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People gather outside a church following a blast in Kaduna, Nigeria, Sunday.
KADUNA, Nigeria - At least 52 people were killed in religious rioting sparked by three suicide bombings against churches in northern Nigeria, where the dead were piled up on Monday in mortuaries and cemeteries in the city of Kaduna.
Rioting broke out Sunday after suicide car bombers attacked three churches in northern Nigeria, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens.
Christian youths had set up roadblocks and dragged Muslims from cars or motorbikes and killed them, witnesses said.
Although there has been no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday's church bombings, Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an insurgency in the northeast against President Goodluck Jonathan's government, had claimed deadly church attacks on the previous two Sundays, as well as others.
A Reuters reporter visited two hospitals in Kaduna. At the St Gerald Hospital, spokesman Sunday Aliyu said there were 40 bodies in the hospital morgue and 72 people being treated for burns and other wounds. At Barau Dikko Hospital, Matron Hassana Garba confirmed 12 dead and two injured people being treated.
"Many of [the injured] need surgery, but a shortage of blood is stalling treatment," a Red Cross official in Kaduna told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
'Explosions and gunshots'
On Monday evening residents reported gunfire and explosions in Damaturu, the capital of northeast Yobe state and the site of several previous attacks by Boko Haram.
"We are all indoors, the explosions and gunshots have been going on since 5pm. It's boom, boom, boom, everywhere," Oluchi Jonah, a local resident, told Reuters by phone.
Blasts hit northern Nigeria churches
In November, 65 people were killed in attacks claimed by Boko Haram on churches, mosques and police stations in Damaturu, where security forces often clash with Islamists in gun battles.
Corpses littered church grounds in parts of Kaduna on Monday. They were piled one on top of the other in an old cemetery, some charred.
A 24-hour curfew imposed by the Kaduna state government on Sunday largely succeeded in restoring order, residents said.
The violence stoked fears of wider sectarian conflict in Nigeria, an OPEC member and Africa's top oil producer that is home to the world's largest equal mix of Christians and Muslims.
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Mohammed Inuwa said he was lucky to escape with his life. He hid in a bush when rampaging Christian youths pulled Muslims off their motorcycles and beat them to death.
"They were mostly killing okada riders (motorbike taxis). I was hiding in the bush while all this was going on. If they saw me, that would be it," the second-hand clothes seller said, estimating 15 people were killed right by where he was hiding.
Boko Haram church bombings seem calculated to trigger wider sectarian strife, often striking at the heart of Nigeria's volatile "Middle Belt", where the mostly Christian south and Muslim north meet.
The Islamists' leader, Abubakar Shekau, has said the attacks on Christians were in revenge for the killings of Muslims.
But such attacks have usually failed to spark sustained conflict in a nation whose Muslims and Christians mostly co-exist peacefully, despite periodic flare-ups of sectarian violence since independence from Britain in 1960.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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To the U.S. Government :
Don't even think about sticking our noses into this mess !!!! Tell the U.N. and all it's agencies to F&#@ OFF .
Don't worry, so long as they don't have oil or aren't strategically positioned to endanger oil markets/shipping - I doubt we will bother.
Boko you are Haram. Period. People should have learned by now without "rule of law" no country will flourish or escape religous persecutions of one people on another.
This has been going on awhile, all under the guise of religion. Politics are the motivating factor here do not be fooled, same as Pakistan. People around the world believe the Taliban attacks there are religously motivated, believe me they are not. \
These are just tyrants that wish to impose their rule on people, using religion to justify it. Very sad no one can rally the people to stop this.
Apparently, thanks to someone most modestly and kindly informing me below - Nigeria is a major oil producer... 10th oil-richest in the world.
You are 100% correct Coral Taxi. Islam is a political snake and there is much to be gained by infiltrating Nigeria.
Nigeria's oil reserves have brought great revenues to the country. It is listed among the "Next Eleven" economies, and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world and the 8th largest exporter, and has the 10th largest proven reserves. (The country joined OPEC in 1971). Petroleum plays a large role in the Nigerian economy, accounting for 40% of GDP and 80% of Government earnings.
Nigeria was also a founding member of the Organisation for African Unity (now the African Union), and has tremendous influence in West Africa and Africa on the whole.
