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ISLAMIST TERRORISM IN NIGERIA – AT LEAST 35 DEAD

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Several churches in Nigeria have
been during the Mass on
Christmas Day, the target of
Islamist terrorists. At least 35
people were killed. For the
attacks, the group known Boko
Haram.
“We are responsible for all
attacks in recent days, including
today’s bomb against the church
in Madalla,” said spokesman for
the group Boko Haram, Abul
Qaqa, on Sunday. “We continue
these attacks in the north in the
next few days.”
Alone in the attack near the St.
Theresa’s Church in Madalla, a
suburb of the capital, Abuja, were
on Sunday morning, according to
the security forces killed 30
people. ‘ / p>
Vatican speaks of “blind
hatred and absurd”
From different cities were initially
reported during the day four
explosions, two of them – in the
city of Jos and the city Gadaka –
also directed against churches.
Jos from one death was reported
in Gadaka according to one
resident was injured no one. The
Vatican condemned the attack in
Madalla an expression of “blind
hatred and absurd.” Vatican
spokesman Federico Lombardi
said in Rome, the perpetrators
wanted to “sow more hatred and
confusion.”
Early as last Christmas
attacks on Christians
For a series of attacks in the days
before Christmas
, to which the Boko Haram
spokesman now known once
again, were in north eastern
Nigeria killed up to one hundred
people. Even at Christmas 2010,
she committed a series of attacks
against Christian institutions in
the central Nigerian city of Jos.
The grouping is also known to the
attack on the UN headquarters in
Abuja
, were killed at the end of
August, 24 people. Boko Haram
aims to establish an Islamic state
in northern Nigeria. Her name
means “The Western doctrine of
sin.”

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Islamist militants explode five bombs in Nigeria
 
killing innocents in the name of Islam for establishing an Islamic state. because of these very people - the word "Islamic Terror" has come into existence.
 
killing innocents in the name of Islam for establishing an Islamic state. because of these very people - the word "Islamic Terror" has come into existence.

Then the bombing of Shamjhota Express and the bombing of King David Hotel in 1948 should have given birth to terms like Hindu Terror and Jewish Terror, but it has not and that makes your argument of zero value. You have extreme prejudice against Islam and you look for ways to justify your hatred.
 
Then the bombing of Shamjhota Express and the bombing of King David Hotel in 1948 should have given birth to terms like Hindu Terror and Jewish Terror, but it has not and that makes your argument of zero value. You have extreme prejudice against Islam and you look for ways to justify your hatred.

you are taking offtopic.... they were not done by organisations they were done by anti social elements..but here we see a collective organised efforts by the terrorists who has the history of doing again and again..

Kindly stick to the topic.
 
Then the bombing of Shamjhota Express and the bombing of King David Hotel in 1948 should have given birth to terms like Hindu Terror and Jewish Terror, but it has not and that makes your argument of zero value. You have extreme prejudice against Islam and you look for ways to justify your hatred.
i'm not the one who is calling it that term. it is the newspaper that i quoted. if you want to talk about the other terms- you can open a new thread.
 
Islamist militants explode five bombs in Nigeria


(Reuters) - Islamist militant group Boko Haram said it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people on the outskirts of the capital.

Boko Haram, which wants to impose Islamic sharia law across the country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims, has escalated its tactics this year and increased the sophistication of the explosives it uses.

St Theresa's Catholic Church in Madala, an Abuja satellite town about 40 km from the centre of the capital, was packed out when the powerful bomb exploded during a Christmas service.

"We were in the church with my family when we heard the explosion. I just ran out," Timothy Onyekwere told Reuters. "Now I don't even know where my children or my wife are. I don't know how many were killed but there were many dead."

Boko Haram -- which in the Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria means "Western education is sinful" -- is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.

The sect was blamed for dozens of bombings and shootings in the north, and has claimed responsibility for two bombings in Abuja this year, including Nigeria's first suicide bombing on the U.N. headquarters in August that killed at least 23 people.

Rights groups say more than 250 people have been killed by Boko Haram since July 2010.

Hours after the first bomb, blasts were reported at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church in the central, ethnically and religiously mixed town of Jos, and at a church in northern Yobe state at the town of Gadaka. Residents said many were wounded in Gadaka.

Police found two other explosive devices in Jos, which they deactivated and arrested one man.

Residents of the northeastern city of Damaturu also reported two blasts but there were no details immediately available.

CHAOS AND CARNAGE

A Reuters reporter on the scene of the explosion close to Abuja saw the large church's front roof had been destroyed in the blast, as had several houses near it. Five burnt out cars were still smouldering.

"The officials who counted told me they have picked 27 bodies so far," Father Christopher Barde, Assistant Catholic Priest of the church, said.

There were scenes of chaos after the incident.

"We are presently there, evacuating the dead and the injured, but unfortunately we don't have enough ambulances," National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib said initially by telephone. More ambulances came later.

