Gunmen kill 44 at Nigeria mosque

[Bosonic]

Source: BBC

At least 44 worshippers have been shot dead at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, officials in Borno state say.

The killings took place during dawn prayers on Sunday morning, although news only emerged on Monday.

The attack occurred in the town of Konduga, 35km (22 miles) from the state capital Maiduguri.

The gunmen are suspected to be from the Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in northern Nigeria since 2009.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23676872

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[BlueManFan]

1. As We Are Going To Learn One Islamist Bomb Blast or Another. Or One Christian Fundamentalist

abortion doctor murder, or one more gay hating self-loathing closeted gay minster or another: God Is Love.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Why would Boko Haram be attacking mosques? Don't they usually attack Christians?

[Bosonic]

3. Usually the victims are the wrong sect

There are millions of Shia in Nigeria.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. Who knew? Not me.

[Pterodactyl]

14. Yeah, and what if there were korans in there? That would be terrible.

[jessie04]

4. More Islam bashing.

One isolated incident and we get more Islam bashing.

You don't judge an entire religion based on one rare incident.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Isolated? No.

Nigeria: Borno to Reconstruct 823 Classrooms Destroyed By Boko Haram
Boko Haram has created 10,000 widows in Borno
Boko Haram Kill 12 Soldiers, Seven Policemen in Separate Attacks in Borno
Nigeria attacks by Boko Haram could be crimes against humanity, says ICC Prosecutor

That's just news in the past 10 days or so (the classrooms and widows aren't all from that period, of course, but you can see it's gone on for enough time for those figures)

[freshwest]

6. Boko Haram did all of this? What the heck is going on there? And we think we have problems.

Why are they doing this, that is, what do they want?

Looks like no one can stop them, sounds like some kind of genocide.

I'm going to check out all those links, I'd never heard of this group before.

[riderinthestorm]

7. The "Arab Spring" and its aftermath have exposed the Sunni/Shia divide in stark terms

Boko Haram is Sunni and they are after the "infidel" Shia, Christians etc. in Nigeria.

This ancient civil war is gaining strength with a fury in N Africa, the Mid East etc.

We're in for a bumpy ride.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. They've had a state of emergency for 3 months in 3 Nigerian states

http://ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/129740-three-months-on-state-of-emergency-returns-normalcy-slowly

From January 2012:

Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists?

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
...
But Boko Haram was not only interested in education. Its political goal was to create an Islamic state, and the school became a recruiting ground for jihadis to fight the state.
...
Boko Haram: Timeline of terror

2002: Founded
2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed
2009: Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf captured by army, handed to police, later found dead
Sep 2010: Freed hundreds of prisoners from a Bauchi jail
Dec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80 people and blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracks
2010-2011: Dozens killed in Maiduguri shootings
May 2011: Bombed several states after president's inauguration
June 2011: Police HQ bombed in Abuja
Aug 2011: UN HQ bombed in Abuja
Nov 2011: Co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in Yobe and Borno states
Dec 2011: Multiple bomb attacks on Christmas Day kill dozens

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13809501

[JackRiddler]

10. All I read in the OP is a report on the incident.

Does reporting on it constitute "Islam bashing"?

[Igel]

11. Of course.

It's possible that reporting something true might cause readers to overgeneralize and improperly assign the responsibility for this to "Islam."

As opposed to a particular kind of Islam.

It's not really all that unusual to make this kind of "anything that could possibly give rise to prejudice is itself a form of prejudice" leap in thinking.

[penultimate]

12. I assumed that post was a preemptive mocking of posts that often times appear in discussions about

stories like this,

[JackRiddler]

13. Irony is not really the right response.

Also, it thus introduces Islam bashing, doesn't it now? Or a kind of liberal bashing perhaps.

[penultimate]

15. It could be subtle form of Islam or liberal bashing depending on the motives of the poster...

I'm not familiar with the person, so I can't say their intent.

[tabasco]

16. The religion of peace strikes again!

I'd hate to see them get warlike.