Christianity Today reported that “Fulani have become more deadly than the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency”; according to Reuters,they have “a deliberate plan to ‘wipe out certain communities,” chief among them being the Christians of Nigeria, who are the farmers targeted in this attack and others.
“Fulani Militants Kill Over 20 in Nigeria with Machetes and Gunfire,” International Christian Concern, March 11, 2019:
03/11/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the morning of March 4, 2019, Fulani militants attacked Tse-Tema Dula, Tse-Ugor, and Tse-Jabu villages of Mbacohon area in Gwer West Local Council area of Benue State. According to ICC’s local sources, 23 people were killed. Confirming the attacks, Reuben, a member of the Gwer West legislative council, said, “It was bad. They killed over 20 people. Some were killed by gunshots and some by machete hacks!” While speaking of the aftermath for those who survived, Reuben lamented, “The displaced persons are scattered all over, some in Naka, the Local Government headquarters.”
Three days after the village attacks, the militants again launched another attack at Tse-Ikyo Mke, Mbapupur community in the same Local Council area. This time, three people were killed. Commenting on this attack, a local pastor named Reverend Ajoh shared, “Even today, they attacked. One of my members came to report that his father was killed, and another member said his son-in-law was also killed.” All three of the victims, Stephen Uper, Kwaghkunda Ngyeegh, and Denis Iorundu, were married with children.
The communities in Benue State are predominantly agrarian. The farming communities have suffered several years of violent confrontation by nomadic herdsmen who prefer open-grazing cattle breeding, a practice that has resulted in instances of destruction of farmland. As an approach to a solution, the state government enacted legislation providing for ranching instead of open-grazing, which took effect on May 22, 2017. Shortly after this law was implemented, attacks worsened for several months, culminating in more than 70 people being killed in early January 2018.
The law has caused some of the herdsmen to claim that it was deliberately aimed at upturning their generational lifestyle and culture of nomadic cattle breeding, as well as a deliberate attempt to expel them from the state and deny them their constitutional right of freedom of movement. However, Taraba State, which shares a boundary with Benue, has also instituted a similar law, given the years of violence between the Christian farmers and Fulani militants….
CogitoErgoSum says
Wait, what? One group of people attacked another due to fear that their culture and lifestyle were being replaced? And this happened on March 4. Yet no condemnation of it by anyone … anyone … at the CAIR press conference today. Not enough people killed to be noteworthy or were the people killed just simply not worthy of mention? (Doesn’t fit with the narrative of the evil “white supremacist” either.)
CRUSADER says
Good point.
Contact: International Christian Concern
Communications Coordinator: press@persecution.org
— with your suggestion that persecution of Christians get press releases.
It can’t be all CAIR all the time….
Also, join up with ACT for America
promoting legislation against Shariah, which is incompatible with American Constitution
ACTforAmerica.org/issues
+++++
mortimer says
While Christianity has no doctrine of subjugation or persecution or hatred directed against non-Christians, Islam has such an AUTHENTIC, COMPULSORY doctrine called AL WALAA WAL BARAA.
Muslims are required to HATE kafirs and to show them hostility.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
christianblood says
mortimer
Would you support Templar Marches in every major city in the West
as a push back to islamic radicals and their leftist allies or do you think that would be too much of a threat to Jewish/Gentile globalist establishment elites?
(..Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms..) Eph 6:12
CRUSADER says
These militant Muslims are gangsters who think they are sanctioned by the Moon God, and thereby can do no wrong in doing wrong to others, all for the sake of blood and booty.
Camy says
Those are not Muslims, they are paid and trained terrorists , calling themselves so to create confusion in people’s minds.
Fred says
From the photo, their training stinks.
gravenimage says
What crap from Camy.
Muslims are taught to slaughter Christians and other Infidels, and have been doing so for 1400 years now.
crawford421 says
The difference between a jihadi and a bandit is one so slight you can’t fit a piece of paper between them.
somehistory says
Time after time, this keeps happening. The moslims are trying to completely wipe out Christianity and using the most horrendous weapons. This never makes the regular news, no matter how often it happens, no matter how many are slaughtered. Unlike the news coverage today regarding the killing of moslims in NZ…which has several news stories going at the same time, with twitters and facebookings adding to the world’s coverage.
CRUSADER says
Moslem Murderers
Murderous Muslims
Paul Wheeler says
The Christian abolitionists of the mid 19th century well understood that evil must be stopped, often by force.
