or restaurants,” Marti said.
Eyewitnesses told Morning Star News by phone that the lone bomber in the vehicle had sought directions to some of the churches from area Christians but detonated the bomb when the Christians became suspicious of his intentions. Area Christians blame Islamic extremist terrorist group Boko Haram for a suicide bombing that killed at least 24 people in Kano in July 2013 and 25 people in the city in March 2013, and one eyewitness assumed the assailant from last night’s bombing belonged to the group.
“The Boko Haram suicide bomber, on sensing that these Christians were suspicious about his inquiries on the churches, detonated the bomb along the road at No. 1 Middle Road, close to three churches,” said the source, who requested anonymity for security reasons.
The likely original targets, he said, were the Methodist Church of Nigeria, an Assemblies of God Church and a Universal Reformed Christian Church (NKST, Nongu u Kristu u i Ser u sha Tar) of the Tiv ethnic group, all located along Middle Road. The explosion occurred at the junction of Middle and Gold Coast roads.
Police confirmed that among those killed was a 12-year-old girl. Aderenle Shinaba, Kano state police commissioner, told reporters that five people were killed and four injured. He said the car exploded before reaching the bomber’s target of an area of an even more dense concentration of restaurants and bars on Gold Coast Road. Muslims are forbidden from drinking alcohol, and Boko Haram seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout the country.
While Boko Haram (translated as “Western education is a sin”) is the moniker residents of Maiduguri, Borno state gave the insurgents, the group calls itself the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, translated as “The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad.” In 2013 the U.S. government designated it a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and it has links with Al Shabaab in Somalia and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Kidnapped Girls
In Nigeria’s northeast, U.S. British, French, Spanish and Israeli military units experienced in surveillance, intelligence-gathering, counterterrorism and hostage negotiations are helping to search for nearly 300 high school girls Boko Haram kidnapped on April 15, according to Fox News.According to police, 276 girls remain in captivity after their abduction from a boarding school in the predominantly Christian town of Chibok, Borno state, while 53 escaped. Witnesses have said the captured girls were driven into the Sambisa Forest on the border with Cameroon, and that some were forced to marry members of the insurgent group while others may have been sent to other parts of Cameroon.
A video purporting to show the girls reciting the Koran does not include the kidnapped girls, a source told the Baptist Press. Adeniyi Ojutiku, co-founder of Lift Up Now, which addresses needs in his homeland of Nigeria, told the news agency that parents of the kidnapped girls were unable to identify their children in the video.
He said the video is most likely an effort to mislead those searching for the girls….
dlbrand says
They make Saddam look like an alter boy.
“People of the Sunnah for Dawah,” I suppose that accounts for why we best not rock this boat. I’m sure the Nigerian Christians don’t expect us to help anyhow … like, they probably don’t even know we know…
Thus, from afar, we should safe to watch, in silence, as it were … refrain from getting involved, as long as the blood doesn’t splash on us, we should be able to remain cleanly aloof from the suffering of these Christians, like we did/do in Iraq.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “U.S. British, French, Spanish and Israeli military units experienced in surveillance, intelligence-gathering, counterterrorism and hostage negotiations are helping to search for nearly 300 high school girls Boko Haram kidnapped on April 15”.
Given the extent to which the US, Britain, France and Spain have been bamboozled by mohammedan BS of late, the only thing that gives me hope for the girls is the involvement of the Israelis. I think that if an *Israeli* military unit is helping in the search, then there really is a chance that a rescue may be achieved. Put them in charge and give them a free hand.
Here’s a shoutout, just in case any “spooks” – British, French, American, Spanish, *or* Israeli – hang out at this site and are peeking over my shoulder as I type this.
START WITH THE BLOODY MOSQUES.
Surveill (drones) and surprise search *every* mosque within 500 miles of where these girls were seized, and give every imam and sheikh the third degree. Start from the outermost perimeter and work inwards. I guarantee that among those mosques there will be *someone* – or more than one – who knows all about this kidnapping and is a Boko Haram sympathiser/ member/ enabler. If you get Nigerians to help with this surveill-search-interrogation sweep of the mosques – USE NON-MUSLIM SOLDIERS AND COPS, **only**.
Why? – because YOU CANNOT TRUST *any* Muslim who is in *any* position in the Nigerian government, military or police force, regional or federal. You can’t. They will be covering for Islam, and in their heart of hearts they probably think it’s just fine to grab Christian girls, rape them, turn them into sex slaves – “wives” – and sell them as slaves. After all: Mohammed raped captive non-Muslim women and stuffed them into his harem, or sold them as slaves, and he told his men it was okay to rape female captives. Boko Haram have just done what Mohammed used to do.
dlbrand says
Amen to that, like we ought to have done in Iraq, and elsewhere.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber murders 20 in Christian area
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*This* is what a society looks like when it reaches 50% Muslim and they make the final push to dominate the remaining Infidels.
dlbrand says
Yes, Sir, indeed.
Salah says
Muslim percentages and Muslims’ reactions!
From “The World Fact Book (2007)”
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/06/islams-progression-through-societies.html