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Category Archives: Boko Haram
FRANCE 24 journalist (sexually) assaulted in Cairo
Sooner or later we, the Western world, are going to have to have a chat with ourselves about our values, what they mean to us and whether or not we are ready to defend them.
The Western world likes to pretend that men and women are equal in all ways as opposed to equal before the law, which is a rational, not to mention actionable, way to look at reality.
The Muslims of course, have their own version of what women’s rights are and this is evidenced by what you see wherever Islam has the whip hand no matter what Muslims tell you when they are trying to seem liberal for the purpose of rhetorical attack or defense.
Western news agencies continue to send women to cover events at Tahrir Square despite the multiple rapes and various forms of gang-sexual-assault on female reporters because they have to. If they send men instead, then the savages win in a sense. They have forced us to submit to the reality of Islamic views of women despite our insistence that the risk or danger is the same for both, or perhaps more importantly, that women may be able to sue a news organization for discrimination if they are not sent because they are women and at greater risk. At the end of the day, we have some things to sort out on our own before we can start enforcing policies. Women’s groups really should start writing policy in terms of home and abroad rights and responsibilities as well.
The time for dealing with reality is now. Islam and it’s fictions and violence are forcing us to deal with our own fictions. We cannot put up a decent fight till we are aware of them and ready to revise them or fight for them.
Eeyore for Vlad and H/T to Snaphanen.Dk for the story link
From France 24
FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi filed a police complaint with Egyptian police on Saturday, one day after she was assaulted by a crowd of men while reporting on a demonstration at Cario’s Tahrir Square.
By FRANCE 24 (text)
FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi filed a police complaint with Egyptian police on Saturday, a day after she was assaulted while reporting on a protest in the capital Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Dridi had just finished giving a live news report at around 10:30pm on Friday for FRANCE 24’s French language television when a crowd of men teemed around her, shoving and grabbing at her body.
“I was surrounded by my team, so I didn’t feel like I was in any particular danger,” Dridi told FRANCE 24 in a televised interview, saying that the camera crew had attracted a crowd of curious bystanders. “I was able to do my live report but at the end of it the atmosphere was really tense.”
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“The crowd encircled us…It was mostly young men, but not only. They started to touch me and I held onto my colleague, who tried to reassure me and hold my attention so we could get out of the crowd as fast as possible,” Dridi added.
35 killed in Nigeria violence
H/T Michael Laudahn:
ZEENEWS:
Abuja: More than 35 people were killed overnight following a series of bomb blasts in the northeastern Nigeria by the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.
In Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, multiple bombing that rocked the city on Monday killed 10 civilians while in Benue state, herdsmen believed to belong to Fulani community killed 25 persons in Yogbo.
Eyewitnesses said those killed in Benue were mostly children and women. Residents of the town said more than sixteen explosions punctuated by gunfire echoed Maiduguri, Boko Haram’s home state.
Gunmen kill 20 at mosque in northern Nigeria.
H/T Bear and Michael Laudahn
Yahoo News
KADUNA (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 20 people, a local official said.
The attack happened in a remote village called Dogo Dawa, in Kaduna state, said Abdullahi Muhammad, the traditional ruler and councillor of Birnin Gwari, a local government area next door to the village.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Like much of northern Nigeria, Kaduna is plagued by an insurgency led by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. They usually attack security forces, government officials or Christians, but have hit Muslim clerics and mosques in the past, especially ones that do not follow their hardline brand of Islam.
Kaduna also lies close to Nigeria’s volatile “Middle Belt”, where Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south meet, and where tensions over land and ethnicity often erupt into violence.
Nigeria church bombed in Bauchi, Boko Haram flashpoint
BBC:
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Nigeria under attack
A suicide bomber has attacked a church in northern Nigeria , killing at least two people and injuring 48, according to the Red Cross.
Witnesses at the scene in the city of Bauchi said they heard a blast near St John’s Church, possibly in a car park.
Bauchi has often been targeted by the Islamist Boko Haram group, which wants to impose Sharia law across Nigeria.
