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Nigeria: Islamic State bombs mosque where imam preached peaceful coexistence

Jul 6, 2015 8:05 am By Robert Spencer

Sani YahayaWhy we don’t see more genuine Islamic reformers. “Bombs at Mosque, Restaurant in Central Nigerian City Kill 44,” by Ahmed Mohammed, Associated Press, July 6, 2015:

Two bombs blamed on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, killing 44 people, officials said Monday.

Sixty-seven other people were wounded in the attacks Sunday night and were being treated at hospitals, said National Emergency Management Agency coordinator Abdussalam Mohammed.

The explosion at the Yantaya Mosque came as leading cleric Sani Yahaya of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia organization, which preaches peaceful co-existence of all religions, was addressing a crowd during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to survivors who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

Another bomb exploded at Shagalinku, a restaurant patronized by state governors and other elite politicians seeking specialties from Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north.

Jos is a hotspot for violent religious confrontations, located in the center of the country where Nigeria’s majority Muslim north and mainly Christian south collide. The city has been targeted in the past by bomb blasts claimed by Boko Haram extremists that have killed hundreds of people.

Sunday’s attacks are the latest in a string blamed on Boko Haram that have killed more than 200 people over the past week in northeast Nigeria….

Boko Haram became the Islamic State group’s West Africa franchise earlier this year.

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Filed Under: Boko Haram, Featured, Islamic reform, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), mosques, Muslim clerics, Nigeria Tagged With: Sani Yahaya


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  1. Angemon says

    Jul 6, 2015 at 8:37 am

    http://i0.wp.com/steadfastlutherans.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/realistic_coexist1.jpg

    • cs says

      Jul 6, 2015 at 10:40 am

      thanks for the link, excellent, the only mistake is when they say pagan is statistically insignificant, well Hinduism is a big force, in numbers and in politics if they want it to be.

  2. Thomas says

    Jul 6, 2015 at 9:32 am

    This will encourage Muslims who believe in peace to be silent because peaceful Muslims do not want to be killed. Just like the NY Times, NBC, CBS, ABC, and the rest of the main stream media have adopted sharia law.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 6, 2015 at 9:44 am

      A Muslim who does not conduct jihad or support jihad is called a munafiq. The munafiqs should be killed and Allah will reward the killer.

      Muslims who disagree with jihad may be ‘moderate’ Muslims, but they are only MODERATELY Islamic. The ‘all-out’ Muslims have a duty to murder them for being lukewarm.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jul 6, 2015 at 10:06 am

        C’est magnifique, non?

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 6, 2015 at 2:12 pm

          I have yet to see sufficient proof of the existence of these Moderate Muslims By Another Name Smell Just as Sweet. Here, the permutation is the Frightened Muslim — and the proof of his Moderation (apparently assumed by mortimer and Robert Spencer, if not many others in the Counter-Jihad) is that other Muslims want to kill him. Given the mountain of data we have about Muslims and their Islam (including taqiyya, the False Moderate, the psychosis of Islamic societies & culture), it seems a reckless assumption to make.

          “Nigeria: Islamic State bombs mosque where imam preached peaceful coexistence

          Why we don’t see more genuine Islamic reformers.”

          Spencer is assuming this imam was a genuine reformer, just because psychotic Muslims with their fanatically deranged (albeit entirely normative) Islamic standard of takfir & munafiq deemed it licit to kill him.

          Sure, on a micro scale of individual speculation, such an assumption may be tenable; but it could well be disastrous to translate such an assumption into policy on a macro scale — not appreciably less disastrous than the kind of insanely idealistic rose-colored policy the West is already pursuing.l

        • Angemon says

          Jul 6, 2015 at 6:25 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          “Spencer is assuming this imam was a genuine reformer”

          No, you’re assuming that Spencer is assuming that. And given your record on assuming what Spencer is assuming, I’m going to guess you’re wrong.

        • cs says

          Jul 6, 2015 at 2:13 pm

          Oui, certament.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 6, 2015 at 9:43 am

    The explosion at the Yantaya Mosque came as leading cleric Sani Yahaya of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia organization, which preaches peaceful co-existence of all religions…

    There is no tolerance for apostasy, and by preaching tolerance in Islam that is exactly what Imam Yahaya is preeaching; he is an apostate and must die for his crime. If nothing else, Islam is definitive and symmetrical.

    The mainstream media may want to consider making a huge exception and actually report on this one. The point would be that the “radicals” who blew up the Yantaya Mosque are the equivalent of Tea Party activists, and that Jama’atu Izalatul is the equivalent of RINOs, who are moderates willing to negotiate.

    It’d be confusing for the Joe Sixpacks out here in Overfly Country, but in a sense this would help elect Hillary, who first thing would issue an executive order making it a felony crime to criticize a religion, any religion, and at the same time make Reince Priebus and the gang look like multiculturalists. Allahu to you, babee.

  4. mortimer says

    Jul 6, 2015 at 11:17 am

    Does Hillary know or care that Sharia law forbids a woman to rule a country?

  5. miriamrove says

    Jul 6, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    The so called religion of peace…..m

  6. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jul 6, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Credit to Cleric Sani Yahaya and his congregation for behaving like human beings and trying to do the right thing in these violent, difficult times and places. Forty four dead is quite a loss of life so commiserations are due.

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