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Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder at least 64 with guns and bombs at mosque

Nov 28, 2014 12:28 pm By Robert Spencer

NigeriaKanomosqueAt least 64 have been murdered, and 120 wounded. Authorities believe this was an attack in response to a recent statement by Nigerian leader Lamido Sanusi, calling upon Nigerians to fight against Boko Haram, the real name of which is The Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. “The mosque is adjacent to the palace of the emir of Kano, the second highest Islamic authority in Africa’s most populous country, although the emir himself, former central bank governor Lamido Sanusi, was not present.”

“Bombs, gunfire at crowded central mosque in northern Nigeria’s Kano,” by Nnekule Ikemfuna, Reuters, November 28, 2014:

(Reuters) – Gunmen set off three bombs and fired on worshippers at the central mosque of north Nigeria’s biggest city Kano for Friday prayers, witnesses said, an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants.

It was not immediately possible to determine a reliable death toll in the chaotic aftermath of the attack but the area had been densely packed with worshippers. A police spokesman in Kano declined to make any immediate comment.

“These people have bombed the mosque. I am face to face with people screaming,” said Chijjani Usman, a local reporter who had gone to the mosque in the old city for prayers himself.

The mosque is adjacent to the palace of the emir of Kano, the second highest Islamic authority in Africa’s most populous country, although the emir himself, former central bank governor Lamido Sanusi, was not present.

“Three bombs were planted in the courtyard to the mosque and they went off simultaneously,” a security source who declined to be named said.

A staff member at the palace who also witnessed the attack said: “After multiple explosions, they also opened fire. I cannot tell you the casualties because we all ran away.”

Angry youths blocked the mosque’s gates to police, who had to disperse them with tear gas to gain entry.

No one quickly claimed responsibility but suspicion quickly fell on Boko Haram, a Sunni jihadist movement whose name means “Western education is forbidden”. Since 2009 it has fought to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate under strict sharia law.

Boko Haram regards the traditional Islamic religious authorities in Nigeria with disdain, considering them a corrupt, self-serving elite that is too close to the secular government.

The insurgents have killed thousands in gun and bomb attacks on churches, schools, police stations, military and government buildings, and even mosques that do not share their radical Islamist ideology….

Islamic leaders sometimes shy away from direct criticism of Boko Haram for fear of reprisals. But Sanusi, angered by atrocities such as the kidnapping of 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok in April, has been increasingly vocal.

He was quoted in the local press as calling on Nigerians this month to defend themselves against Boko Haram. During a broadcast recitation of the Koran he was reported to have said:

“These people, when they attack towns, they kill boys and enslave girls. People must stand resolute … They should acquire what they can to defend themselves. People must not wait for soldiers to protect them.”…

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  1. jewdog says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 12:40 pm

    That’s rather Islamophobic of Boko Haram, n’est-ce pas? I think it’s time we sent the staff of CAIR to Nigeria for a pep talk, with a one-way ticket.

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 1:10 pm

      All Muslims insist on:
      Building Their Tower Of Babel
      (to reach to Heaven)
      http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246611/jewish/The-Tower-Of-Babel.htm

      And yet, they still wonder why it never ends well.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 4:21 pm

      Boko Haram places themselves above…”the emir of Kano, the second highest Islamic authority in Africa’s most populous country…former central bank governor Lamido Sanusi”.

      They are authority-phobic…except for their own. Civil wars are VERY ISLAMIC. It’s the only ‘vote’ Islam allows.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    Those violence and murderous jihad minded Muslim thugs of Boko Haram were engaging in the deadly violence that is instructed the Koran. For that “holy book’ of Islam teaches in 47:4; “When ever you encounter the unbeliever strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Lets face it a firearm can make a greater “slaughter among them” then a sword can, Wow, what a death cult ! Well then the Koran teaches Muslims to killing unbelievers. In contrast the Bible teaches Christians to pray for the unbelievers. The difference between the teaching of those two books is outstanding. Likewise, there is a great contrasting between the teachings of Jesus and Muhammad. The first teaches Love, the second teaches hate. Wow, what a difference !

