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wannago



Joined: 16 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:26 am    Post subject: Muslims Kill Christians in Nigeria Reply with quote

news.yahoo.com

Ah yes, again the religion of peace. Now, if Venezuela would just do something to piss these lunatics off...
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bigverne



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any excuse for a bit of infidel slaughter.
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Teufelswacht



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What goes around comes around.....

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Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

By DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

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.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nigeria_sectarian_violence
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Bulsajo



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a lot going on in nigeria right now- nobody has mentioned how the rebels fit into this picture, or the fact that they have just severed the country's main oil pipeline.
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bulsajo wrote:
There's a lot going on in nigeria right now- nobody has mentioned how the rebels fit into this picture, or the fact that they have just severed the country's main oil pipeline.


Exactly. All conflicts are about the control of wealth. The media just packages it as a religious conflict because it sells more.
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some waygug-in



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://americauncensored.net/blog2/?p=27

One Thousand A Month Tortured To Death In Iraq">One Thousand A Month Tortured To Death In Iraq
20th February 2006

Proving that Abu Ghraib and Gitmo are the tip of the iceberg, the outgoing UN human rights chief dropped a bombshell when he told an obscure Maltese newspaper that as many as a thousand detainees a month are being tortured to death in Iraq.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 20th, 2006 at 23:08 and is filed under Torture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=215387


US 'aware' of Iraq torture
Herman Grech

The US is "aware" of torture taking place in Iraqi prisons, according to the outgoing Maltese UN human rights chief in Iraq.

"Yes, torture is happening now, mainly in illegal detention places. Such centres are mostly being run by militia that have been absorbed by the police force," says John Pace, who retired last week as human rights chief for the UN assistance mission in Iraq.

In a frank interview with The Times, Dr Pace says photos and forensic records have proved that torture was rife inside detention centres. Though the process of release has been speeded up, there are an estimated 23,000 people in detention, of whom 80 to 90 per cent are innocent.

He says the Baghdad morgue received 1,100 bodies in July alone, about 900 of whom bore evidence of torture or summary execution. That continued throughout the year and last December there were 780 bodies, including 400 having gunshot wounds or wounds as those caused by electric drills.

Dr Pace expresses deep concern over the progress of the Saddam Hussein trial, saying he would have preferred to see the former dictator tried internationally.

After two years serving in Iraq, Dr Pace says that the non-existence of law and order has left society without any protection, clearly reflecting that the US invasion was not properly planned.
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bigverne



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The media just packages it as a religious conflict because it sells more.


Right, the media 'packages' Nigerian Muslims slaughtering Christians and burning Churches as a religious conflict. That must have been a hard one to 'package'.

Simply amazing the lengths that some will go to, to excuse Islamically inspired violence.
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simply amazing the length you've gone to, to ignore the third post.
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bigverne



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The anti-Muslim riot highlighted in the third post, is clearly in retaliation to the anti-Christian violence which occured in the North. The media attempts to portray this as 'six of one, half a dozen of the other', although such violence is almost always instigated by muslims, causing a backlash amongst Christians. This anti-Muslim riot would not have occured, if countless Christians were not killed and numerous Churches burned down in 'revenge' for some cartoons printed in Denmark. Any excuse to instigate Jihad, engage in ethnic cleansing and move Nigeria towards Shariah.
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mithridates wrote:
Simply amazing the length you've gone to, to ignore the third post.


We call that payback where I come from. And there's going to be a lot more of it if Muslims don't get the *beep* over themselves already.
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mithridates



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I call that losing credibility for taking the exact same position over and over again regardless of the circumstances.

I also call that willful ignorance of the fact that Nigeria has over 200 ethnic groups and a lack of interest in any factors besides the obvious religious ones.

The last thing I call that is proof that I could replace a large number of the posters here with bots and nobody would know the difference.
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sundubuman



Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Despite the fact that Muslims have killed thousands of Jews and Christians and Humanists and Animists and Hindus and Buddhists in Holland, France, England, Spain, the United States, Bali, Thailand, India, Russia, Nigeria, the Phillipines, Israel, Kenya, Egypt, Sudan etc....... over the last 5 years, they have killed way more Muslims in even more countries..

So, in fact, Muslims should be suffering more from Islamaphobia than the rest of us.

But if they were to express that very understandable emotion in many parts of the Islamic world, they would open themselves up to even more violence.

Quite a conundrum...huh?
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Leslie Cheswyck



Joined: 31 May 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mithridates wrote:
I call that losing credibility for taking the exact same position over and over again regardless of the circumstances.

I also call that willful ignorance of the fact that Nigeria has over 200 ethnic groups and a lack of interest in any factors besides the obvious religious ones.

The last thing I call that is proof that I could replace a large number of the posters here with bots and nobody would know the difference.


You've played this card before, mith. When people go after each others' places of worship it is difficult to ignore the religious aspect here. Try as you might.
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Kuros



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:46 am    Post subject: African Christianity isn't going to be so tolerant as Europe Reply with quote

If an army moves to Mecca, and razes its foundations, it won't be American or even Western. It will be a Christian army from Africa, where the Christian faith is catching on rapidly.
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fiveeagles



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teufelswacht wrote:
What goes around comes around.....

Quote:
Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

By DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

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.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nigeria_sectarian_violence


That's surprising. That's not Christianity. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
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