Solidarity within the umma, united against Infidels. “North Africa Qaeda offers to help Nigerian Muslims,” from Reuters, February 1 (thanks to all who sent this in): An al Qaeda group in North Africa has offered to give Nigerian Muslims training and weapons to fight Christians in the West African country, where more than 460 people […]
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Nigeria: Muslims set church filled with worshipers on fire
Showing respect for the People of the Book. “Nigeria: Religious Violence Kills 27,” from AP, January 18 (thanks to Logan’s Warning): Angry Muslim youths set fire to a church filled with worshipers, starting a riot that killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 300 in Jos, in northern Nigeria, officials said Monday. Sani […]
Nigeria: Rioting resumes in city of Jos after Christians protest construction of a mosque
The article below reports that violence erupted when Christians protested the building of a mosque in a predominantly Christian district. What it does not report is the history of persecution of Christians in that city. And while it mentions a “disputed election,” it does not report the fact that the prior wave of violence was […]
Nigerians whine about new US airport security checks
As predicted. “New US flight checks ‘discriminate against Nigeria,’” from AFP, January 4 (thanks to Tom): ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria, home of the failed US plane bomber, Monday branded new security measures for passengers flying to the United States unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against its 150 million people. The US government announced […]
Flight 253 jihadist’s father “leader of Sharia movement in Nigeria”
If this anonymous piece is accurate, maybe he was just practicing damage control when he notified the authorities about his son’s “extremism” — as Creeping Sharia puts it, daddy “threw his son under the bus to protect himself and his own Islamist interests.” But it looks as if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a chip off […]
Misunderstanders of Islam attack security forces in Nigeria, 70 killed
They reject “any literature except the Koran,” recalling the immortal phrase attributed to the Caliph Umar (but probably apocryphal), on the occasion of the burning of the library of Alexandria: “If the book agree with the Koran, they are superfluous. If they disagree with the Koran, they are heretical.” “70 dead in clashes in northern […]
Nigerian Islamic scholars pass the buck: “Al-Qaeda,” you say? No “Al-Qaeda” here!
School officials are not sure whether or not the Flight 253 jihadist went to an Islamic school in Houston. And in Nigeria, they’ve never seen al-Qaeda anywhere, no sir, nowhere. Nobody here but us moderates! Everyone, in other words, is trying to make sure that no one gets the idea that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab learned […]
Nigerians in U.S. shocked by Flight 253 jihadist, pledge full cooperation with anti-terror efforts — no, wait…
Actually they’re — you guessed it! — whining about a possible “backlash.” This whole article is absurd, however, since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab did not try to blow up Flight 253 because he was Nigerian, but because he was Muslim and believed it his religious duty to wage war against Infidels. But apparently the Times was […]
Nigeria: 30 dead in clashes between jihadists, gov’t troops
But no, Islamic “radicalization” couldn’t happen within Nigeria. “Religious mayhem claims 30 in Bauchi,” by Ali Garba for the Guardian (Nigeria), December 28: No fewer than 30 persons, including four soldiers from the 33 Field Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, may have been killed in a fresh clash between members of an Islamic sect called kala-kato and […]
Nigeria: Jihadists demolish 20 churches, murder three pastors
And as always, the world yawns. Yet just consider the international publicity, and outcry, this would provoke if the perpetrators and victims were reversed. “3 pastors killed, 20 churches demolished in Nigeria violence,” from the Baptist Press, August 13 (thanks to DFS): MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BP)–Twelve Christians, including three pastors, were killed and 20 churches were […]