    • Jolly Right says

      Dec 8, 2014 at 9:11 am

      Well said, Walter!
      Now, how can we actively inform the leaders of our countries? My Australia, and your country?

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 1:07 pm

    ………. and Allah, the greatest of deceivers, watches from afar …. and laughs.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 2:07 pm

      for the sake of the Coptic Christians I would say “Allah … laughs,” for they understand (through translation) that the One referred to is the LORD of hosts, the Unique God

      but as for the Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) the Unique God will speak in “wrath” of His “king on Zion” who shall “possess the ends of the earth” and break the “nations that rage.” as per Psalm 2 of David.

      • boakai ngombu says

        Nov 28, 2014 at 2:08 pm

        the Allah god of Islam might laugh, but not for long.

        • IQ al Rassooli says

          Nov 28, 2014 at 5:50 pm

          Dear readers

          Why waste time?

          Listen to the following on the Glazov Gang where IQ al Rassooli PROVES that Allah of Islam is NOT the same as the God of the Bible in LESS than 10 minutes based entirely on Muhammad’s Quran

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  4. Buraq says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    If that’s what these clowns do to each other, imagine what they’d do to us!

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 2:25 pm

      No need to imagine. They’ve shown us enough massacres and beheadings already for us to know that this is the reality they have in store for us… and enough is enough…..no, actually it’s too much!

  5. Zebo says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    1400 years ago the devil went to toilet.
    He dumped the biggest pile of sh!t ever.Instead of flushing down he took a closer look at the pile he was so proud of,and saw that the pile of shit was alive.
    He took a closer and realised that the huge pile of shit was even able to speak -unlike other babies the pile of shit did not say mama or dada
    but ala,alla ,allah.
    This took the devil by surprise:How the hell did the pile of shit knew his name as noone knew the devils real name.
    Than the devil realised that this virgin anal birth was his son!
    That was the day when mohammed was born.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 2:31 pm

      Perdition be upon him.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 2:54 pm

      (Satan) dumped the biggest pile of sh!t ever.Instead of flushing down he took a closer look at the pile he was so proud of,and saw that the pile of shit was alive.

      A nasty pile that grew into a global worldwide bile
      And to think that the Arab pagan Koreishi had the opportunity to kill all the Moslems after they won a battle against the Holy Prophet and his Companions, but decided not to do so. Compassion. Undeserved mercy that let the worst roach infestation spread from Western Arabia across all the world. Big mistake, lost opportunity, too late know, How Now Brown Cow. Yes Mr. Moslem, sir. How much money do we give you a month to be able to not kill us? Sir.

      • zebo says

        Nov 28, 2014 at 4:19 pm

        we can blame the devil(if my story is true)

        But not the koreish-as most people would have acted that way instead of shedding more (and maybe uncessarily)blood.

        And how could the koreish know better?
        These days people can get all informations they need about islam within seconds thx to the internet and they still either don’t care or refuse to acceppt the reality about islam.
        Therefore the unavoidable has to happen before people will acceppt what islam really is=many many people will die.

        I can understand why muslims have problems to acceppt the true nature of islam,as they will have to give up their faith,their families,their culture and identity (and in many casese their live)
        but western people just have to understand that there is something totally evil,but they are not ready to acceppt that fact and prefer living in lala land.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    As the historical figure Rodney King asked, can’t we all just get along? Here you have Moslems slaughtering other Moslems. But, on this one, I have to side with the Bokos: what good is the belief system if it’s no followed? Islam is not a historical context, it is a set of commands on what to do today. By the logic of Islam, the Bokos did the right thing by murdering several dozen of their own, who insisted on a watered down form of Islam. No.

