From Reuters
A radical Islamist sect attacked a police vehicle in northeastern Nigeria, killing seven people, in the latest in a string of attacks by the group in the last week, the military said on Thursday.
A military spokesman said the Boko Haram group was behind the attack on Wednesday, in which the police vehicle was "burned to ashes" at a bus station in the Dala area of Maiduguri. Eight people were wounded.
Nine people died this week in two other Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, a city in one of Nigeria's poorest regions near its northeastern borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Jonathan [President Goodluck Jonathan] can ill afford a security crisis, as any unrest in Africa's most populous nation is likely to be used by his rivals [as he contests ruling party primaries in January for the April presidential election] to undermine his credibility.
The tension is rooted in decades of resentment between indigenous groups, mostly Christian or animist, who are vying for control of fertile farmlands and economic and political power with migrants and settlers from the north [Reuters failed to mention it but the northerners are Muslims].
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From AFP
"Eight people, including three policemen were killed late Wednesday in five separate attacks by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect," the spokesman [army spokesman lieutenant Abubakar Abdullahi] added.
"The policemen were killed in Ruwan Zafi district of Maiduguri in an attack on a police patrol team by suspected Boko Haram sect members who also burnt down the patrol van," he said.
Source: AFP, Reuters
Comments: Will the same sort of violence also happen in the West between the natives and Muslim immigrant settlers? Or is it happening already?
It could be that Boko Haram is being helped by Muslims opposed to President Jonathan being re-elected, in order to undermine him.
The fact that Maiduguri is so poor might be due to Islamism, and not that poor people there are turning to terrorism due to poverty, as terror excusers claim. Islamism causes both poverty, through various restrictions and superstitions, and terrorism, and as a result, even more poverty. It's a vicious Islamism-poverty-terrorism cycle that only gets worse.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Boko Haram [apparently] claims responsibility for Nigerian Christmas attacks. “war between Muslims and infidels. This is a religious war.” At least 86 dead, 189 injured in overall violence
Nigerian history: There's been Muslim-Christian violence since independence. Islamists say all of Nigeria would have been Muslim if not for the arrival of British [So is the violence Islamist attempt to continue pre-British Islamization project?]
Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them
Last year a Muslim mob killed a pastor and his wife in Nigerian village of Boto in the mainly Christian Tafawa Balewa district of Bauchi state
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Boko Haram [apparently] claims responsibility for Nigerian Christmas attacks. “war between Muslims and infidels. This is a religious war.” At least 86 dead, 189 injured in overall violence
From Reuters,
Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect, said on Tuesday it was behind bombings in central Nigeria and attacks on churches in the northeast of the country that led to the deaths of at least 86 people.
[It] became active in around 2003 and is primarily concentrated in the northern states of Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduno.
On July 13, [its leader Abubakar Shekau] issued another statement expressing solidarity with al Qaeda and threatened the United States.
is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
considers anyone not following their strict ideology, whether Christian or Muslim, as infidels. The group demands the adoption of Islamic sharia law in all of Nigeria.
From AFP 1,
The attacks would mark the first time the sect, which launched an uprising last year, had struck outside of the country's predominately Muslim north.
"O nations of the world, be informed that verily the attacks in Suldaniyya (Jos) and Borno on the eve of Christmas was carried out by us, Jama?atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda?Awati Wal Jihad [Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awatu Wal Jihad], under the leadership of Abu Muhammad, Abubakar bin Muhammad Shekau (May Allah preserve him)," a statement on the site said.
The attacks were meant "to start avenging the atrocities committed against Muslims in those areas, and the country in general. Therefore we will continue with our attacks on disbelievers and their allies and all those who help them ..."
Jama?atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda?Awati Wal Jihad translates roughly to "People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad."
"Everybody knows about the gruesome murders of Muslims in different parts of Nigeria ... Jos is a testimony to the gruesome killings of our Muslim brethren and the abductions of our women and children whose whereabouts are still unknown ...
"My message to my Muslim brethren is that they should know that this war is a war between Muslims and infidels. This is a religious war."
Abdulrahman Akano, police commissioner for Plateau state, where Jos is the capital, cast doubt on the claim.
"Anybody can post anything on the Internet," he said, adding that the bomb blasts were not the usual method used by Boko Haram
The statement on the website also claimed responsibility for the church attacks.
Many attribute the unrest in Jos to the struggle for economic and political power between the Christian Beroms, seen as the indigenous ethnic group in the region, and the Hausa-Fulani Muslims, viewed as the more recent arrivals.
From AFP 2
In two separate attacks in the northern city of Maiduguri, suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed a policeman and retired police officer while three civilians suffered gunshot wounds, Borno state police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi told AFP.
This attack came barely a day after the sect claimed responsibility for multiple explosions in the central city of Jos on Christmas eve. At least 80 people were killed in those attacks and in reprisal killings.
The group also claimed to be behind the attack on three churches in Maiduguri on the same day in which six people were killed and a church was burnt down.
From AllAfrica.com
"We have gone around the five hospitals where casualties from the explosions and the violence that followed in Jos were taken," said Daniel Balarabe Gambo, deputy director of communications for the National Emergency Management Agency.
"The data we collated at these hospitals shows that a total of 80 people died from the incidents while 189 were injured."
[Some police say they doubt Boko Haram's claim of responsibility and claim the death toll was much lower, "but the emergency agency has insisted it was accurate."]
From AP, [NOTE: This site does not trust the writer of the AP story, Ahmed Mohammed. For more information on him, please read this article.]
A radical Muslim sect has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Eve bombings and church attacks in Nigeria that killed at least 38 people, and the group threatened new attacks to avenge local violence against Muslims.
"Therefore we will continue with our attacks on disbelievers and their allies and all those who help them," the statement said.
The radical Muslim sect is also known by a much longer Arabic name, which means "the organization of followers of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and champions of Islam and holy wars."
Source: AFP (1,2), AllAfrica.com, AP, Reuters
Comments: Typical Islamic terrorist narrative (also believed by many ordinary Muslims).
Boko Haram apparently is now claiming alleged violence against Muslims as an excuse for killing Christians.
It's the usual victim-card excuse, based on delusions of persecution, cause by paranoia resulting from belief in conspiracy theories, for Muslim terror.
There is also the Islamic supremacy of trying to impose Islamic sharia law on non-Muslims in Nigeria. They don't just want it for themselves. These fascists want to ram it down the throat of non-Muslims too.
Liberal-Left and other Muslims will add the usual socio-economic narrative of social and economic factors as excuses for Islamic terror.
The real reason for the Muslim violence however is that they want to impose sharia (Islamic law) on non-Muslims in Nigeria and continue the project of Islamizing Nigeria (convert everyone to Islam or force them to live as second class Dhimmi citizens) that was going on before the arrival of the British.
And what's going on in Nigeria isn't limited to there either. Muslim supremacists want to conquer and rule the whole world under a global caliphate (Islamic state ruled by a caliph or Islamic ruler who is both religious and political head).
The Islamic jihad conquest of non-Muslim lands is something that was started by Muhammad himself and continued throughout history right up to this day.
This is not to say that there aren't any Muslim victims. But looking looking at the global picture, Muslims almost always are terrorizing other Muslims or non-Muslims. And they always have local excuses for conflict, where ever they go. So don't mention it. We already know the story, which is that Muslims will get into some conflict and they will have some excuse. If you take away that excuse, then they will come up with another complaint. It's all predictable, but why aren't psychologist and psychiatrists speaking out?
As it has been argued before, Nigeria should split into two countries between Christian and animist south, and Muslim north, just like it is about to happen in Sudan. After the split, a separation barrier should be built like in Israel to keep out terrorists, and strict immigration policy adopted so that traitor immigrant terrorists or those who want to bring their Islamic ways, won't be allowed in, like it's happening in the West. If they want to live under sharia, they can go live in a Muslim country that has it.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Nigerian history: There's been Muslim-Christian violence since independence. Islamists say all of Nigeria would have been Muslim if not for the arrival of British [So is the violence Islamist attempt to continue pre-British Islamization project?]
