mereka melakukan pembantaian itu karena mereka beragama islam... islamlah penyebab timbulnya rasa kebencian pada mereka...seorang bayi islam yang polos-pun telah dibebani rasa kebencian yang diteruskan turun temurun dan ditulis dikitab sucinya itu... Islam benar benar tragedi kemanusiaan yang menyedihkan....
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:31 AM, itemabu2 <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Pejihad2 Islam ngebantai orang Kristen. Betul2 Islami tuh. > > > > http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013090733159/world/terrorism/armed-muslims-in-nigeria-kill-christians-in-their-homes.html > Armed Muslims in Nigeria Kill Christians in their > Homes<http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013090733159/world/terrorism/armed-muslims-in-nigeria-kill-christians-in-their-homes.html> > Published > on Saturday, 07 September 2013 06:48 Written by Morning Star News > > > Ethnic Fulani herdsmen attack villages on Kaduna/Plateau state border. > > *ADU, Nigeria *(Morning Star News) – Gabriel Anthony, 25, was steeped in > quiet, prayerful devotion at 5 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 1) in this northern > Nigerian village when he heard gunshots. > > “Within minutes, bullets were piercing into our rooms,” Anthony told > Morning Star News. “I escaped from my room by jumping through the window.” > > A half hour later, seven of his relatives in Adu village, Kaduna state, > were dead, including his father, 60-year-old Anthony Nkom (*photo right*); > his mother, 45-year-old Asabe Anthony; his brother, 35-year-old James > Anthony; and another brother, 37-year-old Andrew Anthony. Also killed were > three of his nephews – 5-year-old Meshack Aaron, 12-year-old Bulus James > Anthony, and 15-year-old Happiness Anthony. > > The bodies of Happiness and Meshack were buried in one grave, and those of > the other five in another. > > ** > > Besides these seven people, two other Christians in the village were > killed and three were wounded in the attack by more than a dozen ethnic > Fulani Muslims, Anthony said. All of those killed were members of the St. > Andrew’s Catholic Church in Adu. > > As Anthony’s relatives were being shot, in another part of Adu village > another set of Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked the house of Joseph Abwoi, 50, > killing him and his wife, Asabat Abwoi, 40. They were buried in a single > grave. > > The three people wounded in the attack on Anthony’s home were > grandchildren of the murdered Nkom – Godiya Andrew, 9; Shenyan Andrew, 3; > and Kawot, 5, he said. > > While Godiya was being treated for gunshot wounds at the Jos University > Teaching Hospital, Kawot was taken to Kafanchan General Hospital and > Shenyan was receiving treatment at the Rural Hospital Kaura in Kaduna > state, Anthony said. > > “By the time the Fulani gunmen had moved to other houses in the village, > the sounds of gunshots had forced the over 500 inhabitants of the village > to flee into the bushes, thus escaping from being killed,” he said. > > Survivors fled to the town of Manchok in Kaura LGA of Kaduna state, he > said. > > Armed Fulani herdsmen had attacked villages in the same area on the border > of two states – Attakar in the Kaura Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna > state, and Riyom LGA in Plateau state – in a four-day Easter assault March > 28-31 that killed at least 26 Christians (see Morning Star > News<http://morningstarnews.org/2013/04/nigerian-pastor-family-narrowly-escape-villages-easter-carnage/>, > April 5). > > The Easter violence had prompted talks between Fulani leaders and area > Christians of other tribes to try to determine why the Muslims had attacked > and how to bring an end to the aggression. The Rev. Yakubu Gandu Nkut, > pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Zankan, said he was > thus baffled about possible reasons for Sunday’s attack. > > “I don’t understand the reasons behind these attacks on our people by > these Fulani herdsmen,” he said. “Several meetings have been held with > their leaders in order to resolve whatever are the differences. However, in > spite of promises by these Fulani leaders that these attacks will not occur > again, we have continued to witness these beastly attacks.” > > The violence is undermining the work of various area churches, he said. > > “As you are here, you can see that my family is not here in this village,” > Nkut said. “The reason is because since Sunday, these Muslim Fulani > herdsmen have been attacking Christian villages around here. On Monday up > to yesterday [Sept. 