Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/7/2012

At least seventeen more Christians in northern Nigeria have been killed in new attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. The fresh violence has caused many Christian families to flee their homes. Meanwhile, in southern Nigeria angry young non-Muslims have attacked Muslims, injuring at least fifty.

In other news, Muslim congregants in Halifax, Nova Scotia are dissatisfied at the slow rate of progress in the construction of a taxpayer-funded gymnasium attached to their mosque.

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