Two days ago in Nigeria, on April 24, around 30 Muslim herdsmen stormed a church during early morning mass and massacred nearly 20 parishioners and two clergymen.
Rev. Fathers Joseph Gor and Felix Tyolaha were slaughtered while officiating at the altar of St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Mbalom village, Benue. Worshippers were gathered in the church for the daily 5:30 a.m. service when they heard gunshots.
“People started scampering and wailing,” said Terhemen Angor, a local resident. Several people were “gunned down in cold blood while many sustained injuries including bullet wounds… After attacking the church, the invaders descended on the community and razed over 60 houses. The community is on fire and deserted, people are fleeing to neighbouring villages hoping to find a safe haven for their families.”
As in similar occurrences, “concerted efforts to get [a] reaction from the Benue Police Command failed,” according to Vanguard News. As far back as January 3, and further indicative of the authorities’ indifference, one of the slain reverends, Fr. Gor had written on Facebook, “Living in fear. The fulani herdsmen are still around us in Mbalom. They refuse to go. They still go grazing around us. No weapons to depend on ourselves.”
“In their classic style they burn down homes, destroy food items and kill,” a statement concerning this latest atrocity from the local Catholic diocese read. “The police seem to know nothing of the attacks which have been going on in other villages within Benue State.”
The statement suggests that Fulani herdsmen attacks are part of the anti-Christian jihad in Nigeria that is more commonly associated with the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram:
Many people are asking why the International community has remained silent over the massacre of Benue citizens? The answer is simple: It has been the goal of the jihadists to conquer Benue and Tiv people who resisted their advance into the middle belt since 1804; the [Christian] people who rejected Islam and fought for the unification of Nigeria in the civil war of 1967 – 1970… [T]he Muslim North is enjoying a sweet revenge overshadowed by an insensitive regime…. The diocese has been active in providing relief materials including education and skills acquisition lessons. To go for the priests means total destruction of everything we stand for and believe in!
The frequency and deadliness of Muslim herdsmen raids on Christian farmers is “now more deadly than the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency that has ravaged Nigeria’s northeast,” reports Agence France-Presse.
“I have just returned from Nigeria where over 100 Christians were killed in the 2 weeks I was there. The killings are now weekly and this isn’t even Boko Haram!” a leading human rights lawyer, Emmanuel Ogebe, whose hometown is the site of this latest massacre of Nigerian Christians and their priests, told Gatestone.
The Fulani Herdsmen are jihadists who invaded the region in 1804 and imposed a puritanical form of Islam. It is impossible to separate their antecedents from their present. More than just a land dispute, the attacks on an American mission compound last month and today’s attack on a church service are indicators of the Islamist extremism driving this genocide.
Boko Haram and the Fulani “are not only allies but have collaborated on attacks in Nigeria,” continued Ogebe. “It is no coincidence that both are now waging jihad on Nigeria given their long history.”
Many Christians in Nigeria accuse its president, Muhammadu Buhari of being complicit. Although he publicly condemns the ongoing massacre by Fulani herdsmen of Christians, they contend that he does nothing to stop them. Ogebe goes further with his accusations:
Buhari, who is himself from the jihadists’ Fulani tribe, has filled his security council with his kinsmen. He infamously refused to visit Benue State after the New Year’s Day Massacre that claimed over 70 lives then commanded the state governor to go and “accommodate” the Fulani Herdsmen who had killed his people. The minister of defense has justified the killings and General Buhari’s Government condones and sometimes outrightly supports the Herdsmen. Worse still, General Buhari is a life patron of one of the Herdsmen associations that has claimed some of the attacks.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is set to visit the White House next week, April 30.
Asked if he could relay a message to the White House, Ogebe said:
General Buhari is presiding over a low-grade genocide perpetrated by his Fulani Herdsmen tribe. He must be told to fish out the murderers of Rev Fathers Joseph and Felix and bring them to justice. The killings must stop. US should halt aircraft sales to Nigeria until these attacks are halted and the perpetrators convicted.
