Is Nigeria On the Brink of A Muslim Vs. Christian Civil War?
- Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:46pm by
Buck Sexton
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(The Blaze/AP)– Thick black smoke and flames rose Tuesday from the burning roadblock that cut off a highway linking Nigeria’s mainland to the islands where the oil-rich nation’s wealthy live. The bare-chested young men who live under the bridge said they had had enough.
“This is oligarchy, this is not a democracy!” shouted Danjuma Mohammed, as he stood before the fire holding rocks in his hands. “We are no longer afraid of you! We are ready for war!”
Nigeria appears to be on the brink. A national state of emergency has been declared, and police have been granted the right to search and detain on mere suspicion.
In light of recent widespread protests and violent clashes across the country, Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, spoke at a church service on Sunday and said that the situation in Nigeria was even worse than the 1967-70 civil war that killed more than a million people.
The President’s own words over the weekend were discomforting. “During the civil war, we knew and we could even predict where the enemy was coming from,” President Jonathan said, “but the challenge we have today is more complicated” as quoted by London’s Telegraph.
The President was referring to the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, which is pushing for a Sharia-compliant Nigeria with a campaign of brutal violence against Christians who make up roughly half the country. The country could soon see spiraling violence as Christians defend themselves — and possibly retaliate.
The Telegraph surmised that Islamic violence against Christians “has sparked fears of a wider religious conflict in a country whose 160 million population is roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.”
Below is a video showing the recent spate of firebombing attacks against Christian churches by Islamist groups, courtesy of Al Jazeera English:
In Benin City in Nigeria’s southwest, an angry mob killed five people and wounded at least six others Tuesday afternoon as they attacked the city’s central mosque and a Quranic school, Nigerian Red Cross spokesman Nwakpa O. Nwakpa said. Monday, a mob tried and failed to set a mosque ablaze.
Authorities have tried to control the violence in Nigeria. However, Boko Haram has begun specifically killing Christians in the nation’s northeast, leading to a call by a prominent Christian leader for worshipers to begin defending themselves.
The Benin City attack appeared to be a response to those killings.
“It looks like a reprisal from attacks in the north,” Nwakpa said. “They took advantage of protests.”
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Indeed, national strikes, which began Monday in Africa’s most populous nation, came after President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration removed subsidies Jan. 1 that keep gasoline prices low. Overnight, prices at the pump rose from $1.70 per gallon (45 cents per liter) to at least $3.50 per gallon (94 cents per liter). The costs of food and transportation also doubled in a nation where most live on less than $2 a day.
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Jonathan insists that removing the subsidy was the right idea for Nigeria, saving the country an estimated $8 billion a year that he promises will go toward badly-needed road and public projects. However, protesters who have joined the strike under the slogan of “Occupy Nigeria” say the time has come to end government corruption in a nation where military rulers and politicians have stolen billions.
More than 10,000 people again gathered peacefully at a park in Lagos. Elsewhere in the city of 15 million people, crowds remained more tense.
Whether the government can hold back nationwide unrest remains unclear. Soldiers are deployed now in the country’s restive central region over fears of ethnic and religious violence, in its northeast to fight Boko Haram and in its oil-rich southern delta to stop militancy. Those operations have had mixed success, while critics say the country’s police force is more focused on collecting bribes from civilians than protecting them.
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“I will not say it is easy, but we are trying to contain it,” said Moses Onireti, a police spokesman in Oyo state, where demonstrations have been large. “These protesters are everywhere, everywhere.”
Oyo state, as well as several others, have instated dusk-to-dawn curfews to try and control violent demonstrations.
Unrest could affect oil production in Nigeria, which produces about 2.4 million barrels of oil a day and is a top crude supplier to the U.S. However, most fields remain unmanned and offshore oil fields provide much of its capacity.
Meanwhile, anger in the street continues unabated. At the Ikoyi Island roadblock, a convoy of police escorting a member of the country’s elite arrived, with officers loudly loading their Kalashnikov rifles in an attempt to drive the protesters away. Officers put out part of the flaming blockade with an extinguisher, but drove off, leaving the protesters behind.
Another convoy of unarmed officers arrived. They pleaded with protesters for calm but instead they threw stones as the officers put out the flames.
Throughout, the protesters shouted: “They will kill us and we will kill them!”
