dear prof amutabi
this is what is called a african mind. the democracy can not force to acquire the people of nageria. as we know this country... the voilence is so bad.................. learn form somaliland the country in africa that is democraticly elected their president .............
i condemns all victims that die for this ethnic variation...................................
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Maurice Amutabi <amutabi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Jaye,
Let us call a spade a spade. Let us condemn the violence. There is clear evidence that there has been violence which is clearly religiously motivated. Whether the contenders had vice-presidential candidates from the opposite regions is neither here nor there.
We need to condemn this in strongest terms.
Prof. Maurice Amutabi--On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com> wrote:
This caption is very alarming. I am not aware that any of the candidates considered themselves to be candidates of any religion. Apart from the fact both leading contenders had vice presidential candidates from the other religion, in Buhari's case, the running mate is an evangelist, who heads a pentecostal mission.I think we are falling into the stereotypes reinforced by foreign media coverage of our countries. What this does is that contributes to fueling the embers of religious tension, with the result that grievances become expressed along religious fault lines.Regards,JayeFrom: Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net>
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:46:00 AM EDTMuslim candidate condemns deadly Nigerian riots
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Photo: APKADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — The Muslim candidate who lost Nigeria's presidential election is distancing himself from the angry mobs who have killed Christians and set churches on fire across the country's north, underlining the deep divisions within Africa's most populous nation.Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations after results showed Nigeria's Christian president had beaten his closest Muslim opponent in Saturday's vote. Reprisal attacks by Christians began almost immediately, with one mob allegedly tearing a home apart to look for a Quran to prove the occupants were Muslims before setting the building ablaze.Mobs also engineered two prison breaks, burned down the home of one powerful traditional ruler and attempted to destroy the home of Nigeria's vice president.AdvertisementOn Wednesday, the cries of children could be heard in a makeshift ward at St. Gerald's Catholic hospital in Kaduna, where wounded people lay outside the emergency ward. Authorities have been fearful of inciting more violence by releasing casualties figures, though at least 31 bodies had been found in Kaduna alone.Opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari called the violence "sad, unfortunate and totally unwarranted," seeking to distance himself and his party from the riots."I must emphasize that this is purely a political matter, and it should not in any way be turned into an ethnic, religious or regional one," Buhari said late Tuesday.Nigeria has a long history of violent and rigged polls since it abandoned a revolving door of military rulers and embraced democracy 12 years ago. However, observers largely said Saturday's presidential election appeared to be fair, and the U.S. State Department said it was a significant improvement over the last poll in 2007.The nation of 150 million people is divided between the Christian-dominated south and the Muslim north. A dozen states across Nigeria's north have Islamic Shariah law in place, though the area remains under the control of secular state governments.Thousands have been killed in religious violence in the past decade. In Kaduna alone, more than 2,000 died as the government moved to enact Islamic Shariah law in 2000. In 2002, rioting over a newspaper article suggesting the prophet Muhammad would have married a Miss World pageant contestant killed dozens here. But the roots of the sectarian conflict across the north often have more to do with struggles for political and economic dominance.Many northerners wanted the country's ruling party to nominate a Muslim candidate this year because President Goodluck Jonathan — a Christian from the south — had only taken power because the Muslim elected leader died before finishing his term. However, Jonathan prevailed in the ruling party's primary and became its candidate for president.--
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