Brought to you by religion: Police: Muslims threw Christians overboard during Med voyage

[Binkie The Clown]

http://news.yahoo.com/aid-agency-says-41-migrants-feared-dead-sea-142032667.html

ROME (AP) — Italy's migration crisis took on a deadly new twist Thursday as police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya, and an aid group said another 41 were feared drowned in a separate incident.

Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in the high seas assault, which they learned of while interviewing tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in Palermo Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by the ship Ellensborg.

The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred, police said in a statement.

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Tell me again what's so good about religion?

[Warren Stupidity]

1. This is all about class warfare.

Obviously the christian africans represent the european oppressors, as their christian religion is derived from the european cultural and economic domination of the past, including the slave trade, unlike the muslim africans, who represent the middle eastern oppressors, as their religion is derived from the arab cultural and economic domination of the past, including the slave trade.

Let me know when some animists start chucking christians and muslims off the boat.

[skepticscott]

4. Nah, it was just a land grab

Or a translation error.

On edit: damn..typed this before I scrolled down to read trotsky's. The apologists sure sell their excuses hard!

[trotsky]

2. I'm sure they were fighting over some land.

Or there was a translation error. Or something.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Probably just a copy error typo.

No big deal.

[Warpy]

5. There is nothing good about zealotry, not ever

and that zealotry can be political as well as religious. Hell, it can be over pro sports, just look at the soccer riots in Europe

Religious zealots just tend to be the most vicious since they think god told them that's OK.

ETA: This seems as much regional and color based as religious but religion didn't do any of them any good, either.

[edgineered]

6. Congrats to those selecting What part of the Roman Empire in the

It's Ask an Atheist Day poll, especially LostOne4Ever with the So Many Christians, So Few Lions reply. It stands to reason that sharks are the biblical equivalent of lion fish. No literal interpration of the writings of disciples, saints, and gawd herself is called for because a fish is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can fish for a horse of course, but lying fish bite on xtians.

it sure is nice not having to use the sarcasm indicator in this group!

[deucemagnet]

7. Who are we to question their deeply-held beliefs? n/t