[...]abundant supply of natural resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, transport sectors and stock exchange (the Nigerian Stock Exchange), which is the second largest in Africa. Nigeria is ranked 31st in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2011. Nigeria is the United States' largest trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa and supplies a fifth of its oil (11% of oil imports). It has the seventh-largest trade surplus with the U.S. of any country worldwide. Nigeria is currently the 50th-largest export market for U.S. goods and the 14th-largest exporter of goods to the U.S. The United States is the country's largest foreign investor.[61]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
Religion again.....Ban it. It's been a bane on society for thousands of years. Ever since some cave men invented it to explain their ignorance of scientific realities such as storms and death. There is just no justification for this at our current level of development.
SHOCKER!! Yet another war and riots and killing over RELIGION...the root cause of almost every war in history. People never learn...prayer is nothing but self hypnosis and religion is crap!
Peaceful co-existence with Muslims is becoming difficult. Islamic hardliners have hijacked the cult/religion.
When most don't care for religion much these days, followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunnis, are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days of rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims.
We see Muslims inventing problems in most of the non-Muslim nations.
Even in the US, we can notice these actions!
When Muslims form more than five percent, downhill march starts.
When they form more than 30 percent then it is Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Lebanon (few decades back)
In Muslim majority nations, they kill each other! Syria, Pakistan, Iraq are some examples.
Better wake up before it is too late on inventions of problems by followers of Islamic cult!
The non hokum pokum Muslims must join in with the Christians and finish off these brainwashed demon mass murderer hokum pokum..In this case "Death to Hokum Pokum" is a justifaible chant that must be recorded to music and played on all radio stations on all 6 continents. .The hokies might not like it on their stations but we can infiltrate and put it on there also.They who love death so much must be finished off before they suicide themselves and homicide so many others with them.!
As Albert Einstein said, "if there is an evil upon this earth, it is religion, a political establishment which adheres to childish myths of boogie men and heroes."
Christian and muslims. The worst of the worst of the religious.
Retired US Soldier
It makes you just wanna run the other way as fast as you can. Don't it?
BoredofStupid
All religions are just effed up. It's all about power, control of the sheeple, and money.
George Carlin - Religion is bullshyt. - YouTube
I think the Muslims will keep trying to ignite a religious war, becasue they believe they are destined to win it. Once ignited, however, I think they will figure out that they are outnumbered pretty quickly.
War is not predominantly caused by religion of any color. Wars throughout history are mainly caused by expansionist dictators. You ignorant people that think religion is the root...lets see...yes Islam has been the major influence in religious persecution. Nigeria is a hot bed of Islamic extremism. The killing of Christians is a blood sport in many many countries around the Islamic world, Nigeria in particular. Don't get crappy assed pissed because the Christians have had enough!!
Sadam did not invade Kuwait because they were the same religion as he was. He invaded because he wanted the land and the resources. Hitler did not run a blitz throughout Europe because he wanted the art work. Japan did not run a blitz throughout the southeast Pacific and eastern Asia because they wanted everyone to be samurai...The point being wars are about conquest of land so stop the tenth grade nonsense about religion being the root of war.
And the Crusades?
The Crusades was the response of Christians in Europe to the Muslims occupying the Holy Land harassing Christians visiting Jerusalem.
Bringing it up today to justify the new epidemic of madness spreading through the Muslim world is a silly argument, are you still living in the dark ages?
I call bull***t. Religion has caused more war than any other single excuse.
To the U.S. Government:
What bob1/28 said.
To the U.S. Government
What bob1/28 and BMette said
To the U.S. Government
What bob1/28, BMette, and proudamerican said
Religion was created by man so they an have some form of control over the people aka sheeple.
The inventors of the wheel and electricity is much more important and valuable than religion will ever be.
If you truly think that the invisible man sis so effen powerful, then what is it that religious fruit-loops are always running to doctors and science for cures as soon as they become ill.
Maybe the religious loons should pray a little bit harder, or they know deep down that the invisible man o the sky doesn't exist and are too afraid to admit it.
jussayin-
Muslims killing Christians...well, since we are no longer a Christian nation I guess it is none of our business. We don't have a dog in the fight.
Bill, the USA never a Christian nation. It was deliberately founded as a religion-neutral republic, because of a desire to promote freedom of religion. Remember, most of the early colonists were escaping religious persecution in Great Briton and Europe--Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Pennsylvania were all religion based charters to protect the adherants of various Christian sects from persecution. The founders went a step farther and declared the US government completely neutral in the area of religion and forbade the states from discrminating in religion.
