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Nigeria: Muslim group executes 2 Christian aid workers, vows to kill every Christian it captures

Oct 6, 2019 3:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The jihadist group Boko Haram “has released a video in which its militants executed two Christian aid workers in Nigeria and vow to kill every believer they capture in the future.”

Christians in Nigeria continue to be savaged by jihadists from all sides. Between Boko Haram and the Fulani jihadists, a genocide is in active progress, while the generally post-Christian West has little will to defend the rights of helpless, peaceful Christians. Another report from the Christian Post notes that the media has been mum about this persecution and “conveniently glosses over the one-sided nature of the violence in the region: The Fulani and Boko Haram are the hammers and the Christians are the nails.” The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, is also the son of a Fulani chief.

“Boko Haram militants execute two Christian aid workers, release video footage,” by Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post, October 1, 2019:

Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has released a video in which its militants executed two Christian aid workers in Nigeria and vow to kill every believer they capture in the future.

According to Morning Star News, the terrorist group released the video last week on its official news agency site Amaq. In the video, Lawrence Duna Dacighir and Godfrey Ali Shikagham, both members of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) in Plateau state, are shown kneeling while three masked, armed men stand behind them.

The two young men, who had gone to Maiduguri to help build shelters for people displaced by Islamic extremist violence, are then shot from behind. Speaking in the Hausa language, one terrorist states the group has vowed to kill every Christian they capture in revenge for Muslims killed in past religious conflicts in Nigeria.

Pastor Pofi, a cousin of the two executed Christians, told Morning Star News that the two men were captured by Boko Haram, now called the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), as they carried out their work in a displaced persons camps.

“Lawrence and Godfrey left Abuja for Maiduguri in search of opportunities to utilize their skills for the betterment of humanity and paid with their lives,” Pofi said. “We will never get their corpses to bury. The community will have to make do with a makeshift memorial to these young lives cut short so horrifically.”

Pastor Pofi argued that if the federal government had created economic opportunities for those tempted to join extremist groups and had returned security to the country, the two Christian men would not be dead.

“We must ask ourselves if this is the kind of country we want where young men who are earning an honest living are brutally killed while those who abduct and kill others are invited to dialogue with government and paid handsomely,” he said.

In a letter to the United Nations secretary-general, Emmanuel Ogebe of the U.S.-Nigeria Law Group, a legal consulting firm with an emphasis on human rights, said the recent spate of murders amount to “ethnic cleansing.”

“More executions of humanitarian workers could yet occur,” Ogebe wrote to the U.N.

Nigeria ranks as the 12th-worst nation in the world when it comes to Christian persecution. Boko Haram is one of the most violent terrorist groups in the world, wreaking havoc in Nigeria’s northeast and Lake Chad region. Over the last decade, the group has killed an estimated 35,000 civilians and displaced thousands more.

In July, Boko Haram splinter group ISWAP — a group that has ties to Islamic State terrorists — kidnapped six Christian aid workers from the humanitarian group Action Against Hunger. The group later released a video in which the captured aid workers begged the Nigerian government for help.

Last week, militants released a video of them beheading one of the abducted men and blaming the Nigerian government for deceiving them after months of negotiations. They have also said that if nothing is done, they will execute the other five captives as well…..

 

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Filed Under: Boko Haram, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muslim persecution of Christians, Nigeria Tagged With: Amaq, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Godfrey Ali Shikagham, Islamic State in West Africa Province, Lawrence Duna Dacighir


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  1. James Lincoln says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    My brother and his wife are leftist liberals – and brought their two daughters up with very liberal values.

    About 10 years ago, his naïve peaceloving daughter went to Nigeria with a group of aid workers for a few months in order to try to “make a difference”. I strongly advised my brother to talk her out of it, to no avail.

    She lucked out and made it back home without any significant incidents. She said everything went “fine”.

    Even now, she remains a leftist liberal…

    • kevin says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 5:05 pm

      Shes ignorant!

    • mortimer says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 5:39 pm

      Thanks for your story of ideological blinkers. They had no interest in learning the real situation, because as doctrinaire neo-Marxists, the party has not given them permission to learn about jihad or the religious persecution of Christians under Islam. In fact, between 1,000 and 2,000 Christians have bee murdered by Muslims every year for the past 25 years in Nigeria alone. That’s over 200, 000 deaths from jihad.

      Around the world, 3 – 4 lethal jihad attacks are perpetrated every single day of the year. 50 people on average are killed by jihadists every single day.

      Since Mohammed began his attacks 1400 years ago, over 270 million non-Muslims have been killed in jihad attacks. One person has been killed by jihadists every 20 minutes since Mohammed began his attacks.

    • Ewanda says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      FYI ….. She LUCKED IN as in IN LUCK. Thank goodness she didn’t LUCK OUT as in OUT OF LUCK. But what will it take to get these people to open their eyes to the reality of the situation?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 8:12 pm

      Glad she made it back in one piece, James–sorry that she learned nothing, though.

  2. FYI says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    Two christian martyrs..men who,out of the kindness of their hearts went to HELP others.

    Murdered brutally by the cowardly islamic savages ,followers of the comandment-of-God violating unholy koran,its murderous “prophet”{Abu Dawud 4390} and its false demon god Lah{“The BEST of deceivers” k3:54}:the demonic antiChrist terror cult that is islam.”the religion of peace”

    It is pretty obvious how EVIL this satanic religion is….

    Endless Hatred,Violence,Commandment Violating evil ,murderous wickedness.

    islam is shaitan’s own religion:i’m sorry but is true..

    • Necrophage says

      Oct 7, 2019 at 7:21 pm

      Never apologize for telling the truth.

