Posted on 05/14/2004 10:18:52 PM PDT by Destro
Christians flee bloodshed in northern Nigeria
Tume Ahemba in Kano
Saturday May 15, 2004
The Guardian
Christians chased out of their homes by Muslims during three days of bloody riots in Nigeria's northern city of Kano fled the town on buses as tension mounted in the area.
Hundreds of people, mostly Christians, were burned and hacked to death by rioting Muslim mobs over two days this week in Kano in a reprisal for the killing of hundreds of Muslims in central Nigeria 10 days ago.
"People are saturated with fear, especially today being Friday, so they are leaving," said Adamson Gbangange, from Gombe in eastern Nigeria, as he boarded a bus heading east.
A reported 22,000 Christians sought refuge in police barracks across the city to escape rampaging youths armed with knives and petrol.
Nigeria's population of 130 million is roughly split between Muslims and Christians. At least 6,000 people have been killed in religious violence in northern Nigeria since democracy returned in 1999.
OK, another Kosovo thread bites the dust. On this one I am seeing calls for genocide, graphics depicting all of Islam as being akin to Nazism, and other crap. You'll lose each and every one of your beloved Kosovo threads as long as it continues. If you want it to vanish from FR as a topic, keep it up.
Will the Nigerian posts be pulled, also?
Matthew 27:46 "Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me ?’ "
Blessing Adaiyi's sister was killed in the violence
This is why my aunt, her Nigerian Christian husband, and my 2 cousins left the country in 2000. They lived in southern Nigeria, but even there the religious tensions were bad.
nah, these won't be pulled, the connection between nazism and islam is not as apparent here... in Nigeria the Islamics are not at all like the Nazis... because they have run out of Jews to kill, they are reverting to killing 10's of thousands of Christians.
most of the world's trouble spots are fueled by islamics.
Most honest americans doubt the reality of "moderate islam".
I've heard numbers of up to two million Christians are dead.
And the muslims continue to slaughter christians in the kosovo quagmire...
Islam is the problem.
That is becoming increasingly apparent every day, even to those who USED TO repeat that mantra "islam is peace." Killing jews and christians... is a command in their scripture.
allah akbar = their call to murder!
Ahhh Islam... the Religion of Peace!
So where are the hypocrites in the world press, and where are the pictures of these atrocities? Strange, I don't hear Katiscum Couric hyperventilating over this one.
Could it be the "unbiased" World Press favors these murders of Christians, and are given to protecting the murderers from the rest of the world?
The day will come when those in the media who have helped destroy freedom around the world will see their own families subjected to the atrocities that Christians have be subjected to for years. And who will the media turn to for help then, I wonder? All the money from their high salaries won't buy a minute more of life from them and their loved ones.
Sent note to local Lib Rag (St.Pete Times) re killing of 1000's of Christians elsewhere in Africa....got response from Susan Martin that 100's of Muslims had been killed by Christians in Nigeria.....as said, just 'tit for tat' to a Liberal....
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