What Bill also forgets is that Christians are doing the killing as well.
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. - John Adams, Treaty of Tripoli, 1797
You'd think if JOHN ADAMS (a religious man) knew that the US was not founded on Christianity in 1797, that Bill here would know the same CENTURIES LATER in 2012. But I guess it takes some people awhile to catch up with reality.
That must be the issue - he can't read. Given that the article is actually about Christians beating Muslims to death in retaliation of suicide bombers who were retaliating against another retaliation and on and on and on....
George Washington.
"O Eternal and Everlasting God. increase my faith in the sweet promises of the Gospel. give me repentance from dead works, pardon my wanderings and direct my thoughts unto Thyself, the God of my Salvation. teach me to live in Thy favor, labor in Thy service and ever to run to the ways of your Commandments. make me ever watchful over my heart, that neither the terrors of conscience, the loathing of Holy duties, the love of sin, nor an unwillingness to depart this life, may cast me into spiritual slumber. but daily frame me more and more into the likeness of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy Fear and dying in Thy Favor, i may in the appointed time, attain the Resurrection of the just, unto Eternal life. Bless my family, friends and kindreds." George Washington from his prayer journal in Mt Vernon.
That the founders had some form of religion is irrelevant. It is obvious in the Constitution's wording and the writings of the founders both before and after, that they did not create a religious nation.
SHUKLACK,
Was the United States founded by Church going Christians? The answer is YES!
The signers of our declaration of Independence were all Christians, and many of them were not just Christians, but they were Church Pastors and Church leaders.
FYI: We have never had a president who did not refer to himself as a Christian. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, ALL refered to themselves as Christians. When people said Jefferson was unfit to be President because he stopped attending the official State Church, he declared that he was a Christian in the way that Jesus will want. It was much later after their deaths that Atheists coined the phrase "Deists" to describe people like Jefferson.
Regarding the "Treaty of Tripoli, do you even know what that was about? The treaty was written by a low level US diplomat as part of negotiations with Muslim pirates who were hijacking our merchant ships.
The Muslim pirates were in the habit of demanding three times their normal ransom or more from Christians, and they were also known for extreme brutality towards Christians.The low level diplomat sent to negotiate with the Muslims wrote the "Treaty of Tripoli" to get the Muslims to stop treating our people on our ships they hijack brutally and also for them to stop hijacking our ships in return for reduced pay-offs.
To put an end to that, the US Navy was founded in the year 1800 specifically to fight and defeat the Muslims. The Muslims hijacking our ships was one of the reasons our founding fathers did not like Muslims. Many of them considered Islam to be an evil religion because of the brutal bloody ways Islam was spread.
We are not now nor were we ever a christian nation. The Founding Fathers and the US Constitution made sure of that!
A personal expression of faith and nothing more!
They are dragging passerby's off their vehicles and beating them to death. The savagery is amazing.
And the answer is irrelevant. They did not let their personal beliefs dictate the foundation of this nation. They specifically made it a secular nation, without a requirement of religion in any form.
Sorry guys. Scrutinizing the wording of a piece of paper over 200 years ago might bring you to the conclusion that we were never a Christian nation, but we Very much were a Christian nation. We had a Jewish population, atheists, and Chinese (buddhist?). Then, we kindly let in people from places like India, and all the Muslim countries (mostly in the last 30 yrs) and it has all but became a crime to say or do anything Christian in public places, schools, etc.
Olde Sarge, the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, does not forbid the states from anything regarding religion. The First Amendment states that "CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Get it? That sentence applies specifically ONLY to CONGRESS, that is, the legislative branch of the federal government. It does not apply to the states. Pennsylvania was the Quaker State, Maryland was Catholic, Rhode Island Baptist, etc. Those who wrote the Constitution had no intent on changing that, rather, they sought to protect it; therefore, they forbade the federal government from interfering. CONGRESS could not impose a religion on the states ("establishment of religion") or forbid the states from religion ("prohibiting the free exercise thereof"). This does not, and was not intended to, apply to states, counties, cities, school districts, or any other branch of government or quasi-government agency such as a water authority, etc. It applies ONLY to the federal congress. That was the intent, and that is what is says in rather plain English - "CONGRESS shall make no law..."
By all means, specify precisely where in that "piece of paper" it states we are or were a christian nation!
You can do anything you want. Just don't expect the govermnment to validate your beliefs for you.
