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Killings at ‘epidemic levels’: Nigerian Christians slaughtered by radical Fulani herders, ISWAP terrorists

ABUJA, Nigeria — Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, a day after Islamic State terrorists allegedly killed two others in the city of Kano last Saturday, sources said.

In northern Nigeria’s Kano state, suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) shot the two Christians to death at about 8 p.m. local time on Sept. 25 in the state capital, said area resident Chukwudi Iwuchukwu.

He identified the slain Christians as Ifeanyi Ilechukwu, 41, and Chibuke Emannuel, 33. Iwuchukwu said ISWAP terrorists approached them at their shop in Kano city’s predominantly Christian area of Sabon Gari in Fagge County.

by Blazingcatfur•October 4, 2022October 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Nigeria

Police in Nigeria find 20 mummified bodies in ‘suspected ritual shrine’

Police in Nigeria have discovered 20 mummified bodies including those of children in a building in Benin City, in a case that has shocked the country.

Three suspects were arrested during the raid in southern Nigeria, Jennifer Iwegbu, a police spokesperson said in a statement late Wednesday. Armed police officers raided the building in Benin City, the capital of Edo state, acting on intelligence that it was a “suspected ritual shrine”, she said.

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2022August 20, 2022•0•Nigeria, WTF?

Three gay men to be stoned to death in Nigeria

Three men have been found guilty of homosexuality by an Islamic sharia court in Bauchi, Nigeria, and their sentence is that they shall be stoned to death.

The verdict was announced by the leader of the Hisbah religious police force, Adam Dan Kafi, on Friday, July 1, after all three men gave confessions. However, none of those convicted had any legal representation in the court that found them guilty.

by Blazingcatfur•July 10, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and homosexuality, Islam and violence, Nigeria

Islamist attack frees hundreds of prisoners in Nigeria

Hundreds of prisoners, including scores of terrorists, were on the run in Nigeria after suspected Islamist militants attacked a prison near the capital, Abuja.

Gunmen armed with explosives blasted into Kuje medium-security prison, on the outskirts of Abuja, at about 10pm on Tuesday, freeing nearly 900 of the prison’s 994 inmates, government officials said.

At least 443 of the 879 escapers were still missing late on Wednesday, said Umar Abubakar, a spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Service.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2022July 7, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

The Black Lives that Don’t Matter: 50 Christians Murdered in Their Church

Last Sunday, June 5, 2022, Islamic terrorists stormed St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo State, Nigeria, and massacred more than 50 Christians who were peacefully worshipping their God. Videos, according to one report, “showed church worshippers lying in pools of blood while people around them wailed.”

As terrible as this massacre might seem, it is just the proverbial “tip of the iceberg”: over the years, Muslims have assaulted, shot up or torched countless churches in Nigeria.

by Blazingcatfur•June 13, 2022June 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Nigeria

Christians Warned Biden and Blinken About Nigeria But they didn’t listen and took the country off the State Department’s blacklist.

Islamic terrorism against Christians abroad is a subject that leaves the Biden administration cold. In late 2021, President Joe Biden took anti-Christian Nigeria off the State Department list of countries hostile to religious freedom — a move that puzzled the U.S. government’s own Commission on International Religious Freedom, which noted the large number of “militant Islamists” in the country. Biden’s policy now looks even worse in light of the Islamic terrorist act on Pentecost Sunday in southwestern Nigeria that left over 80 people in a Catholic church dead.

by Blazingcatfur•June 12, 2022June 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria, USA

“Gunmen” kill 50 in attack on Catholic Church

At least 50 feared dead in attack on Catholic church in Nigeria

Gunmen attack Catholic Church in Owo,ONDO,Nigeria
May God save us all,it’s not safe anywhere 💔💔 pic.twitter.com/589u3OI3yw

— Dr Care (@EtzDrCare) June 5, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•June 6, 2022June 6, 2022•0•Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Nigeria

Nigeria – Muslims set man ablaze for blasphemous remark, others attack Catholic church murdering dozens & kidnapping a priest & parishioners

Nigeria clash: Abuja mob burns man to death over row with Muslim cleric

Nigerian police say a man who had a row with a Muslim cleric died in the capital, Abuja, after being set ablaze by a mob supporting the cleric.

Ahmad Usman, 30, was in a local vigilante group and police say about 200 people were mobilised against him.

Eyewitnesses said the row was over an alleged blasphemous remark, but the police have not confirmed this.

Nigeria violence: Gunmen kill Catholic worshippers in Owo

Gunmen have killed worshippers in a Catholic church in Ondo, south-west Nigeria, the state’s governor has said.

Rotimi Akeredolu called it a “vile and satanic attack” on innocent people.

The armed men entered St Francis church in the town of Owo during a Sunday service. They fired into the congregation and then kidnapped a priest as well as some other church-goers, witnesses said.

