Right. And I’m the Sarkin Zongo of Kumasi. It would be interesting to see Kukah try to explain exactly how this has nothing to do with religion. The Muslim mob didn’t burn mosques. Why did it target a cathedral and a church? Why was Deborah Samuel killed in the first place?
“Catholic cathedral attacked in Nigeria after arrests over ‘blasphemy’ killing,” CNA, May 15, 2022:
A mob has attacked a Catholic cathedral in Nigeria amid protests demanding the release of two suspects in the killing of a Christian student.
The Diocese of Sokoto said in a statement that youths targeted Holy Family Catholic Cathedral in Sokoto, north-west Nigeria, after police arrested two students in connection with the murder of Deborah Samuel.
Samuel, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was beaten and burned on May 11 after being accused of posting “blasphemous” statements about Islam in a WhatsApp group.
The Sokoto diocese said: “The Sokoto State Government has declared a 24-hour curfew to help stem the ongoing protests embarked upon by Muslim youth in the state capital today.”
“During the protest, groups of youths led by some adults in the background attacked the Holy Family Catholic Cathedral at Bello Way, destroying church glass windows, those of the Bishop Lawton Secretariat and vandalized a community bus parked within the premises.”
“St. Kevin’s Catholic Church, Gidan Dere, Eastern By-pass, was also attacked and partly burnt; windows of the new hospital complex under construction, in the same premises, were shattered.”
“They were promptly dispersed by a team of mobile policemen before they could do further damage.”
“The hoodlums also attacked the Bakhita Centre located along Aliyu Jodi Road and burnt down a bus within the premises.”
Sokoto Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah thanked state governor Aminu Tambuwal for imposing the curfew to quell protests, as well as the security forces for preventing further damage to diocesan facilities….
Kukah, who has led the Sokoto diocese since 2011, expressed “deep shock” at the “gruesome murder” of Samuel in a May 11 statement….
He went on: “This has nothing to do with religion. Christians have lived peacefully with their Muslim neighbors here in Sokoto over the years. This matter must be treated as a criminal act and the law must take its cause.”…
raja says
If these “bishops” keep telling the truth then the infidels can have some chance of survival. He is insincere and probably dishonest, especially since so many are butchered by terrorists. This guy like imam pope are thinking that they are doing the potential victims a favor by putting a lid on the fire stoked by jihadists. Islamic terrorists like other mafia cannot be pacified or deviated from their agenda of murder and mayhem for allah.
On the one hand the terrorists are sending out a message (through brutal murders etc) this is what our allah requires us to do and the nincompoops retort with: No, that is not so.
There is not a remote chance of the Islamic brutality to ebb in the foreseeable future. islam wants many such useful idiots/crooks to do their job.
somehistory says
100% correct
john smith says
Seconded
raja says
Thank you Somehistory and John Smith for your response. Always appreciated…
somehistory says
since it was a Christian girl, after she posted the Name Jesus as the reason she passed her exam, who was brutally murdered, and it was mozlums who did the murdering, and it was mozlums who set the fires and broke the windows of religious buildings because fellow mozlums were arrested for the murder,
how is that not “religious”? Murder is a crime. Destruction of property is a crime. Rioting is a crime.
But all crimes have motives and the motives in these crimes are the mozlums demands that all worship as they do or else….they murder and steal and destroy. That makes them religiously motivated crimes.
This idiot saying it isn’t won’t change the facts; and at this point, it won’t convince many if any. Not if the people hearing have a brain among them.
john smith says
+1
gravenimage says
So true, Somehistory. And I have heard her innocently thanking Jesus for doing well on her exams characterized as “insulting the prophet” or “blasphemy”, even though she never even mentioned Islam one way or the other.
raja says
Somehistory,
Your comment: But all crimes have motives and the motives in these crimes are the mozlums demands that all worship as they do or else….they murder and steal and destroy. That makes them religiously motivated crimes.
The later part of this comment needs some serious consideration of lawmakers et al. May be it is a coincidence. I don’t know.
The world should shift from *hate crimes* driven charges to religiously-motivated charges, which of course would enrage the radical Left no end. Hate crimes are difficult to be objective but religiously motivated crimes should be a lot easier to contest in legal circles with easier convictions.
This thing just popped my mind, may be I am dreaming. May be the sacrosanct religion can never be “criminal” -yet, for most of mankind.
somehistory says
Thank you, raja. I do believe you have something there. If only the lawmakers agreed.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims attack cathedral, partially burn church, bishop says ‘This has nothing to do with religion’
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Cringing dhimmitude. This does not help Christians or any other victims of Islam.
Clifford Fodor says
Nigeria: Muslims attack cathedral, partially burn church, bishop says ‘This has nothing to do with religion’
I agree. Islam is not a religion. It is an anti-religion.
somehistory says
that would still mean they attacked the girl and then the churches because of the fact these ones had a religion that they are against.
OLD GUY says
The attack had nothing to do with religion. Sure and COWS FLY.