Dear all,

THIS THREAD WOULD BE UPDATED CONTINUOSLY ON THE VIOLENCE,RACISM,RITUAL KILLINGS,ARMED ROBBERY,AND ALL CRIMES,ATTROCITIES AND KILLINGS DONE BY "TURN-THE-OTHER-CHEEK" PRETENDERS AKA CHRISTIANS.

please report all the crimes and illegal actions done by Christians worldwide in this thread.

Christian terrorist in Norway kills more than 90:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-726746.0.html


Nigerian (member of nairaland) shot dead by christian in USA:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-588191.96.html


Nigerian shot dead by racist christians in the UK:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-730648.0.html


Christian hooligans in the UK riot and burn cities and cause mayhem:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-732120.0.html


Pastors commit unthinkable and lewd crimes:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-731160.0.html


Pastor in Ghana fingers women while "praying" for them:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-723556.0.html


German priest burns himself to death to protest spread of Islam:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-551584.0.html

the above are but few of the attrocities committed by christians.the above do not include the many wars and suffering and exploitations christians have perpetuated.

A British riot policeman stands guard in front of a burning building and burnt out car in Croydon, South London on August 8, 2011. Now in it's third night of unrest, London has seen sporadic outbreaks of looting and clashes both north and south of the river Thames. Numerous buildings were set on fire in Croydon including a 140 year old furniture store as hundreds of looters plundered high street shops of their goods. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)
Published: 08/09/2011 08:11 am
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/includes/modules/photo_stream/index.html?event=120792132#ixzz1Ugser900

More images from the London violence:

@Frosbel; The people are making the city into an inferno.

Conflict Monitoring Centre’s latest report ~ CIA has killed at least 443 people via 51 drone attacks so far this year in Pakistan!

http://truthaholics./2011/08/10/%e2%80%8e-conflict-monitoring-centres-latest-report-cia-has-killed-at-least-443-people-via-51-drone-attacks-so-far-this-year-in-pakistan/

Assemblyman’s Vehicle Is Hit by Gunfire in Brooklyn, but He Is Unharmed
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and SARAH MASLIN NIR
Published: August 11, 2011

A sport utility vehicle driven by Assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr. was hit by gunfire in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening as he rode with his 7-year-old son, a police spokeswoman said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/nyregion/gunshots-hit-vehicle-of-assemblyman-william-boyland-jr.html

Kidnapping: Nnewi natives petition Jonathan, Army Chief, IGP

Businesses were grounded yesterday, in Nnewi, as stakeholders in the commercial city petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, the Chief of Army Staff and Inspector General of Police to come to their aide over current cases of kidnapping in the town.

As early as 7am yesterday morning, lawyers, medical doctors, bank staff operating in the city, and traders including some elders of Nnewi community, gathered to close down the Nkwo Nnewi market to protest the kidnappings of their members.

Addressing the large crowd at the gate of the closed Nnewi Main Market, Chairman of Nnewi Market Traders Association, Chief Gozie Akudolu, disclosed that since the wave of kidnapping began, about 68 major importers and manufacturers in the area had been kidnapped.

Nigerian Bar Association, represented by its Secretary General, Mr. Joseph Okeke, noted that about 15 persons were being kidnapped in Nnewi on daily basis, adding that all the hoodlums chased out of Aba, Abia State had relocated to Nnewi, pointing out that until the same intervention that happened in Aba was extended to Nnewi, things would not be the same again.

In his words: “Nnewi is closing down entirely; we are proposing that Anti Terrorist Squad, a separate entity aside from the police and military be set up by the president to tackle this situation.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/aug/11/national-11-08-2011-011.html

This is anarchy, where is Bishop Frosbel

How many DEAD

^^^

so you mean Christianity condones violence as long as people do not die?
Shakes head in disappointment.

