Source of info: CNN
Jos, Nigeria (CNN) — A string of bombs struck churches in five Nigerian cities Sunday, leaving dozens dead and wounded on the holiday, authorities and witnesses said.
The blasts mark the second holiday season that bombs have hit Christian houses of worship in the west African nation. In a statement issued late Tuesday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called the bombings “a dastardly act that must attract the rebuke of all peace-loving Nigerians.”
“These acts of violence against innocent citizens are an unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom,” Jonathan said. “Nigerians must stand as one to condemn them.”
Bombs targeted churches across the country, hitting the cities of Madalla, Jos, Kano, and Damaturu and Gadaka, said journalist Hassan John, who witnessed the carnage in Jos. The death toll in Madalla alone was 16, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib told CNN.
Rafiq A. Tschannen
Some times Muslims are accused that they do not protest sufficiently when so-called ‘Islamists’ perform such terror attacks. OK, they have a point. But the reasons for not protesting each and every such attack are many. First of all we do not really feel that it has anything to do with us, because, of course, terror is the farthest from our own minds. Secondly however also ‘what can we say’ (again and again). These attacks are so stupid, so in-understandable, that we really lack words. How can any sane person even think of attacking unarmed civilians and worshipers at that?