Blair Launches Initiative for Religious Tolerance in Nigeria
Former British prime minister Tony Blair, the next Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan have launched an initiative to improve relations between Muslims and Christians, The initiative was launched on the same day several people were killed during religious clashes.
Religious tension in Nigeria.
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Nigeria: Religious Tensions in Nigeria Politically Motivated - Jonathan
Vanguard, 23 November 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said his administration would continue to embrace inter-religious dialogue with a view to assuaging the mounting level of insecurity in the ... read more »
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Nigeria: 16 Killed in Kano, Plateau, Borno As Cars Plunge Into River in Lagos
Vanguard, 23 November 2012
Armed soldiers, yesterday, took over security in Bichi town near Kano, following a sectarian violence that rocked the town, leading to the death of no fewer than five persons, just ... read more »
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Nigeria: Five Feared Dead in Bichi Violence
Leadership, 23 November 2012
Five persons were reported dead in Bichi town of Kano state, following a violent protest over alleged religious misunderstanding involving a businessman. read more »
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Nigeria: Religious Violence Erupts in Kano Town
Daily Trust, 22 November 2012
Several houses and shops have reportedly been torched in a religious violence that erupted on Thursday morning in Bichi, a town several kilometers outside Kano metropolis in Kano ... read more »
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Nigeria: Religious Tensions Politically Motivated - Jonathan
Daily Trust, 23 November 2012
Some of the religious tensions in the country were politically motivated, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. read more »
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At least 50 armed men have been arrested following religious clashes between Muslims and Christians in Taraba State. Its reported that the men - armed with guns and machetes - were ... Read more »
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That Nigeria is blessed with two of the world's great religions and that for generations the two religions have co-existed and their components have lived side by side in peace and harmony is but a blatant fallacy. Muslims don't live and let live.But they live and let die.Even in Mr.Tony Blair's native Britain,muslim immigrants,most of whom from the squalors of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan don't accept the values of their British hosts.Within Britain the muslims are running their own parallel Islamic Republic. Most former British Islamic Colonies refuse the membership of Bristish Commonwealth of Nations because it is headed by an infidel and a woman,Her Majesty the Queen of UK and of Commonwealth of Nations. Nigeria was still a colony when in 1922,1945 and 1955 the muslims went out their way to slaughter innocent Christian children,men and women for good measures. The pogrom against Christians,mostly ethnic Igbos in i966 led to a civil war,from 1967 t0 1970. Of late the Hausa/Fulani muslims have always looked for one excuse or the other to subject non-muslims to their usual acts of mass murder. Thousands of innocent Christians were massacred because of a caricature of Prophet Mohammed by Kurt Westergaard in far away Denmark.In 2002 over 2000 Cristians were slaughtered by the muslims because they dared protest the imposition of sharia on them.For over ten years now, there have been an incipient genocide and ethnic clean- sing of indigenous minority Christians by the Hausa/ Fulani muslims throughout Northern Nigeria. Given the current situation in the polity the call for a dialogue between Christians and muslims raises many questions.Is the dialogue going to be on the muslims' unilaterally declaring our country an Islamic one or on their imposition of sharia uṕon non-muslims?Are we going to have dialogue on their unprovoked current war of jihad on us? This permanent threat of the muslims against us Christians has hung over us like damoclean sword for decades.A dialogue with them will certainly be an excercise in futility since muslims are like leopards. Leopards don't ever change their spots.They want to make us muslims which is tantamount to taking a horse to the stream and try to make it to drink. No!The ultima ratio here is for us to go our separate ways like the Soviets or the Yugoslave.