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Adeshola
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Nigeria: Muslim pupils kill teacher over Koran
March 22, 2007 - 04:03 AM
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Muslim pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death on Wednesday after accusing her of desecrating the Koran, police and witnesses said.
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Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was invigilating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school in Gombe state when the incident occurred. The students attacked her outside the school compound after the exam and killed her, witnesses said.
It was not clear exactly what Olusase had done that angered the students.
Police confirmed the killing and said their intervention had prevented the incident from turning into a riot.
"We have received information that a female teacher has been lynched by her students. We are investigating the report," Gombe state police commissioner Joseph Ibi said.
At least five people were killed and several churches burned down in February 2006 in the neighbouring state of Bauchi by Muslims infuriated that a Christian teacher in a secondary school had tried to confiscate a Koran from a student who was reading it during class.
Word got out into the streets that the teacher had desecrated the Koran, infuriating Muslims who went on the rampage.
At least 15,000 people have died in religious, communal and political violence in Africa's most populous country since 1999, when Nigeria returned to democracy after 30 years of almost unbroken military rule.
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Re: Nigeria: Muslim pupils kill teacher over Koran
March 22, 2007 - 05:31 AM
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desholakomolafe wrote:
Muslim pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death on Wednesday after accusing her of desecrating the Koran, police and witnesses said.
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Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was invigilating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school in Gombe state when the incident occurred. The students attacked her outside the school compound after the exam and killed her, witnesses said.
It was not clear exactly what Olusase had done that angered the students.
Police confirmed the killing and said their intervention had prevented the incident from turning into a riot.
"We have received information that a female teacher has been lynched by her students. We are investigating the report," Gombe state police commissioner Joseph Ibi said.
At least five people were killed and several churches burned down in February 2006 in the neighbouring state of Bauchi by Muslims infuriated that a Christian teacher in a secondary school had tried to confiscate a Koran from a student who was reading it during class.
Word got out into the streets that the teacher had desecrated the Koran, infuriating Muslims who went on the rampage.
At least 15,000 people have died in religious, communal and political violence in Africa's most populous country since 1999, when Nigeria returned to democracy after 30 years of almost unbroken military rule.
How possible to serve/worship God without religion?
Is this word RELIGION doing worst than good to human? How many God or gods do exist?
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Re: Nigeria: Muslim pupils kill teacher over Koran
March 22, 2007 - 10:01 AM
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  This is very terrible! We need more religious tolerance in this world of ours!
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Luke Lieberman
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Re: Nigeria: Muslim pupils kill teacher over Koran
March 22, 2007 - 11:23 AM
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some Muslims are just... flat... too.. sensetive... about this book -
good lord.
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Wumi
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Re: Nigeria: Muslim pupils kill teacher over Koran
March 22, 2007 - 10:23 PM
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I think this incident may need to be well investigated in order to finally curb the increasing numbers of such incidents in Nigeria. I feel there may have been more than what the news media got about this gory incident.
Sometime in the process of teaching our children religion & faiths we should add tolerance and good conducts. Otherwise, this world may not know a relative peace sequel to religious violences.
As the case may be for Nigeria, the Government and the Security authorities involved should step up and solve this case at least to show efficiency and to forstall re-occurence of such heinous incidents.
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Prince Charles Jiduwah
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Re: Nigeria: Muslim pupils kill teacher over Koran
March 23, 2007 - 08:42 AM
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My comment is that time is right for these guys to understand that killing, war, bombing etc is not logical. And if any thing they know supports it then, it is time to ask questions in todays real world.
I do not join issues with religon rather do i support menace in form of religon.
This post was edited on: 2007-03-23 at 08:44 AM by: kashboy
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