80 killed in escalating violence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria

Posted on June 20, 2012 by The Extinction Protocol

June 20, 2012 – NIGERIA – At least 80 people have been killed since Monday in clashes in northern Nigeria triggered by Islamists waging an insurgency against the government, figures from police and the Red Cross showed on Wednesday. The violence – some of which was sparked by church bombings over the last three Sundays – has heightened sectarian tensions in Africa’s most populous country, which is evenly split between Christians and Muslims. Boko Haram insurgents waged gun battles with security forces in the remote northeastern city of Damaturu, near the radical sect’s heartland, throughout Tuesday, police chief for the surrounding Yobe state Patrick Egbuniwe told Reuters. He said 40 people were killed, 34 insurgents and six security personnel. In separate clashes between Muslim and Christian residents of the northern city of Kaduna on Tuesday, at least 40 people were killed and 62 wounded, according to local Red Cross official Awwal Sani. His organization was helping to collect bodies and treat the wounded, following riots in which Muslim youths fired AK-47 rifles, burned tyres and destroyed a church in Kaduna. The riots came two days after after Christian youths went on the rampage, killing 52 people in the city, itself retaliation for the bombing of three churches by suspected Islamists on Sundat that killed 19 people. Residents said the violence in both cities, hundreds of kilometres (miles) apart, had died down on Wednesday. “Damaturu is calm this morning. Four policemen are receiving treatment for gun-shot (wounds),” police chief Egbuniwe said. “We made seven arrests and they are with the criminal investigation department.” Pope Benedict repeated his concerns about the sectarian killings, using his weekly general audience on Wednesday to appeal for an immediate end to “terrorist attacks” against Christians and urging all sides to avoid reprisals. Boko Haram says it is fighting to reinstate an ancient Islamic caliphate in the north of Africa’s top oil producer that would impose strict sharia or Islamic law. The insurgents have killed hundreds since they launched an uprising in 2009. -AN

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11 Responses to 80 killed in escalating violence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria

PAPPY says:

June 20, 2012 at 3:47 pm

2 religions that are supposed to be about peace . Where’s the Peace in all of this killing

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latenightlisa says:

June 20, 2012 at 5:19 pm

How can you call yourself a Christian & go on a killing rampage? That is NOT what God has in mind for us to do no matter how horrific things may become.

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- The Extinction Protocol says:
  
  June 20, 2012 at 6:41 pm
  
  Even more importantly, how can you call yourself human? They were human before they became anything else. The atrocities and heinous crimes committed on this planet daily at the hands of so-called civilized man, not beasts, is revolting.
  
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Dave says:

June 20, 2012 at 6:11 pm

If Muslims attackers were being killed like Christians are in the area the UK would be up in arms sending help, sadly Cameron is anti Christian, he likes to be a good friend of nasty Muslim groups, he even sends them money from nice UK tax payers.

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suz says:

June 20, 2012 at 6:47 pm

Both Islam and Christianity teaches us to value humans the most and then animals and plants.
Not all Muslims hate Christians and not all Christians hate Muslims, just like not all white people hate black people and vice versa. Extremists are setting a bad example to the world on both sides. I think we should have one religion…..the only religion I believe in is the religion of Love.

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- Rosa Lopes says:
  
  June 20, 2012 at 11:43 pm
  
  It is because of many people way of non religious thinking that God is going to fry most of us very soon!
  
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- Marie-Louise says:
  
  June 21, 2012 at 12:35 am
  
  Yes, Suz, my religion is also Love.
  
  Let’s remember that most humans are brainwashed, so they tend to define themselves in opposition of others (Satan means the opposer in Arameic, if I am correct). Alos, and most importantly, there are plenty of psychopaths around the world, who are usually the instigators of such violence and the leaders of criminal gangs. I believe that these assailers are mostly psychopaths.
  
  Psychopaths are humanoids, but not humans, because they do not have souls. Most if not all of political leaders are psychopaths; it becomes very obvious to the eye when they stop smiling their fake smiles, but they are well trained to smile almost all the time in public, are’nt they? (there are great pictures of political leaders in their true nature, with their true faces presenting dead eyes, at http://www.davidicke.com in the headlines).
  
  Cheers….
  
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tonic says:

June 20, 2012 at 8:59 pm

It’s a sign of the times we live in. Respect for human life will soon be just a concept.
The trenches of WW1 took it to a new level.(35 million deaths) WW2 took it to sheer horror.(over 60 million deaths)
Today, stock markets, banking, and proffiteers, show daily that your life is worthless in their eyes. Young families can be thrown onto the street (doesn’t matter if their is a recession and you have lost your job) without a second thought their welfare, or future. Take the words Muslim and Christian away from the story above and you find hatred. (alive and well.)
I do not know if a being called Satan exists, but if it does, it sure feels like it is winning right now.

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mikee agbo says:

June 20, 2012 at 10:37 pm

We need God intervention ok

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Joseph t. Repas says:

June 20, 2012 at 10:52 pm

The Bible has Jesus saying, the day is coming that those who kill you will think that by doing so they are serving God.

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TrueFaith says:

June 21, 2012 at 8:54 am

What surprised me is awhile back on animal planet they were talking about the most deadly killers in the animal kingdom…yet somehow humans were not on the list. That struck me as odd seeing as that we as a animal species are not only the most sadistic but deadly to each other. We have killed more of each other in our recorded history than any other animal alive-in their history. while i believe in the almighty i do not have much faith in the modern teachings of jesus or christ in any of the modern religions. The good word has been corrupted by man if not intentionally then because of our flaws as humans and our limited comprehension. Lord have mercy on us all for our many mistakes and bless and forgive us all our shortcomings, amen.

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