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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Religion of Peace Followers Riot After Christian Elected Prez |
| 2011-04-18 |
| Deadly rioting erupted across Nigeria's largely Muslim north on Monday as yoots torched churches and homes in Muslim Rage at President Goodluck Jonathan's election victory. Jonathan, the first president from the oil producing Niger Delta, was declared the winner with around 57 percent of votes. He defeated Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler from the north, who got around 31 percent. Observers have called the poll the fairest in decades in Africa's most populous nation. But Buhari's supporters accuse the ruling party of rigging and rejected the results. Of course thay do. He's not a Muslim. The results show how polarised the country is, with Buhari sweeping the north and Jonathan winning the largely Christian south. Jonathan had nearly 23 million votes to just over 12 million for Buhari. The Nigerian Red Cross said churches, mosques and homes had been burned in rioting across the north and many people had been killed, but it was impossible to give a toll for now. "In Kaduna we have seen dead bodies lying by the road," Red Cross official Umar Mairiga told Reuters. "Two thousand people have been displaced at one military camp alone." Military Camp? Authorities in the northern state of Kaduna imposed a 24-hour curfew after protesters set fire to the residence of Vice President Namadi Sambo in the town of Zaria and forced their way into the central prison, releasing inmates. They need more thugs and mayhem makers. Security forces fired in the air and used teargas to disperse groups of yoots shouting "We want Buhari, we want Buhari". Some people just can't handle emocracy. Police said the violence was political rather than ethnic or religious. Horse-hockey! Twelve years after the end of military rule, the army said it stood fully behind the government and democratic rule. "No one's political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian," he said in a statement. Buhari was yet to make any public statement on the violence despite appeals by foreign embassies that he call for calm. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #6 Well you see infidels should only get 1/4th a vote (Muslim women get 1/2). Its somewhere in the Crayon I'm sure.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-04-18 21:22 |
| #5 Some people just can't handle emocracy. Emocracy: rule by histronic pigmentation-challenged kohl-eyed twentysomethings. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-04-18 20:42 |
| #4 Offer refuge to the Coptic Christians from Egypt if someone from there family joins the Military. That a million Christians suddenly being armed should shut them up real fast. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-04-18 19:55 |
| #3 "In Kaduna we have seen dead bodies lying by the road," Red Cross official Umar Mairiga told Reuters. "Two thousand people have been displaced at one military camp alone." Military Camp? No ugly, blue eyed colonials involved, therefore no UN or Whitehouse comment, condemnation, or outrage. Christians to be murdered and eaten soon enough. Move along now, little of consequence to be seen here. Remember, this IS Afica. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-04-18 19:27 |
| #2 Works for me Darth. Police said the violence was political rather than ethnic or religious. A distinction without a difference. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-04-18 19:19 |
| #1 Declare the rioters to be in insurrection and shoot them. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-18 18:43 |