Islamic Tolerance Alert, and an update on the plight of Christians in Nigeria. “Nigeria – Muslim Rule in Kebbi State Chokes Church,” from Compass Direct: KALGO, Nigeria, June 29 (Compass Direct News) — For Kebbi state pastor Nuhu Mamman, to become a Christian was to have a death sentence passed on the life he knew: […]
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Fitzgerald: Nigeria, Iraq, Europe
What does the attack on Kano, by fanatical Muslims against the local, Muslim-staffed symbol of the Nigerian state run mostly of, by, and for Muslim northerners, have to do with Iraq? Everything. For the American government is monomaniacally fixated on Iraq, and the Executive branch, in its hallucinatory throes, tells Congress that it will leave […]
Church burned by Muslims in Nigeria, 15 more “marked for burning”
An update on the plight of churches in Nigeria. “Nigeria – Muslim extremists set church on fire,” from Compass Direct: GOMBE, Nigeria, March 29 (Compass Direct News) — Two days after the killing of a Christian teacher in this town in northern Nigeria, Muslim extremists set fire to a church building of the Evangelical Church […]
Nigeria: Sokoto state stifles growth of church buildings
Although the article notes that the Muslim group attempting to seize the church property discussed here “has not even presented a legal pretext,” it likely does not believe it needs one, at least with respect to civil law, as Islam teaches that its laws supersede any “man-made” laws. What would matter to them, then, would […]
Muslims kidnap, convert Christian children in Nigeria
No Compulsion in Religion Alert. “Nigeria – Muslims Kidnap, Convert Christian Children,” from Compass Direct: SOKOTO, Nigeria, March 14 (Compass Direct News) — Beginning in November of last year, 13-year-old Victor Udo Usen, a member of the Christ Apostolic Church in this northern Nigeria city, went missing. On February 20, news that young Victor was […]
Nigerians find “Shariah seemed to apply only to the powerless”
It’s hard to tell when Sharia law is “working” or “not working” properly, as both result in injustice. But whenever there is public outcry or unflattering media attention, the latter case is claimed. Sharia is great, we’re told; it’s just somehow been implemented poorly in this case. And that one, and that one… Sharia Alert. […]
Policies in Nigerian state “strangle” Christianity
Sharia Alert. “Nigeria – State’s policies said to strangle Christianity,” from Compass Direct: LAFIA, Nigeria, January 15 (Compass Direct News) — As soon as Christians in this capital city of Nasarawa state tried to rebuild a Reformed Church building that Muslims burned down two years ago, more than 200 Islamists attacked the workers. The rebuilding […]
Nigeria: Christians tried before Sharia courts
Against their will. “Sharia: another threat to peace,” from The Tide Online, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: The North West zone of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) last week condemned the repeated trial of Christians before Sharia (Islamic) Courts in Kaduna without the due consent of the Christians. According to a statement by CAN, […]
Nigeria: Christian teacher on trial after punishing Muslim student
“The committee members told me that these Muslim students were dangerous, and I should be careful in the way I handled them.” Islamic Tolerance Alert from Compass Direct, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: October 16 (Compass Direct News) — A Christian high school teacher at Government College in Keffi, in the northern state of […]
Muslim rioters torch ten churches in Nigeria
This story is very carefully worded, so that it is not clear that the “religious rioters” who set ten “worship centres” ablaze are Muslims torching churches until we are informed that those fleeing the wrath of the “irate youths” were Christians. Apparently the situation in Nigeria is so delicate that even the facts of the […]