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Nigeria: Muslims murder 12 Christians and kidnap a couple from their church wedding ceremony

May 5, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Time for the establishment media to treat us to a new round of features on the rise of “Islamophobia.” Their fiction writers will need to be working overtime.

“Couple Abducted from Wedding in Attacks in Northwest Nigeria that Kill 12 Christians,” Morning Star News, April 29, 2020:

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northwest Nigeria killed 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in attacks this month, sources said.

In Tegina Kabata village in Niger state’s Shiroro County, herdsmen attacked a church site where a wedding was taking place on April 12, abducting the couple and some church members, area resident Danjuma Iliya told Morning Star News.

“As the pastor was officiating during the wedding solemnization, the herdsmen stormed the church and took away everyone who was unable to escape from the church building, including the bride and groom,” Iliya said. “In that village, five Christians were killed in the series of attacks carried out by the herdsmen.”

Two other Christians were killed by herdsmen in Niger state’s Gidigori village, Kusherki District, in Rafi County, on April 20, area resident James Ayuba said. They were two of seven Christians killed in three herdsmen attacks over five days in Rafi County, he said.

Others were injured in herdsmen attacks in the county’s Madaka and Sabon Gari villages on April 20-21, he said….

The announcement came the same day that a church elder in north-central Nigeria’s Kaduna state had been kidnapped. Armed Fulani herdsmen abducted Emmanuel Iliya Agiya, elder and treasurer of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Atang village, Jema’a County on April 22, area resident Aku Joshua Shai told Morning Star News by phone.

After shooting into the air to send villagers scampering into the bushes, the herdsmen broke into Iliya’s house that night and took him away at gunpoint, he said.

“The armed herdsmen first tried to forcefully gain entry into the house of the brother of the victim but were unsuccessful,” Shai said. “They then proceeded to the next house, the victim’s house, dragged him out, and then took him away at gunpoint.”…

Christian Killed

Also in Kaduna state’s Jema’a County, armed Fulani herdsmen on April 14 attacked Zakkan village, killing one Christian and wounding two others, Shai said.

Abel Danjuma, 40, was killed, and his two brothers, 45-year-old Henry Tuta, 50-year-old Chairman Tuta were injured. Henry Tuta was treated and discharged from Kafanchan General Hospital, while Chairman Tuta’s serious injuries required that he be transferred to Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Shai said.

“The three victims are members of the Catholic Church at Zakkan village,” he said. “The herdsmen, too, blocked the Abuja-Jos route at Zakkan village and kidnapped two young girls who were traveling from Abuja to Taraba state. The girls were later rescued and set free by Christians from Zakkan village who went in pursuit of the herdsmen and rescued the girls.”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, Nigeria Tagged With: Abel Danjuma, Emmanuel Iliya Agiya, Gidigori village, Kusherki District, Rafi County, Shiroro County, Tegina Kabata


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  1. mortimer says

    May 5, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    Despicable cruelty. This is what genocide looks like.

  2. mortimer says

    May 5, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    Christians in Nigeria truly need armed police officers at all services. That’s the only thing that will stop the terrorists.

  3. Jim says

    May 5, 2020 at 3:34 pm

    I wonder why the Christians didn’t have armed security at their wedding, with instructions to shoot on sight any armed group rushing the church.

    Also, the Nigerian government should put the Fulani tribesmen under special restriction and make them get permission to do anything. That will hopefully slow them down a bit. Either that, or kick all Fulanis out of Nigeria.

    • mortimer says

      May 6, 2020 at 12:43 pm

      Security is costly. Weddings are already expensive. The best person to hire would be off-duty constables, but they are very costly to hire.

  4. Dude says

    May 5, 2020 at 3:42 pm

    Ah. Poor herdsmen driven mad by Slamofobia, lunge at the evil polytheistic Christians, and steal some young babes for their efforts. Akbhar Evil! Akbhar booty! Akbhar babes!!!