Sunday attacks on churches took place regularly earlier this year but had eased in recent months.
Attacks in central and northern Nigeria blamed on Boko Haram have killed some 1,400 people since 2010.
On 16 September, Nigerian security forces said they killed Boko Haram’s spokesman Abu Qaqa in a gun battle.
However, the group has not confirmed his death.
Boko Haram assassins wipe out family in Kano
H/T Don L
PM News Nigeria:
Published on September 16, 2012 by pmnews · 5 Comments
Four men suspected to be agents of the Boko Haram sect have shot dead a member of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and three members of his family in Kano.
They killed the officer, his wife, his three year old daughter and his crippled brother staying with him, police sources told a news agency today.
The victims were all locked up in a room and shot dead in the home of the yet to be identified NSCDC officer in Hotoron Gabas district.
Neighbours said they saw the four men arriving on two motor cycles and entering the house.
Kenyan Muslims want truce now that they have burned the churches and bars and infidels want to fight back
Boko Haram Confirms Orchestrating Damaturu Bombings, Promises Deadlier And Wider Attacks.
Reporter365:
By Seun Babatunde.
Boko Haram, the Nigeria’s worst headache of more than two years has announced responsibility for attacks earlier in the week in the northern city of Damaturu, Yobe State, during which a minimum of 40 died.
In a patently superfluous email that only corroborated widespread public belief of Boko Haram being the mastermind of the blasts, the group promised deadlier attacks that would summarily overthrow the federal government.
“We assure all that the success of the Damaturu operation is really a sign that very soon, Allah will give us the chance of overthrowing this unjust and heathen government and replacing it with an Islamic system which is just,” a portion of the statement, obtained by Reporters365 on Thursday, reads.
One of the destroyed vehicles in the recent bombings
The attack in question got underway on Monday with blasts targeted at security officials and structures in the capital of the state, followed by several hours of fire that spilled into Tuesday afternoon of the following day.
In a related development, the Yobe State government has relaxed by six hours a two-day 24-hour curfew earlier
slammed on Damaturu.
A government statement said that while movement within Damaturu metropolis is now permissible only between 10am and 4pm, movement in Potiskum town would be even more relaxed running to 6am to 6pm. In all other parts of the state, citizens are allowed to exercise their freedom of movement between 10am and 6pm only.
Nigeria church attack in Kogi state ‘kills 19’
BBC:
At least 19 people have been killed in a gun attack on a church in central Nigeria, officials say.
Gunmen stormed the church near the city of Okene in Kogi state and fired on worshippers, they say.
The pastor was among those killed when the assailants fired Kalashnikov assault rifles, the officials add.
It is not clear who carried out the attack but militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out numerous raids on churches and other targets in Nigeria.
BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says the shooting happened further south than most areas affected by Boko Haram violence.
The joint military force commander in Kogi state, Lt Col Gabriel Olorunyomi, said the gunmen opened fire on the Deeper Life Bible Church in the town of Otite, near Okene, the AP news agency reports.
Many others were wounded in the attack and rushed to different hospitals, Lt Col Gabriel Olorunyomi said.
The authorities are searching for more victims who may have run into the bush nearby, he added.
In April, Nigeria’s security forces raided a suspected bomb-making factory in the Okene area, killing at least nine alleged Boko Haram militants.
In February, Boko Haram said it had attacked a jail in Kogi, using bombs and heavy gunfire to free 119 inmates.
Suicide bomb attacks claim four lives in Nigeria
…and now they are after the hairdressers…
XINHUANET
Suicide bomb attacks claim four lives in Nigeria
SOKOTO, Nigeria, July 30 (Xinhua) — The police in northwest Nigeria’s Sokoto State on Monday said four persons died as a result of two suspected suicide bomb attacks in the state.
A police corporal, two suspected suicide bombers and a hair dressing saloon operator died during the attacks, the state police spokesperson, Sani Salisu, told reporters in Sokoto, the state capital.
The alleged attackers were said to have simultaneously struck at the office of the AIG Zone 10 and a POWA shop adjacent the Marina police station in Sokoto State.
