{"id":1058,"date":"2012-01-22T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com.108-166-28-151.mdgnetworks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2013-04-10T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T21:42:48","slug":"nigerian-new-year-christian-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/nigerian-new-year-christian-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian New Year, Christian Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n

FrontPage Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

The New Year’s resolution for “Sunnis for Da’wa [Islamization] and Jihad” \u2014 also known as Boko Haram, or “Western education is forbidden” \u2014 is to create a Christian-free Nigeria, beginning, naturally, with the north, where Muslims outnumber Christians.<\/p>\n

Right at the start of 2012, Boko Haram issued\u00a0an ultimatum<\/a>\u00a0giving Christians living in northern Nigeria three days to evacuate or die \u2014 an ultimatum the group has been living up to, so much so that Nigeria’s President Jonathan recently declared a state of emergency.<\/p>\n

This, of course, is not to say that Boko Haram has not been long targeting Christians, as the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which all but apologized for the group’s terrorism \u2014 would have it.<\/p>\n

Boko Haram and other Muslims have been terrorizing Nigerian Christians for years, killing thousands of them, and destroying hundreds of their churches. Just last November, hundreds of armed Muslims, many from the group, invaded\u00a0Christian villages<\/a>, “like a swarm of bees,” killing, looting, and destroying. At the end of their four-hour rampage, at least 130 Christians were killed. Forty-five other Christians in another village were slaughtered by another set of “Allahu Akbar<\/a>!” screaming Muslims.<\/p>\n

Likewise, another jihadi attack from last November, enabled by “local Muslims,” left\u00a0five churches destroyed<\/a>\u00a0and several Christians killed: “The Muslims in this town were going round town pointing out church buildings and shops owned by Christians to members of Boko Haram, and they in turn bombed these churches and shops.” In one instance, a local Muslim pleaded with Boko Haram members not to burn down a particular church \u2014 not out of altruism, of course, but rather because that Muslim’s home was adjacent to the church, and might also have caught fire. The church was spared.<\/p>\n

Still, beginning with Boko Haram’s church attacks of December 25, whereover 40 people celebrating Christmas were killed<\/a>, the group has definitely upped both the frequency and savagery of jihadi attacks on Christians and their churches. Most recently, armed Muslims stormed a church and “opened fire on worshippers as their eyes were closed in prayer<\/a>,” killing six Christians, including the pastor’s wife, and wounding many.<\/p>\n

Then, when friends and relatives gathered to mourn the deaths of some of those slain in this most recent church attack, Boko Haram Muslims appeared and opened fire again,\u00a0killing another 20 Christians<\/a>, all while screaming “Allahu Akbar!” \u2014 Islam’s ancient war cry, which at root simply means “my god is greater than your god!”<\/p>\n

A\u00a0number of other sporadic attacks have occurred since:\u00a0Four Christians were gunned down<\/a>\u00a0as they were getting gas, likely so they could flee the north, and\u00a0another two were slain<\/a>\u00a0during a Boko Haram invasion of Christian homes.<\/p>\n

Ayo Oritsejafor, head of the Christian Association of Nigeria has accurately characterized this spate of attacks on Christians as “religious cleansing<\/a>,” citing that some 120 Christians have been killed since the Christmas day church attacks.<\/p>\n

Worse, but not unexpectedly, President Jonathan\u00a0recently declared<\/a>\u00a0that “some of them [Boko Haram] are in the executive arm of government, some of them are in the parliamentary\/legislative arm of government, while some of them are even in the judiciary. Some are also in the armed forces, the police and other security agencies.”<\/p>\n

This is typical of any number of Muslim nations where Islamists have infiltrated and hold important positions in the government, even where the US is not\u00a0enabling them<\/a>, such as Nigeria.<\/p>\n

At any rate, Sudan offers a glimpse at what may be in store for Nigeria. In July 2011, South Sudan was born, breaking away from Sudan proper, in response to that all too familiar pattern: Sudan’s Muslim north, just like Nigeria’s Muslim north, was constantly abusing \u2014 also to the point of ethnic\/religious cleansing \u2014 the Christian and animist south.<\/p>\n

In the interest of Nigeria’s Christian population, then, the nation may well be poised to go the way of Sudan and divide \u2014 and thus be the latest example of the difficulty of living peaceably alongside Muslims wherever and whenever they make for large numbers.<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a92012 Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine The New Year’s resolution for “Sunnis for Da’wa [Islamization] and Jihad” \u2014 also known as Boko Haram, or “Western education is forbidden” \u2014 is to create a Christian-free Nigeria, beginning, naturally, with the north, where Muslims outnumber Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225,227],"tags":[379,192,30,68,1075,482,162,478,58],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-h4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1297,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/nigerias-christmas-present-blown-up-christians\/","url_meta":{"origin":1058,"position":0},"title":"Nigeria’s Christmas Present: Blown Up Christians","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York Several churches in northern Nigeria were bombed December 25, in what has been\u00a0described\u00a0as \"Nigeria's blackest Christmas ever.\" The attacks, perpetrated by the Muslim militant group Boko Haram, killed at least 39 people, \"the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church [in Madalla\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Nigeria"","block_context":{"text":"Nigeria","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/nigeria\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":837,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/death-in-churches-targeting-christian-holidays-in-the-islamic-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1058,"position":1},"title":"Death in Churches: Targeting Christian Holidays in the Islamic World","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Gatestone Institute Last Sunday, many Christians around the world celebrated Easter, taking it for granted that they can congregate and worship in peace. 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