What do u aim to achieve with this thread op?

stupid question

toba:

What do u aim to achieve with this thread op?

good question!

the same purpose the below thread is aimed for:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-728509.0.html

AIRDIG:

silly question

LagosShia:

good question!

the same purpose the below thread is aimed for:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-728509.0.html

Really? Meaning the sole aim of this thread isn't to educate us rather than as a reprisal? Now i know there exist some similarities between some Muslims and most Nl atheists whose main aim here is just to overzealously attack Christians, religionist and the existence of God.

SMDH

^^ The way toba is slow, he needs retaliation before education.

SMDH . what will retaliation over this faceless forum earn me? Money, promotion or what?

toba:

Really? Meaning the sole aim of this thread isn't to educate us rather than as a reprisal? Now i know there exist some similarities between some Muslims and most Nl atheists whose main aim here is just to overzealously attack Christians, religionist and the existence of God.

SMDH

i dont know how you concluded its a "reprisal".two things having the same purpose does not make the latter a "reprisal".it is to enlighten people and not only to educate them.

LagosShia:

i dont know how you concluded its a "reprisal".two things having the same purpose does not make the latter a "reprisal".it is to enlighten people and not only to educate them.

No sir,U are missing something. u stated something different earlier.

LagosShia:

good question!

the same purpose the below thread is aimed for:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-728509.0.html

Except u want me to believe that the link u ur post above was also meant to educate muslims

toba:

No sir,U are missing something. u stated something different earlier.

Except u want me to believe that the link u your post above was also meant to educate muslims

yes,as supposed by the OP of the other thread,he thinks he too is educating people.people will decide who is really rendering a helping hand here and giving the right education.

brother,if you dont like this thread,no one is forcing you to contribute to it.
dont argue the thread,argue the statements made herein.

this thread will continue for what it was created for.

Christianity and Violence

It's rather ironic that a religion which so publicly proclaims Absolute Love as its basis should, over the course of history, spawn so much unmitigated hatred and violence. Is it simply that Christianity is a failure in inspiring better conduct from otherwise hopelessly evil human beings, or is there some aspect of Christianity which in fact encourages or promotes some of the baser aspects of human behavior? Perhaps it is a bit of both.

Concern about rampant violence has become ever more central in public discussions in America recently, especially where it involves the nation's youth. Recent incidents of brutal and deadly attacks by children against children have prompted an intense debate as to the cause and solutions for what is perceived as degenerating culture. It is rather ironic that the increase in attention happens at a time when actual incidents of violence are decreasing. Not only are the general statistics of violence showing a dramatic decrease with increasing rates of decrease, but even violence against children is decreasing.

But it is a truism that exceptional cases make for bad law and bad legal precedents. Following along in parallel, the exceptional cases of youth violence are being used by opportunistic politicians and religious leaders to create genuinely bad laws. Simple people are searching for simple causes and simple solutions.

The simplest among them immediately claim that the cause for youth violence must be the lack of government supported religion in children's lives, so their natural conclusion is that our government should increase its involvement with religion. And not just any religion - Christianity is the first and usually only choice. Practical policy suggestions include daily prayers, bible readings, and the ever popular posting of the Ten Commandments.

It would perhaps be unacceptable in some circles to point out the fact that in many European countries, religion plays an even smaller role in people's lives than it does in America - yet levels of violence are lower than here. Were a lack of religion any sort of cause of violence, then we would find higher amounts of violence in countries like Germany rather than Ireland, where both religion and violence have been prominent in daily life.

Facts like this must lead any rational person to treat claim of religion as a solution to our ills - real or perceived - with real skepticism. Religion has in fact done even more to promote base inhumanity when it has become wedded to ruling political powers. It has been a common pattern throughout human history that wherever religious dogmas have gained worldly power, violence was abetted rather than stopped. Even if a person were to successfully argue that none of the violence was caused by religion, the fact would remain that religion not only failed to stop it, but has actually served as a useful tool for those perpetuating it.

Is Christianity only a religion of Peace and Love? I do not think that anyone can honestly and objectively examine American or European history and answer "yes" to that question. Christianity can encourage Peace and Love - but it certainly need not, and it quite often has done just the opposite. Although the people responsible for violence might have found a way to express their hatred without Christianity, it cannot be ignored that Christianity offers a convenient divine mandate for hatred and violent acts against a wide range of people.

