These attacks took place on or around the date of Easter celebrated by Western Christians. Orthodox Pascha will be celebrated on April 15, 2012.
50 people killed in Easter Sunday bombings
Abuja: At least 50 people were killed when explosives concealed in two cars went off near a church during Easter Sunday services in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, eye-witnesses said.
Shehu Sani, the President of Civil Rights Congress based in Kaduna, said two explosions took place at the Assemblies of God’s Church near the centre of the city with a large Christian population and known as a major cultural and economic centre in Nigeria’s north.
“There were two explosions and the casualty figure may go up because some injuries were really critical,” he said on phone.
Another resident of the city, Miss Blessing Audu said that the explosion has caused panic among Christians celebrating Easter.
She said some parts of the church were damaged even as the vibration caused by the explosives were heard in several parts of the city.
An emergency worker on condition of anonymity explained that the bombs were planted in two cars near the church.
At least 50 people were killed amid fears that the casualties may rise from the blasts.
He said his agency has been able to recover 20 bodies from the site.
Police spokesman Aminu Lawal confirmed the incident but sought more time before making a formal statement.
Ahead of Easter celebrations, the US and the UK had warned of possible bomb attacks, advising its citizens against travelling to certain parts of the country.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the bombings, but the BBC reported that Boko Haram recently said it would carry out attacks in the area over the Easter holiday.
The radical group has carried out a series of attacks on churches and other locations on Christmas Day, including outside the church in capital Abuja, where 44 people died.
It is waging a bloody war against the government to seek the enforcement of strict Shariah law and the release of all its detained members.
The group has bombed churches and attacked mosques in the 150-million nation that has both Muslim and Christian population, with Muslims predominant in the north while Christians mostly living in the South.
Coordinated multiple bombings and gun attacks in the northern city of Kano by Boko Haram cadres killed 185 people, including an Indian from Gujarat on January 20. A suicide bomb attack by the group at the United Nations headquarters in Abuja in July last year killed 26 persons.
PTI
Sheik has the story on many more Easter attacks:
Un-Islamic Easter Bombs (2012)
Follow his links to news stories from Somalia, Nigeria, Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan, Iran, Syria, and the Philippines.
Attacking unbelievers on their holy days is a cherished Mohammedan tradition. Nothing to do with Islam, as always…
Not only Christians were attacked:
Hindu Muslim riot in Hyderabad. Desecration of Hanuman Temple with alleged Beef throwing created communal tension.
Bhagyanagar (Hyderabad) | 9th April, 2012: An indefinite curfew was today imposed in the sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the walled city. A Hanuman temple at Kurmaguda, (in Saidabad) was found desecrated on the Sunday morning which was followed by incidents of stabbing and heavy stone-pelting, hence curfew has been imposed, police said.
A day after the Hanuman Jayanti (6th April, 20-12), in the early hours of Sunday, 8th April 2012, the devotees of the Hanuman temple at Kurmaguda, in Saidabad, were in for a shock to find green colour had been splashed on the walls of the temple and pieces of cow meat were thrown inside the temple from the grills.
The naturally agitated Hindu youth protested against this sacrilegious act. The Muslims who are a majority in that area launched an offensive on the Hindus and both sides engaged in a duel of stone fight. Sensing trouble, the police indulged in lathi charge and also fired tear gas hurting many of the protesters. At the same time, the Muslims grouped themselves into a larger group and more or less occupied the main road of Saidabad armed with stones and swords, eye witnesses told NewsBharati…
Sword-wielding Muslim mobs? This is 2012!
Here’s another instance of that, in Egypt.
Nearly fourteen centuries ago, mobs of jihadis armed with primitive weapons took advantage of the weakness of their more civilized foes and brought about the Dark Ages. Why are we letting that happen all over again?
Hinglaj Hindu Temple committee chairman kidnapped in Balochistan by suspected Islamists in the eve of Yearly Pilgrimage.
