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Nigeria: Muslims murder 48 Christians, destroy 249 homes in 13 Christian villages

Oct 26, 2017 2:33 pm By Robert Spencer

Will the Islamophobia never end? Will Pope Francis (pbuh) be traveling soon to Plateau state in order to explain to these Muslims that they’re misunderstanding their Religion of Peace?

“Christians Recount Terror of Herdsmen’s Nine-Day Massacre in Plateau State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, October 25, 2017:

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The church elder in Plateau state, Nigeria saw the Muslim Fulani herdsmen storm into his village at 11 p.m. the night of Oct. 13, shooting in all directions.

“Every one of us ran to save his life,” Dauda Samuel Kadiya, 38, of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Zanwrua, told Morning Star News. “I was shot at, but the bullet only bruised my hand. You can see the wound yourself.”

The assailants destroyed eight houses in the attack, one of several assaults in Plateau state that went on uninterrupted from Oct. 8 to Oct. 17, killing 48 Christians, survivors said.

“All Christians in villages around here have been displaced, and worship buildings have been abandoned,” Kadiya said. “Some of the church buildings were destroyed by the attackers.”

In Zanwrua village, 62-year-old Agado Aura recounted how he and his wife narrowly escaped death.

“Myself and my wife were still sitting in front of my house chatting at about 11 p.m. in front of my house when the attackers came,” Aura, a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Tafigana but a resident of Zanwrua, told Morning Star News. “We could not go to bed early, because the previous night a village near ours, Tafigana, was attacked by the herdsmen. Suddenly, we heard gunshots from the eastern part of the village. We ran into some of the nearby rocks close to my house and hid there.”

The armed herdsmen came to his house and started shooting, he said.

“They broke the doors to our rooms and then set fire on my house,” Aura said. “Having set fire on my house, they went to the next house and did the same. They continued burning houses until they were done, before they left. I was watching all they were doing from my hidden spot behind those rocks you see over there.”

Area Christian leaders told Morning Star News how armed herdsmen, apparently accompanied by terrorists from Islamic extremist groups, attacked communities just a few kilometers from a Nigerian army facility, the Rukuba Military Cantonment outside Jos, for nine days.

Moses Tsohu, a Zanwrua village leader and ECWA member, lamented that the attacks were carried out in spite of the presence of soldiers stationed at check points on the Jos-Miango Highway.

“In the past few weeks, our people have been attacked by Muslim Fulani herdsmen who are collaborating with armed terrorists to invade our communities,” Tsohu told Morning Star News. “These attacks are being carried out daily. Every blessed day we witness the invasion, killing of our people, and the destruction of their houses.”

The attacks on 13 Christian communities in the north-central state also wounded nine people and ruined 249 homes, survivors said. Herdsmen began the assaults on Oct. 8 on Nkie Dongwro village, where one Christian was killed and another wounded….

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  1. Pet Charles says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 2:46 pm

    Why are the Muslims armed and the Christians unarmed?

    • mortimer says

      Oct 26, 2017 at 5:53 pm

      Because Pope Francis told the congregation of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Tafigana that Islam is a religion of peace.

      • John Forbes says

        Oct 27, 2017 at 11:11 pm

        This POPE needs to be replaced ! He is a part of the ISSUE if he STATES that the GREAT LIES : ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE & VIOLENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM are not lies & are TRUE !

  2. Jaladhi says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 2:48 pm

    Where is Pope on this persecution murder of Christians?

    • JawsV says

      Oct 26, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      He’s busy defending Islam.

      • mortimer says

        Oct 26, 2017 at 5:56 pm

        Someone should tell Pope Frank to double the guard at his own parish on Christmas. Jihadists love to attack Christians at major holidays like Christmas, Good Friday and Easter.

        These poor Christians on the front line of jihad cannot afford weapons to defend themselves at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Tafigana.

        But St.Peter’s in Rome will have dozens of under cover armed police all the time.

    • Westman says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 12:20 am

      Apparently the US Government has had enough of ME Christian persecution and the UN’s biased humanitarian aid with US money. About time. Wait for the screams of the liberals, CAIR, and the IOC – a welcome, ineffectual sound.

      http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/10/26/pence-u-s-direct-humanitarian-programs-middle-east-no-u-n-funding/

    • Bob says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 9:24 am

      Not much noise about it from the useless UN, either!

  3. Georg says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    Reminds me of one of the nicest people I’ve ever met whose life was upended by Islamic maniacs in Sudan who razed his village, killed his parents, and sent him onto a hellish nine year journey through the bush and concentration camps.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 9:37 pm

      Terrible–this happened to tens of thousands of “Lost Boys”–Christians and animists in Sudan. And the “Lost Girls”–rarely even spoken of–became sex slaves or were forcibly “married” to Muslim rapists.

  4. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    Religion of peace though.

    • john spielman says

      Oct 26, 2017 at 4:24 pm

      religion of PIECE( s)

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 3:16 pm

    Killed BECAUSE THEY WERE CHRISTIAN

    “My family was targeted by Boko Haram because we are Christians. My dad was a pastor. … My dad refused to deny his faith and rebuilt his church. That is why they killed him – because he is a Christian.”

