10 Christians Slaughtered Over Mohammed Cartoon
WND:
Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians, injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses – all because Muslim high school students in an upscale prepatory academy claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the school’s mosque.
The rampage occurred Sept. 28 in the town of Tudun Wada Dankadai, in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano.
According to Compass Direct News, which specializes in reporting on Christian persecution worldwide, there are 1,500 students at the high school, called Government College-Tudun Wada Dankadai, of which only 14 are Christians, and only seven of those actually live on campus. The Christian students at the school insist no one ever saw the alleged cartoon, and furthermore that no one in the tiny minority group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during Ramadan.
“How can we take such a risk when we know that we are a minority and cannot stand [against] them?” Christian student Shehu Bawa told Compass. “This is a lie created to have a reason to attack us.”
Eighteen-year-old student Iliya Adamu told Compass he was getting ready to go to class when a group of Muslim students stormed into his dorm and began to beat him.
“I was surprised that they were beating me without telling what I did,” Adamu said. “I asked to know what was happening, and they claimed that one Christian student had gone to their mosque to draw a cartoon of Muhammad. In spite of my denying the act, they kept beating me.”
Seeing the Muslim mob beating a Christian classmate named Sule La’azaru, Adamu ran to the principal’s office for refuge, soon to be joined by the remaining Christian students there, according to the report.
Despite the attempts by the Muslim teachers to stop the rampage, Muslim students began throwing stones at the Christian students through the window of the principal’s office, wounding student Ayuba Wada in the head.
“I was inside the office of our principal, with the others, when suddenly the Muslim students began throwing stones at us,” Wada told Compass. “It was through this way that my head was broken. I was bleeding, and no help came as the situation became more riotous.”
Eventually, the rampaging Muslim students broke into the principal’s office, but the principal’s arrival saved Wada’s life, while the other Christians holed up there managed to escape the mob.
One of the Christian students, Shehu Bawa, told Compass his arrival on campus that morning was punctuated by shouts of “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is Great) “all over the school.” In fact, he said, “The Muslim students were now attacking every Christian student on sight. Four of us ran into the office of the vice principal, but when it was finally broken into by the Muslim students, we ran out and escaped.”
What about the alleged cartoon of Muhammad, rumors of which instigated the attacks?
“We suspect that either one of the Muslim students in the school did this to create an excuse for us to be attacked, or that a Muslim fanatic from the town might have done this to spark off a fight among Muslims and Christians,” said Bawa. “How could we have done this when Muslim students are always around the mosque day and night because of the Ramadan?”
The rampage spreads far and wide
After attacking the few Christian students in their school, the rampaging Muslim students poured into the streets of Tudun Wada, joined now by other Muslims. For the next four hours, reports Compass, the growing mob burned down Christian churches, vandalized Christian property and murdered innocents.
Among the churches burned were: St. Mary’s Catholic Church; St. George’s Anglican Church; Evangelical Church of West Africa; Assemblies of God Church; First Baptist Church; a Pentecostal church called the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church; an African independent church, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church; and two other Pentecostal churches, The Chosen Bible Church and Deeper Life Bible Church.
The 10 Christians murdered included: Augustine Odoh and his younger brother Cosmos Odoh, both members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Another Catholic, Joseph Eze, was also killed. When Compass filed its initial report, the corpses of the three Catholics were lying at the City Hospital in Kano city. Seven other Christians murdered were buried in a common grave Wednesday, but government workers did not allow relatives or church leaders to identify the corpses.
The dozens of injured are being treated at the Assumpta Clinic, Nomansland in Sabon Gari area of Kano city.
According to Musa Ahmadu Haruna, the priest of St. George’s Anglican Church, Tudun Wada Dankadai, whose church was burned, no Christian student in the school could have drawn an image of Muhammad.
“None of these students is capable of drawing a cartoon on a mosque,” he told Compass Direct. “That is a frame-up to find a reason to attack us.”
Another pastor, Rabiu Danbawa of the Evangelical Church of West Africa, said that upon hearing of the waves of attacks on Christians, he moved toward the town’s center to see for himself what was transpiring.
“I stood as they set fire on our churches one by one,” he told Compas Direct. “There was nothing I could do,” he said, adding, “I did not know the fate of my wife and my children.” When he went to the local police station for help, Danbawa found the police turning away Christians who had run there to escape the attack. “We were told to leave, as our safety could not be guaranteed,” he said, in tears, according to Compass Direct. “Women and children all scampered to the bush, only to be attacked by the Muslims who had already hid themselves in the bush awaiting their Christian prey.”
It wasn’t until several days later that Danbawa found his wife and children safe.
Accoroding to reports from Compass, Danbawa and his family are now refugees in Dogon Kawo village, along with other Christian victims. None have food or shelter, he said.
Even Christian policemen were not immune, with about 30 officers and their families being attacked and their homes looted and set on fire.