    I wany my, I want my, I want my chicks for free. Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free. That’s the way you do it, kneel five times a day, then get your money for nothin’ and your chicks for free.

    Akbhar idiots!

    Idiots, listen to the whole world; they think you’re all idiots, evil monsters, whether you actually murder or rape or rob or enslave or not. Maybe they’re all right? Is that how you want to be treated?

    They can change their Golden Rule from ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ to the more modern version: ‘Do unto others as they would do unto you, wherever you find them’.

    • Mary says

      May 5, 2020 at 7:40 pm

      Of “Do unto others before they do unto you “.

  5. Goofy says

    May 5, 2020 at 3:50 pm

    According to the Pope we need more dialogue with these Muslim brothers and sisters!

    • peter says

      May 6, 2020 at 8:19 am

      With friends like pope Francis who needs enemies!

      • mortimer says

        May 6, 2020 at 12:44 pm

        The terrorists will only ‘dialogue’ after they are disarmed by the SWAT team.

  6. Wellington says

    May 5, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    The world at large does not care about Christians in Nigeria. It should care, most definitely care, but we live in a stupid and hypocritical world and one result of this is that Nigerian Christians are completely “expendable.”

    Nigerian Muslims, per double standard Worldthink are not, but Nigerian Christians are. Such is the way of things in a world which occasionally learns but most of the time does not.

  7. Veron Holness says

    May 5, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    Pope Francis says nothing…..AGAIN!!!

    • Mark Berlinger says

      May 6, 2020 at 5:16 am

      Meanwhile, Jorge Bergoglio, the Pope of Islam, assures us that everyone goes to heaven. God save us from that nincompoop.

  8. DHazard says

    May 5, 2020 at 4:33 pm

    Islamists still think they can change the World for the better, while earning a spot in the VIP line outside Jannah, with the discriminate use of carnage (except for Hamas which is indiscriminate and bumbling in their rocket attacks). And most people know that there is nothing you can do or say to shake their faith in something that’s irrational and poorly plagiarized.

  9. Templer says

    May 5, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    This will be France,U.K.,Holland ,Germany infacte the whole off Europe in twenty years islam brings nothing but death hate and intolerance its the most hateful cult on eart does nothing for humantey

  10. Joe says

    May 6, 2020 at 4:02 am

    The civilized world should deal with Buhari,place sanctions on him till he start prosecting his tribesmen. Deny him medical tourism ,starve him with funds such funds end up in the pockets of his tribesmen. Just try that for a start.

  11. infidel says

    May 6, 2020 at 4:58 am

    And U will hear NO WORD about this latest ghastly yet another Islamic atrocity at the UN nor from the dhimmi of all dhimmis.. the pope… and the Jihaadi time bomb keeps on ticking on the free world. Thank God for Robert that we get to hear these real news about this ifinite evil

  12. Mark Berlinger says

    May 6, 2020 at 6:02 am

    The “herdsmen” euphemism that Morning Star News uses again and again, over and over, is extremely annoying for its blatant obfuscation of the identity of psychopathic rapists and murderers of Christians. Let the readers know what is really going on. It’s a genocide. Stop hiding the reason for this bloodshed by referring to the army of perpetrators by their common vocation. The pertinent identity of the killers is THEY ARE ALL MUSLIMS. Certainly these Muslims have names, too.

  13. OLD GUY says

    May 6, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Islam the “religion” political system of love in action. Where is the Pope and leaders of Christians? Why are they not speaking out on Islam’s violence against members of their faith? Maybe we need to follow where their money comes from. Something is wrong when you are the leader of a religion that is being attacked by a violent cult type political “religion” and you either are silent or you are praising them ignoring their actions against your flock. Shame on YOU!

  14. gravenimage says

    May 7, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    Nigeria: Muslims murder 12 Christians and kidnap a couple from their church wedding ceremony
    ………………

    Horrifying. God, I hate Islam.

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