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Nigeria: Muslims murder over 800 Christians, injure over 800 more, destroy over 100 churches

Oct 28, 2016 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Will the Islamophobia never end?

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“Nigerian Middle Belt state: 800+ Christians killed, 800+ injured, 100+ churches destroyed,” World Watch Monitor, October 26, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Nigeria’s Middle Belt is the scene of ever-continuing attacks on Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, including this past week where attacks have occurred in both Kaduna and Benue states. Now a recent report about another state in the Middle Belt, Nasarawa, shows that it too has been the scene of serious violence against Christians. In the period January 2013–May 2016, 826 Christians were killed and 878 injured. There were 102 churches destroyed or damaged.

Beside these, 787 houses were destroyed, as well as nine shops, and 32 motorised vehicles. Many families were completely deprived of their livelihoods. Around 21,000 Christians were reported as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in different camps inside and outside Nasarawa. Due to the difficult security situation, the authors of the in-depth fact-finding report are convinced that they were only able to report part of what really happened.

Their Nigeria Conflict and Security Analysis Network (NCSAN) report shows that Nasarawa has been engulfed in various forms of conflict since its creation in 1996. Many researchers, policy makers and government officials have explained the conflict in terms of politics, ethnicity and economic contestation over land and resources. In most cases, the religious component of the conflict has been completely downplayed, marginalised, excluded or neglected.

However, field research conducted by NCSAN on the conflicts which occurred from 2013 to 2016 reveals that Christians have been specifically targeted. Emerging evidence suggests there is a strategic agenda to target and persecute ethnic groups that are predominantly Christian.

The targeting of Christians appears to be carried out by the Hausa-Fulani herdsmen and by deliberate government policies to marginalise Christians and Christian communities. This is evident in political power-sharing and domination through traditional rulership. Islamic identity tends to give Muslims undue advantage over the affairs of the state. Indeed, state government policies are crafted to favour Islam and Muslims. The ongoing persecution of Christians in Nasarawa, like many other places in northern Nigeria, has been ignored….

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  1. Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    Where is the Main Stream Media.

    Why do they hide the Truth?

    Where is the intellectual courage?

    Where is the secular leadership?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 2:30 pm

      Malcolm (SouthAfria) wrote:

      Where is the Main Stream Media.

      Why do they hide the Truth?
      ………………………….

      A quick Google brought up stories about Boko Haram by the BBC, Fox News, the New York Times, the Guardian, ABC News, CNN, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, and The Telegraph.

      Is any of this mainstream enough for you?

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 28, 2016 at 2:35 pm

        No! Troll.

        • Angemon says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 3:19 pm

          Yes, you are.

        • Champ says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 3:36 pm

          “Troll”

          Projection alert!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 3:49 pm

          How am I a “troll” for pointing out that stories about Boko Haram have indeed been covered by high-profile news sources?

          And in what possible way could BBC, Fox News, the New York Times, the Guardian, ABC News, CNN, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, and The Telegraph *not* be considered the mainstream media?

          If these are not mainstream sources, then what are?

          It is certainly true that the MSM does not do enough to expose the threat of Islam–I have said so many times myself.

          But I have noticed that some declare the there is no coverage of Jihad at all by mainstream sources–sometimes even on stories that were, in fact, reported by the MSM.

          This does nothing to support the fight against Jihad, and just looks silly.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 3:49 pm

          Thank you, Angemon and Champ.

        • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 5:18 pm

          gravenimage says:A quick Google

          You are quite right, you have to google it, there is this deplorable thought that the M S M is only in the U S or the UK. Now That is not intelligent. Or is it?

          You make Africans laugh.

        • Champ says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 5:22 pm

          Now “Malcolm” speaks for all Africans? …comedy gold! 😀

        • Douglas says

          Oct 28, 2016 at 5:39 pm

          I am with Malcolm and having a good laugh.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 29, 2016 at 12:29 am

          OK–another quick search reveals stories by Reuters, Agence France‑Presse (AFP), the Jerusalem Post, and South Africa’s largest newspaper, The Daily Sun, on Boko Haram.

          None of these are American or British news sources, since–oddly–Malcolm does not consider these to be mainstream.

          I’m sure I can find more, if Malcolm for whatever reason decides that these are not mainstream, either.

      • Champ says

        Oct 28, 2016 at 3:37 pm

        Brava, Graven!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 29, 2016 at 12:35 am

          🙂

      • Baucent says

        Oct 29, 2016 at 6:36 am

        This muslim group the Fulani herdsmen are seperate from Boko Haram, though they may receive weapons from them. So there are really two muslim groups attacking Christians in Northern Nigeria. I don’t think this Herdsmen story has been covered as much as BH. Of course if it were Christians killing muslims then it would be front page every week at the BBC and the Guardian.

    • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 5:28 pm

      Champ says
      October 28, 2016 at 5:22 pm

      Now “Malcolm” speaks for all Africans? …comedy gold!

      Africans= plural where do you see “all.”

      Wow. Hillary loves the uneducated followers and cheer leaders. What a second good laugh.

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 28, 2016 at 6:20 pm

        I certainly do nor blame all secular Americans for supplying the Weapons to Gulf States who in-turn supply Islamic terrorist. Having said that, not all Muslims are Islamic terrorists.

        The issues are more complex. Former president Clinton gets a one million dollar birthday gift from Qatar. Arms sales soar to that country by 1400%.

        To blame Muslims only, is to ignore the real issues that: this would not happen if the secular West was not corrupt.

        https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

        http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 29, 2016 at 12:44 am

          Malcolm (SouthAfria) wrote:

          To blame Muslims only, is to ignore the real issues that: this would not happen if the secular West was not corrupt.
          …………………………

          My God, what crap. Islam has been violently targeting Christians for 1400 years now. This is not something Westerners do.

          Moreover, the West has little presence in Nigeria at all.

          The Jihad there is at the state that it is because Muslims are now 50% of the population, and are making the final push for dominance. None of this has anything to do with the West at all.

          The fact is that Muslims have been targeting Christians, animists, and other Infidels in Africa for centuries–since long before the modern West ever existed.

          How can Malcolm have missed that?

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 29, 2016 at 1:21 am

        You conflate issues, deflect issues intentionally.

        Please do not comment on my post Troll,

        Have your say elsewhere on the post.

        I wish to treat you and your friends,with dignity, however.you leave me with little choice.

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 29, 2016 at 6:37 am

        @gravenimage: Secular Westerners arm Islamist, they ignore the plight of Christians in those Lands not to mention the human rights abuse.

        Get a life troll. You have no sense of compassion or fairness despite the evidence around you.

        Thousands of brave Americans died in Iraq, you left, you supported terrorist, you are back.

        What is wrong with your government destabilize the world at the expense of innocent lives.

        You should be ashamed of yourself.

    • Kelly says

      Oct 29, 2016 at 12:30 am

      Malcolm,
      I heard about a priest there (sorry, I don’t remember his name) who dreamt he had a sword to fight boko haram and it became a rosary in his hand.
      Have you heard of this?

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 29, 2016 at 1:12 am

        Yes you are right, he urges all people to say the rosary each day. A practice my family has always done.

        Secularist have no idea how powerful this is, Lepanto for one, Christ The King.

        • Kay says

          Oct 29, 2016 at 1:41 am

          http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/the-battle-that-saved-the-christian-west

          Lepanto: God victorious through Christians against Mohammeden barbarity.

  2. gravenimage says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Nigeria: Muslims murder over 800 Christians, injure over 800 more, destroy over 100 churches
    …………………

    *Horrible*. This is what a society looks like once it has reached 50% Muslim, and they make their final bloody push for full dominance.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Oct 29, 2016 at 5:52 am

      Yes.

      In Nigeria as a whole, Muslims have a bare majority: a little over half. The other half of the population is mostly Christian, with some others (following traditional beliefs).

      The southern third of Nigeria is overwhelmingly Christian, though Muslims are ‘migrating’ into it, building mosques, establishing a foothold, pushing for dominance.

      In the middle third – I think where events reported in the story are happening – the numbers are about even. Therefore the Muslims are becoming ever more aggressive.

      In the northern third the Muslims have a large majority. And, whereas, in the southern third of the country, the Muslims pose as a vulnerable minority, in the northern third, where they dominate, they are attacking ceaselessly. It isn’t just Boko Haram, it’s other Muslims as well.

      Also, Muslims have dominated the military and government ever since Nigeria gained independence from Britain.

      it would have been much better for non-Muslim Nigerians, had the country been divided at independence: with ALL Muslims *required* to leave the southern half, and all Non-Muslims cutting their losses, consolidating, and moving to the south… and then… fortifying their northern border and grimly preparing to defend it tooth and nail, into the foreseeable furture.

      • Kay says

        Oct 29, 2016 at 10:20 am

        Yes, how did the world become seemingly blind to the threat of Islam when it was so clear a few hundred years earlier?

        • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

          Oct 29, 2016 at 2:42 pm

          Kay, Kelly,Douglas, you are truly good,

  3. Charli Main says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    Black lives don’t matter to the Muslim hugging, Muslim arse kissing brigade when the black lives, happen to be Christian.

  4. Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    Where are the Main Stream Media?

