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| Nigerian Moslems Kill 1,500 Christians, Including Eight Pastors, and Displace 25,000 Others |
| 2004-04-08 |
| Religious violence that erupted in the Nigerian state of Plateau a few weeks ago has expanded and resulted in the deaths of eight pastors and 1,500 Christian believers, and the destruction of 173 churches, according to a bulletin released by Open Doors USA. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) released the names of the martyred pastors who served Baptist, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Assemblies of God and the Evangelical Reformed congregations, as well as the Church of Christ in Nigeria and the Evangelical Church of West Africa. Nigeriaâs National Emergency Management Agency reported that religious violence in Plateau and Nasarawa states has resulted in the displacement of 25,000 people. Bauchi state official Alhaji Musa Lima told Compass, âAbout 50,000 displaced persons who managed to escape the hostility have temporarily relocated to some parts of this state,â placing enormous pressure on local resources. On March 28, Muslim-Christian violence broke out in the state of Nasarawa, reportedly claiming the lives of 15 Christians, according to Compass Direct. Compass Direct reports Christian leaders have condemned Muslim fundamentalists for killing Christians and destroying churches in northern Nigeria, warning that the national governmentâs inability to address the violence could turn the country into a theater for religious war. The Christian Association of Nigeria issued a prepared statement that read, âHow can anyone explain the reason for invading a church where women, children and men were worshipping, asking them to surrender and lie face down and then proceed to machete and axe them to death in their house of worship?â The CAN statement asserted that Christians in Nigeria have never initiated violence against Muslims and claimed that Nigerian officials demonstrate lukewarm attitudes toward the plight of Christians. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 Religion and the new polio outbreak in Nigeria Last weekâs outbreak of the bird flu in South-East Asia succeeded in making as a mere footnote in the international media , the alarm raised by the World Health Organization (WHO) at about the same time, that new outbreak of polio (cerebral spinal meningitis) in Nigeria which had spread to about seven West African countries represent a serious health danger not only to the West African region but the possibility of triggering a global epidemic. But a world devastated last year by the highly contagious SARS epidemic paid closer attention to events in South East Asia. Not even the media spin that claimed most of the victims of the present epidemic, largely in Islamic northern Nigeria refused government vaccines imported from the western world ,alleging the vaccines were laced with other deadly poisons meant to depopulate the Moslem community in Nigeria as part of a broader western world strategic calculations in the global war against terrorism could give prominence to the story. Obviously, the entire world is out to get these Nigerian Islamists. Of course we're tainting their vaccines with AIDS/HIV compounds. Maybe it's for a good reason too, since they are responsible for the first major polio outbreak in modern history. A major die off in this region just might prevent a whole lot of downstream heartbreak. The Ivory Coast has had its first polio case in four years. The outbreak from northern Nigeria has already spread to Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Ghana, and Togo. Chad has more than 20 new cases directly linked to Nigeria's immunization blockade. The oversized clue bat, please. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-08 11:42:26 PM |
| #1 Wonder what they did to piss them off now? Somebody fart in front of a mosque? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-04-08 11:17:37 PM |