At least 38 dead, 74 injured in Nigeria Christmas terror attacks on Christians in Jos by Muslim settlers, Baptist pastor and 2 young men practicing choir killed, church burnt by Boko Haram, 1500 dead this year from clashes
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists)
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
Last year a Muslim mob killed a pastor and his wife in Nigerian village of Boto in the mainly Christian Tafawa Balewa district of Bauchi state
Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them
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Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect, said on Tuesday it was behind bombings in central Nigeria and attacks on churches in the northeast of the country that led to the deaths of at least 86 people.
[It] became active in around 2003 and is primarily concentrated in the northern states of Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduno.
On July 13, [its leader Abubakar Shekau] issued another statement expressing solidarity with al Qaeda and threatened the United States.
is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
considers anyone not following their strict ideology, whether Christian or Muslim, as infidels. The group demands the adoption of Islamic sharia law in all of Nigeria.
From AFP 1,
The attacks would mark the first time the sect, which launched an uprising last year, had struck outside of the country's predominately Muslim north.
"O nations of the world, be informed that verily the attacks in Suldaniyya (Jos) and Borno on the eve of Christmas was carried out by us, Jama?atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda?Awati Wal Jihad [Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awatu Wal Jihad], under the leadership of Abu Muhammad, Abubakar bin Muhammad Shekau (May Allah preserve him)," a statement on the site said.
The attacks were meant "to start avenging the atrocities committed against Muslims in those areas, and the country in general. Therefore we will continue with our attacks on disbelievers and their allies and all those who help them ..."
Jama?atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda?Awati Wal Jihad translates roughly to "People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad."
"Everybody knows about the gruesome murders of Muslims in different parts of Nigeria ... Jos is a testimony to the gruesome killings of our Muslim brethren and the abductions of our women and children whose whereabouts are still unknown ...
"My message to my Muslim brethren is that they should know that this war is a war between Muslims and infidels. This is a religious war."
Abdulrahman Akano, police commissioner for Plateau state, where Jos is the capital, cast doubt on the claim.
"Anybody can post anything on the Internet," he said, adding that the bomb blasts were not the usual method used by Boko Haram
The statement on the website also claimed responsibility for the church attacks.
Many attribute the unrest in Jos to the struggle for economic and political power between the Christian Beroms, seen as the indigenous ethnic group in the region, and the Hausa-Fulani Muslims, viewed as the more recent arrivals.
From AFP 2
In two separate attacks in the northern city of Maiduguri, suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed a policeman and retired police officer while three civilians suffered gunshot wounds, Borno state police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi told AFP.
This attack came barely a day after the sect claimed responsibility for multiple explosions in the central city of Jos on Christmas eve. At least 80 people were killed in those attacks and in reprisal killings.
The group also claimed to be behind the attack on three churches in Maiduguri on the same day in which six people were killed and a church was burnt down.
From AllAfrica.com
"We have gone around the five hospitals where casualties from the explosions and the violence that followed in Jos were taken," said Daniel Balarabe Gambo, deputy director of communications for the National Emergency Management Agency.
"The data we collated at these hospitals shows that a total of 80 people died from the incidents while 189 were injured."
[Some police say they doubt Boko Haram's claim of responsibility and claim the death toll was much lower, "but the emergency agency has insisted it was accurate."]
From AP, [NOTE: This site does not trust the writer of the AP story, Ahmed Mohammed. For more information on him, please read this article.]
A radical Muslim sect has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Eve bombings and church attacks in Nigeria that killed at least 38 people, and the group threatened new attacks to avenge local violence against Muslims.
"Therefore we will continue with our attacks on disbelievers and their allies and all those who help them," the statement said.
The radical Muslim sect is also known by a much longer Arabic name, which means "the organization of followers of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and champions of Islam and holy wars."
Source: AFP (1,2), AllAfrica.com, AP, Reuters
Comments: Typical Islamic terrorist narrative (also believed by many ordinary Muslims).
Boko Haram apparently is now claiming alleged violence against Muslims as an excuse for killing Christians.
It's the usual victim-card excuse, based on delusions of persecution, cause by paranoia resulting from belief in conspiracy theories, for Muslim terror.
There is also the Islamic supremacy of trying to impose Islamic sharia law on non-Muslims in Nigeria. They don't just want it for themselves. These fascists want to ram it down the throat of non-Muslims too.
Liberal-Left and other Muslims will add the usual socio-economic narrative of social and economic factors as excuses for Islamic terror.
The real reason for the Muslim violence however is that they want to impose sharia (Islamic law) on non-Muslims in Nigeria and continue the project of Islamizing Nigeria (convert everyone to Islam or force them to live as second class Dhimmi citizens) that was going on before the arrival of the British.
And what's going on in Nigeria isn't limited to there either. Muslim supremacists want to conquer and rule the whole world under a global caliphate (Islamic state ruled by a caliph or Islamic ruler who is both religious and political head).
The Islamic jihad conquest of non-Muslim lands is something that was started by Muhammad himself and continued throughout history right up to this day.
This is not to say that there aren't any Muslim victims. But looking looking at the global picture, Muslims almost always are terrorizing other Muslims or non-Muslims. And they always have local excuses for conflict, where ever they go. So don't mention it. We already know the story, which is that Muslims will get into some conflict and they will have some excuse. If you take away that excuse, then they will come up with another complaint. It's all predictable, but why aren't psychologist and psychiatrists speaking out?
As it has been argued before, Nigeria should split into two countries between Christian and animist south, and Muslim north, just like it is about to happen in Sudan. After the split, a separation barrier should be built like in Israel to keep out terrorists, and strict immigration policy adopted so that traitor immigrant terrorists or those who want to bring their Islamic ways, won't be allowed in, like it's happening in the West. If they want to live under sharia, they can go live in a Muslim country that has it.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Nigerian history: There's been Muslim-Christian violence since independence. Islamists say all of Nigeria would have been Muslim if not for the arrival of British [So is the violence Islamist attempt to continue pre-British Islamization project?]
At least 38 dead, 74 injured in Nigeria Christmas terror attacks on Christians in Jos by Muslim settlers, Baptist pastor and 2 young men practicing choir killed, church burnt by Boko Haram, 1500 dead this year from clashes
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists)
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
Last year a Muslim mob killed a pastor and his wife in Nigerian village of Boto in the mainly Christian Tafawa Balewa district of Bauchi state
Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them
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Nigerian history: There's been Muslim-Christian violence since independence. Islamists say all of Nigeria would have been Muslim if not for the arrival of British [So is the violence Islamist attempt to continue pre-British Islamization project?]
The attacks in Jos and in the nearby town of Maiduguri are just the latest of an estimated 1,500 killings this year. They are a sign that long-brewing tensions between the ethnic Berom community, which tends to be Christian, and the ethnic Fulani community, which tends to be Muslim, continue to simmer.
Tensions have flared between Nigeria’s north and south since the days of independence in 1960. Militant Islamist preachers claim that Nigeria would have been turned into a wholly Islamic state, led by the powerful sultanate of Sokoto, if not for the arrival of British colonial administrators in the late 19th century, which halted any further Muslim expansion. However, this viewpoint represents the fringe, and border towns in the central region generally see peaceful coexistence between the two communities, until a militant group from one side or the other decides to stir things up.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Comments: It could be that (certain number of) Muslims in northern Nigeria want to continue the Islamization project that was going on before the British came (so can't blame it on the West), and bring the whole of Nigeria, including southern Christians and animists, under or over to Islam (forcefully via jihad?).
The report said it's only a fringe view but is it really? It is a well known fact that many Muslims want to bring the whole world under a global Islamic caliphate (an Islamic state ruled by a caliph or Islamic ruler) through conversion or by force through jihad.
So the real reason for Muslim violence and terror isn't some local issues like politics or economics, but the attempt by Islamic supremacists to either conquer and convert, or subjugate, humiliate and dominate non-Muslims.
