YANGON: Buddhist vigilantes in western Myanmar attacked a bus and killed nine Muslims, police said on Monday, the deadliest communal violence in the region since a reformist government took power a year ago.

The bus was besieged near Taunggoke town in the western state of Rakhine on Sunday evening by a group who blamed some of its passengers for the murder of a Buddhist woman a week ago, said residents and politicians. One of those killed was travelling in a separate car.

Rakhine is home to Myanmar’s largest concentration of Muslims, but their presence is often resented by the Buddhist majority. The resentment is particularly sharp for Rohingya Muslims, whose roots date back to the 19th century when they were brought to the country as labourers by colonial power Britain. Ko Kyaw Lay, a Muslim human rights activist in the region who belongs to an opposition party, said none of those killed were Rohingyas.

Police could not immediately confirm details of the violence. “An investigation is underway but I can’t give you any further details,” said a police official who requested anonymity. In a separate incident on Sunday in Sittwe, the Rakhine capital, 10 people were shot and wounded when riot police tried to break up a protest, witnesses said. They said the rally by about 200 people was unrelated to the attack on the bus.

Protesters threw stones at police and a 13-year-old novice monk was among those wounded, witnesses said. Myanmar is one of Southeast Asia’s most ethnically diverse countries, where sectarian and ethnic tension persists despite a new political climate and broad reforms by a civilian-led government that says it has made peace and national unity a priority since it replaced a military junta 15 months ago.

In the case of the bus attack, Taunggoke resident Kyaw Min said the Buddhists “were angered by the authorities’ handling” of an attack on a woman who people in the area said was raped by several men and then killed. Just before Sunday’s attack, leaflets bearing a photo of the woman and describing the rape were distributed in the area.

Several residents, who declined to be identified, said the Muslims on the bus were not from the area and were on a visit to Rakhine state. They suggested those killed may not have been the perpetrators of the reported rape and murder.

In a joint statement, eight overseas-based Rohingya rights groups condemned the attack on “Muslim pilgrims”, which they said came after months of anti-Rohingya propaganda stirred up by “extremists and xenophobes”. A spokesman for the coalition, Tun Khin, said that although those killed were not ethnic Rohingyas, the groups were concerned about the plight of Muslims in Myanmar. They called on the government to treat Muslims fairly and tackle “Rakhine terrorism”.

Residents were also on edge after the Sittwe demonstration...Demonstrations were extremely rare under Myanmar’s former military rulers but are becoming more frequent as the public voices discontent over issues such as land ownership and chronic power shortages...

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\05\story_5-6-2012_pg14_1

buddhists and muslims clash.
hindus and muslims clash
christians and muslims clash
athiests and muslims clash
gays and muslims clash
feminists and muslims clash.

I can see a common element here.

yup. We need to get rid of all the religions and then the real reasons will come out.

SOB

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 10:44am:

buddhists and muslims clash. hindus and muslims clash christians and muslims clash

Christians have clashed with just about everyone they ever cam into contact with:

Christians and Jews never clashed?
*Spanish Inquisition
*holocaust
*European pogroms
*slaughter of jerusalem by Crusaders
Removal of Christian palestinians by Zionists


Christians had peaceful encounters with Indigenous people of Australia, North America and South America did they?

Christian colonisations were all peaceful affairs were they?

Christians all peaceful amonst themselves? Just don't mention WWI, WWII, Northern Ireland, Basques, Catholic-Protestant wars in France, Rwandan genocide, Joseph Kony, etc



Quote:

athiests and muslims clash gays and muslims clash feminists and muslims clash.

Because Christians and Jews never clash with those groups?

How many abortion clinics have fanatical Christians attacked?


What about buddhists? All peaceful are they?

Quote:

Sri Lankan monks demand end of cease-fire with Tamil rebels on fifth anniversary COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Some 8,000 hardline Buddhist monks and lay supporters paraded the streets of Sri Lanka's capital demanding the government scrap a cease-fire with Tamil rebels on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of its signing... ...The hardline ethnic Sinhalese monks -- a powerful political force in the country urged the government to formally end the cease-fire, saying it favors the Tamil Tiger guerrillas. "This cease-fire is a serious threat to the country's unitary status," Wakamulle Uditha Thera, a spokesman for the monks, was quoted as saying by The Island newspaper... http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/world/BO44021/

Atheists all peaceful? Just don't mention Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao.

