The world yawns, the international political and media establishment assures us that this is a “distortion” of Islam, and everything goes back to normal until the next jihad massacre.
“Boko Haram claims attack in Niger that killed dozens,” Al Jazeera, December 14, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Boko Haram armed group has claimed responsibility for the weekend attack on a village in Niger that left at least 27 dead.
More people were wounded and some reported missing in the assault on Saturday evening on Toumour in the Diffa region, said a senior local official on Monday.
Witnesses and other officials confirmed the attack, which came hours before municipal and regional elections were held across Niger on Sunday.
“We hereby inform the world that we are responsible for the attack in the town of Diffa in Niger Republic yesterday [Saturday],” said a three-minute video sent to AFP news agency.
The footage showed a fighter in military camouflage and his face swathed in a turban, speaking in Hausa, which is widely spoken in the region.
“We carried out the attack with the power of Allah and His help,” it said.
The group, led by elusive leader Abubakar Shekau, said more Christians could be attacked ahead of Christmas.
Local officials said some of the victims in Diffa were shot and others burned to death inside their homes.
Between 800 and 1,000 houses, the central market and numerous vehicles were also destroyed in the fire set by the attackers, they said.
Dozens of attackers arrived at Toumour on foot in the evening, having swum across Lake Chad, said one official.
The attack lasted three hours. “They first attacked the residence of the traditional chief, who only just managed to escape,” the official said.
“It was an attack of unprecedented savagery,” said an elected local official who asked not to be named. “Nearly 60 percent of the village has been destroyed.”…
Wellington says
Allah is a complete fiction. Doesn’t exist. Not at all. Mo’s hand puppet and nothing more.
So, another evil slaughter carried out in the name of a fictional deity. Yes, this is how stupid (and wicked) man can be.
Still waiting for Allah to terminate my existence if I am wrong about Allah. And again, deluded followers of the fictional Allah doing away with me doesn’t count. Allah must do it. I aver Allah can’t, won’t, etc., because there is no Allah.
Got that Muzzies? There is no Allah.
Michael Copeland says
“At the root of the crisis lies a radicalized and politicized view of Islam.
An ideology that distorts and warps Islam’s true message.”
— Tony Blair
There you are. Now go back to sleep.
James Lincoln says
So is Boko Haram allowed to mass murder with impunity?
Is the Nigerian military making any serious attempts to counter this savagery?
Veracious_one says
not really but it would be easy to set a trap…just dress as villagers and hide the armed soldiers and wait
gravenimage says
The Nigerian army has been doing next to nothing for years now. Given that most Nigerian Muslims are sympathetic to Boko Haram and that the Nigerian president himself is now Muslim, don’t expect *any* real action.
The Trump administration has called Nigeria out on the genocide against Christians–but I *very much doubt* that Biden will do the same.
peter says
Nigerian Military and it’s present president who is an ex general have become laughing stock of the whole world .
revereridesagain says
Considering how high the bar is set, “unprecedented savagery” must have been horror even beyond what Islam is usually capable of inspiring.
Does anyone know what “Boko Haram” literally translates to? Haitian voudoun is partially derived from Africa and in “voodoo” the term for a “sorcerer” is a “bokor”. It sounds to me as if the term could mean something like “non-Islamic education/society/civilization is sorcery and therefore ‘haram'”.
gravenimage says
Yes–it roughly means “Western education is forbidden”–or as Hugh Fitzgerald memorably says, “Books, him bad”.
somehistory says
It is satan’s intention to completely wipe out Christianity. Consider what he did to Job…killed his servants, killed his livestock and murdered with one blow, all of Job’s ten children. satan was trying to get Job to do as Job’s wife said, “Curse God and die.” satam covered Job in boils from his head to his feet, but Job did not give in to the horrific pressure.
This Book of Job lets us in on things that happen behind the scenes, so to speak. satan is still trying to murder all of those people who refuse to bow to him as their ‘god.’ The devil cannot do this killing directly, so he is using the different moslim groups to do it. This demon uses individual moslims to kill, an individual or a group of people, in schools, markets, churches, offices, on the streets, etc.
But this mass murdering in Africa by these heavily armed groups such as boko haram, and al shabab, the “fulani herdsmen,” are specifically targeting Christians and then brag about it. And the *important* people on the world’s stage don’t care even one little bit.
And, it seems, those in charge of taking care of government, security, services, etc. in those African nations, don’t care either. It lasted for “hours” and they burned down 800-1000 homes and buildings. Murdered nearly thirty, and probably kidnapped a lot of young girls to rape and force into slavery, and to carrying bombs as they have done before. Doesn’t even get a hashtag this time.
Another group of devil-worshippers to face the ‘rotting flesh, rotting eyes, rotting tongues.’
Infidel says
I wonder how long it will be before Boko Haram ends up in control of one of those countries – Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania….?
OLD GUY says
Close our borders to the threat of islamic violence, it’s only a matter of time before this kind of violent actions will take place when you allow islam to infiltrate your country.
gravenimage says
Niger: Muslims murder 27 in ‘attack of unprecedented savagery,’ say they ‘carried out attack with power of Allah’
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This is how pious Muslims think.