Islamabad, Apr 9,2012, (PTI)
The chairman of the committee that manages the famous Hinglaj Mata temple in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan has been kidnapped just two days before the beginning of the shrine’s annual pilgrimage, according to a media report today.
Maharaj Ganga Ram Motiyani was abducted at Lasbela in Balochistan by two men in police uniform.
His followers organised a protest outside the Karachi Press Club yesterday and demanded that the government take steps for his recovery.“Motiyani’s kidnapping appears to be a conspiracy against Hindus since he was kidnapped two days before the gathering.
“He has not been kidnapped for ransom because he is a poor man,” Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, patron of the Pakistan Hindu Council and a former member of the Sindh Assembly, was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune daily.
Thousands of Hindus, including yatris from India, travel to the cave temple of Hinglaj Mata for a pilgrimage in April…
Tags: Boko Haram, Easter, mob violence, Nigeria, Pascha
The whole world will be for
Allah[swt] and Islam the only
accepted religion on earth.
by any means necessary is seems
@ mawskrat:
I think we need to turn it back on them. Do unto others as they would do unto you. We should allow Islam as freely in the West as they allow Christianity in Saui Arabia…
@ Iron Fist:
Can you imagine the howl from the MSM if anything was done on a muzzie un-holy day?!?!?! the gnashing of teeth and righteous indignation would be spectacular.
What I find amazing (but not surprising) is that you really don’t read about this. It has to be in the foreign media or web sites but we must be fed our daily Trayvon crap. Can’t let the narrative go to waste.
@ MikeA:
in Cincinnati young black men are
killing other you black men left
and right. no one here wants to talk
about that….but Trayvon they do
Iron Fist wrote:
FIFY
And then there is this:
‘Religion Is Not Driving Extremist Violence’ in Nigeria, Says Obama Official, After Church Bombings
@ citizen_q:
They aren’t doing it because of religion. Islam is a political doctrine, not a religion. Somehow, I don’t think that that is what Carson means. He is simply trying to whitewash the fact that Islam is the reason for these bombings.
The State Department is arabist to its core, and is willfully blind, actively complicit to islam and the jihad.
There is a swamp in DC that really..really needs draining, or Billions will die!
citizen_q wrote:
Think of all of the dead flat lies and fairy tales that the left wants us to believe:
Islam is not violent and there is no such thing as islamic extremism.
CO2 is a dangerous pollutant.
Global warming/climate change is caused by man made CO2.
Unemployment checks create jobs.
We have to pass it to see what’s in it.
The amazing thing is that so many people believe this tripe even when we live in the information age when everything the left says can be utterly debunked in about 5 minutes. What the hell has happened to us?
These are John McCain’s heroes!
@ Tanker:
Aint that the truth!
huckfunn wrote:
We are being managed from cradle to grave.
The little boy is drummed out of the little boy.
Leftists dominate the media and education, and parents are strapped for time just to make ends meet and keep a home together, those that care that is. There are many parents who totally abdicate their responsibilities to some extent, thus enabling the media and educators to fill the vacuum.
huckfunn wrote:
It’s like the way one writes a book; establish a basic plot framework (their worldview), then “flesh in” specific scenes and dialogue (the “news”). Saying it’s all very pernicious seems such a flaccid understatement.
@ citizen_q:
@ MacDuff:
5 generations ago our forefathers carved a great nation out of the wilderness. Now we seem to helplessy watch as the likes of Barak Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Peolosi, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry enslave us to socialism and willingly give up our sovereignty to our enemies. November is our last chance.
huckfunn wrote:
No, Nov is not our last chance, but it is most likely our last chance to do without having to resort to the same desperate measures that our founding fathers 236 years ago were forced to employe.
@ huckfunn:
it may be the last POTUS election
I vote in if I don’t see some big
changes.
meet the new boss same as the old boss
we won’t get fooled again.
the Who
@ huckfunn:
@ doriangrey:
@ mawskrat:
Don’t worry, Charles Johnson will save this nation from the Nazi threat. Just sit back and relax!
