Posted on 02/14/2015 10:34:55 AM PST by marshmallow
Boko Haram forces appear poised to attack Maiduguri, a city of 2 million in northeast Nigeria -- meaning that 200,000 Christians could be at risk of slaughter by the Islamist terror group, say U.S. intelligence officials and experts on Nigeria.
"An attack on Madiguri is very likely," said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Project at the Atlantic Council, echoing U.S. intelligence officials. Pham believes, as do other experts, that Boko Haram has already placed "sleeper cells" among the tide of refugees who have fled the group's murderous rampage through Africa's most populous nation. "They've done it everywhere else they've gone," said Pham. "So why not Maiduguri?"
One big concern is the large number of Christians in the city -- about 200,000, most of them Roman Catholic. In previous attacks, Boko Haram has offered Nigerian Christians the opportunity to convert or be killed. Already, 200 Christian churches have been lost to the group's onslaught.
Strategically, success in Maiduguri would provide Boko Haram with a launching point for further attacks on the neighboring states of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, all of whose territory were once part of an Islamic caliphate that lasted six centuries, ending in the 1300's. Boko Haram declared its own caliphate in the region last year.
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3 Muslims are murdered (MURDERED) in Chapel Hill, NC and you are worried about a few hundred thousands Christians? Where are your priorities. I’m sure that another Tweet from Michelle will take care of that Nigeria problem.
So much for #Blacklivesmatter...
Our fearless leader doesn’t care. He’s too busy condemning all Christians over what an atheist did to his best buds.
And what is the Catholic Church doing about this situation?
Boko Haram is issuing “convert or die” edict, which doesn’t make sense. Convert to what?
Somebody tell these Boko Haram folks thats they aren’t Islamic. They are as Islamic as Howard Dean.
Islam is a peaceful religion. Profit Muhammad would not heart a fly living on the corner of this mouth. And why accuse him of hating females when he loved many females, even females as young as 9. The blasphemy is only going to engage peaceful Muslims who just want to be left alone to make the world more Islamic.
Anybody seen the Pope lately? Seems he’s been quite loquacious about immigrants and anti-capitalism, Does he have anything to say here? At all?
If there are 200,000 Catholics that means around at least 10,000+ fighting age men. There is no way these thugs should defeat a force like that. These people need to start defending themselves and not be sheep led to the slaughter.
What is the purpose of the United Nations?
Remember Riwanda. The UN ran and left the people they were supposed to be protecting to be massacred.
Just a random attack. And let's not forget the Crusades. /obama
Exactly, if you can’t defend 200,000 of you, especially if the enemy had warned you months in advance and you see the enemy actions worldwide, you don’t deserve it. Darwinism in action.
Workplace violence./s
Hashtag ping!
As our fearless fosdick POTUS would say just a few malcontents getting even with Christians for the Crusades
The real problem is AGW global warming. This is nothing.
there are a lot of christians, yes, but they have no weapons to defend themselves with.
If the civilians were armed, boko haram would be getting sniped every time they tried to move.
“The real problem is AGW global warming. This is nothing.”
Indirectly yes, according to john Kerry. Global warming causes terrorism such as this.
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