{"id":6209,"date":"2013-07-08T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2013-07-10T02:35:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T01:35:57","slug":"2013jul08yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013jul08yobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamists murder children in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well-armed Boko Haram Islamists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Schools have closed after Islamists murdered 22 school children<\/a><\/strong> in North-Eastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The attack on a secondary school in Yobe came on Saturday and was carried out by\u00a0Boko Haram, which literally means ‘book’ or ‘alphabet’ (by extension non-Islamic education) is ‘unlawful’.<\/p>\n

The Islamists forced the children into a dormitory and then shot them before setting fire to the school.<\/p>\n

As a result,\u00a0Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has ordered all secondary schools to close<\/a><\/strong> until the start of the new academic term in September, to allow state and federal government officials and community leaders time to work out how to guarantee their safety.<\/p>\n

\"Yobemap\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Governor Gaidam condemned as “cold-blooded murder” Saturday’s attack on the Mamudo boarding school, describing \u00a0the attackers as “callous and devoid of any shred of humanity”.<\/p>\n

Boko Haram targeted two schools in the region in June, but dozens have been burned across Nigeria in attacks by Islamists since 2010.<\/p>\n

More than 600 people were believed to have been killed in 2012 by the group, which is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.<\/p>\n

This attack is in spite of the State of Emergency declared by the Federal Government in three states including Yobe.<\/p>\n

P.S. Home Secretary Theresa May MP is to make membership of Boko Haram a criminal offence<\/a><\/strong> this week under UK terrorism laws.<\/p>\n

In contrast, the U.S. has failed to designate Boko Haram<\/a><\/strong> as an Foreign Terrorist Organisation and five days ago, US President Obama blamed the rise of Boko Haram not on militant Islam but on the Nigerian government<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Channel 4 will begin broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer<\/a>, <\/strong>coinciding with the start of Ramadan.<\/p>\n

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Schools have closed after Islamists murdered 22 school children in North-Eastern Nigeria. The attack on a secondary school in Yobe came on Saturday and was carried out by\u00a0Boko Haram, which literally means ‘book’ or ‘alphabet’ (by extension non-Islamic education) is ‘unlawful’. The Islamists forced the children into a dormitory and then shot them before setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5],"tags":[875,876,877],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-freedom","category-halal","tag-boko-haram","tag-ibrahim-gaidam","tag-yobe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t