Nigeria: Enraged Muslims set fire to Catholic church-Cairo: Muslim Brotherhood Slaughters Christian

Jihad Watch ^ | 3-31-14

[SJackson]

Interfaith outreach in Nigeria: Enraged Muslims set fire to Catholic church over alleged insult to Muhammad

Western Christians, Catholic and Protestant, set a great deal of hope upon their ongoing “dialogue” with Muslim leaders. But what good is the “dialogue” if it does nothing to deter Muslims from attacking churches and other Christian installations? What good is “dialogue” if it makes all the parties feel good but doesn’t deal with the tough issues that make this dialogue necessary in the first place?

“Catholic church in north Nigeria set aflame,” from the Associated Press, March 31 (thanks to Kenneth):

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses and an official say angry Muslim youths set ablaze a Catholic church and tried to destroy an attached school in northern Nigeria over an alleged insult to the Prophet Muhammad.

Witness Tukur Musa says soldiers on Monday stopped the mob from setting ablaze the school in Funtua town in Katsina state, but they arrived too late to save St. Rita Catholic Church.

He says the town was in an uproar about an examination question last week which they considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. They reported the matter to district authorities. When no action was taken, young Muslims attacked.

Deputy Police Superintendent Aminu Abubakar Saddiq confirmed the church was burned and school damaged but said no one was injured.

Religious strife is common in central and northern Nigeria. .

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Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Brotherhood Slaughters Christian Woman

Here is more detail on this story. On Friday, March 28, in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked the Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church, including by opening fire on it and setting parked cars aflame. Four people died.

One of the slain, a young Coptic woman, was savagely mauled and molested before being murdered—simply because her cross identified her as a Christian to the Brotherhood rioters.

According to an eyewitness who discussed the entire event on the Egyptian program, 90 Minutes, Mary Sameh George was parking by the church to deliver medicine to a sickly, elderly woman:

Once they saw that she was a Christian [because of the cross hanging on her rear view mirror], they jumped on top of the car, to the point that the vehicle was no longer visible. The roof of the car collapsed in. When they realized that she was starting to die, they pulled her out of the car and started pounding on her and pulling her hair—to the point that portions of her hair and scalp came off. They kept beating her, kicking her, stabbing her with any object or weapon they could find…. Throughout [her ordeal] she tried to protect her face, giving her back to the attackers, till one of them came and stabbed her right in the back, near the heart, finishing her off. Then another came and grabbed her by the hair, shaking her head, and with the other hand slit her throat. Another pulled her pants off, to the point that she was totally naked. . The eyewitness, as well as many others who have since appeared on videos, complained about Egyptian State Security and how it did not intervene—just like under Morsi, when St. Mark Cathedral was besieged, even as security stood by—how it knows exactly who the murderers are, and how one of Mary’s murderers, whom “everyone reported to Security,” was simply relaxing in his home, not even hiding.

Added the eyewitness: “Let me tell you, here in Ain Shams, we [Christians] know that every Friday is a day of death; that the day after Friday, Saturday, we’ll be carried to the morgue!”

In fact, the overwhelming majority of attacks on Egypt’s Christians occur on Friday—the day when pious Muslims meet in mosque for prayers and to hear sermons.

The significance of this fact can only be understood by analogy: what if Christians were especially violent to non-Christian minorities on Sunday—right after they got out of church? What would that say about what goes on in Christian churches?

What does it say about what goes on in Muslim mosques?

A video of Mary’s family members has one woman screaming out the following words—which may be of interest to some Americans:

A message to [U.S. President Barack] Obama, who is calling for the Brotherhood to return to power again. I want to tell him, have mercy, enough is enough! His brother is in the al-Qaeda organization! Why do you want to destroy Egypt?….Egypt will remain whether you, the Brotherhood, or anyone else likes it or not!… Keep reading .

[brooklyn dave]

oh those pesky Muslims. Time to arm the Christians. Screw the song Kumbaya—let’s bring back Onward Christian Soldiers.

[SJackson]

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[EricT.]

“Enraged Muslims”?!?

Is there any other kind in any given news story.

[Capt. Tom]

Western Christians, Catholic and Protestant, set a great deal of hope upon their ongoing “dialogue” with Muslim leaders.

Another group of dumb Infidels who think they can talk their way into a peaceful settlement with Muslims.
The are right up there with the dumb Jews in Israel. - Tom

[SunkenCiv]

And Ugandan president leads rally backing new anti-gay laws -- guess which one will be of concern to Zero, Lurch, and Plugs? Thanks SJackson.

[puppypusher]

How many deaths does it take before these Christian lambs become Christian Lions and start killing off the Muslim predators?

[EQAndyBuzz]

It is time for a crusade. The pursuit and annihilation of radical Islam throughout the world.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

QUOTE: "A video of Mary’s family members has one woman screaming out the following words—which may be of interest to some Americans: A message to [U.S. President Barack] Obama, who is calling for the Brotherhood to return to power again. I want to tell him, have mercy, enough is enough! His brother is in the al-Qaeda organization! Why do you want to destroy Egypt?….Egypt will remain whether you, the Brotherhood, or anyone else likes it or not! She was referring to something that is as well known in Egypt as it is little known in the United States: that the Obama administration is a sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood, which itself is connected to al-Qaeda. The rest of the video portrays some of Mary’s other family members—many in tears and near hysteria—prompting one to wonder: where is the U.S media? I have not seen a word on this latest Islamic attack on a church and Christians on BBC, CNN, or any of the so-called “mainstream media”? Why is that? They had no problem constantly showing us (over and over again) a video clip of a hysterical female relative of a member of Malaysian flight MH370." http://www.raymondibrahim.com/.../muslim-brotherhood.../

[namvolunteer]

Muslims must be drowned ... in Napalm. Then put a slice of pork roll on every charred body. Help a struggling New Jersey industry.

[Eleutheria5]

This is what happens when demoncracy (sic) is thwarted.