Nigerian riots target Christians

Michelle Malkin notes two posts by Gateway Pundit (here) and (here) that chronicle recent violence directed at Christians in Nigeria.  Some of the riots were only tangentially related to the 12 Danish cartoons that have supposedly been the inspiration for two steady weeks of riots by Muslims; these other riots were instead sparked by rumors of a Koran being confiscated and desecrated by a teacher in a Christian school.

So far, three days of rioting have left dozens dead, churches desecrated, and homes and businesses destroyed.  Some Christians fought back yesterday: Anti-Muslim Riot In Nigeria Turns Deadly.

... though not as deadly as the "anti-Christian" riots committed by Nigerian Muslims.

Please remember to pray for Christians who live as "dhimmis" in Muslim nations, deprived of civil rights and regularly threatened by violent mobs and corrupt officials.

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RhymesWithRight tracked back to this post, and they are harshly critical of the Nigerian Christians who reacted to Muslim violence by going on their own murderous rampage.  I should have been more clear in my comment, which was not intended to downplay the inexcusable violence of the Nigerian Christians.  Two wrongs do not make a right.  Rather, I was annoyed at the fact that the press gave the Christian rioters a neat little "anti-Muslim" label and ran their story more prominently than the stories about the Muslim rioters.

And now the Vatican is stepping up its demands that Muslim nations treat Christians equally under the law. 

As often happens at the Vatican, lower-level officials have been more outspoken than the Pope and his main aides.

"Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It's our duty to protect ourselves," Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican's supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa. Jesus told his followers to "turn the other cheek" when struck.

"The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights," he said.