This Week's Islamic Massacre > 53 killed in Palm Sunday attacks in Nigeria; IS afilliate kills 43 in Congo; 13 Christians murdered at wedding by Fulani Herdsmen

 

Palm Sunday attacks in Nigeria leave at least 53 dead

Gunmen attacked Angwan Rukuba in Plateau State late on Sunday, killing dozens, officials have reported

Published 31 Mar, 2026 14:36 | Updated 1 Apr, 2026 12:54

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At least 53 people were killed in attacks on predominantly Christian communities in Nigeria’s Plateau and Kaduna states on Sunday, according to International Christian Concern (ICC), a Washington-based religious organization.

Of the total, at least 40 deaths were reported in and around Ungwan Rukuba in Jos North, Plateau State, following a late-night attack, while another 13 people were killed in an early morning assault on Kahir village in neighboring Kaduna State, ICC said.

Plateau State authorities imposed a 48-hour curfew on Jos North on Sunday after gunmen raided the Gari Ya Waye community in Angwan Rukuba. Officials said the assault claimed 28 lives and left several others wounded.

ICC said another 10 people died in separate gunfire reported earlier on Sunday in Eto Baba and nearby student residential areas, adding that the victims were Christians.

Police have reported they received a distress call at about 8:30 PM reporting gunfire in the Angwan Rukuba area and launched a joint operation with other security agencies to track down the attackers.

“The victims were law-abiding citizens going about their normal activities when the enemies of peace unleashed this senseless attack,” Plateau State Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang said in a statement posted on Facebook on Monday.

READ MORE: Militants kill soldiers in Nigeria ambush

He condemned the incident as “barbaric and unprovoked” and said a 48-hour curfew in Jos North will remain in place until April 1 to allow “security operatives to carry out thorough operations and ensure the safety of all residents.”

Plateau State, in Nigeria’s central Middle Belt, has long been hit by violence linked to land disputes, communal tensions and reprisals, with the conflict often portrayed as ethno-religious between mainly Muslim Fulani herders and mostly Christian farming communities.

On March 13, gunmen ambushed a joint patrol in the Kanam area of Plateau State, reportedly killing at least 20 security personnel and vigilantes, including two senior military officers.

READ MORE: Does ‘Christian genocide’ capture the reality of this nation’s security map?

The state government has said one suspect linked to the latest attack has been arrested, while police say security forces are still searching for the gunmen.

The West African nation has faced a surge in violence since November, with US President Donald Trump placing Nigeria on the list of Countries of Particular Concern amid allegations that more than 7,000 Christians were killed there in 2025 alone.

Washington has since deployed military personnel to Nigeria in a non-combat role to provide training, technical support and intelligence sharing, after previously carrying out airstrikes against Islamic militants in the country’s northwest on December 25.

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Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims murder at least 43 people in jihad raid on village, set fire to homes

Apr 4, 2026 9:00 am By Robert Spencer2 Comments

“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)

Note that “Congo’s army has struggled to contain the ADF.”

Why are so many jihad groups better trained and supplied than the national armies that come out to oppose them?

FIB Commander’s delegation and FARDC inspecting equipment seized from ADF rebels, May 2020.jpg, MONUSCO Photos, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

Islamic State-linked rebels kill at least 43 in attack in eastern Congo

Associated Press, April 2, 2026:

GOMA, CongoAP — Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed at least 43 people in eastern Congo, officials said Thursday.

Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, killed the civilians Wednesday night in Bafwakoa village. The Ugandan Islamist group operates on both sides of the porous border.

“They set fire to houses in the village,” Samuel Banapia, a member of civil society in the area, said by phone.

Congo’s military said in a statement that 43 villages [sic] were killed, while local officials said the toll was at least 56, with several people missing and at least two taken hostage.

Congo’s army has struggled to contain the ADF as it battles several other rebel groups in the east. The most prominent is the Rwandan-backed M23, which last year seized major cities in the east….

Nigeria: Muslims storm Christian wedding reception, murdering 13 Christians and kidnapping dozens more

Apr 4, 2026 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer11 Comments

“As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance).

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Herdsmen Kill 13 Christians at Wedding Reception in Nigeria

Morning Star News, April 1, 2026:

ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (March 29) attacked a Christian wedding reception in Kaduna state, Nigeria, killing 13 Christians and kidnapping dozens of others, a local leader said.

In predominantly Christian Kahir village, Kagarko County, community leader Musa Adamu said Fulani herdsmen attacked at about 11 p.m. during the reception following the wedding.

“The attackers, who we know to be Fulani herdsmen, invaded our community in large numbers,” Adamu told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “They were armed with deadly weapons which they used in shooting indiscriminately at our people inside the hall where the wedding reception was held; 13 community members who are Christians were killed, while several others sustained gunshot injuries.”

He identified those slain as Bako Danjuma, Williams Luka, Peter Williams, Joseph Yakubu, Victor Peter, John Dan Asabe, Angulu Markus, Maikano Aribi, Douglas John, Ado Yakubu, Zaphaniah Alhaji, Joseph Kaddah and Francis Unguwa Doya.

Some of the wounded were taken to General Hospital in Kagarko, while those with more severe injuries were referred to other medical facilities in the city of Kaduna, Adamu said….

More Christians were killed in Nigeria than in any other country from Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2025, according to Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List. Of the 4,849 Christians killed worldwide for their faith during that period, 3,490 – 72 percent – were Nigerians, an increase from 3,100 the prior year. Nigeria ranked No. 7 on the WWL list of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report….

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The Astonishing Cost of Migrant Welfare in Britain

 

Remember, this is just the welfare costs; there are many other costs associated with migrants.

