In the first paragraph, we learn that there were “attacks.” In the second paragraph, we learn that the attacks were carried out by “armed herdsmen.” In the fourth paragraph, we find that the herdsmen are “mostly Muslims,” while the victims are “predominantly Christians.” Never in this story do we learn that Nigerian Church leaders have characterized the attacks by Fulani herdsmen as a war “by Islam to eliminate Christianity” in Nigeria.
“Nigeria: Dozens killed, homes burned in Plateau State attacks,” by Stephanie Busari, CNN, June 24, 2018:
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)At least 86 people have been killed in attacks in central Nigeria, police said, an incident that has the potential to exacerbate ethnic tensions in an increasingly volatile region.
The violence, thought to be carried out by armed herdsmen, flared on Saturday in Jos, the capital city of Plateau State, according to a police statement reported in local media Sunday.
“Eighty six persons all together were killed, six people injured, fifty houses burnt,” police spokesman Terna Tyopev was quoted as saying in local media reports.
Clashes between the nomadic Fulani herdsmen, who are mostly Muslims, and farmers, who are predominantly Christians, have rocked Nigeria’s Middle Belt since 2013 and are becoming more common….
Wakeup says
Interesting the BBC reported this not a mention of muslims.
Phobic-ist says
Because the stinking traitorous BBC are dhimmi scumbags.
christianblood says
Western elites, led by the US are advising Africans not fight back against islamists, to turn the other cheek, to hide it is an islamic jihad and to rather focus on implementing “democratic” and “human rights” issues like abortion and “LGBTQ” rights and Africans are buying it big time! IT IS A HUGE DISASTROUS SATANIC DECEPTION!
USA to Nigeria: “We won’t help fight Boko Haram until you accept homosexuality and birth control:
http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/article/us-wont-help-fight-boko-haram-until-nigeria-accepts-homosexuality-birth-control-bishop-says-5344466437144576
boakai ngombu says
the article was filed 17Feb15
past POTUS had this policy. it remains to be seen whether the policy will change under Pompeo
the fula and yoruba (of the north) are wishing to control OIL in Nigeria. most are slaves of the allah god of islam.
both tribes are insinuated well in many if not all of the states.
KJW says
I think Western leaders have become sociopaths. Sure, tell the southern non-Muslims to advocate for homosexual rights that will make the Islamist nuts even crazier as they want all of Nigeria to be under sharia law.
Fight back! Jesus did not mean to turn your cheek when people want kill you, besides our govt has no business talking morality, especially Hillary, a Bible quoter.
gravenimage says
Of course you are right, boakai ngombu:
“Army troops, Special Forces train Nigerian infantry for fight against Boko Haram, ISIS”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/02/23/special-forces-troops-train-nigerian-infantry-for-fight-against-boko-haram-isis/
christianblood says
boakai ngombu
Please understand it doesn’t matter who sits in the White House, US foreign policy is always the same as dictated by the Shadow Government (AKA) the “Deep State”! The US agenda in Nigeria and other African countries is still the same and it can be summarized as the good Nigerian Bishop said pointed as this::
Don’t fight back against islamists, Turn the other cheek, Hide it is an islamic jihadist attack and call it something else, Focus on implementing US-imported “democratic” and “human rights” issues like abortion and “LGBTQ” rights, etc, etc and Africans are unfortunately buying all this crap, big time!!!
In this particular jihadist attack where 88 Christian villagers were massacred in Nigeria by Fulani muslims jihadists, all the media, even the Nigerian media is not calling it an islamic jihadist massacre perpetrated by Fulani muslims but by a clash between herders and farmers in the Plateau State of Nigeria. It is called misinformation and it is a huge part of the war!
Sheryl says
As a US citizen, I can tell you, this is a lie. The United States would never put those conditions out there for reasoning of not helping. Your information is WRONG.
christianblood says
KJW posted
(..I think Western leaders have become sociopaths. Sure, tell the southern non-Muslims to advocate for homosexual rights that will make the Islamist nuts even crazier as they want all of Nigeria to be under sharia law..)
