Italian police arrest 15 Muslims on charges of throwing 12 Christians from migrant boat
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[QUOTE]Police in Sicily have arrested 15 men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean. Survivors had informed police of the killings.
Police in the Sicilian capital Palermo said on Thursday they had arrested 15 Muslim men from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal on charges of throwing the group of Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean. All the Christians are believed to have drowned.
"The motive for the resentment was traced to their faiths," police said. "Twelve people are said to have drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean, all of them Nigerian and Ghanaian."
The 15 were charged with multiple homicide motivated by religious hatred. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement that it had received reports of "a fight between different groups - maybe for religious reasons..."
Survivors said they had boarded the rubber boat on April 14 on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard. They arrived in Palermo on Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by the ship Ellensborg.
During the crossing, the migrants from Nigeria and Ghana - believed to be Christians - were threatened with being abandoned at sea by the group of fifteen. They carried out their threat, according to the witnesses, and pushed the Christians overboard.
The surviving Christians, according to the police statement, only managed to stay on board by forming a "human chain" to resist the assault.
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Religion of peace my ass.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;47565666]Religion of peace my ass.[/QUOTE]
Would you say this if it were extremist christians? athiests? even bhuddists? Would you judge a religion shared by millions on 15 people's actions if the religion wasn't Islam?
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;47565678]Would you say this if it were extremist christians? athiests? even bhuddists? Would you judge a religion shared by millions on 15 people's actions if the religion wasn't Islam?[/QUOTE]
I would, yes. I'm a Christian and all these racist white people killing blacks and etc claiming to be Christian are full of themselves. They're all extremists claiming to be peaceful but using their religion as a crutch to get leverage.
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Thought I had read this one already.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;47565687]I would, yes. I'm a Christian and all these racist white people killing blacks and etc claiming to be Christian are full of themselves. They're all extremists claiming to be peaceful but using their religion as a crutch to get leverage.[/QUOTE]
So Christianity isn't a religion of piece either then? Your perspective is confusing..
[QUOTE=shakey42;47565717]So Christianity isn't a religion of piece either then? Your perspective is confusing..[/QUOTE]
They call Islam a religion of peace and then use it as leverage for mass murder. This is extremism which I already mentioned.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;47565764]They call Islam a religion of peace and then use it as leverage for mass murder. This is extremism which I already mentioned.[/QUOTE]
This was the case for pretty much every major religion on earth, including Christianity. Need I not remind you of the "crusades?"
What is going on with Islam right now is terrible and it needs to be stopped. But do not go insulting other religions as wholes , since most people who practice them are peaceful and caring.
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