Excellent! Payback is a bitch.
Posted on 02/21/2006 7:13:50 AM PST by Pyro7480
Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly
By DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer
LAGOS, Nigeria - Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad over the weekend.
Residents and witnesses in the southern, predominantly Christian city of Onitsha said several Muslims with origins in the north were beaten to death by mobs which also burned two mosques there.
"The mosque at the main market has been burnt and I've counted at least six dead bodies on the streets," Izzy Uzor, an Onitsha resident and businessman, told The Associated Press by telephone. "The whole town is in a frenzy and people are running in all directions."
The violence appeared to be in reprisal for anti-Christian violence Saturday in the mostly Muslim northern city of Maiduguri in which thousands of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches, killing at least 18 people.
Another Onitsha resident, Isotonu Achor, said one badly beaten Muslim man ran into his office from the streets to escape the violence.
"There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die," Achor said.
Police and government officials were not immediately available for comment.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country of more than 130 million people, is roughly divided between a predominantly Muslim north and a mainly Christian south. Thousands of people have died in religious violence in Nigeria since 2000.
Saturday's protest over the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in Maiduguri marked the first violent demonstrations over the issue in Nigeria. Police say at least 18 people, most of them Christians, died, and 30 churches were burned down. The Christian Association of Nigeria said at least 50 people were killed in the violence.
The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, have set off sometimes violent protests around the world. One caricature shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with an ignited fuse.
Islam widely holds that representations of Muhammad are banned for fear they could lead to idolatry.
A Danish newspaper first printed the caricatures in September. Other newspapers, mostly in Europe, have reprinted the pictures, asserting their news value and the right to freedom of expression.
Onward Christian Soldiers??
They were warned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582658/posts
What do you mean future? These things have been going on for centuries.
We just don't see it here because there are not enough opposing extremists on our shores.
Ok, a glimpse into our past AND into the future. Better?
protest over the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in Maiduguri marked the first violent demonstrations over the issue in Nigeria. Police say at least 18 people, most of them Christians, died, and 30 churches were burned down. The Christian Association of Nigeria said at least 50 people were killed in the violence.
...was a government santioned event and therefore no prosecutions would be forthcoming from the violence on Saturday.../sarcasm.
At least they are not sitting around like our world "leaders" trying to figure out how to appease the murdering radical members of the "religion of peace". They're taking action to tell the mooselimbs that murder will not be tolerated. Great.
Although I can completely empathize with the Christians there, I in no way endorse or condone their own rioting.
We, as Christians have to portray ourselves in the light that Christ would have us portrayed. When we resort to the base rioting that Mooslips choose to pursue, we are sinking to their own un-Godly level. Let's leave the Satan-influenced behavior to the Satan-worshipping Mooselips.
Excellent! Payback is a bitch.
Here, here. Mob violence is not the way to go. They should be ashamed of themseleves. The people who acted this way stooped to the level of the Muslims.
From all I've read about Nigeria, I think this sentence would've been more accurate like this: "Police and government officials were not in existence."
Agreed, that is why I put question marks behind that. If this is Christians responding in kind, then that is just wrong. We must be willing to defend ourselves however and if that means Muslims die then so be it.
.......aaaaaaaaaaaaand you would suggest they do........what, exactly? Lay down and become murder victims, as usual??
A Blast from the Past
I wouldn't want you for a neighbor..I'd be dead.
I completely empathize with the Christians. You can only take so much before you have to protect yourself.
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Add the imprecatory psalms to the corporate worship of the church, name God's enemies by name in corporate prayer, and let God deal with them. He can destroy His enemies by converting them, or by simply stopping them in their tracks. Or, He can convert their children. (Read Psalm 137:9, and remember that Jesus is our rock!)
Tackling the centers of violence, mosques, is the way to deal with this. That is the source of the instigation to murder.
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