Let me be clear about this one thing. If Canada had a Winston Churchill prize for speaking unfashionable truths at great personal risk, then I nominate Lowell Green for the first one. Hell I may have to make one for just that reason.
Category Archives: Boko Haram
Nigerian Christians decide to fight back…
While the BBC makes the overt and palpable ongoing genocide of Nigerian Christians by Muslim, ‘Boko Haram’ a secondary issue after civil servants unhappy with a pay cut and real-world fuel prices.
20 killed as Nigerian gunmen attack Christian mourners
Gunmen in Nigeria on Friday opened fire on friends and relatives gathered to mourn the deaths of three Christians killed on Thursday, leaving up to 20 more people dead.
Nigeria has recently experienced a surge in ethnic and sectarian violence
It was the latest in a series of attacks blamed on radical Islamists who have vowed to wage a religious war on Nigeria’s Christians and drive them from the country’s majority-Muslim north.
Several dozen Christians had come together for a meeting in a town hall in Mubi, in Adamawa state, to mark the deaths the day before of several people killed in the town.
Up to four gunmen surrounded the building and opened fire with Kalashnikov rifles, killing up to 20 people and leaving another 15 badly injured.
“We started hearing many gunshots through the windows,” said Okey Raymond, 48, who was at the meeting.
“Everyone scampered for safety, but the gunmen chanted: ‘God is great God is great’ while shooting at us.” Continue Reading →
Nigeria church hit by deadly gun attack
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Gunmen have attacked a church in north-east Nigeria killing at least six people, the church’s pastor says.
Johnson Jauro said the killings took place when gunmen burst into his Deeper Life Church in Gombe, capital of Gombe state.
He said his wife was among those killed. Ten other people were injured.
Nigeria has recently experienced a surge in ethnic and sectarian violence. The government declared a state of emergency in parts of the country.
“The attackers started shooting sporadically. They shot through the window of the church, and many people were killed including my wife,” Mr Jauro told Reuters news agency.
“Many members who attended the church service were also injured.”
No group said it carried out the attack, but the Islamist group Boko Haram recently carried out a string of bombings on Christmas Day, including against a church in the capital Abuja which killed dozens of people.
Earlier on Thursday, two suspected members of Boko Haram were arrested after a father and son were killed in Maiduguri in neighbouring Borno state.
Escalating violence
Attacks by Boko Haram have become increasingly frequent and are a major problem for the Nigerian authorities. Continue Reading →
SUN News: Boko Haram attack on Christians in Nigeria
Three video clips on the attack by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
I would appreciate any comments from readers on how these 3 clips, one from FOX another from CNN and one from Channel Four differ from each other.
Channel 4 news:
CNN:
FOX:
Explosion kills 27 as it rips though Catholic Church during Christmas Day mass in Nigeria
The Daily Mail
By Gavin Allen
Last updated at 2:54 PM on 25th December 2011
An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria’s capital Sunday, killing at least 27 people.
A second explosion later went off near another church in the city of Jos, raising fears that a radical Muslim sect was continuing its campaign of sectarian violence.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, but the explosions come amid a wave of attacks in Nigeria by Boko Haram, which has been blamed for at least 465 killings this year alone.
Death toll: At least 27 people have been killed in Abuja, Nigeria, after a bomb went off outside a church on Christmas Day
Extremist group: This is a still image taken from a video showing members of the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is suspected of being behind the attrocity
Last year a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos that were claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded. Continue Reading →
Bigotry, revisionism and Baroness Warsi
This is a part of the article by Melanie Phillips:
The co-chairman of Britain’s Conservative Party, Sayeeda Warsi, has delivered a speech about antisemitism to the European Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. I am sure that Baroness Warsi means well. I am sure that she is personally genuinely opposed to bigotry and prejudice in any form. I would therefore like to be able to say it was a fine speech. I cannot do so. Despite much in it that was worthy and unexceptionable, in one vital respect it was a travesty – made no more palatable by the fact that many Jews subscribe to precisely the same lethally misguided misapprehension.
This revolves around the comforting but mistaken notion that Jews and Muslims stand shoulder to shoulder against the same threat by racists and bigots. It’s the argument that says ‘antisemitism = Islamophobia’. And it’s the claim that there is nothing intrinsically threatening to Jews within Islam.
