Posted on 01/09/2015 2:10:46 PM PST by blam
Jeremy Bender and Armin Rosen
January 9, 2015
The jihadist group Boko Haram has pulled off perhaps the deadliest attack in its ongoing five-year long insurgency in northern Nigeria.
Boko Haram, extremists opposed to western-style education and secular governance in Nigeria, carried out a multi-day attack in the northeast of Nigeria, focusing on the town of Baga. According to Musa Alhaji Bukar, a senior government official who spoke to the BBC, Baga, which once had a population of about 10,000 people, is now "virtually non-existent."
The multi-day rampage focused on Baga and the surrounding towns and villages. The militants razed an estimated 16 towns around Baga, according to the BBC.
These towns are just gone, burned down, Borno State Senator Ahmed Zanna told NBC News. The whole area is covered in bodies.
The rampage has led to the deaths of an estimated 2,000 Nigerian civilians along with sending approximately 10,000 people fleeing for their lives into neighboring Chad, according to the Associated Press.
Boko Haram's rampage throughout the region is a direct blow to the prestige of the Nigerian military.
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Please, I beg you to do so......What do your ancestors have to do with 1994 Rwanda that you seem to be evading?
Do you have any comprehension of what occurred in Rwanda back in 1994? Why are you evading that talking point?
I wasn't aware the Nigerian military had any prestige. But if they did before, this will end it for sure now.
Yes they do.
Your link to a Turkish media article claims that the Nigerian army is committing these atrocities and blaming it on poor Boko Haram,
I don’t really see that there is much, if any, difference between the Nigerian army and Boko Haram.
Amen to the lovely and most necessary prayer for this poor woman.
This story is not on Fox News or CNN sites. I read about this yesterday and yet there is still media silence. I guess 17 deaths are a tragedy, but over 2,000 deaths is a statistic.
Or our racist liberal media do not believe black lives count. They should be exposed as the frauds they are.
You said this: Five hundred years from now, kids will still be told that if they aren't 'good' that Boko Haram will come and get them.
And you call me shallow minded!
Do you really think anyone will even remember Boko Haram 500 years from now!!!
You just stop sister...Just stop. When you are wrong you are wrong.
Admit it.
I would.
But I've a feeling you won't.....That's the difference with people like me and you....
Quite a few here on FR...
You will have the last word.
Evidently YOU don't either considering Rhodesia is now known as Zimbabwe....
As for it's connection to Rwanda, there is none considering Rwanda is over 1,100 miles from Zimbabwe........
It's best you keep your mouth shut lest you get your foot stuck in it as you just have............
Islam was established to fight a war of world conquest. What we’ve seen in France is just a street theater act and what has happened in Nigeria is a small tactical exercise. They are just warming up.
But our politicians and media are bought and paid for by our own money paid at the gas station.
“200 years from now, I want their children’s children’s children’s children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead [...]”
Well, if do it right, there won’t be any children’s children’s children’s children...
But someone once said it is a religion of peace.
But now I learn from British Imam Anjem Choudary that, “Islam Does Not Mean Peace, It Means Submission.”
It doesnt make any sense to deny those facts...nor to procrastinate
WHY MUSLIMS ARE VIOLENT
This is pretty straight forward folks. There are peaceful Muslims, but there is no such thing as peaceful Islam. Violence is not an aberration in Islamit is DOCTRINE. Dozens of passages in the Quran exhort Muslims to hate or kill or terrorize infidels (non-Muslims) wherever they find them. For examples, see Suras 2:190-193, 2:216, 2:244, 3:56, 3:142, 3:151, 4:56, 4:74 (beheading), 4:76, 4:84, 4:89, 4:91, 4:95, 4:104, 5:51, 5:32-38, 7:96-99, 8:12-15 (beheading), 8:39, 8:57-60, 8:65-67, 9:5, 9:14, 9:20-30, 9:38-41, 9:73, 9:88, 9:111, 9:123, 17:16, 18:65-81, 21:44, 22:18-22, 25:52, 33:60-62, 47:3-4 (beheading), 47:35, 48:16-17, 48:29, 61:4, and 66:8-12. These are the passages that jihadists quote in defense of their horrible atrocities. Unlike the Old Testament, violence in the Quran is mostly open-ended, that is, not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding events.
While there are passages that Muslims point to that might suggest peaceful solutions (Suras 2:190, 2:256, 5:8, 5:28, 5:32, 8:61, 29:46, 41:34, 109:6), these are overwhelmed by the violent ones. Indeed, the peaceful passages were abrogated, i.e. superseded, by the violent onesbecause the violent ones were written later, after Muhammads move to Medina (from Mecca). Anyone who wants to commit acts of violence has perfect justification for doing so from the Quran. There is nothing in the Quran comparable to Jesus teachings to turn the other cheek and to love your neighbor.
You can look these passages up for yourself. Below is a site that has three translations of the Quran side-by-side. (Note: English translators of the Quran sometimes try to soften the true Arabic meaning of some of these passages. For example, to “fight” really means to kill in Arabic.)
http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran
In addition to the Quran are the hadiths. These are collections of sayings and actions of Muhammad. Indeed, Muhammad was one of the most violent men in history, setting the example for all Muslims to follow. See this link:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm
For more information, see our Faith Facts article:
http://www.faithfacts.org/world-religions-and-theology/christianity-vs.-islam
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Yes, it would work just fine... Mighty fine.
Here’s my reply to a similar thought yesterday:
“Gotta go with what we have ready or not ... Perhaps a dose of B-90 (if one is still around), followed by a 475 kT W-88 thermonuclear warhead, and a liberal topping of a W-70 mod 3 ... just so theyd get the message ... whada you think? Am I too conservative?”
You can look up these weapon types here:
US Nuclear Weapons
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/nuke.html
If the wind pattern was just right, the folks in Yemen would not only see the cloud but feel the pain.
For the nuclear squeamish, a GBU-43/B, with a BLU-120/B warhead would create somewhat the same effect without the radioactivity ...
Besides which, the jihadis said in an interview (now lost) shortly after 911, if Mecca were destroyed in a nuclear blast it, would prove allah was a false god to which they would never again pray. It would be too humiliating to pray to a false god in a radioactive place. They, to the man, said they would covert to either Christianity or Judaism, else become atheists.
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