Tanzanian christian churches are burning after Muslims in the country went on a rampage when word got out that some 14 year old boy urinated on a Qur'an...the mob descended on the police station where the boy was being held demanding that the boy be turned over to them for beheading.
From the story at
The Citizen via
The Religion of Peace:
Violent clashes erupted in Dar es Salaam’s Mbagala suburb yesterday when scores of Muslim youth stormed a police station and demanded that a 14-year-old boy accused of urinating on the Quran be handed over to them.
In the aftermath of the confrontation, at least five churches were attacked, several car windows smashed and passersby injured as the angry mob moved from street to street at Mbagala Kizuiani protesting the desecration of the holy book.
Dar es Salaam Chief Sheikh Alhad Mussa Salum urged Muslims not to pursue the issue out of proportion, adding that there wasn’t ample grounds to mess up national security.
“The incident doesn’t need emotions in dealing with. Islam means peace; we can deal with such issues peacefully. This matter involved children. Islam considers age; it shouldn’t lead to a breach of peace in our country,” said Sheikh Salum.
I know what you're saying...."it's the same bullshit each and every day with these Muslims." And I agree. There isn't a week that goes by where some group of Muslims isn't rampaging on about something to do with desecration or blasphemy towards their fake religion. It's almost like they are looking for a reason to be violent. Ya think?
Chaos hits Dar as boy defiles Quran
Dar es Salaam. Violent clashes erupted in Dar es Salaam’s Mbagala
suburb yesterday when scores of Muslim youth stormed a police station
and demanded that a 14-year-old boy accused of urinating on the Quran be
handed over to them.
In the aftermath of the confrontation, at
least five churches were attacked, several car windows smashed and
passersby injured as the angry mob moved from street to street at
Mbagala Kizuiani protesting the desecration of the holy book.
Dar
es Salaam Chief Sheikh Alhad Mussa Salum urged Muslims not to pursue
the issue out of proportion, adding that there wasn’t ample grounds to
mess up national security.
“The incident doesn’t need emotions in
dealing with. Islam means peace; we can deal with such issues
peacefully. This matter involved children. Islam considers age; it
shouldn’t lead to a breach of peace in our country,” said Sheikh Salum.
He
added that attacking churches would mean the boy was sent by Christians
to desecrate the Quran, which he said he believed wasn’t the
case.Police used teargas canisters and water cannons to quell the unrest
and open up Kilwa road as the protesters hurled stones and burned tyres
to block the road. Police were still engaging the demonstrators at
Mbagala Zakhem late in the evening as the attacks on churches continued
to rage.
A source told The Citizen on Saturday that the origins
of the clashes could be traced back five days to an incident in which a
Christian and Muslim boy got into an argument over the power of the
Quran to turn anyone who defiled it into a snake.
According to
those reports, the Christian boy swore he would not be harmed if he
played with the Quran while his Muslim friend maintained that he would
turn into a snake or run mad if did so.
The Christian boy then
urinated on the book—and set off a chain of events that would turn the
area into a battleground for what the Muslims described as a defence of
their faith.
The protesting group initially arrested the boy at
around 9am on Monday and took him to a police station. The incident
turned deadly after the angry Muslims mobilised more support during
Friday prayers, reportedly in an attempt to grab the boy from the police
station and behead him.
Temeke Regional Police Commander David
Misime described the situation on the ground as “not well” as the police
were still engaging with protestors as at 7pm. “There was relative calm
in the evening,” our reporter on the scene said late yesterday. “But I
have just started hearing explosions on the Zakhem side now.”
Protesters
attacked the Catholic Church at Mbagala Zakhem and broke down the door
and an Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania was torched in the same
area.
At Mbagala Kizuiani, reports which were later confirmed by
ACP Misime further say, the Seventh Day Adventist, Tanzania Assemblies
of God (TAG), Moravian and Anglican Church and two other catholic
churches were attacked and properties destroyed. During the fracas,
which was made worse by vandalism, the windows of a vehicle belonging to
Clouds Media Group were smashed.
Commuters had problems making their way into and out of Mbagala after the road was closed for several hours.
Mr
Misime told The Citizen on Saturday that more churches would have been
attacked had the police not taken action. He said 11 cars, including two
belonging to police, were destroyed by the protesters.
According
to some reports, the 14-year-old boy got into an argument with his
Muslim friend when he told him that he would turn into a snake if he
urinated on the holy book. The Christian boy apparently asked his friend
to give him a Quran so he could test the claim.
As he started
urinating on the holy book, a Muslim man arrived and asked the boys why
they were doing so. The old man and other people took the Christian boy
to his home, handed him to his mother and told her what he had done.
“The mother responded that if that was the case, she would give them
money to buy another Quran,” said our source. “That statement angered
the group, which vowed to deal with the child.”
The group then
took the boy to the chairman of Chamazi local government, where they
secured a letter to take the boy to the police post for further
questioning.
On Wednesday, the group arrived at the police station
demanding that the boy be handed over to them but they were told he had
been sent to another police station. “They continued to mobilise and
agreed to storm the police station after Friday prayers, with the
intention of finding the boy and beheading him.
