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| Africa: Subsaharan | |
| Nigerian teacher flees Koran row | |
| 2004-09-25 | |
| A Christian teacher has gone into hiding in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after offending her Muslim pupils. During an economics class, the teacher reprimanded a teenage girl for not concentrating and threw the book she was reading onto the floor. This outraged students as it was a part of the Koran, Islam's most holy book. Police arrived to calm their protests after all the school's teachers fled. Earlier this year Kano was the scene of bloody anti-Christian riots. Police remain on duty at the Ace Academy secondary school and will do so until the tension eases, Assistant Superintendent Baba Mohamed told the BBC. The name of the teacher, who had only been working at the school for two weeks, is not being released by police. They fear that if people knew where she was, her life would be in danger. According to the BBC's Adow Sale in Kano, an imam at a nearby mosque was able to calm the agitated crowd that had gathered outside the school on Thursday. He pleaded with them to remain calm, our correspondent says.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 Guess she will just have to go to the Christian south to teach. Muslim education triumphs again. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-09-25 7:55:00 AM |
| #5 memesis: Mike, go there and tell that to these students, I am sure they would understand. Mike the Muslim / Jihad Unspun devotee is being sarcastic. He is implying that this is what Christians think. Can you imagine Christians threatening murder if a Muslim throws a Bible on the floor? This is why Muslims like Mike make me laugh. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-25 1:08:28 AM |
| #4 Mike, go there and tell that to these students, I am sure they would understand. |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-09-25 1:04:05 AM |
| #3 Moslems worship one big stupid rock and one big stupid book. The book is full of lies and savagery. A dirty floor is an appropriate place for it to be. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-25 1:02:30 AM |
| #2 Teaches economics, huh - I wonder what level their secondary equates to... She definitely needs something akin to the Witness Protection Program. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-25 12:43:18 AM |
| #1 …the Ace Academy… Should have known with name like that. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-25 12:38:15 AM |