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by Raymond Ibrahim
• March 27, 2016 at 5:00 am
- "Over 500
Christian villagers were slain in one night." — Emmanuel Ogebe,
Nigerian human rights lawyer, March 2, 2016.
- What Christians in
Nigeria are experiencing is a live snapshot of what millions of
Christians and other non-Muslims have experienced since the seventh
century, when Islam "migrated" to their borders: violence,
persecution, enslavement, and the destruction of churches.
- The Obama
Administration refuses to associate Boko Haram — an organization that
defines itself in purely Islamic terms — with Islam, just as it refuses
to associate the ISIS with Islam.
- In all cases, the
Obama Administration looks the other way, while insisting that the jihad
is a product of "inequality," "poverty" and "a
lack of opportunity for jobs" — never of Islamic teaching.
For years, the Obama Administration refused to list Boko
Haram — which has slaughtered more Christians and "apostates" than
even ISIS — as a terrorist organization. It finally did so in November 2013, after
several years of pressure. Pictured above: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
(center).
Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic extremist group, has killed more people
in the name of jihad than the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the findings
of a new report. Since 2000, when twelve Northern Nigerian states began
implementing or more fully enforcing Islamic sharia law, "between 9,000
to 11,500 Christians" have been killed. This is "a conservative
estimate."
In addition, "1.3 million Christians have become internally
displaced or forced to relocate elsewhere," and "13,000 churches
have been closed or destroyed altogether." Countless "thousands of
Christian businesses, houses and other property have been destroyed."
The report alludes to a number of other factors that connect the growth
of the Nigerian jihad to the growth of the global jihad. The rise of
anti-Christian, Islamic supremacism
by Burak Bekdil
• March 27, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Before the bodies
of Israeli victims were carried to their homeland, the Turkish make-up
showed signs of falling apart and the ugly reality emerged.
- "Let the
Israeli citizens be worse, I wish they all died." — Irem Aktas,
head of the women's and media division of the AKP party branch in
Istanbul's Eyup district.
- Aktas's mistake was
probably to express publicly what millions of Turks only thought, but
did not say, in the face of a suicide bomb attack.
Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue, in the aftermath of the March
19 suicide bombing. (Image source: Sky News video screenshot)
The bomb attack in Istanbul on the morning of March 19 was the fifth
similar act of terror targeting two of Turkey's biggest -- Istanbul and
Ankara -- since October.
The suicide bomber, a 24-year-old with links to the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS), detonated his explosives on Istiklal Avenue, one of
Istanbul's busiest streets and a popular tourist attraction. Three Israeli
tourists (two of them also carrying U.S. passports) and one Iranian were
killed. Dozens of wounded people were rushed to nearby hospitals. The death
toll since October was now at nearly 200, including 14 tourists.
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