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Nigeria: three churches an a vicarage demolished in Kano state (Sharia court ruling)
Christian Today Australia ^ | 5/21/2010

Posted on 05/21/2010 5:16:03 AM PDT by markomalley

Two churches belonging to the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), a Baptist Church, and a pastor’s house have been demolished by Fulani youths in Kano State, northern Nigeria, after a few members of the Muslim community objected to their existence.

The old ECWA church building in Kwasam, Kiru Local Government Area (LGA) was burnt to the ground at around 11am on 19 May. At the same time, a newly completed church structure was demolished and the pastor’s home was set ablaze, destroying all of his property. The ECWA pastor is now in hiding, after elements of the mob vowed they would not leave the area until he was dead.

Prior to this demolition, the ECWA Church leadership had been forced to appear before a Shari’a court. Since its members are from tribes indigenous to the area, the church argued that the land on which the church stood was their inheritance, adding that they had nowhere else to go. Nevertheless, the court ruled in favour of the complainants.

The Baptist Church in Banaka, Takai LGA, which was demolished on 15 May, has now faced demolition on four separate occasions. After the previous demolition, a group of Christians from Kastina State paid for the construction of a new building, and also drilled a well for church members to use. However, during the demolition, the well was blocked off completely.

Stuart Windsor National Director of CSW Nigeria says: “It is unacceptable that churches can still be destroyed on the whim of a few extremists. These demolitions violate Nigeria’s constitutional and international legal undertakings to uphold religious freedom and freedom of assembly. In addition, the constitution stipulates that non-Muslims cannot be brought before Shari’a courts unless they have agreed to this in advance and in writing, thus there is no valid basis for these demolitions. To combat such impunity, it is vital that the Federal Government of Nigeria takes measures to ensure that the Kano State authorities bring the perpetrators of these acts to justice swiftly, and offer timely and adequate compensation and protection to the churches and to the ECWA Church pastor.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: islam; islamicfascism; muslims; rop

1 posted on 05/21/2010 5:16:04 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

I’m looking forward to the day when Islam is wiped from the face of the earth.


2 posted on 05/21/2010 5:18:36 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: thethirddegree

Islam is a blight upon humanity.


3 posted on 05/21/2010 5:34:50 AM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: markomalley

Islam is the Faith of Hate and the Cult of Insanity

If I am offended by an Islamic center near where I live....I would be branded a hate-criminal and sent to prison.


4 posted on 05/21/2010 5:35:34 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD Hayworth for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Muslims are the most intolerant people on Earth,yet they always demand everyone else be tolerant of their cult.

It has been war for a thousand years and the death cultists are prevailing.We must stop them.

5 posted on 05/21/2010 6:01:09 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: markomalley

In a civilized society, it would be the ones who did the demolition who would be facing the wrath of the law.


6 posted on 05/21/2010 6:07:10 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: markomalley

Another one for my “Islam is a peaceful religion” File.


7 posted on 05/21/2010 6:16:53 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: thethirddegree

Me too. I’d like to help.

But then we have to realize that people like Vlad Tepes, the Crusaders, the Byzantines, Conquistadors, Andria Doria, Jan Sobieski, Charles Martel, etc, were no pikers when it came to using force to deal with these savages. Yet they are still here.

And our society if far more effeminate, pusillanimous,cowardly,duplitious, and emasculated (= Politically Correct) than those of that list of heroes.

We have a very hard fight in fornt of us and the government and leaders who SHOULD be in the forefront of our struggle to survive in the face of attacks from these animals, have actually become obstacles to that struggle and agents for enemy.


8 posted on 05/21/2010 6:21:20 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: ZULU
And we also must remember, as the Apostle Paul reminded the Ephesians, that "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

And that only if we are "strong in the Lord" can we "stand" against these forces--and in the FAITH that knows they were DEFEATED at the very moment Christ died on the cross.

May this truth give COMFORT to these Nigerian Christians--and, indeed, to us all in the face of a "religion" that portrays God as a Being whose "love" is portrayed as giving a reward for the act of committing bloody murder in the form of an orgy of sex!

9 posted on 05/21/2010 7:43:05 AM PDT by milagro
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