    “For Peace” at Liberty GB
    https://libertygb.org.uk/news/peace

    • Susan Hill says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 3:38 am

      God comfort and protect you, all my brothers and sisters in Christ!

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    This is yet another reminder and example of wisdom of the Christian man , Roger Williams, who was the founder of America’s State of Rhode Island. For he wisely wrote “That religion cannot be true which need instruments of violence to uphold it.”

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 9:55 pm

      Yes–a great quote.

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    “These attacks are being carried out daily.”

    If this will go on much longer, all remaining Christians in Nigeria will not survive. Since only they are who suffer and, regardless of what such wise elders as Pope Francis would like us to believe, there are no reciprocal rides of “Islamophobes” pursuing vengeance against Muslim communities, simple arithmetic is not on Christians’ side. Nigeria – one of many failed states on the continent of Africa. One would think that colonialism was bad: but what they have now when they are self-governed and “free”?

  8. Sherry says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    It seems apparent that I am in the company of many who are questioning the Pope !! Don’t understand him or his teachings. Seems contrary to how a Christian leader should be conducting himself. I feel confident that the former Pope wouldn’t agree with him. Such a disappointment and sense of betrayal coming from Francis !!

    • Leon Degney says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 5:19 am

      Sherry, this *person* is the epitome of a ratbag and should be removed forthwith. He is dangerous in the extreme.

  9. utis says

    Oct 26, 2017 at 7:41 pm

    When the shepherd sacrifices some sheep to stave off the wolves, he’s gonna wind up with an ever-increasing flock of wolves. Even a non-rancher knows that.
    And when is he going to start canonizing some of these African martyrs? They deserve it as a pitiful gesture at least, from a shepherd who doesn’t know how die defending his sheep.

  10. anti jihad says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 2:19 am

    India, 5 Isis members surrendered. One called Taliban Hamsa .He has another name biriyani hamsa. He posted lot of biriyani making videos in YouTube to attract ladies from Philippines , then recruited. He convinced ladies that he is the Emir of Bahrain unit( Self proclaimed Sultan). And offered marriage and job for them as princess. His wife understood this and complained police . Then police arrested him

    • anti jihad says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 2:20 am

      google ‘ISIS Is True Islam’, Says Taliban Hamsa, Kerala Police’s Key Catch

  11. Ruth Crittenden says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 2:48 am

    Why cannot this be stopped and these people be re-educated that thei beif is false and that they have been brainwashed.
    If we have more and more in our Country it can happen here us well.

    Why is our government appeasing them.

    It does not make sense.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 11:13 pm

      I don’t think you can reeducate pious Muslims–they are in the ascendancy in Nigeria.

  12. Tom Evans says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 4:32 am

    The ignorance of the leaders of the western world is astonishing. I can think of no other explanation other than that there appears to be a sort of spiritual blindness on them all.

    • Bob says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 9:34 am

      And that, Tom, includes the useless muslim-dominated UN!

  13. scherado says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 4:34 am

    Will the Islamophobia never end?

    This might be the first time I’ve seen the word outside quotes.

    I REST MY CASE.

    • scherado says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 4:36 am

      ….outside quotes inside the text of an article or post by Robert Spencer; THE FIRST APPEARANCE OUTSIDE–in my observation–WAS HE TITLE OF THE BOOK I SAID I WOULD NEVER BUY.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 11:17 pm

      This is intended ironically.

  14. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 7:17 am

    My heart aches that so many Christians in so many places around the world are being murdered for their faith in Jesus Christ while their governments do nothing about it. I pray God’s holy justice be done. RIP brave Christian martyrs.

  15. Charlie says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 7:44 am

    Anywhere in the world there are moslems; there is trouble.

  16. Infidel says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 9:21 am

    Tapan Ghosh’s EPIC SPEECH at the UK Parliament…MUST C

    Please watch the Videos (below) of Tapan Ji’s Bold Keynote Speech in the UK Parliament that exposed the Uncomfortable Truths about Islam and has made International Headlines.

    His Heroic Speech has Won the Hearts of Millions in Britain and left the UK Pakistani/Islamist Lobby & British Leftist Media shell-shocked.

    • Infidel says

      Oct 27, 2017 at 9:22 am

      “The Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed…. we tolerated it.
      Our daughters are being kidnapped …. we have been tolerating it.
      Our land is being stolen from underneath our feet…. when is it enough?”

      • Infidel says

        Oct 27, 2017 at 9:23 am

        Tommy Robinson: “Last week, well-known Indian activist Tapan Ghosh gave a speech in the Houses of Parliament. He told the truth about Islam and the Qur’an. This is the first time I’ve ever heard the truth being told in our own Parliament!”

        • Bob says

          Oct 27, 2017 at 9:32 am

          But, Tommy, will our head-in-sand, PC-bound politicos actually DO anything about it?? Very doubtful!

  17. tedh754 says

    Oct 27, 2017 at 10:51 am

    Pope Francis (fhita) probably wants the villagers to turn the other cheek. Which is difficult if they are both blown off.

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