Agent99
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The mind boggles at today's news.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/11/21/nigeria.missworld.ap/index.html
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Angry mobs stabbed and set fire to bystanders Thursday in rioting that erupted after a newspaper suggested Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the Miss World beauty pageant. At least 50 people were killed and 200 injured.
The violent demonstrators in the northern city of Kaduna burned churches and rampaged through the streets until hundreds of soldiers were deployed to restore calm and enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
"A lot of people died. We don't know yet exactly how many, more than 50," said Emmanuel Ijewere, the president of the Nigerian Red Cross.
Street demonstrations began Wednesday with the burning of an office of ThisDay newspaper in Kaduna after it published an article questioning Muslim groups that have condemned the Miss World pageant, to be held December 7 in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Muslim groups say the pageant promotes sexual promiscuity and indecency.
"What would (the prophet) Muhammad think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them (the contestants)," Isioma Daniel wrote in Saturday's article.
The newspaper ran a brief front-page apology on Monday, followed by a more lengthy retraction on Thursday, saying the offending passage had run by mistake.
In Thursday's rioting, more than 50 people were stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death and 200 were seriously injured, Ijewere told The Associated Press.
At least four churches were destroyed, he said.
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The article continues with just a brief mention of the fact that 5 countries refused to take part in this year's pageant because the host country, Nigeria, has sentenced several women to death by stoning for conceiving children out of wedlock. Of course, that gets pushed to the backburner.
Forget about what would Jesus drive. It's apparently all about what Mohammed would deride.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/11/21/nigeria.missworld.ap/index.html
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Angry mobs stabbed and set fire to bystanders Thursday in rioting that erupted after a newspaper suggested Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the Miss World beauty pageant. At least 50 people were killed and 200 injured.
The violent demonstrators in the northern city of Kaduna burned churches and rampaged through the streets until hundreds of soldiers were deployed to restore calm and enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
"A lot of people died. We don't know yet exactly how many, more than 50," said Emmanuel Ijewere, the president of the Nigerian Red Cross.
Street demonstrations began Wednesday with the burning of an office of ThisDay newspaper in Kaduna after it published an article questioning Muslim groups that have condemned the Miss World pageant, to be held December 7 in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Muslim groups say the pageant promotes sexual promiscuity and indecency.
"What would (the prophet) Muhammad think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them (the contestants)," Isioma Daniel wrote in Saturday's article.
The newspaper ran a brief front-page apology on Monday, followed by a more lengthy retraction on Thursday, saying the offending passage had run by mistake.
In Thursday's rioting, more than 50 people were stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death and 200 were seriously injured, Ijewere told The Associated Press.
At least four churches were destroyed, he said.
_____
The article continues with just a brief mention of the fact that 5 countries refused to take part in this year's pageant because the host country, Nigeria, has sentenced several women to death by stoning for conceiving children out of wedlock. Of course, that gets pushed to the backburner.
Forget about what would Jesus drive. It's apparently all about what Mohammed would deride.
