Mobs have burned down houses in Shiite neighbourhoods of Nigeria's main Islamic city, in apparent reprisal for the murder this week of a radical Sunni Muslim cleric. Hundreds of people stormed through Shiite neighbourhoods of the city "and started burning down the houses in anger," witnesses said.
Abubakar Mohammed, spokesman for the Shiite community in Sokoto, said around 20 houses belonging to members of his community were razed. Mr Mohammed said the local Shiite leader, Kassimu Umar, and 20 of his followers had been detained by police in connection with the killing. The truck transporting them to the police station had been attacked by a stone-throwing mob.
A Sokoto police spokesman, Mohammed Umar-Dasingalri, appealed for calm in the city which is the seat of the Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual head of Nigeria's estimated 70 million Muslims, who are mostly Sunni.
Shiites blamed
Sunnis have blamed Shiites for the murder, raising fears of clashes. Prominent Sunni cleric, Umar Dan-Maishiya, was shot on Wednesday (local time) shortly after speaking at the city's central mosque. He was buried on Thursday at the tomb of Usman Dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria.
Sokoto, headquarters of Islam in Nigeria, two years ago witnessed bloody clashes between the Sunni and Shiite sects over the right to worship at the central mosque. The murdered cleric was said to have spearheaded the attack against the Shiites during the 2005 clashes. He was arrested and released just two months ago.
Northern Nigeria is majority Muslim, although large Christian minorities have settled in the main towns. Since 1999 and the return of a civilian regime, 12 northern states have introduced Islamic Sharia law. The region has a long history of religious clashes which mostly start after the traditional Friday Jumat worship.
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be a good time to take a potshot at the leading Shiite Cleric. Elevate the festivities to Islamic Rage Boy level
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See the bright side : at least, when the nigerian muzzies are killing each others based on turban color, they're not killing christians. So, it's true, islam IS peace, see?
Doctors have claimed that Muslim women wearing the hijab could be at risk of serious illness because they do not get enough sun.
It has been claimed that women who cover their skin are could be suffering bone deficiencies over a lack of vitamin D. Most of the bodys vitamin D - which prevents rickets - is obtained through sunlight acting on the skin. Only a little comes from food.
Doctors told a London conference on Wednesday that people with dark pigment oare at risk because of "cultural reasons" and because they are less efficient at producing the vitamin. The bone disorder rickets has now broken out in young Muslim children as babies are not getting enough calcium from mothers breast milk.
The National Health Service is launching a campaign aimed at Muslim women, particularly Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Somalis, to encourage them to increase their vitamin D intake. A Department of Health spokesman said: "For ethnic groups there is an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency as people with dark and pigmented skin are less efficient at making vitamin D in their skin.
"They need to spend longer outside to make similar amounts and those who wear concealing clothing are unlikely to make enough.
"Studies have shown low vitamin D levels in Asian women in the UK - particularly among those who cover most of their skin for cultural reasons."
The problem first came to light in Bradford, which has one of the highest Muslim populations in Britain.
The Government is calling on community leaders to warn Muslims they need more sunlight and better diets. Pregnant women are also advised to take vitamin D supplements and folic acid. A spokeswoman said: "People may be at risk if they are South Asian, African or African-Caribbean and have low exposure to sunlight, for example if they observe Hijab or do not spend much time outside."
She said a poor diet or restricted diet such as veganism, also posed dangers. "Breastfeeding is recommended for all babies, however a baby may be at risk if breast-fed and the mother has a low vitamin D level herself."
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Hijabs and burkas are just as unreasonable as the girdles women used to wear. Those things used to pinch their midsections so tightly that they would be prone to fainting.
Women have always suffered in the name of cultural fashion, it seems. Although I personally can't say I hope it happens, someday women will probably give up wearing high heels too.
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Tall women may give up high heels, but never those of us at the other end of the bell curve, Grumenk Philalzabod0723. Else I'll have to go beck to my old habit of standing on chairs to talk to people at parties.
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Burqas and rickets aside, despite their damaging effect upon calves, tendons and overall posture, high heels work a singular miracle upon a woman's gait.
h/t Publius Pundit. A translation of the manifesto for Putin's 10,000 strong Nashi group. Read: nationalism+racism+communism united in one noxious ideology linked to Putin as hero.
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I interpret "oligarchs" as a code word for Jews. All the other elements for a Fascist movement are present including historical revisionism, a unifying ideology which puts the state ahead of the individual and a cult of personality.
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The world has gone mad. How did we fall so far so fast? Is it really so easy to manipulate the masses, in this day and age? Give up your guns, Give up your speech, Give up your rights! Send Us $19.95 and we will send you a book that tells you how getting suckers like you to send us $19.95 has made us rich.
You'd think with what we know, Free Men in Democratic societies would not so willingly enable all of this to occur.
Dark times indeed. If free men, good men (and women) don't demand action to stop it now - within the next ten years, it is going to get biblical. And it is all lining up fast.
I've always felt every generation had its kooks that said it was "end times" - but this time around, with NBC's it's almost seems possible.
