Church Blasts Kill 12 and Injure 80 in Nigeria, Reportedly Sparking Christian Reprisal Attacks Against Muslims
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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LAGOS, Nigeria (The Blaze/AP) — A Nigerian Red Cross official said at least 12 people were killed and 80 wounded in bombings at three churches in the country’s north — attacks that reportedly prompted Christian youths to drag Muslims out of their cars and kill them in retaliation.
Andronicus Adeyemo said 10 people were killed and at least 29 wounded in a blast in the city of Kaduna Sunday morning. He said two people died and 51 were wounded in two church attacks in the nearby city of Zaria. He said the Zaria attacks occurred about 10 minutes apart in different parts of the city.
Churches have been increasingly targeted by violence in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people almost equally divided between Muslims and Christians.
According to Reuters, Christian youths blocked a highway leading out of Kaduna, dragging Muslims out of their cars and killing them in apparent retribution.
“We had to return home when we saw them (the Christian youths) attacking. I saw many bodies on the ground but I don’t know how many were dead or just injured,” Kaduna resident Rafael Gwaza told Reuters.
Another witness said up to 20 people may have been killed.
“There were bodies everywhere on the ground,” Haruna Isah said.
An Easter Day blast in Kaduna killed at least 38 people. A Christmas Day suicide bombing of a Catholic church near Nigeria’s capital killed at least 44 people.
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Passerby
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:14amParasites.
ALL Temperate climate countries with water are first world.
All Tropics climate countries are third world.
You go squat on the ground in Nigeria, you get parasites.
Absolutely nothing to do with politics, race, religion, or colonial history. Minor factors.
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:08amNigeria has the most explosive population growth of any country on earth. Ttribalism, religious persecution and starvation rule the day in this country where millions have died at the hands of their countrymen before and after their independence in 1960. If anyone in any of the governments that have ruled there really gave a damn, the problems could have been addressed but Nigeria is so overwhelmed with corruption they just go on killing each other- c’est la vie.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:16amYeah, run by crooks in cahoots with the Oil Cartel. The people of Nigeria get nothing.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 5:40amProtestants, Catholics, Coptics, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Samaritans, Ba’Hai, Animists, all are at peace with each other. Global World Peace between the major religions after all these years…
Except for Islam, which is at War with every damned one of them.
Now, just what about that is complicated?
——————–
It’s the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Islam used to be the most tolerant and enlightened of the major religions, but the stagnation of the “Sick Old Man of Europe” froze it in the middle ages. And the Arabs weren’t allowed to rule themselves for 500 years, nothing quite like it in modern history. When the Christians set them free after WWI, they ran around like escaped slaves. We got the Bigoted Beverly Hillbillies in Saudi Arabia financing most of the mosques and schools across the planet, including here, and if you did the same thing there, they’d chop your head off. Tolerance isn’t being taught.
Yeah, there’s some pretty bad stuff in the Koran and Hadiths, but there’s plenty just as bad in the Torah/Talmud/Jewish Bible/Old Testament and even in spots, the New Testament. It could regain it’s previous glory for tolerance, it’s possible, the question is whether we have time as technology gives the bigots the ability to destroy.
Report Post »GenOptimus
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 3:50amIt‘s sad that it’s coming to this. If all these muslims understand and respect is war then war is what we‘ll have to give them maybe then they’ll think twice when they read their satanic scriptures. If it‘s death they want then I’ll be happy to oblige them. Islam is not a religion. It is a form government that is radically different from anything we’ve ever known and no matter how much cr@p these liberal POS spew at us about tolerance and being open minded won’t change the fact there are only two kinds of muslims: those that have murdered and those that will once they become serious in believing in the quran. I will praying that the churches in nigerian will band together to form some kind of resistance force and hunt all of these b@st@rds down like the dogs they are.
Report Post »Elliesr
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 1:49amIt about time Christians stand up! An eye for an eye! Jesus will come again in all his Glory to avenge his saints who have been killed and persecuted.
Report Post »forthepeople
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:50pmSame thing will happen here if they don’t clean up there act !
Report Post »Thwarkmaster
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:15pmSomeone’s fighting back? Muslims are not accustomed to such.