As a reference for those who find that it is sometimes necessary to education others about the history of violence associated with Christianity, below is a list of links to various eras and incidents. In each case, religion has served as a principle catalyst for the violence or has, at the very least, assisted in justifying and perpetuating that violence.

Christian Violence: Early History

Violent inclinations in Christianity are apparent right from the beginning. Jesus is traditionally portrayed as a kind and loving teacher, such that even non-Christians often have an idealized image of him. However, not all of what he reportedly said or did fits within such a characterization - and some of what he did certainly doesn't reflect the better teachings he is supposed to have promoted. For example, he was quite explicit in his condemnation of those who would not follow his teachings, saying to his disciples: "And if any one will not receive you in your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. Truly, I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town." (Matt. 10:14-15).

If Jesus and God have so little regard for nonbelievers, why should any of their followers? If Jesus can relegate nonbelievers to an eternity of torment, why should they expect higher standards from his followers here? In fact, nonbelievers did not fare any better after Christianity gained official support from the Roman Empire. Despite having been on the receiving end of persecution for many years, Christians refused to take any moral high ground and quickly proceeded to treat pagans with as much contempt and violence as they previously experienced.

Despite the fact that forgiveness is supposed to be a central aspect of Christian theology, Jesus was clear that not everyone could be forgiven: ", whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness and is guilty of an eternal sin." (Mark 3:29) If someone considers another person to have committed such an act, they would not need to take their feelings very far into account - after all, if Jesus will not forgive that person, why should anyone else? As we will see, Christians certainly did not act in a forgiving manner to the pagans whom they had in their control.

Chrstianity and Violence: Modern America

Although one might imagine that the violence of Christianity would be relegated to the distant past, that hasn't been the case. The course of modernity has been one strewn with blood, bones, and bodies - much of which can be attributed to Christianity.

This isn't simply a matter of attributing violence to individual Christians who may or may not have been following their own ideals. Attributing violence to Christianity itself means that the violence must somehow stem more-or-less directly from Christian doctrines and Christian ideas. That is exactly what we see happen during the religious wars of the Reformation, the treatment of witches, and even Northern Ireland.

Reformation
The Reformation was supposed to restore a more original and more pure form of Christianity. One of the results was the death of millions upon millions of Europeans during decades almost unprecedented religious violence.

Witches
Witches have long been feared and hated in Christian circles. Even today, pagans and Wiccans remain a target of Christian persecution and violence - even in America. It seems that they long ago took on an identity which reached far beyond their own existence and became a symbol for Christians - but a symbol of what?

Holocaust
Was the Nazi Holocaust religious or was it secular? A bit of both, actually. Nazi oppression and massacres against political opponents and gypsies were obviously secular in nature - but the determination to exterminate the Jews from the face of the earth cannot possibly be understood without the background of centuries of persistent and violent Christian anti-semitism, generally encouraged by religious authorities.

Northern Ireland
The terrible combination of nationalism, politics and religion has had deadly consequences for the people living in Northern Ireland. Catholics and Protestants have been vilifying, attacking, torturing and killing each other in a seemingly endless cycle. What role does Christianity play in all of this violence?

Chrstianity and Violence: Modern America

America in the 20th century has suffered from many violent incidents which can be traced back to Christianity. Some have been organized, others not so organized, but all the result of specifically violent or dangerous doctrines promoted in Christian churches. Often the hatred and violence circles around particular issues, like homosexuality or abortion

Is Christianity only a religion of Peace and Love? I do not think that anyone can honestly and objectively examine these situations in American society and answer "yes" to that question. Christianity can encourage Peace and Love - but it certainly need not, and it quite often has done just the opposite.

