Posted on 06/19/2019 5:04:45 PM PDT by robowombat
Niger: Muslim mob torches Christian church, pastor’s car
JUN 19, 2019 11:14 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
The persecution of Christians is ongoing, with increasing international indifference. Meanwhile, in Europe, Canada, and the U.S., earnest conferences about “Islamophobia” portray Muslims as being the victims of unique discrimination and harassment in the West, a false narrative that has been advanced with great effectiveness.
“Muslim Mob Burns Christian Church,” by Jeff Katz, WRVA, June 18, 2019:
A mob of Muslim activists ransacked and set fire to a Christian church in Niger this weekend to protest the arrest of an influential imam.
On Saturday night, a large group of protesters in Maradi, Niger torched the Assembly of God church along with the pastor’s car.
Witnesses said that groups of Muslim demonstrators laid barricades across the road and burnt old tires in protest of the arrest of Cheick Rayadoune, the imam of the mosque of Zaria.
Police arrested Rayadoune earlier on Saturday after he had preached against a new government bill on the organization of the exercise of worship, calling the proposed legislation “anti-Islam.” After being detained for several hours, he was released.
A senior official of Niger’s Ministry of the Interior said there is “nothing anti-Islamic” in the proposed legislation, which is the result of extensive consultation and is intended to counter measures advocated by “obscurantist terrorist organizations” in the country.
The bill still needs to be adopted by Parliament to become law.
Imam Rayadoune has since said he was misinformed about the bill’s contents, thinking it would impose same-sex marriage. He also said he would correct that in his upcoming sermon Friday. Police have detained 178 Muslim protestors as a result of Saturday’s violence
So to fill in for Nigeria today we have Niger and it is one of the screwiest yet. The pastor is lucky he wasn't incinerated also. Fun loving guys these muzzards
Oh come on. They probably won a soccer match. Let them torch those things for once - Celine Dion
wow they won and now don’t have a ride home
Africa always wins.
Soon these will be the ‘downtrodden’ who will be flocking to our southern border. Everyone of any ethnicity should be afraid, very afraid of what is to come.
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