Nigerian President Obasanjo (UN photo)
Ten churches torched for one copy of the Qur'an. From AFP:
Kano - At least 10 churches were torched and one police station vandalised when Nigerian Muslims rioted after a young Christian defaced a copy of Islam's holy Qur’an, a witness said on Monday.Rioting broke out on Saturday in the religiously mixed northern town of Makarfi, hometown of Kaduna State's Governor Ahmed Makarfi, local resident Yusuf Abubakar said.
"A teenager, who is said to have a mental defect, went into an Islamic school, took a copy of the Qur’an from one of the students and tore it. This provoked the students and people nearby who pounced on the teenager," he said.
"His mother, who recently moved to Makarfi with her teenage son from Calabar in the south-east, managed to rescue him from his assailants and ran into the only police station in town for safety," Abubakar said.
Muslim youths attacked the police station, smashing windows and damaging two patrol vehicles, before burning down ten churches, he said.
Kaduna State's deputy governor, Stephen Shekari, later made a radio broadcast appealing for calm and warning that rioters would be prosecuted.
So far there have been no reports of anyone being seriously hurt in the disturbances, and large numbers of officers from Nigeria's feared Mobile Police have been deployed to keep order, Abubakar said.
In recent years sectarian rioting in northern Nigeria has left thousands dead, and widened the divide between the region's rival Muslim and Christian communities.
Another excuse for the islam muslim to attack christians. All they needed was one mentally challenged individual doing something he did not know what it was he was doing and off they run to do their islam love; destroy and kill. One child and thousands of muslims; its great.
Some 2000 churches have been destroyed in Indonesia in the last year or so.
Now its easy o see why!
Only this almost never gets reported in the western prss.
Only when the Christians are white do we hear anything.
It's time we started to include all victims of islamic horror.
it is islam that we are at war with, be christian or jew, black or white or yellow or red; this is a religious war not a race war.
"...when Nigerian Muslims rioted after a young Christian defaced a copy of Islam's holy Qur’an, a witness said on Monday. ( Christian? what brand?)
"...Muslim youths attacked the police station, smashing windows and damaging two patrol vehicles, before burning down ten churches, he said". (sounds like L.A after the Rodney King verdict. It also sounds like the police there don't have any respect from the people. I guess they have been using the liberal "BE-NICE" approach at enforcing the law.)
"...A teenager, who is said to have a mental defect, went into an Islamic school, took a copy of the Qur’an from one of the students and tore it." (yeah right, blame it on a mental defect. Aren't all non-muslims in a muslim dominated country considered having a mental defect?)
A riot because the "defacement of a Koran." Riots because of "blaphemy" by non-Muslims or "apostate" Muslims. Riots after sermons. Do we see a pattern?
I guess Ishouldn't send them a picture of me using the Koran as toilet paper then? Pity, after I had a nice pigskin binding made for it.
All Chritians should boycott all goods from Indonesia, Pakistan & all Muslim counties that persecute Christians.
Send the Muslims in the West out & let the Chritians from these countries enter .U can be sure that at least they will not bomb America or the West.