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Africa Subsaharan
Jihadist killings have no religious basis: Nigerian president
2014-10-05
[Al Ahram] Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
said Saturday that killings by faceless myrmidons of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
and other Islamists across the globe, including those who killed a British aid worker, have no religious basis.

"What is happening globally now has no religious basis," Jonathan told visiting Moslem leaders on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the Moslem feast of sacrifice. "Only yesterday, a British aid worker was slaughtered by ISIS, and that is not Islamic."

British Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
has confirmed the "brutal murder" of aid worker Alan Henning, 47, by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group on Friday.

"Boko Haram killing innocent children and women in marketplaces, in mosques, schools definitely has nothing to do with religion," Jonathan said.

The faceless myrmidons are believed to be in control of more than two dozen towns and villages in northeastern Nigeria.

The five-year-old insurgency has claimed thousands of lives.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Mr. Jonathan, your own book puts the lie to your words. Nice hat, though.
Posted by: jay-dubya   2014-10-05 09:48  

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