{"id":28228,"date":"2018-04-16T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2018-04-19T06:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T06:32:29","slug":"nigeria-jihadist-crusade-feared-after-8-christians-were-killed-in-latest-attacks-acn-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/04\/16\/nigeria-jihadist-crusade-feared-after-8-christians-were-killed-in-latest-attacks-acn-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA : \u2018Jihadist Crusade\u2019 feared after 8 Christians were killed in latest attacks &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NIGERIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u2018Jihadist Crusade\u2019<\/strong><strong> feared after 8 Christians were killed in latest attacks <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local church leaders are worried that Islamist nomadic herdsmen may be about to launch another \u201cjihadist crusade\u201d involving \u201cmass murder\u201d of Christians after a recent spate of killings in unprovoked attacks on Christian communities in northern Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two young Catholic fathers, both in their mid-20s, were killed on 5 April in Asso village, a week after the murder of four men and two women in another part of Kaduna state. Militant Fulani extremists are accused of carrying out the murders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an interview with <em>Aid to the Church in Need<\/em>, Asso parish priest Father Alexander Yeyock said: \u201cThe sad implication of [these attacks] is a mass murder for Christians in the northern part of Nigeria, especially the north-east and middle-belt regions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stating that extremists in Nigeria were pushing for \u201can Islamic state and\u00a0<em>Shari\u2018a\u00a0<\/em>rule\u201d, the priest explained: \u201cThe attack has two dimensions. The first is to Islamise the Christian community. It is a jihadist crusade in a subtle manner.The second dimension is that the Fulani herdsmen want to confiscate our arable land for grazing purposes.\u201d He added that Fulani militants are \u201ca masqueraded Boko Haram [Islamist terror group] in disguise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Asso villagers were increasingly concerned about their safety after soldiers defending the majority-Christian community were arrested for firing on the attackers. A number of the soldiers who replaced them are feared to be Fulani militants. Fr Yeyock told ACN \u201cWith the awareness of what happened to the previous soldiers, the highly concentrated number of [new soldiers] have increased the tension in Asso community which is predominantly a Christian community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After new laws in a State south of Kaduna dealt a severe blow to their cattle-grazing livelihood, Christians fear that militant Fulani herdsmen could travel to their region and launch a campaign of violence. The attack on Asso had sparked widespread fear among local Christians. \u00a0\u201cThe community\u2019s inhabitants find it difficult to go to their farms, and farming is the main occupation of the people. Once it is 6 pm, everyone begins to get jittery for fear of the unknown,\u201d said Fr Yeyock. He accused local government of fuelling the attacks by not prosecuting offenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the funeral of the latest victims of violence, Benue State governor Sam Orton described how Fulani extremists \u201cwent on the rampage wielding machetes\u201d on New Year\u2019s Day 2018 and killed. 72 Christian farmers. About a week later, militant Fulani was implicated in another attack which resulted in the death of 55 people in Taraba State\u2019s Lau district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Garba Sarkin-Noma, Kaduna State federal representative for Jema and Sanga, \u00a0also commented on the violence in Asso: \u201cThat these attacks are being perpetrated in the absence of any provocation despite the presence of security personnel within the vicinity is an affirmation that a silent war has been declared on our communities by agents of darkness.\u201d He called for an effective response from the government as well as the military to \u201cexpose and punish the perpetrators of these heinous crimes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In February Archbishop Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso of Kaduna told ACN that the Fulani militants were now armed with modern weapons and that they had become radicalised. He stated that \u201cpowerful forces with connections to terrorist organizations such as Daesh (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda are behind groups such as these\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The umbrella body for Nigerian Muslims dissociates itself from Boko Haram condemning their attacks as \u201cbarbaric\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA \u2018Jihadist Crusade\u2019 feared after 8 Christians were killed in latest attacks &nbsp; Local church leaders are worried that Islamist nomadic herdsmen may be about to launch another \u201cjihadist crusade\u201d involving \u201cmass murder\u201d of Christians after a recent spate of killings in unprovoked attacks on Christian communities in northern Nigeria. 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