Apparently, you're unfamiliar with the 14th Amendment.
Gordy, apparently, for all your "book" smarts (or so you think), you don't seem to have any clue as to the make up or way of life of the people of America for over 2 centuries, or what drove the pilgrims here to begin with. And it Has become taboo to say anything related to God in public schools, and other places. That's why we have "Happy Holidays" so as not to "offend" anyone. What was it that Obama called the white house Christmas tree?
Try me! It seems you rather igore the Constitution itself, which is the foundation of this nation.
No. It's unconstitutional for schools to endorse god or religion. individual's are still free to talk about god on their time.
You can still say Merry X-mas too!
"Christian youths had set up roadblocks and dragged Muslims from cars or motorbikes and killed them, witnesses said."
So this would be Christians killing Muslims then. right?
Religious intolerance. The same that is being used by the Christians today to silence non-believers.
Taboo is a human social concept, not a law or requirement. Governmental organizations cannot endorse or condemn a religion, but that does not stop people from speaking on their religion as individuals, not for organizations.
The idiocy of those who argue we were founded a theocracy is quite amazing to me. No wonder our country is ran by corporate plutocrats to the detriment of the people. It seems many don't have the knowledge of 8th grade social studies. SMH.
Some of you keep arguing that since Christians are retaliating by killing Muslims, both Christians and Muslims are to blame. But before anyone posts this ridiculous argument here are the facts
Radical Muslims are in an all out war against the whole world because they believe that they can win this bloody war.
If they are in control, they do not want peaceful coexistence with non-believers including moderate Muslims.
They are trying to ignite an all out war in Nigeria by attacking Christians in their homes and Churches, and they would love to see Christians attack Muslims because they use these tragedies to convince moderate Muslims to join them in this crazy battle.
Christians were encouraged by many Church leaders not to retaliate, but after seeing these massacres repeated many times, how long can they take it, before responding to the brutal thugs who keep on blowing their Churches.
BTW this madness have been repeated in many countries
In Pakistan and Iraq, Al Qaeda thugs who are Sunnis have attacked Muslim Shiites in their Mosques and while they are visiting religious sites.
In Thailand they attack Buddhists
In Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Syria, Lebanon, and again Iraq they attack Christians.
In Europe while they are minorities, they attack Jews and Christians.
And they are already here in the States waiting for another opportunity. So please study carefully what radical Muslims are doing before blaming Christians. Here's a list of Muslims contribution to World peace for those who have not seen it before .
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Good old Organized Religion at it's best. I don't know how any of these people find their justification in any of the teachings? I used to admire the social aspect of organized religions but now all I see is groups that hate and isolate themselves. Then they seem to find justification in killing those different from their beliefs? They might use the excuse that's it is revenge for something the others did but I ask you, what does the bible say about revenge? Where does it ever stop? In fact, I don't need the Bible or Koran to tell me that killing my countrymen is sinfull, hatefull and wrong.
To poster Bill, I'm glad that we are not a Christian nation if that's going to be an excuse to make war. Thank God for that!
What ever happened to "Love thy neighbor?"
There's nothing wrong with religion. It's ORGANIZED religion that's the problem.
Okee, get it right - it's "Love thy neighbor that's like thyself"
The only problem with religion is it is run by man and man is flawed. Our insecurity and ignorance is what pushes us to these extremes. Which is sad because most ignore the teachings in the books they so proudly quote.
Followers of Islam are at their worst. They are doing what other religious groups (not all) were doing few centuries back.
These days not many non-Muslims get hung up on a religion. If it suits, one follows. Otherwise, not many care what a priest says!
I beg to differ. Like mentioned earlier above, this story is mainly about Christians pulling Muslims off their bikes and beating them to death. Doesn't sound like the Christians there aren't hung up on religion. Of course, they are seeking revenge for crimes against them (not very Christian of them, by the way) by the Muslims, who are seeking revenge against the Christians, who are... well, you get the idea. I wish I could say it's an isolated incident, but it really isn't.
I do agree that organized religion of any kind hasn't worked out very well through the ages. I wish the religious-minded would do more to read what their founders said, and less about what their particular sect leaders are saying. I think the world would be a much beter place.
Nothing says 'We love God more than you do' than blowing something up. If you have to kill someone to prove your point, you don't have one.
