Stoned for Preaching Against Islam

Michelle Malkin covers a story out of Nigeria about a 20 year old girl stoned to death by an angry mob for distributing a leaflet against Islam. I link just to point out that Malkin insists on identifying the girl as a Christian, thus implying this is an example is Islamic hatred of Christianity. She links to BosNewsLife's coverage of where the woman is described as engaging in "street evangelization", again stoking the Islam versus Christianity battle angle. All of this despite the fact that multiple times in the texts she quotes, the victim's leaflet is described as denigrating both Mohammed and Jesus, not exactly the act of a Christian. That doesn't make the event any less an abomination. I just want to point out the cynical way some people will exploit anything to advance their agendas, even if the facts blatantly contradict their spin.

And I love the fact that that BosNewsLife article is on a website proclaiming itself to be "family friendly." Interesting concept. The site's front page has a lead article on a raped Pakistani woman, an article about death sentences in Somalia, and a remembrance of the London bombings. Safe for the whole family.