Acting upon this understanding, they gathered supplies to support their abolitionist brethren in Kansas, where a small civil war had broken out between pro- and anti-slavery groups.
The crates were labeled “Bibles” and when delivered to the abolitionists, greeted with moans and eye rolls.
Then the Kansans opened the crates and found, not Bibles, but rifles.
They promptly called the rifles “Beecher’s Bibles”, after preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher.
So sad that no Christian today would ever suggest doing such a thing.
CRUSADER says
John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
But his soul goes marching on.
CHORUS:
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
His soul goes marching on.
He’s gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
He’s gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
He’s gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord,
His soul goes marching on.
–CHORUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6WignKYFI8
Michael Copeland says
“Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth.”
Sheik Farook al-Mohammedi,
The Global Islamic Civilization: The Power of a Nation Revived, United Muslim Nations International
http://www.ExposingChrislam.com
John says
Just run of the mill jihadi slaughter, so it can be expected to receive about 0.0000001% of the coverage that the atrocity in New Zealand gets.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Wellington says
Hey, lebel, where are you now?
Mirren10 says
Silent, of course, as he is always silent about the atrocities committed by mohammedans , but gleefully leaps in to castigate us all over the Christchurch murders.
As he was silent over the SAS discovery of the heads of 50 Yazidi women in bins. As he was silent over … oh well, why go on ? Too *many* to enumerate.
Wellington says
Yeah, Mirren, a total double standard kind of guy. What a joke he is, especially so because he in post after post wants to accuse Jihad Watch and so many regular commenters that they are the problem when, in fact, Islam and people like him represent the real problem.
Hope you are doing well. Take care, my friend.
christianblood says
Over 100.000 Christians are killed for their faith annually and over 97% of them are murdered in the Islamic world and none of the “MSM” is talking about it! We live in an extremely UNJUST world!
https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/06/03/vatican-official-says-100000-christians-are-killed-each-year-because-of-their-faith/
christianblood says
The only way to defend Christianity is to revive the Crusaders and start marching in every major city in the West now! THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky6GKty6azk
gravenimage says
Good points, Wellington and Mirren.
Niemoller says
Waiting for CAIR to issue condemnation of jihad mass murders of Christians in Nigeria today. (crickets)
This is intolerable media distortion, same day, New Zealand and Nigeria, only the victims are different. That’s the power of corporate media catering to the oil sheikdoms.
Ric says
Once again, the mass-murder of Christians gets no coverage from the worldwide Leftist, MSM. It’s not shocking, after all the MSM, the Democrats and other Western political parties only hold concern for the perpetually victimized Muslims (sarcasm). The massacre in New Zealand will weigh heavily on the above mentioned; giving these opportunists the excuse to continue the whittling away of one’s rights of freedom of speech, and the advocation of Sharia Law.
Jew-Hatred, Christian-Hatred are openly ignored or deemed as nothing exceptional, as Islam is the religion of peace, not Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism. Bigotry is, now, determined and defined by the Leftist-Progressives, Globalists, the fetid MSM, and their grand ally, Islam.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims murder over 20 Christians with machetes and gunfire
…………………
Funny that there is no mainstream coverage of *this* awful story.
Paul J says
Compare this to the absolute saturation coverage of the shootings of Muslims that have just happened in New Zealand. Christians get massacred everyday and you can hear crickets fart. Muslims killed by non muslims and the trumpets blare day and night. The double standard is sickening.
Szeto Yiu says
I like to hear crickets fart! What a wonderful expression.
Szeto Yiu says
I think it might be more of an African thing. There is a lot of killing there. It’s normal. Nothing to get upset about. They can sort it out themselves. I’d prefer to not have anything to do with it. Like ebola and other such things, it’s best to be kept in Africa.
Sammy says
@Szeto You If you don’t know what to say I suggest you keep quiet. When has killing became a normal everyday life . When it happens in Africa no one cares but when it happens anywhere else around the world everyone start looking for sympathy and condolences. Africa is as important as anywhere in the world, we are all human besides you know nothing about Africa that’s the reason you prefer the everyday massacre is best kept there. Please think and make research before making comments about Africa.
Niemoller says
You’re a piece of garbage.
Szeto Yiu says
You have a funny name. You must be a foreigner.
