[Reader-list] Nigeria:Massacre Of 500 Christians

[S. Jabbar]

Happy Navreh Pawan.  The point of my last intervention was that it was NOT
about religious extremism.  As for your exchange with Javed and others I can
only say that I was dismayed by the personal nature of the attacks and quite
frankly I stopped reading the posts after a while.  If you ask me what I
think happened in the mock drill, I believe there are only 2 possibilities--
this is because I happen to be trained in firearms- one, the DCP was stark
raving mad or two, he intended to cause grievous injury.  I cannot believe
it was an accident.  Even a novice trainee in handguns would not point with
a loaded gun let alone shoot.  BTW the gun must be cocked to be able to
fire.  Then the safety catch must be released.  That the DCP had a loaded
weapon and then managed to do both things is astonishing.  Anyway, we will
know the truth sooner or later.


> From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:09:05 +0530
> To: "S. Jabbar" <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> Cc: Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Nigeria:Massacre Of 500 Christians
> 
> Hello Sonia ,
> 
> Belated Navreh Wishes
> 
> Thank you for the information shared. Any life lost because of
> religious extremism is condemnable.
> 
> I have shared the source .
> 
> Since you have expressed your views on my posting , i would like to
> know from you whether my protest on Javeds post was justified.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pawan
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:41 AM, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any further doubts should be cleared by this:
>> 
>> Vatican: Nigeria violence not due to religion
>> 
>> 3/8/2010, 9:07 a.m. EST
>> ar/fd
>> The Associated Press
>> (AP) ‹ VATICAN CITY - The Vatican says that economic and social reasons, not
>> religious hatred, are behind violence in Nigeria that has killed more than
>> 200 people.
>> 
>> The violence Sunday took place in three mostly Christian villages.
>> 
>> Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi condemned the violence and said
>> Monday that the conflict must be interpreted in the light of social,
>> economic, ethnic and cultural factors rather than religious hatred.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lombardi cited an interview by Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria,
>> in which he said the clashes resulted from conflict between Muslim shepherds
>> and Christian farmers. The archbishop told Vatican Radio that the killings
>> weren't due to religion.
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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