| FrontPageMag.com | By Robert Spencer | By Hugh Fitzgerald | Books | Jihad Watch | Islam 101 | Qur'an Blog | Raymond Ibrahim | Robert Spencer |  |
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
"Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends"
Reuters is quick to deny that religious and ethnic fighting in rural Nigeria has anything to do with religious and ethnic ties.
LAGOS (Reuters) - More than 100 people were believed killed and 1,000 wounded in fresh ethnic and religious fighting in central Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Friday.The death toll from Tuesday's fighting between Muslims and Christians in six remote farming villages on the border between Plateau and Taraba states has been slow to emerge, partly because the telephone lines are not working in Taraba.
Reuters, showing that it has forgotten the Miss World riot, the Kaduna massacres, and the implementation of sharia in Northern Nigeria says:
The Muslim Fulani, who live principally from cattle herding, and the Christian Tarok, who are subsistence farmers, are fighting mainly over land and cattle. Most of the killing is done with large cutlasses and in arson attacks.
Posted by Robert at April 30, 2004 11:33 AM
Print this entry
| Email this entry
| Digg this
| del.icio.us
Rats! There went the record for the Lincoln County Wars.
Posted by: Rick at April 30, 2004 11:41 AMI've got the title to Brooklyn Bridge, if Reuters wants to buy.
Posted by: Helen at April 30, 2004 1:15 PMLooks like the new Sharia installment just gave the Muslims license to flip out.
Posted by: Jenifer at April 30, 2004 5:14 PM
(Note: The Comments section is provided in the interests of free speech only. It is mostly unmoderated, but comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying stand a chance of being deleted. The fact that any comment remains on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch, or by Robert Spencer or any other Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch writer, of any view expressed, fact alleged, or link provided in that comment.)