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“HANG THE CULPRITS” SHOUTED PEACEFULLY

Indian Muslims are rioting again, this time over a newspaper’s depiction of a Muslim shrine on playing cards:

The protests started in the morning soon after the markets opened from the downtown locality of Maisuma — the traditional stronghold of Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front. The anger soon spilled over to the nearby Lal Chowk, where shopkeepers downed shutters in protest. As the mob turned violent, the police used force and fired tear gas shells. While this broke the crowd, it failed to quell the anger.

Meanwhile, in Pakistan:

Thousands of Pakistani children, mostly students of Islamic schools, rallied in Karachi on Tuesday carrying caskets covered with U.S., Israeli and Danish flags to protest against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.

Shouting “Hang the culprits” and “Down with America”, around 4,000 students, aged between 6 and 15 years, paraded for half a kilometre and torched an effigy of the Danish prime minister, along with the caskets and flags.

In Nigeria, the Daily Sun— “Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids”—reports the arrest of 463 Motoon rioters:

[Inspector General of Police Mr. Sunday] Ehindero, who assured that the suspects would be diligently prosecuted, said “I will mobilize police lawyers to ensure they are prosecuted in the High Court. They must face the consequences of their action. We will deal with these vagabonds who claim they are reacting to one cartoon. We will deal with them,” he stressed.

One vagabond is of particular interest:

Disclosing that some of the suspects were arrested with jewelry, clothes, and other exhibits looted from the homes of their victims, Ehindero added that the 20-year-old secondary school girl who allegedly sparked off the riot in Bauchi state was also in police custody.

“We will deal with her, and she will tell us who sent her to foment trouble. I learnt the girl was once married and divorced. How did she get into SS1 in the school. We may also interrogate the school authorities to tell us their own involvement,” he said.

Hmm. Let’s find out a little more about this Bauchi chick:

Muslims in Bauchi State had last week demonstrated against the cartoon, but the latest trouble started at Government Day Secondary School, Shadawaki Barrack after a female Christian teacher told a female Muslim student to stop reading the Quran and pay attention while a lesson was going on.

The student refused, the teacher collected the Quran from her. Male students misinterpreted the action and alleged that the teacher had desecrated the Quran.

She was manhandled. Her escape to the principal’s office did not safe her as the students descended on both the principal and the teacher.

Sensing that this could breed further violence, the school authorities closed it down.

The students dispersed, only to regroup on Yandoka Road chanting songs that a Christian teacher had desecrated the Quran.

Miscreants took the opportunity to smash car windscreens and destroy business premises.

The end result of this classroom confrontation?

State Secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Adamu Abubakar, confirmed that three persons died and that 15 others are receiving treatment in hospital.

UPDATE. Must-read Motoon column from Kathleen Parker.

UPDATE II. Cairo University students discuss  Danish product bans:

Wissam Sherif, 19, and his friend, Ehab Erfan, 18, gazed at the display booth and lamented their breakfasts without Danish butter and their favorite Danish processed cheese. They laughed and said they were relieved that they’d outgrown Lego, the Danish toy maker.

“Wait. What about Nestle?” Sherif asked, with panic in his voice.

“No, it’s Swiss,” Erfan replied.

“Good,” Sherif said. “Because I can’t live without my Nescafe.”

Posted by Tim B. on 03/01/2006 at 10:11 AM
  1. The students dispersed, only to regroup on Yandoka Road chanting songs that a Christian teacher had desecrated the Quran.

    There are songs about it?

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 03 01 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  2. All hail the religion of peace!

    Posted by JEM on 2006 03 01 at 10:42 AM • permalink

  3. I think there should be a contest to see who can riot over the pettiest infraction.

    1st Prize: 72 Virgins

    Posted by tim maguire on 2006 03 01 at 10:45 AM • permalink

  4. All becuase a woman touched a book written by a paedophile they worship!

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 03 01 at 10:55 AM • permalink

  5. I wonder how much looting does go on during these riots.  Seems to me like some people are taking advantage of innocent religious violence.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 03 01 at 11:54 AM • permalink

  6. Heard being sung on Yandoka Road:

    Our eyes have seen the horror of Muhammed’s face in print
    And we feel just like Pat Robertson must feel ‘bout Larry Flint
    Of course we will go rioting while Pat goes fiercely limp
    Our Peace is smashing on!

