The reference to Islamic evening prayers suggests that the victims were Muslims. It could also mean that Boko Haram emerged from the prayers and began to kill.
If the first possibility is true, the Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92), but the Boko Haram jihadis may have considered their victims hypocrites or apostates for rejecting their authority.
The second possibility would suggest that they were incited in a sermon. We have seen so many bloodthirsty Islamic sermons over the years that this is entirely within the realm of possibility.
Some will say that Boko Haram violated Islamic teaching by doing this. That’s because of this hadith:
Narrated Abu Hurairah (ra):
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) sent us on military expedition telling us, “If you find such and such persons (he named two men from Quraish), burn them fire.” Then we came to bid him farewell, when we wanted to set out, he said: “Previously I ordered you to burn so-and-so and so-and-so with fire, but as punishment with fire is done by none except Allah, if you capture them, kill them, (instead).” (Bukhari 4.56.2954)
However, there is also this:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “No doubt, I intended to order somebody to pronounce the Iqama of the (compulsory congregational) prayer and then I would go to the houses of those who do not attend the prayer and burn their houses over them.” (Bukhari 3.44.2420)
These people were praying, apparently, if those who were burned were those who attended the prayer, but they may have been considered to have transgressed in some other way.
“6 Burnt To Death, 4 Injured As Terrorists Attack Borno Community,” by Francis Okoye, Leadership.ng, January 4, 2024:
Six persons have been burnt to death while four others sustained various degrees of injury when suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Monday evening attacked Gajiram town in Nganzai local government area of Borno State.
Sources, who confirmed the attack to LEADERSHIP on Tuesday in Maiduguri, the state capital, said the incident occurred after evening prayer in an area close to a market in the Gajiram community.
The sources said, “Six people were killed yesterday after magrib prayer in Gajiram. Four persons were left wounded. The attack took place in the ghetto area close to the community market.”…
Big Dude says
And yet it is Islamophobic to note these
Sadly the western civilization will soon be overthrown by these animals
We can only hope that the hamas loving students are the first to be eliminated
We don’t need them, we don’t need their damned professors, and we don’t need the schools of higher education with their inability to do anything but kowtow to DEI and to middle east money (and I don’t mean Israel)
I only hope that Gd favours Israel and that the trash of Europe, you so-called peace-loving useful idiots, gets what’s coming to you via the trash who were your ancestors. It’s Europe that will be destroyed. Your ancestors often gleefully watched and often actively helped kill the Jews. I can only rejoice when I think that their grandchildren, great-grandchildren and more will pay for the sins of their ancestors.
Karma is a b*tch. You chose the wrong family into which you were born. And now your friends from the Middle East will cut you to ribbons.
Snackbar wins
Watching from the sidelines as Gd takes revenge on a stupid Europe
SKA says
I beg to differ:
Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin
Mike says
Big Dude: I agree with you about the Hamas-loving “useful idiots,” but it’s wrong in most cases for the sins of their ancestors.
For instance, should all modern white U.S. Southerners be blamed for Jim Crow laws, or slavery of black people, or the Klan?
Mike says
Correction:…but it’s wrong in most cases to blame people for the sins of their ancestors.”
pfwag says
Just Muslims doing what their moon-bat god, crazy prophet, and asinine holy books command all Muslims to do.
somehistory says
Snakes, following the lead of their demon god and fulfilling his evil desires.
From The Other Side of Town says
In the end, when all other options are killed or subjugated, they will eat their own.
Scotsman48 says
The Archbishop of England and the wee Pope fella in Rome sure are silent about the killing and beheading of Christians in Nigeria these days but they sure as hell scream when somebody points out that islamism is the new nazism of today across the world.
The silence of the wee Pope dude and other Christian leaders is deafening to my ears.