Why would Boko Haram (aka the Islamic State in West Africa) murder people in a mosque? This shows that they must not be Muslims, right? Wrong. All it shows is that they don’t consider the people in the mosque to be Muslims, or the right kind of Muslims. “Suicide bomber kills at least nine at […]
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Nigeria: Muslim mob beheads Christian woman for “blasphemy”
Life is precarious for non-Muslims in Kano: even the rumor of “blasphemy” against Muhammad can and will be taken as an offense for which death is the only punishment. “Christian Woman Beheaded in Kano Over Blasphemy,” Breaking Times, June 3, 2016: A Christian woman trading in plastics at Kofar Wambai Market in Kano was yesterday […]
Nigeria: Muslims murder four, burn church in “blasphemy” riot
A busy day for the jihad in Nigeria. This is a different incident from the one posted here. “4 killed, church, shop burnt in Niger State’s ‘blasphemy’ riot,” The News Nigeria, May 31, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Four persons have so far lost their lives while at least one house, a church […]
Nigeria: Muslims murder three Christians, attack a fourth with machetes
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Muslim Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria Kill Three Christians, Attack Another with Machetes,” Morning Star News, June 2, 2016: JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed three Christians in their home in the early hours of Tuesday (May 31) in Kaduna state, days after herdsmen attacked another area […]
Nigeria: Sultan of Sokoto says Islam is a religion of peace
The idea that Islam is a religion of peace has to be constantly repeated, because it is contradicted daily by the behavior of Islamic jihadists, and their justification of their murders by pointing to the Qur’an and Sunnah. The Sultan of Sokoto did not explain how it happened that a group that called itself the […]
Nigeria: Muslims slaughter 40 people, burn church
The Fulani herdsmen are Muslims with links to Boko Haram, the Nigerian branch of the Islamic State. “Nigeria: Dozens slaughtered and church burned down in latest Fulani massacre,” by Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today, April 27, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann): Up 40 people or more have been slaughtered in a new atrocity by an armed force […]
U.S. Ignores the Muslim Slaughter of Over 10,000 Christians and Destruction of 13,000 Churches in Nigeria
Gatestone Institute Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic extremist group, has killed more people in the name of jihad than the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the findings of a new report. Since 2000, when twelve Northern Nigerian states began implementing or more fully enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, “between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians” have been killed. This is […]
Nigeria: Muslims murder 500 Christians over the last month
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Radical Islamist Herdsmen Kill 500 Nigerian Christians Over Month; Villagers Afraid to Bury Their Dead,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, March 16, 2016: Radical Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria have killed close to 500 predominantly Christian farmers in Benue state in central Nigeria in a series of attacks over the […]
Nigeria: Islamic State murders 22 in jihad suicide bombings at mosque
Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and changed its name to the Islamic State in West Africa last year. It targeted this mosque most likely because it did not accept the authority of the Islamic State, and thus opened itself to charges of heresy and apostasy. “Mosque bombing in Nigeria kills 22,” IANS, […]
Nigeria: Senate rejects gender equality bill, Muslim senators say it violates Sharia
“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other” (Qur’an 4:34). “Senate rejects bill on gender equality in marriage,” by Fredrick Nwabufo, The Cable, March 15, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The Nigerian senate has rejected a bill designed to grant women the same marital rights as […]