Report Post »CrismaFire
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 9:39pmRemember during the time when Queen Ester was Queen law was given to kill and loot all Jews but cause of Queen Ester law was added that the Jews had a right to fight back and take the property of those attacking Jews. Christians have a right to protect their families and Church. Satan lies to weak Christians and tells them they should be punching bags. God gave us freedom and we don’t have to give it away.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:41pm…and so the push back against the King of the South begins
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:50pmReprisal against Muslims? Why?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:37pmI always thought… North should be Turkey (Hittite) or Syria (Assyria)… and South should be Egypt!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:09pmMaybe they will draft Obama and Holder to help the Muslims fight.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:08pmmore MURDERING MUSLUMS whoseSo called religion of peace yet KILLS MORE… funny that isnt it.. a man made CULT of hate n death KILLS others for not being forced to worship a FALSE STONE IDOL called allah .. along wiht the rest of the corrupt gangs who run the country facitions will kill factions fact n truth.. ONE system for nigeria to unite the counrty shall come available n sweep the nation n rid the nation of this trash called islam. a nigeria for nigerians… IS that too much to ask to BUILD not divide a poverty stricken nation for centuries to over come this n BUILD a nation proud n productive.. BUT as long as MURDERING MUSLUMS remain there will be killings in that nation…
Report Post »Reavin
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 3:14pmAll that will be remembered of this event is that a few Christians pulled some innocent Muslims going about their merry way out of their cars and slaughtered them. This will just be yet another tool that will be used against denouncing Christianity while the atrocities that have occurred in the name of Allah go widely ignored.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:03pmWho would not retaliate. They have no rule of law to protect them.
Report Post »Harold B
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:50pmAt least here in America this will not happen because Iman President Obama will have disarmed the American people to make the Islamisation of Amerika much less bloody for the Muslims and to make public beheadings conform to govt regulations in matters like blood splatter, street hygene and cleaning up after beheadings. Support your local Democrat’s gun/ammunition control. and help keep Jihaad safe in Amerika or the Muslims will lose even with the governments backing.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:04pmWe still got plastic forks.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:40pmYeh… right :)
Report Post »EvillivE
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 7:34pmWhat? It seems like many of you don’t believe, we can all just get along. ;’)
Report Post »txjb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:46pmMore road blocks are needed . Put the muslims in their place , in the ground.
Report Post »2conservative
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:53pmWhat goes around comes around…..
Report Post »Attila_the_Hunney
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:48pmIt would go a very long way for the “good” muslims to round up the islamic killers. Bring them to trial quickly and then execute them for these unspeakable crimes. But they don’t. This telegraphs to the Christians/Catholics that all muslims are ipso facto complicit with the killings given their silence. So, the passive muslims are just as guilty in their complacency. There is only one thing left to do… horde weapons, train constantly and organize groups like the Knights Templar and the Crusaders. Then, go Roman.
Report Post »Harold B
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:32pmJesus said, (gospel of Luke) to live in peace whenever possible. Possible is not available now. Jesus had his people own swords. Perhaps the police could have gone after the terrorists but they supported their fellow Muslims.
Report Post »Lets not hear from Christian haters that Christians should be sacrificial pacifists.
GenOptimus
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 4:06amWe must fight back because we each have a God-given right to live on this earth and believe in The Lord Jesus. Our main problem is that most churchs in America for decades have embraced a slippery form of liberalism through tolerance of antichristian sentiment which in turn makes us look weak and this weakness is repeling men from going to church. This is why good fathers are hard to find and mostly only mothers and their young children come to church.Simply put, churchs need to grow a pair so we have good strong men ready to fight for the gospel and our judeo-christian culture which is the foundation of our country.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:42pmI plead the 5th..
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:40pmAnd left wingers around the world support the violence against Christians in Nigeria.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 8:51pmIt wouldn’t surprised me if at last the MSM covers the prosecution of
Report Post »Christians in Nigeria – by attacking the Christians for finally retaliating after attack after attack by the “religion of peace”.
chips1
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:59pmIf they keep killing people, they will catch up with Mexico!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:27pmThis is how it started about 500 years… Tribal Wars of Killing… led to Slavery and people being Sold… and the Slave Trade began.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:13pmApparently “PC” has not yet taken root in Nigeria.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:12pmSo it is a “reprisal” when someone is at war with you and you fight back. This is a war … the “peaceful” Muslims continue to mame and murder …. I say fight back. No I don’t like war .. but it is necessary – you can’t negotiate with terrorists.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:25pmThis violent Jihad and should be met with fierce resistance to the invading muslim horde.
Here is a perfect opportunity for the US State Department to take action to defeat the jihading muslims and to liberate the suffering non-muslims. Too bad the US State Department is owned and operated by the House of Saud and is used to spread Islam not mitigate it.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:31pmNo one should ever think that Christians do not have the right to defend themselves. We are not lambs only to be slaughtered by anyone. Muslims hate Christians, hell they hate everybody, but if they would leave others alone no one would be fighting them.
