Islamofascism And The War on Nigeria’s Christians

 Posted 12/27/2011 07:09 PM ET

Islamofascism: Scores of Christians attending Catholic mass in Nigerian churches were slaughtered in their pews by massive bomb blasts on Christmas Day. While decried as “un-Islamic,” a frightening number of Muslims believe the bombings are justified.

The year that began with a New Year’s attack on an Egyptian Coptic Christian Church that killed 21 worshippers is ending with attacks on two Nigerian churches that killed 35 and injured at least 57.

While such attacks are officially condemned, they are part of a campaign of violence and suicide bombings for which 34% of Nigerian respondents in a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll last year expressed support.

The first explosion occurred Sunday as Christmas service was ending at St. Theresa’s Church in Madalla near the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Some 35 people were murdered and 57 injured in the attack for which a radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram, which translates to “Western education is a sin,” claimed responsibility.

Another blast occurred at a church in the central city of Jos, where last year at least 32 people were killed and more than 70 wounded in three bombings targeting Christian areas on Christmas Eve.

Jos is located roughly on the divide between Muslim north and Christian south. Sharia law was introduced in 12 northern states, where most Nigerian Muslims live, a decade ago.

Boko Haram is reported to have links to Somalia’s al-Shabaab and to al-Qaida’s North Africa affiliate, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Pew’s 2010 poll found 49% of Nigerian Muslim respondents viewed al-Qaida favorably.

Nigerian Islamic scholar Sheikh Muhammad Isa told the News Agency of Nigeria that the attackers were not adherents of any faith, while Alhaji Quasim Badrudeen of the Muslim Students Society in Lagos described the attacks as “unfortunate and un-Islamic.”

“Un-Islamic” they may be, but they are part of a systematic campaign of violence and hatred against anything Christian and Western by Islamofascists that include the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, the attacks on Danish cartoonists for merely depicting an image of the prophet Mohammed, and the prosecution of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who dared to speak his mind about militant Islam and immigration and the threats he felt both posed to his country and democracy at large.

Mark Steyn, whose words often grace these pages, felt Wilders’ pain in 2008 when the columnist went on trial for “Islamophobia” in Canada. Like Wilders, this consisted largely of quoting Muslim speakers verbatim and drawing some obvious conclusions.

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Posted By: Ellman(2785) on 12/28/2011 | 12:58 AM ET

The body of Christ (his Church) is being slaughtered again, even on his birthday. There is so much outrage when Israel defends itself against dubious ‘Palestinians’. Foreign ministers, Presidents, Premiers express boisterous condemnation. Where are their voices when Christians experience genocide? Their voices are silent, just the way Islamist Barbarians want them to be!

Posted By: JustAnObserver(300) on 12/28/2011 | 12:42 AM ET

As a teacher, I have occasionally been asked by Latino students, “Can a Mexican be a NAZI?” I always tell them, “No” and that no one can be a NAZI. The Last NAZI blew his brains out shortly after midnight on April 30, 1945. This isn’t to say you can’t be a NAZI like wierdo. The actual NAZI party was the final product of a historical process that began a cenury before. If you learn it’s history, you will see the same evolution of a Utopian cult that is taking place

Posted By: chunga2(690) on 12/27/2011 | 11:23 PM ET

Instead of asking “What would Jesus do?”. Or, “What would an attorney do?”. A more practical question might be, ” What would Genghis Khan do to those who murder his people?”. He would and did of course annihilate them all. Wiped them out. Then his empire saw peace for centuries. And no IEDs either.

Posted By: rascally rabbit(185) on 12/27/2011 | 9:15 PM ET

Mark Steyn is one of the few voices of truth and reason out there. Can not believe how naive so many people are about what Muslims are doing to Western civilization and getting away with it. They are not here to live among us and adapt to our culture, they are here to replace us and our culture.