"Mass just ended and people were rushing out of the church and suddenly I heard a loud sound 'gbam'. Cars were in flames and bodies littered everywhere," Nnana Nwachukwu told Reuters.

"The blast occurred on the road by the church and not inside the church. I happen to also live close by the church. Help was very slow in coming to the injured."

President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south who is struggling to contain the threat of Islamist militancy, called the incident "unfortunate" but said Boko Haram would "not be (around) for ever. It will end one day."

ANGER UNLEASHED

The whole area around the church was cordoned off by police. Thousands of furious youths set up burning road blocks on the highway from Abuja leading to Nigeria's largely Muslim north.

Police and the military tried to disperse them by firing live rounds into the air with tear gas.

The Vatican condemned the first blast. Its spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said the Vatican hoped "this senseless violence does not weaken the will of the Nigerian people to live peacefully and promote dialogue in their country".

A witness at Jos saw one lightly wounded policeman from that explosion, but there were no reports of other casualties.

Last Christmas Eve, a series of bomb blasts around Jos killed 32 people, and others people died in attacks on two churches in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation.

Gun battles between the security forces and Boko Haram killed at least 68 people in two days of fighting in northern Nigeria, authorities and hospital sources said on Saturday.

Boko Haram has been blamed for scores of shootings and bombings in Nigeria's remote, semi-arid northeast, including a spate of attacks in the past few weeks.

On August 26, a suicide bomber struck the U.N. building in Abuja. At least 23 people were killed and 76 wounded by the bombing which gutted the ground floor and smashed almost all the windows. Boko Haram claimed responsibility on August 29, demanding the release of prisoners and an end to a security crackdown aimed at preventing more bombings.

The blast was the first known suicide bombing in Nigeria.

Boko Haram became active in about 2003 and is concentrated mainly in the northern Nigerian states of Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduna.

The group considers all who do not follow its strict ideology as infidels, whether they are Christian or Muslim. It demands the adoption of sharia, Islamic law, in all of Nigeria.

Boko Haram followers have prayed in separate mosques in cities including Maiduguri, Kano and Sokoto, and wear long beards and red or black headscarves.

(Additional reporting by Tife Owolabi in Jos, Mike Oboh in Kano and a correspondent in Maiduguri.; Writing by Tim Cocks and Peter Millership)

Islamist militants explode five bombs in Nigeria | Reuters
 
What were the colonialists thinking when they drew those borders?

Sudan for example, the top half is Arab Muslim, and the bottom half is Black Christian. Now the country has been literally broken half, North and South Sudan.

In Rawanda, you have the Hutus and the Tutsis lumped together for no reason. Leading to the Rawandan genocide.

Now a similar story in Nigeria.
 
you are taking offtopic.... they were not done by organisations they were done by anti social elements..but here we see a collective organised efforts by the terrorists who has the history of doing again and again..

Kindly stick to the topic.

Well, inviduals make an organization, so don't give me your crap about Muslim extremists part of your so-called 'organization' and your RSS terrorists being individual anti-socials. For your information, those who bombed King David Hotel in 1948 were members of the notorious Irgun terror group led by Menchem Begin. This Irgun terror group had a long history of terror attacks, but still no such term like Jewish terror was applied to describe the mayhem they caused. What I have just pointed out is quite relevant for one of you have mentioned how the term so-called 'Islamic Terror' has appeared when actually there's no such thing as 'Islamic Terror' because Islam does not permit terrorism.
 
Well, inviduals make an organization, so don't give me your crap about Muslim extremists part of your so-called 'organization' and your RSS terrorists being individual anti-socials. For your information, those who bombed King David Hotel in 1948 were members of the notorious Irgun terror group led by Menchem Begin. This Irgun terror group had a long history of terror attacks, but still no such term like Jewish terror was applied to describe the mayhem they caused. What I have just pointed out is quite relevant for one of you have mentioned how the term so-called 'Islamic Terror' has appeared when actually there's no such thing as 'Islamic Terror' because Islam does not permit terrorism.


:lol:.. don't try to divert the topics... Links have been posted regarding the attacks and the terrorists organisation .. ple read and enlightren yourself.
 
Well, inviduals make an organization, so don't give me your crap about Muslim extremists part of your so-called 'organization' and your RSS terrorists being individual anti-socials. For your information, those who bombed King David Hotel in 1948 were members of the notorious Irgun terror group led by Menchem Begin. This Irgun terror group had a long history of terror attacks, but still no such term like Jewish terror was applied to describe the mayhem they caused. What I have just pointed out is quite relevant for one of you have mentioned how the term so-called 'Islamic Terror' has appeared when actually there's no such thing as 'Islamic Terror' because Islam does not permit terrorism.
we Indians haven't coined that word. you can write it to the newspaper. the link is provided.
 
:lol:.. don't try to divert the topics... Links have been posted regarding the attacks and the terrorists organisation .. ple read and enlightren yourself.

There's absolutely no question of deviating from the topic, but as you always do, you're running away from the truth.
 

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