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2,000 feared killed in 'deadliest' Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

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2,000 feared killed in 'deadliest' Boko Haram attack in Nigeria - CNN.com

Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said.

"The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act," Amnesty International said in a statement.

Islamist militants sprayed bullets as they stormed in last weekend in trucks and armored vehicles, local authorities said Friday.

When they arrived, they unloaded motorcycles and pursued residents who fled into the bush, firing indiscriminately, said Baba Abba Hassan, a local district head.

Local officials reported death tolls ranging from hundreds to as many as 2,000 people.


Snip...

And we are totally preoccupied by a dozen in Paris??
 
Hello,

Your point is certainly valid. The peoples of much of Africa live under constant threat of Muslim attack and their lives are also important. However, we should not pay less attention to Paris but more attention to the unrelenting international phenomenon which threatens us.

Garion
 
Geez, Western prejudice and hypocrisy on display again.

2000 African people killed and the western media barely notices.

But kill 12 people in Paris and everyone freaks out.

Pathetic.
 
Geez, Western prejudice and hypocrisy on display again.

2000 African people killed and the western media barely notices.

But kill 12 people in Paris and everyone freaks out.

Pathetic.


Heya DA :2wave: Well, they did miss the Egyptian President's remarkable speech on Islam and all Muslims to, then showing up and Meeting the Coptic Christians Pope at their Mass.

Still it isn't just killing people in Paris. It was a coordinated attack and AQAP is taking the credit.
 
Hello,

Your point is certainly valid. The peoples of much of Africa live under constant threat of Muslim attack and their lives are also important. However, we should not pay less attention to Paris but more attention to the unrelenting international phenomenon which threatens us.

Garion

Gun trafficking certainly threatens all of us. Islam does not.
 
Heya DA :2wave: Well, they did miss the Egyptian President's remarkable speech on Islam and all Muslims to, then showing up and Meeting the Coptic Christians Pope at their Mass.

Still it isn't just killing people in Paris. It was a coordinated attack and AQAP is taking the credit.

Heya MMC :2wave:

I realize that. But they were both mass murders and I personally think that murdering hundreds of innocent humans in Africa is more newsworthy then murdering a dozen innocent humans in Paris.

They were both terrible incidents. But the one with the far higher death toll is the far worse one imo.
 
Heya MMC :2wave:

I realize that. But they were both mass murders and I personally think that murdering hundreds of innocent humans in Africa is more newsworthy then murdering a dozen innocent humans in Paris.

They were both terrible incidents. But the one with the far higher death toll is the far worse one imo.


They don't really have anyone going after Boko Haram either.....but you are Right. They did massacre 2000 people. Nigeria isn't capable of stopping them and I don't see any other around them that can.
 
They don't really have anyone going after Boko Haram either.....but you are Right. They did massacre 2000 people. Nigeria isn't capable of stopping them and I don't see any other around them that can.

Agreed.

I think Boko Haram are easily the most dangerous terrorist group on the planet right now...mostly because no one locally can stop them.
 
Nigeria is fairly developed for an African nation, but it is a far more backward place than France. When savagery takes place in wild places like rural Nigeria, it should not be any great surprise. When it takes place in the middle of one of the world's great cities, it is shocking. I'm sure it is also hard to get accurate reports from rural Nigeria--I doubt there were cameras filming these murders, or worldwide news outlets right there to spread news of them to the world.

So there is no need to invoke racial bias to explain the difference in coverage. But this difference presents sullen people who resent Western civilization with a golden chance to reveal their own prejudices. I'm just waiting for one of them to tell us we don't know for sure Boko Haram was involved, that it's unfair to blame Muslim jihadists for these murders, etc.
 
Another genocide in Africa another dem pres doing nothing about it.
 
Agreed.

I think Boko Haram are easily the most dangerous terrorist group on the planet right now...mostly because no one locally can stop them.


I would go with all those in Libya.....as there is none to put that in check Right now. Also due to the Weapons, and the 3 terrorist organizations operating out of there.
 
These Terrorists will have to be dealt with.....now they are using Little Girls as Suicide Bombers.


Boko Haram Recruited Little Girls as Suicide Bombers.....

