Jihad in Nigeria

Voice of the Martyrs ^ | April 29, 2003 | By Greg Musselman, VOM Canada

[miltonim]

Militant Muslims killed her father-in-law and badly injured her husband with a machete. Then, during a second attack on her village, they forced their way into her house. She said it was because she had refused to become a Muslim. At the time of the attack, Nvou was 7 months pregnant.

Nvou said, "So they shot me in the hand, and in the stomach. And when I tried to escape they shot me in the leg and I fell down."

Up until that point Nvou had been carrying her 2-year old son on her back. She added, "I don't know when my child fell off my back. After shooting me, they set the house on fire. So while crawling out of the house I got a burned hand, and the child was burned in the fire."
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For several years now, radical Muslims in northern and central Nigeria have been carrying out a ‘holy’ war, or jihad, against Christians.

I found some of the most recent victims in the hospitals of Nigeria's Plateau state. Women, men, and children with bullet wounds, and deep slash marks on their necks and heads.

The attackers, mostly Fulani Muslims, use guns and machetes as their weapons of destruction. They make no distinction between men, women, and children— who will not only carry the physical scars for the rest of their lives, but the emotional ones as well…

Hundreds have been killed in Christian villages throughout the state. Homes have been destroyed as the attacks against Christians have intensified.

Fifteen year old Nanchak Kadarko is recovering in a Christian hospital after he survived a raid on his village. During that raid he suffered serious injuries to his hand and head.

Nanchak said, "In the morning, around 5, many men with guns attacked my village, we ran from our house to the pastor's house. They chased us to the pastor's house and they were cutting us with machetes as we ran, and I was injured."

Nanchak says the attack has actually strengthened his faith in Jesus.

Selbol Oliver is a 40 year old husband and father of 3. He was shot in the back during an attack on his village. He said, "Militant Muslims from neighboring states and countries have come in to stir up trouble. That's led to much death and destruction."

Selbol said, "There is sadness in me. The reason for that sadness is that many people were killed. But I'm also strengthened, because this has taught me to live more righteously before God, and has strengthened my faith in God."

When we met Celina Kumchak, she was a recent arrival at the Christian hospital. This 45-year-old mother came here after enduring a terrible nightmare, just a week earlier.

She told us how many people were killed in her village during an attack by militant Muslim; how her husband had been injured. Celina, who has difficulty walking, tried to flee from two men with machetes. But she was caught and attacked, suffering blows to her neck and face. She lost part of her tongue. Her hand was also cut.

Her speech now permanently slurred, Celina struggled to explain, "When this happened, I bowed my head. Then I prayed and thanked God that I was still alive. Then I started singing. I was continuing to give thanks to God. I stood up and went where the people were gathering. From there they took me to the hospital."

Celina's 8 year old son was killed during the attack that day. But she looks forward to seeing him again in Heaven

From her hospital bed, Celina said, "I have forgiven those who did this. But I'm praying God will give me the mind to forget all that has happened to me. And I'm praying my son is resting in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Nvou Dauda is a young lady with a beautiful smile, but behind that smile is a lot of pain. Militant Muslims killed her father-in-law and badly injured her husband with a machete. Then, during a second attack on her village, they forced their way into her house. She said it was because she had refused to become a Muslim. At the time of the attack, Nvou was 7 months pregnant.

Nvou said, "So they shot me in the hand, and in the stomach. And when I tried to escape they shot me in the leg and I fell down."

Up until that point Nvou had been carrying her 2-year old son on her back. She added, "I don't know when my child fell off my back. After shooting me, they set the house on fire. So while crawling out of the house I got a burned hand, and the child was burned in the fire." She showed me her fire-scarred hand.

Nvou was taken to the hospital in critical condition. She would later learn her unborn baby had died of a gunshot wound.

Nvou explained, "I've handed everything over to God, and pray that God will take care of me." She added, "Despite all that's happened I will continue to work for God. And even if I'm killed, it will mean I was killed in the name of God."

Nvou, sitting was excited when she learned that some Christian doctors had come from the U.S. and that she would be one of their patients.

While her recovery will be a long and difficult one, Nvou is an incredibly strong woman of God.

U.S.A. surgeon Dr. Bert is one of the surgeons who operated on Nvou. He heads up the Voice of the Martyrs Medical Division. Dr. Bert is a general surgeon who served in Cameroon as a medical missionary for over 10 years prior to joining the Voice of the Martyrs (VOM).

During a break in work at the Nigerian Christian hospital, Dr. Bert said, "I think it's just a worthy ministry to minister to persecuted Christians. The Lord tells us to do that. In Galatians 6:9,10 it says not to be weary in doing good, especially to those who are in the household of faith. I think as we go around and enable these people, equip these people, it encourages them."

Dr. Steve Kitchen, an Orthopedic Surgeon from Columbus, Ohio, joined the doctors in Nigeria.

Dr. Kitchen said, "I love to come on these trips, to see different people, and be able to teach some of the medical techniques I've learned. Also, to impart something of the Lord."

He added, "But I also like to come, because anyone who comes and sees these situations, and is with these people, comes away with much more than you could possibility bring [them]."

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a clear end in sight to the murder and maiming of Christians in Central Nigeria. As a result doctors and medical personnel from around the world are desperately needed here to help deal with the ever growing list of victims."

"There is no more satisfying way to practice medicine that I know of,"said Dr. Kitchen. "You get to do what you are trained to do. You get to help people that really need help. You get so much back in enjoyment and you get so much back from the Lord. You can't out-give the Lord. You just come away with a real sense of what is happening in His Kingdom."

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[RLK]

This will stop only when every mosque in the world is leveled in self defense.

