7/29/13 Nigeria’s Christians Plead for Help Against Islamist Onslaught

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Source: Investigative Project on Terrorism

by Andrew E. Harrod
Special to IPT News
July 29, 2013

“We are in the vineyard of Allah,”Abubaker Schekau, the leader of the Nigerian Islamist terrorist organizationJama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (“People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”) has stated. Nigerian PastorAyo Oritsejafor, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) representing a claimed 80 million Nigerian Christians, quoted Schekau during the second of two successive briefings last Thursday at the Rayburn House Office Building and theNational Press Club. The chilling accounts of today’s Nigeria facing Islamist terror by Oritsejafor and his associates gave rise to a cry for American help.

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