I have lived in Nigeria. I have been to a Nigerian church where the minister identified the witches in the congregation. If the witches did not confess, they were beaten and forced to leave town. If they refused to leave, they were killed, often by being set on fire. If these are the “Christians” being killed, who am I to complain? The”minister” had three wives. He also had several other women on the side who wanted to join his “family”. Gay is also a type of witchcraft. This is in a large city, not remote countryside. In some markets in east Nigeria, you can buy human flesh. Islam takes a strange turn in Nigeria as well. Nigeria is a special country. Don’t ever assume that anything is “normal” there. The indigenous animist believers who venerate idols and use fetishes are the ones who really get the treatment from the Muslims. Who is standing up for them? At least most of the Muslims adhere to a unified code and avoid cannibalism (abandoned children are not halal).
gravenimage says
Szeto Yiu wrote:
…Islam takes a strange turn in Nigeria as well.
………………..
Not really. Kidnapping and raping Infidel girls and slaughtering Christians and other non-Muslims is mainstream Islam, in Nigeria and everywhere else, no matter what Szeto Yiu would have us believe.
somehistory says
Szeto Yiu
You obviously haven’t been keeping up. moslims are killing Christians all over the world.
“There is a lot of killing there. It’s normal. Nothing to get upset about. ”
How about it they come after you because you don’t agree with their form of islam? moslims aren’t just in Africa…it isn’t just an “African thing.” Just because it happens often in Africa, One can be sure wherever moslims are, they are killing…and murder of Christians is their number one activity.
But, slaughter of innocent people is not “normal.” it is islam and islam is not normal. It is demonic.
Anyone with a moral compass, a sense of right and wrong, does “get upset” when slaughter such as this, of innocent people just because they believe in Christ and not a mass-murdering, raper of children, happens daily. It happens and the news media ignores it.
Perhaps you are a “news person.” Perhaps that’s the reason you feel you can ignore it. But saying it will stay in Africa is no reason to dismiss it as if it doesn’t matter. It matters. A lot. And people who excuse it, are helping it to increase and spread.
Szeto Yiu says
Perhaps you are simplifying things a bit too much. Most Nigerian “Christians” belong to native churches. They are not organized churches as we know them. If you call them Christians and can identify them as Catholic, Baptist, Penticostal etc. you may have some facts in your story. Otherwise, using the term “Christian” in a story about Nigerians, you are most likely talking about people led by some crazy scam artist pounding a bible in the name of Jesus and Juju. The Juju will kill you if you don’t do what the “minister” says.
There is nothing I can do about this. I am not getting upset because Nigerians are killing each other. Islam arrived in Nigeria long before European Christianity. It semi-civilized starving nomads who lived in a desert. Euro-christianity arrived in the south of the country with the slave trade. Eventually, the Europeans built schools and hospitals. These improvements led to an improved quality of life and growth in population. Villages turned into cities, roads were built and the population grew larger, faster. Independence was declared and the Europeans left. Chaos, corruption and violence became the norm
Nigeria got computers and cell phones and is now the scam center of the planet. Nothing surprises me about Nigeria. I just want to keep Nigerian issues in Nigeria.
crawford421 says
Don’t care if they’re out-and-out pagans — Muslims are obeying Mohammed and murdering them.
gravenimage says
Only a tiny sliver of north-eastern Nigeria is desert.
And Szeto Yiu’s pretending that this is just “Nigerian issues” is ludicrous–this is part of as world-wide Jihad against Christians and other Infidels.
Note that I have never seen this poster here before–and his only purpose seems to be to sneer at the victims of Jihad slaughter. *Ugh*.
infidel says
The world media is behaving as if the entire White people are terrorists.. just after one act of retalliation against Jehaad in NZ (well killing is to be condemned.. but the NZ shooter was mentally traumatized by Jehaad). Why media not speaking about the 20 Christians slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria?
gravenimage says
The main purpose of the NZ shooter–as he himself said–was to sow discord in the West.
NotALibNoMo says
Dog bites man. Water is wet. Dark at night. Like those, this is not news.
duh swami says
These kinds of attacks on Christians are common, and they never make big red headlines on Drudge,,,I wonder why that is?
Walter Sieruk says
Those violent and vicious Christian hating Muslims in their murderous persecution of Christians , this time in Nigeria ,aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians.
As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
somehistory says
Szeto Yiu
And you have lumped all non moslims into a big pot and don’t care if the moslims kill all of them…because you disagree with what some non moslims do and say….without knowing if the ones being slaughtered are truly Christian or if the article is wrong and it’s some other people close to islam that is being targeted here.
“The one Judging without mercy, will have his own judgment without mercy.” Jesus made that real simple so that anyone, even you, can understand. But only if you want to; and I have my doubts.
gravenimage says
+1