A series of blasts rocked several churches in Northern Nigeria this morning killing at least a dozen and wounding dozens more in what is surely part of the continuing terror campaign by the Islamic group Boko Haram targeting Nigerian Christians.
But reading this Associated Press report, one would come away mystified as to why these churches were subject to apparently random “violence”:
A Nigerian Red Cross official says at least 12 people were killed and 80 wounded in bomb attacks on three churches in the country’s north.
Andronicus Adeyemo says 10 people were killed and at least 29 wounded in a blast in the city of Kaduna Sunday morning. He says two people died and 51 were wounded in two church attacks in the nearby city of Zaria. He says the Zaria attacks occurred about 10 minutes apart in different parts of the city.
Churches have been increasingly targeted by violence in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people almost equally divided between Muslims and Christians.
An Easter Day blast in Kaduna killed at least 38 people. A Christmas Day suicide bombing of a Catholic church near Nigeria’s capital killed at least 44 people.
As for the source of these blasts, all the reader is left with is this incredibly vague sentence:
Churches have been increasingly targeted by violence in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people almost equally divided between Muslims and Christians.
Apparently “violence” is sweeping Nigeria (not to be confused with its American cousin, “violent extremism”).
If only we could find where this utterly random “violence” emanates we might be able to do something about it. But alas, the Associated Press hasn’t been able to track that down yet.
Although Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jonnie Carson has assured us that religion has nothing to do with the violence in Nigeria, so that eliminates one possibility.
I have the guts to name the perp even if you don’t: VOLDEMORT. . .
Voldemohammad?
What are you implying???
The “Prophet” flying off on a winged (white) horse, of course!
“Vol-De-Mohammud”. or, “Beaucoup Harm” by Boko Haram!
Reads to me like µSlims were involved; AP can obfuscate all it wants.
‘Bought and paid for’ is all anyone has to remember. It’s the theme of the Obama administration through and through; charge nothing to the Muslim brethren but lay a “tax” on everyone else. It’s not the Chinese that own this White House and it’s not the American people either. Some who call themselves ‘Americans’ and even ‘Patriots’, clearly are not.
George Bush
Dang Amish.
“Although Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jonnie Carson has assured us that religion has nothing to do with the violence in Nigeria, so that eliminates one possibility.”
Jonnie Carson? Appropriate, because this is a joke.
Are we sure it’s not the Lutherans?
That’s just Presbyterian propaganda!
Pathetic.
It’s like the “ethnic violence” one sees in Burma today, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the State Department to note the involvement of Muslim separatists. Or the riots and car burnings in France involving “youths”. Or the trafficking in young women in Britain involving “Asians”. Or the epidemic of rapes in Norway by “non-Norwegians”. Does the media which tries to hide the full picture with euphemisms think we don’t know who are involved?
know the name of the religion that shall not be named. everybody does. it goes without saying, as the saying goes.
maybe should we check with the president first, and make sure he does, too.
jump to conclusions now, maybe sec’y hilly or somebody oughta know . . .
with napolitano at homeland security. she sez it’s the tea party.
that’s it! of course. it figures . . .
I thought Johnny Carson was dead, but apparently he’s still doing stand-up at the State Department. Jokes are a little stale though…
is a joke, and it ain’t funny, and the clowns in it ain’t funny neither, ‘cept for hilly, she’s a scream.