Murder, and mutilation of corpses in Nigeria — out of “revenge,” although the conflict has its roots in jihad ideology. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: KANO, Nigeria – Angry young Muslim men attacked “nonbelievers” with machetes Tuesday, while others burned cars, stores and apartments in apparent revenge for last week’s killings of hundreds of […]
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More Than 100 Dead, 1,000 Wounded in Nigeria Feud
“Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends“ Reuters is quick to deny that religious and ethnic fighting in rural Nigeria has anything to do with religious and ethnic ties. LAGOS (Reuters) – More than 100 people were believed killed and 1,000 wounded in fresh ethnic and religious fighting in central Nigeria, the Nigerian […]
Eight pastors killed in Central Nigeria
This is a slightly earlier article than others I have posted recently about Nigeria, but it gives some information that isn’t in the others about the jihad violence that has killed 1,500 Christians and destroyed 173 churches. From Compass via Worthy News, with thanks to Fiery Celt: JOS, Nigeria, April 2 (Compass) — Religious violence […]
Nigeria: Christian leaders lament religious violence
Refugees in a camp in Kaduna state “Church spokesmen warn that the country is becoming a ‘theater for religious war.’” From Compass Direct: April 5 (Compass) “” Christian leaders have condemned Muslim fundamentalists for killing Christians and destroying churches in northern Nigeria, warning that the national government’s inability to address the violence against Christians could […]
Muslims burn churches in Nigeria
Nigerian President Obasanjo (UN photo) Ten churches torched for one copy of the Qur’an. From AFP: Kano – At least 10 churches were torched and one police station vandalised when Nigerian Muslims rioted after a young Christian defaced a copy of Islam’s holy Qur’an, a witness said on Monday. Rioting broke out on Saturday in […]
Nigeria: Kano ready to enforce sharia rule
Kano, Nigeria is preparing to enforce Sharia in its fullness, which is bad news not just for tavern owners, but for all non-Muslims. From AFP, with thanks to Nicolei: Business was good in the taverns of Kano as the city’s football fanatics gathered to watch the English FA Cup quarterfinals this weekend, and as the […]
Muslims march for stricter sharia in Nigerian city
More ominous developments for Christians in Nigeria’s Kano state. From Reuters: Hundreds of Nigerian Muslims marched in the northern city of Kano on Monday to press for a stricter implementation of the sharia Islamic penal code, witnesses said. The protesting members of the Kadariyya group said they were worried that alcohol was still sold and […]
Nigerian jihad continues
This “Muslim-Christian violence” is rather predictably one-sided. From AP, with thanks to Peter Rockas: Suspected Muslim militants armed with guns and bows and arrows killed at least 48 people in an attack on a farming village in central Nigeria. Most of the victims died as they sought refuge in a church, police said. The latest […]
Sharia vs. polio in Nigeria
AP reported that the rejection of the polio vaccine by a polio-ravaged Nigerian state was due to anti-American sentiment and conspiracy theories. That is true, but it is also true that these fears are being stoked by the local Islamic authorities: “But fears mounted last year after Datti Ahmed, a Kano physician who heads a […]
Nigeria: Muslim fundamentalist uprising raises fears of terrorism
A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on the upsurge of Islamic radicalism in Nigeria. When a student-led Islamic sect launched an armed uprising last month with the aim of setting up a Taliban-style Muslim state in northern Nigeria, the authorities were swift to quell the insurrection. However, political analysts […]