JOS, Nigeria - Muslim youths set a church filled with worshipers ablaze in northern Nigeria, starting a riot that killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 300 others in the latest religious violence in the region, officials said yesterday.
This truly saddens me if true. Don't play into Zionist hands by attacking Christians, Muslims. Of course, because of the never-ending and incessant distortions and lies by my *ewspaper I no longer believe in sectarianism as they define it. A lot of times you find out people were living together rather peacefully until USrael showed up.
About 5,000 people lost their homes as rioters also burned mosques and homes in Jos, a city that saw more than 300 residents killed during a similar uprising in 2008, said local Red Cross official Auwal Muhammad Madobi. He said he had no information about deaths. Police officials declined to offer a count of the dead.
Now I'm confused.
Sani Mudi, a spokesman for the local imam, said 22 people died Sunday after rioters set fire to a Catholic church, starting a daylong wave of violence between Christians and Muslims.
And WHO BENEFITS on that one, huh?
Who spends all this time lying to each of and carrying out false flag operations to trick us?
Five others died yesterday from their wounds, and police and soldiers set up numerous roadblocks throughout Jos.
Of course, that plays into the hands of the authorities.
The bodies of 10 youths, marked with bullet holes and machete wounds, were seen at a local hospital yesterday. On Sunday, witnesses told reporters they saw 10 bodies at a mosque in the city. It was unclear whether the bodies in the hospital were the same ones seen in the mosque.
The rioting began Sunday, when the youths attacked a church, said Gregory Yenlong, a state government spokesman. Yenlong said he didn’t know why the young men set the blaze. “That’s what’s being investigated,’’ he said.
I have a pretty good idea.
Police arrested 35 people who they suspect took part in the rioting, Yenlong said. He also said a dusk-to-dawn curfew would remain in place on Jos for the coming days.
Now the government looks suspicious, as they always do in these situations where they are asserting their power, cui bono?
Kabiru Mohammed, a Muslim resident who lost his home in the 2008 violence, told reporters yesterday that after he recently started to rebuild his house, local Christian youths surrounded it and demanded that he stop construction. “They said the area now belongs to them,’’ Mohammed said. Jos is in the heart of northern Nigeria, home to the nation’s Muslim population. Religious violence, largely based on local disputes rather than global conflicts, has struck Jos in the past.
Which means it really isn't about religion at all.
Rioting in 2001 killed more than 1,000 people and Muslim-Christian battles killed up to 700 people in 2004.
And the (rhymes with) you-know-whos must be loving it.
Always where there is OIL, too, ever notice that?
Follow-up (photo only):
RELIGIOUS UNREST -- A woman handed out food yesterday at a displaced persons camp in Jos, a city in central Nigeria. The death toll after four days of clashes between Muslims and Christians in the city and nearby communities has topped 460, according to a mosque official and human rights activists. Nigeria's vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, has ordered police and military to put a stop to the fighting.
They must have because the Globe stopped covering it.
It gets one day of print and that's it?
Meanwhile, I'm full-up on "terrorists, terrorists, terrorists," every day.
