1. Boko Haram makes another major attack in Nigeria
1a. Boko Haram Attack On Gamboru Ngala Claims 300 Lives
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Militants are said to have gunned down citizens and set fire to buildings
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Arrived in armoured vehicles, stormed the town and randomly opened fire
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Group were behind mass kidnapping of girls from a boarding school
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Further 11 girls were abducted yesterday from a village in the Borno district
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Protests have been going on across the country demanding action
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Nigerian Police offering £300,000 reward for help which locates the children
(The question is, why is Nigeria not doing the one thing we all know has to be done? Who is stopping it?)
2. ‘Chinese police to help patrol Paris streets’
Chinese police will help patrol tourist destinations in Paris this summer after a rise in muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists, a source in France’s interior ministry said Tuesday.
More than one million Chinese visitors come to France every year and there have been concerns over a number of muggings and attacks against them.
3. Pat Condell: The European Union is theft of democracy
(Before anyone dismisses this as irrelevant, I would ask how you would feel if a restaurant was serving meat secretly to vegetarians. The meat protein would not hurt them and probably even help them. But it is a gross violation of their rights to determine what they wish to ingest for their own reasons rightly or wrongly)
5. Pakistan scrambling to meet WHO’s polio travel restrictions
(One can’t help but wonder if this new plague of polio isn’t caused somewhat by religious muslims deliberately and frequently murdering the people who are vaccinating young people against the disease. Just a random thought)
6. Jordan airs new Jerry Springer spinoff show
Thank you Don L, M, EDL Buck,
CHANNEL 4 – NIGERIA – ‘Beyond Nigeria’ to deal with girls kidnap crisis alone
SYRIA – May 07 2014 – Rebels evacuated from Homs, cradle of Syrian uprising
May 7 – Syrian rebels [i.e. Muslim jihadists ] board busses and start withdrawing [ under UN supervision] from Homs, the city at the heart of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, handing him a symbolic victory less than a month before his likely re-election.
May 07 2014 – Muslim jihadists evacuated from Homs
SYRIA – HOMS – May 07 2014 – Homs evacuation reveals extent of damage of Syrian war
euronews -SYRIA – Buses carrying the first several hundred fighters left the downtown area ending a siege that has lasted over a year. It is been reported that they were brought to the town of Al-Dar Al-Kabira. A total of 1,200 fighters are expected to leave Homs in stages. Some reports have put the figure at around 2,000.
Video – graphic – Syria – ( Daria ? ) dead muslims
Great clip of the chat show. My favourite recent Islamic chat show clip was when the bloke got up on the table, and kicked his mother in the head. Fucking savages – but hey, what’s new..?
A very good article on Arab slavery
Sorry forgot to put the link in.
http://clashdaily.com/2014/05/stop-blaming-america-islam-brought-slavery-west/
CNN – SYRIA – Terms of the deal with the freedom fighters
Syrian rebels have said that the truce in the city was brokered after they agreed to release 70 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, 20 Iranian officers captured by the Islamic Front in Aleppo and an Iranian female agent who was captured at the end of March. Hezbollah and Iran have backed al-Assad’s government in the war.
Representatives of the rebel fighters and of Islamic battalions have negotiated in recent days with those of Syrian government forces, the pro-regime National Defense militias, the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and the Governor of Homs, according to the observatory.
The talks were mediated by civil committees and the United Nations in the presence of representatives from the Iranian and Russian embassies.
In a statement to the state-run Syrian news agency SANA, Homs Governor Talal al-Barazi said that the process of settlement and reconciliation will begin simultaneously with the rebels’ departure so as to have the city cleared of arms.
After the city is cleared, a Syrian army unit will begin a search to detect and dismantle explosive devices, mines and remove barricades, he said.
Terms of the deal
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that the Homs pact will call for:
1. The withdrawal of rebel and Islamist fighters from Homs neighborhoods under the supervision of regime forces and delegates from the United Nations;
2. The opening by rebel forces of a safe passage for the provision of food and medical aid to the Shiite enclaves of Nubul and Zahraa in the Aleppo countryside, considered to be regime strongholds the rebels have blocked for months;
3. The withdrawal of rebel forces from Homs via the Hama-Homs highway toward Al-Dara Al-Kabira in Homs province’s north countryside;
4. The granting of amnesty to 50 fighters who defected from regime forces in Homs’ al-Waer neighborhood;
5. The takeover by regime forces of the al-Waer neighborhood in Homs in addition to the entrance and exit into the neighborhoods of Jouret Shiah, Al-Qarabees, Hamidiyeh, Wadi Al-Sayeh and the Old City of Homs;
6. Retreating rebel and Islamist fighters to keep their personal weapons for protection in the event of any breach of the pact.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/07/world/meast/syria-homs-truce/
SYRIA – ( video uploaded on youtube on May 4 2014 ) Freedom fighters firing US-made missile
I’m afraid I’ll start saying “allah-blah” like a parrot.
