Posted on 01/19/2010 5:47:26 AM PST by blueyon
JOS, Nigeria – Angry Muslim youths set a church filled with worshippers ablaze in northern Nigeria, starting a riot that killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 300 others in the latest religious violence in the region, officials said Monday.
About 5,000 people lost their homes as rioters also burned mosques and homes in Jos, a city that saw more than 300 residents killed during a similar uprising in 2008, said local Red Cross official Auwal Muhammad Madobi. He said he had no information about deaths. Police officials declined to offer a count of the dead.
Sani Mudi, a spokesman for the local imam, said 22 people died Sunday after rioters set fire to a Catholic church,
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mooslims start violence. that’s not something i am surprised to see. mooslims are intolerant of anyone but them selves. mooslimns...please return to killing your selves, not others.
There is a war going on - just ask the Christians at the front lines at this place.
Islam has bloody borders. Everywhere.
“Angry Muslim youths”?
Berlin - Angry German youths burn synagogues.
What percentage of the people killed and homes burned were Christian??
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