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| Catholic aid official: Boko Haram disrupts church life in Cameroon |
| 2016-03-19 |
| [CATHOLICPHILLY] A Catholic aid official warned that church life faces "grave disruption" from 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... in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... after a local bishop confirmed the Nigeria-based group had caused a "psychosis of fear." "This movement opposes all Western values and is also hostile to Muslims who won’t accept the reign of Shariah law," said Rafael D’Aqui, head of the Africa section at Aid to the Church in Need. "They’re now trying to draw world attention with cross-border attacks, and since foreign priests and nuns are a key prize, the missionaries on whom the local church depends have had to leave." D’Aqui told Catholic News Service March 16 that Boko Haram had infiltrated Cameroon’s northern Yagoua and Maroua-Mokolo dioceses after suffering military setbacks in neighboring Nigeria, despite "huge efforts" by the Cameroonian armed forces. He added that Boko Haram marauders were still regularly taking control of whole villages, abducting child hostages to be brainwashed and used in "random suicide kabooms." Extremist groups "are obtaining huge sums of money from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and elsewhere to build mosques where there were previously no Muslims and train imams in a hard, radical school," D’Aqui said. "There’s a holy warrior fraternity now, which is intent on invading and establishing a presence in Christian areas." Catholics account for 38 percent of Cameroon’s 20.4 million inhabitants, with Protestants making up 26 percent and Muslims 21 percent, according to the U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report. |
| Posted by:Fred |