All three notions are false. All three notions are promoted by many Jews. All three were to be found in Baroness Warsi’s speech.
She said:
‘The ugly strain of anti-Semitism found in some parts of the Muslim community arose in the late 20th century. The point is that there’s nothing in our history which suggests that hatred between Muslim and Jews is inevitable.’
This is total rubbish. Muslim persecution of the Jews started in the 7th century with the birth of Islam and has continued ever since. It is true that down through the decades persecution of the Jews by Christians was more savage and barbaric than by Muslims. It is also true that there were periods when Jews prospered under Muslim rule. But the so-called ‘golden age’ for Jews in Muslim lands was very short indeed. The true history is a general story of humiliation, persecution and pogroms.
Suicide bombers, gunmen attack Maiduguri
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Suicide bombers, gunmen attack Maiduguri
November 5, 2011 01:21PM A triple suicide bombing of military headquarters in Maiduguri and three roadside bombs in different areas shook northeast Nigeria’s biggest city on Friday, while militants launched multiple gun and bomb attacks two other cities west of it, witnesses and the military said.
It was one of the most violent days in radical Islamist sect Boko Haram’s growing campaign of violence against local authorities in dry, dusty northeastern Borno state.”One soldier and six civilians have been injured by the three suicide bombers in multiple blasts,” Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, commander of the Joint Military Taskforce for Borno state, told Reuters. Earlier, three roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in an apparently coordinated strike, hitting the wards of Meduguri and Jajeri and the El-Kanemi College of Islamic Theology, all of them around the time of Friday prayers, sending the Muslim faithful fleeing from their mosques. The northeast’s almost daily shootings and frequent bombings in the past months have been blamed on Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden”. The attacks usually target public and religious figures in the poor, semi-arid north.If the attack on the military headquarters is confirmed to be the work of Boko Haram suicide bombers, it will mark the second confirmed time the group have used this tactic.
The other was a suicide car bomb attack against the United Nations’ Nigeria headquarters in Abuja, which killed 26 people and gutted several floors of the building.Boko Haram says it wants sharia law more widely imposed across Nigeria.
It draws much of its support from unemployed youths in the remote, economically deprived north.The group appears to be growing in sophistication and security analysts believe it has made links with al Qaeda’s north African affiliate — al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb.
A local security source said it was not yet clear if there were any casualties from the three bomb blasts in Maiduguri.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen later attacked the towns of Damaturu and Potiskum, next to each other about 100 km west of Maiduguri, in Yobe state, and engaged in running gun battles with security forces, witnesses said.Residents heard several explosions, which later turned out to be bombings of small local churches and a police stations, they said.”Several police stations and churches were bombed. The whole problem started around 6 p.m. this evening, when there was exchange of gun fire between the sect and the security operatives,” said Damaturu resident Umar Gambo.
“It’s horrible”.Another witness in Damaturu, a local journalist who declined to be named, said he had seen a group of 10 militants had attacked a mosque and the local police headquarters.”We are all indoors while the fighting is going on. Damaturu and Potiskum my home town are under siege. The Boko Haram sect have taken over the towns and the security men are battling them. No one is safe,” said Potiskum resident Mammam Mohammed.Security forces this week started door-to-door searches for weapons in the northeast, after an arms amnesty for Islamist militants expired on Oct. 31. It was unclear whether or not this spate of attacks was a response to that operation.
Anyone remember this pre-911 terrorist plot targeting Canada by black Muslims? From 1991!
Funny but I don’t. Thanks to a reader who posted the search item in a comment on another article I found this and similar articles. QUite interesting how old it is, yet how new it seems.
From The Toronto Star
Forgotten Islamist terror plot targeted Toronto
Published On Tue Aug 31 2010
Glenn Neville Ford
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John GoddardStaff Reporter
Note: This material is is subect to legal complaint by Glenn Neville Ford.Almost everybody has forgotten the first homegrown Islamic terrorist plot on Toronto.
In 1991, five black Muslim followers of the Pakistani movement Jamaat Al Fuqra stood accused of conspiring to simultaneously blow up two Toronto buildings in an attempt to kill 4,500 people.
At the time, the case appeared isolated. Only now can it be seen as part of a series of alleged and proven cases of homegrown Islamic terror in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.
Two years before the first World Trade Center bombing and a decade before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Toronto was to become the original ground zero of Islamic terrorism in North America.
