Christians & Muslims Attacks

[Merlin]

There have been many attacks and clashes beteen Christians and Muslims around the world.

Thesse below occur in Malaysia. It is a democracy with a Muslim majority. Normally such attacks do not happen often.

More Malaysian churches attacked in Allah dispute

10 Jan [BBC] There have been more attacks on churches in Malaysia, in a growing dispute over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims.

The police say petrol bombs were thrown at a church and a convent school in the state of Perak, and at a church in Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

Another church in the south of the country was daubed with black paint.

The attacks come days after four churches near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, were hit by petrol bombs.

Religious tensions in Malaysia have increased since a court ruled last month that a Roman Catholic newspaper could use the word Allah in its Malay-language edition to describe the Christian god. ....

[Merlin]

These clashes are in Egypt.

Muslims, Christians set homes ablaze in Egypt

9 Jan CAIRO (Reuters) - Muslims and Christians set fire to each others' homes and shops near the southern Egyptian town of Nagaa Hamady on Saturday, three days after a gunman killed six Coptic Christians in a drive-by shooting, security sources said.

"Four houses and a shop belonging to Christians in the village of Tiraks were set on fire by Muslims, while four shops owned by Muslims in the village of al-Bahgorah were set on fire by Christians," a security source said. The villages are near Nagaa Hamady.

Six people, Christian and Muslim, were injured in the fires, they added.

Police have taken 46 statements from Muslims and Christians in the area accusing members of the other faith of attacking their houses and damaging their properties, the sources said.

The drive-by shootings in Nagaa Hamady took place around midnight on Coptic Christmas Eve on Wednesday night. Muslim and Christian groups held separate protests on Thursday and Friday. ....

[paintgun]

Malaysia should not pick up where we left :P
Religious conflict is really really bad

The protesters or activists or whoever will regret escalating this problem when it plunges into a real conflict

But i think malaysia will sort this out

[gunnut]

Too bad Shipwreck is not here to tell us how often christians around the world burn mosques for fun.

[Merlin]

About Christians attacking Muslim mosques, they do happen, but they are not often reported in the so called 'international' media.

[Merlin]

Here is another attack on a church in Algeria reported by AP and published in NYTimes.

Protestant Church Burned in Algeria

11 Jan [NYTimes] ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- Islamists looted and burned a Protestant church in Algeria, the congregation's leader said Monday, suggesting they were inspired by a recent spate of religious intolerance in the Arab and Muslim world.

The church -- hosted in an apartment block in the city of Tizi Ouzou some 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Algiers, the Algerian capital -- was ransacked and set ablaze on Saturday night, several Algerian newspapers said.

The independent El Watan daily published a picture of a smoldering pile of pulpits and desks that had been brought outside for destruction. It quoted the pastor of the local Pentecostal community, Mustapha Krireche, as saying worshippers fled the temple because local police had left a gathering of anti-Christian rioters unchecked.

The congregation was worshipping in the apartment block because it had not received official government approval to operate a church. ....

[dave lukins]

About Christians attacking Muslim mosques, they do happen, but they are not often reported in the so called 'international' media.

It's only 'international' if the Country involved allows it to become international;)

[tiensshop]

Yes it has even happened in Nigeria, i don't even see the need for these attacks because we serve the same God

[Bigfella]

Too bad Shipwreck is not here to tell us how often christians around the world burn mosques for fun.

Allow me:

From Nigeria

Nigeria: Muslims attack Christians, burn churches in retaliation for burned mosques - Jihad Watch

The UK

Cradley Heath Mosque Burned to the Ground by Arsonists | loonwatch.com

Indonesia

Indonesian Christians attack mosques | Christian Century | Find Articles at BNET

Kenya

Tervil Okoko, Land Row Triggers Religious Violence

Sweden

Fjordman: Another Arson Attack on Malmö Mosque

..and a few entries from Yugoslavia

Forum 18 Search/Archive

Flames Engulf Belgrade Mosque

New Kosova Report - Serbs burn a mosque on Muslim Holiday in Bosnia

Destruction of mosques in Visegrad Municipality Visegrad Genocide Memories

These Bulgarian ones may have been accidents, but I'm guessing the other 100 plus acts of vandalism against mosques weren't

