Author: Terry Graham
Publication: secularislam.org
Date: December 4, 2002
Muslim mobs in Nigeria used machetes
to murder over 200 Christians and to seriously injure another 1,000.
The Muslim mass murderers were enraged
by an article in the Lagos-based newspaper This Day, which suggested that
Islam's founder Mohammed would have wanted to marry one of the contestants
in the Miss World pageant.
Because of that one-sentence remark
in a newspaper article, machete-wielding Muslim mobs literally cut to pieces
over 200 unarmed Christian men, women and children.
The defenseless Christian victims
did not even know why they were being so brutally massacred.
"Why are you murdering us?" asked
one Christian woman who was trying to shield her two small children from
the Islamic mob.
"Because of the article which you
filthy Christians wrote," responded one of the Muslim butchers.
"What article?" the Christian mother
pleaded. "I don't know about any article and my two small children do not
know about any article."
The Christian woman and her two
small children were then beheaded by the Muslim beasts.
The Muslim-controlled Nigerian military
and police stood idly by while the massacre took place.
Only when the Christians organized
armed defense patrols to repel the Muslim attackers did the massacre finally
end.
However, even after the massacre,
huge rallies were held in Muslim areas with Islamic mobs chanting, "Death
to all Christians!" and "Death to all infidels!"
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Shinkafi, the
deputy governor of the Muslim state of Zamfara, called for the assassination
of the author of the article in question.
The author, Isioma Daniel, has been
forced to flee Nigeria to save her life. She is reportedly in hiding somewhere
in Europe.
This Day, the newspaper which printed
the article, had its office in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna burned
out by the Muslim mobs.
At least four large Nigerian churches
were also completely destroyed by the Muslim Nazis.
The organizers of the Miss World
pageant blamed the newspaper article - not the Muslim Nazi mass murderers
- for all of the death and destruction.
"We regret these incidents, but
this is not the fault of Miss World. It is the result of irresponsible
journalism," pageant spokeswoman Stella Din said.
Many members of the Bolshevik Establishment
media in the U.S. and Europe were also quick to blame the newspaper article
- rather than the bloodthirsty Muslims - for the horrifying slaughter of
hundreds of innocents.
So when a newspaper columnist exercises
her free speech right to comment on an event, and Muslim Nazis do not approve
of her comment, if the Muslim Nazis then slaughter hundreds of innocent
men, women and children, it is the fault of the newspaper columnist who
had the gall to express her opinion.
This is the type of warped and utterly
evil thinking that totally controls the Muslim-loving Establishment media
in America and Europe.
And this comes from the same Establishment
media that is usually fanatical in its defense of "freedom of the press."
But apparently "freedom of the press" does not apply when the Establishment
media wishes to suck up to Muslim mass murderers.
Unable to apologize enough, This
Day removed descriptions of its journalists from the newspaper's web site
and printed an "apology to all Muslims" in which it called Daniel's comment
"utterly provocative" and claimed that it went to press in error after
the supervising editor, in charge of editing copy for publication, pushed
the wrong keys on his computer:
May the peace and blessing of Allah
be upon you all.... With all sense of responsibility, sensitivity and respect
for all Muslims, we apologize for the great editorial error in last Saturday's
edition. We seek forgiveness from all our Muslim brothers and sisters....
We are sorry that the portrayal of the holy prophet Mohammed (peace be
upon him) in a commentary written by one of our staff was not only unjustified,
but utterly provocative....
We are still dazed by this sad development....
We can only plead that we mean no harm.... We recognize the gravity of
this error, and we have handled it with all the seriousness it deserves,
including very strong disciplinary measures for those who failed in their
duties.
We therefore seek the understanding
of our Muslim brothers and sisters and sincerely hope that in the spirit
of the holy month of Ramadan, and in the interest of our beloved country,
Nigeria, we would show forgiveness and understanding.... From all this
we are learning many lessons. Even if we strive to respect all religious
sensitivities, we now realize more than ever that we have to do even more
as we build bridges of understanding across our complex religious divide.
May Allah ... continue to guide
us aright....
A contrarian view was expressed
by a Nigerian letter writer in Canada to the BBC:
If anyone calls what was written
in This Day newspaper as "irresponsible journalism," then Nigeria is far
from being a democratic state. Freedom of speech inspires rational thinking,
research, questions, new suggestions, which in turn lead to modern development.
If journalists have to consider how not to offend every religion, creed,
tribe, belief in Nigeria before writing, then all the newspapers would
have been shut down by now.
What I wonder at is that the Ramadan
time is supposed to be spiritual for some people, yet they go out, kill
fellow brothers and go back to fasting and praying. How do you marry [reconcile]
these two practices?
Africa's newspapers have nearly
all joined in decrying This Day's "irresponsible journalism." Kenya's pro-Islam
East African Standard scathingly attacked the Nigerian newspaper's "irresponsible
journalism" and "reckless statement" but made one truthful remark which
fully exposes Islam's uniquely violent nature: Even though the history
of humanity is replete with religious wars, never before has any been fought
around a beauty pageant.... Gambia's Daily Observer sounded a similar call
for "responsible journalism."
Only South Africa's The Star was
skeptical that the Daniels piece was to blame for the slaughter: Could
a newspaper article alone trigger the kind of mayhem the world has witnessed?
There is one final question in regard
to this horrific massacre.
Since this type of Islamic Nazi
intolerance, terrorism and mass murder is on display wherever there are
large numbers of Muslims, is it possible for Muslims and non-Muslims to
peacefully coexist?
History, present-day events and
the Koran itself teach us that it is impossible.
