No fewer than eight persons were killed on Monday in Talata-Mafara community in Zamfara following violence that erupted over alleged blasphemy by a student of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata-Mafara.
The state governor, Abdulaziz Yari, joined hundreds of people to bury the deceased, who were said to have all been killed when an angry mob set fire on the house of a man who tried to rescue the student.
The student was alleged to have made a blasphemous statement against Islam and Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and was consequently attacked by a mob.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the boy was said to have been beaten to pulp by the mob, and the man, whose name was simply given asTajudeen, took in his car and rush to a hospital.
Enraged by the act of the man who rescued the student, an eye witness told NAN that the mob moved to his (Tajudeen’s) house, set it on fire and killed eight persons.
The governor, who called for an emergency Security Council meeting over the incident, expressed sadness and vowed that “no stone will be left unturned until all those behind this act are brought to book”.
NAN further reports that the police have imposed a 12-hour curfew in the community, from 7PM to 7AM daily until further notice, with warning that anyone caught violating the order would be prosecuted.
@ Abdullahi u law says u shd kill abi? u must be a boko haram member. Is she not a moslem? do u know d law better than her. May God deliver u, one day all ur brothers that are killing for Allah will recieve their rewards instantly here on earth before d last day.
It does tell you something about it being more cultural than religious. I mean if Yoruba Muslims are not quick to behead people for insulting the prophet then it means it has a lot to do with the culture than the religion.
Mr president are you seeing this??????
Osawaru, what do you mean by that? The place you’re talking about is it different from Nigeria? We all have freedom of speech. Do you know how many times Muslims has blaspheme against the Christian faith, but no loss his or her life because of that. And that is to show you that Christian religion is a religion of peace, while Islam is a r violence religion
if u want to know the tribe, that is practicing real Islam between, Yoruba and Hausa, go to Saudi Arabia, and blasphemy, Islam or Muhammad, by then u ‘ll know true musilm, in Nigeria
Is she knows the law she woudn’t say this.
Who are u to say dat u fight for God, a male melta like u, u can’t fight for a person dat gave life for u, most Muslims lack wisdom and understanding
The problem is that those who do d killings are stark illiterate of Islam and they are d minions used for dirty jobs,an educated Muslim will not soil his hands in this act,i have stayed in d north almost all my life n i come to realise that majority of Muslims are not educated,xposed, n are in abject poverty,and are idle too,so they need to be thoroughly taught their religion,these vast majority illiterate make up d groups that are on killing spree n glorifying themselves over their wicked act. The true Muslims are knowledgeable about d holy BIBLE n Quoran,they know Christ is God himself but they won’t reveal it to their illiterate brothers,unfortunately this govt is a regime that encourages them to continue killing Christians whether they blasphem against moh’d who’s a mere man like us or not. All in all wen God will start his own vengeance,non of them killers can stand his wrath
@Gifted can u tell me when and where Muslims blaspheme Jesus christ,u can never see any Muslim do that.what a pity for u! Liar
wawa Abdulrahman, boko haram will soon employ u. see how yoruba moslems are living peacefully, u claim to be moslem but with devilish heart. have u heard of where christian killed a moslem in Nigeria because of blasphmey? or are u still an educated illeterate? Recieve Jesus Christ if u wont practise Islam like d yoruba people.
Am a Catholic too, but I don’t think the church teaches me to insult people this way. Even if they insult the Pope, the Pope will bless the person if you kn your Pope. What prove do you have that they actually insulted the prophet, go and wake the dead and probe them. And where is it in the Nigeria constitution that if one insult a prophet or Jesus should be beheaded or burnt alive. No body have the right to take the life of another no matter what.
Simon i know your problem. Its immaturity.
Is abubakar shekau a Christian name
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Evil n blood thirsty people
All terrorist are Muslims.
When you something wrong once, we can call it a mistake, but doing it again and again, it becomes a habit. We keep hearing religion of peace but keep seeing destruction of lives and property. Someone is lying here.
@ Vikky, sorry oh, it has nothing to do with culture. They will tell u dat Quoran forbid killing, y den should a hausa man killed for Allah? Are u not aware of d number of christians dat have been killed dis year just because of blasphemy accusation? Theirs is getting out of hand. All i know , is dat our God will win.
