medamillion:
I have watched with sadness how most of the Christians and Muslims have allowed themselves to be brainwashed and set against eachother all in the name of religion.
Many christians now see Islam and muslims as not only enemies to themselves but the world. Most muslims have also seen Christians as their enemies on on the other hand.

Neither christianity nor Islam advocates violence, both religion preach peace.
BUT
Where does the problem lies?

This act of religious discrimination and hatred have influenced most people even in making decisions in life.

Many Christians will not vote Buhari not because they perceive him of being incompetent to rule Nigeria but naturally because he is a muslim.
While many Muslims will not vote Jonathan all because he is a Christian not because he is actually clueless as they say.

Many employers of labour would rather employ an unqualified person than to employ that guy who is not their religion mate.

Why the madness?

Based my personal observation, I see that the burden is on Islam at this critical time, and as most christians would always say "Islam is evil; Muslims are terrorists".
Thus, I shall focus my articule on enlightening the christians in order to change their negative impression.

There are some verses in the Quran and in the Bible that talks about violence, but most of those who do not really understand these verses are those who perpetrate evil and make reference to them.
These people are called EXTREMIST.

Now the question is:

Is there nothing like terrorism in christianity?
Does any verse of the bible talks about violence just like the Quran?
Do we also have christian terrorist organisation as we have the muslim's? Grab your popcorn, have some drinks and read patiently.

What is terrorism?
According to wikipedia:
Terrorism is commonly defined as violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror), perpetrated for a religious, political, or ideological goal, and which deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (e.g., neutral military personnel or civilians)

Christian Terrorist Organisation:
I would have loved to give you line by line analyses on each group but that is not the purpose of this thread, you can read about them through google.
1)National Liberation Front of Tripura
2)Antibalaka
3)The Aryan Nations
4)The Christian Identity Movement
5)The Orange Volunteers
6)Catholic Reaction Force/Protestant Action Force etc

Christian Terrorists:
1) Joseph Kony:
He is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group which used to operate in Uganda. Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and has been considered by some as a cult of personality, and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom.
Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.

Others (you can read about them through google).
#The founder of the Aryan Nations:
Wesley Swift
#The founder Antibalaka Group
Levy Yakete

Biblical verses on violence:

Kill Nonbelievers
    They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.  (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
 
Kill False Prophets
    If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord."  When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through.  (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)

Others 
"And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:35-38)

President Obama on Terrorism:

“Our campaign to prevent people around the world from being radicalized to violence is ultimately a battle for hearts and minds,”“But we know that many Muslim Americans across our country are worried and afraid,” Obama wrote. “Americans of all faiths and backgrounds must continue to stand united with a community in mourning.”

"we know that many Muslim Americans across our country are worried and afraid,” Obama wrote.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/obama-muslims-op-ed-la-times-115282.html

Why we should blame President Jonathan for Nigeria's terrorism, not religion?

BokoHaram started developing like a baby in the womb, the woman all already knows he had this baby as early as 2 months but never made any preparation until the 9th month.

President Jonathan's insensitivity and soft handedness in tackling the menace of BokoHaram at its early stage has cost Nigeria the lives of thousands of innocent citizens.
When he was supposed to have acted the way he is doing now (in 6 weeks to election) he said and I quote:
"Boko Haram is a local terror group".
"Boko Haram are our sibling and you can't send the army to kill your family"

Now, when it is too late he said:"I underestimated BokoHaram.

Now the question is
Can the lost soul be brought back?
Can the innocent girls kidnapped by BokoHaram regain their normalcy even if eventually they are rescued? Over 300 days in the jungle (just imagine)

Most countries in the world are also experiencing the menace called terrorism, but if their leaders had acted the way President Jonathan handled BokoHaram, what do you think would have happened?

The purpose of this thread;

Every statement put down on this thread are based on my personal research.
I created this thread in order to correct the bad impression we have against eachother as christians and muslims.

All the christian-related terrorism reference are not to say christianity is evil or a bad religion, but to let everyone know that both Christianoty and Islam advocate peace. It is some extremists who have misunderstood some verses in the Bible and Quran who make them look as "evil".

Lastly: Do not vote for an individual based on religion or tribal differences, but for the future of Nigeria.

My plead:
Please moderator let's have this on the frontpage to pass the peace message to both christian and muslim brotherhood.