They (Western Leaders) DEMONIC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Shp4cseFSk
GM Reeve says
Thats not true. There are US soldiers there fighting them for almost four years now
gravenimage says
I notice that Christianblood has chosen to ignore my link to the US training Nigerians to fight against Boko Haram. No surprise there.
And now he is saying that we should not object to Muslims slaughtering gay people, because we might make them mad. *Ugh*.
Raven Wenner says
Jesus said the time would come when you must sell your cloak to buy a sword. The people cynically advising the Christians to “turn the other cheek” are not Christians.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
The euphemism for muslims in the UK is Asians, I guess armed herdsmen will now be the euphemism for Nigeria muslims. The BBC is a joke, a dangerous joke, paid for by tax dollars to destroy the UK and the west. We have a similar situation in Canada in fact the CBC I believe is headed up by a muslim. The enemy within paid for by our own tax dollars.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
“Nigerian not Nigeria.
somehistory says
There are moslims who work there and make decisions about reports.
bluewren says
I think it is time we stopped interfering in black lives and looked after our own countries. The blacks have been killing each other there for centuries. When you see what the blacks are doing to white farmers in /South Africa you should learn your lesson.they do not want your interference and God knows you have enough to do in Western Countries right now to save yourselves.
No Muzzies Here says
86 murdered by Muslims. But everyone knows that bacon near a mosque is the real crime here. It’s what engenders unending outrage and loud protestations of solidarity for the oppressed and downtrodden Muslims.
So, murder is OK, but bacon isn’t.
gravenimage says
Yes–insane.
Baucent says
A typical “sweep the news under the carpet” report, in that it fails to explain exactly what is going on. Muslim herdsmen (who happen to be of the same tribe as the president) continue to attack Christian farmers.
Why are they doing this? To drive them from their land and kill the infidels.
Where do these herdsmen get their arms? Boko Haram and possibly even Nigerian military.
Of the 86 killed how many were muslims? Probably none.
But don’t expect CNN to bother find out, wouldn’t want to start a islamophobic narrative.
John Gundersen says
Corrupt News Network won’t bother find out!
Elizabeth L says
The great majority of our politicians at home ( for me, Canada ) and abroad, and all the other talking heads of their ever increasing traitorous and Orwellian organizations are leading us all to Hell. Just think, while the slaughter of the innocents – for the initiated, that’s we Christians, continues unabated across the heathen world of Islam, we have our tax paid ‘representatives’ persecuting us at home. Muslims, those heathen, murderous savages who are enacting Christian genocide with impunity where and when they can, are being groomed by EU governments, particularly in the UK., to become the dominant cultural and ideological force of the future. Think back to the heyday of the USSR. Atheism was the dogma of the day. NO faith was tolerated, nor was free speech. Prisons were full of righteous protestors who wished for justice but none was to be found to combat the power of the state. Presently, as one writer put it, LGBT, Satanism, abortion, and expanding “ human rights” and all manner of depraved conduct are not only ferociously defended by all our corrupt talking heads, but even advocated by some. In the meantime, as yet another writer pointed out, bacon, that supreme insult to all those fine upstanding new immigrants from moronland is widely denounced -but murder, rape, burning of churches, genocide, FGM, acid attacks, honour killings, pedophilia, and promising to kill all we normal citizens are not! I am disgusted with the whining complaints of Muslims who currently enjoy all in the west that they do not deserve – while simultaneously ducking and dodging their culpability in the deaths of God knows how many Christians in the lands that they fled. Equally, I am repelled by the conduct of EU leaders – we would get better leadership from your average gnat.
John Gundersen says
An excellent, well put comment, Elisabeth!
SJ says
Elizabeth: I absolutely AGREE as well. BTW….DID ANYONE EVER READ THE BOOK :::They Came on Horseback.
Amazing nonfiction book about a girl (then) Black girl- I should note- that was one of the few that survived the raids that Muslims did to the black people in Africa. It is an incredible read and full of history of that area. I wish I could remember the author but can’t imagine it would hard to find.