    From the hallucinations of Yoko to those of the Boko
    It is said by the Bokos don’t make no mocking slanderous Islam joke-ohs,
    Or you will cry, you will die, you will be squished into nothingness like a fly.
    Lo! Boko Man sez that the definition of blasphemy is not an empty pose,
    Stab, blow up, incinerate or shoot the jokers, daid Moslems who lived the lie.

    • jewdog says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 4:13 pm

      Maybe you’re being too hard on them. All they want is life, liberty and the pursuit of heretics.

      • zebo says

        Nov 28, 2014 at 4:22 pm

        and beheadings

      • Islamisdeath says

        Nov 28, 2014 at 4:53 pm

        And a sandwich.

        • pumbar says

          Nov 28, 2014 at 11:21 pm

          And some sex slaves.

  7. duh_swami says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    Man, that Islamic brotherhood stuff is tough ainit? Sometimes I think they don’t like or trust each other much. It’s pretty bad when the pious who only wanted to pray to Allah, get blown up or shot while doing it. Imams will have to put signs over the mosque door that says, ‘enter at your own risk’. Some say that Allah works in strange and mysterious ways. Giving the big OK to Boko must be one of those times. It certainly is strange and mysterious.

  8. Jaladhi says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    Where are all those Western leaders denouncing these murders done by Muslims. Are afraid of being labled Islamophobes?? Where is their conscience or they have become conscienceless. What a bunch of immoral, coward, and hypocrites we have got as our leaders. They should go back read what happened at gates of Vienna way back in the tenth century!!.

    • Oliver says

      Dec 1, 2014 at 7:16 pm

      Where are the western leaders? Why, they are at the Useless Fucking nations, blaming Israel and the Zionists.

      And Nobrainer is blaming George Bush.

  9. gail griffin says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    200, they killed 200 according to reports from Nigeria in the International Business news.

  10. Salah says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    “These people, when they attack towns, they kill boys and enslave girls. People must stand resolute … They should acquire what they can to defend themselves. People must not wait for soldiers to protect them.”…

    Whether it be in Nigeria or in any country, soldiers cannot protect everyone all the time. Every honest citizen has the right and duty to defent himself, his family and his property. To do so, every honest citizen must be allowed to carry a weapon.
    Gun control advocates have blood on their hands.

  11. Coolio says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    We have this kind of infighting all the time in Hare Krishna, between the Ritviks (who believe in direct connection to Srila Prabhupada) and orthodox ISKCON devotees (who believe in a chain of guru-disciple succession). I must admit, it gets really bad sometimes, with heated exchanges on discussion forums, and unauthorised printing of ISKCON books (before they got dubiously edited) by Ritviks. I honestly don’t know where it will all end.

    • duh_swami says

      Nov 29, 2014 at 5:49 am

      Meher Baba 1928…’Don’t worry, be happy’…

  12. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    Boko Haram “has fought to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate under strict sharia law”. All credit to Nnekule Ikemfuna for this clear explanation for Reuters.
    Contrast the dishonest and compromised BBC, explaining the identical agenda of Islamic State:
    “they want to enforce their view of conservative Islamic traditions”. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-27905425).

  13. Wellington says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    Just about the last group of human beings who should be Muslim are blacks. The Islamic world’s participation in black slavery began some eight centuries before that of the Judeo-Christian world’s did. And unlike the Islamic world, the Judeo-Christian, i.e., Western, world, eventually came to realize the great horror which black slavery was and ended it (sometimes not without much difficulty, no better example here being that of the American Civil War, which was not just fought for preservation of the Union but also, by no later than 1863, for the eradication of slavery as well).

    Ironically, and this is completely lost on black Muslims, the Wesern world had to actually intervene to stop any continuation of black slavery, with the British Navy and Army in the nineteenth century being key players here. Also, and again unlike the Islamic sphere of mankind, the Western world has apologized profusely for its participation in black slavery. As usual, Islam, and the decrepit world is has created, has apologized for nothing though it has so much to apologize for.