More on Emmanuel Ogebe and his work on behalf of Nigeria’s persecuted Christians can be read here; he can be contacted at [email protected].
If Muslims believe, as Islamic scholars seem to insist, that Islam is the one true religion and that non-Muslims must be converted, killed or enslaved, it shouldn’t be a surprise when jihadis murder non-Muslims, and it’s doubtful that it can ever be stopped.
How can Killing, Murdering, and EnSlaving others in the name of God send someone to heaven, what God would allow this, Muhammed wrote the Quran and was a Warlord a very sick and twisted man who Massicared, Christians, Jews and Polytheists, example Buddhist, Hindu’s and anyone he couldnt convince to convert to his evil Islam, which was basically everyone. Once Muhammed converted someone to Islam he then came up with a ingenious plan to Kill anyone who left this evil religion these people are called Apostates and are commanded in the Quran, Sira and Hadith to be simply put to death. If someone were to read the Quran you will immediately understand how intolerant the teachings are, so its no wonder Islamists today continue these practices, if your Holy Book commands it, it must be approved and sanctioned by God then its ok.
The same way as raping and Marrying 9 year old girls as Muhammed did. The Quran clearly was written by a very sick person, and not sent down from God, no God is so sick and evil.
The Western political elite have no interest at all in “going to the rescue” of Christians martyred anywhere, unless there is some economic benefit for them. The plight of Nigerian Christians seems hopeless because of corruption in that government, regarded by an acquaintance who works in an unnamed military security position, as the most corrupt country he has been to.
Western leaders want Europe (and other Western countries) to be conquered by Muslims. That’s why they do not publish these things.
Right now there is a genocide of whites in South Africa. Can you find something in the Western media? No, because this would help create the alarm.
The ruling elite has decided that the West must be subjugated. You will not hear about “Chinese privileges in China,” or “Japanese privileges in Japan,” but “white privileges” in Europe and the US. What privileges?
Look don’t be a Liar, Muslim never commit Genocide, example, the the Ottomans never massacred 1M Armenians, nor did they throw out over 350,000 Kashmiri Pundits in India their own homeland, does any one talk about this history, in Indian Kashmir where Muslims have formed a majority?
No Muslims never create Genocide against others, rather others are creating Genocide against Muslims, so Stop Lying and Deceiving, you are creating competition for the Islamists.
Simply. to stop Islam and it’s horrific wake of death as it spreads to engulf the world, it must be irradiated.
All along, there has been a secret plan or even two secret plans to create and help ISIS grow in order to create havoc as an excuse to send millions of Muslim ‘refugees’ into the EU and the US?
What if each plan happens to coincide with one another’s objectives, but NOT for the same reason?
What if globalists like Merkel, Macron, Obama, Hillary, Hollande, Soros, New World Order, the Democrat and Republican establishments, the oligarchies and the EU are part of it?
What if Islam’s primary sponsors of terrorism, Saudi Arabia and it’s opponent, Iran, are part of the other plan?
Yes…It’s so unbelievable, it’s unbelievable…
…exactly what they count on…
BTW: Less than A THIRD of Muslim nations signed up to coalition against ISIS.
Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Muslim nations are funding ISIS and al-Qaeda.
youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo&feature=youtu.be
Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs Crusades
SEE: Coudenhove Kalergi plan
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FACT: And then there is Islam’s secret: Hijra … jihad by immigration….immigrate and take over by population expansion.
FACT: Muslims conquer when they can. If they cannot conquer, they try to appear that they have integrated . . . until it is time to conquer.’
Where are all the howls of outrage?!! Murder is murder whatever faith you hold. Why don’t the politicians stand up for Christianity and these poor people killed?
I fail to understand why only the muslim hordes are armed. There are never stories about how many jihadists were killed as they attempted to overrun and slaughter some church goers…. who refused to be murdered.
God i pray for the Christians
send your mighty angels to stop these evil muslims
I know you love all God but sometimes we ask for you to intervene
send your angels to confuse the muslims
to frighten them or if necessary to kill them to stop this !!!