Rio Girl Attacked After Party for Afro-Brazilian Religion

[Warren Stupidity]

Brazilian police said Wednesday they are trying to identify two men who attacked an 11-year-old girl as she left a party at a center used by followers of Candomble, a syncretic Afro-Brazilian religion.

Kaylane Campos was walking down a Rio de Janeiro street with her grandmother Sunday when one of the two men threw a rock that hit her head, causing her to faint. She was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Ivanir dos Santos, a spokesman for a group that fights religious intolerance, said the attackers were holding Bibles and shouted "Satan" at Campos, who was wearing the long white dress typical of the Candomble faithful.

Followers of the religion frequently face hostility from Pentecostals who feel that Afro-Brazilian religions are a form of witchcraft and attack Candomble temples. Dos Santos said, however, that it was not known if the attackers belonged to a Pentecostal church.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rio-girl-attacked-party-afro-brazilian-religion-31839173

WWJD? apparently beat the shit out of heathens, at least according to some christians.

[AtheistCrusader]

1. I'm sure religion had nothing to do with this.

I can probably spam about 10 Google search links that don't support that too, but will enrage and distract you enough to deflect from the issue in the op.

[Goblinmonger]

2. Jury's in

I'm sure religion had nothing to do with this.
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Seems like this is making fun of struggle4progress's incessant and obnoxious Google link spamming.

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[Warren Stupidity]

4. Best alert ever!

[merrily]

3. Alerter risks 24 hour hold to take pot shot at struggle4progress.

Two or three jurors seem oblivious to the fact that the alert is far more objectionable than the post that was alerted on. I was juror 7.

On Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:01 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

I'm sure religion had nothing to do with this.
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Seems like this is making fun of struggle4progress's incessant and obnoxious Google link spamming.

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[AtheistCrusader]

5. But the Alerter was not wrong. vOv

[merrily]

6. About you? Or about struggle4progress? Or both?

I really want to spend my time at DU reading posts and posting. I assume the same is true of most DUers. However, we agree to serve on juries because, with MIRT and the admins, the jury system and the integrity of DUers are almost all that stands between DU and a cesspool site. That alert was an abuse of jurors' time, not to mention babyish. True or not, it should never have been sent.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Well, the alerter correctly identified my reference.

But uh, the Google link tsunami thing isn't new.

[AlbertCat]

8. the Alerter was not wrong.

Yes.

That post WAS "disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. " (especially "otherwise inappropriate&quot ...


And that's why we love it!


Group hug!

[struggle4progress]

9. This might be related to the bizarre drug-gang politics of Rio's favelas

... a new intolerance is spreading through the shanty towns, as criminals who have taken up evangelical Protestantism act against unbelievers ...
Rio drug gangs use religion as weapon to drive out opponents
James Hider Rio de Janeiro
Published at 12:01AM, June 18 2015

... Adailton Moreira, a ... member of Rio’s Commission to Combat Religious Intolerance, said Candomblé priests and centers have been expelled from many Rio favelas by drug gangs influenced by radical Evangelical Christians, whose churches have proliferated in these areas. “Racism is intrinsically holding hands with religious intolerance,” said Moreira ...
Afro-Brazilian Religions Struggle Against Evangelical Hostility
By Dom Phillips
The Washington Post
Friday, February 13, 2015

... Fernandinho ... a thirty-one-year-old drug dealer ... controls all but one of Ilha’s favelas ... He enforces his rule and imposes summary justice through an armed posse ... He assumed control of Ilha five years ago ... Then there was a new story: Fernandinho had found religion ... “In spite of his violence, the ‘word of God’ must always be propagated, sometimes in a radical way. Guarabu has supposedly banned Umbanda and Candomblé rituals, as well as spiritualist séances. At 6 P.M. every day, a pastor’s prayer echoes on the narrow alleys” ... Fernandinho had become friendly with Pastor Sidney, and had been born again ... He had “Jesus Cristo” tattooed onto one of his forearms in big letters ... Leitão didn’t know whether Fernandinho’s religious faith was genuine or an attempt to concoct a new public image: “It could be either” ... His function in Morro do Dendê was not that different from a mayor’s, Fernandinho said ... I asked, “For you, where is the dividing line between right and wrong?” Fernandinho smiled, and said, “Who’s deciding?” ...
Gangland: Who controls the streets of Rio de Janeiro?
BY JON LEE ANDERSON