Although the people responsible for violence might have found a way to express their hatred without Christianity, it cannot be ignored that Christianity offers a convenient divine mandate for hatred and violent acts against a wide range of people in our diverse country. Christians are going to have to seriously rethink and revamp their faith if they are going to join in building a prosperous, pluralistic America of the future.

Bible Wars
One sad bit of American and Christian history which few (if any) manage to learn about are the "Bible Wars" between Catholics and Protestants in the latter half of the 19th century. This is especially unfortunate because is remarkably resembles some of the issues which face us today with regards to having religion in public school. If it could lead to violence and death then, we should be wary today.

Jonesboro & Paducah
Commentary on the school violence which occurred in Jonesboro and Paducah. Would more religion in the schools have prevented the violent outbursts, as some religious leaders claim?

Christianity & Homosexuality
The first thing to look at is the nature of the rhetoric and propaganda which is disseminated by "good Christians" in America when addressing this and similar issues. Senator Trent Lott has openly compared homosexuals with thieves, expressing the fundamental assumption that homosexuality is essentially criminal in nature and deserving of similar treatment.

Christianity & Abortion
Government officials in both Canada and the United States have issued warnings to abortion doctors to take extra precautions. Anti-abortion extremists in Britain have warned the public that there "will be casualties" in the coming war, and that they did not intend to "turn the other cheek." As the anti-abortion rhetoric has increased over the years, so has the anti-abortion violence - property is destroyed, people are killed, and women are denied access to medical care.

Christianity & Wiccans
Do prejudice and discrimination against Wiccans exist in America? Absolutely - although those who engage in it are among the last to be willing to admit it. Wicca, in case you weren't aware, comes from the Old English word for "witch" and is a religion which celebrates seasonal- and life-cycles using rituals dating from pre-Christian Europe.

Christian Cults
No account of Christian violence in America would be complete without including some of the acts perpetrated by small groups usually known as "cults." I deplore stereotyping of cults - something which is perhaps most common among Christian apologists. But although "cults" are no more likely to be violent or neurotic than traditional religions, the fact remains that some very famous and very public incidents of violence have occurred with so-called cults.

Published on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 by the Toronto Star


[size=14pt]Who's Taking Blame for Christian Violence?[/size]

by Calvin White

Now that imams in Britain and Canada are standing up and publicly condemning terrorist acts as anti-Muslim and against the teachings in the Qur'an, I wonder if pressure might be put on Christian leaders to take a similar stand.

Contrary to what some might like to insist, Christianity is not the religion of "an eye for an eye" but it is the religion of Jesus, who refined those earlier directions and distilled the ten commandments into two. One was to "love thy neighbor as thyself." Pretty definitive isn't it? As is the edict of turning the other cheek.

Jesus expected to be betrayed. He expected to be arrested by the authorities. There was no exhortations to prepare for battle. There was no bloody attempt to stop the proceedings.

Even as Jesus was brutalized while carrying his own crucifixion cross and being nailed onto the timbers, there was no violent counterforce from his disciples. Not even an outcry.

No matter where one reads in the accounts of Jesus, the only conclusion one can come to is that Jesus was about love.

So where are the Christian leaders when it comes to violent actions by our Western leaders? Where are the televangelists, who every Sunday take over the airwaves to trumpet the message of Jesus, when it comes to taking on bunker busting bombs and mass carnage?

Where are they when it comes to the death penalty prevalent in the majority of American states?

When President George Bush insists that billions of dollars need to continue flowing to the war effort in Iraq which leads to more American body bags and Iraqi graves, why is there no outcry? Why don't the Christian leaders stand up and challenge those decisions, and passionately assert that Jesus would have sought another way of solving the problems?

In this time when Christianity is on the rise all over America, when there is a growing surge in extolling Christian values, why is it that when the born-again Bush says it's better to fight "them" over there than on American soil, no concerted group of leaders stands up and yells that he's got it wrong?

Like Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is also born again.

Yet, their combined leadership has been responsible for excruciating death and injury to innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.

They both claim a righteousness in their policies of destruction. They were even counseled by their secular allies not to resort to the carnage. Where was the equal pressure from the Christian leadership?

