Of Religious Heretics, Hysterics, Lunatics and Demons
I have just returned from the goriest scenes of the hellish mayhem in Eastern Nigeria. I said my people would retaliate and NOT THAT THEY SHOULD RETALIATE and my warning was ignored and my subjective statement that true Muslims wouldn't have done what happened in Nigeria was also misinterpreted. As I alerted the rest of the Global Voices Online, the worst has happened and over 200 innocent lives have been lost in Northern and Eastern Nigeria over some critical Danish cartoons that the victims never saw? In fact, a Voice of America report had it that when eventually the Maiduguri riots were about to start, leaders of Christian groups alerted the Police chief in Borno State who is a Moslem and nothing was done to head off the disaster that was to come upon Christian non-indigenes, especially Igbos. The result was the killing of scores of innocent Nigerians by bands of riff-raffs masquerading as Moslem activists. Shops were looted. Perhaps, that was the real motive for embarking on th...