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    Suicide car bomb detonates outside Nigeria church

    By JON GAMBRELL | Associated Press – Sun, Feb 26, 2012

    LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday morning outside of the major church in the heart of a restive central Nigerian city that has seen hundreds die in religious and ethnic violence, an official said, killing three people and injuring others.

    The explosion struck the main headquarters of the Church of Christ in Nigeria during its early morning service, Plateau state spokesman Pam Ayuba said. The blast killed the bomber and a father and child near the explosion, while wounding others, Ayuba said.

    Police officials in the city could not be immediately reached for comment. A military spokesman for the area also did not answer calls for comment.

    No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, though a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram has launched increasingly bloody attacks across Nigeria, including attacks on churches. A Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church claimed by the sect in Madalla, a town just outside the country's capital Abuja, killed at least 44 people.

    The group also claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on Christmas Eve that struck Jos, killing as many as 80 people.

    Jos and surrounding Plateau state has found itself torn apart in recent years by violence pitting its different ethnic groups and major religions — Christinity and Islam — against each other. Human Rights Watch says at least 1,000 people were killed in communal clashes around Jos in 2010.

    The violence, though fractured across religious lines, often has more to do with local politics, economics and rights to grazing lands. The government of Plateau state is controlled by Christian politicians who have blocked Muslims from being legally recognized as citizens. That has locked many out of prized government jobs in a region where the tourism industry and tin mining have collapsed in the last decades.

     

    25 comments

    • Tony
      Tony  •  Osaka-shi, Japan  •  3 mths ago
      Once again, islam shows the kind of religion of peace it is. You cannot judge all islam for the actions of some of its followers. However, you cannot deny that a much higher percentage of its followers become violent than those of other ideologies.
      Muhammad was a warlord and the koran says to subjugate others in the name of islam (check out 9:29 and other violent versus). It can be and IS used to justify violence.
      • Scottish Blast
        Scottish Blast 3 mths ago
        Oh and the Bible can't be used the same way...try googling violent passages out of the Bibler. It's called taking out of context (and ENGLISH translation)!
    • Mac the Snipe
      Mac the Snipe  •  3 mths ago
      So #$%$ sick and tired of the press calling these evil, disgusting, animals a "radical sect!" They are neither radical, nor a sect. They are orthodox mooslims, following the teaching of that book from the pit of hell precisely. This is what their false god demands of them, and they seem all too happy to slaughter innocent human beings.
      • Larry
        Larry 3 mths ago
        Right on the money...
    • Bally
      Bally  •  3 mths ago
      Only devil ask somebody to take another soul, I don't know what kind of religion will his/her Allah ask his followers to kill and maime others.That religion is of the devil.
    • Darwin
      Darwin  •  Austin, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Islam continues to validate itself as the war pigs among prophets of peace......
    • al c
      al c  •  Vancouver, Canada  •  3 mths ago
      Nice muslim protest
    • SHELT
      SHELT  •  3 mths ago
      they are homicide bombers cause they murder innocent people. Their suicide is of no import.
    • health1_au
      health1_au  •  3 mths ago
      How much more before we admit that islam is the enemy?
      • Mac the Snipe
        Mac the Snipe 3 mths ago
        Most intelligent, objective people know that already. Problem is the pvssies in charge.
      • Ugo
        Ugo 3 mths ago
        health 1 with u on that,islm is the enemy.
    • Douglas
      Douglas  •  San Jose, Costa Rica  •  3 mths ago
      Everything I wanted to know about Islam I learned on 9/11, and I don't buy that CRAP that it was an inside job, just like I BELIEVE Oswald killed Kennedy, we landed on the Moon, the world is round, and only fat people drink diet sodas.
    • Jack
      Jack  •  Lansdale, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      sOOOOOOO - Why is this on the sidebar on YAHOO.
    • CD
      CD  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Many of our prisoners in prison are converting to this "religion of peace." I can't imagine what is in store for our country if we continue to allow this terrorist way of thinking and its people into our society!
    • Sporky McCrackin
      Sporky McCrackin  •  3 mths ago
      #$%$ wouldn't be doing this kind of thing if their religous leaders didn't teach hate and intolerance of other religions at a very early age. Little baby #$%$ are being indoctrinated in hatred from the minute they are born.
    • mac marine
      mac marine  •  3 mths ago
      Arm youreslves patriots, were gonna need you.
    • GREAT RAGE
      GREAT RAGE  •  3 mths ago
      Its ok for muslims to suicide bomb churchs but we cant burn a koran. W T H?!?!!?
    • Royal Ron
      Royal Ron  •  Pleasanton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Muslims and their satanic beliefs behind it all!
    • rosefluo
      rosefluo  •  3 mths ago
      Bunch of cowards , always the same si ssies #$%$ that wage wars against civilians..Would they be pertified following their shameless defeat in 67 to wage war like every other MEN DO??
    • B
      B  •  3 mths ago
      When I read the headlines of a car bomb and innocent people dead, I knew it must be a Muslim attack......I was right.....The religion of hate has removed its mask to show the world what they really are. Hate mongers and murderers in the first degree.
    • Ugo
      Ugo  •  3 mths ago
      everyday i go to church not knowing if i make it back home,should my love and my faith in Christ demand my blood,so be it,i will give it gladly, for Christ loved me first,even my blood will not be enough to repay that love.i wont be the first,and for Christians living in countries where they are persecuted in anyway through violence,riddicle,government laws,Dont be afraid,for we work with the Victorious One.
    • deafBurro
      deafBurro  •  Hanoi, Vietnam  •  3 mths ago
      Read the last paragraph.
      • Rat Fink McRoy
        Rat Fink McRoy 3 mths ago
        Does this justify the killing of innocent civilians? No Christians in most Arabs countries but the Christians don't set off bombs.
      • deafBurro
        deafBurro 2 mths ago
        Precisely what I mean.
        The article last paragraph makes it appear that Islamic terrorism is justified
        because of its grievances at unfair treatment.
      • deafBurro
        deafBurro 2 mths ago
        And no CHRISTian has ever killed over a burnt Bible.
        In Fact they didn' t even kill over bombed churches and
        slaughtered CHRISTians.
    • California Kid
      California Kid  •  3 mths ago
      That bomber went straight to hell and is barking there right now
    • Mary
      Mary  •  Livingston, New Jersey  •  3 mths ago
      Onward christian soldiers.
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