Interesting, isn't it, that Muslim fanatics use the idea of holy jihad and rewards in paradise to recruit their dupes into terrible acts of destruction, and in Christian circles there is the solemn assembling for prayer and seeking of blessings for the troops and leaders in their mission of war.

Interesting, isn't it, that polling clearly indicates the Christian right in America is emphatically against bad language on TV and in the movies, horrified by Janet Jackson's bare unmentionable � but drawn with considerable relish to violence in the same media.

The additional galling irony of Jesus being emblazoned on the foreheads of those in command of the sharpest swords is that Jesus was also all about intelligence. He was all about deeper understanding, about using insight and keenness of mind to solve problems. Think of how the Pharisees tried to trick him by holding up different sections of the law to trip him up.

His disciples picking corn, for instance, and thus working, on the Sabbath. Jesus answered that the Sabbath was for man and not the other way around. There was the adulteress brought before him to be stoned; he responded that any without sin might cast the first stone.

What kind of insight have Bush and Blair employed? What intelligence, what deeper understanding is demonstrated by the tactic of blast and shoot with as much technologically advanced weaponry as is available?

What compassion, what recognition of common humanity is shown when the biggest concern is how to pad the soldiers with as much body Kevlar and the humvees with as much armour as possible so they can kill all the easier without casualties � and thus retain the support of the home front.

How do our current religious leaders think Jesus would react to the concept of collateral damage?

Calvin White is a freelance commentator and poet who lives in British Columbia.

Christian Violence in History

The horrible truth is that, numerically and statistically speaking, Christian Civilization is the bloodiest and most violent of all civilizations in all of history,
and is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths. Even so, Muslims will never associate this violence and blood bath with the teachings of Jesus (peace be on him).


1.)Saint Augustine’s cognite intrare (“lead them in”—i.e. “force them to convert”).

In fact the Qur’an says the exact opposite: There is no compulsion in religion ( 2:256 ).
Augustine’s frightening idea that all must be compelled to “conform” to the “true Christian faith” has unleashed centuries of unparalleled bloodshed.
Indeed, Christians have suffered more under the rule of Christian civilization than under pre- Christian Roman rule or any other rule in history.


Millions were tortured and slaughtered in the name of Christianity during the periods of the Arian, Donatist and Albigensian heresies



2.) The Crusades
The European armies were saying, as they slaughtered both Christian and Muslim Arabs: “Kill them all, God will know his own.”



3.)Europe's Reformation and Counter Reformation Era
Two thirds of the Christian population of Europe was slaughtered by Christians.



4.)The African slave trade
Claimed the lives of 10 million


5.) The Colonial Conquests
Estimates for the number of Native Americans slaughtered by the Europeans in North, Central and South America run as high as 20 million within three generations.


6.) The 20 th century's Western Civilization took warfare to new extremes
A conservative estimate puts the total number of brutal deaths in the 20 th century at more than 250 million.
Of these, Muslims are responsible for less than 10 million deaths. Christians, or those coming from Christian backgrounds account for more than 200 million of these!
The greatest death totals come from World War I (about 20 million, at least 90 % of which were inflicted by “Christians”) and World War II ( 90 million, at least 50%
of which were inflicted by “Christians,” the majority of the rest occurring in the Far East). Given this grim history, it appears that we Europeans must all come to
grips with the fact that Islamic civilization has actually been incomparably less brutal than Christian civilization.
Did the Holocaust of over 6 million Jews occur out of the background of a Muslim Civilization?


7.)In the 20th century alone
Western and/or Christian powers have been responsible for at least twenty times more deaths than have Muslim powers.
In this most brutal of centuries, we created incomparably more civilian casualties than have Muslims in the whole of Islamic history.

