“The shooting, fire-bombing and slashing of men, women and children in Gwoza, Borno state, as initially the military reportedly fled before an insurgent force backed by international terrorist groups, began at about 4 a.m., producing eyewitness assertions that Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, had taken control of the town of more than 276,000 people. Local residents reportedly said at least 100 people had been killed.”
Will the Islamophobia never end?
“Massacre in Predominantly Christian Gwoza, Nigeria Said to Leave 100 Dead,” Morning Star News, August 8, 2014:
JOS, Nigeria, August 8, 2014 (Morning Star News) – After weeks of sacking villages and destroying church buildings around Nigeria’s northeastern town of Gwoza, Islamic extremist group Boko Haram on Wednesday (Aug. 6) killed an estimated 100 people in the predominantly Christian town, sources said.
The shooting, fire-bombing and slashing of men, women and children in Gwoza, Borno state, as initially the military reportedly fled before an insurgent force backed by international terrorist groups, began at about 4 a.m., producing eyewitness assertions that Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, had taken control of the town of more than 276,000 people. Local residents reportedly said at least 100 people had been killed.
The full magnitude of the attack and the Nigerian military response was unknown as most sources have been forced to flee to Cameroon or Adamawa state, but on the initial day of the assault Pirda Tada, a Christian resident of Saha village, told Morning Star News that Boko Haram gunmen arrived in Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and attacked houses with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and fuel-bombs.
“I thank God for sparing my life, but three of my neighbors and members of our church were killed during the attack,” Tada said. “These Christians in our village had their throats slit with knives while their hands were tied behind their backs. Some houses were bombed as the Boko Haram gunmen were chanting, ‘God is great!’ in Arabic.”
Six Christians were killed at Saha village, and the insurgents destroyed houses and shops and burned the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) building in Pegi Barawa village, Tada said. Boko Haram rebels on July 19 had attacked Saha and Pegi Barawa village, near Gwoza; six Christians were reported to have been killed in Saha village.
Francis Mbala of Gwoza confirmed that Boko Haram attacked Saha and Pegi Barawa this week.
“The COCIN church and some houses and shops were burned down,” he told Morning Star News.
Since December, Boko Haram has also attacked in the Gwoza area the villages of Mainok, Barawa, Chinne, Arbakko, Attagara, Ngoshe, Klala, Kunde, Hembe, Gathahure, Klala, Himbe, Amuda, Agapalawa, Ashigashiya, and Chikedeh, Mbala said.
John Gula, a leader in the Christian community in Gwoza, told Morning Star News by phone that 42 Christians were killed at Attagara village; 24 in Agajara; four in Angurva; 20 in Agapalwa; one in Amuda; three in Alavawa; 13 in Chinene; three in Arboko; one in Ashigashiya; and one in Ngoshe.
It is estimated that more than 300,000 Christians have been displaced from the greater area, forcing many to flee to neighboring Cameroon.
In December Christian leaders had reported plans by Boko Haram to attack Christian communities in Gwoza. COCIN leaders and the denomination’s Gwoza District Church Council (DCC), in collaboration with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Gwoza, sent a petition to the Borno state government and security agencies reporting a threatening letter that Boko Haram had sent to Christian communities in Gwoza.
“You have been fleeing your homes, but we are still pursuing you, because the soldiers with you people cannot protect you,” the letter reads. “Your lives, farmlands and other property are also not safeguarded. Allah willing, we shall not fail to attack your communities and the listed churches in this letter.”
In December 2013, 15 Christians were killed, 274 houses were burned and 12 church buildings were destroyed by Boko Haram gunmen, the Christian leaders wrote in their letter. Yakubu Toeye, a Christian from Gwoza, told Morning Star News that the 12 church buildings destroyed in December were located in the Gwoza hills settlements of Kunde, Hembe, Gathahure, Himbe and Klala.
The Rev. Joel Y. Ndirmbita, secretary of the COCIN DCC, signed the petition calling attention to the plight of Christians in Gwoza area.
“We consider it an onerous task to bring to your notice an attempt and grand design to wipe us, Christians, from the face of the earth by some who claim to be members of the Boko Haram sect,” Ndirmbita and others wrote. “Boko Haram has perfected plans to launch an attack against us as contained in their threat letter of July 8, 2013, and addressed it to various churches in the Gwoza Local Council…They have now commenced … by attacking us and uprooting crops on our farmlands and spraying them with chemicals.”
John C. Barile says
Genocide, a la Iraq. International terrorism, i.e., militant Islam, on the march. The abomination of desolation in its wake.
Walter Sieruk says
If the murderous evil be preformed by members of Boko Haram or the heinous, vicious and deadly militant Islamic force of ISIS They all engage in the violence and killing that is part of the essence of Islam. As seen ,for example,in Sura 9:111,112. 47:4. This also the same as the brutal and death dealing forces of Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. With this stated it could be illustrated that if Islam is a tree then the fruit of this tree are the many malicious and blood thirsty jihad groups just mentioned. Thus the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus do very much apply to this subject . For Jesus taught “Ye shall know them by their fruits. do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16,17,18,20. [K.J.V.]
In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 3:16,17,36. 14:6 . First John 2:22,23.
Tradewinds says
Islam – a plague on the world.
Angemon says
Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25:
“Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said: “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.”“
JeffS says
Hey Ms. Obama, how’s that hashtag working out?
jewdog says
Nobody cares about what happens in sub-Saharan Africa if it just involves black people. Liberals only care if they can identify Western racism, which this is not. The kidnapping of the 200 schoolgirls got some reaction, but that was unusual because of its bizarre nature; it’s since been forgotten.
SpiritOf1683 says
Nigerian Christians are ‘honorary whites’ and we know what leftists think of old whitey.
jewdog says
Good point. I bet some of them are even registered Republicans.
Richie says
The Muslim genocide of Christians intensifies, yet the leaders in the west remain silent
enwhitenment says
Funny how the BBC only run stories that claim Nigeria’s army are committing atrocities against the islamist militants boko haram.
that african gurl says
there is this little building in a family compound called Ba Shiga which means “no entry”. its a harem for the mai gida’s(lord of the manor) wives. when soldier’s chase a suspected boko haram member through a village, he runs into one of these Ba shigas’ and then the soldier cannot follow him in. even if he eventually gains permission to go in all he will see is veiled women(or so we think). you cannot ask a veiled woman to umveil.
Mirren10 says
Hello, African gurl, and welcome.
” when soldier’s chase a suspected boko haram member through a village, he runs into one of these Ba shigas’ and then the soldier cannot follow him in.”
Yes. Typical of the cowardice of the average mohammedan. But surely, the Nigerian government is going to have to put a stop to this PC nonsense.
I believe you said you are Nigerian ? What’s your impression, from a Nigerian perspective, on my own personal feeling, that the Nigerian Army is riddled with either mohammedans, or mohammedan sympathisers ? Ditto the **government** ?
By the way, as a child and young teenager, I lived in Nigeria, in Apapa, and Lagos. It broke my heart to see the horrors of Biafra, thinking of the fate of many Nigerians I had known. And now this evil pall of mohammedanism, and Boko Haram. 🙁
dave says
Running into sanctuary…wearing a veil…the Women are safe? WRONG!!!….Islam has its answer for everything… these evil women may be Shi’a they may be Ahmaddi. Nothing can get in the way of a Muslim and a bit of rape and murder…not when he has a copy of the Koran in his hand
David says
Where are the Hollywood celebrities and First Ladies holding up signs with ‘hashtag’ messages? Where is the far-left mainstream media’s outcry? Where is the honest confrontation and assessment of what motivates these savages?