Boko Haram not the only Islamic threat to Nigerian Christians
July 01, 2015
Boko Haram is not the only threat to Christians in Nigeria, a priest in the Kaduna archdiocese told Aid to the Church in Need. Other radical Islamic groups have also threatened attacks on Christians.
Father Elias Kabuk reported that his church and rectory were set on fire in 2011 during a spasm of violence following presidential elections. “The head of a priest was worth a lot,” he recalled, in the days following the election of Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian.
The election of President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim, in March, did not produce similar violence. But tensions between Christians and Muslims remain high, Father Kabuk said.
The most active terrorist group in Nigeria, Boko Haram, draws its name from the phrase: “Western education is sinful.” Archbishop Matthew N'dagoso of Kaduna told Aid to the Church in Need that the Islamic radicals look upon the corruption of the nation’s leaders, notice that most of them were educated in Western schools, and conclude that the education caused the corruption. The archbishop observed that this logic is faulty: “It is power that corrupts people, not education.”
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