Muhammad himself started the Islamic jihad conquests that continue to this day.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists) [Some history of violence in Nigeria, but as usual with politically correct excuses for Muslims]
Asia Bibi (aka Aasia Bibi and Aasia Noreen) case summary - Christians unclean, pressured to conver to Islam, defending Christianity as blasphemy [Islamization: Pressured to convert to Islam but unsuccessful so they got her sentenced to death instead]
The “Devil's hand” terrorists demanded priest convert to Islam before shooting his head during Baghdad church siege [Islamization: Convert to Islam or die]
INFO on Wafaa Constantine & Camilla Shehata case in Egypt used by ISI to kill Iraqi Christians. Both attempted to convert to Islam to divorce allegedly abusive husbands but never actually did convert [They may have been duped] [Islamisation: Targeting vulnerable women into converting to Islam]
Is the Associated Press writer Ahmed Mohammed biased? Didn't mention Nigeria's Jos Muslims were settlers. Christian natives as discriminators. History began when Muslims got attacked. Floats politics, ethnicity & economics as causes of violence. [Politically correct theories floated for Muslim violence]
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Tensions have flared between Nigeria’s north and south since the days of independence in 1960. Militant Islamist preachers claim that Nigeria would have been turned into a wholly Islamic state, led by the powerful sultanate of Sokoto, if not for the arrival of British colonial administrators in the late 19th century, which halted any further Muslim expansion. However, this viewpoint represents the fringe, and border towns in the central region generally see peaceful coexistence between the two communities, until a militant group from one side or the other decides to stir things up.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Comments: It could be that (certain number of) Muslims in northern Nigeria want to continue the Islamization project that was going on before the British came (so can't blame it on the West), and bring the whole of Nigeria, including southern Christians and animists, under or over to Islam (forcefully via jihad?).
The report said it's only a fringe view but is it really? It is a well known fact that many Muslims want to bring the whole world under a global Islamic caliphate (an Islamic state ruled by a caliph or Islamic ruler) through conversion or by force through jihad.
So the real reason for Muslim violence and terror isn't some local issues like politics or economics, but the attempt by Islamic supremacists to either conquer and convert, or subjugate, humiliate and dominate non-Muslims.
Muhammad himself started the Islamic jihad conquests that continue to this day.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists) [Some history of violence in Nigeria, but as usual with politically correct excuses for Muslims]
Asia Bibi (aka Aasia Bibi and Aasia Noreen) case summary - Christians unclean, pressured to conver to Islam, defending Christianity as blasphemy [Islamization: Pressured to convert to Islam but unsuccessful so they got her sentenced to death instead]
The “Devil's hand” terrorists demanded priest convert to Islam before shooting his head during Baghdad church siege [Islamization: Convert to Islam or die]
INFO on Wafaa Constantine & Camilla Shehata case in Egypt used by ISI to kill Iraqi Christians. Both attempted to convert to Islam to divorce allegedly abusive husbands but never actually did convert [They may have been duped] [Islamisation: Targeting vulnerable women into converting to Islam]
Is the Associated Press writer Ahmed Mohammed biased? Didn't mention Nigeria's Jos Muslims were settlers. Christian natives as discriminators. History began when Muslims got attacked. Floats politics, ethnicity & economics as causes of violence. [Politically correct theories floated for Muslim violence]
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Is the Associated Press writer Ahmed Mohammed biased? Didn't mention Nigeria's Jos Muslims were settlers. Christian natives as discriminators. History began when Muslims got attacked. Floats politics, ethnicity & economics as causes of violence.
Words in block quote or squeezed in the middle are from the Associated Press story written by Ahmed Mohammed. NOTE: Associated Press writer Njadvara Musa in Maiduguri, Nigeria also contributed to the Associated Press story written by Ahmed Mohammed.
Duh! Can't he take a hint? Can't he guess or at least suspect that it might have something to do with Islamic terrorism against Christians, given that Muslims, who are globally well know for terrorism are involved?
Playing DUMB?
This is typical. Those who have had experiences with Muslims or have read about them will instantly notice something like this.
The figure of 500 is lower than the 1500 that local rights groups claim, according to AFP.
Ahmed may be using different sources but everyone should be alert for both Muslim and non-Muslim minimizers, who likes to cover-up, or down-play Islamic terrorism, while magnifying even minor problems that Muslims face.
Many Muslims (Don't know about Ahmed here but this is typical and so something which has to be watched out for) have distorted views of life and the world (see WikiLeaks US' UK embassy cable) and believe in conspiracy theories (Even the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan according to WikiLeaks).
They also suffer from delusion of persecution ('Islam is under attack'. See Somalis convicted of terrorism in Australia for the latest case) and so would be happy to mention or hear that "mostly Muslims" were killed in January violence, as it reinforces their delusion.
The other issue is the micro-context or narrow view or time frame, that Islamic terror apologists and delusion of persecution suffers have.
For them, history began when Muslims got attacked and lost or suffered damage. The usual tired example is the Crusades. Muslims and ant-Christian haters like to complain and demonize Christians for the Crusades. For them history began when Christians launched the crusades and ended when the crusaders were defeated.
They completely ignore the time before the crusades, when Muslims, starting with Muhammad himself, attacked Christians and non-Christians unceasingly for centuries and conquered their lands to create the Islamic empire.
They also ignore the Muslim attacks after the crusades that only stopped when they were too weak for more jihads.
The situation is also the same here in Nigeria. They like to magnify the fact that Muslims on this one occasion in January suffered more causalities (after provoking it by going and butchering Christians with terror attacks in the first place?), while ignoring the time before and after that, when Muslims (not all 100 per cent of them of course), who are well know globally for barbaric terrorism, committed far worse atrocities against Christians and probably animists too.
Can't use race-card because they are all Blacks so try ethnicity-card?
The anything-but-Islam-or-Muslims explanation for anything bad. In this case ethnicity appears to be the scape goat used by the Muslims.
If there is something good then Islam and Muslims would get credit for it. Only the bad stuff gets explained away, excused and blamed on something else.
Ahmed also failed to mention (he forgot?) that Christians are the native indigenous people and that Muslims are the settlers. (Look at what Muslims terrorists do to the alleged Jewish Israeli settlers for comparison, even though Arabs are the real settlers from Arabia.)
Local-politics, economics and rights to grazing lands are the scape goats here while Christians are demonized by Muslims for what is essentially a different position on immigration policy.
Muslims, who are legal citizens or born and raised in Western countries, with education, money, wife or wives, children, career and so on still chose to become terrorists and attack the same countries that foolishly offered them so much, thinking naively that such bribery and appeasement would work. The attempted underwear plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, wasn't a poor disadvantaged kid.
So those socio-economic excuses are easily refuted. The fact is that Islamic terrorists always have an excuse for terrorism. Take away their alleged excuse and there will always be something else. So don't bother.
Even if Muslims suffer some discrimination, this is no excuse for terrorism. Non-Muslims suffer much worse discrimination and terrorism from Muslims and yet they do not resort to terrorism (or if they they it is minor both in terms of number and savagery).
Also, if Muslim settlers are clashing with local Christians and animists, and bombing and hacking them with machetes to death, would it not be wise to be careful about appointing those Muslims settlers into influential positions (see infiltration) or granting them citizenship en-mass (see treachery by Muslim citizens. Not saying all. That would be too easy.)? Remember Kosovo and also think of Eurabia.
Source: AP
Comments: Remember, WikiLeaks US embassy in UK cable said that the media incites and excuses Islamic terrorism.
Could the same thing be happening with the Associated Press?
Who are the Associated Press editors approving these stores that Ahmed is writing? What are their political-religious affiliations? Atheists liberal left?
Just the other day, another Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell wrote a story about the Nigerian Boko Haram terrorists that included poverty-excuse for them, given by Murray Last, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University College of London.
What is going on at the Associated Press headquarters?
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Incoming US Homeland Security Committee chair Peter King condemns PC, media terror apologetics, Muslims acquiesce-ignoring terror, conspiracy theories, double standards & treachery
WikiLeaked UK cable: Distorted Muslim view of life-world, blame game, double speak, 'moral equivalence' and, left-wing and media incite-excuse terrorism [Muslim delusions and media inciting and excusing terror.]
At least 38 dead, 74 injured in Nigeria Christmas terror attacks on Christians in Jos by Muslim settlers, Baptist pastor and 2 young men practicing choir killed, church burnt by Boko Haram, 1500 dead this year from clashes
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists) [Excuses and blame games]
Deadly dysfunctional Muslim culture, past, present, future, and why democracy and modernization fail [Blame game throughout history.]
ISLAMIC TERROR 101: A case study in race-card, victim-card, blaming victims & isolated explanations, using UK 'anti-terror' police John Larkin [Blame game with different cards]
Multiculturalism utterly failed in Germany, say German Chancellor Merkel [Muslims do worse compared to others.]