  3. glendl says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 3:42 pm

    This is something that irritates me. To say that a Muslim group or any common criminal “executes” a person is not a valid statement. The Moslem group or the common criminal has murdered someone. Only a recognized government (de Jure) can execute someone.

    The misuse of the term “execute” permeates the media, including the news.

    Thank you,

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 8:16 pm

      Yes–it adds legitimacy to these Jihadi thugs.

      • Rufolino says

        Oct 7, 2019 at 3:57 am

        And what does the dear Pope have to say about the genocide of Christians by Islam ?

        • FYI says

          Oct 7, 2019 at 8:19 am

          You mean “the pope of the Ear”,the pope of “the listening church” who never listens?

          I think we know what the heretical, islam-pandering,marxist,jesuit,Christ-betraying judas pontiff would say..

          “What?..Oh I’m sorry ..I ..I…can’t seem to hear you…who?…what?..violence against christians?..impossible!..authentic islam and a proper reading of the koran show it to be opposed to EVERY form of violence..here ..have a Gummi bear they are delicious…and take your mind off such negative news”

  4. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    Boko Haram is alive and well because the have clandestine help! https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/08/16/is-boko-haram-a-cia-covert-op-to-divide-and-conquer-africa/

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 8:48 pm

      Oh, good God–here’s this poster, again claiming that Jihad was actually created by the CIA and Mossad.

      He takes the word of Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir–himself a Jihadist who enslaved and mass murdered Christians–that ISIS and Boko Haram have nothing to do with Islam, but are instead the constructs of Americans and Jews.

      He then minimizes the horrors of Boko Haram to their victims, implying that Western food programs are a greater evil. He pretends that Boko Haram’s headquarters has nothing to do with north-east Nigeria being the
      most Muslim part of the country, but that they were planted there by Westerners because this is the area with the greatest oil reserves.

      He then claims that what has increased Jihad terror worldwide are attempts to defend against Jihad–in other words, he is telling us to roll over for terrorism. *Ugh*. Very disturbing stuff.

  5. revereridesagain says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    If you are white, don’t let it be known to leftard Social Justice Warriors that you are trying to help people in Africa being persecuted and murdered by Muslims. You can be denounced as a having a “white savior” complex or the equivalent for a lot less than that. At the very least, “racist” and “Islamophobe” will be added to your job description.

    I would be willing to bet that fully 99% of Americans never heard of Boko Haram or the Fulani and couldn’t care less if they did. And glendl is right: the correct term is “murder”, not “execute”.

  6. Barb says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    The TRUE HEROES are those young Christian men! That Jihadists choose to murder them shows how weak their false god Allah is!
    IF Allah were the TRUE God, he would not need Muslim’s to kill innocent people!
    What a weak and pathetic ideology – all Muslim leaders should be held to account!

  7. Angemon says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 5:36 pm

    Muslims murdering Christians because of their religion? Why, that’s unheard of!!! /sarc. off…

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    Boko Haram fanatics cannot stop the massive wave of conversions from Islam to Christianity which is unabated in Nigeria, so they are murdering Christian humanitarians as well as pastors and congregations. They are trying to ethnically cleanse the northern states of Nigeria of all Christians.

    The president of Nigeria is not putting much effort into stopping them. It’s moral morass over there.

  9. 124andmore says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    The problem is described in the second paragraph – “helpless, peaceful Christians.” Either learn to fight or be slaughtered. God isn’t going to protect you.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 8:18 pm

      The Muslim government in Nigeria is not going to protect them, either.

  10. Ewanda says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    Seems like Pastor Pofi needs more specific education on the truth in Islam if he believes that all this conflict and uncontrolled Christian persecution is a result of poverty and missed employment opportunities. Even though he lives in the thick of the mess he has his religious blinders on. I hope that his remarks were misinterpreted.

  11. gravenimage says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    Nigeria: Muslim group executes 2 Christian aid workers, vows to kill every Christian it captures
    ……………….

    *Horrifying*–these poor men and their families.

    And it looks like they were put in orange jump suits before their murder–as ISIS does.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 7, 2019 at 5:59 am

      “For peace to reign in the land, all Christians must convert to Islam.
      Allah has tasked all Muslims in Quran 9:29 to continue to attack Jews and Christians
      who refuse to believe in him and his messenger, Prophet Mohammed.”

      Abu Qaqa of Boko Haram

      They quote the Koran, but this is ignored by Western politicians and media.

  12. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 7, 2019 at 4:02 am

    They officially changed their name from Boko Haram to Daesh-in-Africa a few years ago.

  13. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 7, 2019 at 6:24 am

    From well before these events there has been a stream of bombings, shootings, church burnings, and night attacks on Christian villages, with a huge death toll. The “People …for Jihad” (Boko Haram), evidently with external funding, are extremely well-armed, mobile, and supplied with military uniforms to deceive their victims.

    Some ten Nigerian generals have been exposed as colluding with them, hence the pitifully inadequate defence measures. Boarding schools have been attacked by night after their soldier guards “melted away”, boys killed, and hundreds of girls taken captive, to be sold as slaves. Bombs have been detonated at crowded bus stations and markets. Atrocities continue week after week.

    Nigeria is the worst area for persecution of Christians.

  14. Giacomo Latta says

    Oct 7, 2019 at 10:38 am

    Why do these muslim dudes always wear masks when they slaughter their captives? I thought they were supposed to be so happy with and proud of themselves.

  15. Linda Rivera says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    Coming to your village, your town, your city, your nation soon, massively imported by traitor Western God hater leaders.

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