On Saturday, a bomb exploded in a bustling northern Nigeria market, killing as many as 20 people and injuring several more. The culprit: a 10-year-old girl, who hid the explosives under her veil. She is believed to have been recruited by Boko Haram, making her one of the militant Islamist group’s youngest suicide bombers ever. “It’s something quite new, and it’s disturbing, using these young, young girls wearing hijabs,” a top police official in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, anonymously told The New York Times.

“Now, one has to be suspicious of any lady wearing a hijab—whether it’s a young lady or an old lady,” said the police official, warning that Boko Haram’s unprecedented new tactic could result in more discrimination against Muslim women who wear the religious head coverings.....snip~

Boko Haram Recruited Little Girls as Suicide Bombers
 
Gun trafficking certainly threatens all of us. Islam does not.

Marked as apologist post.

Guns didn't do this.

"Some people who hid in their homes were burned alive."

or this...

Boko Haram has terrorized northern Nigeria regularly since 2009, attacking police, schools, churches and civilians, and bombing government buildings. It has also kidnapped students, including more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted in April and remain missing.

But Islamists did do this.

"The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act," Amnesty International said in a statement.

So you and whack job Howard Dean know more about Islamic fundamentalists and their underlying motives than they do? WOW...

Why are you in denial of the motives of who did this? The evidence is below. Deniers, open your eyes...

The Islamist group has said its aim is to impose a stricter form of Sharia law across Nigeria, which is split between a majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/09/africa/boko-haram-violence/
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1064183346 said:
Marked as apologist post.

Guns didn't do this.

I aprreciate you saving me the trouble for calling you out by you admitting your wrongness.

First line of the OP article:
"Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said.


I raised the font in case you have as hard of a time seeing and you do thinking.
 
2,000 feared killed in 'deadliest' Boko Haram attack in Nigeria - CNN.com

Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said.

"The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act," Amnesty International said in a statement.

Islamist militants sprayed bullets as they stormed in last weekend in trucks and armored vehicles, local authorities said Friday.

When they arrived, they unloaded motorcycles and pursued residents who fled into the bush, firing indiscriminately, said Baba Abba Hassan, a local district head.

Local officials reported death tolls ranging from hundreds to as many as 2,000 people.


Snip...

And we are totally preoccupied by a dozen in Paris??

The religion of pieces strikes again. Terrorism flourishes under Obama.
 
I aprreciate you saving me the trouble for calling you out by you admitting your wrongness.

First line of the OP article:


I raised the font in case you have as hard of a time seeing and you do thinking.

Since you can't seem to see or read here's what I commented on:

Gun trafficking certainly threatens all of us. Islam does not.

That 's a good idea actually; try thinking for a change instead of blaming the violence on gun trafficking.

Its all about guns not about Islamists. Not burning people alive or blowing people up; it has nothing to do with the ardent practitioners of the peaceful religion, just gun trafficking.

Got it...
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1064183346 said:
Marked as apologist post.

Guns didn't do this.



or this...



But Islamists did do this.



So you and whack job Howard Dean know more about Islamic fundamentalists and their underlying motives than they do? WOW...

Why are you in denial of the motives of who did this? The evidence is below. Deniers, open your eyes...



2,000 feared killed in 'deadliest' Boko Haram attack in Nigeria - CNN.com

Some of us prefer to see in whitewashed PC lib speak.
 
Gun trafficking certainly threatens all of us. Islam does not.

False, now stay on topic.

I aprreciate you saving me the trouble for calling you out by you admitting your wrongness.

First line of the OP article:


I raised the font in case you have as hard of a time seeing and you do thinking.

And? Now stay on topic.
 
17 killed in Paris, rally by world leaders.
2'000 killed in Nigeria. Not a big deal.......

If world leaders rally want to fight terrorism, they should really in Nigeria/Syria /Iraq........
 
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17 killed in Paris, rally by world leaders.
2'000 killed in Nigeria. Not a big deal.......

If world leaders really want to fight terrorism, they should really in Nigeria/Syria /Iraq........

Obama appears to think Africa isn't safe enough. Somehow he made it to the commie nelson mandelas funeral, though. Just in time to hit on women.
 
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