Bulgaria: 2 Mosques Burn down in Bulgaria in 2 Days - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency

...and just in case Hindus & Buddhists are feeling left out

Nepal

Mosques burn in Nepal as mob vents fury at execution of hostages - Asia, World - The Independent

India

Muslims flee as Hindus burn mosque in India -DAWN - Top Stories; September 27, 2003

Rampaging Hindus burn Muslim children alive - Asia, World - The Independent

Myanmar

Request to stop the demolition of Mosques by Buddhist Karen monk in Myanmar San Oo Aung’s Weblog

the other side of Myanmar (Arakan)

www.rohingya.org - MYANMAR: A People Facing Buddhist Violence

and just in case good old fashioned statist dictators are feeling left out

Turkemistan

IRIN Asia | TURKMENISTAN: Seven mosques destroyed in one year, activists say | Asia | Turkmenistan | Human Rights | News Item

And one from some jewish settlers just for good measure.

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/fai...ll-of-you.html

Ain't google grand.

[Merlin]

Over in Nigeria, Christians protested the construction of a mosque and after Muslim protesters attacked a Catholic church.

What's behind Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria?

19 Jan [CSMonotor] The Nigerian Army was sent in Tuesday to stop violence that began Sunday, after Christians protested the construction of a mosque and after Muslim protesters attacked a Catholic church. Fighting is centered in the city of Jos – an acronym for “Jesus Our Savior.”

Johannesburg, South Africa. Sectarian violence continued for a third day in the Nigerian city of Jos, and appeared to be spreading to surrounding suburbs, as the state government announced a 24-hour curfew to bring Christian-Muslim fighting to a halt.

Officials at Jos’s Central Mosque, where most of the Muslim dead have been brought to be buried, say that 139 bodies have been found thus far, but other reports say that the death toll may be much higher, perhaps beyond 200. Residents told human rights workers that gunfire continued throughout the day, even after the Nigerian Army was called in to help police to rein in the violence.

“The cycle of violence is explained by the fact that both the two communities, Muslim and Christian, share many of the same problems, including lack of economic opportunities,” says Corinne Dufka, an Africa researcher with Human Rights Watch, based in Dakar, Senegal.

Frustration among the young is often a tool in the hands of ambitious politicians, she adds, and even after courts are presented with evidence that violence is often orchestrated or manipulated, “nobody is held accountable.” ...

Jos – an acronym for “Jesus Our Savior” which reflects the influence of Christian missionaries – is right on the dividing line between the northern half of the country that is predominantly Muslim and the southern half of the country that is mainly Christian. Tensions between these two communities have flared intermittently since independence in 1960, and even political parties mirror the divide by splitting primarily along religious lines. ...
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[silentsam]

Yes it has even happened in Nigeria, i don't even see the need for these attacks because we serve the same God

Other than that the majority of people involved, whether Christian or Moslem, would disagree.

[paintgun]

Other than that the majority of people involved, whether Christian or Moslem, would disagree.

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Oh yes, the need is there

[Intifada]

Religion and conflict go hand in hand. The question is, why?

[astralis]

intifada,

Religion and conflict go hand in hand. The question is, why?

that's easy enough. religion is built on belief and faith, not scientific logic and reason.

so when two religions collide, the chance for understanding and reasoning things out is fairly low, because there's no ultimate proof about who is right.

[Tronic]

intifada,



that's easy enough. religion is built on belief and faith, not scientific logic and reason.

so when two religions collide, the chance for understanding and reasoning things out is fairly low, because there's no ultimate proof about who is right.

How many Dharmic or eastern religions waged war against each other? By my observation, it is this clause of "spread the message" in Abrahamic religions which attributes to conflict with others. Especially when religion is politicized.