What was that about Islam being a religion of peace?
I’ll let you in on a secret, it’s a bunch of bull!
The UK Telegraph reports that over 700 prisoners have escaped a Nigerian jail after heavily armed Islamist gunmen attacked the prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi to free 150 Muslim fundamentalists held there.
Tuesday night's attack is thought to have been carried out by Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sin" in local Hausa dialect, a Muslim fundamentalist group fighting for the creation of an Islamic state in Nigeria.
Mohammed Ahmed, the prison warden, said: "The prison had 762 inmates at the time of the attack. 732 escaped, leaving 30. All the Boko Haram suspects on remand have escaped. There were 150 of them."
The gunmen killed four people including a soldier, a police officer and two local residents.
Salisu Mohammed, a prison guard, described how up to 50 Islamist militants, armed with machine guns, attacked the jail..
"They came in large numbers, heavily armed, and began shooting at the prison gate. Some of us were hit while others fled," he said.
"They gained access and moved from cell to cell, breaking in and freeing the inmates. They set fire to a section of the prison and burnt the vehicles parked outside the gate."
Isa Hassan, a local resident, said the alleged sect members were chanting "Allahu Akbar" - or God is great - when they arrived.
"They shot dead a handful of policemen at the gate and forced their way in. From my house, I could see bodies and injured being loaded into a truck," he added.
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Yeah, those boys were really peaceful.
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