Last week’s massacre comes in respose to a call in July by the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar III, to Muslims in northern Nigeria to rise against Christianity. Kano’s state government has led the way in northern Nigeria for the implementation of sharia Islamic law.
Mark Lipdo, director of the Stefanos Foundation, which ministers to persecuted Christians in Nigeria, told Compass he’s shocked that the Nigerian government has done nothing to help the injured and displaced.
“It is surprising that an overwhelming thing like this that has displaced thousands of Christians is not known to the Nigerian government,” he said, noting that the government initially downplayed the mass rampage. “The government must act to check such unprovoked attacks against Christians.”
And Haruna of St. George’s Anglican Church said, “We are living under persecution in Kano state, and yet, we are being told that we are under a democratic government. Do Muslims really want us to co-exist together as a nation? I doubt so.”
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“And Haruna of St. George’s Anglican Church said, “We are living under persecution in Kano state, and yet, we are being told that we are under a democratic government. Do Muslims really want us to co-exist together as a nation? I doubt so.”
Not unless you submit to their false god and false prophet.
October 5th, 2007 at 5:42 pmIf you want freedom in Nigeria, then kill these motherfucking irhabis. Otherwise, be prepared for Dhmnitude and murder.
No! Suely not! Why I thought that Islam was a religion of peace (Hah!)
Oh, by the way, I just drew a picture of Mohammad’s face as the south bound part of a north bound goat.
October 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pmYep, this all just about oil.
October 5th, 2007 at 6:00 pmviolent pig Fuc*ers! Funny how its tolerated by most the world when Christians are killed by muslims for no reason but reverse that and it turns into a giant uproar
October 5th, 2007 at 6:08 pmDr Jerry, funny stuff haha if that picture existed i would like to see it
October 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pmThis is Nigeria. Can we all agree at this point that the problem is with Islam and not with any particular group of Muslims? If murder is a knee-jerk reaction among Muslims, they need to be acknowledged as an absolute threat to international security and public safety.
October 5th, 2007 at 6:32 pmIslam is a Religion of Peace and Tolerance……Yep, the day when pigs do fly then I will believe Islam is a religion of Peace!
October 5th, 2007 at 6:37 pmIslam is not a religion; it’s the world’s largest street gang.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:04 pmIts going to take whole slaughter to stop this insanity. This is what you get when you let poor countries breed outside of their ability to support themselves. Islam is the thug religion that festers in this environment. The parallels to liberalism and victimization mentality seen by these poor Muslim area’s is startling. The liberals would feel right at home beating a religious person senseless.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:10 pmGood point KevinM.
A religion based on the institutionalization of intimidation, thuggery and false witness. The Prince of Lies could not have planned his rise to prominence in this world any better than the day he chose Mohammad as his messenger.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:24 pmNeed to run through the street with a SAW and a few belts of pigs blood dipped rounds… Clear them out and send them straight to hell…
October 5th, 2007 at 7:36 pmMy next book: Islam as Mental Illness.
Like Nazism and communism, Islam creates a moral justification for behaviors that, in normal societies, get you thrown into prison, or a rubber room: robbery, arson, extortion, torture, rape, and murder.
October 5th, 2007 at 8:21 pmIs it just me or do Muslim’s keep painting themselves in a bad light? So can we go ahead and simply label the entire religion as a sadistic, hate-mongering, psychopathic following?
I think it’s about time this “religion” gets banned….period. There hasn’t been this much “religious violence” since the freakin’ Inquisition!
October 5th, 2007 at 8:24 pmThis is the mentality of a so called deep religion…to kill in the name of vanity. Islam is a tribe of savages.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:33 pmI’m with cplusmc.
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October 6th, 2007 at 12:00 amHeath, maybe that is why there was a Crusades…
October 6th, 2007 at 5:25 amThis is why north america is such a great place to live. We have the right to bear arms, and I know myself I have so much firepower in my house that many if not all of the fuckers would die before any of them got their hands on my family. Shit my .308 or my .22-250 semi I could take these guys out before they get within 400 yards of my house lol. I dont think twice taking out a coyote at 300 yards with a pod, they would be nice targets *snicker*
October 6th, 2007 at 10:33 am“There hasn’t been this much “religious violence” since the freakin’ Inquisition!”
The “religious violence” of the Inquisition was nowhere remotely close to the moral equivalent of the violence Islam has wrought on an ongoing basis since the middle of the 7th century.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:59 pmSeriously. Just consider by itself that the U.S. Navy and the U.S.M.C. ‘owe’ their beginnings to the very early effort in this country to stem the tide of violence by Islamic extremists against U.S. merchant vessels and seamen in the Mediterranean and beyond. America’s earliest triumphs over terrorism were on “the shores of Tripoli”.
As a first generation Nigerian I only hope that my grandfather who served in World War II gets his old buddies together and heads north with their stash of weapons and lay some righteous fury down on the Hajjis.
October 6th, 2007 at 4:07 pmif there is a civil war, the muslims are screwed, they just dont know it yet.
October 7th, 2007 at 10:33 pm