The Nigerian Christians and the Government are on the front lines of a war, a war to stop the spread if Islam. 165 are the latest to die at the hands of the Muslims. Yet, our governments int he ‘Judeo-Christian’ West sit by and watch the massacres offering no hel0p to our Christian Brothers in Nigeria.
Nigerian Islamist Group Kills 165 in Bombings
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visited the sites of bombings in the northern city of Kano as the death toll from attacks in the region reached 176.
The militant Muslim group Boko Haram, which is fighting for sharia rule in country’s mainly Muslim north, claimed responsibility for blasts that struck eight government buildings on Jan. 20 killing at least 165 people, its spokesman, Abu Qaqa, said by phone. Another 11 people were killed when suspected Islamist gunmen attacked a bank, a police station and a hotel in the northeastern town of Tawafa Balewa today, police said.
“Any terrorist attack on one person is an attack on all of us,” Jonathan told reporters in Kano, saying his government will strengthen security in the city and the country. “We must join hands to fight, the terrorists can’t win Nigeria.”
Authorities in Africa’s top oil producer blame Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is a sin,” for bombings and attacks in the mainly Muslim north and the capital Abuja over the past year. The group claimed the Christmas Day bombing of a church near Abuja that killed 43 people and the Aug. 26 suicide-bombing of the United Nations building in the capital that killed 24 people. Islamic militants pose a worse threat to the country than the 1967-1970 Biafra civil war, Jonathan said on Jan. 8.
Government buildings in Kano, the biggest city in northern Nigeria, including a regional police office, a smaller station, the immigration office and a building used by the state security police, came under bomb and gun attacks by militants, police said. Jonathan, who had declared a state of emergency in parts of four states in the northeast region on Dec. 31 to battle the insurgency.
Tags: Islamic Terrorism, Nigeria, Sharia Law