The Christian and Muslim religious leaders need to band together to root out the terrorists in their midst. Nigeria needs to become the African leader in dealing with religion based terrorism. The terrorists are not religious men. They are manipulating religious people to achieve their political ends, just like Hitler did in Germany. He preyed on religious and ethnic minorities to manipulate the majority into doing his will. That is exactly what Osama Bin Laden was doing--using religion as a mean to his ends.
The Muslims had been blowing up crowded churches almost every week in a well-organized campaign. The Christian teens were driven to distraction and resorted to mob rule. That does not make it right...but they were certainly not the same.
"the attacks on Christians were in revenge for the killings of Muslims." And the attacks on muslims were in revenge for killing christians. Why don't they just kill each other off already, we need a place to dump our toxic waste.
Well since we are sending 13,500 troops back to Kuwait, I think Nigeria will have to hold its own for a while.
My mistake. Obama wants 13,500 troops in Kuwiat to respond to threats from Iran and effects of Arab Spring de-stabilizing the region.
Kuwait has oil. Nigeria doesn't.
Nigeria is one of the biggest oil producers. It's amazing how superficial most of these bloggers are. Shoot right off from the tops of their heads.
Actually we should have supported Biafra 50 years ago in their bid for independence. A lot of these problems are caused by the failure of the OAU to make some hard choices are redraw the boundaries from the old colonial ones to ones that reflected the national make up of the peoples who lived there.
Indeed you're right - I did not know Nigeria was the 10th largest oil producer. You don't have to be a d!ck about it, though.
Another theory for the sustained Muslim violence in non-contiguous corners of the world might have to do with the unquestioned acceptance of Polygamy in many Islamic societies. Take Nigeria for example, a country with approximately 1.05 male births for every female. Since Muslim men are allowed to take more than one wife (and many with the means to do so will take at least 2; some have taken more than 100), this ultimately creates a scarcity of women for the male youth, who, obviously frustrated (but not understanding why), seek religious grievances as outlets for their anger. The problem is of course compounded by the propensity of the Islamic religion itself (regardless of the local grievances that may flame it) towards violence, beginning with the military general who found it -Muhammad!
Divide and conquer! Once people are fighting among themselves,capitalism works well. The rich oil people and bankers in Nigeria buy million dollar homes in the UK and attend polo games.While the poor die before they are 50.The Uk couldn't divide the Chineese with race and religion,They flooded the streets with drugs.That got the Chineese fighting each other.
okay crazy
Ah, religion.....can't live with it.....can't shoot it.....film at eleven...
"...Muslims and Christians mostly co-exist peacefully, despite periodic flare-ups of sectarian violence since independence from Britain in 1960."
Every time Britain pulls out of a colony, the locals begin killing each other (in the name of a god, of course) and every time the USA gets rid of a dictator in the Middle East, the same thing happens. Until western powers began their meddling (bombing from the sky is OK, from cars not) and rulers who have been successful in preventing sectarian violence are gone, "peace" hits the fan.
Jehovah, AKA Allah, the original genocidal monster (read the Old Testament), can sit back now and take a break while the idiots who have been running American foreign policy since WWII do the job for the deity.
Example: 50 Catholic churches were thriving in Baghdad and Iran was kept in place until we got rid of Saddam. I wish Egypt luck! And good luck to Libya!
Thank Lady Luck the Vietnamese people have (for the most part) forgiven us. Must not be many Muslims there.
Killing in the name of? Nothing makes you hate like Religion
Reminds me of the old joke:
Q) How do you know your god is man made?
A) He hates all the same people you do.
Bombings in some third-world sh!thole revolving around religion?
GEE WHAT A SURPRISE
As long as Muslims in the Middle East continue their rampage against any religion other than their own, that is what will happen in other counties where other religions group will target them.
All religion is nothing more than a way to control the population and until the masses realize this, it will be used as a political weapon just like it has been for thousands of years.
People will die for nothing because if history has taught us anything it's,
"nothing has changed where religious conflict is concerned". So what else is new, nothing.
Steven100
Try figuring out why Muslims kill/maim other Muslims! See Shiite vs Sunni violence throughout the Middle East.
Please get the headlines right: Dozens killed in Nigeria myth related riots.
Love it!!
The mind virus of religion. How sick. My myth is the right one and yours is not....
People, its 2012. Think....
When you understand why YOU reject all other gods, you will understand why I reject yours.
