AFP notices this attack out of the many that take place in Nigeria because in this case, Christians counterattacked, so the media report can make it appear as if these were “intercommunal clashes” and the two sides are equivalent. The reality of the bloody jihad against Christians in Nigeria remains largely unreported.
“New intercommunal clashes kill 55 in Nigeria,” AFP, January 25 2024 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Fifty-five people have been killed in a day of renewed violence in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau State, where clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farming communities have erupted, according to community leaders and a Red Cross report on Thursday.
Despite a 24-hour curfew imposed on Tuesday in Plateau’s Mangu local district, schools, places of worship and homes were burned and ransacked in further attacks through the day into Wednesday, community leaders said.
The Mwaghavul Development Association, an organisation for ethnic Mwaghavul people who are mostly Christians, blamed Fulani Muslim herders for attacking Kwahaslalek village, killing around 30 people.
“At the moment, our people are left at the mercy of God and the little they can do in self-defence,” the association said in a statement.
More attacks took place in and around nearby Mangu town centre.
Jafaru Musa, chairman of a local chapter of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), a Muslm [sic] community organisation, said they had reported another 25 dead.
“Many of our people have been killed,” he said. “We have recovered 25 dead bodies, they are here with us in the mosque.”
The JNI secretary for Plateau State, Salim Musa, also said: “Twenty-five Muslims have so far been confirmed killed.”
A Nigeria Red Cross report seen by AFP recorded a total of 55 deaths and more than 100 wounded in the attacks.
The police and army did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation of deaths from the most recent clashes.
Two camps for the displaced have been set up in Mangu town, for about 1,500 people, local chairman of the Nigeria Red Cross Nurudeen Husaini Magaji told AFP.
Plateau’s governor announced the curfew on Tuesday after another clash that officials blamed on a dispute between a herder moving his cattle and residents using the road.
Plateau, which lies on the dividing line between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south, is a flashpoint for intercommunal violence.
But tensions have soared since nearly 200 people were killed over Christmas in raids on mostly Christian villages….
Jeff Jones says
Soon every Christian in Africa will be exterminated by Islam like every other Christian country they’ve invaded.
Walter Sieruk says
With those most recent murderous Muslim affronts and likewise sin unto God in Nigeria , it’s very fitting to remember that those violent and vicious Muslims their deadly persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
somehistory says
This report mentions the ‘red cross.”
According to information furnished by Glenn Beck, the “red cross” has given maps to the people traveling to the U.S., along with doctors without borders, with pathways marked out; these maps show places those who will enter the U.S. illegally, can go for food, hotels where they can stay, where they can get medical care, etc. Just imagine all of the young single males coming here from Africa….helped by the red cross.
And there they are in nigeria reporting on the “attacks” and the defensive actions of the Christians.
Where is the red cross and its head, Nurudeen Husaini Magaji when the mozlums are slaughtering Christians and the Christians are unable to defend themselves?
The answer is in his ****name*****
tgusa says
We wont hear anything from the (African American) mayor of Chicago because he is too busy calling for a ceasefire in the Israel vs maniac battle. Black lives dont really matter to black Americans. Don’t let them fool you when they say they do.
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
Black lives only matter to BLM if they support a narrative – and possibly a big monetary payout:
Blacks attacked by Whites.
Black on Black crime in places like West Garfield Park Chicago, Nigeria, etc., do not matter to BLM.