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Christian driver killed for running over Koran
South African Daily Mail & Guardian ^
| Thursday December 13, 2001
Posted on 12/13/2001 10:55:20 PM PST by 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
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posted on
12/13/2001 10:55:20 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(byron_the_aussie@yahoo.com)
To: Byron_the_Aussie
Why didn't they beat the student who dropped his Koran?
2
posted on
12/13/2001 10:59:11 PM PST
by
Ronin
To: Byron_the_Aussie
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.
3
posted on
12/13/2001 11:00:55 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
To: Ronin
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.
4
posted on
12/13/2001 11:01:30 PM PST
by
mvonfr
To: Byron_the_Aussie
Can't you just feel the love?
5
posted on
12/13/2001 11:01:39 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Byron_the_Aussie
Such peace-loving people. Especially in accidents.
To: Ronin
...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.
To: Byron_the_Aussie
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.
8
posted on
12/13/2001 11:09:41 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Ronin
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...
To: Byron_the_Aussie
"Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion"
ill be tolerant alright..by using the koran for toilet paper
To: Byron_the_Aussie
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
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posted on
12/13/2001 11:11:10 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: A CA Guy
...God is always watching....Yes. I hope you don't mind me saying I wish He'd given Islam a Jesus.
To: Byron_the_Aussie
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.
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posted on
12/13/2001 11:19:15 PM PST
by
xm177e2
To: Byron_the_Aussie
They did, but they only consider him a Holy Man and not the Son of God.
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posted on
12/13/2001 11:25:12 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
To: Byron_the_Aussie
To: deathscythex
Your bungster is too good for the Korap! What a vile and violent scummy religion.
Liberalism must be crushed!
To: deathscythex
...by using the koran for toilet paper...
To: Thorondir
...what a vile and violent scummy religion....Nonsense. Conduct yourself with a bit of class, Thorondir.
To: Byron_the_Aussie
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!
To: GeronL
You have got that right. Nigeria is NOT famous for it's " justice " system. : - (
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