Blasphemous battles
As I’m sure you’re already aware, the Pope made a speech recently and some Muslims decided to get offended.
Up to now, watching two sets of mutually blasphemous medievalists getting wound up over which petulant sky fairy is “more reasonable” has been vaguely entertaining. But these things have a habit of getting out of hand.
Gunmen have shot dead an elderly Italian nun and her bodyguard in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
The attackers shot the nun three times in the back at a children’s hospital in the south of the city, before fleeing the scene.
It is unclear if the shooting is connected with strong criticism by a radical Somali cleric about the Pope’s recent comments on Islam.
On Friday, hardline cleric Sheikh Abubakar Hassan Malin told worshippers at his mosque to hunt down and kill whoever offended the Prophet Mohammed.
Sunday 17 Sep 2006 | Paul | Somalia
