The
smoldering wreckage of St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, Suleja,
just outside Nigeria’s capital of Abuja on Dec. 25, 2011 (Photo: Afolabi
Sotunde/Reuters)Blazing Cat Fur : As Hamas breaks yet another ceasefire, the mainstream international media remains intent on focusing on the “poor” Palestinians and the Gazan casualties.
Celebrities, easily conned by heartbreaking propaganda in the form of Pallywood, come out against Israel and demonstrate their anti-Semitic tendencies. The entire world, it seems, is fixated on Israel.Those of us who survived had to run out of the village, some to Shendam town and others to places like Garkawa, Langtang, Pankshin or Jos.”
Yet when Boko Haram kills nearly 1000 people in a Christian town in a matter of days, it does not make the headlines... CASE IN POINT: Story from today in the rather obscure Morning Star News: Muslim Herdsmen in Nigeria Kill 18 Christians in Plateau, Kaduna States:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The 14 people killed in an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen last week in Plateau state were Christians killed for their faith, not cattlemen slain for their livestock, area Christians said.
In Yelwa, where Muslim Fulani cattlemen have largely replaced Christian ethnicities over the years by means of slash-and-shoot attacks, a throng of heavily armed herdsmen attacked the remnant Christian community in the early hours of Aug. 11, the sources said.
“These Muslim Fulani gunmen were more than 150, and they were armed,” a 40-year-old Christian from the village who fled to Jos told Morning Star News. “They attacked us in Yelwa. Many of the members of our community were killed by them. And they also burned down our houses.