Even the Buddhists in Myanmar are fighting back because of Muslim atrocities directed at them. I will continue to pray for ALL people being persecuted by Muslims across the globe.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:42pmA Christian reprisal against Mus*loids? That’s heresy.
Report Post »MetalPatriot
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 3:16pmI find it upsetting that even during church services, there’s never mention of Christian persecution around the globe.
We’re not supposed to hate, fight, kill, but are we supposed to just be beat up & slaughtered?
Some will argue that it’s “God’s will.” Not sure I agree with that…but…I don’t pretend to know God or His will well enough to have a good answer.
Any thoughts?
Report Post »Scarbo
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:09pmAfter the birth of Christ and well into the A.D. era, the Roman Empire, as a viable, powerful state, barely lasted five hundred years. Don’t know when Christianity dominated the legions of the Roman Empire, if ever, but it wasn‘t ’over a thousand years.’
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:18pmChristianity never “dominated” the Roman Empire. The Roman Catholics dominated the followers of Christ. and in keeping with the prophesies of Daniel, they changed the times (Sabbath to Sunday) and the laws…(did away with number two and number 4.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:40pm@GREG…
Report Post »The Roman Emperor Constantine established Christianity as the State Religion of Rome, 325 ad, at Nicaea, assembled and published the First Bible, and converted the Legions to Christianity, where each soldier carried the Roman Seal of Christianity. In 330 ad, he moved his Capital to Constantinople, where the Bishop of Rome was head of the Orthodox Church. In 800 ad, a schism took place and the Bishop, Leo, returned to Rome… established the Holy Roman Empire, and became Pope and called it the Catholic Church…. spliting the Empire into Western & Eastern and Catholic & Orthodox. The Western Empire ended 1806 ad; the Eastern in 1453 ad.
blackyb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:07pmThen how do they count? lol
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:56pmThe Romans of Rome… thought of History as only their own History, which they tied to Troy… and they kept Slaves to tell them of Foreign History as needed. In the Western World… the Roman arrogance continues… as they think of History as of Europe… and ignore Eastern History… of Vikings founding Russia… and the Eastern Roman Empire… which traded with Russia and controlled the Middle East… which fought the Muslims… and which hosted the Crusades, where the Christian King of Jerusalem was under this Emperor!
Report Post »theblazerunner
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:04pmAC DC – Who Made Who lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuFq3ynnBo8
AC/DC- Thunderstruck- Official Music Video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmXLGKdkW4&feature=related
this is a religious war…musliiims will try to wipe out the christians…it is part of their faith to do so. stand up or fade away…
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:02pmkilling is not the answer, but the Qur’an is the bible of satan. it is everything that the Holy Bible is not. The Qur’an is the anti\ti-bible… so, does that allow for the killings? Only God knows. We may be back in old testament times when God allowed it.
Report Post »People who do not study history or read the Bible do not understand. This has been going on for many centuries. I don’t think that it is going to stop. Nothing that the Christians can do. Satan is controlling the muslims.
We just have to let God have control. it has been his battle all along.
MAULEMALL
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:09pmof course killing is the answer…
You just have to be selective..
The herd always needs culling.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:24pmKilling is the ONLY way to stop them .. it is kill or be killed .. if thousands of years have not taught that then we are lost.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:26pmWe are a Predator Species… Hunt & Kill is what we do Best!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:31pmIslam must be destroyed. Islam is intransigent and will not ever stop its quest for ascendancy over all the peoples of Earth.
We must work diligently to stop the spread of Islam and to apostate and liberate the suffering.
If we in the West were not so deeply deceived, we would would have armies occupying Mecca right now. And we would be dismantling the whole edifice to evil stone by stone and throwing it all in the ocean.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:56pm@MIKE…
Report Post »Given that the Creed of Islam is… Extermination in the name World Conquest… the only Defense is Extermination!
mike_trivisonno
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:28pm@Lurker
We must remember that many of those suffering are chained to Mecca. Many yearn to be liberated. They await a liberator. They wait for America to wake the heck up and get back to work.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:58amNever forget… for over a Thousand Years… the Legions of the Roman Empire… were Christian!
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:04pmcatholic
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:06pmcatholic…
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:10pm@lukerw
Only for about the last 200 years of the Roman Empire where they Christian, the first 1000 they weren’t….
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:15pmEastern Roman Empire… Orthodox… 330 tp 1453 ad.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:17pm@BRYAN…
Report Post »ReCheck your History Book: Constantinople!