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Comments (136)
Frodo RinosBane
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:35pmThere’s been a war going on for years there. The radical islamists need to be put in their place once and for all.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:56pmObama has told everyone you can’t say that.
Report Post »SurroundedinNH
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:30pmUntil the mothers and fathers of muslim children care more about there kids then they hate others this crap will be going on…
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:36pmCorrect. Christians have been just as barbaric, but Christianity experienced a renaissance. Islam isn’t there yet, but it needs to hurry up. Internet/smartphones may speed up the process.
Different note: the continent of Africa has more natural resources than any other continent on the globe. It should be the richest and the dominant continent. It isn’t. Corrupt governments. Sharia law ain’t gonna help that.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:25pmShort answer – YES.
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:31pmIs AMERICA On the Brink of A Muslim Vs. Christian Civil War? WHAKE UP! If you are living today – you will see it with your eyes and hear it with your ears.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:23pmHow about people move beyond silly superstitions?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:38pmMegastitions don’t get it done as well.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:20pmI’m sure that the followers of the “religion of peace” will find a way to compromise with the evil Christians. Just ask Rose-Ellen.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:20pmI’m sure gas will rise again…..
Report Post »TGS
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:18pmYeah, I think you’re behaving like a rabid animal when you say that. Know any Muslims? I do. Some idiots, some nice people, some… whatever. My best friend in the second year of college was devout, a laugh riot, and went on to have a good job, a nice Caucasian wife, and basically be the same as the rest of us.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:32pmThen he was of the “fair weather muslim” variety who didn’t take his religion seriously. It’s the DEVOUT islamists who have read and understood the entire mad book who are really dangerous to civilization…The so-called “nation of islam” is a criminal organization that uses some convenient portions of the koran (I spit upon it) in order to control it’s followers. Calipso Louie didn’t get so bloody rich by praying to God. He got rich by fooling even bigger fools into giving him their money so they can go to heaven!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:17pmpoor Africa, it’s totally 3rd World and it always will be. we know the already heavily armed majority of Christian America will deal with the covert muslim threat here in America when our call arises. we Americans far vastly outnumber the threat here — and we always will.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:17pmAgree
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:09pmactual islam laughs at the American blacks playing at ”being muslim” in the Wallace Dodd Ford aka White-conman-founded “Nation of Islam”.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:14pmAny person with black skin and embraces islam deserves to be called abeed or adoon, for their ignorance. no matter how much they pretend that the arabs are kin and brothers and sisters. it doesnt negate the fact that Muslim Arabs hunted, enslaved, tortured and killed ***** Africans for a millennium. Middle Eastern Muslim Arabs have a history of over 1400 years of human slavery, which even continues today in the Middle East. Arab Muslims controlled, maintained, initiated slavery of ***** Africans. Islam’s Arab prophet Muhammad himself brought, kept and sold African slaves.
Sahih Muslim Book 10 Number 3901
Report Post »Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).
democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:18pmYou simply do not understand Islam and the history the Islamic faith. The Nation of Islam is not Islam. Why don’t you search the internet and study about Islam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTOQQz9Eqjc&feature=related
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color.”
“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:52pmdemocritusoilder267
You have lost your mind or have or are smoking some bad dope.
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:57pmNo, I do not take narcotics. I’m a firm believer in God. I just see past all the false information many have on Islam.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:07pmDEMOCRITUSSOLDIER267: Considering that the so-called “nation of islam” is just another corrupt organization that is led by a corrupt, power hungry, murderous SOB, your lies about it are without merit. You aren’t even a good TROLL!
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:10pmAJAYW: The TROLL known as DEMOCRITUSSOLDIER267 is only here to foment dissent and spread lies. If he’s a promoter of the criminal organization known as the “nation of islam” he has no information only propaganda. Yes, he IS out of his mind.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:09pmBoko Haram? Didn’t they sing “Whiter Shade of Pale?”
Report Post »TGS
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:10pmMore like “A Darker Shade…”
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:58pmOr was it “Nights in White Satan”?
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:11pmThat was “Procol Harum” good song too.
Report Post »DESKOCCUPANT
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:25pmHey MANDORS, that’s pretty funny. Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:07pmSatan is trying to raise the beast up off the sea of fire it has been on.