Nigeria has experienced an upsurge in violence in recent months.

Kidnappings and attacks have been reported across the vast country.

Mohammedans having fun…

Indeed it’s a very peaceful religion pic.twitter.com/Nn6cQu2A3v

— Mohamad Bin Abdullah (@MaulanaDeesel) June 4, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•June 5, 2022June 5, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

Nigerian Presidential Aspirant: It was cool marrying a 13 year old

Nothing wrong marrying 13-year-old, says APC presidential aspirant Yerima

Former Zamfara governor and presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sani Yerima, says he did nothing wrong marrying a 13-year old girl.

Mr Yerima justified marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl when he appeared on Channels TV on Tuesday

The 2009 marriage generated much criticisms among child rights activists at the time but Mr Yerima insists he did not contravene any Nigerian law.

“If I had done anything wrong, I would have been tried in court. NAPTIP wanted to try the case and they dropped the matter because I didn’t do anything wrong,” Mr Yerima said.

by Blazingcatfur•May 12, 2022May 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

Knife-wielding ISIS fanatics execute 20 Christians in Nigeria ‘to avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East’

ISIS extremists have callously executed 20 Christians in Nigeria in a bloodthirsty rampage to ‘avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East’.

The terrorist group published footage of the ruthless killings, showing the masked knife and gun-wielding fanatics standing behind their kneeling victims.

The militants carried out the merciless executions in Borno state where rival Islamist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) have been abducting, looting and killing on a huge scale.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2022May 11, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia

During quiet moments, after he has finished lecturing for the day, Dr John Stone has flashbacks. It’s not the blood or the sound of the gunshots that haunt him. It’s the begging. The way people beg for mercy when they die. Begging him. Begging God.

“It’s so painful,” he says, shaking his head with a shudder. “The families of the dead, they will curse you. A curse will be upon your life.”

Dr Stone teaches political science at the University of Benin, in south-east Nigeria. But for decades he was a senior member of Black Axe – a Nigerian mafia-style gang tied to human trafficking, internet fraud and murder. Locally, Black Axe are referred to as a “cult,” a nod to their secret initiation rituals and the intense loyalty of their members. They are also infamous for extreme violence. Images of those who cross their path – dead bodies mutilated or showing signs of torture – regularly surface on Nigerian social media.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2021December 13, 2021•0•Nigeria, WTF?

Dad has daughter brutally whipped by teachers at Islamic school in Nigeria

Girl is brutally whipped by teachers in front of her father at Islamic school in Nigeria – after her parent REQUESTED the beating because she had been caught drinking alcohol

This is the shocking moment a girl is whipped by teachers in front of her father at a Nigerian Islamic school after he requested the beating because she had been caught drinking alcohol.

The clip, which has been widely circulated online, shows four men armed with what appear to be stick-like objects surrounding the young girl who is kneeling on the floor.

Girl is brutally whipped by #teachers in front of her father at Islamic school in Nigeria – #WARNING #Muslims #Islam @hrw @UNHumanRights @UN_Women @SaveUKNews #teacher pic.twitter.com/ZULi6tbjPg

— Truth First – Lanka (@ApiWenuwen) October 12, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•October 12, 2021October 12, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

The Jihadist Genocide of Christians in Nigeria Intensifies

What several international observers have for years characterized as a “pure genocide” of Christians in Nigeria has reached new levels.

Since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009 — first at the hands of Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist organization, and later by the Fulani, who are Muslim herdsmen also radicalized and motivated by jihadist ideology — more than 60,000 Christians have either been murdered or abducted during raids. The abducted Christians have never returned to their homes and their loved ones believe them to be dead. In addition, in the same time frame, approximately 20,000 churches and Christian schools have been torched and destroyed.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Nigeria

Neo-Colonial Twitter – Jack is keeping The Black Man Down

Why Twitter got it wrong in Nigeria

… At the time, Twitter said the post was in violation of its rules.

The company has the right to enforce its regulations, but Mr Buhari’s post was an official communication from the Nigerian president to his people, tweeted from a government account.

The same message was also broadcast on other media platforms across the country.

Is it right that a private American firm has the power to edit, without permission, the official communication of a democratically elected president of an African country? It doesn’t get any more neo-colonial than that.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2021August 15, 2021•0•Nigeria, Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Nigeria: 17 Christians Killed Every Day In First Half Of 2021

“The number of defenseless Christians hacked to death by Nigeria’s Islamic jihadists and their collaborators in the security forces in the past 200 days … has risen to no fewer than 3,462 and this is just 68 deaths less than the total deaths of Nigerian Christians in 2020, which the Open Doors’ World Watch List of Persecuted Christians put at 3,530,” Intersociety said.

by Blazingcatfur•August 1, 2021August 1, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Nigeria