Horrible news. I'm glad nobody on this board is justifying these actions or trying to explain where the perpetrators are coming from. Kinda brings up the point that much of what we see and feel is wrong with Islam may indeed be less about the religion and more about the region. The west has had times like this but has grown up. We don't tolerate that type of thing anymore and in most cases don't even try to make up an excuse for it. Islam as a whole is dominant in a region that just really never "grew up" and remains in an era that permits such actions. This occurence brings up the point that it's not so much the religion (although I feel it still plays a large part) but more about location. Africa is another region that hasn't reached the level of understanding that the West has and thus this type of action occurs. Luckily, we haven't heard the worldwide rush to help "understand" the people that did this and have heard condemnation of the act from most.
if we attempt to understand the conflict wont we be able to address it better than if we just say 'we condemn these horrific actions'?
Though a stupid cartoon ignited this powder keg, it really isn't to blame. Next thing you know, people will die from the Brangelina and Jennifer Aniston drama.
Christians defend attacks on Muslims in Nigeria By Craig Timberg The Washington Post ONITSHA, Nigeria — Mobs stopped killing and looting in this battered Nigerian city on Thursday and turned to disposing of the evidence in the crudest of ways. With smoldering bonfires fueled by pieces of wood and old tires, men burned the remains of their Muslim victims on downtown streets, leaving charred remains that motorists swerved to avoid. As the city's thousands of surviving Muslims struggled to return to their northern homes or huddled at police stations, Christian residents expressed little remorse for their role in five days of religious violence sparked by anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. At Onitsha's ruined central mosque, one of two reportedly destroyed Tuesday, Ifeanyi Eze, 34, picked up a piece of charred wood and scrawled on a wall: "Muhammad is a man but Jesus is from above." On the blackened walls of the abandoned mosque itself, others had written "No Muhammad, Jesus Christ is Lord." Eze expressed anger at Muslims for last year's terrorist attack in London and other troubles. "We don't want all this mosque any more," he said. "These are the people who cause problems all over the world ... because they don't fear God. We don't want Muhammad anymore." Nigerian authorities have not announced a definitive death count, but witness accounts made clear the dead in Onitsha numbered at least 42 and perhaps far higher. The Civil Liberties Organization, a respected independent group in Nigeria, meanwhile, said its volunteers had counted more than 70 bodies over two days in Onitsha. They also witnessed police gathering bodies for disposal. Deaths in other Nigerian cities totaled 50 from five days of religious rioting, according to news reports, and many Nigerians were bracing for what they feared would be more retaliatory attacks. The violence has revealed yet again the deep ethnic, regional and religious differences in Africa's most populous nation, split nearly evenly between a Muslim north and a Christian and animist south. In the past decade, Nigeria has seen at least 20,000 deaths from political, ethnic and religious violence. Nigeria is home to more than 200 distinct ethnic groups drawn together in a volatile mix by European colonial mapmakers in the 19th century. The violence was most intense and widespread here in Onitsha, alongside the historic trading route of the Niger River. It has has long been a commercial center. Though the city is considered part of the homeland of the heavily Catholic Ibo ethnic group, thousands of northern Muslims, mostly members of the Hausa ethnic group, have moved here in search of work. Muslim refugees, mostly from the Hausa ethnic group of northern Nigeria, described how mobs of Christian men wielding guns and machetes burst into shops, looted goods and money, then began attacking. The Muslims fled on foot, mostly across the bridge over the wide Niger River. Some were caught, cut to death and burned. Others, said survivors, were thrown into the river. Government health crews began collecting the bodies near the bridge Wednesday afternoon. Police removed many others in the city, according to witnesses. Yet some bodies remained. A few yards from the corpse of a charred man, lying naked on his back in the middle of the road, a group of Onitsha traders said they had no choice but to attack the Muslims living here. "We have to retaliate," said Justin Ifeanyi, 24. "It is a shame to us if we don't kill them."
Oh yes, you did, what about this guy. He looks obviously Christian. http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=PaluLFfv0EI
Absolutely sickening. I'm surprised that the people on this board who accuse Muslims of being apathetic are the ones who are not responding to this. No condemnations anyone?
Hell yes, I comdemn them, this is outrageous.......an eye for an eye....over fricken cartoons...... These people are all just looking for a reason to fight, what a joke....go back 50 years and they are all probably related......same thing with Israel and Palestine, though it may be a few generations back...... Just sickening ! DD
how can you get away with just verbal condemnations but when tiger repeatedly does it its not enough?
