“As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance).
“Terrorists Kill Christian Couple in Taraba State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, September 10, 2023:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorists entering a town in Taraba state, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people, sources said.
“Six Christians were kidnapped by terrorists in the Mile Six area of Jalingo,” area resident Emmanuel Moses told Morning Star News in a text message. “These terrorists, too, killed two Christians, one Balanko Alex and his wife, while many other Christians were injured during the attack.”
John Hussaini, another resident of the area, stated the same information, adding that on Friday (Sept. 8) two other Christians were kidnapped on Takum Road between Manya and Gangum….
Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report. It also led the world in Christians abducted (4,726), sexually assaulted or harassed, forcibly married or physically or mentally abused, and it had the most homes and businesses attacked for faith-based reasons. As in the previous year, Nigeria had the second most church attacks and internally displaced people.
In the 2023 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria jumped to sixth place, its highest ranking ever, from No. 7 the previous year.
“Militants from the Fulani, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and others conduct raids on Christian communities, killing, maiming, raping and kidnapping for ransom or sexual slavery,” the WWL report noted. “This year has also seen this violence spill over into the Christian-majority south of the nation… Nigeria’s government continues to deny this is religious persecution, so violations of Christians’ rights are carried out with impunity.”…
Michael Copeland says
Nigeria’s government is a failed government.
Nigeria’s government is a muslim government.
joanofark06 says
There must be millions of Christians in Nigeria. I have been reading about this country for SO MANY years, and it’s mostly about the Christians getting killed in that country.
So many so, that it’s gotten pretty ridiculous, and I’m beginning to think, that these stories are all just made up!
For one, if just one, or a few Christians were killed, every day, or every other day, for as long as I’ve been seeing news on certain news sites online, about this, but mostly here on this site, then SURELY, there CANNOT be, but a handful left, in that country!!!
For two, these killings of Christians, for years and years now, have to be in different areas in Nigeria, so how many MORE Christians are left, that HAVE NOT heard about their Christians, sisters and brothers,, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc being killed, some where in that country? The one major point I’m trying to say is, SURELY a Christian or Christians, have heard about the constant Christians getting killed there, right? Or maybe their not allowed to have tv’s, or radio’s, or computer’s, and just live in this backwood tropical country, where they have NO CLUE, about the MANY years of murders going on.
In that case, I guess Nigerian can pick the Christians off, as slow or fast as they want.
Because NONE, not ONE Christian is leaving that country, as far as I’ve heard or seen. Why not? is the 10,000 question of the day!!
No matter how tight the security could be there, sooner or later, just like the extermination of the Jews in Hitler days, someone, or a few someones, would GET OUT of their prison, and when they were finally free, they’d find someone to tell what’s going on, in that country!
So for all these years, how do the reporters report on this site, or some other site, about another killing, or killings, that are going on there in Nigeria?? Guess no one wants to get Christians out of there. Maybe one day, we won’t hear anymore news, like this article, anymore, because Buhari (the evil leader of Nigeria), has finished wiping out the last of them!
Must have been pretty easy, when their just sitting ducks, who don’t know they are all getting exterminated from that country! It’s too bad they don’t have a way of knowing, what I read every day to every other day, about how their all getting exterminated. Someone should write them a letter, and tell them all (however many are left), to RUN, and don’t stop, till your out of that country!!
That would sure be a nice change of pace, instead of Christian number 500,000 just got killed in Nigeria. As bad and horrible as that is, we’re getting immune to the same constant news!
In the last 10 or 15 years, has any Christian made an escape? Let’s hear about THAT for a change!!