Posted on 02/24/2006 9:22:33 AM PST by RS
"ONITSHA, Nigeria – Charred bodies littered the streets of this bustling commercial center yesterday after three days of rioting in which Christian mobs wielding machetes, clubs and knives set upon their Muslim neighbors.
Rioters have killed scores of people here, mostly Muslims, after burning their homes, businesses and mosques in the worst violence yet linked to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad first published in a Danish newspaper. The violence erupted after similar attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria last week by Muslims infuriated over the cartoons. "
~snip~
"Residents combed through destroyed shops and homes of Muslims to loot."
“These things belong to Igbos,” said Sunday Tagbo, 25, referring to the dominant ethnic group of this region, more commonly known as Ibos, as he helped himself to sooty car parts left behind by fleeing merchants. “This is Igbo land. No more Muslims can live here.”
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
I'll bet the Muslms to have started it. Like about two days ago when Muslim cartoon protestors attacked Hindu-owned shops in southern India. Or like when they killed that Roman Catholic priest in Turkey...and so on.
Ping!
you bet
At this point...these people are trying to survive. Muslims brought it to them 2 weeks ago and they pushed back. Good for them.
Better get ready, because this is what the western world is going to have to do in order to survive.....unless you like praying to a moon god
I guess they just plain had enough. Onward Christian soldiers!
I wonder if they would have entitled the article "Islamic mob kills Chistians..." had the roles been reversed.
Third sentence:
"The violence erupted after similar attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria last week by Muslims infuriated over the cartoons."
The Muslims of Nigeria killed 15 people, some of them children, and burned over 10 churches n Nigeria. This was retaliation, or "similar violence," as the reporter calls it.
People are killing, burning and looting and you say...good for them???
Same thing happened over a Beuty Pageant a couple of years ago. They only need a good excuse.
Sounds like a ... (shall I say it?) ... crusade.
I am not on the side of any looters, whether they be Christian, Muslim, or any other religion.
However, we should all note that this article is from the New York Times News Service. That should assure us that the article will not be biased in any way. The New York Times is well-known for its fair and respectable treatment of Christians, Jews, whites, and Republicans.
Pox on all of them.
Actually, Muslims did start it earlier in the week when they rioted over these silly cartoons and killed a number of Christians and burned 15 Christian churches to the ground.
More to the point, Muslims in Nigeria have been raising all sorts of hell there for quite some time. I work with a young lady from Nigeria. Her family still lives there. She can tell you lots of horror stories committed in Nigeria in the name of Islam. She cringes even thinking about them.
NYT headline,
Turnabout is fair play.
bump
kill or be killed. muslims understand nothing else.
"The violence erupted after similar attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria last week by Muslims infuriated over the cartoons. "
The headline should have been:
Christians in No. Nigeria retaliate against Muslim attackers.
Typical media bias.
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