Suspected members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram kill two Indians
I wonder how casually the Indian government will take this.
Reuters:
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria | Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:12am EDT
(Reuters) – Suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram shot dead two Indians after storming their factory in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
Boko Haram has killed hundreds this year in its campaign to carve out an Islamic state in Nigeria, whose population is split evenly between Christians and Muslims.
58 Killed in Central Nigeria Raids and Reprisals
ABC News:
By AHMED SAKA Associated Press
JOS, Nigeria July 8, 2012 (AP)
Raids and reprisal attacks have left 58 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, officials said Sunday.
Assailants launched “sophisticated attacks” on several villages near Jos early Saturday, said Mustapha Salisu, spokesman for a special taskforce made up of policemen and soldiers deployed in the area to curb years of violence.
“They came in hundreds,” Salisu said. “Some had (police) uniforms and some even had bulletproof vests.”
He said the special taskforce fought back for hours and lost two policemen in the battle. Salisu initially said that 37 people were killed including 14 civilians and 21 assailants.
However, late Sunday, Nigerian Red Cross official Andronicus Adeyemo said aid workers had counted 56 dead and more than 300 displaced people from the attacks. He did not give a breakdown.
Boko Haram leaders are designated as terrorists by US
BBC:
21 June 2012 Last updated at 12:55 ET
Abubakar Shekau is the leader of Boko Haram
Boko Haram leaders are designated as terrorists by US
Abubakar Shekau is the leader of Boko HaramContinue reading the main story
Nigeria under attack
Three leaders of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group have been designated as terrorists by the US state department.
Abubakar Shekau leads the militant group, while Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid el Barnawi are thought to have ties with a branch of al-Qaeda.
The move means any assets belonging to the men in the US will be frozen, and contact with US citizens banned.
Boko Haram has said it carried out a number of attacks against churches and other establishments since 2009.
More than 640 people have died in the country so far in 2012 in attacks blamed on the group.
The BBC’s Kim Ghattas, in Washington, said the move was likely to have little effect on the three men.
She said it was more of an attempt to help stop sectarian violence in the country.
Boko Haram carried out a series of attacks against churches on Sunday, sparking a wave of sectarian reprisals.
Gun battles also broke out in Damaturu after attacks by the group against security forces.
Multiple Blasts Hit Nigeria’s Northeastern City Of Damaturu
Bloomberg:
By Gbenga Akingbule – Jun 18, 2012 6:48 PM ET
At least two explosions and sporadic gunshots hit parts of the Sabon Pegi area of the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, in Yobe state, in renewed attacks carried out by the Boko Haram Islamic sect, amid military spokesman said.
“We are on top of the situation, we have sent reinforcement from Maiduguri, and I can assure you that the situation is under control,” Victor Ebhaleme, field operations officer of a military jointtask force in the region said by phone. He didn’t provide information about any casualties, and the police spokesman in Damaturu, Saliyu Adamu, didn’t respond to phone calls seeking comment.
Authorities in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, blame Boko Haram for attacks in the mainly Muslim north and the capital Abuja that have killed hundreds of people this year. Boko Haram is a movement seeking to impose strict Islamic law in the country.
At least 53 people were killed yesterday in a series of suicide explosions that targeted churches around the northern Nigerian cities of Zaria and Kaduna, Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress, whose organization helped in rescue operations, said.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and the continent’s biggest oil producer, is roughly split between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
Church bombing in Nigeria now total 5 for today by Muslims
From here:
KADUNA (AFP) – Two more church bombings rocked Christian-dominated towns in Kaduna Sunday, bringing to five the number of explosions in the northern state, a local emergency official said.
“There were two simultaneous bomb attacks on churches in Nassarawa and Barnawa in the south of Kaduna this morning. We are yet to get information on casualities,” Kaduna spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Aliyu Mohammed told AFP.
Southern Kaduna is some four kilometres from Kaduna city and about two hours drive from Zaria, where three churches were hit by bomb explosions early Sunday. There have been no immediate reports of casualties.