    Any Muslim is a confused human being. No exception. But, I submit, any black human being who is a Muslim is extra confused for the reasons I stated above. In fact, I would maintain that a person who is black and is a Muslim is, in a way, a traitor to their race. Yes, it’s this terrible.

    • Darren says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 7:03 pm

      I suggest you do more research into the civil war. Lincoln was a wannabe dictator, and slavery was simply a pretext used. Lincoln himself said many racist things. The war had more to do with one side thinking Federal power trumped states rights.

      • Jay Boo says

        Nov 28, 2014 at 10:33 pm

        A masterful barrage of simplistic generalizations Darren.
        Impressive, not.

        • Paul says

          Nov 29, 2014 at 12:20 pm

          Wrong, again, Jay Boo. Lincoln made it clear that his goal was to save the empire, slavery or no slavery. Some of his remarks about this can be found in bronze at the Lincoln monument at the south end of Lincoln Park in Chicago.

          https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lincoln+Monument/@41.9124175,-87.6301961,89m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x880fd34323b7d437:0xf56af36026eec6bd

        • Jay Boo says

          Nov 29, 2014 at 9:35 pm

          Wrong Paul
          Darren said,
          Lincoln was a wannabe dictator
          Lincoln himself said many racist things

          These are simplistic generalizations that Darren does nothing to back up.
          There only purpose appears to be to give added credibility to the last sentence which could have easily stood on its own, except for one glaring fault when combined with the preceding sentences it wrongly tries to imply that Wellington is saying that the Civil War was just about slavery. This is merely a clever tactic to misrepresent what Wellington wrote.
          “American Civil War, which was not just fought for preservation of the Union but also, by no later than 1863, for the eradication of slavery as well”

          That is quite a clever trick, but not clever enough

        • Jay Boo says

          Nov 29, 2014 at 9:38 pm

          I might add that your straw man follow-up is merely a poor attempt to continue the clever slight of hand ruse.

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        Nov 30, 2014 at 5:56 am

        Darren

        Your comment is as utterly stupid as any I have come across regarding Black Slavery

        Read what Wellington already commented

        NEVER in the history of Arabs or Islam have they advocated stopping slavery

        NEVER in the history of Arabs or Islam have they ever apologized for 1400 years and 140,000,000 slaughtered Africans; 28,000,000 slaves; 110,000,000 butchered Hindus and over 70,000,000 Christians,Jews & Buddhists

        It was WHITE CHRISTIANS who in the end stopped Black slaves (the last was Saudi Arabia in 1964)

        Next time you make a comment get your FACTS first

        IQ al Rassooli
        Kafir & Proud!

  14. Arthur says

    Nov 29, 2014 at 2:49 am

    So much for Dar al-Salam….

    It seems the sociopath’s strategy for living does not scale well to entire societies.

    • IQ al Rassooli says

      Nov 30, 2014 at 6:00 am

      Hello Arthur

      The answers is as usual very simple

      Muhammadan Islam is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Hatemongering Warmongering Duplicitous Misogynist Disloyal Intolerant Racist Hypocritical Despicable Retrograde Vile & hence utterly Ungodly CULT belief system

      Sue me!

      IQ al Rassooli
      Kafir & Proud!

  15. robert wagner says

    Nov 29, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    Why does the Obama administration expect Israel to get along with the Muslims, when the Muslims can’t get along with the Muslims?

  16. IQ al Rassooli says

    Nov 30, 2014 at 6:05 am

    Hi Robert

    The answer is because Obama WANTS Israel destroyed to fulfil his dream and that of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and ALL of Islam

    No intelligent person can possibly misunderstand by now that Obama is the worst enemy of the USA and the Free World no matter what this duplicitous and deceitful man utters

    He is a closeted MUSLIM as I have repeatedly asserted even BEFORE he was elected

    Israel (as usual) must KNOW that she is ALONE (not even a single European country would help her)

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

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