If the roles were reversed here, and Christians had murdered a Muslim imam for refusing to convert to Christianity, although such a murder would never happen and should never happen, there would be screaming international headlines. But no one will take any particular notice of this.
“Nigerian pastor who praised God in ransom video beheaded after refusing to deny Christ,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, January 21, 2020:
A pastor who made headlines earlier this month for praising God in a ransom video has been executed by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria.
International human rights activists have condemned the killing of Rev. Lawan Andimi, the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s chapter in the Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
Andimi was declared missing on Jan. 3 following a raid by the Islamic extremist group in Michika. Video posted online appears to show Andimi being forced into a vehicle by his captors.
Days later, Andimi was seen in a video released by his captors calling on fellow Christian leaders and state government officials to secure his release.
Despite the situation, Andimi said in the video that he was not discouraged because “all conditions that one finds himself is in the hand of God.”
“By the grace of God, I will be together with my wife and my children and all my colleagues,” he said. “If the opportunity has not been granted, maybe it is the will of God.”
On Monday, local sources disclosed to ministry partners in the United States that Andimi was murdered.
A source told the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Save the Persecuted Christians that Andimi’s family was notified about the pastor’s death by the CAN office in the Adamawa state on Monday.
“They have slaughtered him in Sambisa forest,” a source told Save the Persecuted Christians, according to the nonprofit’s Executive Director Dede Laugesen. “They murdered him because he refused to renounce his faith. And because they couldn’t raise the money for his ransom.”…
The local source, whose name could not be revealed for security reasons, told Save the Persecuted Christians that Andimi’s captors demanded 2 million euros in exchange for his release. However, the underserved church community was only able to raise 2 million nairas (4,969.88 euros).
Nigerian investigative journalist Ahmed Salkida reported in a tweet that Andimi was beheaded Monday afternoon. Salkida wrote that he obtained a video of the execution and informed authorities.
CAN spokesperson Bayo Oladeji told the International Centre for Investigative Reporting that the interdenominational umbrella organization plans to release an official statement on Andimi’s execution.
“It is pathetic and painful to learn that such a gentleman could be killed like a ram,” Oladeji was quoted as saying.
Andimi was not the only Christian leader reported to have been killed in Adamawa state this week.
Pastor Denis Bagauri of the Lutheran Church of Nigeria, a well-known political advocate for Christians, was reportedly killed by unknown gunmen in his home in the Nassarawo Jereng of Mayobelwa Local Government Area of Adamawa State Sunday night, according to The Daily Post….
Nigeria ranks as the 12th-worst country in the world when it comes to Christian persecution, according to Open Doors USA’s 2020 World Watch List.
CogitoErgoSum says
This is an example of what I was trying to convey in previous comments about paying the Jizya. Was 2 million euros the agreed upon Jizya that was to be paid by the Christians to the Muslims? Is it in written form as an official contract? It needs to be called for what it is and the whole world needs to know what Muslims demand from the Peoples of the Book in order for them to keep their religion … and their lives. The world needs to understand this and when churches begin taking up a second collection every Sunday for the Jizya payment to keep Christians safe from Muslims maybe, just maybe the outrage will grow. As it is now the payments are disguised as something else.
FYI says
God bless Nigerian Christians:those pastors killed were martyrs.
islam has ..
No Golden Rule
No concept of “love thy neighbor”{a CHIEF commandment of God law # 2 lev19:18}
An apartheid system{muslims vs infidels}
{muslims are “The BEST community” k3:110 vs Jews and Christians “the WORST of created beings” k98:6
A Doctrine of HATE{al walaa wal baraa}towards ALL non-muslims
No concept that “infidels” are a made in the spiritual image of God{as christianity teaches}:no humanity,no tolerance..no respect for others.
A ‘holy’ book that says “WE shall cast TERROR into the hearts of those who disbelieve”
{koran 3 v 151}and that CURSES Christians simply for believing in Jesus Christ koran 9:30
Jonathan Hanks says
May God comfort his grieving family.
Battle says
Boko Haram felony premeditated murder.
Exactly like felony premeditated murders by other terrorists who deliberately set ransom so high knowing family will never be able to raise amount.
