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When there's only islam around, islam gets bored, and feels the itch to go on a killing-spree again (don't try to understand it, it's pathological).
So the "brotherhood" of islam merely translates as fratricide.
Moral: even after a country's converted into a dar-ul-islam - land of submission (to his non-existence, jeebusjehovallah) - it never does become a "land of peace".
theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/nigeria-religious-leader-survives-attack/story-fn3dxix6-1226442815234
Quote:Nigeria religious leader survives attack
From: AAP August 04, 2012 1:04PM
A TOP Muslim traditional leader in northeastern Nigeria has escaped a suicide attack, when the bomber was thwarted by locals before blowing himself up, police and residents say.
The target of the attack was Muhammad Abali, the top Muslim traditional leader in Yobe state, whose official title is the Emir of Fika.
Five people, including three policemen, were wounded in the blast outside the main mosque after Friday prayers ended in the town of Potiskum, the state police commissioner, Patrick Egbuniwe, said.
"A lone suicide bomber attempted to attack the Emir of Fika in Potiskum just after the Friday prayer as he left the mosque. But the attacker was restrained by the people around and he blew himself up," he said.
[color="#0000FF"]"Only the bomber died. Five other people were injured including three policemen attached to the emir,"[/color] Egbuniwe said.
A nurse at the Potiskum government hospital, who asked for anonymity, said 13 people, including three policemen, were brought to the hospital wounded.
[color="#0000FF"]It was the latest such attack targeting Muslim leaders in northern Nigeria, where radical Islamist sect Boko Haram accuses establishment Islamic figures of being too close to the country's corrupt elite.[/color]
"A man who looked in his 40s ... approached the emir and tried to embrace him, but people around pushed him away, and at that moment, a bomb concealed under his caftan went off," one witness said.
Those wounded included the emir's bodyguard, a mosque aid worker and a nurse, the witness said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though Potiskum has been hard hit by violence blamed on Boko Haram.
"I and my brother were leaving the mosque through a different gate when I heard an explosion followed by a commotion as worshippers tried to flee," another resident said.
"I fled the mosque, but some minutes later when the news of what happened spread, I came back to the mosque and I saw a large crowd watching the dismembered body of the attacker."
[color="#0000FF"]Some three weeks ago, a suicide bomber tried to assassinate another key Islamic leader outside his mosque after Friday prayers but missed his target and killed five others.
The target of that attack was Umar Garbai el-Kanemi, who carries the title of Shehu of northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram has been based.[/color]
Yobe state borders Borno.
When there's only islam around, islam gets bored, and feels the itch to go on a killing-spree again (don't try to understand it, it's pathological).
So the "brotherhood" of islam merely translates as fratricide.
Moral: even after a country's converted into a dar-ul-islam - land of submission (to his non-existence, jeebusjehovallah) - it never does become a "land of peace".