Time for another news report about the dangers of “Islamophobia,” i.e., of reporting about incidents such as this one.
“Hundreds of Christians dead as violence rocks Nigeria,” The Christian Messenger, March 26, 2019:
LAST Monday, terrorist group Boko Haram attacked the town of Michika in the Nigerian state of Adamawa. While the precise death toll of that incident is unknown, “scores” of casualties have been reported, according to the Washington Examiner. This attack is only one of many recent ones in Nigeria from either Boko Haram or militant Fulani herdsmen, and Christians are often the targets.
“Kaduna state, part of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, has experienced a significant increase in attacks since 2019, but unfortunately they are far from the only state suffering such events,” says International Christian Concern (ICC). “It has been reported that at least 70 Christians have been killed during a 10-week span at the beginning of 2019 across the other Middle Belt states.
What Happened
Monday’s attack started at 7:30 p.m. and continued for several hours. Witnesses say the terrorists stole seven vehicles and started shooting in the streets. Government troops did intervene and, according to a press statement, effectively routed the terrorists. Father Peter John Wumbadi, head of St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Michika, says that despite military intervention, the city was in chaos. Hearing bombs and gunfire, he took six teenage students and left the city, taking refuge 50 miles away in the parish at the city of Kalaa. On their way out, they saw burning buildings and people fleeing into the bush. Wumbadi said, “There was an onslaught today.”Escalating Violence in Nigeria
This is only the latest in a string of reports of violence in Nigeria. ICC says that since February 10, a minimum of 270 people have been killed in Kaduna state alone. Nine Christians died in an attack on Saturday, March 16, in Nandu village in Kaduna. Providence reports that starting on Sunday, March 10, at least 120 Christians, including many women and children, were killed by hundreds of Fulani herdsmen. These killings were believed to have been a response to unfounded claims from Kaduna’s governor that on February 11, 66 Fulani herders were murdered by their enemies. Local Christian leaders believe the governor’s claim was a ploy to postpone the February 16 presidential election.Baptist Press reports that Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected as president on February 26, and the report notes that Buhari did not do well in Christian communities, but was able to win because of his support among Muslim populations. Many believe that the government’s response to the violence has been biased and inadequate. According to Baptist Press the ICC says, “There have been no major attempts by the Nigerian government to hold the Fulani accountable or disarm them. The re-election of President Buhari ensures that the government will remain dormant as the perpetrators continue to inflict suffering in Nigeria.”…
Niemoller says
Where’s the press? Where is that piece of crap Islamist guy from Iran on Twitter who calls himself a human rights advocate but got mad and denounced “whataboutism” when someone dared to mention the jihad mass murders of Christians in Africa that dwarfed the New Zealand mosque terror attack that occurred the same week? Where is Jussie Smollet, so anxious to pursue justice in the “movement”? Where are the big names in Hollywood? Where is the little bigot Ilhan Omar? Is she celebrating? Where is the execrable AOC? Is she too busy wandering around exempt from borders because of her native land privilege?
CRUSADER says
Execrable.
What an apt word!
execration (ĕkˌsĭ-krāˈshən)►
n. The act of cursing.
n. A curse.
n. Something that is cursed or loathed.
CRUSADER says
Always interesting to go back to definitions:
The group’s name has always been Jamā’atu Ahli is-Sunnah lid-Da’wati wal-Jihād (جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد), meaning “Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawa and Jihad”.
The name “Boko Haram” is usually translated as “Western education is forbidden”. Haram is from the Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām, “forbidden”); and the Hausa word boko (the first vowel is long, the second pronounced in a low tone), meaning “fake”, which is used to refer to secular Western education.
Boko Haram was founded upon the principles of the Salafism advocating Sharia law. It developed into a Jihadist group in 2009. The movement is diffuse, and fighters associated with it follow the Salafi doctrine.
Their beliefs tend to be centered on strict adherence to Wahhibism, which is an extremely strict form of Sunni Islam that sees many other forms of Islam as idolatrous. The group has denounced the members of the Sufi and the Shiite sects as infidels. Boko Haram seeks the establishment of an Islamic state….
Eur says
African black people would do better if they studied their own past. The Arabs Islamized the Berbers and the Fulani tribe. It was these three who hunted the blacks to sell them as slaves, the Arabs called the land black animists kfirland and that is the origin of the word kfir. Many tribes and ethnic groups fled from the Muslims to transform the entire Sahel, for example The Central African territories were the home of the Pygmy ethnic group, which is now a minority due to migrations from other ethnic groups. The process of conquest continues through jihad. There is a lot of talk about the slave trade of Europeans, something horrible and unforgivable, but they never talk about what the Muslims did and continue to do.
CRUSADER says
“Sword and Scimitar” by Raymond Ibrahim is a good read.
CRUSADER says
Bill Warner (of Center for Study of Political Islam) also discusses the ill effects of Islam on African history and populations….
gravenimage says
True, Eur and CRUSADER.
Billy Chickens says
More wicked evil manifested from Satan’s Islamic religion.
CRUSADER says
Why Isn’t Anyone Speaking
About the Christian Persecutions?
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https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/03/22/why-isnt-any-speaking-about-the-christian-persecutions-2/
Last week the world was struck by the shooting in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed fifty Muslims and left another fifty wounded at the hands of a white supremacist. Almost immediately, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.) and other associations that are also linked to Islamic terrorist groups, took advantage of the situation to incriminate those who in the past highlighted verses from the Quran and hadith—the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad—as a reference point for terrorists to justify their crimes as instigators. They further dramatized their propaganda as if only Muslims are targeted for religious hatred. While the news of the atrocity circulated through social media and mainstream media, people around the world prayed rightly for the victims and their families — Pope Francis himself led a moment of silence during his Angelus the next day in the Vatican. While I too prayed, I asked myself:
“Why is it that Christians — who have been widely slaughtered and who continue to be persecuted by Muslims — are not receiving the same global response toward persecution, tragedies, massacres and atrocities happening to them?”