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Rodan wrote:
Sorry, I haven’t taken enough LSD for me to worry about the Nazi threat to America.
@ doriangrey:
WTF? A random act of journalism from David Gregory? He must be reported to Press Commissar Carney at once.
@ huckfunn:
For one thing we’ve let them (the left) have our schools, letting them have our children. Why fight for the ideals of a country that they are taught is rotten to the core?
November IS our last chance, but it doesn’t stop with Obama. School boards and city councils, hell all the way down to dog catcher…
/preaching to the choir, i know
@ doriangrey:
yeh those evil ones in Tennessee are some of the worst
Gotta work on some work.
Later…..
@ m:
hey m……I no longer have high school kids but the
school district I live has a lot of parental involvement.
there are only 900 kids here but we keep the teachers and school board on thier toes>LOL
@ mawskrat:
~:D
We need a bazillion of y’all!
mawskrat wrote:
I lived in Nashville for a time; every time I passed a state government building, I thought I was in Nuremburg. Horrifying.
@ m:
We let them have the schools is exactly right. That is our core problem. We are letting Leftists educate the young, and they are training them to be Leftists. It is actually a credit to our resilliancy as a people that so many break out of the rote training and do start thinking for themselves. God knows individuality and critical thinking aren’t taught in the public schools.
@ m:
People have forgotten the importance of school board elections. The Progressives and Marxists have not forgotten this and have taken over academia. Conservatives by declaring war on the popular culture and abandoning it has ceded ground to the Left who uses this as a means to get their ideology promoted.
@ Rodan:
One of the reasons that my next carreer will be in academia. I want to become a History Professor. That is going to take a lot of work on my part, but it is part of my ten year plan for my life.
Iron Fist wrote:
Ten year plan… Hell, I’m still working on my ten minuet plan.
@ Iron Fist:
Ain’t that the dang truth…
@ Iron Fist:
I actually thought of doing that. That way I can teach the correct history and not the Islam is awesome, but England, Spain and France are evil version of history.
I’m still not convinced that Obama won’t get thrown out in November. As the economy continues to struggle and gasoline stays northward of $4+, “a return to the Bush years” sounds less like a threat and more like a pretty good idea. Speaking strictly for myself, on average, 2006-2008 were much better years than 2009-2011 and 2012 isn’t exactly looking like the promised land.
The “blame Bush for everything” strategy is beginning to look lame to even his own apologists.
@ Iron Fist:
They teach you what to think, not how to think!
@ MacDuff:
3 and 1/4 years into Obama and he still blames Bush. That shows you how he’s not a real man.
Rodan wrote:
One of the stories out of the 2010 elections was the number of local and state offices that went Republican. That has a huge impact on national elections.
@ Rodan:
Exactly. Most of what I have learned I learned on my own. There are a few exceptions. I had an exceptional tenth grade history teacher, for example. She won National Teacher of the Year that year, and deserved it. But she was the exception. I also had an exceptional twelth grade biology teacher. But again, those were the exceptions. The rule were mediocre teachers. What was worse, when I was in Tennessee I was in “Advanced” classes in english an dmath, and when I movd to South Carolina I was a year behind. That was appalling. I never caught up in math, though I did get into the Advanced Placement english eventually. I’d give my left nut to have gone to private school, but my parents weren’t interested.
These people have committed TREASON… Joesph McCarthy was soooo right.
@ Iron Fist:
We need to take back the education system.
Rodan wrote:
No, we need to burn the education system to the ground and start all over again from scratch.
and in other news………..
NPR Brands Entire State Of Oklahoma Racist
Rodan wrote:
They pray at the alter of “Our Lady of Perpetual Victimhood”……
@ doriangrey:
Since when do Effeminates have Honor?
Macker wrote:
They don’t, but that has never stopped them from claiming they do.
