Ah look, horse hockey. Do you know who are the most common victims of Radical Islamists? Muslims! Then there are the Muslim victims of the radical Hindus, the radical Buddhists not to mention the hatred spouted by many Christian Dominionists, oh and the hard-Right Jewish sects as well. Perhaps you might do some home-work before spouting such trenchant nonsense.
So the day after the high profile attacks on Muslims you thought it was relevant to dig up and highlight a weeks-old story featuring Muslims doing the attacking...
You thought it was appropriate and germane to change the topic from Muslim victims to Muslim victimizers...
I totally agree, (I'm in Australia) and you would not believe the news stories and how some are reacting, many mosques in Australia had open days yesterday with hundreds of visitors being shown around and mourning and flowers left, non Muslims hugging Muslims and in tears and children leaving pictures outside mosques.
I don't get it. It was an evil act but how come this doesn't happen to the Christians?
I have noticed people carrying on like this for a number of things lately and it is way out of proportion. And never been like this before.
We have had our Prime minister saying "It happens to one faith, it happens to all of us" ummm no, not to me because the Christian faith is the only true one.
I don't discount any murder as being anything other than wicked, it is all a tragedy but don't group the Christian faith in with the others.
I don't get it. It was an evil act but how come this doesn't happen to the Christians?
The best part of the article came from the Christian Assn of Nigeria.
We must remember that radical Christians during the Crusades, murdered plenty of Muslims in Palestine when they invaded that area. Radical Jews in the first century used to gather around innocent Roman citizens in crowds and secretly stab them to death.
If this post is a response to the ones concerning the killing of Muslims in Christchurch NZ, then it doesn't wash, because it is not a reason to support the murdering of innocent people of any religious persuasion.
Yes it would be reported but Christians are Christians wherever they are, no favouritism.Not to worry. If there was a church massacre in Australia with 50 Christians killed I am sure you would have gotten equal coverage at least.
Nigeria.....not so much interest for westerners no matter how the bodies pile up.
Totally true. I wonder why people even care. It's not as though these were important people. They weren't Christians so their lives were not as good, and important, and valuable as a Christians life. They were kind of worthless people if you really think about it.
That is in addition to 280 killings in February:
That would probably be because Muslims are the most likely people to be victims of terrorist attacks worldwide and incidents of terrorism against Muslims has been increasing in western countries.I can only say there has now been a backflip here at present and now the sympathy is going beyond the incident and the Islamic faith is being looked at as victimised.
The situation in Nigeria is different because it's an ongoing conflict that has been taking place for well over a decade. There are Muslims slaughtering Christians and Christians slaughtering Muslims in that country with probably an equal number of victims from both religions. This would be true in other parts of the world where there is ongoing conflict as well.The killings in Nigeria for instance and other countries are systematic slayings that are continuing and will do so.
With no apology, ever.
And Christians killed 130 Muslims there in February, including 22 children. Christians have killed hundreds of Muslims in Nigeria. They are at war and both sides are killing innocents.
Sources please, where did you get that report?
I see, the attack in 2004 looks especially nasty.Those killed in last Friday's attack were mainly from the Fulani ethnic group, who are predominantly Muslim...
Death toll in last week's Nigeria attack doubles to 130
This next one is an older story, but it shows that the violence in Nigeria is being carried out by both Christians and Muslims and has been for many years.
A Muslim community leader in the Nigerian town of Yelwa said yesterday that 630 bodies had been buried there after an attack by Christian militia on Sunday. The previous estimate of the death toll was 300. Survivors of the attacks said many people were still missing and the final death toll could reach 1,000. Another 600 were said to be seriously wounded.
Nigerian Muslims bury 600 after Christian slaughter
It seems both Christian and Muslim extremists in Nigeria are equally guilty when comes to violence in that country.I see, the attack in 2004 looks especially nasty.
That 2004 attack is profoundly disturbing, more recently the aggressors are Muslims, let's hope it doesn't escalate.It seems both Christian and Muslim extremists in Nigeria are equally guilty when comes to violence in that country.
Thank you for pointing this out. I probably shouldn't have labeled the Muslims and Christians as extremists in my previous post. While there are no doubt some extremists on both sides exploiting the situation in that country, the root of the conflict in Nigeria is not religion and I shouldn't have broadly labeled Christians and Muslims in Nigeria as being extremists. That was a mistake on my part and not my intention.The most serious problem with this post however is the wildly distortive "Radical Muslims" in the CBN headline parroted by the poster.
You see unlike the Islamophobic NZ loon with his bigoted manifesto, the Fulani pastoralists did not attack the farmers BECAUSE they are Christian.
The crux of the dispute is land, the Fulani want to use it to graze their flock, the farmers naturally for their crops.
This is not a holy war, it is a struggle to subsist for the nomadic minority Fulani.
The big news story over the weekend was of course the Islamophobic attack in NZ.
Then this poster dredged up an old story from 2 1/2 weeks ago and posted it as if it were breaking news.
Death toll in last week's Nigeria attack doubles to 130Sources please, where did you get that report?