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Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists torch 185 churches

Oct 7, 2014 9:05 pm By Robert Spencer

140225-boko-haram-nigeria-8a_ca7ed69d6c4fa5cb1de513a68e65c0e2Oddly enough, they didn’t torch any mosques, even though, as everyone knows, they have nothing to do with Islam.

“Nigeria: Boko Haram Torch 185 Churches in Captured Towns of Borno and Adamawa,” by Jack Moore, International Business Times, October 6, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A prominent Nigerian reverend has revealed Islamist terror group Boko Haram destroyed over 180 churches in the West African country following its capture of towns and villages in the north-eastern states of Borno and Adamawa.

Reverend Gideon Obasogie, the director of Catholic Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese in Borno State, said the group’s seizure of territory in both states has seen 185 churches torched and over 190,000 people displaced by their insurgency.

In his statement, Obasogie said Boko Haram’s “ransacking and torching” of churches had forced priests to leave their homes for two months while displaced civilians were still unable to return to their towns and villages.

He added the destruction of churches was “sad, heart-aching and potentially dangerous to the territorial integrity and common good of Nigeria.”

“It is over 30 days now that our church communities in Gulak, Shuwa, Michika, Bazza were ransacked by the callous attacks of the Boko Haram terrorists,” the statement said.

“Our priests are displaced, while citizens…are counting their losses and regrets as they have been reduced to the status of Internally Displaced Persons [IDP]. Where is the freedom?”

“Life is really terribly difficult. We are waiting eagerly to go back home, even as it is obvious that we are going to [have to] reconstruct our looted and burnt houses and ecclesial structures.

“We have been sleeping in uncompleted buildings, camps and school premises. We have been absorbed into houses of relations and friends in [their] sixties and seventies.”

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who is seeking re-election in February next year, has been increasingly criticised for his inaction against the terror group.

In April, the terror group – which wishes to expand its “caliphate” in north-eastern Nigeria – kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in the village of Chibok, bringing global attention to the West African nation’s fight against terrorism.

Both states, plus Yobe State, have been placed under a state of emergency since May last year.

According to Human Rights Watch, the militants have killed at least 2,053 people since the beginning of 2014.

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  1. Champ says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    islam: spreading tidings of great joy for over 1,400 years …

    NOT!

  2. King Dave says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    Boko Haram’s charismatic leader, Abubakar Shekau is still alive and well.

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/boko-haram-leader-abubakar-shekau-warns-i-am-still-alive-latest-video-1468247

    • mortimer says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 6:03 am

      Abubakar Shekau crowed that he was at war ‘with Christianity GENERALLY’.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    The Nigerian authorities could capture Boko Haram jihadists and give them summary executions without ‘fair’ trials.
    If Leftists can assume that the burning of 185 churches has nothing to do with Islam, then they should be able to accept that summary executions of alleged members of Boko Haram has nothing to do with Islamic style justice with a hint of anti-jihad karma added.

    • Will says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 12:02 am

      So long as they keep the *censored*western media out of it they have my blessing to do so.

  4. alexander modenos says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    Are we not seeing the signs of our times. Is this not an attack on our Judeo-Christian western european way of life. We are trying to teach tolerance to the world. I do not believe in messages of hate toward anyone, but fanatic Islamistis
    are preaching a doctrine of hate and world domination. Let us not attack our
    president….he is taking the battle to other regions; that they must clean up their act and not play both sides. I invite China and Russian to become allies against this scourge. If the IS worships death, then lets accommodate them.

  5. Beagle says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    Like the Islamic State, of course The People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad has nothing to do with Islam. Poverty and legitimate grievances must be appeased. Maybe a UN sex slavery program for the marginalized mujahideen would help. If the international community met their enslaved girl needs they would not have to seize so many.

  6. Salah says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    They’ve always hated churches more than anything else.

    “What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.” Mark 1:24

    Yes, no matter how many church buildings they destroy, in the end, churches will destroy these unclean spirits.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html

  7. Charli Main says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 5:04 am

    “Nigeria: Boko Haram Torch 185 Churches in Captured Towns of Borno and Adamawa,”
    Just the first step in clearing the sites to replace them with Mosques.
    Standard Muslim practice to defile and desecrate the holy sites of other religions and replace them with Islamic abominations.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 6:22 am

      Yes. Salafism is NORMATIVE ISLAM because it is a carbon copy of Mohammed’s method.

      What imitates Mohammed is Islam.

      Islam-a-la-carte is not Islam.

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 6:02 am

    Corruption within the Nigerian bureaucracy and the Nigerian military, as well as infiltration of Islamist Salafis in the same, have led to comprises of information and inaction.

    The salafist BOKO HARAM can act without consequences because of the strong Islamist representatives in government. Christians are defenseless.

    President Jonathan is IMPOTENT.

  9. R Davis says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 6:25 am

    It is the standard procedure to eradicate….

    article:-
    Christians Discriminated by Jews in Israel by Donald Nuff.

    Where Jews robbed & desecrated Christian churches in israel, tore up the New Testament. Christians were attacked – their children were attacked by ADULT Jews.
    Arson of schools / hospitals / churches by Jews upon Christians.
    quote:
    “When Israel was established in 1984, the Palestinian Christian community was 200.000 compared to roughly 600.000 Jews in Palestine at the time. Now the Christians are not even one percent of the population of Palestine/Israel.”
    A job well done.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 9:16 am

      Funnily enough, when I googled ”Christians Discriminated by Jews in Israel by Donald Nuff”, I couldn’t find any such article, but I was led straight to a disgustingly vile, anti-Semitic and racist website.

      How pathetic you are, that you don’t even have the guts to openly link to your revolting and asinine drivel.

      Bugger off back to stormfront, you repulsive little fool.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Oct 9, 2014 at 6:03 am

        Seconding that, Mirren.

  10. Kieran V Pavlick says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 3:56 pm

    It would seem obvious that churches being burned is because of the Crusades although the apologists flip those, saying, “Islam was unjustly attacked by the crusaders.” Well Islam is on the move again after all these centuries, so standby for another Crusade. I voice my comments about radical Islam and do so with emails that show my name, address, and all my phone numbers. Some say, ” Do I want to be a martyr?”

    No. A martyr for Islam detonates bombs of all sorts killing innocent people. Martyrs for Christian and Jewish religions die for their beliefs, singly and as groups of a common religion. Being killed for their beliefs and not harming those that strike them down is their trademark. That is what we have the military for to defend the total country, believers and nonbelievers alike, but they do not do it in the name of their religion, but as citizens of their country which is normally a secular government, and you may practice what ever religion you like without persecution. Unlike Muslim nations.

  11. hammar says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 8:06 am

    You can possess the whole world but lose you soul, Jesus teaches us.
    So live by the gun you die by it . Mohammed can’t save them.

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