Report Post »TGS
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:06pmMuslim… Christian… They’re all nuts over there.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:30pmwe watched on cable a fascinating study of just that: WHY Africa is 3rd World. 200 years ago etc, the white Europeans did not venture deep into the Dark Continent to settle it, staying only to the coasts, thus the unsettled parts of the continent remains a 3rd World, starving, disease-ridden, mud huts, people barely covered in rags, thoroughly still almost Stone Age, uncivilized. [makes sense, even if China had tried to settled in Africa and failed, it'd still be the same effect] so just look at Africa. all it is, is ignorant nonstop breeding and killing. [a living nightmare] even these 2 major Religions have tried, but even they cannot control what happens under the lack of a proper civilization. — islam would keep them starving ignorant slaves in huts, and Christianity would have them healthy and prospering, but there is no civilization to back it up. .. plus add in islam v the black Africans [slaves, dhimmis] it’s been a battle in Africa for 1400 years.
Report Post »Black Manta
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:31pmDon’t be a fool…Jesus is our Lord and Saviour the true deity….before you die and some day you will meet death, you best be right with Jesus cause for those who are not will burn FOREVER…weither you believe’n God or not you will be judged…please open your eyes..
Report Post »Kiba
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:06pmI surely hope they are cause I know what side I will be rootin for. And the more the marrier as far as Im concerened to.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:05pmObama will be backing his muslim brother Boko Haram, as he said in his book.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:11pmObama should go there 4 a job interview.
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:05pmSounds like someone doesn’t understand Islam and how Blacks are treated as Muslims. Of course I’ll let Malcolm X fill in for me.
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BurntHills
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:41pmto the modern Theologian, the question that must be addressed is this: “Is Islam really the Religion of the Black Man?” Listen to these comparisons of Arab-Islam slavery when compared to The European Slave Trade again by Dr. John Azumah:
19th Century Alone – 1.2 Million Black Africans brought into middle east with only 2 million surviving. An estimated 8 million Africans died.
2 out of 3 slaves brought to America were men compared with 2 out of every 3 slaves brought to the middle east. 10 percent of slaves across the Atlantic died while 80 percent of Arab died.
Slaves to America were brought for agricultural reasons while slaves to the middle east were brought for sexual exploitation and military service.
Slaves in America had children born while few slaves survived middle east slavery. (There are barely any traces of black faces in places like Iran or Arabia.)
Slaves in America – had family. Male Slaves in Arabia – Castrated, women killed
11 million African to Atlantic 95 percent to South and Central America, only 5 percent to America.
28 million enslaved in middle east/ 80 % died – death toll possible 112 Million.
While some would argue that these are historical accounts, may we not forget that there are estimated 200,000 Black slaves at this very moment enslaved by Arab Muslims.
This current theme and thread of slavery of black Africans woven into the fabric of Islam, continues to this very day.
NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:37pm@DEMO Explain the muslims treatment of their women you know, “honor” killings, the burqa,etc. Check out http://www.answering islam.com. They debunk all the B.S. that islam is a religion of peace, far from it! How old does a girl have to be before she is “legal” to marry in sharia law? The ripe old age of what? 8 or 9?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:38pmAgree. How any woman could tolerate this religion if beyond me. Make that any EDUCATED woman. That is precisely WHY the Taliban types do not allow women to get an education. They prefer their women young, uneducated, vulnerable, scared of them and pregnant ….
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:44pmYou forgot to mention the tradition of sewing woman’s vaginas shut and cutting and the removal of their clitoris, a common practice in the Middle East.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:28pmYour high priest of the “nation”, Calipso Louie, had Malcom X assasinated……Care to illuminate us with some more of your islamis/marxist propaganda?
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:03pmYa Allah! Please do not let this happen. I pray to you that we find peace in this terrible time. Your prophet and Messiah Jesus (PBUH) is a person of peace and told us to not to strike anyone. May God bless us and forgive our sins.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:11pm.
Report Post »Can you go stand next to Casey?………..
democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:19pmNo thank you. I’m next to my creator God who will save us all. Subhanullah
Report Post »grannyjojo
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:56pmI will pray for your soul. Jesus is the answer, the ONLY answer. John 14:6 6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” God bless all. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:59pmYou can cheery pick any bible verse you want but Jesus (PBUH) is one of the many ways to God. Abraham, Noah, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (PBUT) all lead me to God. There is no need to pray for me. For I already have salvation.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:13pmNo one can lead you to God except Jesus and certainly not allah.
