DAKAR, Senegal -- Witnesses say hundreds of Muslim youths burned a church in a neighborhood on the northern part of the capital.
Mama Faye, 24, says she and hundreds of others on Sunday went to a Jehovah's Witness church on the fringes of their Yoff neighborhood and interrupted a sermon with rioting. She says after churchgoers left they burned the church. She says they also destroyed a nearby bar.
Faye says riot police arrived and started clashing with the rioters on the streets.
A doctor at a local hospital said at least 37 people were injured in the clashes. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to speak to press.
Theirno Mbeugne, spokesman for a local imam association, said the head imam had asked the youth to march. He said the imams did not endorse the destruction, "but they do think that the youth had reason."
"She says after churchgoers left they burned the church. She says they also destroyed a nearby bar."
ReplyDeleteDamn shame about the bar...
muslims indeed have a reason: they hate everything and everyone so they always have an excuse handy to burn down an evil church.
ReplyDeleteThat is why I loathe islam and most mussies. There is no accommodating within islam, just a hate filled book and a leader who was a pervert, pedophile and rapist.