Posted on 11/29/2008 5:37:54 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
At least 20 people, including one policeman, have been killed in riots in the Nigerian city of Jos after local elections, aid workers say.
A local journalist told the BBC that Muslim opposition supporters had gone on the rampage when they heard their candidate to head the council had lost.
This sparked unrest in the religiously divided city, with Christians burning mosques and Muslims burning churches.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed and the army sent to restore order.
In 2001, more than 1,000 people died in religious clashes in the city.
An unnamed Red Cross worker told Reuters news agency that at least 20 people had been killed and 300 wounded in the clashes.
"Very early this morning a group of protesters macheted to death a policeman," one witness told Reuters.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
BTTT
Coming soon to a metro area near you . . .
The natives would have rioted here too, if the muslim lost.
Izzit my imagination of do the Muzzies seem emboldened this week? Hmmmmmm.....why now?
Sounds a lot like Democrats.
We’re too locked into the national model. We have to see it as worldwide.
Now it becomes clear....Democrats and Muzzies have a lot more in common they either group is willing to admit.
They need to be removed from society and sent back to the third world cesspools that bred them. Given freedom and opportunity they still behave like animals. Some don’t, but those that do represent every single one.
One shot one kill..end of problem
Election riots, election riots ... Thailand, Nigeria, hmmm, I wonder why this is such a popular topic in the news of late?
LOL. They’re in a third world cesspool.
Nigeria? Uh, oh, does this mean I won’t be getting that $20 million that I’ve been promised?
Yes, but I am also referring to the ones that are on our shores. It is not too late.
Excerpt:
"Reacting to the crisis, Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state, Arch Bishop Ignatius Kaigama expressed shock that churches and clergy men became targets over a purely political matter.
Addressing a press conference, yesterday, he called on the state government to come to the aid of those displaced or injured and to bring to book those behind the crisis.
“We are greatly taken aback by the turn of events in Jos. We thought it was a political issue, but, from all indications, it is not so. We are surprised at the way some of our churches and property were attacked and some of our faithful and clergy killed.
“The attacks were carefully planned and executed. The questions that bog our minds are: Why were churches and clergy attacked and killed? Why were politicians and political party offices not attacked, if it was a political conflict? Why were the business premises and property of innocent civilians destroyed? We strongly feel that it was not political but a pre-meditated act under the guise of elections”, CAN said."
Please let us know if any of you hear any mention of this in your church.
It would be interesting to know how often, in these days when Christians all over the world under under greater attack and persecution than they have been for several hundred years, this worldwide phenomenon is discussed by comparison, let us say to such burning questions (so to speak) as whether homosexuals should be ordained.
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