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To: franksolich

I bet this attack on mosques will get one hell of a lot more coverage than this ever did back in 2015:

https://www.news.com.au/world/africa/islamic-extremist-attack-in-nigeria-named-the-deadliest-massacre-in-history/news-story/c21b067377a8c0088021bf567c763e58


3 posted on 03/15/2019 2:33:50 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Pardon me, the massacre was in April 2013:

….“The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous,” Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told The Associated Press.
He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. “No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now,” Gava said.
An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.
If true, “this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught,” said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.
In Washington, U.S. State Department Spokesman Jen Psaki condemned the attacks....”


5 posted on 03/15/2019 2:37:03 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

AND.....

Anyone recall the last time a slaughter of CHRISTIANS in Niger was reported ? Going a a rate of alomost 10,000 a year..where is the hue and cry ??

This goes on every day in that country.....


10 posted on 03/15/2019 6:23:16 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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