Felony premeditated murder.
gravenimage says
You are right about these ransoms, Battle. These Jihadists doing this *knowing* the families will not be able to pay, just to induce unearned guilt as well as grief in the survivors.
SAFI says
Somehow mainstream media in Europe almost always fail to report these horrific stories from places like Nigeria. Can’t afford making Islam look bad… They fail disgracefully on the journalism level, but they’re doing an excellent job lulling infidel societies to sleep instead of warning us about the colossal threat posed by islamic Jihad.
Goofy says
There is no compulsion in religion as the apologists of Islam say…
elee says
This is a classic example of kitman, a Muslim form of lying in which some information is given and some is withheld……they like to quote that verse about no compulsion in religion, which dates from the Mecca period……and forget to mention that the actual practise is determined by later violent and intolerant verses that have abrogated (nullified) the verse they like to quote. See K 2:106.
RichardL says
he is a martyr for Christ. His courage is beyond me.
mortimer says
Between 10 and 20 Christians are murdered by Muslims somewhere in the world every day. DOES POPE FRANCIS GIVE A DAMN about these murdered souls? Or just about economic migrants?
Michael Poulin says
Francis is a lying sack of communist shit
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims behead Christian pastor after he refuses to deny Christ and convert to Islam
…………….
*Horrifying*–this poor man. So much for their being no compulsion in Islam.
Peter35 says
By now everyone should be aware of the muderous sex driven ‘old boys’ club we know as islam, and the fact that virtually all western ‘leaders’ approve of it and are in the process of instituting it throughout Western Europe in particular, while (metaphorically at least) spitting on their own people, should have westerners in a murderous rage; but I see nothing happening, and indeed, westerners just keep voting for more of the same….
gravenimage says
Peter, not all Western leaders are entirely the same:
“Boris Johnson to address the nation, concerning Grooming Gangs”
https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-boris-johnson-to-address-the-nation-concerning-grooming-gangs
I don’t think we’d see Jeremy Corbyn doing the same. Of course, I hope Johnson then follows it up with real action.
Peter35 says
G.I. I just don’t see any serious uprising against islam anywhere in the west, do you? People are just letting it happen.
Every time my wife travels back to Norway she sees with horror how much worse the grovelling to islam has ruined the country, but her friends and relations have become inured to it, as I expected. Only the old ones (like us) remember the country when it was clean, safe and free.
Where we live here on Vancouver Island we see very few moslems, but given who ‘runs’ the country, well, we’re glad to be in our 80’s.
gravenimage says
Peter, you are right that even the best leaders in the West now are woefully inadequate.
Peter35 says
“Woefully inadequate?” Well you’re right G.I., but right there is where I differ from most who comment here. For what these sickening traitors are doing to their countries, they should be rounded up and shot; the whole damned lot of them.
Think about it, Vidkun Quisling’s name is synonymous with ‘traitor’, but he simply collaborated with Germans—a similar people, who were mainly a very good (?) occupying force, as many Norwegians told me when I lived there. Today, fat Erna is actually collaborating with an enemy who have no intention of becoming Norwegian, who hate Norwegians, beat and rob them, rape their women (which the Germans did not) and are turning large areas of Oslo into no go zones–just like Sweden.
gravenimage says
Peter–with all respect–while I consider even leaders like Trump, Johnson, and former Canadian PM Harper to be woefully inadequate vis-a-vis the threat of Islam, I *do not* consider them to be quislings–more still ignorant about the threat of Islam on many points.
And if you want these leaders–who at least defend against Jihad part of the time–to be taken out and shot, who do you think you’ll be left with? People like Jeremy Corbyn, that’s who.
Relic says
Bros before hoes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo
elee says
Whoever released this territory to the joys of self-determination has this Christian blood on their hands. Now, exactly who was that?
gravenimage says
I’m not sure Britain could have stopped this, nor that at the time they necessarily saw this coming.
Dave Winfrey says
You won’t hear about this on CNN or in The NY Times. Christians aren’t part of the protected class, unless they’re trans Christians or something. God bless these followers of Christ who lay their lives down for the faith. And God Bless President Trump who says loud and proud that Christianity is being attacked.
AntiIslamicman says
The mainstream media will not want to talk about this, we all know why. This man will be rewarded by our lord in heaven. Islam is hell on earth, the people that follow this cult are the devil’s workmen.