This scares me to death! Is all the Islamic world mad?

[Capt Dizle]

Incredible article.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021121/ap_on_re_af/nigeria_miss_world_11

excerpt- Rioters stabbed pedestrians and torched churches during violent demonstrations Thursday in the northern city of Kaduna. The Red Cross said more than 50 people died and 200 were wounded. The protests were triggered by a newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding prophet might have chosen a wife from among contestants in the Miss World beauty pageant in Nigeria.

excerpt-Shehu Sani of the Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress said he watched a crowd stab one young man, then force a tire filled with gasoline around his neck and burn him alive

[ranskaldan]

I wouldn't actually consider the Christian world to be too much better.

As for the brutalities - that's mob behavior, something you'll find in any mob, any country, any culture.

[FrustratedPoet]

Is all the Islamic world mad?

I don't know about that, but it seems that the people of Kaduna are stark raving bonkers.

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by ranskaldan
I wouldn't actually consider the Christian world to be too much better.

You have to be kidding me. You are being inane.

[FrustratedPoet]

I doubt there are many Christian countries where a howling mob would burn people alive over a newspaper article.

[ranskaldan]

There are plenty of Christian countries in Africa, I assure you.

Just about 100-200 years ago, Europe was pretty much the same.

[Datajack Franit]

According to mass immigration's rules the same will probably happen in every european country within 40 years

[Capt Dizle]

ranskaldan, are you trying to say this is born of ignorance?

[FrustratedPoet]

Yeah, but in the crazy African countries they butcher each other over sensible things like race and politics, not over newspaper articles.

And yes, Europe was about the same 200-300 years ago.Hell, some of the things that happened in Europe in the 20th century were hideous and disgusting in every way.
This isn't necessarily a Europe/Asia thing or a Christian/Islam or a USA/Iraq thing (IMHO) .... it's an EvilBastardsWhoKillPeopleForNoReason / NicePeopleWhoDon'tBurnPeopleAlive thing.

[Kingof the Apes]

Originally posted by ranskaldan
There are plenty of Christian countries in Africa, I assure you.

Just about 100-200 years ago, Europe was pretty much the same.

I would say more like 600 years.
If people said that Jesus might have chosen a wife from the Miss World pageant in Nigeria, I doubt a riot would occur. Would anyone even care? It sure doesn't seem like an outright blaspheme.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by Kingof the Apes
I would say more like 600 years.

Nah, for a civilization that managed to kill 6 million people based on race, I don't have that much confidence.

If people said that Jesus might have chosen a wife from the Miss World pageant in Nigeria, I doubt a riot would occur. Would anyone even care? It sure doesn't seem like an outright blaspheme.

Well, depends. America is more secular than many countries, but for fundamentalists, anything can be blasphemy. The actual religion involved doesn't matter that much.

ranskaldan, are you trying to say this is born of ignorance?

Perhaps you should reply with points as King of the apes has done, instead of throwing meaningless nothings.

[Jac de Molay]

It this isn't evidence we're in the midst of a clash of civilizations, I don't know what is. *sigh*

[FrustratedPoet]

The world is always in the midst of a clash of civilisations. It has been for millenia.

[Odin]

If a newspaper tell a community of christian fundamentalists that jesus married anyone and they would do the same thing. just shows you how stupid religion is.

[Hobbes]

The *whole* Islamic world? That's one hell of a generalisation. All through-out history there have been stuff like this happening. Spanish Inquesition, the KKK, etc, etc. Those people back then were just as human and just as capable of rational thought as people are now, so a better statement would be: "The Human Race continues to spawn wackos who use religion as a guise to kill people."