The Jihad in Africa is something that the rest of the world should be much more aware of then it is. Christians who make up over 50% of Nigeria’s population have been under constant assault by violent Muslims, especially in the North of the country.
The latest atrocity committed by Muslims against Christians to come to my attention (h/t ROP) is from the North Central part of Nigeria where an 87 year old Christian man was hacked to death with a machete and another person was shot dead. These deaths were at the hands of the majority Muslim Fulani tribesmen who undertake regular raids on Christians, their villages and their properties. This case is being covered in local media but it is the sort of story that deserves a wider audience as what these Muslims have done to Nigerian Christians they will eventually do to Christians elsewhere.
The Nigerian Morning Star via a Christian information site said:
Muslim Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria on early Thursday morning (Nov. 14) hacked an 87-year-old Christian to death by machete and killed another by gunshot, an area resident said.
A group of herdsmen attacked predominantly Christian Agom village in southern Kaduna state’s Sanga Country at 4:30 a.m., area resident Gabriel Yakubu told Morning Star News by text message. Monday Kura, 87, and Emmanuel Agom, 48, both members of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (ERCC), were killed as they slept in their rooms, he said.
“The Fulani herdsmen cut Monday Kura, 87 years, with a machete until he died, while Emmanuel, 48 years, was shot dead with a gun,” Yakubu said. “Sir, we need your prayers as my village is on fire and we are not getting any protection from the government.”
It was the first herdsmen attack on the village, which is four kilometers from the town of Gwantu, he said. The ERCC church is the only church in the village, he said.
The attack could not be immediately confirmed. Agom is located along Wasa Station Road, west of Gwantu, between Kwana Nunbu and Gani Sarki villages, he said.
Sanga County was the site of a Muslim Fulani herdsmen attack on March 16 that killed 10 Christians and burned about 30 houses. That attack also occurred as residents of Nandu Gbok village were sleeping.
These attacks by Muslim terrorists are getting all too common in Nigeria and have contributed to the increasing insecurity felt and experienced by Christians in Nigeria. Unfortunately this situation will not improve until the Nigerian government step in and not only give proper protection to the Christians, but also hunt down with extreme prejudice the Muslim terrorists who are carrying out these attacks.