UK: Migrants receive nearly $1,300,000,000 in welfare benefits every month

Apr 1, 2026 9:00 am By Robert Spencer13 Comments

Remember: the whole migrant enterprise was sold to Europeans (and Britons) with the argument that the migrants would fill in the gaps in the workforce that a dwindling native population was leaving. Instead, the migrants went on welfare. Why? Because the Qur’an says that non-Muslims must pay for the upkeep of the Muslims; in the Islamic state, they “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”

Keir Starmer, Prime Minister’s Office, Open Government License 3

Households with Migrants Claiming Nearly £1 Billion

in Welfare per Month in Britain

by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, March 30, 2026:

Foreign nationals are claiming nearly £1 billion in welfare benefits from the British state every month, further undercutting claims of the promised economic panacea by importing millions of migrants.

According to government data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) obtained by Freedom of Information requests from Conservative MP Neil O’Brien, households with at least one foreign national claimed £941 million this month in Universal Credit benefits, The Telegraph reported.

The welfare scheme, intended to subsidise working-age households with low incomes in Britain, is extended to migrants after they are granted indefinite leave to remain or refugee status.

The FOI revealed that households with a migrant saw their benefits claims more than double over the past four years, with such households only receiving £461 million in March of 2022.

Last year alone saw a nearly 30 per cent rise in payments, jumping from £726 million in March of last year to nearly a billion per month this year.

In total, households with a foreign national accounted for 15.5 per cent of the £6.05 billion Universal Credit payments handed out this month, compared to 14.1 per cent four years ago.

Commenting on the findings, former health minister Neil O’Brien said: “The growth of benefit spending and the rate of migration are both much too fast, and the Government is doing far too little to change either trend.

“Migrants know that if they can make it to the UK, they will be allowed to stay. As long as that is true, we’ll see more and more coming. Our soft-touch welfare state makes this worse.”

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Antisemitism in political UK and USA > One Mayor resigns, the other remains

 

UK: Mayor Who Claimed Jews Set Fire to Ambulances of Jewish Emergency Services Resigns

Apr 1, 2026 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald16 Comments

Four ambulances belonging to the Jewish emergency services group Hatzalah were set on fire in Golders Green, London on March 23. The mayor of Bath, a certain Bharat Pankhania, shared on X his belief that it was Jews themselves who had set the ambulances on fire to collect the insurance money. More on his charge, and the fallout from it, can be found here:

Bath, UK mayor resigns after amplifying idea that Jewish ambulance arson was ‘false flag’ attack

by Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA, April 1, 2026:

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The mayor of Bath, in southwestern England, resigned from his post Monday after drawing criticism for amplifying the idea that the London arson of ambulances owned by a Jewish emergency service was a “false flag” attack.

“I have been made aware that I have reposted or replied to some posts which have never aligned to my values and beliefs, and which are abhorrent,” Bharat Pankhania said in a statement issued last week, prior to his resignation from the honorary role. “I am incredibly apologetic that I have not lived up to the standards I set myself. I have, of course, deleted them, and I wish to apologize unreservedly.”

Days after the Mar. 23 torching of four Hatzola ambulances in London’s Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, Pankhania shared comments and posts on X/Twitter that suggested the fires were set by members of the Jewish community and an instance of insurance fraud, multiple British outlets reported. Law enforcement has deemed the fires an antisemitic attack.

A “false flag” operation is staged to look like an attack in order to garner sympathy for the victim or attribute blame to another party. Accusations that antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents are false flags have surged as such incidents have grown more commonplace….

After an investigation, the local branch of Pankhania’s political party, the Liberal Democrats, suspended him last week. On Monday, the group said he had resigned from both the mayoralty and the political group.

He had political ambitions beyond the honorary role of mayor; Pankhania’s resignation and his mea maxima culpa apology spell their end.

“Cllr Pankhania again apologized for his interactions on X, and reiterated that he has spent his life working with all communities, whilst acknowledging the hurt he had caused. In resigning, Cllr Pankhania is taking clear personal responsibility for his actions,” the group said.

“As a group and as a party, we reject discrimination wherever it occurs and reiterate our stance against antisemitism,” it added….

A good result. Pankhania’s vicious and idiotic charge that Jews set fire to their own ambulances to win sympathy and obtain insurance money was roundly criticized. As a result, he felt compelled to issue a mea-maxima-culpa apology, resign from his own party, the Liberal Democrats, and — the unkindest cut of all — had also to resign from his honorary role as mayor of Bath. His incipient political career is likely at an end.

But other officeholders who have accused Jews of staging “false flag” attacks on themselves have managed to remain in power. The most egregious example of this was in California, where the mayor of Richmond, California, Eduardo Martinez made claims similar to those of Bharat Pankhania regarding the Bondi Beach jihad massacre at a Hanukkah event, but was not compelled to resign.

This was a much graver offense that that of Bath Mayor Pankhania. Mayor Eduardo Martinez was accusing Jews not of arson, but of being responsible for faking the story of a mass murder of Jews on Bondi Beach in Australia. In that terror attack, that took place at the Archer Park area of Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, where a Hanukkah party was being held, fourteen Jews were murdered — 11 men, 3 women, and a 10-year-old girl. There were two gunmen; one was shot dead by police and the other was apprehended. Yet despite the eyewitnesses, despite the dead Jews, despite the police statements and the apprehended Muslim terrorist, Mayor Eduardo Martinez made his charge of a “false flag” operation. After a firestorm of protest from the Jewish community and others, he made an apology, not nearly as contrite as that of Bharat Pankhania, but he neither offered to, nor was asked to, resign. Despite his outrageous remark, he remains the mayor of Richmond.