On Monday (March 18), eight Christians were killed and seven others wounded in the Gwoza region, in the state of Borno (in northeastern Nigeria), when a vehicle hit a roadside bomb. Militia military and civilian sources have accused Boko Haram of planting the mine, stressing the persistent threat to Christians in the remote region. From February to mid-March, as many as 280 people in the Christian communities of northern and central Nigeria were killed in attacks. And just last week, 52 women and children were slaughtered and 100 houses were destroyed in the villages of Inkirimi and Dogonnoma in Maro, according to the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Nigeria, in fact, is the 12th worst country in the world for Christian persecutions, according to the Open Doors USA World Watch List 2019 — about 70,000 Christians have been killed by Islamists in the last twenty years.
Where are the prayers and moments of silence that are due out of respect to these victims and their loved ones? Why are those — who did do everything they could do to accentuate concern over the recent massacre of Muslims in New Zealand — not doing the same with regard to genocide against Christians?
The same case can also be argued about the crisis with Christians in non-Muslim countries, such as North Korea. International Christian Concern estimates that 400,000 Christians have been martyred in North Korea since that country was founded in 1948.
Not to become cynical, but, according to a survey conducted in 2018 by the Aid to the Needy Church in the USA / McLaughlin & Associates, when American Catholics, for example, are more concerned about global warming than Christian persecution, what else is to be expected?
In fact, the Catholic bishops in America have not only absolved Islam of the crimes committed but, faced with the Christian genocide inspired by Islam, they have joined the problematic campaign against the current notion called Islamophobia”. Like politicians, many church people and clergy refuse to admit that there is a holy war ( jihad ) against Christians happening globally.
As stated by Bashar Warda, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq, during a speech at Georgetown University in February last year: “The violent Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East [and the rest of the wordl] did not begin with the Islamic State’s rise to power in 2014, … but rather many centuries ago. Having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide that began long before the ongoing ISIS genocide today, the time for excusing this inhuman behavior and its causes is long since past.”
Despite the obvious, there are those within the ecclesiastical hierarchy who fear a backlash if there are criticisms of Islamist doctrine; there are also those who remain indifferent to the long situation of persecuted Christians because they are disoriented if not consumed by moral relativism.
Modern scholars and politicians have influenced the various church leaders who wish to make a distinction for Islam (between Meccan Islam and Medinan Islam). There are those who distinguish between Islam itself and Islamism. The first being an original type of Islam that does not teach war upon non-Muslims, while the second — Islamism — is equated with a Muslim imitation of fascism and communism that does not reflect the teachings of true Islam. It is argued that theoretically there is a difference in how Islamic law is observed between moderate and non-moderate Muslims. Somehow this is a horse that does not run, for as Secretary General of the Supreme Council Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Muslim organization in the world, Imam Yahya Cholil Staquf, said:
“The problem lies within Islam itself.” *
CRUSADER says
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Let us not forget that the petrodollar, the profit of natural resources, or other financial enterprises have overcome the cries of the victims.
Father Samir Khalil Samir, an Egyptian-born Jesuit, once said: “We [the West] raised our voices (rightly) against the violations perpetrated in the Balkans by Serbia, but we remain silent on the violations of human rights in Saudi Arabia, well aware that … we risk the profits connected with oil. The West has great respect for human rights but even greater respect for material advantages and wealth. If there is some conflict related to economic or commercial interests, human rights are placed second. If the defense of human rights implies the sacrifice of economic advantages, the rights are normally sacrificed, not the economic advantages.”
Those who are in position to affect a change deny that there is a global effort organized to exterminate Christians. This is equally if not more harmful to put the profit before the person. Humanity suffers. We know that the liberal media have “adopted” Islam as their own, thus giving Muslims prime-time attention. This is not even Fake News, but rather a premeditated and selective omission of the persecution against Christians. Just as with the new faces of the left-wing Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, they have the momentum and the media pull. We can, therefore, better understand why Christian persecutions are met with the indifference by Church officials and disavowed by modern politicians.
All are influenced by another master.
https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/03/22/why-isnt-any-speaking-about-the-christian-persecutions-2/
*
Nahdlatul Ulama (literally translated to Ulama’s Revival, abbreviated as NU) is a traditionalist Sunni Islam movement in Indonesia following the Shafi’i school of jurisprudence.[3] NU was established on January 31, 1926 in Surabaya as a response to the rise of Wahabism in Saudi Arabia and Islamic modernism in Indonesia.[4][5]:59[6] The NU is the largest independent Islamic organization in the world[7] with membership estimates ranging from 40 million (2013)[1] to over 90 million (2019).[2] NU also is a charitable body funding schools and hospitals as well as organizing communities to help alleviate poverty.
Some leaders of Nahdlatul Ulama are ardent advocates of Islam Nusantara, a distinctive brand of Islam that has undergone interaction, contextualization, indigenization, interpretation and vernacularization according to socio-cultural conditions in Indonesia.[8] Islam Nusantara promotes moderation, compassion, anti-radicalism, inclusiveness and tolerance.[9] However, other NU members, leaders, and religious scholars have rejected Islam Nusantara in favor of a more conservative approach.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahdlatul_Ulama
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims enter Christian town, steal seven vehicles, start shooting in the streets
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This just doesn’t end.
Laura says
But, why are these savages not just eliminated, why are their camps not carpet bombed, why are they apparently free to attack at will?