There is a religious war going on in Nigeria right now…long denied by the BBC who preferred to categorize Christians killed by Muslims or churches burnt down and congregations slaughtered or Muslims killed by Christians as ‘tribal’ or ‘ethnic’ conflicts or disputes over land.
The BBC has been forced to admit that perhaps this is a ‘religious’ conflict driven by Muslims intending to impose Islam across the whole of Nigeria.
‘Nigerians – both Muslims and Christians – take their religions very seriously
Pastor Oritsejafor said his members would do “whatever it takes” to defend themselves from the pattern of killings which suggested “systematic ethnic and religious cleansing”.’
This is what Boko Haram said….“The Nigerian state and Christians are our enemies and we will be launching attacks on the Nigerian state and its security apparatus as well as churches until we achieve our goal of establishing an Islamic state in place of the secular state”
But old habits die hard and the sting in the tail is that of course the Muslim ‘insurgents’ are not representative of the majority of Muslims….and in fact the Muslims are the real victims here….targeted by Boko Haram and the Christians….says the BBC’s (presumably Muslim?) Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar ……but its all really wonderful as Muslims and Christians are, as well as kicking the hell out of each other, simultaneously living in harmonious peace….
‘Christians and Muslims, northerners and southerners, are marching side by side in the ongoing national strike against the removal of a fuel subsidy.
During the protests in some cities this week, Christians have formed human shields while Muslim prayed – and Muslims have responded in kind.
Professor Kyari Mohammed of Modibbo Adama University in Yola admits that the current situation represents a “very dangerous trend”
However, he says, the key difference is that Boko Haram is a fringe group fighting both the government and mainstream Muslims in northern Nigeria.
“The major problem is that there is a huge deficit in the understanding of the situation, particularly by the government, leading to its inability to address the problem,” he notes.
“For an average northerner it is a double jeopardy. He is targeted [in the north] by the Boko Haram that does not believe in his version of Islam, and in the south by the people who feel that the attack by Boko Haram is an attack by Muslims.”
Boko Haram are opposed to all things Western, especially Western education and are just as likely to attack Muslims who oppose them as they will attack Christians. However much like the IRA or indeed the Nazis there is always a large ‘unspoken’ support for groups such as these and the more successful they become the more that support will openly show itself…..as one Muslim said ‘I’m not against Sharia because I’m a Muslim, but why must they force people to embrace their view.’….if Boko Haram take power does it sound like this man would really oppose them?
Just as Hitler had the support of German industrialists who believed his ideology could bring stability and prosperity back to Germany there are well funded, influential people who are arming and providng finance to Boko Haram…..’The sect is now terrorizing the people of the state and is believed to be sponsored by highly placed politicians in the country.’
Their agenda is presumably to impose Sharia upon Nigeria.
Power can come very quickly especially if you are clever and ruthless….
‘In 1928, the Nazis had only 12 seats in the Reichstag; by July 1932 they had 230 seats and were the largest party.’
The BBC needs to wake up to the dangers these ‘fringe’ groups pose to any country they try to impose themselves upon. A fanatic with a gun, which he is prepared to use, will defeat or subdue any number of people who are not prepared to defend their own lives or lifestyles.
And it should stop pretending that when push comes to shove Muslims will not support ‘radical’ Islamists….just look at Egypt where the conventional wisdom of the BBC and its ilk was that the Islamists had very little support….guess they have had to rethink that one.
Why not call it the “African Spring – throwing off the yokes of colonialism and destroying the puppets of the west.”
Think I could work for the BBC?
The people in BBC News are intellectually incapable of dealing with this issue.
Not to worry though.
The BBC tell us today that their surveys of Somali pirates reveals that they are more beastly to their captives than they used to be.
That may well be the cuts I expect.
The good news though is that they are beastly to them for a lesser period of incarceration that they used to….hurrah for this increased throughput target being achieved.
So a mixed picture there then-I reckon a re-enactment of the pirate radio years is due, now that the Toady show have broken the ice with their educative and essential Liberian jollies…ooh that rapping, so ethnic bruv!
The Somali coast gets a fine radio reception,I`m told Evan!
If only the luvvies could experience the savagery of the Loco Bokos first-hand. Might take their minds away from the things that really (?) matter – the poor quality of rent boys around Manchester and paucity of really good drugs.
The BBC turns a blind eye to what is effectively an informal Muslim war against Christianity taking place in a score of countries. It’s too easy to blame extremist groups like Boko Haram for the troubles in Nigeria – if they were a genuinely unpopular fringe group they wouldn’t last five minutes surrounded by a hostile population. As it is barely a Sunday now goes by,there, without some fresh massacre of Christians. What is so astonishing is that probably the majority of the population of his country would describe themselves as Christians, but Beeboids seem feel a greater need to exonerate their persecutors than show any fellow feeling for people who hold to something most people in his country would recognise as a rational ethical system compared with the spatchcock Islamic variety.