Sunday, February 19, 2006
Just another excuse for killing infidels
Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.
"Confrontation"? Is a one-sided massacre considered a confrontation? And isn't it about time more people wake up to what's going on in the world?
But it was in Nigeria, where mutual suspicions between Christians and Muslims have led to thousands of deaths in recent years, that tensions boiled over into sectarian violence.
Thousands of rioters burned 15 churches in Maiduguri in a three-hour rampage before troops and police reinforcements restored order, Nigerian police spokesman Haz Iwendi said. Iwendi said security forces arrested dozens of people in the city about 1,000 miles northeast of the capital, Lagos.
Chima Ezeoke, a Christian Maiduguri resident, said protesters attacked and looted shops owned by minority Christians, most of them with origins in the country's south.
Mutual suspicions? Sectarian violence? Oh how even-handed the MSM is. Sounds like Muslims massacring non-Muslims (again) to me.
At the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, U.S. Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes said U.S. newspapers generally did not reprint the caricatures "because they recognize they are deeply offensive, even blasphemous to the precious convictions of our Muslim friends and neighbors."
I hope she said the word "precious" with the appropriate tone of voice, as if one was talking about a petulant child, which is how the Muslims are behaving (as usual). But I doubt it.
"Confrontation"? Is a one-sided massacre considered a confrontation? And isn't it about time more people wake up to what's going on in the world?
But it was in Nigeria, where mutual suspicions between Christians and Muslims have led to thousands of deaths in recent years, that tensions boiled over into sectarian violence.
Thousands of rioters burned 15 churches in Maiduguri in a three-hour rampage before troops and police reinforcements restored order, Nigerian police spokesman Haz Iwendi said. Iwendi said security forces arrested dozens of people in the city about 1,000 miles northeast of the capital, Lagos.
Chima Ezeoke, a Christian Maiduguri resident, said protesters attacked and looted shops owned by minority Christians, most of them with origins in the country's south.
Mutual suspicions? Sectarian violence? Oh how even-handed the MSM is. Sounds like Muslims massacring non-Muslims (again) to me.
At the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, U.S. Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes said U.S. newspapers generally did not reprint the caricatures "because they recognize they are deeply offensive, even blasphemous to the precious convictions of our Muslim friends and neighbors."
I hope she said the word "precious" with the appropriate tone of voice, as if one was talking about a petulant child, which is how the Muslims are behaving (as usual). But I doubt it.
# posted by Paul @ 1:36 AM 