Falah

Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries?

How can you explain away the mass slaughters by muslims?

Why is it that muslims are such racist bigoted slothful thieving people?

His campaign was officially justified by claims that the Muslim Delhi Sultanate was too tolerant toward its Hindu subjects, but was motivated greatly by the considerable wealth to be gained. By all accounts, Timur's campaigns in India were marked by systematic slaughter and other atrocities on a truly massive scale inflicted mainly on the subcontinent's Hindu population.[42]

Timur entered Delhi and the city was sacked, destroyed, and left in ruins. Before the battle for Delhi, Timur executed 100,000 captives:[11][38]

When this order became known to the gházís of Islám, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. 100,000 infidels, impious idolaters, were on that day slain. Mauláná Násiru-d dín 'Umar, a counsellor and man of learning, who, in all his life, had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives."

Before the end of 1399, Timur started a war with Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and the Mamluk sultan of Egypt Nasir-ad-Din Faraj. Bayezid began annexing the territory of Turkmen and Muslim rulers in Anatolia. As Timur claimed sovereignty over the Turkmen rulers, they took refuge behind him. Timur invaded Syria, sacked Aleppo and captured Damascus after defeating the Mamluk army. The city's inhabitants were massacred, except for the artisans, who were deported to Samarkand. However, Ibn Khaldun praises Timur for having unified much of the Muslim world when other conquerors of the time could not.[45]

In a form of rectification, in 1400 Timur invaded Christian Armenia and Georgia. Of the surviving population, more than 60,000 of the local people were captured as slaves, and many districts were depopulated.[46]

He invaded Baghdad in June 1401. After the capture of the city, 20,000 of its citizens were massacred. Timur ordered that every soldier should return with at least two severed human heads to show him. (Many warriors were so scared they killed prisoners captured earlier in the campaign just to ensure they had heads to present to Timur.)[citation needed]

Does it give a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside to know what the war mongering religion of peace can really do?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur#Period_of_expansion

buddhists killed me when I was in Burma too.

Adamant wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 3:19pm:

Falah Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries?

;D ;D ;D You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded?

falah wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 4:40pm:

Adamant wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 3:19pm: Falah Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries? ;D ;D ;D You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded?

Why will you not answer a legitimate question

falah wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 4:40pm:

Adamant wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 3:19pm: Falah Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries? ;D ;D ;D You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded?

Falah are you ashamed of Muhammed's example? Shouldn't you be proud of it, and ashamed only of modern Muslims impotence in re-establishing the empire?

Adamant wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 5:30pm:

falah wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 4:40pm: Adamant wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 3:19pm: Falah Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries? ;D ;D ;D You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded? Why will you not answer a legitimate question

Muslims liberated surrounding countries from their oppressive polytheistic rulers.

Christian and Jews invaded other countries to steal wealth and exploit.

falah wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 9:00am:

Adamant wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 5:30pm: falah wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 4:40pm: Adamant wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 3:19pm: Falah Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries? ;D ;D ;D You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded? Why will you not answer a legitimate question Muslims liberated surrounding countries from their oppressive polytheistic rulers. Christian and Jews invaded other countries to steal wealth and exploit.

;D

Muslims didn't tax anyone they conquered, eh? They didn't impose Islam on the conquered, they didn't massacre all 'polytheists' who didn't convert to Islam, eh?

You make it out as if Mohammed and his conquering hordes were some sort of 7th century Ghostbusters or band of Robin Hood types. They weren't.
They went for the booty. You can tell by simply looking at the history of Islam, and the bloody internal rivalry that was its hallmark from the get-go. The early caliphs were killing each other for booty and power.i

falah wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 4:40pm:

You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded?

It is rude to answer a question with a question! A decent teacher would know that. As you are a muslim, and muslim practices have always been arrogant and deceptive, I will tolerate your ignorance this time.

The last religious war was fought in the Balkans between muslims and Christians The persecution of Christians by the muslin hoard had gone on for centuries, The Christians finally erupted and killed a lot of the aggressors. ( Why did the muslims invade this place if they had no intention of living in peace). Prior to this, the crusades entered Judea and killed a lot of muslims, (Why did the muslims invade this place )

I have answered your questions now will you please answer mine

Falah

Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries?

