June 10, 2016 – Pictures: Hausa Youths Attack Christian, Igbo Carpenter For Eating During Ramadan Fast In Kaduna, Victim Loses An Eye
A Christian carpenter has lost an eye in Kaduna state.
His offence: He decided to eat while Muslims were fasting in Kakuri area of Kaduna.
The victim identified as 41-year-old Francis Emmanuel got into trouble when some Muslim youths spotted him eating lunch around 2:30pm in Sokoto area of Kakuri yesterday.
He was beaten to stupor and stabbed with dangerous weapon.
He suffered deep cut to his head and other part of his body.
Hear what the victim told journalists yesterday:
“I went to buy wood to do some work. When I came back, I bought food to eat. As I was eating, about six Hausa boys came and asked me whether I was a Muslim or a Christian. I did not answer them. They asked me why I was not fasting. I told them that I am not a Muslim.
“Before I know it, one of them slapped me. As I stood up, the rest came and surrounded me and started attacking me with knives. I didn’t know them. Nobody could come to my aid because of the type of dangerous knives they were carrying.
“They used cutlasses, scissors and knives. I became unconscious; I don’t even know who brought me to the hospital.”
This needless attack happened barely a week after a Deeper Life Pastor’s wife Mr Bridget Agbahime was stabbed to death for not allowing a Muslim man to pray in front of her shop.
She was accused of speaking blasphemous things against Allah before she was hacked to death in front of her husband.
The carpenter who escaped death by a whisker yesterday is currently receiving treatment at St Gerard Catholic Hospital in Kaduna with his mother by his bed side.
Governor El Rufai paid him a courtesy visit yesterday. He promised to settle his bill and arrest his attackers
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This religious intolerance is going out of control.
This guy with 2 large bore Iv lines on him ,must have lost much blood. I wonder which kind of hypocrites and religion these people are practicing…..Must everyone fast? A Country without Law and Order.
El Rufai this was your idea, sorry brother.
This is getting too ridiculous . Yet the governor stupidly saying that he will foot the bill . Will he Also remove the everlasting trauma that will affect this gentleman and other concerns Nigeria witnessing this animalistic behaviour of his people ? These behaviour is proving another set of Boko haram haram in North. All these animals has to be stopped . .. This is a lawless environment
However , this behaviour is cause by this same stupid governor restricting ways of practising of other religions which these animals citizen classified as empowerment. A stop as to be put to all these behaviour. We do not have to wait till people started rioting . I am a yoruba woman with Muslim background , I do not support all these behaviour . Northerner leaders are the major contibutor to all this menace.
Same as the deputy governor of kano s
tate inciting hatred and terrorism into his citizen when he claimed that he was not happy with the our judgement about aerged blasphemy against the so called Muslim Cleric . He said the our should uphold the death sentence by the sharia court. All this element Re agent of terrorism.
However people should be sensitive that should not mean I do not believe I the leadership of Buhari but Mr president needs to call these animals into order
nah wah oo..must everybody fast with una
This is so gross,how can you force someone to be something they are not. this is why the government have to step up with a reorientation campaign to educated the masses of the need to be tolerant and the consequence of causing mayhem in the country. Everyone has right to practice their religion in peace without interfering with other peoples way of life. The people that done this are just mad fanatics and criminals. Gov El rufia will not allow this to be swept under carpet, these criminals must be caught and severely dealt with before they do it to another person. Religion is being used as cover to carry out evil acts. This is why we must not see everything from religious perspective because it encourages irrational behavior and causes instability in the nation; religious belief in whatever guises cannot be excused for criminality .
am all the way from MALAWI(The warm heart of Africa). my question to you MUSLIMS is, why do you say Islam means peace? is this what you call peace?
is this what Muhammad said before he kissed the grave, why forcing the carpenter to fast? FOOLS AND I HATE YOU
Thank God hes still alive. I wish those ugly bastards are caught and brought to book.
fasting is a submissiveness and humility. but it is ironical for Muslim religion, how can you be killing innocent souls, then i think your Islam is questionable?
Gov EL Rufai even God Himself will judge you and your evil gangs
What a demonic religion. So because you are doing your stupid fasting, you must compel everyone to fast?senseless set of people.It would get to a time that christians too would have no option than to retaliate.Demonic people.
muslims are ******.why kill people in the name of religion.
this northerners are just looking for religious crisis. must every1 leaving north be a muslim. this is wickedness
Firstly, let’s assume that this man is a moslem. Is he compelled to fast when others are fasting? Is fasting not a matter of choice? Does this not further prove that moslems are in chains? When you must do something because others are doing it, and because if you don’t, your people might lynch you, is that not bondage?