@ mawskrat:
Charles Johnson will claim credit!
doriangrey wrote:
Let education be placed entirely within the purview of the states. States, at least the smart ones, will then upgrade their respective educational systems so as to use them as a “carrot” to attract new business to their states. Viva free markets!
@ MacDuff:
Exactly!
MacDuff wrote:
Make education a consumer driven market where results determiner funding and the education of Americans will out pace the entire rest of the world once again. Home schoolers and Catholic schools prove this fact every single day of the week.
why is Allah[swt] so pissed at Muslims
nothing happens unless it’s the will
of allah
Powerful Indonesia quakes again
@ MacDuff:
I’m not convinced either. I think the “we have already lost” mindset is self-fulfilling. Not only does it depress the vote against obam, it fluffs up the votes for him (everyone wants to back a winner).
mawskrat wrote:
Allah, aka Satan, that old dragon and the Devil isn’t mad at Muslims, he’s just hungry.
@ doriangrey:
Yet they are Demonized as evil, within the Ed departments even in many conservative states.
Tanker wrote:
They are demonized precisely because they achieve results and DO NOT indoctrinate kids into Marxism like they are suppose to.
@ m:
Obama has the most formidable electoral machine ever. Is he invincible, no. But he will be very difficult to beat. Its not like Romney can counter demagogue or inspire people either. I would feel better if we had a Fiscal Conservative with a great vision for America going up against Obama.
For me, this is battle of 2 evils. I am against Obama because I despise Marxism, but I don’t like what Romney represents. America is screwed either way. We are just less screwed with Romney.
I weep for my country.
@ Rodan:
Oh I know he’ll be hard to beat. I just don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that he’ll win. We need to pump up the volume not give up!
@ m:
Romney makes it hard. Romney is a hard pill for Conservatives to swallow. He could be worse (it could be Chris Christie, but he is bad any way you cut it. He needs to pick a kick-ass VP, and then he needs to support that VP. IF he does to, say, Paul Ryan what McCain did to Palin, he will lose because the base won’t turn out for that. And if he really wants to pull in moderates, he is going to have to stand for something beyond not being Obama. I don’t think the “not Obama” vote will be enough to get him over the top. He has a lot of work to do, and I see no indication that he intends to do it, so, yeah, I pretty much despair at this point.
@ m:
Obamacare is his Achilles heel. It would help if his opponent had a vision of a better tomorrow though. To defeat a Demagogue, you need an anti-Demagogue. Romney doesn’t offer hope or a better tomorrow. Instead he demonizes people like Obama is pitching a us vs, them world view. I am not part of Romney’s us nor Obama’s us. I have no voice in the American political scene. As a political junkie its really depressing.
One thing, the Republican party has shown its true colors. Its not a Fiscal Conservative nor Center-Right party. The real Fiscal/Economic Conservatives like Newt, Perry and Huntsman were rejected by Republicans. Instead it came down between a Progressive like Romney and a Religious Populist like Santorum. I never again want to hear Republicans believe in fiscal and economic Conservative and Individual liberty. They don’t and their votes proved it.
But I am focused on beating Obama 1st, then I will deal with this version of the GOP.
Regardless of the outcome of 2012, I think America has seen its better days.
@ Iron Fist:
I never thought I would say this. But despite my disagreements with Bush of fiscal polices and foreign policy I would take him over Romney any day of the week. I would take Jeb over Romney. I’m dead serious.
Rodan wrote:
That is a big statement coming from you. I actually agree. Jeb Bush is pretty solid on the Second Amendment. Romney is, at best, an unprincipled waffeler on the issue. I just hope that we can get a good Senate, and hold his feet to the fire. Did you see where Dick Lugar is having trouble in his Primary? I’d love to take that son of a bitch out. That would be a huge victory.
@ Iron Fist:
Indiana is a Red State so hopefully an electable Rubio type Conservatives defeats him. That way his seat stays safe. Lugar needs to go, then Miss Lindsey in 2014.
New Thread.
doriangrey wrote:
Governments should never have anything to do with education, except in the case of the service academies and other military training programs.