Charlie Hebdo: Niger protesters torched 45 churches - police

[oberliner]

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

[geek tragedy]

1. Islam and religion have nothing to do with this! nt

[brooklynite]

2. Lone Red-flanked duikers

(They don't have wolves)

[Journeyman]

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]

4. Except they probably don't drink

This is about a different type of (metaphorical) intoxicant.