I thank God that I am a Christian. Nobody compels me to fast when I want otherwise. Fasting merely because others are fasting is hypocricy. A Christian fasts out of his personal realization and convictions that the spiritual exercise is necessary, in other words, he fasts for his own benefit.
Do moslems fast for their own benefits? No, not at all! I pity all of them lost souls. This same way in which they violently enforce compliance from their professors is the major reason why they still have members today. Give them freedom to decide who to worship and not even a handful would still be hitting their foreheads on the ground anymore. Islam is the bane of the world!
Where is that girl who called herself Amanda? Who can never see anything wrong in whatever her muslim brethren does.
She defended the actions of beheading of that pastor‘s wife in Kano state with all the grammer she knew.
I want her to come out and defend this before I know what next to comment on.
So the carpenter, though a Christian, was supposed to fast along with the muslims abi? In thesame Kaduna where the Gov. was trying in VAIN to frustrate the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God what have we done that You‘ve decided to punish us with this Anti-Christ religion?
What? What have we done God?
SMH…
GOV RUFAI ,NA ONLY BILLS U GO PAY ? SETTLE D POOR MAN AND HIS HELPLESS MOTHER PLES . 2NDLY – WHERE WOULD THEY SEE D SEE D BOKOHARAM BOYS TO ARREST ?IF I TALK NOW , THEY,LL SAY AM A TRIBALIST .–XTIANS UNA DON HEAR ? -GO BACK TO D SOUTH SO U CAN EAT WHEN U LIKE BCOS UR BOKO-NEIGHBOURS ARE FASTING . DON,T KNOW IF SOME SOUTHERNANS ARE BANISHED FROM THEIR VILLAGES AND STATES . IN PORTHARCOURT , THEY COVER D WHOLE ROADS AND SLAUGHTER MARKET ROADS ON FRIDAYS,YET THERE IS A GOV THERE. WHO D HELL ARE U AS A CHRISTIAN TO TRY THAT IN ANY PART OF D NORTH .? THAT IS WHY I KEEP SAYING WE ARE NOT ONE -NIGERIA ! STOP PRETENDING . EVERYONE KNOWS D TRUTH .ONE SOLID DAY E GO HAPPEN ! AS WE KEEP WATCHING !!!
IF MUSLIM CAN BEHAVE THIS WAY TO PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE OF NOT JOINING THEM TO FAST, THEN BOKO HARAM SHOULD CONTINUE BULLDOZING THEM .
This is one of the reasons why the grazing bill must not be passed. If they are granted grazing areas in the south, they will build their mosques and before you know it they have multiplied in population and gradually inch by inch they take over the whole place and impose this devilish religion on everybody. This is exactly what happen in the present day Turkey. Turkey used to be a Christian country when the employed the same if not similar tactics they want to use in Nigeria. Tell me why in the world people born of woman will kill somebody who is eating, does not belong to your religious faith, simply because you are fasting? Must Christians fast with Muslims? Don’t Muslims fast with Christians DURING lent(before Easter)? The Northern Muslims are executive the plan laid down by the late Sarduana of Sokoto to Islamize Nigeria. That will never happen. Instead let the country divide. All the northern governors including the Emir of Kano publicly condemn these unwarranted actions of theur followers but rejoice behind closed doors.
What an irony fasting and seeking the face of God and killing at the same time.
idiots to fast na by force.
Before I use to think we worship the same God but NO Islam is a religion of violence and someone has said here that the god of Islam is a god of Gore and blood and he seems not to ever have a fill of it. You are fasting and killing people at the same time ,that’s what your religion teaches? Some Muslims say boko haram is not Islam it’s just a few bad eggs in Islam but it is clearly shown now that many many of this Muslims support the acts of boko haram so they too are boko haram
Dis muslim youths are only using d religion as a cover up, what I see is a set of lazy, idle and jobless youths just causing trouble up and down, of course they need to hide under an umbrella, but I am so sure dis is not d case.
Bcos what will make u to go and start attacking someone dat is eating while u are fastg, is is this the first time in d history of dis nation that fasting will hold.
Unless if u are tellg us now dat muslims av now become so deranged not to know their right from wrong.
In my view some of the northerners who are Moslems can best be described as extremists..little wonder why they are easily brainwashed by terrorist groups…. They lack morals, values and etiquettes. What I think they need is one thing they hate so much “western education”
Muslims are going too too far with this their allah thing o. I appeal on the government to do something before this will become a trend. Fast recovery to the man
Fairjudge,
You are very right, an irony indeed.
I totally agree with fairjudge comments..