M K Milner says
so true Elizabeth
somehistory says
That “pastor” who is mainly a politician, should hurry on over and explain to the moslim murderers that they are killing people who are just like them, only they have a different “religion.” He could explain to them how he donated a chunk of change to help build a barracks where they could go to Friday “preying meetings.”
This is wicked and these evil creatures will soon face Judgement for what they have done and are doing.
It is evil too, to say this is a “clash” as though the poor farmers are having an equal share in the “incident.’ Hoes and watering cans are no match for machetes and guns. Christians are peaceful, moslims are bloodthirsty and only learn war and hate.
Ray Jarman says
The report has missed one important point which is that the fights (killings) in Plateau State have been perpetrated by only one side. Long before the Fulani monsters began their slaughter, the so called moderate members of the cult have been killing their Christian neighbors long before 2002 when I started working in Nigeria (U. S. Embassy, Abuja) and almost never have the Christians retaliated and in fact the assaults are seldom defensed by the Christians.
“Clashes between the nomadic Fulani herdsmen, who are mostly Muslims, and farmers, who are predominantly Christians, have rocked Nigeria’s Middle Belt since 2013 and are becoming more common….” This statement is so misleading as I pointed out above, Christians in the Plateau State, especially in Jos, have been occurring ever since the horde of slaughtering animals forced their way into the Sub-Saharan Africa nations. I would like to know where Muhammadu Buhari is hiding or maybe directing the attacks. The problem with muslims in Nigeria could be eradicated in just a few months if the Buhari government had the will.
Sharyati says
How would Buhari do it against his own Ummah Ray?? Inconceivable
Lydia Church says
They will do anything to whitewash what these evil muslims do on a daily basis.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer, it is good to always verify the stories passed to you by mithraist christians from Nigeria. It is mithraist christians who carry out mass killings of Fulani herdmen, raping their beautiful ladies with hard foreskins and taking away their cows. when Fulanis carry out reprisal attacks, vicious Christian Association of Nigeria go on rampage with propagandas that the Government under Buhari who is even a city fulani, not nomadic, is siding his Fulan tribe to kill Christians, which he is not even aware. Note:places like plateau , Benue and Southern Nigeria are forest areas. Fulanis normally stay in the forest with their animals, while the farmers who are both muslims (including settled Fulanis) and Christians stay in the cities and villages. The misunderstanding arises from allegations that Fulanis use their animals to destroy crops on farmlands near the forest where Fulanis stay with animals. The Christians among the farmers ,instead of reporting the matter to the security agents or file cases before the courts, take the law into their hands and killed the Fulanis. Those Fulanis who escaped go into hiding and plan reprisal attacks. This is exactly what have been happening throughout Nigeria.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Mr Spencer, it is good to always verify the stories passed to you by mithraist (sic) christians from Nigeria.
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This story is from CNN, which is a reputable source, and it quotes official police spokesmen. CNN is neither Nigerian nor Christian.
No surprise the semi-literate Ibrahim itace muhammed missed this–or pretended to.
More:
It is mithraist christians who carry out mass killings of Fulani herdmen, raping their beautiful ladies with hard foreskins and taking away their cows.
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Of course–as noted here umpteen times–uncircumcised foreskins are not “hard”. The rest of this is no more accurate.
More:
when Fulanis carry out reprisal attacks, vicious Christian Association of Nigeria go on rampage with propagandas
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Interesting phrasing, no? First, the claim that Muslim attacks are “reprisals”. For instance, he has claimed that Trump trying to restrict Jihadists from flooding into the US is “genocide” against Muslims–and that Muslims hence have the right to slaughter Americans.
Then, the only “rampage” he can cite is Christians daring to point out Muslim violence. After all, under Shari’ah the victims of Islam are not allowed to do so much as complain.
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that the Government under Buhari who is even a city fulani, not nomadic, is siding his Fulan tribe to kill Christians, which he is not even aware.
