Nigerian Muslims Killing Christians, Burning Churches

[Annie]

The cartoons are only the latest excuse, links at site:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004588.htm

MUSLIMS KILL CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
By Michelle Malkin · February 19, 2006 08:20 AM

Committed "in the name of the prophet Mohammed:"


Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.

It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa's most populous nation. An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the city center with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze...

...Thousands of rioters burned 15 churches in Maiduguri [Nigeria] in a three-hour rampage before troops and police reinforcements restored order, Nigerian police spokesman Haz Iwendi said. Iwendi said security forces arrested dozens of people in the city about 1,000 miles northeast of the capital, Lagos.

Chima Ezeoke, a Christian Maiduguri resident, said protesters attacked and looted shops owned by minority Christians, most of them with origins in the country's south.

"Most of the dead were Christians beaten to death on the streets by the rioters," Ezeoke said. Witnesses said three children and a priest were among those killed...

The bloodshed comes a little more than week after Nigerian MPs burned Danish and Norwegian flags in a ceremony in the parliament premises--and despite the conciliatory Christian Association of Nigeria's condemnation of the cartoons.

The Nigerian sharia council wants the Danish cartoonists executed.

Judith Apter Klinghoffer writes: "If there is something worse than the killing of 15 innocent Nigerian Christians and the burning of their churches by their Muslim brethren for the sin of belonging to the same religion as the Danes, it is the refusal of reporters to tell the ugly truth."

Indeed. None of the news stories make clear just how widespread, brutal, and prolonged Muslim violence against Christians in Nigeria has been as sharia law spreads. Via Persecution.org, I've included a partial chronology below......:

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Ok. This shit needs to end now. Let's blow up something big. I am fucking serious.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

I am serious. Let's tell the saudis, lebanon, syria, Iran, all the people who fund these freaks all over the world, that unless they use their own death squads to stop this, which we know they have, that we're coming after them. The caliphate is real to them, we cannot hold ourselves to the false construct of the nation, in this context.

 

[dilloduck]

Ok. This shit needs to end now. Let's blow up something big. I am fucking serious.

yup---time for a big stick !

 

[manu1959]

ahhhhhhhhh the religion of peace......killing children over cartoons....what a rational bunch

 

[Annie]

Read the links after the post, at the site. This has been an escalating problem since the Sharia Law was implemented. The world needs to wake up, including the administration. RoP is a misnomer.

 

[Annie]

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/nigerian-muslims-slaughter-christians.html

Sunday, February 19, 2006
Nigerian Muslims Slaughter Christians, Torch 11 Churches

"One group threw a tyre around one man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze."
-BBC-

A Catholic Priest and 3 children are among the dead!

Sixteen people have been killed in northern Nigeria during protests by Muslims over cartoons! (BBC)
The AP is reporting that 15 churches were burned in the mainly Muslim region.

The rioting Muslims stormed through the streets for three hours before police restored order:

It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa's most populous nation. An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the city center with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze...

Thousands of rioters burned 15 churches in Maiduguri in a three-hour rampage before troops and police reinforcements restored order, Nigerian police spokesman Haz Iwendi said. Iwendi said security forces arrested dozens of people in the city about 1,000 miles northeast of the capital, Lagos.

Chima Ezeoke, a Christian Maiduguri resident, said protesters attacked and looted shops owned by minority Christians, most of them with origins in the country's south.

"Most of the dead were Christians beaten to death on the streets by the rioters," Ezeoke said. Witnesses said three children and a priest were among those killed...

With Saturday's deaths, at least 45 people have been killed in protests across the Muslim world, according to a count by The Associated Press.

African News Dimension (AND) Network reported that a Catholic priest and children were among the dead:

Witnesses said three children and a Catholic priest were among those killed. 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. Christians are a minority in Maiduguri.

AND added this:

"They entered our house some 20 minutes ago, broke our windows, smashed doors and threw our things all over the place," an undergraduate student of the University of Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state, said.

Reuters reports that some of the deaths even occurred inside the churches!!

"They went on the rampage, burning shops and churches of the Christians. The protesters killed the others. Some were even killed in the churches," said Joseph Hayab, north-west secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

This is not good at all.

ALso, this weekend... Protests hit the United States.

American Digest posted this protest picture from the New York protest among many others.

posted by Gateway Pundit at 2/19/2006 12:54:00 AM

 

[dilloduck]

The world appears quite content to let Chirstians be massacred. How long are govenments and Christians take it until they unlease a response. Bush can certainly use his position to issue a strong warning or make a few ultimatums. The dems like the status quo however. What's the lives a few hundred Christians if it helps the party?

 

[trobinett]

Wow, this deal is really getting out of control.

I`m with RWA, time to start kicking some serious butt.

Can NOT allow these wing nut`s to go unchecked.

Such a sad, sad deal, when you read about the killing of innocent people, who`s ONLY "connect" to the escalating violence is their religion.

Time to "lock, and load" boy`s, and girl`s.