Posted on 04/29/2012 5:33:41 AM PDT by Milagros
Nigeria Police say at least eight people have been killed in an attack on a church service at a Nigerian university in the northern city of Kano.
Explosions and gunfire rocked Bayero University, with witnesses reporting that two church services were targeted as they were being held on campus.
One of the services was being held outdoors, while the second was inside a building, but with an overflow audience outside, witnesses said.
Officials were unable to confirm casualty figures, but one correspondent counted six bullet-riddled bodies near one of the two sites and said other bodies had been seen on a roadside by the university.
Musical instruments and half-eaten meals could be seen at the site of one of the services.
An army spokesman confirmed the attack but could not provide a casualty toll.
Lieutenant Iweha Ikedichi said it appeared the attackers used bombs and gunfire in the assault.
Witnesses said the attackers arrived in a car and two motorcycles, opening fire and throwing homemade bombs, causing a stampede.
They said worshippers were gunned down as they sought to flee.
"They first attacked the open-air service outside the faculty of medicine," one witness said.
"They threw in explosives and fired shots, causing a stampede among worshippers. They now pursued them, shooting them with guns. ... They also attacked another service at the sporting complex."
A witness who said he was at the sporting complex at the time of the attack reported hearing gunshots outside while they were praying.
"Then there was pandemonium," he said, adding that he later saw two men outside shooting indiscriminately.
A crowd of people later gathered at a Kano hospital waiting to hear news about friends or family.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although the attack was similar to others carried out by the Islamist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram claimed January 20 attacks in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, when coordinated bombings and shootings left at least 185 dead in the extremists' deadliest attack yet.
On Thursday, bomb attacks at the offices of the ThisDay newspaper in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna left at least nine people dead.
The group has previously targeted churches, including on Christmas day when at least 44 people were killed in a bombing at a church outside Abuja.
A bombing on Easter Sunday in Kaduna near a church that killed at least 41 people was a stark reminder of the Christmas attacks, but Boko Haram is not known to have claimed it.
Boko Haram's increasingly bloody insurgency has claimed more than 1,000 lives since mid-2009. Police and soldiers have often been the victims of such attacks, although Christians have been targeted as well.
Tsk Tsk Comrade Vlad.
Barely 3 moves into the game and you tip over your king in an Alinskyesque ad hominem tantrum.
You’re not a very effective propagandist. I hope with failures like this on your record you’ve got warm clothing for the impending assignment to Siberia.
Have a nice day.
you wrote:
“We also know that Hitler was baptized Catholic and raised as a Catholic, so what’s your point?”
I agree with you. I was not the one who started this.
“Had that State Church been Catholic, he’d still have done the same thing; just look to his ally Italy and Mussolini.”
You have no idea what you’re saying. There was no “State Church”. Religions were finacially supported by the state, but there was no national church per se. Mussolini failed in his attempt to use the Church in Italy. He could use it against its will for propaganda, but that was it. The Church resisted Mussolini where it could. The Church also resisted Hitler.
>>So, if I post pics of Ludwig Müller,
>>a Protestant minister and Nazi sympathizer,
No but if you post something from “On the Jews and their lies” by Martin Luther, it might demonstrate you have an incite into the nature of Religious sheeple herding.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=26&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=On+the+Jews+and+their+lies
You wrote:
“Tsk Tsk Comrade Vlad. Barely 3 moves into the game and you tip over your king in an Alinskyesque ad hominem tantrum.”
And calling someone “Comrade” isn’t an Alinskesque ad hominem in itself, dumbass? Like I said, you’re a moron.
“You’re not a very effective propagandist.”
I never tried my hand at propaganda. I simply told the truth and linked to info you can’t refute. That’s why you’re attempts at argument ended already. Notice that?
“I hope with failures like this on your record you’ve got warm clothing for the impending assignment to Siberia.”
There was no failure on my part, and Siberia wouldn’t scare me.
“Have a nice day.”
I will. And you’ll still be a moron.
>>There was no “State Church”.
LOL. Ba’al shit.
Ba’al IS the state church, in it’s various self-worshipping collective form, throughout history - and throughout the Bible.
