Monday, December 26, 2011

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nigeria: Boko Haram escalates violence with church attacks

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/africa/explosion-rips-through-catholic-church-in-nigeria.html?_r=1&ref=adamnossiter&pagewanted=all


ALL RELIGIONS MUST BE BANNED!

I do not care what religion Nigerians practice. The results will be
the same. The fate of Nigeria-the cradle of all civilizations- was
sealed ever since the first voodoo priest knowingly decided to work
with those demonic souls inside and around him to snatch the souls
from their family and friends. Hence evolved the act of worshiping
unseen entities.

Worshiping unseen entities and sacrificing souls are not new things.
They are old reincarnated/recollecting practices brainwashed into the
very fabric of every race/culture from one generation to the next
under the umbrella of religions. As they (the souls inside and around
us) make us believe, it is necessary to worship them (souls) and
sacrifice others (humans and animals); in the name of religions, they/
reincarnated souls lead mankind to early deaths.

The practices of worshiping unseen entities (which are demons/souls
pretending to be deities and gods); sacrificing children, adults and
animals; and luring souls to feast on food and blood have been going
on around the world for billions of years-during wartime and peace.

People have been worshiping demons, hiding it and participating in
sacrificing souls by spilling blood during wartime and peace for fame
and fortune and religion and even so-called love. Only to end up like
Nigeria, Haiti, Louisiana, Florida, Mexico, Cuba, England, Ethiopia,
Jerusalem, Asia etc., etc., etc., a world filled with people
preoccupied with worshiping unseen entities; snatching, trading and
sacrificing souls (from children, adults and animals). The world is
turned upside down and waging wars without provocation-especially in
the name of religions.


Thus: People are wondering where their souls are and "trying to find
themselves. People are dripping their lifeblood on earth and dying far
too soon.

The future is no better for our children. Our children are treated
like animals for the slaughter-only for their souls during physical
abuse, sexual abuse, and religious wars.

War-religious or otherwise-is just an excuse for souls to sacrifice
other souls. Blood (like food) is used to lure souls in and feast
upon so other souls can perform deviant tasks. Humans-like animals-
are manipulated into giving up their blood by the reincarnated/
recollecting demonic souls inside and around us. Then those victims'
souls are ripped out and traded by deviant souls and/or humans
practicing such abominable acts.

Every race has taken up those nasty rituals of worshiping unseen
entities; sacrificing and snatching souls out of their young, old, and
animals; and luring souls to feast on food and blood to enhance their
old reincarnated lives. Its high time people admit they have drained
the lifeblood out of every living thing to the point we are nothing
but dead drones living off the souls of others. Those are abominable
acts passed on by the old reincarnated/recollecting souls inside and
around us, which must cease, if humanity is to survive.

Those old voodoo practices of worshiping unseen entities and trading
souls using blood and food (during war and peace) have been passed
down through every religion through every race for billions of years.
Reincarnated/recollecting delinquent souls, inside AND around all of
us, have passed on and brainwashed those abominable acts into the
bodies, minds, and souls of humanity-especially under the umbrella of
modern religions. Tell me it is not true and I will tell you: You are
a liar brainwashed by the very souls that keep you living an animal's
existence with 98% animal DNA.

All religions must be banned from Nigeria if the "cradle of
civilization" is to survive. Same holds true around the world. If
the cradle falls so too shall humanity.


