Will the Islamophobia never end? Imagine the international outcry if the roles were reversed here, although that would never happen. But no one will take much notice of this.
“Six Girls, Two Staff Members Kidnapped from Christian-Run High School in Nigeria,” Morning Star News, October 7, 2019:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A day before the Kaduna governor said kidnappers terrorizing the state are working with Boko Haram, Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (Oct. 3) kidnapped six teenage girls and two staff members from a Christian-run high school in north-central Nigeria, sources said.
Suspected to be herdsmen who have carried out numerous kidnappings and attacks in southern Kaduna state, the armed Fulani at 12:20 a.m. invaded Engravers’ College in Kakau Daji village, in Chikun County Local Government Area near Kaduna city, as students and staff members fled into the bushes, the sources said. The eight victims were taken away at gunpoint.
Kaduna Gov. Nasir el-Rufai told media on Friday (Oct. 4) that “bandits,” the term used by officials and Nigerian media wary of connecting the kidnappings to their fellow tribal Fulani, are working alongside elements of Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
“We have been receiving intelligence some three months ago that the bandits have connected with some elements of Boko Haram, and they will be targeting schools to kidnap children because they know that that is what makes the news,” El-Rufai said.
Shunom Giwa, vice principal of Engravers’ College, said that five armed herdsmen appeared at the door of his house and spoke with each other in the Fulani language.
“They asked me to lie down, and I did as instructed,” Giwa told Morning Star News by phone. “They then attempted to enter my bedroom and, fully aware that my wife and children were inside, I stood up to distract them, but they asked me to lie down again, which I did.”
A few minutes later, he said, another set of the armed Fulani herdsmen appeared at his house with Joel Adamu, the school’s vice principal academics, and they ordered his colleague to lie on the floor beside him.
“When I discovered that their attention was on my colleague, I just ran into the bush, and on realizing I was escaping, they shot at me, but fortunately they didn’t get me,” Giwa told Morning Star News. “They searched for me without success, and when they couldn’t get me, they started looking for where the students were.”
As the assailants went to the school hostel and forced the door open, Giwa tried to distract them by shouting, “Police, JTF [Joint Task Force] security come, there are kidnappers here!” he said. “On hearing me shouting, they began to shoot at to my direction again. I then ran and jumped over the fence and ran out of the school.”
He remained hiding behind the fence until the sound of barking dogs signaled to him that the assailants must be leaving, he said. He headed toward a school official’s house where female students had gathered after hearing gunshots.
“When we recovered from the shock of what was happening, we started doing a head count to know which students were missing,” Giwa said. “We found that Joel Adamu, the vice principal of academics, the house mistress and six female students were abducted.”
The school, which is open to both Christian and non-Christian students, has a secular curriculum in accordance with Nigeria’s Ministry of Education but includes a Christian perspective, and students take Christian Religious Knowledge as a subject, an official told Morning Star News.
The school has a student population of 100, with rampant insecurity in the state compelling some parents to withdraw their children from the school, Giwa said.
The kidnappers have contacted school officials with their demands for ransom, he said. Initially they demanded 30 million naira (US$82,327) per student before negotiating lower, according to local reports.
“We are trusting God for the protection of the captives and hoping they would be released without being hurt,” Giwa said….
Richard says
once again no outrage since it was muslims doing the damage to Christians. America is enraged with the children lost to idiots shooting at them. But in nigeria it is ok to be kidnapped and lives ruined; what is wrong with this picture? there is NO reporting on the MSM. the msm is owned by the democrats/muslims/left-wing libtards/soros and many other haters of freedom. Why are we still giving Nigeria money; what are they doing with it? Certainly not protecting its citizens from harm by boko haram and other muslim idiots.
mortimer says
If the world doesn’t get involved, the slow-speed genocide against Christians in Nigeria will turn into a full-speed genocide. It could happen overnight!
The US and UK should immediately send advisers and trainers to remove corruption from the Nigerian national police force.
Ray Jarman says
I am so tired the press using the word “herdsmen” to describe the Fulani sub-human creatures from hell. The only thing they herd are innocent human beings after they storm their way into Christian villages, schools and anywhere non Muslims exist in Nigeria. The problem in Nigeria is that the people even in places like Port Harcourt and Lagos lack the courage to stand up and defend themselves. An example was told to me by a friend in Abuja about the submissiveness of people living in apartment buildings in Lagos. He told me that when a criminal gang arrives as a living complex, they use a speaker to apprise the residence to open their doors for them and hand over any valuables they posses or they will break down the door and not only steal but kill the people inside. The only chance for survival for Christians and other non members of the pernicious cult is to arm themselves because many in the government are members of the cult and only care about lining their pockets with American and other western nations’ foreign aide. Without the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution, Americans would be just as vulnerable.
somehistory says
All of the moslims are against non moslims, but tribal conflicts between the moslims exist in Africa as they do in the ME, and that is one of the big issues faced by the U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
So the fulani are moslims alongside the boko haram but will point the finger at the other tribe to relieve some of the heat publicly.
Mr. Raymond Ibrahim wrote an interesting article..in Gatestone and FrontPageMag, about this very thing happening in Nigeria…the slaughter of Christians by the moslims who want the country to be entirely moslim. The fulani president is up to his eyeballs in the campaign and won’t lift a finger to stop the killing and burning and maiming, nor will he say a word against it.
And as Mr. Ibrahim points out, ‘o’ has some of the blame for this on his moslim head. Not that he feels any guilt over it; probably more like a gleeful pride in it.
Angemon says
And the jihad wages on, almost unreported…