“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).
“Bandits kill three, abduct worshippers during Kwara church service,” by Demola Akinyemi, Vanguard, November 19, 2025:
Rampaging bandits have shot three people dead, while no fewer than ten persons were abducted inside a church in Eruku in the Ekiti local government area of Kwara state on Tuesday in a renewed onslaught.
Spokesperson of Eruku Community, Olasukanmi Ayeni, who confirmed the development in an interview with Vanguard, said the victims were attacked right inside one Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Isegun, at Okeado Street around 6pm during service on Tuesday.
Oasunkanmi, who identified the victims as Tunde Asabe, Segun Alaja (as he is popularly called) and one Deremi, added that another girl with a deep gunshot injury on her neck is still lying critically ill at the hospital.
“The people were abducted inside the church; there are about ten, but it could be more than that. The three corpses are still inside the church as we speak,” he told Vanguard.
He said that for about four weeks, the bandits have been making desperate attempts to penetrate the community through the Eruku/Egbe and Eruku/Omuaran roads but were successfully rebuffed until Tuesday, when they gained access to the town.
Olasukanmi also said that during the time bandits were making efforts to penetrate the community, several rescue calls made to the state and local government were unanswered.
He noted that the Ekiti local government chairman, Wale Awelewa, who rebuffed several Save Our Soul calls of the community, hadn’t paid a sympathy visit to the community as of Wednesday morning.
Olasukanmi, however, commended the efforts of the local police, which had been assisting the local vigilantes to chase the bandits away from the forests.
According to him, “The police in the community have been doing a fantastic job by following our local hunters to the forests to track the hideout of the bandits and chase them away; otherwise, it would have been a worst-case scenario for us.
“All efforts we made to the state and local government when the bandits were making efforts to penetrate our community, and they were being resisted by our local hunters, were not answered.
“If they had answered us, this attack wouldn’t have happened. As we speak, the local government chairman hasn’t paid any visit to our community; it’s that bad.
“The bandits reinforced; that was why they were able to penetrate our community. I learnt that some of our vigilantes who used to support our local hunters have been taken to Ilorin to be trained as forest guards.”…
Ed Brennan says
These people need help, immediately.
Islam must be banned in the West.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
From whom?
They need to go war mode and start fighting back, even taking the offensive if needed. The “White Man’s burden”, as Kipling put it, is dead: Europe is already overrun, and the US is struggling to get a decent economy going again, w/ no appetite for foreign entanglements. Also, everybody in the rest of the world is either ignorant of islam, or if they ain’t, they’re too busy fighting islamization forces within their own countries. Therefore, it’s far better that they don’t look to external powers for help, but just recognize that a jihad is being waged against them, and retaliate accordingly
KufarDawg says
The Christians of Nigeria are unarmed and defenseless. No one is giving them weapons, ammunition and training unlike the moslames killing them. They can no more defend themselves against moslame predation than can the Christians, atheists and Hindus living in the islamic hellscapes of Pakistain or Bangerdouche.
Patriot64 says
Agreed. If they attack me in my church I will go down fighting. I’m also a amputee in a wheelchair .
somehistory says
****”bandits.”**** a.k.a. muzzies doing the dirty “desires” of their “father”…satan the devil.
Patriot64 says
I don’t understand why don’t they fight back? Take down a few of them with you.
gravenimage says
The government will no doubt go after Christians if they defend themselves.
John Smith says
Most definitely, the government is complicit in this.
Patriot64 says
Where is the freaking United Nations? With all of this happening. I guess the UN is Anti Christian.
gravenimage says
The UN is too busy sanctioning democratic Israel to concern itself with genocide against Christians…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As I pointed out yesterday, there are 50 muslim members of the UN, and several Leftist countries, so they can’t just pass such a resolution w/o splitting the organization – which exactly is what needs to happen. Then there is the issue that most members don’t see islamization as a negative trend – after all, there are 50 muslim countries alongside them
So don’t expect the UN to do anything
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims kill three people, abduct worshippers during church service
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Horrifying–and the now all-Muslim government of Nigeria will do nothing to protect non-Muslims.
Jude Cross says
I’ve been seeing questions about the Christians not fighting back. They can’t. Private ownership of firearms is illegal in Nigeria
Jude Cross says
Possession of firearms in Nigeria is banned. The Christians can’t defend themselves even if they wanted to.
somehistory says
The weapons used against them are supplied by the very government which keeps the weapons out of the hands of the Christians.
jerry glenn says
But it was such a peaceful abduction.