    Burn the Embassy out of kindness!
    Kill the Christians and show compassion!
    Decapitate and show our wisdom!
    Our Peace is smashing on!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 03 01 at 12:14 PM • permalink

  7. RebeccaH, you forgot the danger quotes on “innocent religous violence”.  But I take your meaning.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 01 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  8. Although, to be sure, “innocent religous violence” is a multiple oxymoron…...

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 01 at 12:33 PM • permalink

  9. Nescafe? Ew.

    Posted by tiggy on 2006 03 01 at 12:34 PM • permalink

  10. 5 RebeccaH
    I wonder how much looting does go on during these riots.

    What’s to loot?.....:).

    4 Rob Read
    All becuase a woman touched a book written by a paedophile they worship!

    I really have never researched islamism/muslimism/whatever the hell it’s called. I don’t want to understand, these people….BUT if what you say applies then
    THIS must be why they despise women, treat them like chattel, stone them, honor kill them…oh yeah rape them…sick bastards…vile cult of maniacal people.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 03 01 at 12:42 PM • permalink

  11. You mean Nigeria has a police chief that is interested in protecting the innocent and punishing the criminal Muslims? Novel idea. Perhaps Australia and the US and Europe should try it out.

    Posted by stats on 2006 03 01 at 12:45 PM • permalink

  12. #7, JeffS.  Sorry, yes, I forgot to put out my sarcasm sign.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 03 01 at 12:58 PM • permalink

  13. Yeah, stats gets it right. How embarrassing for the Western world that Nigeria of all places is leading the charge when it comes to dealing with crazed rioters.

    Wissam Sherif, 19, and his friend, Ehab Erfan, 18, gazed at the display booth and lamented their breakfasts without Danish butter and their favorite Danish processed cheese.

    Well, I suppose you could try independent thought and figure out for yourself if taking part in the boycott is really worth it, then.

    Posted by PW on 2006 03 01 at 01:20 PM • permalink

  14. Maybe if our culprit had paid attention in class rather than reading the Koran all the time, she would not have still been a secondary school student at the age of 20.

    Posted by dsmith_michigan on 2006 03 01 at 01:22 PM • permalink

  15. Because of a picture of a shrine on playing cards?  What would they do about a velvet Taj Mahal?

    Posted by ushie on 2006 03 01 at 02:32 PM • permalink

  16. #6 Yo Bingster!

    Ridin along in my automobile
    My Quran lovin baby beside me at the wheel
    No particular place to go
    So we we drove out to the riots on Yandoka Road

    Hail Hail Rock n’ Roll!

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 03 01 at 02:35 PM • permalink

  17. Kathleen Parker is right about the Islamic Cartoon war assault upon free speech.  It’s also a pure logistic tactic of terrorism.  In not publishing the cartoons as a component of a valid big news story, the MSM has surrendered and abdicated its role as a press in a society based upon a free press and free speech, to say nothing of having also bowed to a Religion [of Evil].

    I’m just reitering this because it’s big, encouraging the terrorists in the usual way characteristic of those ripe for conquest and slaughter - conquest by the mutants=those who really do not have a free thought capacity, which obviously includes the “little bully” [presumed arbiter of “correct” thought] collaborators, the MSM.  It’s really all about thought control vs free thought.

    Parker’s necessary remedy to this tactic is to publish the cartoons with the rationale.  But will this happen?  If not, then what? At the least the MSM needs to be disempowered.  But how to do this remains opaque.