GOD bless Nigeria
#medamillion.

knuckbuck:
[b]OP, why are you putting the blame of Boko Haram solely at the feet of Jonathan?
What is the role of the religious leaders in the North where it started?
What are the role of the Northern elders where it started and where it is still in existence?
What are the roles of the Northern Emirs?
What role did the Governors of the affected states play?
When the Nigerian Government faced Boko Haram with extreme force under the military leadership of Ihejerika, why did the North, opposition leaders run to Amnesty international with cooked up satellite imagery claiming the military were fighting the North?
What role did the opposition party play to help fight the terrorst organisation before now?
What role did the opposition leaders play?
What role did the ruling party and their leaders play?
What role did the community harboring the Boko Haram terrorist play?
What role did the religion that Boko Haram associate itself with play?

It is easier to trade blames. That is what got us down this horrible road in the first place.

These are some questions I want the OP to answer before putting the blame squarely at the feet of Goodluck Jonathan.
Nigeria belongs to everyone both those in leadership, opposition, populace and even the unborn children.[/b]

mycar:
Not only that of Nigeria, the whole world. Blame him for bringing islam to Nigeria, No, to the whole world.


Yes, blame him for the then sharia crises, why was there no sharia agitation in the SW then? Another food for thought!

Opposition is behind every bad thing happening in this country. Will hit in the bush and come outside to question who that was.

And each time one comes online to get updated, there must be one slowpoke here spewing rubbish even when you think that there is no slowpoke of a moderator that would place such trash on the front page. the next thing you see is the trash on there and one will begin to wonder how such made it there and when intellectuals turned into imbeciles.
Still thinking . . . . . . . . .

buharisambisada:
[b][/b][size=18pt][/size]Another foolish statement where were you when Atiku threatened the cooperate existence of tnis nation when he loosed the PDP primaries to PGEJ? Where were you when GEJ said he wanted to declare full state of emergency on the affected regions and the leaders of those regions refused and promised to talk to themselves and get their act together yet they still went on killing Christians and destroying businesses owned by the igbos, what crap is this person writing only a blind man that would not blame Atiku, Buhari for terrorism in Nigeria.

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IyfeNamikaze:


whether you like it or not , Islam is synonymous to terrorism. let us blame GEJ for isis , al shaabab, Taliban and al qaeda. let us blame him for sharia law.

you say he should take full responsibility for the bokoharam menace, true... and when he did what happened? a certain Buhari declared that "an attack on bokoharam is an attack on the north ". the northern elders threatened to take the Fg to ICC... so the Fg took their feet off the pedal and watched them foolishly destroy themselves.

Rawani:
The triple facts that Jonathan is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, swore to protect the lives and properties of his citizens, and is in possession and control of the weapons and resources for war, suck away most arguments that his apologists muster in his defence.

Jonathan clearly allowed BH to fester for political and financial gain. The unfortunate effect this had apart from the lives and property lost, was the destruction of the moral fibre, and battle morale of our armed forces.

The several reports we have had from our former allies who originally intended to help us fight the insurgents, all implicate the NA & Jonathan for either lacking the political will to fight, or sabotaging genuine efforts as we saw with the gas mask debacle.

I strongly believe that the source and promoters of this insurgency will remain veiled as long as this administration remains in power, as the current fight seems insincere and a ploy to win the hearts of disappointed Nigerians before the elections.

Nothing remains hidden under the sun forever, our hope is that the insurgency is completely destroyed before ISIS upgrades their operations as a product of their recent merger.

We must however look ahead. The question is, can Jonathan who failed to defeat or even manage BH for 6 years, contain ISIS in 4 years?

We need change.

ardeks:
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Canme4u:
Nice Write up.

gratiaeo:
Op your foolishness is legendary. No govt in the world can stop terrorism without support of the locals. How do you expect Mr president to stop a certain Adamu from yobe state from blowing himself up in a public place with explosive? North are their own worst enemy, why not also blame PGEJ for northern educational backwardness

medamillion:

I have tried hard not to insult anyone but people like you will not allow me.
Your problem is that you read with your brain leaking from the North, South, and East of your head.
You are deluded in psychosis and absurdity.

Which part of my writeup said GEJ can fight the war all alone?
The problem is that he didn't rise up to the challenges on time. He was insesitive to their impending menace until they have killed many innocent Nigerians, he waited up until this crucial time when he needs their votes before he woke up from slumber, he didn't take the right step at the right time.

In his own words, he said he underestimated BokoHaram.He called them local terror group

The president you are defending was informed that young girls were kidnapped in the North, he termed it "propaganda", he waited until 72 hours before he finally agreed it was true.

Call a spade a spade GEJ is a failure; stop being a twerp

gratiaeo:

Stop exhibiting your almajiri mentality