Bryan B
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:33pm@lukerw
The Roman Empire ended in 476 AD when Romulus Augustus the last Roman Emperor was forced to abdicate to the Germanic warlord Odoacer. By the way, Odoacer was a Christian.
Constantinople was the Byzantine Empire…..
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:50pm@BRYAN…
Check you book again… Constantinople was named after the Emperor Constantine… but the name of the area in Latin is Byzantium… and the Eastern Roman Empire = the Byzantine Empire, and has the same list of Emperors, with the same Capital, at the same place.
You are attempting to say… America is not the United States!
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:28pmHoly (added by Frederick I Barbarossa in 1254) Roman Empire 800ad-1806ad.
Charlemagne (Charles the Great, king of the Franks) was their first emperor crowned by Pope Leo III in 800 a.d. (Charlemagne removed the Lombards from Italy conquered the Saxons who were forcibly converted from Paganism) He pursued, during the European dark ages, the revival and preservation of art, literature and music through the existing structures of the Catholic Church.
The term “Byzantine” was not used until 1557 when a German historian used it in a published book title. Until then citizens of the empire used the term “Roman Empire” to describe themselves.
By the time Charlemagne took the throne in the West, The “Byzantines” in the East had embraced Greek culture while the Western “Holy” Roman empire embraced Roman culture. Despite the usual power grabbing and literal backstabbing the two were united at the time as “The Roman Empire” under the structure of the Catholic Church.
This is why (in part) still to this day most of Ukraine is Orthodox and uses a Cyrillic alphabet more similar to Greek, and the Poles are Catholic (Early German and Italian influence) and use a Roman Alphabet. But the distinction of “Byzantine” and “Holy Roman” was not made until later.
Report Post »Attila_the_Hunney
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:50pmCatholic.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:20pm@AXEL…
Report Post »An interesting view of history… but if anyone is interested in something more accurate… Wikipedia is good but a little confusing reference.
lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:31pm@BRYAN…
Report Post »Any way… you can see… the Fall Of Rome… was Not the End Of The Roman Empire… and it was Christian for at Least 1,000 years.
Bryan B
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:39pm@lukerw
Credible Historians don’t, The first period of the Byzantine Empire, is politically still under heavy Roman influence,and they still embraced Theodosius, Leo I, Justinian and Tiberius. But that only lasted about 20 to 40 years after the fall of Rome.
In point of civilization, the Greeks were the predominant race in the Byzantine Empire. Even Latin had ceased to be the language in the Byzantine Empire with-in 100, years and was replaced by Greek.
By 726 AD Byzantine broke completely with the Catholic Church, thats where the Eastern Orthodox Church, came in to being……
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 7:24pm@BRYAN…
You have taken on the egotistical view of History based upon the West being the Most Important… when it was the Eastern Roman Empire that was the Most Important… and it was always Orthodox… and Catholic did not exist until 800 ad and served Charlemagne as his Clergy, Clerks, and Administrators. Greek was the Language of the New Testament, of the Gospels, and of the Epistles. The Eastern Empire preserved all the places of Christ and built all the Churches.
The Fall of Rome, 476 ad, was the fall of Knowledge in the West… and people became Barbarians. Only with the fall of the Caliphate, in Spain, did knowedge of Scrolls come to West and generate Enlightenment. So, for about 600 years the West was Illiterate; The Dark Ages! And, only then did the Crusades bring back the Scrolls of Knowledge stored in Constantinople. So, the East saved the West from being Illiterate.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 5:49amOh yeah, the Eastern part of the Empire was the most important long before Rome fell. And it remained the most powerful military on earth for over 500 years after.
The made the mistake of letting the Christian Crusaders past the gates, and the Christian Crusaders sacked it and it’s power and wealth was broken, but the great walls stood against the Muslims until about the time of Columbus, when huge gunpower cannons finally defeated it.
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:21am@lukerw
“and Catholic did not exist until 800”
There has been a Roman Catholic Church since 311 AD.
I believe you are getting the confused with the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch & all the East, also knowen as Assyrian Orthodox Church,(Sister Churches, Eastern Orthodox Church and Greek Orthodox Church some similarities but their not the same ), Started in the year 47 AD, by the Apostle Peter, and the Disciples of Jesus Christ. And they still speak and write Aramaic (Syriac) the common language used in the time of Jesus Christ. This is the oldest Christian Religion in the World.
The Roman Catholic Church fled to Venice after the fall of Rome, and the Roman Catholic Church was tied to Ostrogoths, The Visigoths, and the Franks Kingdoms that destroyed the Roman Empire.
And yes I know about the “The Dark Ages” Civil War, plague, and invasion from the Hun’s…..
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