kicked off at US consulate in Libya too, 1 American dead FFS

[seasider7]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

[Ashberto]

Another story, on the same page.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-19564705

[Arsenes' Wanger- Bring back Modd]

Christians have done their fair share of killing over the last 2000 years.

[Ashberto]

so that these days it does not want to set fire to anyone it takes offence to.

I'm not aware of any other religion that consistently uses terrorism to attempt to force TV and other media to remove content it objects to on religious grounds.

We currently have a producer on a death threat here which has led to Channel 4 pulling the plug on a programme about Islam.

No, I wasn't a fan of the Spanish Inquisition either but they are not the problem today.

[bostonbrian]

[Ashberto]

http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/a/81/a81bfb697eaf5cdad2adc8c8179a5487-orig

[bostonbrian]

[Chief Arrowhead]

You libs and your moral relevancies really take the cake.

[Arsenes' Wanger- Bring back Modd]

[Chief Arrowhead]

[Arsenes' Wanger- Bring back Modd]

What a wonderful song by Bob Dylan. Still pertinent after more than 40 years...

[Chief Arrowhead]

[Arsenes' Wanger- Bring back Modd]

n Jun 18, 2012 11:54am EDT

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 52 people were killed in religious rioting sparked by three suicide bombings against churches in northern Nigeria, where the dead were on Monday piled up in mortuaries and cemeteries in the city of Kaduna.

A Reuters reporter visited two hospitals in Kaduna, where the rioting broke out on Sunday after suicide car bombers attacked three churches in northern Nigeria, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens.

Christian youths had set up ro*******s and dragged Muslims from cars or motorbikes and killed them, witnesses said.
Although there has been no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday's church bombings, Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an insurgency in the northeast against President Goodluck Jonathan's government, had claimed deadly church attacks on the previous two Sundays, as well as others.

Corpses littered the ground in parts of the city. They were piled one on top of the other in an old cemetery, some charred. A soldier guarding the site said there were at least 30 bodies of people killed in the violence at that site.

They had been dragged to the secluded cemetery, in a majority Christian neighborhood, by the mobs, he said.

"Some people were killed and dumped down wells. We've had violence before, but this is the worst I've seen," he said.

A 24-hour curfew imposed by the Kaduna state government on Sunday largely succeeded in restoring order, residents said.

The violence stoked fears of wider sectarian conflict in Nigeria, an OPEC member and Africa's top oil producer that houses the world's largest equal mix of Christians and Muslims.

In the St Gerald Hospital, spokesman Sunday Aliyu confirmed that there were 40 dead bodies in the hospital morgue and 72 being treated for burns and other wounds.

At Barau Dikko Hospital, Matron Hassana Garba confirmed 12 dead bodies and two injured people receiving treatment.

Mohammed Inuwa said he was lucky to escape with his life. He hid in a bush when rampaging Christian youths pulled Muslim motorcyclists from their vehicles and beat them to death.

"They were mostly killing okada riders (motorbike taxis). I was hiding in the bush while all this was going on. If they saw me, that would be it," the second-hand clothes merchant said, estimating 15 people were killed by the place he was hiding.

INFLAMING TENSIONS

Boko Haram church bombings seem calculated to trigger wider sectarian strife, often striking at the heart of Nigeria's volatile "Middle Belt", where the mostly Christian south and Muslim north meet.

The Islamists' leader, Abubakar Shekau, has said the attacks on Christians were in revenge for the killings of Muslims.

But they have usually failed to spark sustained conflict in a nation whose Muslims and Christians mostly co-exist peacefully, despite periodic flare-ups of sectarian violence since independence from Britain in 1960.

The Vatican issued a statement on Sunday condemning the "systematic attacks against Christian places of worship" which it said proved the existence of an "absurd plan of hate" in Nigeria.

Religiously mixed Kaduna is near the Middle Belt and has several times been a flashpoint. Riots killed hundreds there in April last year when Jonathan, a southern Christian, defeated northern Muslim Muhammadu Buhari in elections.

(Writing and additional reporting by Tim Cocks in Lagos; Editing by Diana Abdallah)

[Chief Arrowhead]

read the whole article, bubba.

[Arsenes' Wanger- Bring back Modd]

If you read the body of my original post, (Christians have done their fair share of killing over the last 2000 years.)
you would see that I do not berate Christianity. My message is that there are wonderful Muslims out there who would be horrified at this violence. It is not the religion that kills people, it is the extremists in religion who kill.
I come from a fundamental Christian family and I can assure you I am aware of such matters.
The fact is all religions are bathed in blood sometime in their history.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could all get along?
Thou shall not kill...