Bomb near car explodes in Nigeria, wounding 5
Soldier walks past a damage car following an explosion at Christ embassy church in Suleja, Nigeria, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. A bomb planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria's capital, wounding five people amid a continuing wave of violence by a radical Islamist sect, authorities and witnesses said.(AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)
By BASHIR ADIGUN, Associated Press
SULEJA, Nigeria (AP) — A bomb planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria’s capital, wounding five people amid a continuing wave of violence by a radical Islamist sect, authorities and witnesses said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast outside the Christ Embassy church in Suleja, a city near the nation’s capital Abuja. However, the area has been targeted in the past by the sect known as Boko Haram — including the Christmas Day car bombing of a Catholic church nearby that killed at least 44 people.
The explosion happened just after 10 a.m. as the church began its service, Pastor Uyi Idugboe told journalists. Security guards at the church had noticed something suspicious by the abandoned car, prompting the pastor to call everyone inside the church before the service began, he said.
The bomb also apparently had been wrapped with a motorcycle chain, which sent metal shrapnel flying everywhere when the explosive detonated, witnesses said. The explosion tore away the engine compartment of the abandoned car and damaged four other vehicles nearby.
One person was seriously injured in the blast and taken to a local hospital, local police spokesman Richard Oguche said. Another four people suffered minor injuries, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.
Authorities began to put up roadblocks Sunday afternoon to keep onlookers away and traffic snarled around the city.
While police continued to investigate, suspicion for the blast immediately fell on Boko Haram, a group that has been waging increasingly bloody attacks against Nigeria’s weak central government.
Members of the sect have been blamed for killing at least 289 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count. The group’s leader says its campaign of violence also is aimed at avenging Muslim deaths and pushing for strict Shariah law across multiethnic Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people.
The sect’s attacks, including those specifically targeting Christians, have widened distrust between the two faiths in Africa’s most populous nation. Nigeria is largely split between a Christian south and a Muslim north, and most of Boko Haram’s previous attacks have taken place in the north.
Bombs have struck Suleja in the past. During Nigeria’s April election, a bomb planted at an election office in the city killed 16 people. Another bomb at a church exploded in July in the city, killing three people.
In nearby Madalla, another town in Niger state, a car bomb exploded outside St. Theresa Catholic Church there, killing at least 44 people. Authorities have blamed all the previous attacks in Suleja on Boko Haram.
Meanwhile, authorities blamed the group for killing two people Saturday in Nigeria’s northeast. There, gunmen shot dead an Islamic cleric and a local politician in separate attacks, police said.
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pisslam's latest contribution to the world
2012.02.19 (Bordj Menail, Algeria) – Islamic bombers take out four bus passengers.
2012.02.19 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Twenty young Iraqi police recruits are sent to Allah by Shahid suicide bombers.
2012.02.19 (Baqubah, Iraq) – al-Qaeda gunmen murder three women and one man inside their home.
2012.02.19 (Sulieja, Nigeria) – Sharia advocates set off a car bomb next to a church.
2012.02.19 (Kidapawan, Philippines) – Three civilian bystanders are killed during an attack by Moro Islamists on a jail.
2012.02.19 (Landikotal, Pakistan) – Nine people are left dead following a Lashkar-e-Islam bomb blast.
very soon islam will reach the another milestone of peace in 20000 lives
PEOPLE DO'T BELIEVE
1) SOME FAKE (IN VALID REPORT FROM THE MEDIA AND ELSE)
2)SOME TERRORIST ACTIVITY WITH ISLAM.QURAN AND HADEETH IN FRONT OF U ,A COURAGEOUS MAN JUDGE ISLAM WITH QURAN AND HADEETH,A WEAK -PSYCHE-COWARDS CHARACTER WAS ,JUDGING ISLAM WITH SOME TERRORIST ACTIVITY.
I THINK MY FRIENDS ARE COURAGEOUS PEOPLE.IS IT?
Shabeer – start reading the Quran and then you will see where it comes from all this violence.
No where does the Quran say "You shall love your neighbor as yourself"
That is where Christianity is far better.
True Christians have done some bad things – that is despite their religion.
Islam does the bad things like this because of their religion.
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a typical muslim who doesn't admit his community member activities, shame on you
Comeon shabeer be honest to know the truth
See only one country who gave fatwa to terrorism why not other islamic country ……
Why there is terrist activity all over the world ………….
Why people not understanding of problem……
There is none so blind as those who Will not see! That is you Shabbeer and every Moslem denying the truth.
Oh my god the misunderstanders of pisslam are in action again? Oh allah please tell these misunderstanders of pisslam that you allah will love killings, rape,child screwing , looting, lying,robbery and wll things inhuman.The misunderstanders of pisslam seem to understand allah's intention clearly.
Another contribution from “the religion of peace”. Do you mean the “misunderstander” of Islam, term that used by so-called “moderate” Muslim?. In fact, these “misunderstanders” are the true face of Islam. There is no such moderation in Islam. Islam cannot be moderated because it will be called bid’ah. The “moderate” muslims sugar-coated their faith with lies. Foundation of Islam is lies. Disclosure of the truth will make Islam collapse.
Long live the apostates!
Viva la kafira!
Hahaha, Islamic love and peace in action … hahaha … … even among themselves alone … … hahahaha … hahaha … … hahaha … … shiits and Sunis … … hahaha … … Mr HAHAHA what do you think? Hahaha.
