Christian driver killed for running over Koran

South African Daily Mail & Guardian ^ | Thursday December 13, 2001

[Byron_the_Aussie]

ANGRY Muslims beat to death a Christian truck driver who accidentally reversed his lorry over a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, witnesses said on Wednesday. The 42-year-old ethnic Igbo driver, locally known by the nickname of Saint Moritz, was reversing in a well-known fruit market in the northern city of Kano when he ran his truck into a Koranic study group, said market trader Sa'idu Nasiru.

As they fled, the Koranic students dropped a copy of the Muslim holy book and the driver reversed over it. The Muslims pulled the man out of the vehicle and beat him up. He was taken to a police station for his safety but was pulled out by a mob and killed, said another witness, Danlami Habibu.

Kano State Police Commissioner Yakubu Bello confirmed the killing and said that five people had been arrested over the incident.

It is the second time in five years that a Christian has been killed in Kano, the largest city in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria, for allegedly blaspheming the Koran. In December 1996, a Christian trader, Gideon Akaluka, was seized from jail and beheaded by a Muslim group for allegedly tearing pages out of the Koran. His head was stuck on a pike and paraded through the streets. - AFP

[Ronin]

Why didn't they beat the student who dropped his Koran?

[A CA Guy]

Well, when the people who killed the guy die they might spend eternity having there skinned peeled of their body over and over again forever. God is always watching.

[mvonfr]

Why didn't they beat the student who dropped his Koran?

Because violence against other people would not be peaceful. Christians are not people, of course.

[SpaceBar]

Can't you just feel the love?

[StoneColdGOP]

Such peace-loving people. Especially in accidents.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...why didn't they beat the student who dropped his Koran?...

Beats me, compadre.

I'm still trying to come to terms with why someone would hold a Koran study group on a roadway in a fruit market.

[GeronL]

He was taken to a police station for his safety but was pulled out by a mob and killed, said another witness, Danlami Habibu

.. real good police force huh??

the Muslims will not be punished.

[wayne_shrugged]

Why didn't they beat the student who dropped his Koran?

Because it would hold the perps responsible? No, no...that's not right.

Because it would make the victims the true victims and the perps the perps instead of vice-versa?

No, no, that's not it...let me think a little while on this...

[MetalHeadConservative35]

"Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion"

ill be tolerant alright..by using the koran for toilet paper

[GeronL]

I'm still trying to come to terms with why someone would hold a Koran study group on a roadway in a fruit market.

They need signs... Watch for kneeling Martyrs

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...God is always watching....

Yes. I hope you don't mind me saying I wish He'd given Islam a Jesus.

[xm177e2]

I'm still trying to come to terms with why someone would hold a Koran study group on a roadway in a fruit market.

I'm wondering why they would hold one behind a truck.

[A CA Guy]

They did, but they only consider him a Holy Man and not the Son of God.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Thorondir]

Your bungster is too good for the Korap! What a vile and violent scummy religion.

Liberalism must be crushed!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...by using the koran for toilet paper...

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...what a vile and violent scummy religion....

Nonsense. Conduct yourself with a bit of class, Thorondir.

[Thorondir]

Nothing he could write is lower than the Koran. I have read most of it. It's violently biggoted and woman-hating. An ugly ungodly book for ugly paranoid primitives.

Liberalism must be crushed!

[nopardons]

You have got that right. Nigeria is NOT famous for it's " justice " system. : - (