How can you explain away the mass slaughters by muslims?

Why is it that muslims are such racist bigoted slothful thieving people?

Why did the muslims invade this place if they had no intention of living in peace?  (Balkans)

Why did the muslims invade this place? (Judea)

Muslims Kill Buddhist Family Boy of Nine Beheaded!

I should warn all that whilst you fortunately wont see the ritual slaughter of the innocents you will see some Very Graphic Content (putting heads back on bodies)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bae_1304490155

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 7^th, 2012 at 10:44am:

buddhists and muslims clash. hindus and muslims clash christians and muslims clash athiests and muslims clash gays and muslims clash feminists and muslims clash. I can see a common element here.

knew I forgot one,

muslims and muslims clash.  if you are from the wrong tribe, you could be in trouble.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 6:52pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 10:44am: buddhists and muslims clash. hindus and muslims clash christians and muslims clash athiests and muslims clash gays and muslims clash feminists and muslims clash. I can see a common element here. knew I forgot one, muslims and muslims clash.  if you are from the wrong tribe, you could be in trouble.

WWI who were the Christians fighting in that one? What about WWII, everyone was sending each other Christmas presents before the Japanese got involved?

Quote:

What about WWII, everyone was sending each other Christmas presents before the Japanese got involved?

You mean the war where the Muslims jumped on Hitler's bandwagon to help slaughter the Jews, and never jumped off?

freediver wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 9:28pm:

Quote: What about WWII, everyone was sending each other Christmas presents before the Japanese got involved? You mean the war where the Muslims jumped on Hitler's bandwagon to help slaughter the Jews, and never jumped off?

WWII has nothing to do with Muslims Freeliar.

You know that Hitler was just a good Catholic son of Austria.

The Nazis were Christian.

The Zionist invaders of palestine are jews.

Muslims; just the victims of Jewish aggression.

falah wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:43pm:

WWII has nothing to do with Muslims Freeliar.

Why did 20,000 muslims form 2 SS divisions?



falah wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:43pm:

You know that Hitler was just a good Catholic son of Austria

You have constantly stated he is an atheist what lies do you intend to tell next?


falah wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:43pm:

The Nazis were Christian

Ditto above


falah wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:43pm:

The Zionist invaders of palestine are jews

The first haters of Jews were muslim invaders


falah wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:43pm:

Muslims; just the victims of Jewish aggression.

Muslims; just hate everyone in the world and wish to kill all non muslims!

Adamant wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 5:59pm:

falah wrote on Jun 7th, 2012 at 4:40pm: You must be kidding. Can you name a country that Christians haven't invaded? It is rude to answer a question with a question! A decent teacher would know that. As you are a muslim, and muslim practices have always been arrogant and deceptive, I will tolerate your ignorance this time. The last religious war was fought in the Balkans between muslims and Christians The persecution of Christians by the muslin hoard had gone on for centuries, The Christians finally erupted and killed a lot of the aggressors. ( Why did the muslims invade this place if they had no intention of living in peace). Prior to this, the crusades entered Judea and killed a lot of muslims, (Why did the muslims invade this place ) I have answered your questions now will you please answer mine Falah Why did muslims feel the need to invade so many countries? How can you explain away the mass slaughters by muslims? Why is it that muslims are such racist bigoted slothful thieving people? Why did the muslims invade this place if they had no intention of living in peace?  (Balkans) Why did the muslims invade this place? (Judea)

Why wont muslims answer questions?

Admittedly, the role of Muslims in WWII was pretty minor, reflecting the military strength of modern Muslim nations. Countries like Iraq, Libya and Ethiopia willingly joined in the war on Hitler's side. Abu and Falah like to describe these countries as British/US puppets at every opportunity in order to deny the influence of Islam on anything that happens within the countries or in external relations. Hitler even went so far as to promote an 'Arab freedom movement'.

It is pretty ironic that they started a thread about how Muslims saved Jews in the Balkans, when it was Muslims themselves joining the SS. Such is the nature of islamic propaganda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers

Hitler issued Order 30: "The Arab Freedom Movement in the Middle East is our natural ally against England. In this connection special importance is attached to the liberation of Iraq ... I have therefore decided to move forward in the Middle East by supporting Iraq."