    Posted by Joe Peden on 2006 03 01 at 02:56 PM • permalink

  18. Who were the three people killed?

    Posted by aaron_ on 2006 03 01 at 03:02 PM • permalink

  19. New Rule: Newspapers cannot report on deaths without listing the victims, what they did for a living, and who they left behind.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2006 03 01 at 03:09 PM • permalink

  20. Such a pity that Denmark is not the principle source of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2006 03 01 at 04:16 PM • permalink

  21. Kathleen Parker:
    I’d like to make a modest proposal for the redemption of newspapers, the good of the nation and the cause of freedom. A day of solidarity - perhaps the Ides of March? - when every newspaper in the nation prints the cartoons with an explanation of why freedom requires vigilance against tyranny and how a free press is critical to that purpose.
    MSM - redeem yourselves. The inky finger has appeared out of the sleeve of midnight, and written. “You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting”.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 03 01 at 04:25 PM • permalink

  22. Yo Yojimbo!

    Maybe they were singing hits from that 80s group Quran-Quran…


    Dark in the city (they’ve stolen the wire)
    Cartoonists burning, the flags are on fire
    Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do
    Woman teacher, won’t let us read more
    We’ve been insulted, the infidel whore
    Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do

    Forehead on the ground
    I’m on the hunt I’m after you
    Blow up a school, blow up a mosque
    And I’m angry, wave my shoe
    Smell like a hound, even worse in a crowd
    We’re on the hunt we’re after youse
    Marry a child (but not Maureen Dowd)
    And of course we blame the jooosss

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 03 01 at 05:20 PM • permalink

  23. Shouting “Hang the culprits” and “Down with America”, around 4,000 students, aged between 6 and 15 years, paraded for half a kilometre and torched an effigy of the Danish prime minister, along with the caskets and flags.

    Children being prostituted for their parents religion!

    Tell me again why the religion of Islam is not morally bankrupt!!

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 03 01 at 05:57 PM • permalink

  24. If only the Government Day Secondary School, Shadawaki Barrack had followed the enlightened example of Newcastle University ...

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 03 01 at 06:37 PM • permalink

  25. Yo Bingster!  Youse did it again.  A tour de force even for you!

    Even the great Chuck Berry can’t hold a candle to “Quran-Quran”.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 03 01 at 06:38 PM • permalink

  26. #24 Stevo

    What about the majority of students who don’t need time off to pray?

    Having said that, at the establishment that I am familiar with, you could just about fire a cannon through the place on a Friday and not hit any of our the students…. I wish I could have Fridays off.

    Posted by kae on 2006 03 01 at 07:37 PM • permalink

  27. *yawn* Another day, another Islamic riot over some trivial rubbish. When will it end; it’s becoming very, very old?

    Nescafe? These people are savages!

    Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 03 01 at 09:55 PM • permalink

  28. Nescafe? I’d rather drink Moccona Indulgence… but I have to drink decaf at the moment due to svt, and I’m afraid that Nescafe Decaf is the one that doesn’t taste like it’s been burnt.

    Posted by kae on 2006 03 01 at 10:03 PM • permalink

  29. #26 kae:
    I suppose the other students could go to the uni bar.  Now how many brain cells have I lost when I should’ve been supplementing them at lectures?  Yes, I’ll drink to that.

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 03 02 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  30. And what’s the big deal about instant coffee?  Don’t tell me this blog has been taken over by left-wing latte sippers????

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 03 02 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  31. Why can’t our kids all assemble so obediently?

    Posted by Montalban on 2006 03 02 at 03:46 AM • permalink

  32. Kae 28

    Nescafe? I’d rather drink Moccona Indulgence…

    I don’t even know what a Moccona Indulgence IS, but based on your earlier defense of (gasp, shudder) ouzo and soda, I’m pretty sure I don’t want one.

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 02 at 04:39 PM • permalink

  33. #32

    A friend had some of my Indulgence and thought it was proper filtered coffee.

    Posted by kae on 2006 03 02 at 06:03 PM • permalink

  34. An ouzo-afficionado friend?  Or an earthling?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 02 at 06:07 PM • permalink

  35. #34
    A Heineken drinking ex-RAAF very-very-dear-close friend, who really, really likes good coffee.

    And I have a g/f who likes it and she likes good, strong coffee.

    So what’s your poison?

    Posted by kae on 2006 03 02 at 06:12 PM • permalink

  36. Sake.  Hot but not too hot. 
    And yeah, I kind of feel bad about dissing ouzo left and right, but ... it’s just that, as a carbon-based life-form, I can’t deal with it AT ALL.

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 03 at 06:22 PM • permalink

  37. Well, Stoop, sake.

    I could make disparaging remarks, but SAKE?
    Poison is appropriate!

    Posted by kae on 2006 03 05 at 06:16 PM • permalink

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