On Dec 26, 1:53 pm, Toyin Falola <toyin.fal...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> From: John W Vincent <jvinc...@comcast.net>
> To: Various Recipients <jvinc...@comcast.net>
> Subject: Nigeria: Boko Haram escalates violence with church attacks
> X-Originating-IP: [68.36.205.236]
>
> Comment: Nigeria's intelligence and police
> authorities have been notoriously inept at
> penetrating terrorist-minded apostate northern
> Muslim sects, which by their nature are highly
> secretive or they don't survive. Such sects have
> their own highly unique take on Muslim theology
> and also are apostate because they treat their
> founder/leader as a genuine prophet. The success
> of their secretiveness was amply demonstrated by
> the history of the Maitatsine terrorist sect in
> the 1970s/80s and now with the Boko Haram sect in
> current times. (Perhaps an
> equivalent self-proclaimed Christian sect is the
> terrorist LRA of Uganda.) This lack of
> intelligence causes law enforcement authorities
> to overreact with military means, causing the
> deaths of innocent civilians.
>
> Arguably Boko Haram is more dangerous than the
> Maitatsine because it has access to a Sahelian
> region al-Qaeda cloney, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic
> Maghreb (Aqim), as a tacticall ally, which
> provides technical advice regarding the making
> and use of bombs and other terrorist means.
> Perhaps the worst feature of this alliance could
> be encouraging Boko Haram to expand its
> operational horizons to attacking Christian
> targets, thus taking propaganda advantage of
> inserting itself into the ongoing drama of badly
> strained relations between militant northern
> Muslims and militant primarily southern
> Christians. That is, of course, only speculation
> at this point because we don't yet know if Boko
> Haram's Christmas day attack on Christians was
> its own idea or one promoted by Aqim.  One hopes
> that some Nigerian scholar truly knowledgeable
> about contemporary northern Nigerian religious
> politics shall publish his/her findings that
> would shed light on Boko Haram and how it has
> been able to survive and expand.
>
> Coverage by NYT and AP wire service:
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/>
>
> December 25, 2011
>
> Nigerian Group Escalates Violence With Church Attacks
>
> By
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/adam_nos...>ADAM
> NOSSITER
>
> A series of Christmas Day church bombings rocked
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritor...>Nigeria
> on Sunday in what appeared to be a coordinated
> assault by a radical Islamist sect with suspected
> training links to Al Qaeda, raising the sect's
> violent antigovernment struggle to a new and more
> dangerous level that the Nigerian authorities
> seem powerless to contain. At least 25 people
> were killed.
>
> The sect,
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/world/africa/18nigeria.html?pagewan...>known
> as Boko Haram, until now mostly targeted the
> police, government and military in its insurgency
> effort, but the bombings on Sunday represented a
> new, religion-tinged front, a tactic that
> threatens to exploit the already frayed relations
> between Nigeria's nearly evenly split populations
> of Christians and Muslims.
>
> The worst bombing was at the St. Theresa Catholic
> Church in Madala, a suburb of the capital, Abuja,
> where an explosion ripped through a crowd of
> worshipers as they left morning Mass. The bomb
> tore through the church, said Bassey Udo, a
> Nigerian journalist in Madala, and left a deep
> crater. A government spokesman, Reuben Abati,
> said at least 25 people were killed in that blast
> and that many were wounded in a chaos of fire and
> rubble, suggesting the toll would rise.
>
> At least two other churches in other towns were
> attacked Saturday evening and Sunday, as well as
> a police headquarters in the north, an area where
> dozens have been killed in a bloody conflict in
> recent days between the security forces and the
> sect. Officials said the attack on the police
> headquarters was a suicide bombing and that at
> least three officers were killed.
>
> In Madala, there were charred bodies on the
> street and twisted cars burned in front of the
> church. Rescue workers struggling to cope with
> the mayhem faced a shortage of ambulances for the
> dozens of wounded and an enraged crowd that
> blocked them from entering the church until
> soldiers arrived.
>
> The New York Times
>
> The worst attack was in Madala, a suburb of
> Abuja.
> <http://sz0088.wc.mail.comcast.net/slideshow/2011/12/25/world/africa/2...>More
> Photos »
>
> Boko Haram, which roughly translates as "Western
> education forbidden," seeks to impose a stricter
> application of Shariah, or Islamic, law across
> the largely Muslim northern half of Nigeria. For
> more than two years it has been waging an
> insurgency against the government, mainly through
> bombings. Hundreds have been killed in these
> attacks, mostly in the north, many of them police
> officers, government officials and military
> personnel.
>