4], some of the Muslim gunmen were here to attack this > community, but they were repelled by the people. And because of this, > almost everybody has left the village.” > > Nkut said there has never been a time when area Christians attacked the > Fulani. Christians believe Islamic extremist groups have increasingly > incited Fulani Muslims to attack Christians in Kaduna and Plateau states as > well as in Bauchi, Nasarawa and Benue. They fear that Fulani herdsmen, with > backing from Islamic extremist groups, want to take over the predominantly > Christian areas in order to acquire land for grazing, stockpile arms and > expand Islamic territory. > > Nkut, chairman of the Zankan chapter of the Christian Association of > Nigeria, appealed to the government to take urgent action to stop the > attacks. > > *Coma* > > Islamic extremists from outside of Nigeria paid to join forces with Fulani > Muslims the prior Friday, Aug. 30, attacked another village in Plateau > state that left a Christian in a coma, area Christians said. > > The mercenaries, whose appearance and speech suggested they were from > outside the country, joined with Fulani Muslims to attack church property > in Dorowa Babuje, also known as Ratatis, they said. The assailants beat > John Fidelis, 40, a Christian merchant, until he was unconscious. > > The Rev. Luka Jang Tsok told Morning Star News he narrowly escaped death > when the armed Fulani Muslims and mercenaries set fire to his Church of > Christ in Nations (COCIN) building in the village, in the Barkin Ladi LGA. > The village is about 140 kilometers (86 miles) from Adu in neighboring > Kaduna state. > > “I had to sneak out of the church compound by jumping over the fence to > save my life,” Tsok said. “During the attack, the Muslim men and Fulanis, > who were armed, set fire on the church, but the efforts of some of my > church members, who had to ensure that all the entry gates to the compound > were well locked, saved the church building from being burnt.” > > In the two-hour attack that began about 2 p.m., 17 shops and three houses > belonging to Christians were looted and damaged, he said. > > “There is a need for a sustained security surveillance of this area, > because with the way things are going, we fear that there is a great danger > ahead,” Tsok said. > > Rufai Ozokwo, a 40-year-old Christian who owns a shop in Dorowa Babuje, > told Morning Star News by phone that his shop was looted. > > “I was in the shop when suddenly we started hearing gunshots, and quickly > I had to lock the shop and run away,” he said. “But when everything > settled, I came back to find a hole that was dug through the wall of my > shop, and when I checked, my television, generator, some provisions and > money were taken away.” > > Ozokwo said a Christian from the Yoruba ethnic group who has a store in > the village also had his shop looted. > > “We, the Christians in this village, were all attacked,” Ozokwo said. > “Another Christian who is an Igbo man with a shop here was also attacked > and his shop looted.” > > In previous attacks, Muslim extremist mercenaries were suspected to have > come from Chad, Niger and Cameroon. There has been no government statement > about the affiliation of these mercenaries to terrorist groups, but a few > days before the Aug. 30 attack, the governor of Plateau state referred to > outside extremists wreaking havoc in Nigeria. > > “Had Nigerians listened to the cries and complaints of Plateau state over > the involvement of foreigners in the crises in the state and addressed the > situation, the insurgence in the north and other parts of the country would > have been nipped in the bud,” Gov. Jonah David Jang reportedly told Martins > Brian, Charge D’ Affairs of the American Embassy in Nigeria, who visited > the governor in his Jos office. “Our cries on many occasions as regards the > involvement of foreign mercenaries in the crises in the state were > dismissed as sentiment until other states in the north started having > similar experience.” > > Jang urged the U.S. government to help contain the crisis. > > “When we started reporting about foreigners getting involved in the crises > here, no one believed us,” he said. “I have been vindicated; what we were > trying to stop here escalated and developed into [Islamic extremist > terrorist group] Boko Haram, which some parts of the north are suffering > today.” > > Brian reportedly responded that the United States was interested in peace > in Nigeria and was ready to assist the country to achieve peace. > > > © 2013 Morning Star News. 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