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[Denise]

MUSLIM MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS



Catholic League president Bill Donohue calls into question media coverage of Muslim violence against Christians in Nigeria:



According to The Australian, “dozens of bodies lined the streets” of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria. “Other victims of the weekend’s Muslim fury jammed a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.” Children were scalped, “most had severed hands and feet,” and “officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by rampaging Muslim gangs.” According to one eyewitness media account, “They then set homes on fire and attacked men, women and children. Many were decapitated.”



Now here is how CNN is reporting the story. “Gangs of machete-wielding Muslims have been blamed for the weekend slaughter of hundreds of Christian villagers in Nigeria, but analysts say it would be wrong to assume the conflict was rooted in religion.” Of course: When Muslims massacre Christians, religion never has anything to do with it.



“Some analysts,” the story continues, “believe the weekend slaughter was a revenge attack for the killing of around 150 members of the Hausa Muslim community by Christian mobs in Kuru Karama south of Jos, in January 2010.” Well, let’s see. Back in January, a U.N. media outlet reported that Muslim and Christian leaders in Kuru Karama, a predominantly Muslim village, “met to make a pact with the police to defend any attacks by outsiders.” But guess what happened? “Several hours later youths armed with machetes attacked the village.” And we know who likes machetes.



Back to CNN. It cited an ugly Muslim-Christian incident in 2001 in the same area. What started the Muslim massacre back then? “A Christian woman had tried to cross the road through a group of Muslims during Friday prayers.” Yeah, that’ll do it every time.



It’s time to stop viewing Muslim-Christian violence through the lens of moral equivalency.
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Today too it is necessary ... to warn the People of God against false prophets, against the errors and superficiality of proposals that do not conform to the teaching of the divine Master. Pope Benedict XVI

[KarlB]

Cardinal Pell, some time ago, attempted to take an objective look at the Koran. As i remember it he gave up after about 70 pages, of page after page of killings, whippings, vendettas, blood feuds, amputations, beheadings, stonings for the most minor of slights to Islam.

There is indeed no moral equivalency between Christian Scripture and the Koran. What bloodshed in carried out by Christians is done in spite of Scripture (and its instruction to 'turn the other cheek', and to imitate Christ), by Muslims in obedience to its Holy Book.

They really are, in comparison, white and black.
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pax lux,
karl

Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again? Job10:9

[BillS]

couldn't be rooted in religion, Islam is a religion of peace, remember?

[Johnna]

Yeah I saw a peace of the pentagon building. It is in a war museum here in Indianapolis since alot of the stone that made the walls came from Indiana. Seems to me that Islam had something to do with that peace as I recall...
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