Posted on 01/13/2015 1:55:08 PM PST by robowombat
Boko Haram Commits 'Deadliest' Attack Yet with 2,000 Feared Dead
Carrie Dedrick | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Monday, January 12, 2015
Terror group Boko Haram has reportedly orchestrated its most devastating attack yet. According to CNN, Boko Haram militants stormed Baga and its surrounding villages in armored vehicles, opening fire on any residents in their path.
Local officials said that the militants fired indiscriminately, leaving many dead. Reported death tolls ranged from the hundreds to 2,000; the actual death toll will be confirmed when authorities complete head counts for the attacked villages.
The attack began Jan. 3 and continued throughout last weekend.
A statement from Amnesty International said, "The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act.”
Musa Bukar, local government chairman in Baga described the scene saying, "Dead bodies litter the bushes in the area and it is still not safe to go and pick them (up) for burial. Some people who hid in their homes were burned alive."
Following the vicious attacks in Baga, Boko Haram continued its violent rampage in Borno state. The group is believed to be responsible for another attack, this time at a crowded marketplace in Maiduguri. Christian Today reports Boko Haram strapped explosives onto the body of a 10-year-old girl, which detonated at the market killing at least 19 people.
Just following their holy book.
Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."
Sura (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"
Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
Sura (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah"
Sura (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."
Everybody be nice now, and understand we all have our cultural differences but we can iron them out with just a little more dialog and understanding!
Be calm, everybody, and show some tolerance toward those not exactly like us...
Yes, it does. Below is a quicky chart using data from the ROP web site. This 2000 is not in there, as it's 2000, but with these kind of numbers, even 2014 is likely to be surpassed in 2015. In the earlier graph points, this would be about a quarter of the year total.
Has the State Department hashtagged it yet?
A lady in my parish, Doris, is from Liberia. She says a couple of teenagers would show up with rifles, order everybody out of their houses, herd them together, strip them naked, take their clothes; then trucks would show up and men would go from house to house taking anything that was movable-- furniture, pots and pans, stoves, bedding, dishes, doorknobs, whatever food they could find in storage (sacks of cornmeal, rice, beans)--- pack it in boxes and put it in the trucks, then drive off.
Then the armed teen boys would tell the people, "OK, you can go back now."
I guess that was the moderates. The real extremists, everybody would get a bullet in the back of the head, and the houses would be torched.
ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE
Enough is enough.
It’s time Michelle sent out another tweet.
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