WikiLeaked US embassy UK cable: Muslims most unemployed and disabled, some supports killing for Islam, and apostates (6 percent)
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It was not immediately clear whether the Christmas Eve attacks had a religious motive. Two of the bombs went off near a large market where people were doing last-minute Christmas shopping. A third hit a mainly Christian area of Jos, while the fourth was near a road that leads to the city's main mosque.It is not clear that Christmas attacks had a religious motive?
The explosions came on the same day that members of a Muslim sect attacked two churches in the northern city of Maiduguri, killing at least six people. Police have not said whether they believe the bombings were related to the church attacks. The two areas are about 320 miles (520 kilometers) apart.
Duh! Can't he take a hint? Can't he guess or at least suspect that it might have something to do with Islamic terrorism against Christians, given that Muslims, who are globally well know for terrorism are involved?
Playing DUMB?
This is typical. Those who have had experiences with Muslims or have read about them will instantly notice something like this.
Religious violence already has left more than 500 people dead this year in Jos and neighboring towns and villages, but the situation was believed to have calmed down before the weekend bombings. The explosions Friday were the first major attack in Jos since the state government lifted a curfew in May.Minimizing? (Down-playing?)
The figure of 500 is lower than the 1500 that local rights groups claim, according to AFP.
Ahmed may be using different sources but everyone should be alert for both Muslim and non-Muslim minimizers, who likes to cover-up, or down-play Islamic terrorism, while magnifying even minor problems that Muslims face.
The curfew had first been imposed in November 2008 during postelection violence but it was extended in January following clashes between Christian and Muslim groups. More than 300 people — mostly Muslims — were killed in the January violence in Jos and surrounding villages.Delusion of persecution?
Many Muslims (Don't know about Ahmed here but this is typical and so something which has to be watched out for) have distorted views of life and the world (see WikiLeaks US' UK embassy cable) and believe in conspiracy theories (Even the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan according to WikiLeaks).
They also suffer from delusion of persecution ('Islam is under attack'. See Somalis convicted of terrorism in Australia for the latest case) and so would be happy to mention or hear that "mostly Muslims" were killed in January violence, as it reinforces their delusion.
The other issue is the micro-context or narrow view or time frame, that Islamic terror apologists and delusion of persecution suffers have.
For them, history began when Muslims got attacked and lost or suffered damage. The usual tired example is the Crusades. Muslims and ant-Christian haters like to complain and demonize Christians for the Crusades. For them history began when Christians launched the crusades and ended when the crusaders were defeated.
They completely ignore the time before the crusades, when Muslims, starting with Muhammad himself, attacked Christians and non-Christians unceasingly for centuries and conquered their lands to create the Islamic empire.
They also ignore the Muslim attacks after the crusades that only stopped when they were too weak for more jihads.
The situation is also the same here in Nigeria. They like to magnify the fact that Muslims on this one occasion in January suffered more causalities (after provoking it by going and butchering Christians with terror attacks in the first place?), while ignoring the time before and after that, when Muslims (not all 100 per cent of them of course), who are well know globally for barbaric terrorism, committed far worse atrocities against Christians and probably animists too.
Nigeria, a country of 150 million people, is almost evenly split between Muslims in the north and the predominantly Christian south. The blasts happened in central Nigeria, in the nation's "middle belt," where dozens of ethnic groups vie for control of fertile lands.Ethnicity-card? (Because Islam and being Muslims have nothing to do with it.)
Can't use race-card because they are all Blacks so try ethnicity-card?
The anything-but-Islam-or-Muslims explanation for anything bad. In this case ethnicity appears to be the scape goat used by the Muslims.
If there is something good then Islam and Muslims would get credit for it. Only the bad stuff gets explained away, excused and blamed on something else.
Ahmed also failed to mention (he forgot?) that Christians are the native indigenous people and that Muslims are the settlers. (Look at what Muslims terrorists do to the alleged Jewish Israeli settlers for comparison, even though Arabs are the real settlers from Arabia.)
The violence, though fractured across religious lines, often has more to do with local politics, economics and rights to grazing lands. The government of Plateau state, where Jos is the capital, is controlled by Christian politicians who have blocked Muslims from being legally recognized as citizens. That has locked many out of prized government jobs in a region where the tourism industry and tin mining have collapsed in the last decades.Socio-economic excuses?
Local-politics, economics and rights to grazing lands are the scape goats here while Christians are demonized by Muslims for what is essentially a different position on immigration policy.
Muslims, who are legal citizens or born and raised in Western countries, with education, money, wife or wives, children, career and so on still chose to become terrorists and attack the same countries that foolishly offered them so much, thinking naively that such bribery and appeasement would work. The attempted underwear plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, wasn't a poor disadvantaged kid.
So those socio-economic excuses are easily refuted. The fact is that Islamic terrorists always have an excuse for terrorism. Take away their alleged excuse and there will always be something else. So don't bother.
Even if Muslims suffer some discrimination, this is no excuse for terrorism. Non-Muslims suffer much worse discrimination and terrorism from Muslims and yet they do not resort to terrorism (or if they they it is minor both in terms of number and savagery).
Also, if Muslim settlers are clashing with local Christians and animists, and bombing and hacking them with machetes to death, would it not be wise to be careful about appointing those Muslims settlers into influential positions (see infiltration) or granting them citizenship en-mass (see treachery by Muslim citizens. Not saying all. That would be too easy.)? Remember Kosovo and also think of Eurabia.
Source: AP
Comments: Remember, WikiLeaks US embassy in UK cable said that the media incites and excuses Islamic terrorism.
Could the same thing be happening with the Associated Press?
Who are the Associated Press editors approving these stores that Ahmed is writing? What are their political-religious affiliations? Atheists liberal left?
Just the other day, another Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell wrote a story about the Nigerian Boko Haram terrorists that included poverty-excuse for them, given by Murray Last, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University College of London.
What is going on at the Associated Press headquarters?
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Monday, December 27, 2010
At least 38 dead, 74 injured in Nigeria Christmas terror attacks on Christians in Jos by Muslim settlers, Baptist pastor and 2 young men practicing choir killed, church burnt by Boko Haram, 1500 dead this year from clashes
From AFP 1
CASHES left at least one person dead and a number of houses burned in the Nigerian city of Jos yesterday amid tensions following a series of Christmas Eve bomb attacks that killed dozens.
The commissioner [state police commissioner Abdulrahman Akano] said the two groups involved in the clashes were "the locals and the so-called settlers".
Christians from the Berom ethnic group are typically referred to as the indigenes in the region, while Hausa-Fulani Muslims are seen as the more recent arrivals.
Mannok said the governor, Jonah David Jang, had encouraged youths in the city to be on the lookout and assist authorities in spotting suspicious activity.
At least 32 people were killed and 74 wounded in seven explosions in two different areas of Jos on Friday evening, with many of the victims doing their Christmas shopping at the time. A church was also targeted, the governor has said.
On the same night, suspected members of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year attacked three churches in northern Nigeria, leaving six people dead and one of the churches burnt.
The city is in the so-called middle-belt region between the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south and has long been a hot-spot of ethnic and religious friction in Nigeria.
Local rights groups say 1500 people have died in inter-communal violence in the Jos region this year alone.
From BBC 1
The latest unrest was triggered by explosions on Christmas Eve in villages near Jos.
Friday's bomb attacks near Jos also left more than 70 people injured.
Reports said two bombs exploded near a large market. A third hit a mainly Christian area while the fourth was near a road leading to a mosque. No group has claimed responsibility.
The tensions stem from decades of resentment between indigenous groups and settlers from the north.
From BBC 2
The Christmas Eve blasts happened in an area where up to 1,000 people died in sectarian clashes this year.
About 74 people were wounded in the bomb blasts. Some are in a critical condition.
In a separate development, at least six people died in attacks on churches by suspected Islamists in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.
Friday night's bomb explosions occurred during Christmas Eve celebrations in villages near Jos, police say.
Gregory Yenlong, a spokesman for Nigeria's Plateau state, told Bloomberg news agency that there had been threats "to disrupt Christmas celebrations in Jos".
Muslims are generally from the Hausa- or Fulani-speaking communities. They are often nomadic people who earn a living from rearing animals or petty trade.
