Muslims Massacre Nigerians

The BBC reports on an on-going massacre in Nigeria.

Dozens of people have been killed after Islamist militants staged three attacks in northern Nigeria, taking the total killed in two days of violence to 150.

Some of the militants follow a preacher who campaigns against Western schools.

The preacher, Mohammed Yusuf, says Western education is against Islamic teaching.

The preacher is quite correct, unfortunately for Muslims.

Sharia law is in place across northern Nigeria, but there is no history of al-Qaeda-linked violence in the country.

Thank goodness for that.  I’d hate to be killed by someone linked to al-Qaeda, when that’s a job for locally-grown mufsidun.

Nigeria’s 150 million people are split almost equally between Muslims and Christians and the two groups generally live peacefully side by side, despite occasional outbreaks of communal violence.

“Occasional outbreaks of communal violence.”  Remember that phrase.

Militants chanting “God is great” attacked the Potiskum police station at about 0215 local time (0115 GMT) – the same time as the raid was launched in Maiduguri.

I have a suspicion that they weren’t chanting in English.  If the BBC won’t use the phrase allahu akbar, why don’t they render al-Qaeda as “The Foundation?”

The police station and neighbouring buildings in Potiskum have been razed to the ground, eyewitnesses say.

The corpses of civilians are scattered around the streets of Maiduguri, after being pulled from their cars and shot, eyewitnesses say.

Security is said to have been beefed up in Plateau State, to the south of Bauchi, where hundreds were killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians last year.

That must have been during some of the  ”occasional outbreaks of communal violence.”  Good thing there’s no trend here.

Mr Yusuf’s followers in Bauchi are known as Boko Haram, which means “Education is prohibited”.

I don’t need to comment on that, do I?

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