"How Herdsman Killed Catholic priests and 17 worshipers in Benue, Nigeria." Complete Report on Merciless Attack on Those at Morning Mass

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The President of Nigeria "described the attack as ‘vile, evil and satanic’”.

Some are saying this violent group is worse than Boko Haram, the notorious Muslim terrorists in the same country.

Nigeria is a country of 150 million people in western Africa.
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“The village is located in Nigeria’s Benue state, in the tense ‘Middle Belt’ between the nation’s predominantly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.”

In areas like Benue, most of the settled farmers living there are Christian. The Fulani herdsmen are mostly Muslim. (from report on this attack, “Nigerian Mass Becomes a Massacre: Herdsmen Kill 18 Worshipers, Adding to Hundreds of Victims,” in magazine “Christianity Today”.)

 

[Luke6_37]

These murderers could be the same people who blew up the mosque. In certain fanatical Islamic sects, killing Muslims who do not follow your particular brand of Islam is just as valid as killing Christians who worship Jesus and deny Muhammad is a prophet.

How Muslims Justify Killing Other Muslims in Islam's Name

Those who claim that terrorism committed in the name of Islam has "nothing to do with Islam" received much ostensible fodder by way of the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Bangladesh, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia in the closing days of Ramadan. Because

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As for the deliberate slaughter of fellow Muslims, it must be remembered that mainstream Sunni Islam—the world’s dominant strand of Islam which ISIS adheres to—views all non-Sunnis as false Muslims; at best, they are heretics who need to submit to the “true Islam” no less than the infidels…

As for Sunni on Sunni violence, this is easily justified when one group engages in takfir, and thus denounces another group of being kafir—that is, non-Muslims, infidels, whose blood can be shed with impunity. Takfir has existed alongside Islam almost from its inception, beginning with the khawarij (Kharijites)—who denounced and slaughtered fellow Muslims for not following the letter of law—and was the primary rationale used to justify jihad between different Sunni nations and empires throughout the centuries.

 

[Annie]

Herdsmen? Surely these killers have some attribute other than this profession which caused them to attack and kill people at Mass?