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Africa Subsaharan
10 killed in religious clashes in Nigeria
2006-02-21
KANO: Ten people died on Monday and more than 40 injured in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi following clashes between Muslims and Christians over the supposed desecration of the Koran, a Red Cross official said. The official however pointed out that the violence was not linked to SaturdayÂ’s riots in northern Nigeria over the publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammed by a Danish newspaper which claimed at least 24 lives.
"Nope. Nope. We got riots enough to serve every need."
“The incident started at 10am today at the Government Comprehensive High School,” after a teacher allegedly confiscated a Muslim religious document a female student was reading in class,” Red Cross disaster management official Adronicus Adeyemo said, citing reports from the town. “It later spread to the town. Ten people died, six of them burnt and more than 40 others were injured, some of them with machetes,” he said.
Because she took a book away from an inattentive student.
Residents of Bauchi said that the students beat up the teacher after assuming that she had confiscated the Holy Quran.
Ah, yes. There is bravery in numbers, isn't there?
The rumour spread like wildfire across the city, sparking the violence, they added. Bauchi trader Sani Haris said that the studentÂ’s peers went on the rampage in the school, destroying property and prompting school authorities to call in the police who restored order after firing teargas.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Let's be clear about this. The Muslims started to burn some 30 churches after a local paper published pictures of the pedophile for prophet. These current riots are simply the Christians fighting back. Good for them.
Posted by: Glaise Throting8568   2006-02-21 23:25  

#1  Well, "no big deal", if I may (horribly) say so.

Right after 9/11, the Nigeria deathtoll of inter-religious-non-specified-violences(tm) was about 10 000, with hamlets attacked by crowds brandishing portraits of UBL, like in Indonesia right after the NYC attacks... most of them deaders were christian minorities living in muslim north, of course...

Since 2001, there was the Miss world riots, more ethnic cleasing, more sharia, more arabization, more burnt churches... one of the unreported bloody frontiers of the ROP... ah, if only they could be paleostinians, then perhaps this would make international news.

Anyway, the *usual* numbers of christians killed for their faith around the world is about 8000-10 000 a month.
No need to say which other revealed religion is the most responsible for theses persecutions, I guess.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-02-21 04:12  

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