Muslim rioters burn 13 churches in north Nigeria

Reuters ^ | Nov. 20, 2003

[Alouette]

LAGOS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Islamic militants burned to the ground thirteen churches and several houses in a remote northern Nigerian town after a Christian student was accused of blasphemy, police said on Thursday.

Irate youths torched churches, houses and shops late on Tuesday in Kazaure, some 80 km (50 miles) north of Kano, a northern provincial capital where hundreds have died in religious clashes in the past three years.

The dispute began when a Christian student was accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad and a group of Muslims were not satisfied with the response of school authorities.

Abubakar Sale, police commissioner in the northern Jigawa state, told Reuters that the rioters attempted to invade the school but were repelled by police.

"The hoodlums then mobilised and went into town where they started looting and burning people's property," Sale said by phone from Dutse, the state capital.

"Thirteen churches were burnt, several houses and shops were torched, but there were no deaths," said Keirian Dudari, assistant inspector general of police in Kano.

Police said the town was calm on Thursday after reinforcements were deployed to quell the riots.

The violence came after three students were killed and more than 30 injured in fighting between Muslims and Christians at a university in northeastern city of Maiduguri earlier this month.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in religious violence in northern Nigeria in the past four years since the introduction of Islamic sharia law in 12 states.

[Travis McGee]

The true face of Mad Mo's Insane Murder Cult, revealed.

[ought-six]

Ah, yes...Islam, the religion of peace.

[ought-six]

"Why is any criticism or Mohammed met with such violence in your Muslim world?"

I think they go ballistic at any criticism of Mohammed because they realize the guy was a charlatan, and they are embarrassed by it, and are ashamed they -- and many millions of others -- bought into the fraud hook, line and sinker. They are in denial.

[ought-six]

"Treat us as you would like to be treated."

Interesting comment. Would you like us to treat you the way the Islamists treat everyone other than fellow Moslems? We can do that, you know.

[BayouCoyote]

That explains it rather well. Curse to their mustaches!!

[Twinkie]

Islam, the religion of peace. Hope this type of
thing doesn't happen here. No wonder people are
dubious about so many of them deciding they want
to live here. Okay as long as they don't decide
to try to make this a Muslim country.

[Mark17]

A pretty spirited religion of peace alert. Check out some of these posts.

[tubavil]

Happy ramadan everybody, several days left.

First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.

[P-Marlowe]

We should be proud as Americans that we have hate crime legislation in place.

Are you out of your mind????

The LAST thing we need in this nation is hate crime legislation. Hate crime legislation is nothing more than a hammer on the right of free speech. It is an invitation to tyranny. In Canada it is now a hate crime to say that homosexuality is not normal. Would that make you proud to be a Canadian?

Your political views are obviously as twisted as your religious views.

Repent and follow Jesus!

[Delphinium]

I have a friend who is a Pastor not far from Nairobi, Kenya. He says that when the Americans quit coming as tourists because of fear, etc it really hurt their country financially. Kenya had been a predominately Christian country until the Muslims started moving in offering lots of money to bribe, and entice the people.

[tubavil]

"First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people"

This is frequently mentioned in islamic sermons. It is common graffiti in 'palestine'.

I put it here so Christians who may be unaware of it, are.

We (Christians and Jews) have a common enemy and the sooner everyone is on the same page, the better.

[sprunged]

Nonsense!!!!This is all just a Zionist plot to discredit us peaceloving Muslims. Jihad really means the process of baking cookies.

[sport]

No way! islam [muslims] is the religion of peace.

It could have been spontanous combustion, lighting strikes, a metorite, or anything that one's imagination could come up with.

But muslims?

Never, never, never!

[Celtman]

We (Christians and Jews) have a common enemy and the sooner everyone is on the same page, the better.

      Indeed.  We are seeing today the biggest surge of muslim conquest since the middle ages.  The rest of the world, including GWB, needs to wake up and smell the stench.