Since killing is a central doctrine in Islamic faith, Muslims should kill themselves and leave Christians alone. Killing is not prescribed in Christian faith.
"…If anyone kills a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he killed all people. And if anyone saves a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all people" (Qur'an 5:32).
Life is sacred, according to Islam and most other world faiths. But how can one hold life sacred, yet still support capital punishment? The Qur'an answers, "…Take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law. Thus does He command you, so that you may learn wisdom" (6:151).
The key point is that one may take life only "by way of justice and law." In Islam, therefore, the death penalty can be applied by a court as punishment for the most serious of crimes. Ultimately, one's eternal punishment is in God's hands, but there is a place for punishment in this life as well. The spirit of the Islamic penal code is to save lives, promote justice, and prevent corruption and tyranny.
Islamic philosophy holds that a harsh punishment serves as a deterrent to serious crimes that harm individual victims, or threaten to destabilize the foundation of society. According to Islamic law (in the first verse quoted above), the following two crimes can be punishable by death:
Intentional murder
Fasad fil-ardh ("spreading mischief in the land")
Intentional Murder
The Qur'an legislates the death penalty for murder, although forgiveness and compassion are strongly encouraged. The murder victim's family is given a choice to either insist on the death penalty, or to pardon the perpetrator and accept monetary compensation for their loss (2:178).
unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land
Dear Sabbu ullu, Isn't trying to think independently sufficient to spreading mischief?
And who doesn't know that all non-muzzies (including sherkers) are murders? And they started killing Mohammedans from the first day of Islam?
does it mean i as a hindu has full right to kill a "mischevious" muslim in india?
How does allah define "mischeif in land"
Hahahahaha, you misunderstanders of pisslam.You people will burn in hell and rot in hell.Hell is full of soldiers of allah and mohammad and the pimps.Phew waht am I writing? Oh I am a moslem.so no worries
“Hell is full with soldiers of Allah….”, and Muhammad is the commander in chief.
same attack in past
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-5-killed-n…
how are there so many Misunderstanders of the Religion of Peace…i remember now, pisslam is no peace; tis violence terror warps and all!
I will cast terror into the eyes of unbelievers, Mohammad told his rag-tag soldiers 1400 hundred years ago. Violent murder, kinappings and rapes are the pillars of Islam. Without violent confrontaion this religion will die tommorrow. It is appointed on Muslims to kill and die, and after that comes celestial virgins.
Shabeer, is life sacred?? really?? Then why are Muslims continuing to kill everybody everywhere every time "everyhow"? Why? Why? Why? Islam is too evil to be allowed around.
Somebody, here, said:
Know Islam No Peace,
Know Peace No Islam.
So – "life is sacred" in Islam, shabby?
What about Boko Haram? What about the Taliban?
What about al-Qaeda? What about al-Shabaab?
THEY are the true Muslims, Shabby – not you.
THEY know the Quran. They follow the Quran to the letter.
Forget your taqiyya, Shabby. You are wasting your time.
All you are doing is giving us good laughing material.
WE KNOW that the Quran promotes hatred and violence.
encladeus
you are not fully right . shabeer is a pure muslim he knows the quran very well , he is following deception which is the work muslim in order to defend radical and terrorists
pure moslem is always,idiotic , imbecile, demented, moronic, retarded, brain dead, daughter screwing, child raping, kafir killing, sex addicted, mohammad praying, donkey. this islamic donkey is evil to the core.
There seems to be a problem with kafir thinking and I believe that has been the case for the past 1400 years.The sacred things in pisslam are heavens apart from the sacred things of kafirs.
1.Child raping and child screwing are important pious islamic acts and mohammad and allah love it to the core.
2.Kafir killing is a sacred duty towards allah and every moslem who does this sacred act of murder will get to screw 72 whores and 28 boys later. A completely sacred and pious islamic act.
3.Lying,cheating, robbing, rioting, burning,looting are all perfectly ok in kafir land allah and mohammad love these acts.
4.Banging the head 5 times a day and beating the wife/wives will be extremely pious islamic acts.
5.The sooner the kafirs learn this sacredness of pisslam, the better it is for the kafirs.
Whats intresting about this religion of death is that it has no shame!!they even say lying is good when promoting islam!!I READ one islamist say christ sinned because he made wine??ahahahahah what a joke are these people normal??the wine he made was for a purpose have no space here to explain to you!!but even a blind person can see the carnage this religion has caused around the world,their prophet was sending people to kill and they say he has no sin??and they say christ sinned when in their paradise there is wine and honey and sex,can a billion people be fooled like this??the only momment christ come near one weilding a sword WAS WHEN PETER TOOK ONE AND CUT AN EAR OF one of those about to arrest him listen to his response”"Peter take back the sword in its sheath for those who live by the sword will die by the sword!!THATS MY BELOVED CHRIST!!IMAGINE HOW HAPPY THIS PROPHET WHO LIKES WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT THEY HAVE A MUJAHADIN AMONG THEM!!!!WHAT EVER THAT MEANS!!!LOL
Hey cretin shabby, let me send the suicide belt to your address and wear it all the time.You never know when the urge to meet with the mohammad's whores will hit you.Simply pull the belt and bang,You will no longer be around to copy paste the garbage and you will be happy with the houries along with mohammad. Go on copy paste your address and dont forget to take your other friend who keeps posting the crap here.Both of you can be in the arms of white virgin whores with perpetual erection! Think about it.