I wouldn't classify any violent religionist as a terrorist, just an observant practitioner.
All in the name of religion.....
Or all in the name of fighting back and trying to stop the genocide.
I'm having a real hard time generating even a scintilla of concern about this. Religious fundamentalist losers of one stripe killing religious fundamentalist losers of another stripe is as common as dirt in this world, so the smart ones don't identify with either one. Let them all kill each other. It's their problem to solve. Or not to solve. So how is the weather in Antarctica today? Cold, I bet.
The problem is bystanders.
It's 2012. I have a machine in my pocket that can give you the answer to almost any question you have, call you, take your picture, record and send you videos, play video games on...and yet people are still being persecuted and killed everyday in the name of fairy tales and myths. How people still believe in 2,000 yr old stories proven false many times over just baffles me!
Thomas Jefferson.
"Almighty GOD. Who has given us this good land for our heritage. We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy Will. Bless our land with honorable Ministry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from Violence, Discord, Confusion, Pride, Arrogance and from every Evil way. Defend our liberties and fashion us into one united people. The multitude brought out of many kindreds and tongues. Endow us with Thy spirit of Wisdom, these who in Thy name we entrust the Authority of Government. That there may be justice and peace at home and that through the obedience to Thy Law we may show forth Thy Praise among the nations. In time of prosperity, fill our hearts with Thankfulness and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to Fail. All of Which we ask through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen. Thomas Jefferson, who so many times is mis-quoted regarding the so-called "separation of church and state. Doesn't sound like it there.
You're right! He did state that he wants our laws based on the bible. It's a direct quote! How about, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." - Jefferson 1802.
People seem to forget that the founders had religion, but chose not to force it into the Constitution so as to protect all faiths and non-faiths.
Alan, cite your sources. They sound quite spurious or outright false. Like somehting taken from David Barton and the Wallbuilders.
A virus has a very simple agenda. Find a host, multiply, and spread leaving nothing but death and destruction in its path. Of course, while accomplishing this, it searches for new hosts. I liken this to islam. Science has never cured a virus. The only way to deal with a virus it to let it run its course and kill all of the hosts. I would think this is evident if you observe what is happening in Iraq as we speak. We have stopped trying to cure the virus there and the killing endures. Once this virus has killed all its hosts, voila, no virus. Step back, stand clear, and observe.
"I liken this to islam"
Kinda sounds a lot like christianity as well. Come to think of it, most religions.
SEEDS OF FUTURE CONFLICTS:
If we continue to tolerate Muslims here, at some point the Muslims will demand the right to start using Islamic law called Sharia law here, they will say it will only apply to just Muslims. Once that is allowed, we will in effect have a country with two legal systems, one for Muslims, and one for everyone else. Then at some point in the future after that, they will start fighting using terrorism to impose sharia law on the whole country. To fully Islamize our country and fundamentally change our way of life. Islamic culture and our culture are too different, like night and day. Any politician pandering to Muslims is helping to sow the seeds of future conflicts in our country.
FYI: Muslims demanding Sharia law is the source of conflicts in so many countries around the world. Islam is not just a religion, but it is also a political and militant movement as well, with the ultimate goal of world domination. Please ask any Muslim you know if he or she will like to live under Islamic law as commanded by Muhammad. If he or she says no, then ask how the person can be a Muslim without following Muhammad's commands. If he or she answers "yes" to Sharia law, please ask the Muslim what he or she is doing here, and please tell the Muslim to get the hell out of our country.
Muslims are only peaceful and tolerant in countries like ours where they are a small minority. If you have ever lived in a country where Muslims are a majority, you will know they are not very tolerant of people of other religions except as tourists there to spend money, even then they frown if they see you with a Bible. In places like Saudi Arabia for example, they will not allow you to enter the country with a Bible, it is a crime to have a Bible, but the same Muslims can come here, bring all the Quoran they want, build mosques, Islamic centers, go to our prisons to convert people to Islam, etc. how fair is that?
Among all religions, Islam is the least compatible with the modern world. It is extremely intolerant, misogynist, extremely violent with a culture of death, and denies basic human rights. Willingly allowing Islam in a country is like willingly growing deadly cancer in a human body. Our country or any western country will be better off without Islam or Muslims.
I hope the bombings dont effect the transfer of my funds from Nigerian National Lottery....or my inheritance from Doctor Whats his name that left me 5million dollars. I need that money for downpayment on a Yacht