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:21pmAllah is God. Maybe when you understand Jesus how I see Jesus then you’ll find peace. Jazakullah khair
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:46pm@ DEMOCRITUSOILDER267
Well apparently your guys are doing a lot of “KHAIR” in the world , like suicidal bombs inside mosques & markets .
Report Post »But I can‘t blame you it’s all written in the quran .
NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:48pm@DEMO YOU trust a child molester [mohammed] to reveal your “god” to you? What’s the B.S with the 72 virgins ? I guess if somebody believes that insanity, getting them to strap on a bomb vest is a piece of cake!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:48pm@democritusoilder267
“America needs to understand Islam”
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No, islam needs to understand America and assimilate. We are predominately a Christian nation of many immigrants who came from Christian backgrounds. They assimilated, you guys can too.
“the white attitude was removed from their minds”
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White attitude? Should I be offended because I am white? If I was as thin-skinned as some black people, I would be, but brother, you seem to have a chip on your shoulder to say something like that.
I judge people by their character. If they respect me, I respect them. It’s a two-way street.
Tell me, what IS a white attitude? I have been around many black people who seem to have a “black attitude” especially when I was stuck in a hospital bed. Some of the black nurses seemed to treat me differently than others, and it usually went by order of how educated they were. I believe racism is born of ignorance more than anythiing. There are some black people who I would give the shirt off of my back for, and some white people I despise.
C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:17pmYour fake religion has performed too many sins to be forgiven. When it was invented by an insane child rapist (mohammed, may you rot in the deepest hell of your own making) the people who followed him saw only opportunity to steal, rob, and kill those who were their betters….it’s still that way today. I would invite any woman suffering under islamic slavery to be protected from the islamic beasts who call themselves men so that they may live in peace and raise their children without being forced to bow down to a man made god of rapists and murderers!
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:29pm@ Demo You are correct, there are many ways to God, but there is only one way into heaven and that is through Jesus. Your religion will definitely lead you to God on Judgement Day, but since you don’t know Jesus you will be cast out to spend eternity with your founder Mohammed in Hell. Good luck with that.
Report Post »AmericanBumpkin
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 10:30pmMy father lived under sharia law in Iran until adulthood, when he, his parents, and his siblings all immagrated to the US. He and his family were absolutely terrified of living in Iran because the government was sanctioning raids on homes and slaughtering people in their own home if any one person whispered a dissagreement against the government. and he converted to christianity during college.
Report Post »He is afraid of islam taking over the US.
do not sit there and preach a “religion of peace” in islam……. because it is not >=( do yourself a favor and stop drinking the coolade
Alecto
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:02pmIf this is true, it’s time to load up on futures and oil development stocks, because the price will skyrocket.
Secondly, where is OUR president condemning the sectarian violence? People may be war weary in this country, but radical islamicists aren’t. They will continue to push their Sharia oppression everywhere. Why do we allow Muslims in the United States at all?
Report Post »saranda
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:47pmI think most people on here would be surprised to find out how much oil we get from Nigeria. Almost 800,000 barrel per day, and it is light oil so it gets a good premium price to west texas pricing.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:00pm.
Stop sending U.S. Food & Tax Dollars and AIDS Drugs to Africa. It is a waste…..
Little Umboogoo will be just fine without it……………..
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:58pmIf there are muslims allowed to live there, sooner are later, a civil war will result.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:34pmYes. Like the Far Left Obama Democrats, they will just use our legal system to destroy it and us ! These guys have a lot in common : hatred of capitalism, banks , freedom of speech , and Christian values for starters.
Report Post »J_Ruben_Kincaid
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:58pmThe whole world is on the verge of this war because muslims will not allow anyone else to live side by side with them.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:04pmsorta wrong, if you do not convert or get slaughtered by them, if you pay a huge tax and live enslaved as a dhimmi to them you can stay alive.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:37pm@BurntHills
Slavery is not “Living” in my book…
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:57pmYet another video on The Blaze from Al Jazeera?….really?
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:57pmQuestion is: Which side is BOH rooting for?
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:57pmWhere r the women on all this stupit ****, idiots ,, mass idiots !
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:06pm.
Report Post »Burried up to their elbows awaiting stoning. You Silly………….
C. Schwehr
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:26pmSPANKY: Nope, the women are buried up to their necks so it’s easier for the cowards to throw their rocks. Men are buried up to the waist so that they have a chance.
Report Post »TGS
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:57pmWhat a place.
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