Italian police: Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard

[Sparko]

Rome (CNN)Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.

The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants -- Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal -- threw the 12 overboard, police said.
Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared "because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain," Palermo police said.
The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship. That ship docked in Palermo on Wednesday, after which the arrests were made, police said.

The 12 who died were from Nigeria and Ghana, police said.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/europ...ard/index.html

[oxmixmudd]

Rome (CNN)Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.

The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants -- Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal -- threw the 12 overboard, police said.
Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared "because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain," Palermo police said.
The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship. That ship docked in Palermo on Wednesday, after which the arrests were made, police said.

The 12 who died were from Nigeria and Ghana, police said.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/europ...ard/index.html

wow ... sobering.

Jim

[rogue06]

wow ... sobering.

Jim

But not entirely surprising.

[RumTumTugger]

But not entirely surprising.

and also not something you'll see the MSM report on except or if they do they won't mention who the perpetrators were.

[Sparko]

wow ... sobering.

Jim

This is the type of stuff I was talking about when I said that Christians are just as discriminated and attacked as gays are in other parts of the world.

[rogue06]

This is the type of stuff I was talking about when I said that Christians are just as discriminated and attacked as gays are in other parts of the world.

Christians are definitely the most persecuted religious group in the world.

According to the Pew Research Centre Report Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world and the persecution is increasing. This is confirmed by other recent studies including one by civitas.org.uk and University of Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture (in cooperation with Georgetown University's Religious Freedom Research Project). The latter study has moved the British Foreign Secretary to investigate the global persecution of Christians. Several years ago the Vatican expressed "deep concern" to the UN over the killing of 100,000 Christians each year because of their faith.

And the persecution is growing and getting worse.

From Newsweek magazine:

Source: PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IS APPROACHING GENOCIDE LEVELS, REPORT FINDS: CHRISTIANITY 'IS AT RISK OF DISAPPEARING'

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[rogue06]

and also not something you'll see the MSM report on except or if they do they won't mention who the perpetrators were.

Well, CNN is the source Sparko cited so it isn't being totally spiked. Still, it's receiving but a small fraction of the coverage of the NZ mosque shootings did or what we'd see if the roles were reversed.

[myth]

Well, CNN is the source Sparko cited so it isn't being totally spiked. Still, it's receiving but a small fraction of the coverage of the NZ mosque shootings did or what we'd see if the roles were reversed.

Indeed.

[KingsGambit]

I've seen significant media coverage about the boat captain facing 20 years in prison for saving the lives of migrants at sea, but not this.