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To: TimF who wrote (677)	11/26/2002 3:31:23 PM
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Nigerian State Says Miss World Reporter Should Die 1 hour, 45 minutes ago Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Tume Ahemba KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian Muslim state said Tuesday it had issued a "fatwa" urging Muslims to kill the author of a newspaper story on the Miss World (news - web sites) pageant that sparked deadly riots in northern Nigeria. Reuters Photo Slideshow: Miss World Beauty Pageant Miss World Competition Moves To London (Reuters Video) Pageant Denies Blame for Riots (AP Video) Nigerian Muslims were enraged by the article, written by a young woman journalist named Isioma Daniel who recently returned from a journalism course at Britain's University of Lancaster. It suggested that the Prophet Mohammad probably would have married one of the contestants in the beauty contest, which was to have been staged in Nigeria. "What we are saying is that the Holy Koran has clearly stated that whoever insults the Prophet of Islam, Mohammad, should be killed," Zamfara State Commissioner for Information Umar Dangaladima Magaji told Reuters. Editors of the newspaper said that Daniel, ThisDay's style editor, had fled to the United States after tendering her resignation in the wake of the crisis. The beauty pageant was hastily moved to London after clashes between Muslims and Christians broke out in the northern city of Kaduna last week, killing more than 200 people. Since publishing the article, ThisDay newspaper has issued numerous apologies, which it said had been accepted by the main Muslim body in Nigeria, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. The Kaduna-based New Nigerian newspaper said the fatwa, or religious edict, had been issued by Zamfara's Deputy Governor Mamuda Aliyu Dallatun Shinkafi, who compared Daniel to the British author Salman Rushdie, sentenced to death by Iranian Muslim clerics. "Like Salman Rushdie, the blood of the ThisDay writer can be shed," the paper quoted Shinkafi as saying at a rally Monday. Asked to clarify the state government's pronouncement, Magaji said it had "passed a fatwa" on Daniel, a reporter in her early 20s... story.news.yahoo.com