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Originally posted by Agent47
They are not educated enough to put capable people in positions of leadership, look at Yasser Arafat.
Originally posted by THENEO
Did somebody say half christian and half muslim? Whoah! that sounds unmanageable to me.
Originally posted by DaTruth
So your saying Nigerians can't governt themselves. Very ignorant statement. That country is all messed up because of Colonialsim. It's a salve to the west and everyone knows it.
By the way Nigeria is half christian and half muslium.
[Edited on 24-2-2004 by DaTruth]
Originally posted by Agent47
Originally posted by DaTruth
So your saying Nigerians can't governt themselves. Very ignorant statement. That country is all messed up because of Colonialsim. It's a salve to the west and everyone knows it.
By the way Nigeria is half christian and half muslium.
[Edited on 24-2-2004 by DaTruth]
If nigeria was a "slave of the west" then this story wouldnt even be published would it? I think you need to let go of the idea we owe the rest of the world for Colonialism, its done, over, its like reperations, a far fetched idea for those not emotionaly mature enough to let an injustice go. And I never said Nigerians cant govern themselves because they obviously are if the country is called Nigeria not "North African Western Slave State". I was pointing out that radical islamic leaderships seem incapable of protecting there people instead of twisting the tennets of their hotly contested religious beliefs.
48 Dead in Nigeria Religious Clash
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Feb 25, 2:55 PM (ET)
By DULUE MBACHU
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Suspected Muslim militants armed with guns and bows and arrows killed at least 48 people in an attack on a farming village in central Nigeria. Most of the victims died as they sought refuge in a church, police said Wednesday.
The latest bout of Muslim-Christian violence in the region occurred Tuesday night in Yelwa, a mainly Christian town in Nigeria's Plateau State, police commissioner Innocent Ilozuoke said.
Army and police reinforcements helped restore calm, Ilozuoke told a news conference in Jos, the state capital.
The killings appeared to be the latest retaliatory attack in a sporadic conflict that has rocked the central region since an outburst of sectarian violence in 2001, pitting Christians against Muslims in once-peaceful Jos. In the initial outburst in Jos more than 1,000 people died in one week.
Since then, several hundreds more have died as rival Muslim-Christian militias attacked isolated villages and towns.
On Feb. 19, gunmen suspected by the police to belong to a Muslim militia ambushed a patrol car, killing four police officers. The ambush followed an earlier attack by a Christian militia upon a Muslim village that killed 10.
For decades, the majority Christian inhabitants of Plateau and the minority Muslim population - mostly Hausa and Fulani tribespeople with origins farther north - had lived in harmony.
But tensions between the two communities heightened in the past four years as 12 majority Muslim states in the north adopted the strict Sharia, or Islamic, legal codes, perceived by Christians as an expansionist threat.
Since 1999, ethnic and religious violence has killed more than 10,000 people in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
Originally posted by worldwatcher
personally I feel very sorry for those people who do not allow their children to be vaccinated for polio.