“This is the experience that we are facing in Nigeria: There exist the ‘fanatic’ Muslims — to use a bad word — just as there are also fanatic Christians.” Is that so? As of today, there have been 33,503 violent jihad terror attacks worldwide since 9/11. How many violent attacks have there been in that […]
Nigeria: Jihad group murders Red Cross worker, says kidnapped Christian girl will be their slave
“‘From today’, ISWAP said, Sharibu, 15, and Ngaddah, a mother of two, ‘are now our slaves. Based on our doctrines, it is now lawful for us to do whatever we want to do with them.’” Boko Haram is saying it is Islamic for them to keep these non-Muslim women as slaves. Surely some Islamic organization […]
Nigeria: Muslims kill abducted Red Cross worker, Red Cross says “no religious law” justifies harming other hostages
Is the International Committee of the Red Cross really sure that “there is no ideology or religious law that could justify doing any harm” to the remaining Red Cross workers being held by the jihad terrorists of Boko Haram? What about the religious law that is derived from the book that says these things? “And […]
Nigeria: Boko Haram’s leader “said his intention was to establish Sharia from north to south, to the Atlantic Ocean”
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Revd Samson Ayokunle, has said that killings across the country were as a result of moves to spread Sharia across the country. The killings, the assaults, the maimings and the whole range of human rights violations are all manifestations of the jihad to spread the Sharia. It […]
Ramadan in Nigeria: Muslims murder five in jihad suicide bombings
Ramadan is the month during which Muslims redouble their efforts to please Allah. And Allah commands Muslims to kill and be killed in his cause, promising them Paradise if they do so: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause […]
Nigeria’s Muslim President downplays jihad attacks on Christians
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has been repeatedly making the “false claim that the Nigerian government defeated Boko Haram.” He has also repeatedly downplayed the “herdsmen” who have been massacring Christians. These so-called “herdsmen” are really Fulani jihadists who are tied to Boko Haram. Just over a week ago, Fulani jihadist “herdsmen” launched a […]
Nigeria: Muslims murder 24 with pair of bombs at rival mosque
Islamic law carries a death penalty for heresy, so this kind of thing is going to happen when one Muslim group decides that another is not properly Muslim, or not Muslim enough. “Twin blasts at mosque in northern Nigeria kill at least 24,” by Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Associated Press, May 1, 2018 (thanks to Robert): YOLA, […]
Nigeria: Muslim family returned escaped Christian girl to jihadi captors
“Leah Sharibu is the only one of the Dapchi girls that Boko Haram refused to hand over after negotiations with the Nigerian government, apparently because she refused to renounce her faith and convert to Islam.” Imagine if a Christian group had kidnapped a Muslim girl and refused to release her because she refused to convert […]
Nigeria: Muslims release kidnapped Muslim schoolgirls, keep captive Christian girl who refused to convert
Sexual assault occurs in all cultures, but only in Islam does it have divine sanction. The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). Liya Sharibu refused to convert to Islam, and so […]
Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadis attack village, seize girls — 2 girls dead, 76 rescued
The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others….after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village. The rescue drew cheers of relief, amid the grief and anxiety for the two girls and 13 others missing. The seizure of these girls recalled Boko Haram’s brazen 2014 abduction […]