Spreading

CNN reported Tuesday that there were "10 killed, churches torched in protests" because of the satirical French magazine's latest offense against Islam. Many other protests took place around the world, but this one was in the African country of Niger (in red below).

"AFP, the France-based news wire service, said police reported that 173 people have been injured; at least 45 churches have been "set ablaze in the capital (Niamey) alone," and a "Christian school and orphanage were also set alight." Numerous sites were pillaged before being burned."

If you look carefully at the map above, you'll see that Niger's southern border is Nigeria's northern border.  Here are my posts regarding Nigeria. Terrorist group Boko Haram has now overcome and taken territory the size of the country of Belgium in that northeast quarter of Nigeria, just across Niger's southern border.