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Muslims side with other Muslims to murder Christians all the time. Certainly, Buhari has done next to nothing to prevent Muslim violence against Christians. But then, why would he?
More:
Note:places like plateau , Benue and Southern Nigeria are forest areas. Fulanis normally stay in the forest with their animals, while the farmers who are both muslims (including settled Fulanis) and Christians stay in the cities and villages. The misunderstanding arises from allegations that Fulanis use their animals to destroy crops on farmlands near the forest where Fulanis stay with animals. The Christians among the farmers ,instead of reporting the matter to the security agents or file cases before the courts, take the law into their hands and killed the Fulanis. Those Fulanis who escaped go into hiding and plan reprisal attacks. This is exactly what have been happening throughout Nigeria.
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Actually, Muslims have been slaughtering Christians in Nigeria for years. Few Christians survive in northern Nigeria, and Muslims there have imposed Shari’ah law in most of the northern states. They are now attacking Christians and animists in the south.
“Who will protect Nigeria’s northern Christians?”
Every week, there are more massacres, but nobody seems to mind — not even their own government
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/who-will-protect-nigerias-northern-christians/
Biafran Christians tried to cede from Nigeria in the 1960s to avoid just this kind of violence. Muslims waged a nonstop Jihad against the Biafrans until they stopped trying to escape.
This continues to this day. Muslims regularly kidnap, rape, and slaughter Christians–and, moreover, Ibrahim itace muhammed himself affirms that Muslims have the right to do this to any Infidels who do not submit to Islam.
Steve's nephew says
If the remaining Christians want to survive, they better organize themselves into a trained and well armed militia. That is their only chance. The enemy, the Muslims, are engaged in a war against the Christians. If the Christians don’t see the conflict as a war, they will probably all be killed. It is sad. The Muslims’ aggression is certainly from Satin rather than from God, but that is how it is.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
I would advise them to look up Orde Wingate and the instruction he gave to the Haganah, which in time became the IDF.
They could also look up the ‘Gideon Force’ that he created in Ethiopia.
The military *and* police, in Nigeria, are essentially infiltrated and *controlled* and manned by MUSLIMS.
Therefore, they do diddly-squat to protect Christians – who are attacked, in their villages, during the night, by the damn mohammedans (‘clashes between’, my foot: 3/4 of the time, it is heavily-armed Muslim raiders butchering unarmed men, women and children who have been taken by surprise, it isn’t even that the Christians are fighting back in self-defence, they’re not able to fight *at all*; these so-called ‘Fulani herdsmen’ are gunning down *elderly people* and kids in the middle of the night).
So the Christians, if they intend to survive, have to get organised, to keep watch, to defend their crops and livestock that are being either destroyed or stolen by the vicious, vile, thieving mohammedans.
In the long run, I can see no way for Nigerian Christians to survive, short of a division of Nigeria into North – Muslim – and South – NON-MUSLIM… and *every* Muslim in the south should be driven out, and every mosque razed, and the Christians in the north are going to have to leave, go to the south, to swell the numbers and consolidate. Then: draw a line between, fortify it, patrol it ceaselessly, and hammer flat any Mohammedan who crosses the line. And go talk to Israel about how to create an effective army; again, see the IDF. Train *all* the youngsters.
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Defending yourself against an enemy that intends to enslave you, rape your children, rob you blind, and eventually, mass-murder you, for fun and profit, is completely moral. To submit to such viciousness – rather than resisting it – is to *enable* it; to condemn future generations to the misery of near-slave dhimmi status, or to total annihilation, or worse, to life as *muslims*, as thralls of one of the most evil systems that humanity has ever devised for the increasing of human misery.
UNCLE VLADDI says
The leftist Ottawa Citizen didn’t even go that far, only saying “Some attacks broke out between some herdsmen and some farmers for some reason.”
bill strickland says
how do common herdsmen who are scratching out a bare living,,,manage to take off work and band together to do battle? Who feeds them? How did they manage to purchase weapons and ammo in a gun free zone,,,,something stinks in the wood pile here,,,,