At Least 25 Dead in Blasts at Nigeria Churches

An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect waging an increasingly sophisticated sectarian fight claimed the attack and another bombing in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast.

The Christmas Day attacks show the growing national ambition of the sect known as Boko Haram, which is responsible for at least 491 killings this year alone...

I find it ironic, and a bit humorous, that the folks with the “Coexist” bumper stickers apparently aren’t embarrassed by the fact that the radical muslims they most want to ‘coexist’ with, believe in the elimination of all the other faiths that make up the remaing letters of the word. Thus to a radical muslim, coesistence means elimation of all non-muslims.

Wait a few years and what happened in Nigeria will happen right here. Why should islamists bomb Christian churches in Nigeria and elsewhere and not eventually in the USA?

And when that happens we shall realize that we are living with a cancer that can no longer be treated.

In the meantime, let’s kick the can down the road some more.

39 posted on Sunday, December 25, 2011 11:53:13 AM by LibsRJerks: “I wonder what would happen if “radical” Christians blew people up at various locations around the world. If “radical” Christian groups operated in special “cells” in various countries, plotting to assassinate particular leaders, plant bombs, launch various attacks on embassies, etc. I wonder what would become of this group, if it called itself Christian ... I wonder what the world would think of all Christians if this were the case.”

First off: I emphatically do **NOT** advocate vigilante violence by individuals. Biblically speaking, only the state has the right to execute people, and even then, only after a proper trial of the evidence.

Having said that, I read recently that Iran has a lower percentage of its people attending religious services (virtually all Muslims) than the United States. Iran is formally declared Islamic republic in which a religious minority runs the country. America is a nation in which our irreligious and atheist minority runs much of the highest levels of academia and government, and even when conservative Christians are a clear majority, we have to kowtow to the secularists on the Supreme Court.

What's wrong with this picture?

Muslims have good reason to believe they must be far more committed to their faith than Christians if Muslims can take over and control the government while Christians cannot — even when we are in the majority, as we are in much of the South and some other parts of the United States when evangelical Protestant and conservative Catholic voters are combined.

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