“But what do you think would happen if we burned a copy of Quran on tonight’s show?
There would be riots in scores of countries. Embassies would fall. In response to our mistreating a bppk, millions of Muslims would take to the streets, and we would spend the rest of our lives fending off credible death threats.
But when ISIS crucifies people, buries children alive, and rapes and tortures women by the thousands – all in the name of Islam – the response is a few small demonstration in Europe and a hashtag.” _Sam Harris
@ Abdulrahman, do u have dat moral gut to call immaturity? check my comments n read ur first reply. Go look for ur class u dnt belong here.
vikky God bless u, pple ‘ll just say what they don’t know, the reseason Yoruba musilm is different from Hausa musilm, is because in Yoruba family, u ‘ll see Christian Muslim and traditional religion, that is why Yoruba musilm is different from Hausa musilm
Lols jobless idiot
l hav told u b4 dat dis religion is nt a peaceful religion at all they killed many pple without any conscience let me tell sometin some yoruba pple want to try it right here in my area but if nt prayers nd God they would hav started it in yorubaland nw there is no peace in dis religion no peace in Nigeria in lran in lraq in kenya inliberia in syria in afganistans in saudi arabia in sudan nd in paris so, where is d peace nw in dat religion….pls nd pls lets stop decievin ourselves notin lik peace in it at all.may God redeem them all.it is well.
Christians never did such things….because Christians are religion of peace
@ Abdulrahman go n get some brain n stop dis ur inconclusive submission. have u ever askd ur self y d yoruba moslems dont killed? is it not the same quoran u study? May God deliver u n ur brothers from that spirit of killing.
Why will they blasphemed….. If not trouble they’re looking for, they got what they deserved
Denial never works.
akuya, boko haram will soon employ u. i thought u are matured. Wawa, Jaki, Akuya banza. is only how to kill u know, i pray that u recieve Jesus Christ of Nazereth as ur Lord and personal saviour now.
You don’t need to complain when you know the meaning of “Boko Haram.”
Ooo Abdullahi you are damn right….wish every muslim would be as sensible as you and admit what they all really are….
Is getting too much, bcos this ppl have been killing people claiming that they insulted their God, can anyone fight for God? And pls always check it out is those ppl that are not educated always do the killing
Religion of peace they said…
Mona Briese, point of correction, Jesus is not a prophet but a son of God. Which is why he was sent to bring salvation through his death. Is Muhammad that was a prophet
Abdulazeez Bello tag who u r talking to
Mona Briese run for your life, he said convert to Muslim so that they will turn you to suicide bomber and remember Muslims are child rapists
Abdulrahman Abubakar Modibbo brother let’s stop accusing others as causes of our evil. We muslim nowadays have problem.. We are no more following the teaching of Islam as we should. We don’t even take time to learn our religion. If we don’t accept we have a problem we will never find a solution.
@ John Ogodo u got it wrong, it has nothing to do with culture but education. no culture encourage killing, when u go to katsina, u will findout pastors from a hausa muslims family. They have christians and muslims in one family. They are civilized and educated. The northern moslem need a serious orientation.
Simon Joash Sorry you are not making sense, if for anything then what you stated should tell you it has a lot to do with their culture. Yes they might kill Christians as a means to justify their backward thinking not because they read it from Qur’an but if you think it has more to do with their Religion then I will lead you back to your original post, “is the Islam the Hausa people practised different from the Yoruba people?”. If they are reading the same Qur’an why aren’t the Yoruba Muslims beheading people then?