> Critics of the government campaign against Boko
> Haram say that the effort has not only failed but
> has increased the sect's appeal, because the
> security forces' heavy-handed tactics have given
> it new sympathizers.
>
> The sect's attacks have been further bolstered by
> festering economic resentment in the impoverished
> and relatively neglected north, which has an
> exploding birthrate, low levels of literacy and
> mass unemployment.
>
> Boko Haram's campaign has grown in intensity and
> scope all year. Attacks on the national police
> headquarters in Abuja in June and a suicide
> bombing at the United Nations building there in
> late August, which killed at least 23, signaled
> an expansion in the group's focus. Experts viewed
> those attacks as worrisome indicators that Boko
> Haram was
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/world/asia/30qaeda.html>receiving
> training outside Nigeria, perhaps from Al Qaeda's
> North African affiliate.
>
> The obvious religious overtone to the attacks on
> Christmas Day appeared to represent another
> dangerous shift in strategy.
>
> "This is a sign that they've decided to try to
> ignite the Muslim-Christian fault line," said
> Darren Kew, a Nigeria expert at the University of
> Massachusetts Boston.
>
> If so, it has ominous implications, because
> hundreds have died in clashes between Nigeria's
> Muslims and Christians in recent years. That
> fight has taken place largely outside Boko
> Haram's base in the north.
>
> "They are trying to expand from their roots,"
> said Mr. Kew, adding that until now, the group
> had "largely avoided antagonizing the Christians.
> This is a strategic choice on their part to
> broaden their offensive."
>
> Catholic officials in Nigeria expressed concern
> Sunday about the Madala bombing. The White House
> also issued a statement deploring the violence.
>
> "It's very worrying," said Archbishop Ignatius A.
> Kaigama of Jos, where there was a smaller
> explosion at a church on Sunday. No casualties
> were reported, but the blast occurred in a
> violence-wracked city on the religious fault line
> between north and south. "With this happening,
> it's a different dimension," the archbishop said.
>
> A Boko Haram spokesman, identified as Abu Qaqa,
> claimed responsibility for the attacks in
> statements to the local news media.
>
> The night before, there was an attack at a church
> in the northern town of Gadaka, just outside
> Damaturu. Worshipers' cars were set on fire while
> the owners were inside the church, The Sunday
> Trust, a northern Nigerian newspaper, reported.
> There were no casualties in that attack.
>
> Damaturu was the scene of
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/world/africa/in-nigerias-north-dead...>heavy
> fighting between Boko Haram and security forces
> on Thursday and Friday. The army said it had
> killed more than 50 members of the sect, and that
> three soldiers died.
>
> Boko Haram claimed responsibility for
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/world/africa/us-warns-of-attack-by-...>an
> attack in Damaturu in November that killed more
> than 100 people.
>
> Witnesses in Madala described a hellish scene of
> fire confusion, late and inadequate response, and
> broken bodies.
>
> "Mass just ended and people were rushing out of
> the church and suddenly I heard a loud sound -
> bam!" one witness, Nnana Nwachukwu, told Reuters.
> "Cars were in flames and bodies littered
> everywhere."
>
> A parishioner, Timothy Onyekwere, told Reuters
> that he was in the church with his family when
> the bomb exploded. "I don't know how many were
> killed, but there were many dead," he said.
>
> Mr. Abati, the government spokesman, said in an
> interview that President Goodluck Jonathan was
> determined to "upgrade the performance of the
> security agencies" in response to the wave of
> attacks. "Security is taking the No. 1 position
> in the 2012 budget," he said.
>
> "The president is in a very sad mood," he said.
> "These are nihilists. These are people who just
> want to pull down the country."
>
> Yet it is precisely the actions of the security
> services - the police and military - that have
> been called into question all year, as they have
> responded to attacks with ruthless neighborhood
> sweeps, and what critics describe as
> indiscriminate repression.
>
> "Operations by the security agencies are
> eliminating people and driving them into the arms
> of extremists and terrorists," said Chidi
> Odinkalu, senior legal adviser in the
> <http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/about/bios/odinkalu>Open
> Society Institute office in Abuja, citing a harsh
> crackdown in Yobe State, where Damaturu is
> located.
>
> Western security officials have also been
> critical of the government's response to Boko
> Haram - noting, for example, that Nigerian
> officials have little useful intelligence. "It's
> just a waiting game until the state puts in place
> a pro-active network or infiltrates the group,"
> one such security official said in a recent
> interview. He asked not to be identified because
> of the delicacy of his position.