Hostilities between the Iraqi and British forces began on May 2, 1941, with heavy fighting at the RAF air base in Habbaniyah. The Germans and Italians dispatched aircraft and aircrew to Iraq utilizing Vichy French bases in Syria, which would later invoke fighting between Allied and Vichy French forces in Syria.

The Germans planned to coordinate a combined German-Italian offensive against the British in Egypt, Palestine, and Iraq. Iraqi military resistance ended by May 31, 1941. Rashid Ali and the Mufti of Jerusalem fled to Iran, then Turkey, Italy, and finally Germany, where Ali was welcomed by Hitler as head of the Iraqi government-in-exile in Berlin. In propaganda broadcasts from Berlin, the Mufti continued to call on Arabs to rise up against the British and aid German and Italian forces. He also helped recruit Muslim volunteers in the Balkans for the Waffen-SS.

freediver wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 9:44am:

Admittedly, the role of Muslims in WWII was pretty minor, reflecting the military strength of modern Muslim nations. Countries like Iraq, Libya and Ethiopia willingly joined in the war on Hitler's side.

You retard. Ethiopia is not a Muslim country. Libya was occupied by Italy, and subsequently Germany. Iraq was under British occupation.

Your lies reflect Zionist anti-Muslim propaganda.

It is good for people to see how ignorant and deceitful Islam-haters are.

http://earthhopenetwork.net/hezbollah_nazi_salute.jpg


Hail Allah! (Hezb'allah, the Army of Allah).

Nuffin do wiv nazis. If you see any resemblance to the Nazi salute that's because you have been brainwashed by the Jooz.

falah wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 11:08am:

freediver wrote on Jun 11th, 2012 at 9:44am: Admittedly, the role of Muslims in WWII was pretty minor, reflecting the military strength of modern Muslim nations. Countries like Iraq, Libya and Ethiopia willingly joined in the war on Hitler's side. You retard. Ethiopia is not a Muslim country. Libya was occupied by Italy, and subsequently Germany. Iraq was under British occupation. Your lies reflect Zionist anti-Muslim propaganda. It is good for people to see how ignorant and deceitful Islam-haters are.

Ah, so they are mere puppets of the west, not responsible for their own actions?

Turns out some Mo Retards RAPED AND KILLED A BUDDIST WOMAN after prayers on Friday.

Turns out that the Mo Retards are illegal immigrants.

Turns out that the Mo Retards can give it but cant take it!

Why won't the Mo Retards go home to Saudi Arabia?

Buddhists on rampage again:

Buddhist mob violence threatens new Myanmar image


Northwest Myanmar was tense on Monday after sectarian violence engulfed its biggest city on the weekend, with rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses, police firing into the air and Muslims fleeing by boat to neighbouring Bangladesh.

At least eight people were killed and many wounded, authorities say, in the worst communal violence since a reformist government replaced a junta last year and vowed to forge unity in one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries.

The fighting erupted on Friday in the Rakhine State town of Maungdaw, but quickly spread to the capital Sittwe and nearby villages. The United Nations said on Monday it had started evacuating staff from the area after the government announced a state of emergency and dawn-to-dusk curfews.

Reuters reporters saw plumes of black smoke over parts of Sittwe, a port town of mainly wooden houses where Buddhists and Muslims have long lived in uneasy proximity. Some Buddhists were seen carrying bamboo stakes, machetes, sling-shots and other makeshift weapons...

..."We have now ordered troops to protect the airport and the Rakhine (Buddhist) villages under attack in Sittwe," Zaw Htay, director of the President's Office, told Reuters. "Arrangements are under way to impose a curfew in some other towns."

The unrest undermines the image of ethnic unity and stability that helped persuade the United States and Europe to suspend economic sanctions this year, while increasing curfews could threaten tourism and foreign investment - rewards for emerging from nearly half a century of army rule.

It might also force reformist President Thein Sein, a former general, to confront an issue that human rights groups have criticised for years: the plight of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims who live along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh in abject conditions and are despised by many ethnic Rakhine, members of Myanmar's predominantly Buddhist majority.

"Vengeance and anarchy" could spread beyond Rakhine State and jeopardise the country's transition to democracy, Thein Sein warned in a hastily arranged televised address on Sunday.

About 100 Rohingyas [muslims] tried to flee the violence by boat into Bangladesh but were pushed back on Monday morning, said a Bangladesh border commander. "We have stepped up vigilance and will stop anyone trying to come across the border," he said.