The mainly Christian Berom, Anaguta and Afisare groups have traditionally been farmers.
Some Christian farmers feel they are under threat, as Hausa-speaking Muslims come down from the north looking for pasture for their animals.
In Maiduguri, suspected Islamist sect members attacked at least two churches late on Friday.
In one incident, petrol bombs killed five people including a Baptist pastor, Reuters news agency reported.
A security guard at a nearby church died in a similar assault, Reuters added.
From BBC 3
Gregory Yenlong, a spokesman for Nigeria's Plateau state, said there had been long-standing threats against the region's Christian community.
"For the past two weeks there have been threats to disrupt Christmas celebrations in Jos," Mr Yenlong told Bloomberg news agency.
From Reuters
At least six people were killed in attacks on two churches in northeastern Nigeria on Christmas Eve and 20 more died in explosions in the country's central region, officials said on Saturday.
Attackers threw petrol bombs late on Friday at a church in Maiduguri, killing five people, including a Baptist pastor. A security guard at a nearby church died in a similar assault.
The tension is rooted in decades of resentment between indigenous groups, mostly Christian or animist, who are vying for control of fertile farmlands and for economic and political power with migrants and settlers from the north.
From AP
Dozens of armed men attacked the church, dragging the pastor out of his home and shooting him to death. Two young men from the choir rehearsing for a late-night carol service also were slain.
The group of about 30 attackers armed with guns and knives even killed two people passing by Victory Baptist Church. The assailants only left after setting the church and pastor's house ablaze.
At the opposite end of the city, Rev. Haskanda Jessu said that three men attacked the Church of Christ in Nigeria an hour later, killing a 60-year-old security guard.
At least 38 people died in Christmas Eve attacks across Nigeria, including the six killed at churches in the country's north by suspected members of a radical Muslim sect. In central Nigeria, 32 died in a series of bomb blasts in the worst violence to hit the region in months.
Authorities have not identified suspects following the Christmas Eve explosions in Jos and it was not immediately clear if those attacks had a religious motive. Two of the bombs went off near a large market where people were doing last-minute Christmas shopping. A third hit a mainly Christian area of Jos, while the fourth was near a road that leads to the city's main mosque.
state governor David Jang would only say "we believe some highly placed people masterminded the attack."
Source: AFP (1, AP, BBC (1, 2, 3), Reuters
Comments: Just like in Sudan, where over 2 million Christians and animists died, here in Nigeria the Muslim north is also in conflict with Christian and animist south.
As usual, Muslim settlers from underdeveloped societies, here they are nomads, immigrate to Christian land and then start committing acts of terror. Nothing different from what is happening in the West with Muslim immigrants.
They should build a wall, like in Israel to separate the two groups. It works in Israel and save lives, despite false moral arguments and groundless complaints against it.
Some reports are trying to portray the Muslim terror in non religious terms by trying to blame it on economic and ethnic factors. But this tired old lame excuse can easily be refuted by showing that Muslims always clash with others in other places even when economic or ethnicity is taken away. Such excuses are like the race excuse for terror in the West. Nigeria, just like in Sudan shows that race isn't the case of terrorism. Without Islam or Muslims, the thereat of terror is vastly reduced.
This is nothing but Islamic hate! They always have excuses for terror. If it isn't this, then it's that. The only solution is to separate them out, just like in Israel with separation barrier. It's letting them in and mixing them with others, based on the discredited multi-culturalism, that is causing the problem. They just become Trojan horses and fifth-columns on the inside.
And no, not all Muslims are terrorists but almost all terrorists are Muslims, as a Muslim newspaper acknowledged. There is no way to separate the good from the bad. And if we can only do something if we are 100 per cent sure, then nothing could be done. Some thing has to give and the right thing to do is to side with the would be innocent victims, instead of would be terrorists.
Of course, they will still clash among themselves, if they are kept away from the Kuffar. But that's their problem.
In the case of Nigeria, the Christian south should break away from the Muslim north and form a country of it's own, just like it is about to happen in Sudan, and of course restrict immigration after that happens. The Muslim north would probably then become a deeply impoverished nation with a large population under strict Islamic law, and these people would start immigrating to the free and prosperous Christian south and start clashing again, if immigration isn't taken care of, like in the West or Kosovo.
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CASHES left at least one person dead and a number of houses burned in the Nigerian city of Jos yesterday amid tensions following a series of Christmas Eve bomb attacks that killed dozens.
The commissioner [state police commissioner Abdulrahman Akano] said the two groups involved in the clashes were "the locals and the so-called settlers".
Christians from the Berom ethnic group are typically referred to as the indigenes in the region, while Hausa-Fulani Muslims are seen as the more recent arrivals.
Mannok said the governor, Jonah David Jang, had encouraged youths in the city to be on the lookout and assist authorities in spotting suspicious activity.
At least 32 people were killed and 74 wounded in seven explosions in two different areas of Jos on Friday evening, with many of the victims doing their Christmas shopping at the time. A church was also targeted, the governor has said.
On the same night, suspected members of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year attacked three churches in northern Nigeria, leaving six people dead and one of the churches burnt.
The city is in the so-called middle-belt region between the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south and has long been a hot-spot of ethnic and religious friction in Nigeria.
Local rights groups say 1500 people have died in inter-communal violence in the Jos region this year alone.
From BBC 1
The latest unrest was triggered by explosions on Christmas Eve in villages near Jos.
Friday's bomb attacks near Jos also left more than 70 people injured.
Reports said two bombs exploded near a large market. A third hit a mainly Christian area while the fourth was near a road leading to a mosque. No group has claimed responsibility.
The tensions stem from decades of resentment between indigenous groups and settlers from the north.
From BBC 2
The Christmas Eve blasts happened in an area where up to 1,000 people died in sectarian clashes this year.
About 74 people were wounded in the bomb blasts. Some are in a critical condition.
In a separate development, at least six people died in attacks on churches by suspected Islamists in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.
Friday night's bomb explosions occurred during Christmas Eve celebrations in villages near Jos, police say.
Gregory Yenlong, a spokesman for Nigeria's Plateau state, told Bloomberg news agency that there had been threats "to disrupt Christmas celebrations in Jos".
Muslims are generally from the Hausa- or Fulani-speaking communities. They are often nomadic people who earn a living from rearing animals or petty trade.
The mainly Christian Berom, Anaguta and Afisare groups have traditionally been farmers.
Some Christian farmers feel they are under threat, as Hausa-speaking Muslims come down from the north looking for pasture for their animals.
In Maiduguri, suspected Islamist sect members attacked at least two churches late on Friday.
In one incident, petrol bombs killed five people including a Baptist pastor, Reuters news agency reported.
A security guard at a nearby church died in a similar assault, Reuters added.
From BBC 3
Gregory Yenlong, a spokesman for Nigeria's Plateau state, said there had been long-standing threats against the region's Christian community.
"For the past two weeks there have been threats to disrupt Christmas celebrations in Jos," Mr Yenlong told Bloomberg news agency.
From Reuters
At least six people were killed in attacks on two churches in northeastern Nigeria on Christmas Eve and 20 more died in explosions in the country's central region, officials said on Saturday.
Attackers threw petrol bombs late on Friday at a church in Maiduguri, killing five people, including a Baptist pastor. A security guard at a nearby church died in a similar assault.
The tension is rooted in decades of resentment between indigenous groups, mostly Christian or animist, who are vying for control of fertile farmlands and for economic and political power with migrants and settlers from the north.
From AP
Dozens of armed men attacked the church, dragging the pastor out of his home and shooting him to death. Two young men from the choir rehearsing for a late-night carol service also were slain.
The group of about 30 attackers armed with guns and knives even killed two people passing by Victory Baptist Church. The assailants only left after setting the church and pastor's house ablaze.
At the opposite end of the city, Rev. Haskanda Jessu said that three men attacked the Church of Christ in Nigeria an hour later, killing a 60-year-old security guard.
At least 38 people died in Christmas Eve attacks across Nigeria, including the six killed at churches in the country's north by suspected members of a radical Muslim sect. In central Nigeria, 32 died in a series of bomb blasts in the worst violence to hit the region in months.