[boycott]

Islam doesn't want western influence yet they continue to build their damn mosque all over the world.

This expansion started with the extreme wealth created with the oil money. In this case, the oil "money is the root of all evil."

We need to take it away from them if they cannot behave more responsibly. So far, they've been nothing but a plague on the human race.

[JSteff]

"So far, they've been nothing but a plague on the human race."

Like any plague it needs first to be contained, and then eradicated. Like any disease it serves no good purpose and has no good end.

Islam is an evil disease. It is NOT a religion but a cult. That is why we do not hear of selfless acts of assistance to the less fortunate of the world from this cult... only of death and subjugation.

Have you seen an "Islam Charities" a "Moslem Peace Corps" or a "Allah's Children's Hospital". No and you won't. It is a cult of taking not a religion of giving.

The only way the world can end good with Islam is when Islam is ended in it's present form.

[Guillermo]

Have you seen an "Islam Charities" a "Moslem Peace Corps" or a "Allah's Children's Hospital".

According to Patty Murray. Osama's been busy doing those things and we haven't.

[1ofmanyfree]

Where is the outrage from Rev.'s Jackson and Sharpton? Hmmm? Follow the money...

Islam the religion of peace...

... only when it's driven back under its rock!

1'free

[RLK]

There are four factors here working simultaneously, but in different degrees in different geographical areas.

1. The destructive nature of world-wide liberalisnm.

2. The race card.

3. Israel.

4. Oil.

1.) World-wide liberalism is a peculiar form of reflexive sadism that will do anything that weakens or destroys this country. Islam is an exquisite tool of torture to inflict such sadism.

Most people are paniced by accusations of racism. The opposite of racism to be demonstrated is declared to be unconditionally acceptant multicuralism. The problem with the doctrine of unconditionally acceptant multiculturalism is that it is causing us to embrace or tolerate, suicidally, actions and mentalities that no sane or intelligent person or people that intends to survive would accept. Mohammedism and its actions would not be acceptable to members of the sane intelligent world. Coordinate with this we have entered into a perioud of profound gutlessness.

3.) Support of Israel causes us to be drawn into the politics and machinations of the Middle East. That's not a condemnation of Israel. It's a fact.

4.) Oil. We have got ourselves into a position in which dependence upon Middle Eastern oil has placed us in the position of tolerating Islamic madness, worldwide, as part of the cost. Confronting the nature of Islam will crate a temper tantrum and our automobile will stop running. Did I care whether Saddam Hussein invaded Saudi Arabia? Do I care whether the Shiites and Sunnis kill each other off? I don't care any more that our goverment cares about Islamics slaughtering non Islamics in Africa or India. As far as I'm concerned we could wall off the area Middle Eastern and let the kooks and hotheads there all kill each other. Howver, as a practical matter disturbaces in the area would also disturb our supply of gasoline and American roads would be filled with stalled cars with empty gas tanks. That's how, or why, we got into the first Gulf War.

[Radtechtravel]

"This expansion started with the extreme wealth created with the oil money. In this case, the oil 'money is the root of all evil.' "

A cursory reading of Middle Eastern Religion shows that murder, rape, evangelism by the sword, theft, oppression of the weak and the non-violent has been problematic in that region of the world ever since the ascendancy of Muhammed's example and teaching.

While muslims love to wallow in the pity of victimhood wrought by so-called Chirstian crusades, they do not like for people to remember that the Middle East was predominantly Judeo-Christian until the rise of Muhammed's hoards used the sword to kill or forcibly convert its populace from the onset of Muhammed's syncretism.

Jerusalem, the present and past object of muslim designs, never is even mentioned in the Quran. There was not a single muslim in Jerusalem when the Quran was written in the 7th Century AD. Muslims captured it by force of arms in Islamic jihads which predate the so-called Christian crusades by more than three centuries.

Islamic hoards swept across and conquered the Arabian Peninsula, the fertile Crescent, present day Turkey, Northern Africa and jumped the Straits of Gibraltar in less than one hundred years after the rise of Muhammed. Its progress was stopped cold on October 10, 732 AD in the Battle of Tours near the River Loire in France. Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlesmagnes, led Frankish tribes to defeat Abd-er-Rahman's superior numbers of muslims and saved Europe from Islamicization. For had the muslim won that battle--as Gibbon observed--instead of spires in Oxford there would have been minarets.

So this problem of the spreading of Islam by the sword is not a new phenomenon. It is inherent in the teachings and example of Muhammed, a bloody man himself, who fought in twenty-eight battles dcuring his violent life. It is the reason for the "growth" of Islam and is the greatest threat to world peace since the fall of the USSR.

Islam is a religion which teaches that Allah wants you send your son to die for him; Christianity is a faith which teaches that God sent His son to die for you.

[backhoe]

-Jihad! Across the World....--

[Travis McGee]

The end game is going to take place at the source of Mad Mo's mean mojo: the black moon-god rock.

We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a glowing crater.

[tkathy]

The problem is the main stream media cowards will not report this stuff honestly. My liberal friends are clueless about this stuff. The average voter thinks Islam is just another religion with a few nut cases.

[Paul Ross]

So this problem of the spreading of Islam by the sword is not a new phenomenon. It is inherent in the teachings and example of Muhammed, a bloody man himself, who fought in twenty-eight battles dcuring his violent life. It is the reason for the "growth" of Islam and is the greatest threat to world peace since the fall of the USSR.

I guess we will never see this admitted openly by any member of ANY U.S. Administration. Too worried about jollying along our 'moderate' Arab 'allies'.

[Paul Ross]

Indeed. Jihad, Inc. A multinational global enterprise.

[boycott]

Very well said.