Which of course is why the Eunuch parasites/wolves running the show didn’t translate The Word into the language of the indulgence-ridden sheeple.
Got Morals and Dogma?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=8&gs_id=2t&xhr=t&q=Morals+and+dogma
Your language is rather evasive. I happen to be somewhat familiar with the church situation in Italy, and not all churches were funded by the state. Protestant ones weren’t, certainly the Waldensians expreienced a “state” preference for Catholicism over their particular denomination, which wasn’t officially and fully recognized until 1984.
Mussolini used the de facto State Church in his country to further his ends, just as Hitler used the de jure State Church to further his.
There were resistors in both instances. There were collaborators in both instances.
>>and Siberia wouldn’t scare me.
Uhuh. You and the rest of the apologists driving the theo-thugocratic state-police jackwagon.
What you calling the Oprichnina these days?
There was np “State Church”. Disprove me if you can. You’ll fail. And I think you know that.
You wrote:
“Your language is rather evasive.”
My language is never evasive.
“I happen to be somewhat familiar with the church situation in Italy, and not all churches were funded by the state.”
I didn’t say that any church was funded by the state in Italy. Learn to read.
“Protestant ones weren’t, certainly the Waldensians expreienced a “state” preference for Catholicism over their particular denomination, which wasn’t officially and fully recognized until 1984.”
Again, learn to read. I never said anything about churches being funded by the state in Italy. You clearly linked “State Church” to Hitler. That’s what I responded to.
“Mussolini used the de facto State Church in his country to further his ends, just as Hitler used the de jure State Church to further his.”
Both tried. Both ultimately failed.
“There were resistors in both instances. There were collaborators in both instances.”
Agreed.
You will fail to refute what I linked to. There is no other possibility. You don’t brains, knowledge or truth working for you.
Just remember, you couldn’t make an argument, couldn’t refute what I posted or linked to, and that’s all you have.
You wrote:
“Uhuh. You and the rest of the apologists driving the theo-thugocratic state-police jackwagon.”
Call your doctor. Take your meds.
"The Oprichniki were responsible for the torture and murder of internal enemies of the Tsar. Notorious for their violent means of enforcement, they could be compared to modern "death squads" or even secret police. Guided by Ivan, they laid waste to civilian populations....
...When Ivan declared himself the "Hand of God",....blah blah blah [insert recycled story of tyrant Pharao/Caesar/Tsar/Kaisar/King/Pope god-man conartist/tyrant here]"
That about sum the nature of your "faith", ehh, comrade collectivist Boyardee?
{About face.. Kilt, Lifted - WAVING!}
>>You don’t brains, knowledge or truth working for you.
LOL.
Wipe the spittle off your keyboard before you electrocute yourself, Comrade.
Thank you for continuing to post. Even if someone wanted to speak up for you out of pity, he will be less likely to do so the more you show yourself to be a jackass. in the process fewer people will believe in what you believe in because you make your fellow believers look just as foolish as you are.
For FR it’s a win-win all around. There are no downsides for FR when you reveal what kind of person you are.
>>There was np “State Church”.
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Ba’al
—The Who?
The nature of the self-worshipping theocratic state is what it is, and always has been.
Here in America, the purpose of government is to protect the right of the individual to point that out... and shoot at it when necessary.
Got Tea, Comrade?
Just remember, keep posting. We wouldn’t want anyone to think you were rational now would we?
>>fewer people will believe in what you believe in
I simply believe that the relationship between myself and the one who created me is beyond the purvue of Eunuch parrot tyrants who lift themselves up in the pulpit and assume dominion over the faith of others whilst dressed in mysterious plumage left over from the Roman/Babylonian/Eqyptian/Empire’s syncretic theocro-tyrannies.
Don’t you agree?
Thomas Jefferson did.
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You wrote:
“Don’t you agree?”
I can’t agree with a view that is so heavily tinged with paranoid delusions, no.
“Thomas Jefferson did.”
Jefferson also cut stories of miracles and the supernatural out of his Bible - what he called “of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, or superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications.” He was brilliant in the secular sense, but a twit when it came to Christianity.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704425804576220612714039084.html
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