That followed about five boatloads carrying about 200 Rohingyas who were pushed back out to sea on Sunday, said Anwar Hossain, a major with Bangladesh's border guard.

Rohingya [muslim] activists have long demanded recognition in Myanmar as an indigenous ethnic group with full citizenship by birthright, claiming a centuries-old lineage in Rakhine. But the government regards them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship.

Bangladesh has refused to grant Rohingyas refugee status since 1992.

"INVADERS"

In recent days, they have been described as "invaders" or "terrorists" by some Burmese using their newfound freedom of expression and easier access to the Internet to vent their anger on social networking sites and express anti-Rohingya [muslim] sentiments that have simmered for decades...

...Rohingya [muslim] activists and residents accuse ethnic Rakhine [buddhist] of terrorising their communities. Witnesses in Sittwe said homes were torched on Sunday in at least four places.

By late Sunday, tension appeared to be spreading. State-run MRTV announced curfews in three other Rakhine [buddhist] towns, including Thandwe, the gateway to Myanmar's tourist beaches, and Kyaukphyu, where China is building a giant port complex.

Reuters saw residents of a mainly Rakhine [buddhist] village near Sittwe on Sunday set ablaze houses they said were Muslim-owned.

"We are burning Rohingya [muslims] houses because they live near our village and they gather at night and try to attack us," said an unidentified ethnic Rakhine [buddhist] man.

Planeloads of soldiers arrived in Sittwe on Saturday but residents said the security forces were ineffectual...

...An elderly Muslim man living with his family reported that Buddhist vigilantes armed with "swords and sticks" were roaming the streets on motorbikes.

"The security forces are helping them destroy Muslim houses," the man, a retired government official who also requested anonymity, said by telephone from his house near Sittwe airport.

A gang of Buddhists tried to burn his house down, but were dissuaded with help from a Buddhist neighbour, he said..

ABUSES, ONLINE ANGER

The Rohingya [muslims] are descended from South Asians and speak a dialect of Bengali. Most are stateless, recognised as citizens by neither Myanmar nor Bangladesh.

The U.N. refugee agency estimates there are about 800,000 of them in three districts of Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. They are subject to many forms of "persecution, discrimination and exploitation", says the United Nations, including forced labour, restrictions on travel and marriage and limited access to education.

Decades of systematic persecution by the Myanmar authorities had made sectarian violence inevitable, said Elaine Pearson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division.

"All those years of discrimination, abuses and neglect are bound to bubble up at some point, and that's what we are seeing now," she said.

Like their government, many Myanmar people refuse to recognise the term "Rohingya", referring to them as "Bengalis".

"The underlying perception of many Burmese is that Rohingya [muslims] are illegal migrant terrorists," said Pearson.

Sectarian hatred in towns and villages in Rakhine State is mirrored online. "They should shoot at least one (to) make them shut up," read a comment on Facebook under a photo purporting to show rioting Muslims.

Twitter users are railing against "Rohingya terrorists," one under the hashtag "#OneThingWeAllHate".

These sentiments were echoed by nationalistic blogs such as Won Thar Nu, which ran gruesome photos of what it said were Buddhist victims. It accused the Rohingya [Muslims] of staging a "foreign invasion".

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/11/myanmar-violence-idINDEE85A00Y20120611



http://images.smh.com.au/2012/06/11/3367285/wp-20rakhine-20120611213718791278-600x400.jpg
Buddhist walks away from torched muslim houses



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Two Rohingya Muslims killed by crazy Buddhists



http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_small_article/rohingya_twitter_2012_06_11.jpg
Buddhist terrorist incites hatred


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Muslim village burned by Buddhist terrorists


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Muslims peacefully protest against Buddhist terrorism

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Muslims try to extinguish burning houses with dirt

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/images/uploads/2012/june2012/11/myanmar_rakhine.jpg
Buddhist terrorist burns down Muslim houses


http://merhrom.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dsc00297.jpg
Muslims beaten to death by Buddhist terrorists

Falah you are a born again Mo Man so would have been taught "as ye sow so shall yea reap"

Wonder when the Christians in Nigeria are are gunna start reaping?

Cop This Falah



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

Right at the start of 2012, Boko Haram issued an ultimatum giving Christians living in northern Nigeria three days to evacuate or die—an ultimatum the group has been living up to, so much so that Nigeria’s President Jonathan recently declared a state of emergency.




