Nigeria: Tension in Kaduna As Irate Muslims Burn Churches, Police Station

Allafrica.com ^ | 4.6.04

[ambrose]

Nigeria: Tension in Kaduna As Irate Muslims Burn Churches, Police Station

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

NEWS

April 6, 2004

Posted to the web April 6, 2004

Kano

Tension has gripped the volatile northern Nigerian Kaduna State after irate Muslims razed several churches and a police station in a remote town, alleging that a Christian youth had desecrated the Koran, residents and police officials said on Tuesday.

Trouble broke out last Saturday in the town of Makarfi, 150 km north of the state capital Kaduna, when a mentally disturbed Christian youth whose family came from the Christian southeast Nigeria was accosted by some Muslim youths as he tore up a copy of the Koran, witnesses said.

"The Muslim youths began beating him, but he was rescued by a policeman and taken into protective custody," Yinusa Lawan, a resident told IRIN.

However, as news of the incident quickly spread through Makarfi - which is the hometown of the state governor Ahmed Makarfi - a mob assembled at the police station demanding that they be allowed to deal with the boy, eyewitnesses said.

Overwhelmed by the ever-increasing mob, the policemen at the station took the youth out through a backdoor and fled as well, they added.

The angry mob responded by setting the police station alight and then went through the town setting on fire at least eight churches belonging to different Christian denominations.

Suleiman Lawal, the police area commander of the Makarfi district said riot police were sent into the town to restore order , but there were no casualties.

News of the incident spread to Kaduna, the state capital, fuelling tension in the city where sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims killed more than 3,000 people between 2000 and 2002.

Residents said that in recent days many people in the city had stopped going into neighbourhoods dominated by rival religious groups as a precautionary measure.

Governor Makarfi is currently abroad, but his deputy Stephen Shekari made a radio and television broadcast on Sunday night, urging the people of Kaduna state to remain calm. He assured them that the security forces were ready to maintain peace.

Much of the tension in recent years in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims have been fed by mutual suspicions following the introduction of the strict Islamic or Shari'ah legal code by 12 states in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north.

The code stipulates harsh punishments, including amputation of limbs for stealing, public flogging for drinking alcohol and death by stoning for adultery.

Thousands of people have died in ethnic and religious violence in Africa's most populous country of 126 million people in the past five years.

[Travis McGee]

Yep, no doubt about it. If only the Joooooz would leave the West Bank and Gaza, Muslims would turn into perfect neighbors. It's got to be the Joooooz fault. That and the neocons. (*Wink* We know who those neocons are. More Jooooz.) Muslims just want to live in peace, from the Philippines to Nigeria. Obviosly. After all, Islam means "peace," right????

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[ambrose]

Lots of NeoCons in Nigeria!

[clee1]

Tell Nigeria to take a number and have a seat.

We gots bigger fish to fry.

[Dan from Michigan]

Sudan, Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, Kosovo, Chechnya, The Middle East, and even France, England, and Australia.....

[Spruce]

The Siite be hittin the fan, eh?

[bayourod]

No problem, the UN can handle everything. France will introduce a resolution soon, no doubt, and seek permission to send in French troops.

[Travis McGee]

It's the neocons, I tell yah!

[yonif]

It's the Mossad again posing as Muslims.

[Greg Weston]

So you want to get our guys into another "police action" here?

[Travis McGee]

That's IT! (Slapping forehead.)

[Travis McGee]

Nope, we can't fight in every theater of this world war against insane Islamic terrorists. That's why we're striking in the heart, the center of gravity, not the periphery.

(Hey Greg, explain how it's the dark hand of the NEOcons at work in Nigeria, paying Mossad agents to pose as Muslims burning Christian churches, to make Islam look bad.)

[Greg Weston]

You will have to find someone else to explain that. Find some nut somewhere.

The heart of things is America. While you want to streetfight in Iraq, what is coming over the border? What is already here?

[Travis McGee]

Go ahead Greg, explain the Ostrich Defense to us. Fortress America.

[montag813]

Irate Muslims

Is there ANY other kind???

[Robert_Paulson2]

boy are youz dumb.

the neocons (aka joooz),are POSING as muslims and burning churches after seeing mel gibson's movie, that the neocon jews KNOW implicates them... thus they are striking back at christians, blaming it all on the poor widdle islamics and that is how it works..

see?
neocons, jews, burning churches, poor islamakazis... and it is all because that zionist neocon leader is desecrating islamic holy mosques in Iraq and Afghanistan. . . all while inviting islamakazis in via our open borders.. did I say this was about open borders too.. that is the root of all evil, the open borders.



so sayeths the imams, john ali baba kerry and ted "no kufirs" kennedy...
sa-lem.

[Travis McGee]

Does this mean Mel Gibson is secretly a Jew? Now I'm really confused.

[Robert_Paulson2]

He's NOT an american travis. HIs first visits here were illegal.
His first appearance here came after a long trek across the desert southwest of mexico, at a place called 'the thunderdome' where a jewish black lady, whose code name is tina turner, with two t's, told him he must go beyond the thunderdome....

It was then that using the two t's in her name, as a password, he crossed into california near el centro, and trekked up the east side of the coastal range to palm springs where he converted secretly to judaism... yes travis, he's a joo, but he has his dad and all the christians fooled. Well then he went to hollywood, did a real life documentary, changing his name to mad max, an autobiographic film series that showed the world for the first time, his, and the neocon (joos) vision of a perfect world.

Zany Mel, just one of the neocons. and his movie was a setup.. yup a neocon setup to take over the world and blame the jooz...

I need a drink now.