8.)In the 20th century, Rwanda, 1994
Witness the slaughter of 900,000 Rwandans in 1994 in a population that was over 90 % Christian

9.)1992-1995 Bosnia
The genocide of over 300,000 Muslims and systematic violation of over 100,000 Muslim women by Christian Serbs


10.)Western popular culture
It should also be mentioned that although Islam has the concept of legitimate war in self-defense (as does Christianity, and even Buddhism),
nowhere in Islamic culture (or in other cultures that survive today) is there latent the idealization, and perhaps idolization, of violence that exists in
Western Culture. Westerners think of themselves as peaceful, but in fact the gentleness and sublimity of the New Testament, and the peace-loving nature of the
principles of democracy, are scarcely reflected in Western popular culture. Rather, the entire inclination of popular culture— Hollywood movies, Western television,
video games, popular music and sports entertainment—is to glorify and inculcate violence. Accordingly, the relative rates of murder (especially random and serial
murder) are higher in the Western World (particularly in the U.S., but even in Europe, taken as a whole) than they are in the Islamic world in counties that are not
suffering civil wars, and this true despite the much greater wealth of the West.

http://www.islam101.com/terror/christianViolence.htm

[size=18pt]Christian TV Violence Gets Man 90 Days in Jail[/size]

Updated: Thursday, 11 Aug 2011, 2:17 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 11 Aug 2011, 2:05 PM CDT

by Leif Knutson / FOX 9 News

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Roseville, Minn. man was sentenced Thursday in Ramsey County Court for a charge of Malicious Punishment of a Child after whipping his children for changing the TV channel from Christian programming in April.

Stanley Chukwudi Ogbonna had one of two charges of Malicious Punishment of a Child dropped. He plead guilty on the remaining count, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail. 89 days of that are stayed assuming he doesn’t violate his 12-month probation, pays a $100 fine and takes anger management and parenting classes.

In the criminal complaint, Ogbonna admitted grabbing a cord and striking his 10-year-old daughter in the head and neck.

The man's 8-year-old son told an investigator his father beat him nearly every day. Early examinations at Children's Hospital in St. Paul showed marks on both children.

Read more: Christian TV Violence Gets Man 90 Days in Jail http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/chrsitian-tv-violence-aug-11-2011#ixzz1V1B476A6

[size=18pt]Tenerife: British woman beheaded in attack in Canaries[/size]
13 May 2011 Last updated at 16:23 GMT


A British woman has been beheaded in a shop in Spain's Canary Islands, officials say.

Spanish media said a homeless Bulgarian man had been arrested in the town of Los Cristianos.

Witnesses said a man entered a Chinese supermarket in a shopping centre and stabbed then beheaded the 62-year-old woman. He is said to have dropped the head outside before being tackled.

A local official said the man appeared to choose his victim at random.

Witnesses said the man entered the Chinese supermarket in Valdes Shopping Centre and attacked the woman without saying a word.

"Apparently this gentleman without any motive or any reason,  entered the shop and then cut this woman's neck and took the head in his hand outside," said local councillor Manuel Reveron.

A security guard then managed to wrestle the man to the ground, he said.

"I parked my car and saw a man running out with something bloody in his hands and a security guard chasing him," one witness was quoted as telling local radio.

"He threw it to the ground, it almost hit me and what he had been carrying was a woman's head."

In a video posted on YouTube, Colin Kirby of Tenerifemagazine.com said security guards held down the suspect until the police arrived.

"The security and the police had to hold people off - they were queuing up - they were trying basically to kick the hell out of the guy," he said.

Police sources told Spanish media the suspect had a police record.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13393694

LagosShia:

yes,as supposed by the OP of the other thread,he thinks he too is educating people.people will decide who is really rendering a helping hand here and giving the right education.

brother,if you dont like this thread,no one is forcing you to contribute to it.
dont argue the thread,argue the statements made herein.

this thread will continue for what it was created for.

Bro i have no issues with u or with ur thread. I just want u to clarify if u agree to the other thread being a means of educating the Muslims, just as u ve said u are 'educating' the Christians on this thread

[size=18pt]6 dead, 1 arrested in knife attack on British isle[/size]

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

, LONDON (AP) — A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of stabbing six people to death, including three children, on the British island of Jersey in what was the deadliest crime in the community's living memory, police said.

