Ivory Coast Riots as Protests Call for UN Withdraw

Ivory Coast riots as protests call for UN withdraw

Jan, 19, 2006

After years of being flooded by Muslim immigrants, Ivory Coast is now engulfed in the flames of civil war between Muslim and non-Muslim control.

Most media reports claim that the non-muslim Ivory Coast people [in the south] are the problem. {Do an internet search and judge for yourselves]

The people of Ivory Coast are rejecting the UN's plans for dissolving the power of their elected leader, President Gbagbo.

Another civil war in Africa could be in the making as protesters riot in the Ivory Coast to kick out U.N. troops...

The Ivory Coast looks set to revert to civil war as pro-government protesters blocked streets in main city Abidjan for a third day on Wednesday and demanded the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers.

The country has been shaken by two days of violent anti-U.N. protests in the southern half controlled by President Laurent Gbagbo's government. The north has been held by anti-government rebels [Muslims] since a 2003 civil war.

Hundreds of protesters attacked U.N. bases and vehicles to oppose a call by foreign mediators to end the mandate of the national parliament, which is dominated by Gbagbo loyalists. Protesters were stopping and searching cars and checking identity papers at roadblocks thrown across streets. Public transport has ground to a halt and debris from Tuesday's riots is scattered about the streets.

At U.N. mission headquarters in Abidjan, U.N. troops fired guns and threw teargas to keep rioters from breaking in on Tuesday. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on authorities to stop what he called "orchestrated violence directed against the United Nations". When has Annan ever sided with the non-Muslims in these conflicts? especially when no one is looking?

Protesters, most of whom apparently belong to the fiercely pro-Gbagbo Young Patriots, were also demonstrating on Wednesday outside the French army base in the south of the city.

The Ivory Coast is the world's top cocoa producer. Some of the cocoa companies instructed their staff to stay at home during the unrest. Abidjan's port was virtually closed too, "The port isn't closed but activity will be very slow, even more than yesterday because staff can't get to work. The roads are still blocked," said a manager at one logistics company.

The United Nations and other mediators have been trying to implement a peace plan, disarmament and new elections in the war torn country. However, Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front party said on Tuesday that it was pulling out of the peace process and called for the withdrawal of more than 7,000 U.N. troops and 4,000 French soldiers from the country.

This weeks protestse erupted after international recommendations on Sunday that the country's parliament, whose mandate expired last month, should not be reconvened. Gbagbo loyalists, said this was international meddling overstepping their authority and trying to override sovereign institutions. {Sound familiar?

Only after immigrant Muslims became planted in Ivory Coast, did this economically sound African nation begin to deteriorate.

Mixing Islam within non-Muslim nations is a sure recipe for war and destruction; the Ivory Coast is just another example among the many that prove the "Tolerance" and "Diversity" preaching of the 90s did not originate from Wisdom.

'Islamophobia' does not explain how the whole world is being set on fire by one lone religion; nor does it explain why Islam has caused so many to flee their own lands. There is only one explanation that makes sense:

Mat 12:33 The tree is known by his fruit.