This, of course, is not to say that Boko Haram has not been long targeting Christians, as the New York Times—which all but apologized for the group’s terrorism—would have it.

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 Christian villages, “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!” screaming Muslims.

Likewise, another jihadi attack from last November, enabled by “local Muslims,” left five churches destroyed and 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—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.

Still, beginning with Boko Haram’s church attacks of December 25, where over 40 people celebrating Christmas were killed, 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,” killing six Christians, including the pastor’s wife, and wounding many.
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, killing another 20 Christians, all while screaming “Allahu Akbar!”—Islam’s ancient war cry, which at root simply means “my god is greater than your god!”

A number of other sporadic attacks have occurred since: Four Christians were gunned down as they were getting gases, likely so they could flee the north, and another two were slain during a Boko Haram invasion of Christian homes.

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




Worse, but not unexpectedly, President Jonathan recently declared that “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.”

This is typical of any number of Muslim nations where Islamists have infiltrated and hold important positions in the government, even where the U.S is not enabling them, such as Nigeria.

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—also to the point of ethnic/religious cleansing—the Christian and animist south.
In the interest of Nigeria’s Christian population, then, the nation may well be poised to go the way of Sudan and divide—and thus be the latest example of the difficulty of living peaceably alongside Muslims wherever and whenever they make for large numbers.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/17/nigerian-new-years-christian-slaughter/2/

More Muslim crap Falah


Radical Muslim sect kills 39 in Nigeria attacks

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Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people – the majority dying on the steps of a church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.

Authorities said yesterday they could not bring enough emergency medical staff to care for the wounded outside St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, near Nigeria’s capital Abuja.

Elsewhere, a bomb exploded amid gunfire in the central city of Jos and a suicide car bomber attacked the military in the nation’s north east as part of an apparently co-ordinated assault by the sect known as Boko Haram.

The Christmas Day violence, condemned by world leaders and the Vatican, shows the threat of the widening insurrection posed by Boko Haram against Nigeria’s weak central government.




Despite a recent paramilitary crackdown against the sect in the oil-rich nation, it appears that Africa’s most populous nation remains unable to stop the threat.

The White House condemned what it called a “senseless” attack, offered its condolences to the Nigerian people and pledged to assist authorities in bringing those responsible to justice.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said, “These are cowardly attacks on families gathered in peace and prayer to celebrate a day which symbolises harmony and goodwill towards others.”

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon called for an end to sectarian violence in the country.

The first explosion struck St Theresa just after 8am. The attack killed 35 people and wounded another 52, said Slaku Luguard, a co-ordinator with Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.

Although billions of oil money flows into the nation’s budget every year, Mr Luguard’s agency could only send text messages to journalists asking for their help in getting more ambulances.

Those wounded filled the cement floors of a nearby government hospital, with television images showing them crying in pools of their own blood. Corpses lined an open-air morgue.

The bombing and the delayed response drew anger from those gathering around the church after the blast. The crowd initially blocked emergency workers from the blast site, only allowing them in after soldiers arrived.

“We’re trying to calm the situation,” Mr Luguard said. “There are some angry people around trying to cause problems.”

In Jos, a second explosion struck near the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church, state government spokesman Pam Ayuba said. Gunmen later opened fire on police guarding the area, killing one officer. Two other locally-made explosives were found in a nearby building and disarmed.

By noon, explosions echoed through the streets of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state where fighting between security forces and the sect had already killed at least 61 people in recent days.

The most serious attack came when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives at the state headquarters of Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service.

The bomber killed three people in the blast, though the senior military commander who was apparently the target of the attack survived.

After the bombings, a Boko Haram spokesman using the name Abul-Qaqa claimed responsibility for the attacks in an interview with The Daily Trust, the newspaper of record across Nigeria’s Muslim north.

Boko Haram has carried out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a multi-ethnic nation of more than 160 million people.

The group, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, is responsible for at least 504 killings this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

Yesterday’s attack comes a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded. The group also claimed responsibility for the August 26 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja that killed 24 people and wounded 116 others.

The sect came to national prominence in 2009, when its members rioted and burned police stations near its base of Maiduguri, a dusty north-eastern city on the cusp of the Sahara Desert.

