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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharlie Hebdo: Niger protesters torched 45 churches - police
At least 10 people have been killed and 45 churches set on fire since protests erupted in Niger over the French magazine Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, police say.
The government has declared three days of mourning for those who died.
Hotels and bars were also burned to the ground during a weekend of violent protests, the authorities said.
Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo's offices in an attack earlier this month.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30888188
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Charlie Hebdo: Niger protesters torched 45 churches - police (Original Post)
oberliner
Jan 2015
OP
If you're burning bars to the ground because of some distant, foreign magazine's cover. . .
Journeyman
Jan 2015
#3
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)1. Islam and religion have nothing to do with this! nt
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)2. Lone Red-flanked duikers
(They don't have wolves)
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)3. If you're burning bars to the ground because of some distant, foreign magazine's cover. . .
you've probably been frequenting those bars too much in recent days.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)4. Except they probably don't drink
This is about a different type of (metaphorical) intoxicant.