BG Wire: Nigerian Muslims massacre Nigerian Christians, hundreds died

[GRT]

Survivors say Christian villagers were trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsman in attacks with ethnic and religious overtones. Death estimates vary wildly, from 200 to 500.

Reporting from Ratsat, Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, and Lagos, Nigeria -- The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria on Monday as survivors told horrific stories of Christian villagers being trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsmen.

Reports on the death toll differed wildly, with some placing it at about 200 and others reporting 528 killed and thousands injured. Casualty figures in the recurrent Muslim-Christian violence in Nigeria's volatile Plateau state are often difficult to ascertain, as each side inflates its losses.

However, attacks in January and on Sunday have left at least 500 dead, making it the worst violence here for some years.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,1624783.story


and here's a link to the BBC story of the same incident for those who prefer flavorless news!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8555018.stm

[Valkrish]

dante will help them find their way;.

[Kerberoz]

Sooo... "religion forced on us by white invaders" vs "religion forced on us by brown invaders"? That's just so... dignified. GG Africa.

[Neosutra]

In before Neosutra.

[Furtwangler]

Do you do anything besides excessively post news stories?

[Falcon]

LEAVE IT TO MUSLIMS TO ATTACK INNOCENT CHRISTIANS!



And now that we've gotten that inevitable delude into religious violence over with...

Its Nigeria. The place is a shithole, more violence and attacks isn't exactly news, nor is another pseudo-ethnic cleansing going on, with a primitive belief in creation substituted for a primitive belief in bloodlines.

[Correction]

http://i45.tinypic.com/30u78yu.jpg

They shoulda never given you niggas religion.

[Chicomagiko]

Further proof that history repeats itself. Old niggas did this hundreds of years ago. New niggas are doing it again.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

make one thread called 'Religion n shit' so we can avoid rereading news stories and continuing the same debate across 15 threads

[Plow]

In before Neosutra.

Nuh-uh, you were in same time as neo.

make one thread called 'Religion n shit' so we can avoid rereading news stories and continuing the same debate across 15 threads

This isn't old news. This is the retaliation for the one you're thinking of.

[Dareus]

This has been going on for a while.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Nuh-uh, you were in same time as neo.



This isn't old news. This is the retaliation for the one you're thinking of.

No what I mean by re-reading is that people already read news sites or digg or reddit and so on.

[Plow]

Well I would say we should just have a news section, but then general would pretty much be myspace/blogspot mashup.

[foopy]

In before Neosutra.

this is exactly what i thought when i read the OP.

made me smile, thanks.

[Seanr]

i dont know what to make of this. where is Vajra?

[GRT]

Do you do anything besides excessively post news stories?

What else would I do with my life? I would have to commit suicide due to lack of purpose.

No what I mean by re-reading is that people already read news sites or digg or reddit and so on.

Were you you baited inside by my wonderfully curious/unclear/trollish thread headline?

[Faris]

inb4 max, religion kills, zarakdipshit, and the other atheist extremists.

fuck yeah religion threads

[Warudo Ecksu]

lot of religion-related threads on the boards. i hate religion.

[Neosutra]

inb4 max, religion kills, zarakdipshit, and the other atheist extremists.

fuck yeah religion threads

lol.

Moderate reasonably minded theist: "There is a god, that god is good and is responsible for the good in the world, and religion has helped humanity".

Atheist extremist: "There is no god, mankind is responsible for their own actions, and religion has hurt humanity".

Definately not a double standard in labeling. And Firas.. you calling anyone an extremist is just.. wow. That's like me saying someone else is being too intollerant of religion.

[Sepukku]

Ironically my history thesis is on the influence of Islam in Africa, with case studies in Nigeria (West Africa, 50% Muslim, 50% Christian roughly) and Somalia (East Africa, close to 100% Muslim). Woke up and read this on my homepage, free source, extra paragraph for my paper.