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Nigeria – January 29, 2010. On Christmas Day, some 300 people almost died when Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up the holiday travelers on Northwest Airlines Flight #253. Regardless of any pronouncements to the contrary by the DHS Secretary, State Department, Attorney General, President Obama, ACLU, Code Pink, C.A.I.R., or anyone else who believes in a kinder, gentler Islamic terrorism, this was not criminal activity, but jihad. All have heard how previous to clamming up at the advice of his terrorist-defending attorney, the Panty-Pyrotechnician boasted to FBI agents that there were many potential jihadists just like him in Yemen. What he did not mention is that there are also thousands of active jihadists back home in Nigeria, nor that Yemen was not the only place training Nigerian terrorists.
An incendiary crotch may be a new twist, as it were, but the struggle against infidels for the global domination of Islam is an ongoing one that spans from Saudi Arabia to Sudan, from Denmark to Detroit, from Brussels to Boston. It is just that so far, jihad usually takes a different form in the United States — relying on the kindness (gullibility, naiveté, and political correctness) of strangers and the paralysis of the United States government, as democracy is turned inside out to the advantage of its enemies. That may not always be the case.
In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, jihad has been more aggressive. Inter-religious violence resulting from radical Islam has been responsible for the deaths of over 50,000 people in the past ten years in Nigeria. Although state religion is ostensibly a violation of the country’s national, secular constitution, 12 out of 36 states have instituted Shari’a (Islamic law) as the highest legal authority. And, as is usually the case, Shari’a has opened the door to unchecked persecution of non-Muslims.
In states where Islam does not hold complete sway, Islamists are doing their damnedest to change the situation. Such is the case in Jos, the capital of Plateau State in Nigeria’s middle belt. Violence broke out in Jos on Sunday, January 17, 2010. (Interesting, how many attacks on Christians take place on Sunday or on holy days, such as Christmas.) Most media reported “conflicting accounts” of the origin of the attacks, in which nearly 500 people were killed. In Times Online, State Commissioner of Police Greg Anyating said that the violence began with Muslim youths setting fire to a church. But Muslims have denied this claim and blame Christian youths stopping a Muslim man from rebuilding his house for triggering the violence.
Compass Direct New Service further details the attack that almost wiped out a small village on the outskirts of Jos. Their sources confirm that the violence began with an unprovoked attack on worshippers at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church. “Some Muslim youths invaded some churches and started burning and destroying properties,” said Rev. Chuwang Avou of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). “We were told that the youths pursued a lady to the church. Nobody knew what the lady did. What we just discovered was that the entire atmosphere was ignited and houses were being burned,” he continued.
In addition to St. Michael’s, the Muslim youths, in a true spirit of ecumenism, burned the buildings of churches of several Protestant denominations, as well. Christ Apostolic Church, the Assemblies of God Church, three branches of the Church of Christ in Nigeria and two buildings of the Evangelical Church of West Africa were all burned. Times Online says that volunteers discovered bodies “shoved into communal wells and sewer dumps.” They also found the bodies of those killed by gunshot and machete in the bush outside the village. Surprisingly, only 2 pastors and 46 other Christians were originally confirmed killed amongst all the dead, according to CAN.
