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Monday, August 24, 2009

Who will cry for the Christians in Nigeria

Christians in north Nigeria live under the threat of violence and death, every single day of their lives. Hundreds of Christians have been persecuted and killed and hundreds of churches destroyed, Christian homes burnt down, and now after the recent killing rampage a few weeks ago, it looks like the Nigerian authorities are planning to control "religious preachers" and hopefully that does not translate to only "Christian preachers". The northern region of Nigeria is where the trouble usually occurs with Muslim fundamentalists killing and burning of churches and Christian homes.Countless Christians are now displaced and homeless. Hard-line Islamic groups are opposed to Western education and want to impose strict Shariah laws on even Nigerian Christians. Fundamentalists from an Islamic group called Boko Haram capture Christians and torture them until they agree to convert to Islam. Reports of these forceful conversions are coming in from all over the northern region. The incidents of Muslim violence against Christians is on the rise in north Nigeria. The MSM hardly touched on the bloodshed in Nigeria. If it had been Israel or Hamas or Hezbollah, the MSM would have been roaring like lions with negative statements thrown at Israel. The only time I saw something about Nigeria's was when they reported about a gun battle being fought against "rebels who attacked a police station". Those rebels were actually members of the Boko Haram group . No mention was made about Christians being killed or tortured. In the dialect of Nigeria's north, the name Boko Haram means "Western education is sinful".Boko Haram's atrocities commenced in mid July and ended in the Islamic militants being killed by Nigerian police forces in the gun battle that the MSM reported. Although some reports say that this group has no support from the largely peaceful Muslim population of Nigeria, they have still managed to sign up enough fundamentalists and are proving to be good strategists. The fact that they could launch attacks on three police stations in three different States of north Nigeria should tell you that this group is not as light-weight as many news outlets claim them to be. The questions now being raised in Nigeria are: How could such an Islamic fundamentalist group wreck such widespread and devasting havoc on Christians in the north and why were their activities not on the authorities' radar? And, more importantly, who or what organization funded and armed them? The concern is that the remnants of this group will reassemble and regroup. It does not take much to set the Muslim fundamentalist tempers ablaze and reports of killings and ramage are now on almost a weekly basis.Just a couple of days ago, they were at it again Nigeria's population is approx. 150 M. Southern parts of Nigeria are mainly Christian and Christians make up approx 40% of the entire population. The north is mainly Muslim. The north is where the Islamic fundamentals create trouble as it is a stronghold of Muslims with half the states under Shariah law

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