Authorities have not identified suspects following the Christmas Eve explosions in Jos and it was not immediately clear if those attacks had a religious motive. Two of the bombs went off near a large market where people were doing last-minute Christmas shopping. A third hit a mainly Christian area of Jos, while the fourth was near a road that leads to the city's main mosque.
state governor David Jang would only say "we believe some highly placed people masterminded the attack."
Source: AFP (1, AP, BBC (1, 2, 3), Reuters
Comments: Just like in Sudan, where over 2 million Christians and animists died, here in Nigeria the Muslim north is also in conflict with Christian and animist south.
As usual, Muslim settlers from underdeveloped societies, here they are nomads, immigrate to Christian land and then start committing acts of terror. Nothing different from what is happening in the West with Muslim immigrants.
They should build a wall, like in Israel to separate the two groups. It works in Israel and save lives, despite false moral arguments and groundless complaints against it.
Some reports are trying to portray the Muslim terror in non religious terms by trying to blame it on economic and ethnic factors. But this tired old lame excuse can easily be refuted by showing that Muslims always clash with others in other places even when economic or ethnicity is taken away. Such excuses are like the race excuse for terror in the West. Nigeria, just like in Sudan shows that race isn't the case of terrorism. Without Islam or Muslims, the thereat of terror is vastly reduced.
This is nothing but Islamic hate! They always have excuses for terror. If it isn't this, then it's that. The only solution is to separate them out, just like in Israel with separation barrier. It's letting them in and mixing them with others, based on the discredited multi-culturalism, that is causing the problem. They just become Trojan horses and fifth-columns on the inside.
And no, not all Muslims are terrorists but almost all terrorists are Muslims, as a Muslim newspaper acknowledged. There is no way to separate the good from the bad. And if we can only do something if we are 100 per cent sure, then nothing could be done. Some thing has to give and the right thing to do is to side with the would be innocent victims, instead of would be terrorists.
Of course, they will still clash among themselves, if they are kept away from the Kuffar. But that's their problem.
In the case of Nigeria, the Christian south should break away from the Muslim north and form a country of it's own, just like it is about to happen in Sudan, and of course restrict immigration after that happens. The Muslim north would probably then become a deeply impoverished nation with a large population under strict Islamic law, and these people would start immigrating to the free and prosperous Christian south and start clashing again, if immigration isn't taken care of, like in the West or Kosovo.
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Last year a Muslim mob killed a pastor and his wife in Nigerian village of Boto in the mainly Christian Tafawa Balewa district of Bauchi state [Some history]
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian [Some history]
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists) [Socio-economic excuse for Muslim terror refuted]
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Brief Boko Haram history and ['Islam has nothing to do with it' so there must be] a 'poverty excuse' for their terrorism (many allegedly sympathized with previous Maitatsine extremists)
From AP (Words not in block quote or skewed in the middle are commentary on the AP report.)
Funny that Yusuf should be against Western education, which, under xenophilic liberal and leftists, is very pro-Anything-non-Western-and-Christian, especially anything Islamic, while always looking for and pointing out flaws in the Christian West.
Wanting more sharia and Islam to solve problems is a common psychological flaw among Muslims. The problem is that it is 'backward' Islam (according to the assasinated Pim Fortuyn) and 'barbaric' sharia (British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff) that is causing problems in the first place. Islam is not the solution. It is the problem.
This also shows that lack of education isn't solely responsible for Islamic extremism, if at all.
The quick and easy reply is that Islamic extremists come from many different backgrounds. Not all terrorists are poor and disadvantaged. The oil-rich Saudis and Arabs for example are funding terrorists, and some of them are also terrorists. Money isn't the problem for them.
There are also many Muslim immigrant who live in the West and enjoy the same freedoms, benefits and privileges of Westerner, and yet still cling on to their archaic Islamic ways and turn to extremism and terrorism. So the 'poverty excuse' can't be used to explain them.
There are plenty of terrorists who are educated, with a wife or wives (Islamic polygamy), children, a career and aren't poor.
And, again, as with most of the other excuses for Islam and Muslims, non-Muslims who face the same or even worse poverty and disadvantage than the Muslims don't turn to extremism like the Muslims.
Non-Muslims also don't turn to terrorism (no where near as much or as savagely as Muslims, with the exception of communists) when they are oppressed, most often by the Muslim.
Why is it that is it only Muslims that usually turn to extremism and terrorism when non-Muslim in the same or worse situation normally don't?
A WikiLeaked UK cable for example show that Muslims have the worse unemployment statistic of any religion in the UK and have other social problems.
Thilo Sarrazin said in Germany that "no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime"
Germany's Family Minister Kristina Schröder said "Religion was part of culture and culture shaped behaviour"
“If someone made an issue of the disproportionate tendency to violence among young Muslims, it was always said that this was a blanket judgement. But that’s not the case,”
“Social disadvantage and discrimination are important factors, but they are not sufficient as an explanation,”
So Muslim poverty and dysfunctionality, instead of excusing extremism, instead shows that Islam and Muslim culture causes the poverty and problems among Muslims.
It is not poverty that causes Islamic extremism. It is Islam (or versions of it) that causes both poverty and extremism.
It is a vicious cycle. The worse things get, the more Muslims turn to Islam and sharia, like an unstoppable addiction that only grows every time it is fed.
Proof: Non-Muslims usually aren't as poor as Muslims (see above), and poor non-Muslims don't become extremists or terrorists like the Muslims. Just compare it with non-Muslims in the same situation.
The usual liberal-left narrative or way of seeing things is to cast terrorists as the good guys fighting some evil (even when their fellow liberals and leftists and special groups that they pay extra attention to, are being butchered), usually the Christian West, or in this case corruption in Nigeria.
But corruption is far better than Islamic totalitarianism (or left wing totalitarianism), which will make corruption even worse as it causes even more poverty, which in turn encourages corruption, with the additional gross human rights abuses under sharia.
And corruption can be dealt with without resorting terrorism or Islamic extremism, which are far worse.
Its like excusing Hitler and Nazism with economic problems in Germany before World War Two.
If non-Muslims turn to non-left wing extremism or terrorism because of corruption or oppression, the liberal left and Muslims won't cast them as heroes fighting evil. Instead they will be demonized and told that there is no excuse for their actions.
Source: AP
Comments: What this story seems to say is that poor Muslims should be given resources so that they won't become terrorists - in a word give in to blackmail.
Sounds like 'give us/them money (or whatever we/they want), or we/they will become terrorists'.
This is also just another 'blame game' showing the distorted view among Muslims and non-Muslims alike and highlights the 'poverty excuse' which falls under the 'socio-economic excuses' for terrorism.
Such views are hegemony or reign supreme in the 'ivory tower' academia. It is a blasphemy to question it, despite claims that 'academic freedom' supposedly exists.
Finally, as usual, there was a prior history of Islamic extremism. In this case it was Maitatsine movement before the current Boko Haram. And if Boko Haram is defeated, then some other extremist group will emerge later on, complaining of something or other. Its all predictable.
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It was here a decade ago where Mohammed Yusuf, a one-time moderate imam, began preaching against the practices of Western education in life across Nigeria's Muslim north. Boko Haram was a constant refrain in the Hausa-language sermons, meaning "Western education is sacrilege."A 'moderate' Muslim becoming an extremist; something to watch out for since there are many 'moderate' Muslims offering the West to fight extremism. Have to wonder whether Yusuf really was a 'moderate' to begin with.
Funny that Yusuf should be against Western education, which, under xenophilic liberal and leftists, is very pro-Anything-non-Western-and-Christian, especially anything Islamic, while always looking for and pointing out flaws in the Christian West.
Yusuf's words came at a time when about a dozen northern states adopted Islamic Shariah law, in the wake of the country becoming a democracy after decades of military dictatorships. Many believed the law, a code of conduct based on the teachings of the Quran, would end the corruption that gripped the country's government.Muslims use democracy to vote in the un-democratic sharia. This is just like Muslim extremists abusing the rights and freedoms they enjoy in the West in order to destroy those very same rights and freedoms.
Wanting more sharia and Islam to solve problems is a common psychological flaw among Muslims. The problem is that it is 'backward' Islam (according to the assasinated Pim Fortuyn) and 'barbaric' sharia (British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff) that is causing problems in the first place. Islam is not the solution. It is the problem.
