“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
“Jihadists kill six and abduct five in northeast Nigeria,” AFP, December 23, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Around 30 fighters from the ISWAP group took control of the highway near Gasarwa village, 100 kilometres north of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri.
IS-aligned jihadists killed six people and abducted five others in northeast Nigeria on December 22, after blocking a major highway and singling out security officials, aid workers and Christians, witnesses said.
Around 30 fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group took control of the highway near Gasarwa village, 100 kilometres north of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri.
They stopped motorists and demanded their identification.
“They killed six people and abducted five others, including a woman,” Haruna Ashiru, a bus driver whose passengers were among the victims.
“They specifically targeted security personnel, vigilantes, Fulani herders and Christians,” said the driver, who was interrogated by the jihadists but let go.
The militants singled at least six people and killed them, he added. Some of the victims were shot while others were forced to kneel and sliced in the neck.
A policeman, a civil servant and three aid workers were abducted in the attack, Mr. Ashiru said.
One police officer who tried to flee after he was identified was killed after jihadists pursued him in a truck and ran him over, said a civilian militia leader, Umar Ari who also witnessed six deaths.
Three Fulani herders including two women as well as two Christian traders were among those killed, Mr. Ari said.
Clashes between jihadists and Fulani herders have intensified in recent months, with militants increasingly raiding herding villages to steal livestock.
Last week 19 herders were killed near the border with Cameroon following clashes with Boko Haram jihadists who tried to steal their cattle.
ISWAP have also increasingly abducted motorists at bogus checkpoints in Borno state, targeting security personnel, anti-jihadist militia as well as Christians — a minority in the Muslim majority north of Nigeria….
ISWAP, a faction which split from another jihadist group Boko Haram, initially from mid-2018 focused on targeting military installations and troops….
DHazard says
Disputes in this part of the World often involve the historic clash between farmers and herdsmen. Along the way Islam and Christianity got thrown in to the mix. So now it has become more of a genocide in drips and drabs.
gravenimage says
DHazard, characterizing the horrors of Jihad in Africa as “clashes between farmers and herdsmen” is something that apologists for Jihad usually do. (Of course, I know this is not your motivation).
But if this were merely such a clash, then why wouldn’t Christian farmers also regularly be cutting the heads off Muslim herdsmen?
But they aren’t–and that is because this is part of the ongoing Jihad against Christians and other Infidels by Muslims, rather than simple disagreements over land use.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims murder six, some by slicing their necks, and abduct five others, singling out Christians
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*Hideous*. God, I hate Islam.
keya says
+1
abad says
This is why we cannot let those people into the western world.
Rufolino says
This naked barbarism won’t bother anyone because it will be reported almost nowhere.
Alice W says
I am afraid you are right. There is no such thing as Christophobia according to the major news, only Islamophobia.
Oh, dear God how can someone live with himself after slicing a head off a human being?
abad says
Alice:
When you live with himself I am guessing you mean did the murderer have a conscience. The answer to that one is no, these murderers do not have a conscience at all.
keya says
In their twisted sick mind they are doing what their Allah commanded them to do.
abad says
Sad but true, Rufolino.
Carol the 1st says
I guess their Kingdom of Heaven does not “lie within”. The best they can hope for is a buddy-buddy Fool’s Paradise with a “chicken in every pot:.
Jeff Martin says
It’s funny you don’t have Christian head-choppers, just Islamic ones. Is it the religion? Or just their way of saying, “Howdy”? At least they are equal opportunity head-choppers (they even do it to their own kind, given the chance).
Carol the 1st says
Several years ago – when I knew next to nothing about Islam – a nearby renter and drunk who’d arrived from an African nation (Somalia?) to Canada was invited by another small group of blacks to sit in their back yard and have a drink with them. Soon I heard furious hatred and deadly seriousness as at least one large black man stood up and threatened to kill this fellow – upon learning *which* country or group he was from. The killing did not occur but it was pretty “iffy” for awhile.
Either that night or days later I steeled myself somewhat to throw out a critical comment to the man who wanted to kill. The following day he saw me and walked over. He coldly and quite clearly let me know that he was a ‘good’ person but also “lethal” and I had best attend to my own business.
I’ve often not known I was dealing with muslims and had no real theoretical framework to guide me – but the handful of up-close interactions has always somehow involved some kind of volatility or threat. I don’t see them as ‘religious’, they just seem to see the world in terms of “might makes right”.
OLD GUY says
Another murder of christians by peace loving muslims following islam. No islam more peace of earth!
Battle says
The report says the attack was on December22. Sunday December 22 was Fourth Sunday of Advent.