Terrorist in the name of Islam is Islam.

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Terrorism under the name 'Islam' is still terrorism - and must be stopped.

This is not clear. Did both groups simultaneously decide to burn each others places of worship, or was the belligerence pretty much limited to one side, as in... the same folks who were chanting "Americans are infidels"?

KANO , Nigeria, Oct 13 (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed in Nigeria in anti-American riots on Saturday and thousands of demonstrators joined peace marches in London and Berlin.

Nigerian authorities ordered police to shoot on sight and clamped a night curfew on Kano , the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north, after some of the most violent anti-American protests in Africa since U.S. air strikes on Afghanistan began.

Army tanks criss-crossed the streets to quell riots which followed a pattern of Muslim-Christian clashes that have killed thousands in oil-producing Nigeria over the past two years.

"There is rampant shooting in the streets," said resident Jibrin Idris, who said he was trapped in a building with scores of people in the city's commercial district.

"Churches, mosques and shops are on fire. There is smoke everywhere," he said by telephone.

In London, Muslims and Christians marched side by side in a protest against the bombing of Afghanistan that attracted more than 20,000 people, according to police estimates.

"We're here because there are thousands of people across Britain who know that the bombing of Afghanistan is not going to put an end to terrorism," said Carol Naughton, chairman of the protest organisers, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

"We need to stop the bombing and go right back to diplomatic ways to end this crisis," she told Reuters.

Germany also saw its biggest protest so far against the air strikes, launched a week ago in retaliation for the attacks on the United States last month that killed around 5,500 people.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who are sheltering the chief suspect in the attacks, Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, estimate that more than 300 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in the raids. There has been no independent confirmation.

Protest organisers said some 30,000 people turned out in Berlin, but police put the figure at about 14,000. Protesters came from some 140 different groups, ranging from far-left Marxist parties to the far-right neo-Nazi NPD party.

GERMANS "LEERY OF WAR"

"The horror of World War Two makes all of us in Germany leery of war," said physician Hannes Wand, 54, at the rally held under blue skies and unusually warm autumn weather.

"I'm against this war because it's not justified and innocent people are being killed and forced to flee their homes."

Police said an estimated 5,000 people protested in the Swiss capital Berne, and about 4,000 in the southwest German city of Stuttgart. Smaller protests were held in other parts of the non-Islamic world, including Australia.

In Nigeria, the army moved tanks into Kano 's Sabon Gari market area early on Saturday after Christian churches and mosques were set on fire in rioting on Friday.

Community leaders said rioters killed at least six female school students on their way to take university entrance exams.

Police said they found another two bodies in the street, one hacked by a machete, and a witness said he was seeking refuge in a police station when eight more bodies were brought in.

Mike Idika, a leader of the predominantly Christian Igbo community, which accounts for most of city's merchants, said more than 200 people were injured and sent to hospital.

Local residents said the protests were hijacked by hoodlums from the city's army of unemployed youth, who chanted "May God destroy America!" and "Americans are terrorists".

Brandishing posters of bin Laden, they burned American flags and effigies of U.S. President George W. Bush and Nigerian Foreign Minister Sule Lamido, who has backed the U.S. attacks.

In India, at least 12 people were injured in a clash between Hindus and Muslims after Hindus tried to burn portraits of bin Laden in the eastern state of Bihar, authorities said.

U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan began last Sunday after the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden.

"The first casualty in this war has been the rule of law. President Bush must declare there will be justice for the Palestinians and sanctions against Iraq must be lifted," Dr. Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain which supported the London rally, told Reuters.

The demonstrators turned Trafalgar Square into a sea of colourful banners echoing with chanting against the bombing. No arrests were reported.

"It's the most socially diverse we've ever seen. This shows it is not a conflict between Islam and the West....all those in favour of human rights oppose the U.S. and U.K. bombings," said Mike Marqusee, a leading member of the Stop the War Coalition.

In Berlin, there were minor scuffles with police as protesters marched through the central government quarter and past the Brandenburg Gate, foreign ministry and city hall.

Banners read: "War is genocide", "War is not the solution" and "Stop Bush's war". Singers performed anti-war folk songs of the 1960s from the backs of flat-bed trucks.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder criticised the peace rally, saying the demonstrators were being misled.

"Turn your focus on those who started this conflict," Schroeder said in an interview with the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, due to appear on Sunday. (additional reporting by Hannah Cowdy in London and Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin).

John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight...

Fighting for Jesus is not the job of a Christian, and hence the use of the term 'christians fighting' is proof of the fact that they are NOT servants of Jesus, REGARDLESS of what they SAY.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The above verses should shake each and every one of us that CLAIM the title of a 'christian' and then do NOT do as He as commanded. You will note that Jesus did not deny that they had actually done some good things....it didn't matter.

HE never knew them...

Maybe their regret lasts only as long as we are willing to be stupid sheep waiting for the next slaughter. He hasn't sent any e-mails since the beginning of our military response. However, the initial reaction in all parts of Muslim Africa was not as this article suggests.

WFTR
America's War Options.
Bill

Ya think?

we're fighting back against those who have been murdering our countrymen for almost a decade.
we're fighting against an entire network of terrorists who have been remarkably successful in getting away with repeated attacks on our military, clivilians, and embassies.
we're fighting for the ideas of Justice, Freedom, and national security.

True, but it's a good place to start.

Let's hope everyone starts catching on, instead of photo opps with "good" Muslims.

I don't worry about living next a large contingent of Muslims. Of course I live in American where the Founding Fathers said that God gave me the right to Keep and Bear Arms! So...if your are afraid of a group of low-lifes, get some guns, get trained then LOCK'N'LOAD your fears away!

You should move to northern Nigeria and put your exegetical edict into practice. It is easy to preach your brand of Scriptural interpretation when you live in ease. Move to Nigeria to the northern part and let us see how quickly your understanding of Scripture changes.

Twenty years ago, Nigeria had a substantial number of Christians, most of them Anglicans (Church of England.) Many, many Christians have been killed or driven into exile by Islamofascists who have now imposed fundamentalist "Islamic law" on everyone. What Americans have to understand is that no matter how many Muslims and Christians march "side-by-side" in London or Berkeley, CA, this kind of Islamic dictatorship is committed to the *killing* of anyone who is not of their particular kind of Islam. This means "moderate" Muslims, Christians, Jews, and those of the pagan "animist" African religions too. They are all grist for grinding in the mill.

The Communists had a word for it - "praxis." There was all the nice things said about Communism in "theory," and then there was Communist "praxis" (practice.) Well, here you see Islamic dictatorship "praxis."

But you KNEW that, didn't you? Well, DIDN'T you?