>
> "They've had more losses than wins," the official
> said. "Their methods are primitive -
> checkpoints," he said. "It's sad to me that they
> can't seem to do anything more substantive."
>
> Musikilu Mojeed contributed reporting from Benin
> City, Nigeria, Eric Schmitt from Washington and
> Herbert Buchsbaum from New York.
>
> Christmas bombings in Nigeria by radical Muslim
> sect kill 39 or more, most on steps of Catholic
> church
>
> Published: Sunday, December 25, 2011, 6:34 PM
> Updated: Monday, December 26, 2011, 11:35 AM
>
>   By The Associated PressThe Associated Press
>
>   EPA Crowds gather at the site of the bomb blast
> at St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla, near
> Abuja, Nigeria today. The church was full at the
> time of the attack.
>
> LAGOS, Nigeria - Terror attacks across Nigeria by
> a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people
> on Christmas, with the majority dying on the
> steps of a Catholic church after celebrating
> Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a
> massive explosion.
>
> Authorities acknowledged they could not bring
> enough emergency medical personnel to care for
> the wounded outside St. Theresa Catholic Church
> in Madalla near Nigeria's capital. Elsewhere, a
> bomb exploded amid gunfire in the central Nigeria
> city of Jos and a suicide car bomber attacked the
> military in the nation's northeast as part of an
> apparently coordinated assault by the sect known
> as Boko Haram.
>
> The Christmas Day violence, denounced 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.
>
> In a statement, 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.".
>
> The first explosion struck St. Theresa Catholic
> Church just after 8 a.m. The attack killed 35
> people and wounded another 52, said Slaku
> Luguard, a coordinator with Nigeria's National
> Emergency Management Agency.
>
> Though billions of dollars of oil money flow into
> the nation's budget yearly, 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," 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, he said. 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
> already had killed at least 61 people in recent
> days. The most serious attack today 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 apparently
> targeted survived the attack, the State Security
> Service said in a statement.
>
> After the bombings, a Boko Haram spokesman using
> the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa claimed
> responsibility for the attacks in an interview
> with The Daily Trust, the newspaper of record
> across Nigeria's Muslim north. The sect has used
> the newspaper in the past to communicate with
> public.
>
>   Sunday Aghaeze/AFP/Getty Images The suspected
> Christmas attacks stoked fear and anger in
> Africa's most populous nation, which has been hit
> by scores of bombings and shootings attributed to
> Islamist group Boko Haram.
>
> Boko Haram has carried out increasingly
> sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign
> to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a
> multiethnic 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.
>
> This Christmas attack comes a year after a series
> of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos claimed by the
> militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded.
> The group also claimed responsibility for the
> Aug. 26 bombing of the United Nations
> headquarters in Nigeria's capital 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
> northeastern city on the cusp of the Sahara
> Desert. Nigeria's military violently put down the
> attack, crushing the sect's mosque into shards 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 fueled 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.
>
> Targeting the group has remained difficult, as
> sect members are scattered throughout northern
> Nigeria and nearby Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
> Analysts say political considerations also likely
> play a part in the country's thus-far muted
> response: President Goodluck Jonathan, a
> Christian from the south, may be hesitant to use
> force in the nation's predominantly Muslim north.
>
> In a statement, Jonathan 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," Jonathan
> said.
>
> However, Jonathan has made the same promises
> after a series of spiraling attacks by the group.
> His spokesman, Reuben Abati, defended the
> president by saying the country planned to spend
> more on security and had made arrests targeting
> the group.
>
> "The administration is very determined to address
> this new threat of terrorism that seems to have
> slipped into our environment," Abati told the AP.
>
> But anger continues to grow over the sect's
> apparent ability to strike at will - anger that
> could be seen at St. Theresa Catholic Church.
> After the blast, someone picked up a burnt piece
> of wood to scrawl: "Revolution now in the
> country" on its cement walls.
>
> --
> Toyin Falola
> Department of History
> The University of Texas at Austin
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