But remember: if you point out that this sort of thing is going on, you’re the problem.
An update on this story. “Violence in Plateau State, Nigeria Escalates with more Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Attacks,” Morning Star News, January 30, 2020:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – At least 32 people were killed and a pastor’s house and church building were burned down in two nights of attacks this week by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said.
The Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) building and home were destroyed in an attack on predominantly Christian Marish village on Monday evening (Jan. 27), one of three communities in Bokkos County hit in armed assaults that began the previous evening, area residents said. The attacks were the latest bloodshed in an escalation of violence in Plateau state, where herdsmen killed Christians in Riyom and Mangu counties earlier this month.
Herdsmen killed 17 people in Marish and Ruboi villages on Monday after killing 15 people in an attack on Kwatas on Sunday (Jan. 26), Titus Ayuba Alams, former speaker of the Plateau state House of Assembly, told Morning Star News….
Five people were wounded in the attacks and several houses were burned, area resident Theophilus Mancha told Morning Star News.
“A pregnant woman and 16 others have been killed,” Mancha said.
Kwatas, Marish and Ruboi are suburbs of Bokkos town, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) southwest of Plateau State University, Bokkos.
Kelly Kanang, another area resident, confirmed that Fulani herdsmen launched the attacks.
Benjamin Dogo of Kwatas informed Morning Star News in a text message, “Our people have been killed again. About 15 of the dead have been evacuated to the mortuary along with many others that sustained injuries during the attack on Sunday night.”
State police said 13 persons were killed and five injured in the attack on Kwatas. Police spokesman Ubah Gabriel Ogaba on Monday confirmed the attack by “unknown gunmen” on Kwatas in a press statement.
Ruboi and Marish were attacked after police issued the statement, and officers have provided no details on those attacks….
Nigeria ranked 12th on Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution but second in the number of Christians killed for their faith, behind Pakistan.
Walter Sieruk says
This awful situation in the nation of Nigeria is tragically one example a lot of cases in Islamic countries where there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn down their church buildings.
One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians.
Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
Debra Gour says
This is an example of the War being raged on Christians in many Countries around the World !* I read in C4I Canada newsletter that the President of Turkey; Islamic Regime is funding & supplying all those herdsmen’s or Boko Harem’s Guns & military equipment in Africa !* The West needs to Wake Up & Help the Real Refugees escape the terror !* Not import the 3rd World people who believe in, & follow Fundamental Islamic Muslim Terrorist Groups !*
Westman says
Nothing to see here….but death, destruction, and theft. Time for the Pope to ride in and tell the dying Christians how they brought peace to the world by loving their Quran-appointed enemies to their own dying breath.
Jihad, the Quran’s answer to boredom, a meaningless life, and poverty. Do the infidels seem to have happiness and available, “booty”? With the Quran, Hadith, and Muhammad as guides and instigators, too many Muslims are giving new meaning to, “takeaway”.
It seems that Islam, both historically and currently, is more like the creator of the world’s largest Mafias than a religion.
mortimer says
FIVE NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS are murdered by Muslims EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
ONE NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN IS MURDERED BY MUSLIMS EVERY SIX HOURS EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
The legislators of Nigeria are 50% Muslim and they are DRAGGING THEIR FEET TO STOP IT.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Death toll now 32, pastor’s house and church building burned down in two nights of jihad massacres
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*Horrifying*. And most of the world is ignoring this genocide completely.
brian murphy says
The Muslim Nigerian government is responsible for the ongoing genocide of Christians, in Nigeria, which has been happening now for over 10 years, with about 20,000 innocent Christian Nigerians being butchered by the Muslim Nigerians; the Nigerian government has made no meaningful attempt to stop this slaughter of innocent Christian Nigerians, so it is clear that the Muslim government is behind the massacre of innocent NIgerian Christians, In the mosques,the Muslim Imams incite the Muslim mobs to murder Christians and yet the government does nothing to stop this incitement to hatred. Nigerian has to be told at international level that its behaviour is unacceptable. The U.N. must get involved, the world bank and WHO to put pressure on the Muslim government of Nigeria to stop the slaughter of innocent Christians and to get the release of the children hostages who are only girls who were kidnapped as sexual slaves for Boko Harem. the international community needs to be involved nowas this genocide could spread all over Africa and beyond.
lt says
Revelation 6:10-11 (KJV) And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
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