"People are living in absolute poverty," said Ibrahim Ahmed Abdullahi, an imam in Maiduguri. "Whenever people are living in this type of poverty, if you start saying to them, 'Look, come let us bring about change,' ... people must listen to you."This is what's called the 'poverty excuse' for Islamic extremism.
University graduates who joined Boko Haram tore up their diplomas. Others joined riots in 2007 attacking police stations. Yusuf's preaching became even more incendiary.Wonder what they were taught at the university. That Christian non-liberal-left-West is the source of all the evils in the world?
This also shows that lack of education isn't solely responsible for Islamic extremism, if at all.
In July 2009, sect members attacked local police stations and government buildings throughout northeast Nigeria. The riots brought a crackdown by Nigeria's military and left more than 700 dead.Classic 'poverty excuse' for Islamic extremism. This comes out of the outdated and discredited Marxist social-deterministic world view that blames socio-economic problems for everything and denies people free-will.
endemic poverty [in the Maiduguri region]
members likely come from the teeming poor in Nigeria and surrounding countries, said Murray Last, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University College of London who studies Nigeria's north.
"What else would you actually do if you haven't got an education, if you haven't got a job, if you haven't got any future of a wife or a family?" Last asked. "Wouldn't it be better to join a religious community that might ensure you of a wife and children and sort of an education? ... A lot of young men have got no real option at all."
The quick and easy reply is that Islamic extremists come from many different backgrounds. Not all terrorists are poor and disadvantaged. The oil-rich Saudis and Arabs for example are funding terrorists, and some of them are also terrorists. Money isn't the problem for them.
There are also many Muslim immigrant who live in the West and enjoy the same freedoms, benefits and privileges of Westerner, and yet still cling on to their archaic Islamic ways and turn to extremism and terrorism. So the 'poverty excuse' can't be used to explain them.
There are plenty of terrorists who are educated, with a wife or wives (Islamic polygamy), children, a career and aren't poor.
And, again, as with most of the other excuses for Islam and Muslims, non-Muslims who face the same or even worse poverty and disadvantage than the Muslims don't turn to extremism like the Muslims.
Non-Muslims also don't turn to terrorism (no where near as much or as savagely as Muslims, with the exception of communists) when they are oppressed, most often by the Muslim.
Why is it that is it only Muslims that usually turn to extremism and terrorism when non-Muslim in the same or worse situation normally don't?
A WikiLeaked UK cable for example show that Muslims have the worse unemployment statistic of any religion in the UK and have other social problems.
Thilo Sarrazin said in Germany that "no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime"
Germany's Family Minister Kristina Schröder said "Religion was part of culture and culture shaped behaviour"
“If someone made an issue of the disproportionate tendency to violence among young Muslims, it was always said that this was a blanket judgement. But that’s not the case,”
“Social disadvantage and discrimination are important factors, but they are not sufficient as an explanation,”
So Muslim poverty and dysfunctionality, instead of excusing extremism, instead shows that Islam and Muslim culture causes the poverty and problems among Muslims.
It is not poverty that causes Islamic extremism. It is Islam (or versions of it) that causes both poverty and extremism.
It is a vicious cycle. The worse things get, the more Muslims turn to Islam and sharia, like an unstoppable addiction that only grows every time it is fed.
Proof: Non-Muslims usually aren't as poor as Muslims (see above), and poor non-Muslims don't become extremists or terrorists like the Muslims. Just compare it with non-Muslims in the same situation.
Many such young men flooded into northern Nigerian cities during the country's oil boom in the 1970s, hoping for jobs. Those coming from villages instead found hardship and alienation that made them receptive to any promise to change their lives, Last said.Hopefully Murray Last wasn't sympathizing with the terrorists, but this is an admission of widespread sympathy (caused by distorted views of the world) for terrorists among Muslims, and not a tiny minority as deniers claim.
In 1980, the radical Maitatsine movement took hold in the ancient northern city of Kano. Led by a Cameroonian immigrant who inserted his own name into the Quran in place of the prophet Mohammed, the sect decried a corrupt federal government made up of "infidels." Riots left 4,000 people dead.
The military finally put down the sect after years of violence, but many still identified with the group.
"An awful lot of men and women sympathize with them," Last said. "One is dealing with an unspoken sense of: 'These people are thinking and doing things which may be wrong, but they aren't that far wrong.'"
The usual liberal-left narrative or way of seeing things is to cast terrorists as the good guys fighting some evil (even when their fellow liberals and leftists and special groups that they pay extra attention to, are being butchered), usually the Christian West, or in this case corruption in Nigeria.
But corruption is far better than Islamic totalitarianism (or left wing totalitarianism), which will make corruption even worse as it causes even more poverty, which in turn encourages corruption, with the additional gross human rights abuses under sharia.
And corruption can be dealt with without resorting terrorism or Islamic extremism, which are far worse.
Its like excusing Hitler and Nazism with economic problems in Germany before World War Two.
If non-Muslims turn to non-left wing extremism or terrorism because of corruption or oppression, the liberal left and Muslims won't cast them as heroes fighting evil. Instead they will be demonized and told that there is no excuse for their actions.
Source: AP
Comments: What this story seems to say is that poor Muslims should be given resources so that they won't become terrorists - in a word give in to blackmail.
Sounds like 'give us/them money (or whatever we/they want), or we/they will become terrorists'.
This is also just another 'blame game' showing the distorted view among Muslims and non-Muslims alike and highlights the 'poverty excuse' which falls under the 'socio-economic excuses' for terrorism.
Such views are hegemony or reign supreme in the 'ivory tower' academia. It is a blasphemy to question it, despite claims that 'academic freedom' supposedly exists.
Finally, as usual, there was a prior history of Islamic extremism. In this case it was Maitatsine movement before the current Boko Haram. And if Boko Haram is defeated, then some other extremist group will emerge later on, complaining of something or other. Its all predictable.
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ISLAMIC TERROR 101: A case study in race-card, victim-card, blaming victims & isolated explanations, using UK 'anti-terror' police John Larkin [Blame game with different cards]
Finally some PROOF: German studies find religious and cultural roots to Muslim propensity to violence, PC excuses can't explain all – like so DUH!!! [Cultural and religious roots of Muslim problems]
Multiculturalism utterly failed in Germany, say German Chancellor Merkel [Muslims do worse compared to others.]
WikiLeaked US embassy UK cable: Muslims most unemployed and disabled, some supports killing for Islam, and apostates (6 percent)
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Last year a Muslim mob killed a pastor and his wife in Nigerian village of Boto in the mainly Christian Tafawa Balewa district of Bauchi state
According to AFP, "Sectarian unrest between predominant Muslims and Christian minorities is common in Bauchi and Jos, its neighbour in central Plateau State."
The information is from an AFP news report on the sentencing in Bauchi State of Pentecostal pastor John Nadrew, 46, to three years and eight months jail for illegal possession of firearms, which he claims to have kept "for self-defence following a series of sectarian attacks in the area."
Source: AFP
Comments: Despite the sentence, it is still a good idea to be well prepared against Muslim extremists, especially in northern Nigeria.
The mainly Muslim north jails a Christian pastor for being sensible, while the police there [in other areas] does nothing against the Islamic Boko Haram terrorists carrying out numerous murderous attacks.
Even the police there is suspected of being infiltrated by Boko Haram members.
It wouldn't be surprising if the police ignores weapon possession by Muslim attackers and only targets Christians who are only trying to defend themselves.
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Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them
Spurious legal challenges & small scale attacks before Souther Sudan Independence referendum in January – Brief Sudan history included [Another country in Africa where there is a conflict between Christian south and Muslim north with at least 2 million Christian deaths.]
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The information is from an AFP news report on the sentencing in Bauchi State of Pentecostal pastor John Nadrew, 46, to three years and eight months jail for illegal possession of firearms, which he claims to have kept "for self-defence following a series of sectarian attacks in the area."
Source: AFP
Comments: Despite the sentence, it is still a good idea to be well prepared against Muslim extremists, especially in northern Nigeria.
The mainly Muslim north jails a Christian pastor for being sensible, while the police there [in other areas] does nothing against the Islamic Boko Haram terrorists carrying out numerous murderous attacks.
Even the police there is suspected of being infiltrated by Boko Haram members.