    A Thousand Churches Destroyed By Islam in Nigeria by Raymond Ibrahim

    • Davegreybeard says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 3:43 pm

      @Malcolm
      “Where are the Main Stream Media?”

      The “Main Stream Media” are allies of the Islamists and tyrants – anyone who is paying attention and has any common sense knows this.

      A much better question is where are the Main Stream Christians?

      • jiohn spielman says

        Oct 28, 2016 at 3:50 pm

        being silenced and intimated by the western govt like the USA under the obamantion who sits in the Oval office

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 28, 2016 at 4:22 pm

        @Davegreybeard: where are the Main Stream Christians?

        Silenced by the MSM for years, with the help of corrupt secular governments.

        F B I, reopens the the Hillary server investigations.

        These politicians and their supports are a joke a second, that includes the MSM.

        • Kelly says

          Oct 29, 2016 at 12:36 am

          Yes, the media has betrayed us.

          And many pass on the partial information and misinformation they have learned. I was just speaking with a college friend who is “learning” about social justice issues. I told her that Christians are the most persecuted group worldwide. When she thought about it, she knew about the mid-east– but had never heard of persecution in Africa or Asia.

  5. Stephanie says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    9:30 ‘… may Allah destroy them’ 8:17

    http://quran.al-islam.com/Page.aspx?pageid=221&BookID=15&SuraNum=9&AyaNum=29#9-29

    • Stephanie says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 3:43 pm

      http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=8&from_verse=17&to_verse=17&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_yusufali=1&show_shakir=1&show_pickthal=1

    • Stephanie says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 3:45 pm

      9:30 http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=9&from_verse=30&to_verse=30&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_shakir=1

  6. Johan Elzinga says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    I must be living on a different planet – No news about this has been published in our mainstream media. We only have wimps and idiots here ruling the country, no real journalists are working here – because this would imply that we would get real news. I feel deeply ashamed of my own country, we are led by a complete clown, mr. Rutte, otherwise known as Pinokkio because his nose grows longer each time he lies to us (again). We have mr Wilders of the PVV who is completely shunned by all other party leaders although he holds more than 30% of the votes in the opinion polls. He is shunned because he is the only politician who dares to criticize islam, the EU and the mass immigration. For a quote on this immigration he now has to stand trial. Thus far about the freedom of expression that is completely lacking in this country. It will not be long before we are burning witches again. Mark my words.
    One of our left wing politicians, leading the socialist party, declared that the next 10 years will be the years for “people of african origin” in the Netherlands. I sincerely hope not. How long before africans will start to burn down the few churches that are left in the Netherlands? Years? Months?

  7. Johan Elzinga says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    NB sorry I forgot to mention, for the above comment, I am living in the Netherlands. I really get the feeling press are worse here than they are in the US.

    • Kay says

      Oct 29, 2016 at 1:13 am

      It may be. To my knowledge, we are simply shamed into not speaking up about Islam. It is not a crime.

  8. Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    Trump is right “Drain the Swamp.”

    Hillary took money from those who support Terrorism around the world. The MSM hating Christians are Silent.

    https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774
    https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5469
    https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1828

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 29, 2016 at 12:49 am

      That story was covered by–among others–the Washington Times:

      “Clinton camp bemoans private email server: ‘#$%*-ing insane’”

      http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/27/john-podesta-says-hillary-clinton-private-email-se/

  9. DHazard says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 5:30 pm

    Christians in Africa have also been guilty of the mass killing of Muslims.

    However, if you do a google search you will find many, many more reports of Christians killing Muslims than vice versa. Almost none of the mainstream reporting sources, like Reuters, ever have anything to say when Muslims are the killers. In general it seems they have decided to pretty much ignore slaughter in sub-Saharan Africa. If they did then they would be accused of racism and Islamophobia and, as readers here know, members of the leftist media/political idiocracy care more about their public image than they do about human lives.

    • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 5:43 pm

      When and where.

  10. Sam says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    Is it not a genocide worth of being reported in all newspapers all over the world?

    Humanity sucks! Islam more!

  11. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Oct 29, 2016 at 3:21 am

    In India they can blame it on the “Hindoos”. In Nigeria, that is tough.

  12. mortimer says

    Oct 29, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    It’s GENOCIDE committed by the Religion of Peace.

    The mainstream media don’t report Islamic genocides.

  13. Eric Jones says

    Oct 29, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    The American Christian church for the most part pays no attention to the slaughter of Christians around the world. Not a word from pastors or televangelist. They are all over you if you buy a pottery ticket or have a beer. They major in minors.

    Eric

    • Eric Jones says

      Oct 29, 2016 at 11:21 pm

      PS meant lottery ticket. Thanks.

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