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I guess I don't understand the surprise in this by anyone. I personally have always felt Putin was an evil bastard and would do pretty much exactly what he has done. With his back ground and the humiliation he's undoubtedly felt while watching the former USSR disintegrate I'm sure he pines for the glory days of the reds. Add to this his obvious thirst for power and the short mans syndrome he suffers from and bingo, you have Vladimir Putin.
Three more senior leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) have defected from the party and announced joining the Pakistan Peoples Party. They brought along with them 15 nazims, naib nazims and social figures from Muzaffargarh and Kasur.
PML Muzaffargarh vice president Makhdoom Muzaffar Ali Shah and 15 nazims and naib nazims announced joining the PPP along with PML Kasur vice president Ashfaq Kamboh, PML Chunian secretary general Advocate Muhammad Sharif. Chaudhry Arif Sandhu, a National Alliance candidate for NA-138 also joined the party.
Addressing a press conference on Friday at his Punjab Assembly chamber, Opposition Leader Qasim Zia told reporters that the party had approved Shahs joining of the party after consultations with divisional and district PPP presidents and the local party organisation. He said the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) was in tact and both Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto will sit together and resolve all issues between them.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto has decided to contest the upcoming general elections from her ancestral constituency of Larkana, a source privy to the PPP parliamentary boards meeting underway in London said on Friday.
The source said that the parliamentary board decided to re-award party tickets to most of the sitting members of national and provincial assemblies. The meeting also decided to award party tickets to candidates who had lost the 2002 elections by a small margin.
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UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by a unit of peacekeepers in Ivory Coast and confined the soldiers in question to base.
A UN statement did not say which country the soldiers were from or how many were under investigation. But a UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the investigation involved Moroccan soldiers having sex with underage girls. No boys? They're getting sloppy, if I may say so.
The United Nations has declared a "zero-tolerance" policy over sexual exploitation since peacekeeping operations in various African countries and East Timor were hit by scandals, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "An internal investigation by the United Nations Mission in Cote D'Ivoire has revealed serious allegations of widespread sexual exploitation and abuse by a UN military contingent serving in Bouake," the statement said.
Bouake is a (muslim) northern rebel stronghold. According to the UN Web site, peacekeeping troops from Morocco, Ghana, Bangladesh and Pakistan are based there. Do I see a pattern?
The entire Ivory Coast mission numbers just over 9000 uniformed personnel from more than 40 countries.
The statement said a full investigation was underway. "But due to the serious nature of the allegations, the United Nations has taken the decision to suspend all activities of the contingent and has cantoned the unit within its base, with the goats."
Earlier this week, the UN Security Council voted to extend the mandate of peacekeeping forces in Ivory Coast until January to help create peaceful conditions for elections that have been repeatedly delayed.
The United Nations ignored sexual exploitation by peacekeepers and other field staff for decades, launching a crackdown only in recent years after reports of abuse surfaced in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A 2005 UN report recommended an overhaul of the world body's peacekeeping operations. It piously said soldiers should be punished for any sexual abuse, their pay docked and a fund set up to assist any women and girls they impregnated. But member nations have not agreed.
Malaysias government has banned the mainstream media from reporting on the highly sensitive issue of whether or not the country is an Islamic state, an official said on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak sparked a storm last week when he declared that mostly Muslim Malaysia was not secular but an Islamic state that protects the religious rights of minority groups.
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"When I call Malaysia an Islamic state that protects the religious rights of minority groups it means exactly what I want it to mean, nothing more and nothing less."
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Part of the problem in the past has been the non-standard design employed by independent [though with government financing and backing] power consortiums. Each one different from the next, each requiring [then] AEC inspections and upgrades and regulatory changes and etc. The power companies back then often when for bigger is better, making it more complicated and more expensive than necessary. Take a standardized, field proven design used by the French, Swedes, Germans, et al. Cut out all the 'uniqueness' and get on with building by the dozen, medium size facilities. The issue then is disposal and that is simply removing the judiciary from the process by including a provision that the loser of any challenges must pay not only legal costs but all costs associated with any delay in construction and certification, non-waiverable, with at least 20% bond posted. That'll cut out the fruits, flakes, and nuts, leaving only serious challenges to the process.
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When the older voters are forced to deal with rolling blackouts in cold weather, when they're eating cold canned food in the dark, when their plasma TV's are just expensive wall hangings, they will be howling for nuclear plants, anyone, no matter how entrenched, opposing them will be shouted down or stoned to death. Worry about global warming will be demonstrated as the delusion it is. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
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GE had a conference last spring to try to get critical suppliers lined up for the revival of the domestic nuclear power plant market. They claim the design is now standardized and that cost reductions will be expected from the efficiencies of building multiple (nearly) identical plants.
Sorry to say that this generation of plants does not breeder reactors. We throw away 99% of the energy from our refined uranium.
Good news- they had two of these type built in Taiwan recently. They were completed 39 and 36 months after concrete pour, which is amazingly quick for such a complex and critical system.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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