Nigeria’s military violently put down the attack, destroying the sect’s mosque as its leader was arrested and died in police custody. About 700 people died during the violence.

While initially targeting enemies via hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes after the 2009 riot, violence by Boko Haram now has a new sophistication and apparent planning that includes high-profile attacks with greater casualties.

That has fuelled speculation about the group’s ties as it has splintered into at least three different factions, diplomats and security sources say. They say the more extreme wing of the sect maintains contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia.

President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, condemned the blasts as a “unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom”.

“I want to reassure all Nigerians that government will not relent in its determination to bring to justice all the perpetrators of today’s acts of violence and all others before now,” he said yesterday.


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Boko Haram kill seven civilians in north Nigeria: government
Reuters – Thu, Apr 19, 2012...


MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen from radical Islamist sect Boko Haram have killed at least seven civilians in the past 24 hours in a spate of attacks in northern Nigeria, police said on Thursday.

Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of Africa's most populous nation split evenly between Muslims and Christians, has killed hundreds in almost daily gun and bomb attacks this year.

"A water vendor and a customs officer were killed in Abbaganaram and Kasuwan custom areas on Wednesday in the evening, while 5 bakers were killed at the Kasmi Bakery on Thursday," Samuel Tizhe, spokesman for police in the sect's northeastern heartland of Maiduguri, said.

A military offensive against Boko Haram seems to have weakened the sect in the past few weeks, making it less capable of carrying out high-profile attacks with large casualty tolls, but it remains a major security headache for President Goodluck Jonathan's administration.

A bomb near a church in northern city Kaduna on Easter Sunday killed more than 30 people.

This week, the U.S. embassy in Nigeria warned its citizens that the group might be planning attacks on the capital Abuja, which Nigerian authorities quickly dismissed as alarmist.

The group has struck the capital a few times, but its attacks are mostly concentrated in the largely Muslim north.

(Reporting by Ibrahim Mshelizza; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Myra MacDonald)


http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-kill-seven-civilians-north-nigeria-government-220957798.html

My last post on your disgusting stupidity for tonight Falah.

I will post a lot more as required.

Why is it you are so myopic?  Open your eyes drongo.

Christmas Services Bombed in Nigeria; 39 Killed by Islamic Extremists


By Daniel Blake , Christian Post Contributor

December 25, 2011|3:54 pm

Christmas Day church services have been bombed in two Nigerian cities, killing at least 39 people, as co-ordinated attacks against Christians were conducted by Islamic terrorists Sunday.




(Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)

A car burns at the scene of a bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, Suleja, just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja, December 25, 2011. Five bombs exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one killing at least 27 people, raising fears that Islamist militant group Boko Haram - which claimed responsibility - is trying to ignite sectarian civil war.





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In horrific scenes some of those caught in the blast ran towards a priest with pleas to be blessed before they died. "It was really terrible. People ran towards me, (saying) 'Father anoint me,'" Father Christopher Barde has reported, according to AFP.

At least 35 people were killed, and many more seriously injured in a bomb at St Theresa's Church in Madalla near Nigeria's capital Abuja, where the explosion tore through the roof and left holes in the wall. Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack.

One social worker at the church, Benjamin Ekwegbali, described to AFP the scenes of horror and destruction, with "corpses littered everywhere."

He described: "When the mass was over, all of us were coming out. I had just walked past the front of the church when I heard an explosion. Very loud sound. It shook everywhere. When I looked back to see what happened, it was difficult to see anything. Everywhere was dark. Fire was burning. People were running helter skelter."

In another bombing in a church in Jos, one other person has also reportedly been killed.

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At least three further attacks have taken place in Yobe state, in north Nigeria, as another church, the police, and the army were all targeted in the coordinated attacks. In total from Sunday's bomb attacks, at least 39 have been killed, although the number may still rise.

Christian leaders from around the world have been asking for prayers and for governments to protect Christian minority communities, following threats of attacks during the Christmas season this year.

Jonathan Racho, International Christian Concern’s Regional Manager for Africa recently said, "We are extremely concerned with the impending anti-Christian violence during this Christmas. We ask Christians around the world to pray for their brothers and sisters who face death simply because of their faith in Christ.

“We urge government officials in the Middle East, Asia and Africa to step up protection of Christians and their properties.”

Go for it adam. Falah likes nothing more than to play a game of rapid-google. It saves him having to think about what he posts.