Seriously, I have that kind of brain, it’s wired that way. Stub a toe, “allah-blah-blah”.
From now on all goes mute.
Furniture from IKEA?
6/ My kinda guys!
The Nigerian government isn’t doing anything about the kidnapped girls because they don’t want a repeat of the Biafran War. Boko Haram are trying to divide the country along Hausa/Yoruba vs. Igbo lines. Boko Haram will continue these attacks hoping for a massive reprisal that can then be used as a general call for jihad from all Muslims living in the northern part of the country. This would effectively split the nation in half leaving Christians living in these areas at the ‘mercy’ of the Muslims and plunge the entire country into chaos. They would probably extend the civil war into the south in order to seize the oil fields and expel the native population.
One other thing to consider with Boko Haram is where are they getting the money for automatic weapons, ammunition and armored transport? There isn’t a lot of wealth in the north and BH is mostly young men who cannot afford to pay a dowry for a bride. The Saudis used to pay Egyptians for every Christian girl who was kidnapped, raped and ‘converted’ so maybe it’s the Saudis. Money and weapons may also come from Libya. Ukraine could be WWIII but I fear Nigeria could lead to an enormous war that stretches across Africa. The Nigerian government is probably hesitating until they know who the real enemy is.
Les,
You seem to understand the dynamics here. Could you explain the background a bit more? Or insert a link or two?
SubSaharan Africa couldn’t be any darker for me than it already is.
@yucki, I don’t have time to give you much but here are a few links that will help you to begin to see what is going on:
I know, wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War
A dictatorship was established after the civil war. The leaders came from the Muslim states located in the north of the country. The last dictator, Sani Abacha, was forced to step down and elections were held and a Christian from the south was elected. The northern states began to vote for sharia law ‘just in their state’ shortly after this. The Christians living in these areas suffered terribly.
http://www.ea.org.au/ea-family/Religious-Liberty/NIGERIA–MUSLIM-STATES-TEST-CHRISTIAN-PRESIDENT.aspx
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/nigeria/l/bl-Nigeria-Timeline-4.htm
Everything you see now started way back in 1999. Boko Haram apparently grew out of the move to establish sharia back then. Unfortunately the government has done very little to deal with the violence so it has been growing and the perpetrators have been emboldened and organizing for some time.
I can’t find the reference on Saudi funding to kidnap Christian and Hindu girls right now. It was well known about 8-10 years ago. I used to write for a Christian organization that covered persecution so I’ve been following this stuff for over 10 years.
Would you consider calling in to an Ottawa based AM radio talk show tonight and explaining this to his audience? I think that would be fantastic. I can embed the call tomorrow if you do.
Let me know if interested. They have a toll free number for North America
I just sat down again for dinner.
Iran and Turkey have tried to ship arms to Boko Haram. I’ve been looking at other articles and apparently they receive donated money from Islamic charities in the Middle East, UK and Europe. Chad has asked to cooperate with the Nigerian government to get rid of these guys.
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Thanks, Les, I’m grateful for whatever you can bring to the table.
I’m getting a slightly less vague idea of this horrid place. Strangely I feel I owe at least that much attention to these poor souls.
Someone edited Wiki with a hammer & sickle. Priceless:
“These tradition-derived differences were perpetuated and perhaps even enhanced by the British system of colonial rule in Nigeria. In the North, the British found it convenient to rule indirectly through the Emirs, thus perpetuating rather than changing the indigenous authoritarian political system. As a concomitant of this system, Christian missionaries were excluded from the North, and the area thus remained virtually closed to European cultural imperialism, in contrast to the Igbo, the richest of whom sent many of their sons to British universities.”
I found a map of linguistic Nigeria from 1979. It’s a kind of broad-brush sketch of tribal configurations before the war:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/nigeria_linguistic_1979.jpg