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| Nigerian Islamists riot over Miss World report |
| 2002-11-20 |
| Islamic militants burned down the regional office of a leading Nigerian newspaper on Wednesday after it referred to the Prophet Mohammad in a report on the Miss World pageant in Nigeria. The fundamentalist Nigerian Muslim Umma, declaring a "serious religious emergency", immediately issued a statement calling on the government to stop the December 7 pageant, already dogged by controversy. Good idea. I have a feeling most of the babes would rather go to Atlantic City than to Lagos, anyway... The incident in the northern city of Kaduna triggered tension in other parts of the predominantly Islamic region where thousands have been killed in sectarian riots in the past three years. "Hey! We're Muslims! This is what Muslims do, y'know?" Residents said police had been placed on the alert in the nearby city of Kano, another hotbed of Yeah. I remember when Ray Stevens sang, "Would Jesus wear a Rolex?" The riots that followed are the reason Texarkana looks the way it does today... This Day has retracted the report and published an apology. "They burnt down the whole building. The correspondent was lucky not to have been in the office at the time they attacked," the witness added. This Day's correspondent in Kaduna is a Christian woman, but was not the author of the report. They probably thought she was in there. Wouldn't have made any difference, though. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Well, when you can't read, you can't cancel your subscription. (And you should see what happened when they canceled Apartment 3G!) |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-20 16:24:24 |