It wouldn't be surprising if the police ignores weapon possession by Muslim attackers and only targets Christians who are only trying to defend themselves.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them
Spurious legal challenges & small scale attacks before Souther Sudan Independence referendum in January – Brief Sudan history included [Another country in Africa where there is a conflict between Christian south and Muslim north with at least 2 million Christian deaths.]
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Nigerian police chief says some police may be Boko Haram Islamic terrorist members tipping off police movements resulting in failure so far to stop them
[Nigerian police chief] Hafiz Ringim, during a visit to the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where much of the violence has occurred, said
Source: AFP
Comments: It wouldn't be surprising if terrorists have infiltrated the police.
Islamic extremist infiltration, espionage (spying) and lying or deceiving (Taqiyya) are quite common.
A reminder from a previous post
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Ex-Guyana MP Abdul Kadir sentenced to life for JFK airport terror plot to kill thousands - spied for Iran, claims Islam forbid killing “innocent” people [Terrorist MP and an alleged spy, terrorist spy at the JFK airport involved as well]
Arab-Israeli human rights activist, Amir Makhoul, pleads guilty to spying for enemy of Israel [Spy]
Nigerian police says fear of reprisals by Boko Haram Islamists preventing people from tipping them with information
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Some tell me that some of you are their members,"
"I do not want to believe it, but how do they know our movements?"
Source: AFP
Comments: It wouldn't be surprising if terrorists have infiltrated the police.
Islamic extremist infiltration, espionage (spying) and lying or deceiving (Taqiyya) are quite common.
A reminder from a previous post
Boko Haram means "Western education is sin" or "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language.This Islamic sect is also known as the Nigerian Taliban.
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Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
6 US soldiers training Afghan police killed by a trainee, Azat Gul or Izzatullah - several similar attacks have happened before [Terrorist police]
Ex-Guyana MP Abdul Kadir sentenced to life for JFK airport terror plot to kill thousands - spied for Iran, claims Islam forbid killing “innocent” people [Terrorist MP and an alleged spy, terrorist spy at the JFK airport involved as well]
Arab-Israeli human rights activist, Amir Makhoul, pleads guilty to spying for enemy of Israel [Spy]
Nigerian police says fear of reprisals by Boko Haram Islamists preventing people from tipping them with information
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Nigerian police says fear of reprisals by Boko Haram Islamists preventing people from tipping them with information
The Nigerian police in recent weeks have encouraged resident of Borno state, scene of an uprising by the Islamist Boko Haram sect last year, to offer them with tips on the sect.
So far only two have done so and the state's police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar said this was due to fear of reprisals and not out of support for the Islamists who last month threatened to kill informers.
In the past five months, around 50 has been killed by Boko Harma.
Source: AFP
Comment: Terror and Fear.
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Boko Haram aka Nigerian Taliban blamed for killing 2 police, lastest in string of attacks
A suspected Boko Haram member killed in failed attack on police station
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
So far only two have done so and the state's police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar said this was due to fear of reprisals and not out of support for the Islamists who last month threatened to kill informers.
In the past five months, around 50 has been killed by Boko Harma.
Source: AFP
Comment: Terror and Fear.
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Boko Haram aka Nigerian Taliban blamed for killing 2 police, lastest in string of attacks
A suspected Boko Haram member killed in failed attack on police station
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Gambia, without explanation, orders Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours
Gambia has without explanation, ordered Iranian diplomats in the country to leave within 48 hours.2
Essa Bokarr Sey, a former Gambian ambassador to the United States, said it might be related to the recent seizure of a weapons shipment from Iran, in Nigeria, that news reports strongly suggest was destined for Gambia. He said that although it was fine for a country to purchase arms for it's own use, it might not be if they were bought for re-export.2
The two countries have previously developed ties after both were internationally ostracized – Gambia over accusations of human rights abuses and Iran over its nuclear program.1
Gambia supported Iran's nuclear program and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2006 that they were both being pressured by “bullying” powers.1
Sey suggested that Iran might be the latest victim to be used by the Gambian President Yayah Jammeh who has a history of making U-turns.1
He said that Jemmeh had in the past named an avenue after the Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi during a period of good relations, only to reverse it when things later went sour.1
He explained that,
Sources: 1. AFP, 2. Voice of America (VOA)
Previous report on this story:
Nigeria said to have evidence linking Iran to secret weapons shipment to the country
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Essa Bokarr Sey, a former Gambian ambassador to the United States, said it might be related to the recent seizure of a weapons shipment from Iran, in Nigeria, that news reports strongly suggest was destined for Gambia. He said that although it was fine for a country to purchase arms for it's own use, it might not be if they were bought for re-export.2
The two countries have previously developed ties after both were internationally ostracized – Gambia over accusations of human rights abuses and Iran over its nuclear program.1
Gambia supported Iran's nuclear program and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2006 that they were both being pressured by “bullying” powers.1
Sey suggested that Iran might be the latest victim to be used by the Gambian President Yayah Jammeh who has a history of making U-turns.1
He said that Jemmeh had in the past named an avenue after the Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi during a period of good relations, only to reverse it when things later went sour.1
He explained that,
Whenever there is a lot of noise and he feels scared and he has been unearthed and identified as somebody who was meeting behind the curtains, he would react in this way to clean himself up2
Sources: 1. AFP, 2. Voice of America (VOA)
Previous report on this story:
Nigeria said to have evidence linking Iran to secret weapons shipment to the country
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A UN report says North Korea supplying Iran, Syria and Myanmar with ballistic and nuclear equipment
Hugo Chavez and Iran in an Unholy alliance
Friday, November 12, 2010
Nigeria said to have evidence linking Iran to secret weapons shipment to the country
Nigeria says two Iranians, Azimi Agajany and Sayed Akbar Tahmaesebi were behind the secret shipment of 13 containers of weapons, including 107mm artillery rockets, rifle rounds2 and grenades,1 to the country. The shipment was made by them through a Tehran-based company called International Trading and General Construction.2 The containers, deceptively labeled "packages of glass wool and pallets of stone", were loaded at Bandar Abbas in Iran by France based shipping company CMA CGM and arrived at Lagos in July.2
The containers sat at the port until October 26 2 and were about to be shipped to Gambia1 when it was seized by the Nigerian authorities, who said it had been monitored before arrival.2 The authorities also said the cargo was intended for Nigeria and that "any argument that the cargo came into the country by mistake is false."1 They believe the arms were ordered by some local politicians to be used if they lose in next year's election.2
These revelations come only a fews days after Iranians demonstrated shouting “Death to America” outside the former US embassy in Tehran, which they now call “Den of Spies”.3
Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP, 3. Los Angeles Times
Related story: Secular Shiite Ayad Allawi says Iran definitely finances terror
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Al-Qaeda in North Africa (AQIM), shopping for weapons with kidnap ransom money
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), active in the Saharah desert of Algeria, Mali, Niger and Mauritania, are said to be shopping for weapons with ransom money from kidnappings.
Source: BBC
Source: BBC
Monday, November 1, 2010
Muslims with machetes kill 6 Christians - 2 women & 4 children - burn homes, crops and kill cattle in Nigerian
Machete2 armed Muslim herdsmen from the Hausa-Fulani1,2 ethnic group have attacked a Christian village of Rawhinku, East of the Nigerian city of Jos.2 A women too old to flee, a young mother, and four small children were killed.1 Houses1,3 and crops3 were also burnt and cattle were slaughtered.1,3 The Christians belong to the farming Berom ethic group.1,2,3
There have been previous killings in the area which is in the "Middle Belt"2 where Muslim north and Christian south meets.2 Religious and ethnic violence between the indigenous Christians and animists, and migrants and settlers from the Muslim north, have killed thousands in the past decades.2
Source: 1. BBC, 2. Reuters, 3. UPI
Monday, October 25, 2010
A suspected Boko Haram member killed in failed attack on police station
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Boko Haram aka Nigerian Taliban blamed for killing 2 police, lastest in string of attacks
Gunmen have killed 2 police manning a checkpoint at night in northern Nigerian town of Bauchi and authorities there have banned motorcycles between 6 pm to 6 am. Previous attacks also blamed on Boko Haram includes the killing of a police officer in the same city and the torching of a police station in Maiduguri, Borno state, where there is already a similar ban on motorcycles statewide.
Source: AFP
Source: AFP
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