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Not a Tiny Minority of Extremists in some obscure mosque -- no, these were members of the Nigerian Parliament. From the BBC, with thanks to Twostellas:
Nigerian MPs cheered in the northern majority Muslim state of Kano as Danish and Norwegian flags were burned in a ceremony in the parliament premises.The flags were torched to show disapproval of the publication in Denmark and Norway of cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Earlier Kano state MPs passed a resolution to call off multi-million dollar trade negotiations with Denmark.
In Niger, thousands took part in banned protests against the cartoons....
In Somalia, a teenage boy died after protesters attacked police on Monday....
The BBC's Ado Saleh in Kano says some 200 people, including the 40 state parliamentarians, attended the flag burning.
Posted by Robert at February 7, 2006 11:22 AM
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Are there gonna be enough Danish flags to go round?
I hope those machinists in Denmark are working overtime....or are they manufactured in Pak?
Posted by: Naseem![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 7, 2006 11:28 AM
Just curious, but while the BBC uses the phrase "the Prophet Mohammed," when they refer to Jesus, do they say, "the Son of God, Jesus"? Or instead of Mary, say, "Holy Mary Mother of God"? Why the double standard?
Posted by: Seymour Paine at February 7, 2006 11:35 AM
Seymour Paine said:-
"Just curious, but while the BBC uses the phrase "the Prophet Mohammed," when they refer to Jesus, do they say, "the Son of God, Jesus"? Or instead of Mary, say, "Holy Mary Mother of God"? Why the double standard?"
Unfortunately, they HAVE to make a distinction between Jesus and Mohamed because if they don't some muslim might get confused and think it is some guy in Queens they're talking about. In case you haven't noticed every other bloody muslim is called "Mohamed". For example, Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Mohamed, Mohamed ibn mohamed, oh and don't forget the ever popular Mohamed ibn ibn ibn Mohamed Mohamed.
Shunkleash (PBUH)
Posted by: Shunkleash at February 7, 2006 12:55 PM
Any accounting of how much money the West, European Union, or Americans give to run this country?
Let them boycott a block of cheese and let the west withhold their multimillion dollar check.
Posted by: alaskan1000 at February 7, 2006 1:18 PM
Say what you will about these zany Nigerian Moslems. But they bring something to the global party of Islam that no else does: Moslems who can dance.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at February 7, 2006 2:27 PM
Alaskan:
Danish foreign aid:
Danida, Denmark's foreign aid organisation, will receive DKK 600 million (EUR 80 million) more in 2007 than it did this year. In all, the government will allocate DKK 12.8 billion (EUR 1.72 billion) to foreign aid next year, reported national daily Politiken on Monday. "
"Most of the new funds will go to programmes in Africa, according to the minister for development cooperation, Ulla Tørnæs."
"The government's focus on Africa was highlighted by the choice of Mali as its newest programme partnership country. As a programme partnership country, Mali will work with Denmark over the next 20 years to reduce poverty."
"ali will join Benin, Burkina Faso, and Ghana as Danida programme countries."
"In addition, Danida will nearly double its aid to Niger, contributing DKK 80 million (EUR 11 million) to improve water supplies and food safety in the world's most impoverished country.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VBOL-6KXEVN?OpenDocument
Be careful what you wish for (i.e. cutting off ties to Denmark), you may get it.
Posted by: johnb at February 7, 2006 2:42 PM
Are there gonna be enough Danish flags to go round?
I hope those machinists in Denmark are working overtime....or are they manufactured in Pak?
Posted by: Naseem at February 7, 2006 11:28 AM
Doubtless the manufacturing was done outside of Europe, in one or the other of the very few Muslim nations that actually has industry of any sort.
As for Nigeria getting in on the act, in a true act of chutzpah (or what Naseem might describe as Muslim spirit), members of the Sudanese government led a demonstration of about 15,000 to the Danish embassy. Yes, Sudan, that global bastion of human rights and dignity.
at February 7, 2006 2:53 PM
Where and how do they manage to get theses flags that they burn??
Posted by: Ironman Hondo at February 7, 2006 3:54 PM
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