[Reader-list] Nigeria:Massacre Of 500 Christians

[S. Jabbar]

Pawan, talk about selective communal headlines that you recently accused
Javed of posting!  Why post someone's hysterical blog when more detailed and
balanced news is freely available?

The killings in Nigeria have a history located in tensions between different
tribes, some who are cattle-herders and others who are settlers, and are not
simply a case of communal violence. BTW this incident is seen as an act of
vengeance when in January the cattle-herders (who happened to be Muslim)
were attacked and scores were killed.





> From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:09:16 +0530
> To: reader-list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Nigeria:Massacre Of 500 Christians
> 
> Source 
> :
http://centurean2.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/nigeriamassacre-of-500-christians
> -by-muslims/

CHANNEL 4 NEWS LAST NIGHT- SHOWED HUNDREDS OF BODIES PILED UP-
> CHILDREN AND
WOMEN WERE THE HIGHEST IN NUMBERS- BUT INCLUDED MEN TOO- THE
> MUSLIMS HAD
BEEN SHOOTING GUNS INTO THE AIR- WHEN THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN RAN
> OUT ONTO
THE STREETS THE MUSLIMS ARMED WITH SWORDS AND MACHETI¹S CUT THEM
> DOWN- IT
WAS DESCRIBED AS A MASSACRE!!

10,000 Christians have been
> slaughtered by Muslims in the past four years.
And Barack Obama says
> nothing.
Violence against Christians by Muslims in Jos in central Nigeria site
> has
more than one hundred deaths. Sectarian violence in the region in
> January,
took hundreds of lives. The Christian villagers were massacred with
> machetes
and then put in fire.

A witness who visited the village after the
> massacre reported that there
were hundreds of bodies in stacked layers.

The
> Muslim attackers came from the surrounding hills and attacked the
sleeping
> villagers, took them from their homes and slaughtered them with
machetes. Jos
> is located on the border of the Muslim north and predominantly
Christian
> southern Nigeria and is regularly the scene of religious
> riots.
LINK

Approximately 140 million people inhabit Nigeria, the most
> populated country
in Africa. The country is divided by ethnic and religious
> differences. 60%
of the population is Muslim living mostly in the North of the
> country.
Christians mainly inhabit the South. The introduction of the Sharia
> law 10
years ago in 12 states provoked a series of riots throughout the
> country. In
August 2004 the Islamic government in the Zamfara state threatened
> to
demolish all churches considered as illegal structures, close all
> businesses
belonging to Christians during Muslim prayers, and enforce a new
> law against
clothing that is not compliant with Islamic
> law.
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