Neighbors said the victims were members of the same family. The dead, all Jersey residents, were a man, two women and three children, police said.

Some were stabbed inside their home, others outside the property, which is located on a relatively secluded side street. The 30-year-old suspect, who was not identified, also sustained unspecified injuries that were not life-threatening. Police said they were questioning him at his hospital bed.

Neighbors said they thought at least some of the victims were Polish. One witness, Andre Thorpe, said he saw police running around the property trying to gain access, then paramedics carrying a bloodied child from the scene.

Police Det. Superintendent Stewart Gull, who is leading the investigation, said his officers had yet to establish the victims' ages and the circumstances of the attack. He said the crime had shocked everyone.

"It goes without saying that when you are dealing with multiple deaths, of men and women and, in particular young children, you would be inhuman not to be shaken yourself," he said.

Violent crime is unusual and murder rare on Jersey, a British island dependency 14 miles (22 kilometers) west of France's Normandy peninsula. The largest of Britain's Channel Islands has a police force of 236 officers to protect about 92,500 residents, many of them tax exiles.

"Jersey is an incredibly safe island, probably one of the safest places in the Western world," Gull said.

Several police and Jersey media officials said they couldn't recall the last murder on the island. An Associated Press search found it occurred in March 2004, when a 19-year-old man originally from Northern Ireland tried to rape, then kicked to death, a 35-year-old nurse outside her home. It was the first murder in Jersey since the 1970s.

In their 2010 annual report, the Jersey police recorded 4,554 crimes, mostly theft and fraud. There were 83 physical assaults, 14 rapes and one kidnapping. No businesses were robbed. Three people were killed and 65 injured in car accidents.

http://news.yahoo.com/6-dead-1-arrested-knife-attack-british-isle-185534980.html

[size=18pt]Police: US man decapitated disabled son, 7[/size]

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

, NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man in the state of Louisiana is accused of bludgeoning, decapitating and dismembering his disabled 7-year-old son and leaving the boy's head near the street so the child's mother would see it — a killing that brought seasoned police officers to tears, authorities said Monday.

Jeremiah Lee Wright, 30, waived his right to an attorney and confessed to killing Jori Lirette within 30 minutes of being brought to the police station Sunday, Police Chief Scott Silverii said. He said Wright was booked with first-degree murder and held in lieu of $5 million bond.

He was in isolation, Silverii said during a Monday afternoon news conference. The department spokesman, Detective Ricky Ross, said he does not believe Wright has an attorney.

Flowers, balloons and stuffed animals were left Monday outside the house where Jori died.

"He was maybe the best thing that ever happened to me," his mother, Jesslyn Lirette, said at the news conference.

A preliminary autopsy found the boy was bludgeoned, decapitated and dismembered, Silverii said. Whatever hit him caused "excessive bleeding in the head," he said.

Silverii said the motive was unclear, though Wright told police "that he'd gotten to the point where he was tired of taking care" of the boy, who had cerebral palsy and heart problems, needed a feeding tube, had limited speech and was in a wheelchair.

"He said when he put his head out by the side of the road it was so the mother would see it when she came by," Silverii said. He said Wright's only explanation for doing so was "just that he wanted her to feel stupid when she saw the head."

The police chief said Jori's feet and one hand also were cut off, recovered with the body in several white plastic garbage bags.

The slaying was the first in Thibodaux since 2008.

Silverii said the boy apparently was decapitated over the kitchen sink, which was sent to the Louisiana State Police crime lab along with a box of tools found nearby. Wright told investigators he began killing the boy about 30 minutes after Lirette had left Sunday to repair her pickup truck so she could take Jori to a doctor on Tuesday.

Police had been called to the house last month when the couple had an argument — possibly about money — though neither person brought charges, Ross said. The police chief said Wright had been arrested a few times previously, though he was never charged with violent crimes. Wright served 10 days for theft in 2005.