Real Islam in action
What u r saying is 100% true, all u hear are muslims have done this and that because the person who is telling u (the media) belongs to christians, have u ever heard of how many muslims are killed in burma by budhist?did u ever see that in media?do u know who has caused all these chaoes in syria,iraq,afghanistan,somalia,yemen and so many other countries?do u know how many people are killed by war drones in those countries?now u decide
@ addullahi…………..i am a muslim and nobody can fight for God except Himself………………….your brothers in hausas are killer cos which day did you hear on tv or radio that yoruba muslim kill cos of blastphemy. you no get sense as your brother…………….i am a muslim and i will never kill human being like me cos what ever you do , God is watching……..hell await all of you cos Allah will denied your act
tym to fight back and kick them ass to desert where they belongsU0001f608U0001f608U0001f608U0001f608U0001f608
It was good for them how can start talking bad words
@abdulganiyy but why is ur so call allah so weak that he can’t defend himself except his followers n worshippers help or assist him?
i dont know which part of the country u base, if the hausa muslim dont believe that d yoruba muslem is tru a follower of Islam, what do u make of that? i lives amongst them, i know how they treat the yoruba muslims, so Vikky u got no idea on what am saying. They read d same quaron , worship d same Allah but one is claiming superiority.
I am a Muslim and that school is were I studies I see no reason for that practised government should do about that
Islam devil no difference
Is like this abdulrahman is insane. Social media doesn’t allow who is who to talk to anyhow.
Muslims are vampires, satanic people
Blasphemy my ass
Mahmood Sheikh Adamu must be stupid
Cleopas dnt mind him, he is looking for employment with boko haram
Mahmood Sheikh Adam U must be joking my fiend. We re seeing and hearing it everyday so what are U trying to say. It is not only one media that carries news and not only CHRISTIANS own media in the world so my friend keep quiet U don’t have any excuse.
God have mercy on muslim
God have mercy on muslim
@ Vikky read dis btw two muslims tell me if it has anything to do with tradition or understanding of the religion and quoran. Abdullahi Abubakar Islam is not western style peace. And can you please tell me according to your peacefull islam what the law says about blastphemy?
Almighty God will surely fight dis battle for his children, most especially we dt leave with them, only God know d truth of dis matter, may God help us ad forgive them for them don’t know what their are doing
You that believed that they insulted the prophet, can you quote what they said with proof. Don’t contradict yourself you should be for or against.
The wrath of God almighty will come upon those muslims that are killing this innocent people..
Abdullahi Abubakar Is she knows the law she woudn’t say this. Like · Report · 37 minutes ago Akintoye Jamiu Jumat @ addullahi…………..i am a muslim and nobody can fight for God except Himself………………….your brothers in hausas are killer cos which day did you hear on tv or radio that yoruba muslim kill cos of blastphemy. you no get sense as your brother…………….i am a muslim and i will never kill human being like me cos what ever you do , God is watching……..hell await all of you cos Allah will denied your act
Muslims idole worshipers….they are blind,worshiping dead human been…
Vikky read d comments btw d two and tell me it is tradition.
Muslim people no dey fear God at all…
Shame… Shame on however took part in the act its so absurd n uncalled for in such tyms
lol Moslems are just too foolish
Hmmm…. Barbaric Islam!
Why is Islam a blood-thirsty religion?
Just imagine wen a guy called Yusuf did sometin wrong we tag it wit Islam, bt wen guy called james did d same offence dey wunt tag it xtian can u imagine.
They that committed these atrocities must be apprehended and burn them alive too because no section of the Quran encourages them to judge as if they are saints. Are they not these Northern speaking about religion I laugh at them
They call me “Arine” infidel because am a Christian . Staying in far north is like a hostile ground .
@Abdulganiyy, save d pity for urself. Muslims speak against Jesus all d time, you’ll never see a christian resort to violence to defend Him. When a man has to fight for a god, then the god is lesser than man!
Killing is forbiden in Islam.
Many claimed to be muslims but lack the knowledge of the religion.
It’s the jealous that is killing you people. You know we are cultists why are you people always the ones to ignite crisis before you get killed?
On dis same issue we ar discusing on i cant particularly mak any comment coz bearin a muslim name dosent mean u ar a muslim, imagin d boko aram member dat waz arrested nd he waz told to recite chapter 1 of qurian dat we use to pray wit, he cant, no any sign of muslim in him. There is alot of atrocity commited in other part of d country that is more than wat goin on in d north bt people wil nt tag it wit other religions
The news is fabricated
Soo painfuul,Is all about end time,may they soul rest in peace,
@Samuel for every believer either a Muslim or a christian or even idol worshiper whenever anybody speaks against ur believe their is no way that u won react.That’s the truth bt we react in different ways.
