Nigerian Muslims Lock University Poll Workers in Hostel & Torch It
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 6:43 AM
An unidentified man walks past the destroyed Zonkwa market in Zonkwa, Nigeria, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Nigerian officials on Thursday delayed next week’s gubernatorial elections in two predominantly Muslim northern states that have been wracked by deadly riots and retaliatory violence since the presidential election was won by a Christian from the country’s south. (AP/Sunday Alamba)
A group of university students were among the dead last week after the presidential elections in Nigeria. The young poll workers were locked in their hostel and it was set ablaze after the Muslim candidate lost in a landslide.
Macon.com reported:
Officials tasked the four young college graduates with monitoring election stations during Nigeria’s presidential vote. Then when the poll results unleashed sectarian violence, an angry mob killed them by locking them inside their youth hostel and setting it ablaze.
Dozens of their colleagues in a nearby state narrowly escaped death after rioters torched their hostel too, leaving many with serious burns and few options to go home.
Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps is a mandatory yearlong assignment for all Nigerians who graduate from university before the age of 30. Most serve as teachers during their stint, but the April national elections have brought extra responsibilities – and danger – to their work.
Now federal officials are vowing to step up protection for young volunteers in the areas wracked by violence, while worried parents are wondering whether their children can be reassigned away from towns marked by charred bodies and torched buildings.
Attahiru Jega, chief of Nigeria’s Independent Election Commission, said the young Nigerians had been targeted “to scare them away from continuing the honorable and excellent work they have been doing during these elections.”
“I call on them, their parents and guardians not to allow the perpetrators of violence to scare them away from the noble job they are doing for this country,” Jega said. “I commiserate with all those who have been affected in one way or the other by the violence. Some have paid the ultimate price for democracy and I am sure that I speak the minds of all Nigerians if I say that the nation will be eternally grateful to them.”
11 youth corps members were killed after the election last week.
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gus commented:
Just a reminder. Opie the Kenyan dimwit is CHRISTIAN.
We know this because he attended Jeremiah Wrights Black Liberation theology church for 20 years.
Radegunda commented:
The true face of Islam: Kill people if you don’t get your way.
JKB commented:
Thank goodness that Islam is the religion of peace, otherwise somebody could get killed.
Militant Conservative commented:
This just in, Obama was seen leaving the scene with a zippo and an empty gas can.
powder is dry
Granny commented:
Foreshadowing of what we are looking forward to in 2012 . . . .
american patriot commented:
“after the Muslim candidate lost in a landslide”
Gee, what would have happened if the Muzzie had won. Iraq provides a clue as its once sizable Christian population is reduced by murder and fear as survivors self-emigrate
Dearbornistan is Nigeria, Iran, Syria, [name any Muslim majority country or local] in a seed-state. Allow it to germinate and we too will go through what Europe is experiencing with its Muzzies.
There are only “Muslims who live in America.” “Muslim Americans” do NOT exist. Muslims will readily tell you that their loyalties are to allah and the law of sharia, not our federal and state constitutions. For those of us who love America it is truly a beacon of hope, meaning a concept of personal liberty and responsibility.
To Muslims America is just another geographical place to conquer.
Mama Lion commented:
Remember that this is what Obama wants here. He is trying to get us to this point. Captain Humanitarian is markedly silent about the wholesale slaughter on Christians due to a free election and free speech. He couldn’t even bring himself to mention Easter at a time that Christians are being slaughtered and imprisoned on a daily basis. Well, he’s not a Christian….never was.
I am getting a handgun for my birthday. I am going to learn how to shoot it, carry it, and get comfortable with it so I can protect my children in light of the imminent events ahead. That is all I want…to be able to protect my sweet children from those who would harm them. And for the first time in my life, I know I could pull the trigger.
Finncrisp commented:
Next stop Egypt – Look for mass murders of Christians by followers of the religion of peace.
ar05075 commented:
islam is NOT a religion.!! It is a barbaric cult created by a murderous pedophile and perpetuated by ignorance.
Nanna1 commented:
ar05075 #9
Well said!!
jimg commented:
So, is ‘Doctor’ Ron Paul blaming the U.S. for these acts of Muslim extremism?
Or doesn’t this fit his narrative?
Zim commented:
Obama –” Muslim Call To Prayer One Of The Prettiest Sounds On Earth”
RedBeard commented:
Hmmm….. I’m not sure….. could there be some sort of pattern emerging here? I mean, I hate to point fingers, but it almost seems as if violence and Muslims go together. Is that a possibility?
Maybe not. I haven’t seen or heard the Dinosaur Media discussing it, and surely they would be all over the story if a religion promoted violence. Right?
gus commented:
Maybe Opie the “Christian” could send Charles Bolden, the NASA head. He’d fix things.
SMART DIPLOMACY!!!!
Noble commented:
Well that’s nearly as bas as Burning the Koran!! Idiots all
Don Rodrigo commented:
Arm the African Christians. Provide them serious weapons training; then see what happens.
Andreas K. commented:
This has nothing to do with islam. Nothing to see here. Probably Bush’s fault.
eaglewingz08 commented:
Another case of certain fundamentalists who don’t know what islam really means. They failed to get the message that jihad is merely self improvement naval gazing, not vicious attacks on other faiths.
akw commented:
@#17…….
and the Jooooos, and Haliburton, and Palin and Cheney! Yeah, that’s it. LOL
akw commented:
From the second link:
Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that eleven Youth Corps members were killed across the state in the violence that followed the April 16 presidential election, while an unspecified number of the female Corps members were raped, molested and assaulted by irate youths in Gadau village.
Horrific. These young people are called “volunteers” but they really don’t have any choice – it’s mandatory for them to volunteer for one year after they graduate from university.
Where is the UN? I know that they’re in Nigeria trying to clean up after the massacres, but where are the ARMED UN peacekeepers?
dunce commented:
Murderers and muslims are what they are because of what they do.
'Tween The Lines commented:
The AP report makes no mention of Muslims whatsoever, and if there were no Internet we would have no idea what really happened. The report says, for ex:
“Then when the poll results unleashed sectarian violence, an angry mob killed them by locking them inside their youth hostel and setting it ablaze.”
Got that? According to the AP, the *poll results* were at fault for the mysterious “sectarian violence.”
tommy mc donnell commented:
another day in the religion of peace. coming to a city or town near you courtesy of the american politican. the colonization continues unabated.
Brats commented:
#9 April 26, 2011 at 11:31 am
ar05075 commented:
“Islam is NOT a religion.!! It is a barbaric cult created by a murderous pedophile and perpetuated by ignorance.” You forgot the word, “death”. This political ideology of world conquest masquerading as a religion is a DEATH cult.
Freeway commented:
Don’t worry about Islam, better keep your eyes on those crazy, I’ll cut your head off, burn your churches, keep you women and children for our pleasure Christians…wait,,, thats the muslims… my bad…