Lirette, 27, told The Daily Comet of Thibodaux that she and Wright had been together for 10 years, but that she had planned for some time to leave him.

She said she cared for another disabled person to pay household bills and was still around to care for her son, who had been born three months premature, could say only a few words and weighed no more than 50 pounds (22 kilograms) when he died.

"He was my star. No matter what people think or say, he was always top priority in my life," Lirette said through tears during the news conference. "I've done everything I can for him."

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14 Killed in a Gale of Attacks in Jos


Fourteen persons were reportedly killed by yet-to-be-identified assailants in a fresh gale of violence that erupted in Jos, Plateau State, at the weekend.

This brings to at least 25 lives that have been lost in the city in the past few days, with the most recent of them being the killing of 11 persons on Sunday night in a simultaneous attack on Heipang and Korut villages of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state.

This also forced Governor Jonah Jang to cancel a one-week retreat at the Obudu Cattle Ranch planned for members of the State Executive Council.
But Chairman of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Hon. Emmanuel Lomang, who confirmed the killing of the 11 in Heipang and Korut, has pointed accusing fingers at some members of the armed forces.

He said: “Four military identity cards and a military cap were found at the scene of the attack,” adding that the natives were alleging that the soldiers were responsible.

Lomang also said: “The attackers began to shoot at about 12:30am to scare the villagers, and later attacked a house at Heipang, where the assailants macheted and killed seven members of the family of one Mr. Nnaji.”

Another victim, Mrs. Margaret Deme, whose husband, Deme, was gruesomely shot in her presence, while recounting her ordeal said: “Those who killed my husband came in black attires and were escorted by soldiers.”

She said when they knocked on their door, her husband who was in the village for the weekend, opened the door and was subsequently shot and killed, leaving her with five children to cater for.

When the assailants left, she further said, they went to their next door neighbours, where they met two brothers, Samuel and Adamu Gwom, and killed them also. Their mother, Ngo Chang, who was in tears, said: “Some wore army uniforms while others were in black attires.”
But the spokesman of the military Special Task Force (STF) on Jos crisis, Captain Charles Ekeocha, who also confirmed the attack, however said: “On August 11, there was an attack on Heipang area of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area. A house belonging to Mr. Nnaji, an Ibo, was attacked and seven members of the family were killed.

“My troops went to the area to repel the attack. In the process, the vigilantes in the area opened fire on our troops. In retaliation, one of the vigilantes with AK47 riffle and 30 rounds of 7.62mm (special) was shot. He later died on the way to the hospital and his remains have been deposited in a mortuary at Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).”
Ekeocha said the youths in the area staged a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of the troops from the area.
“In the process, the youths stoned our vehicles and ransacked the soldiers’ accommodations. To avoid more casualties, troops have been withdrawn to Mararaban-Jama’a area of Jos. However, the general area has been beefed up with troops of STF.”
The STF added that no arrests had been made.
Tension has again returned to the city as everyone has become mindful of where to go. Armoured tanks have been rolled out by the security operatives.

Meanwhile, Governor Jang has condemned the Sunday night’s attack on the “peaceful” communities of Heipang and Heipang in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state, “which left 11 people dead”, describing it as unprovoked.

In a press statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Yiljap Abraham, the governor has directed the commander of the STF, the state Commissioner of Police and the Coordinator of Operation Rainbow to take all operational steps to investigate and bring to justice “those who are bent on bringing grievous harm to the peaceful people of Plateau”.

The governor further said in the statement that: “Government has the will, capacity and unbreakable commitment to keep the hard-earned peace in the state and safeguard the security of the citizens. Nevertheless, communities are also advised against taking the laws into their hands in the face of such incidences, but are to work hand in hand with security forces.”

Reacting to the development, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr. Pam Ayuba, said government was making frantic efforts to unravel the brain behind the attacks, which he described as heart-rending.
He said Jang was “really pained” over the incident, as “a security meeting is on the way and the outcome would be made known”. He advised the people to give peace a chance.