Islam is a foolish gutter practice
Am tired of them, islam doesn’t teach such
Simon Joash you haven’t told us that you even went ahead to insult your yoruba friends, his religion and his prophet. You are telling us how peaceful you people live together. Your people in the north have refused to respect what their host community believed in and that is where the problem lies. Is high time your pastors started preaching to respect people’s believed as jesus did not also ask you to do that in his favour.
atrocities that are commited that are not in the name of Christ, we should get d difference pls. When someone bear Yusuf and cannot recite quoran but killed in d name of Allah or shout Allah kubar before killing because dey blasphemy mohammed, what will u call it? If a Christian commit crime in the name of Christ people will accuse Christianity so get it right.
There’s a plan to islamise the country , if not why all these killings in d name religion without any reaction from the government?
This is an unfortunate events! This seems to be ignorant in the acts! R I P
read what one said again, Abdulfatai Otaru Idris Wat are u saying dat we should flight for God ? Believe Hausa man did not have religion becus dey behave like animal . God will punish all d Hausa man who did not teach dia children wel
Hello One Nigeria.
NO WONDER,IT IS HAS BEEN PROPHESIED.GEN 16vs 12. THEREFORE THEY MUST EXHIBT THAT CHARACTER
This is heartless
This Muslims are something else…may God have mercy on you people…like they are righteous ..when there are thieves liars amongst them…very wicked souls…how would u kill people?? Are you God? ? Can you create?? Are you without sin?? Murders using religion to cover up…who are you to judge when u can die the next minute …people don’t think before doing things …illiterates..Please they should just divide us abeg. .”biaffra” just tired of this Muslims killing Christians in the name of religion. Are you Muhammed..shebi they where blaspheming? ? Can’t your Muhammed judge by him self?? Is he weak?? Did he send you?? Am just speechless?? ..We don’t even need to kill ..Our God will fight for us …99days for the thieves one day for the owner…am just tired of all this deaths up and down
Its the religion of peace..
Thay will never caution their people to stop the insult. If I go to onitsha now to insult the Obi of Onitsha, I bet you I will not come back alive. But they will never tell the truth.
Banie Micheal Episode get more education b4 you make conclusion , I believe you are imagining only ryt?
Mona Briese ignorance is still within the minds of Africans, we need to understand the purpose of lives, rather than purely believing in missionaries .
Juat the same the northerners condemn the killings of thieves that steal ordinary handset. So it’s two different things in two different communities. When you go to north, respect what they believe in and let there be peace.
Fareedah Bello, Tosin Lawrence, Qaseem Shafee’u, Abdi Fatah Mohamed. Make thunder fire una, idiotic elements. Murderers like you. You take joy in wasting a fellow human all in the name of religion.
And I will say it again make thunder fire una Mohammed, sex award winner(SAW).
What kind of religion that allow a man take another mans life. God forbid u people.
What a wicked and heartless set of people.
U kill for Mohammed, that’s means he is powerless.
Useless set of murderers.
when will xtians and Muslims in this country respect each other?
No Muslim should open his mouth and support this evil being done in the name of their religion! There is no justification for killing people in the name of religion and you Muslims are doing it again and again. Muslim countries are the most backward countries in the whole world! Your allah is a wicked god! I said it, so come and cut off my head! Idiots!!
@ Shehu read dis, it is enough for u to know d difference. @ addullahi…………..i am a muslim and nobody can fight for God except Himself………………….your brothers in hausas are killer cos which day did you hear on tv or radio that yoruba muslim kill cos of blastphemy. you no get sense as your brother…………….i am a muslim and i will never kill human being like me cos what ever you do , God is watching……..hell await all of you cos Allah will denied your act
Why don’t you turn around and insult your father because you have freedom of speech? You went to school but, unfortunately you’re not educated. Your freedom ends where my own start.
@Ejim I dont talk with biased and irrational people like u.Contacdicting myself where? If u dont understant my view on the matter,let me say it in a clear term to,if u ar open-minded person that we should call a shade,a shade without sentiment
Ahmir Hussain no it’s not ignorance it’s the truth! The Arabs along the eastern coast of African TRADED slaves way before the Europeans.