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2011-04-04 Africa Subsaharan

Massacre at Roman Catholic Mission in Ivory Coast

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Posted by Steve White 2011-04-04 08:08|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Just remember, they are a religion of peace, you RACISTS!!!

/sarc

Posted by DarthVader 2011-04-04 13:12|| 2011-04-04 13:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Can muslims live with anyone non muslim?

The us and them attitude taught to them from a young age mean all non muslims are the enemy!

Education in muslim countries need looking at Mr Obama

Posted by Angeretle Snore6772 2011-04-04 13:35|| 2011-04-04 13:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, the article itself notes that there were anti-Muslim pogroms in the years leading up to this:

Ethnic tensions and xenophobic killings began when the world price of cocoa nosedived in the 1990s and some five million immigrant workers were suddenly perceived as a burden. The southern-dominated Government introduced a new xenophobic concept of Ivorité, or Ivorianess. Vigilantes began killing foreigners the majority of them Muslims and many of them third-generation immigrants on plantations and in shanties on the edges of the towns as the country, once the richest in West Africa, descended into civil war.

Similar crap has occurred in Nigeria, where massacres at churches are followed by massacres at mosques, then rinse and repeat. And I don't recall any Muslim cultural element in the Rwandan slaughters, or the millions of dead in the charnelhouse alternatively called Zaire and the Congo, either.

People are ugly, anarchy is an abomination, and war outside of western norms and restraints has a way of turning truly horrible, truly fast.

Why intervene in Libya, and not here, or the Congo? Sadly, three elements: proximity, access, and resources. Libya's within reach of NATO airbases, close enough to send a wave of refugees into Europe, and oil is a strategic resource which threatens the developed economies in ways that cocoa, diamonds, or the product of the Congo's mines don't.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-04-04 14:18|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-04-04 14:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't this also give a strong message about inviting vast numbers of foreign Muslims to dwell in your country as cheap labor, Europe?

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-04 15:45|| 2011-04-04 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 A previous Ivory Coast leader imported large numbers of Muslims from neighboring countries and gave them the citizenship. Now that there's enough of them in the country, they want to rule. Demographics is destiny. There. And here...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-04-04 17:16|| 2011-04-04 17:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Kill EVERYBODY on both sides, and then give it back to the French. Neither side is decent enough to be in charge, and most of their followers are equally as despicable.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-04-04 18:43|| 2011-04-04 18:43|| Front Page Top

#7 On a certain day in September, a number of years ago, I was sitting on the couch reading about the latest Tutsi vs Hutu massacre in the morning paper. I don't remember whose turn it was in that round-robin, but I do recall thinking that it would serve them all right if Jesus and Mohammed both came back and kicked all their sorry asses from one end of Africa to the other. Right then, a news bulletin came on the TV about a plane crash in New York...

Like the man said, the future will resemble the past as water resembles water.

Posted by SteveS 2011-04-04 20:27|| 2011-04-04 20:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Fear not, Citizens, France + the UNO to the rescue ...

To wit,

* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > [LICORNE Force] FRENCH FORCES MOVE INTO IVORY COAST [set up Camp at Abidjan Airport].

* SAME > UN, FRENCH TROOPS ATTACK COTE D'IVOIRE GBAGBO MILITARY CAMP [Camps].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-04 23:37|| 2011-04-04 23:37|| Front Page Top

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