The plot was to simultaneously blow up the India Centre cinema (capacity 500) on Gerrard St. E., and the Vishnu Hindu temple (capacity 4,000) in Richmond Hill during the Hindu Festival of Lights when the buildings were expected to be full.
“A cold-blooded conspiracy,” the trial judge called the attempt. “Your actions are despicable and represent a challenge to the very fabric of our society.”
The story begins with Glenn Neville Ford, a Trinidadian native and Muslim convert.
In the mid-1970s he immigrated to Toronto and by 1982 had founded a branch of the Jamaat Al Fuqra sect, led by Pakistani cleric Sheik Mubarik Ali Gilani.
Gilani was the man Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was to meet when he was kidnapped and killed in 2002. Pearl was trying to confirm an alleged connection between Al Fuqra and “shoe bomber” Richard Reid.
“The mission of this Jamaat al-Fuqra (Army of the Poor) is to lead Muslims to their final victory over Communists, Zionists, Hindus (and) deviators,” Gilani wrote in a book seized by Toronto police, Mohammedan Revelations. Continue Reading →
Majority of IEDs are traced to Pakistan
from USA TODAY
(H/T Richard)
WASHINGTON – Pakistan is the source of explosives in the vast majority of makeshift bombs insurgents in Afghanistan planted this summer to attack U.S. troops, according to U.S. military commanders.
By Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.
By Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.
From June through August, U.S. troops detected or were hit by 5,088 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the most for any three-month period since the war began in 2001.
Those bombs killed 63 troops and wounded 1,234, Defense Department records show.
More than 80% of the IEDs are homemade explosives using calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer produced in Pakistan, said Navy Capt. Douglas Borrebach, deputy director for resources and requirements at the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organization.
“The border is a sieve,” Borrebach said. “You can do your checkpoints, but that’s not going to help stem the supply.”
The military is working with the State Department, other U.S. agencies and Pakistan’s government to prevent fertilizer from reaching the insurgents’ bomb factories. Continue Reading →
Witness: Nigeria sect kills 2 at wedding with bomb
The only thing more dangerous than a terrorist is an incompetent one.
Bellingham Herald:
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA – A witness says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect threw a bomb at soldiers in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two bystanders at a nearby wedding.
The attack happened Saturday in Maiduguri, the home of the sect known locally as Boko Haram. A witness who asked for anonymity out of fear of the sect said the two bombers targeted soldiers in the neighborhood, but missed.
A military spokesman confirmed the attack Saturday night, but declined to offer any details.
Boko Haram wants the strict implementation of Shariah law in Nigeria. It claimed responsibility for the Aug. 26 suicide car bombing at the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria that killed 23 people and wounded 116 others.
Youths kill family of 8 in restive central Nigeria
From Reuters:
Mon Sep 5, 2011 6:13am GMT
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Muslim youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs from the two faiths against each other and civilians.
More than 40 people have been killed in the ethnically and religiously-mixed area since last Monday when Christian youths attacked some Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the city of Jos, capital of Plateau state.
Plateau state spokesman Yiljap Abraham took journalists to the house in the village of Tatu, where the bodies of the eight victims from the latest attack were still lying on the bloodsoaked floor.
On Sunday morning, in another village in Plateau called Riyom, police found a bomb planted in a marketplace which had failed to go off because its battery had run flat, Sergeant Willford Egwu told journalists.
Plateau state, straddling the “Middle Belt” between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south, though normally peaceful, has sometimes been a flashpoint for tensions between the two faiths.
Unrest there is a new security issue for President Goodluck Jonathan, also coping with near-daily attacks in the northeast by Islamist sect Boko Haram, which authorities blame for an August 26 bombing of U.N. offices in Abuja that killed 23 people.
Suspected Boko Haram militants shot dead an outspoken Muslim cleric who had criticised the group, Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan Mohammed from Nigeria’s joint military task force told Reuters. The men shot him in a raid on his home on Sunday in Maiduguri, the city at the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency.
On Saturday at least four people including one soldier were killed in clashes between local youths and security forces in the town of Biu in the northeast near Maiduguri, a senior police officer told Reuters.
“The fracas broke out on Friday night when the youth ambushed one soldier and killed him close to the Army Barracks in retaliation to the killing of a woman and the arrest of four Islamic clerics,” the source said.