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The political situation in Nigeria concerning the health of President Yar’ Ardua, has forced the government to pass executive authority to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan who along with other members of the cabinet have been ordered by the federal court to determine if Yar’ Ardua is fit to remain president within 14 days amid his recent undisclosed health condition that necessitated him to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Accompanying this crisis, comes the placement of Nigeria on the US State Department’s list of countries of interest when talking of terrorism, now the African nation has to deal with its most recent outbreak of religious violence in Jos which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people forcing Vice President Goodluck to deploy the military to the region to squelch the violence.
It is no secret that Nigeria has been religiously divided for quite some time, with Christians and Muslims attempting to exercise political autonomy in different regions of the country. This has lead to unfortunate clashes, the latest being in Jos, where it is believed a Christian youth tried to stop a Muslim from renovating his house which was destroyed in a clash that took place in November 2008. An eyewitness named Alhaji Kabir said the youth told him that no Muslim was allowed to return to that particular part of Jos, and that when people tried to intervene and resolve the situation, other men came running to the scene with bloody clothes saying they had been attacked by thugs not far from the scene ultimately causing the military to be sent in and adopt “security strategies” to prevent further eruptions.
This has not made international news as it should have given the current state of affairs between the perception many non Muslims have about Muslims in America and certain parts of Europe. Given the reports of alleged underwear bombers and psychologically unstable soldiers who happen to be Muslim, many propagandists have not failed to use these occasions to generate mass hysteria and panic regarding anyone who calls themselves Muslim. Regardless of whatever reason this most recent outbreak occurred, it remains certain that fear of the other served as a strong prerequisite that quite possibly could have been decades and possibly centuries in the making. While this level of religious violence has not occurred in America, the operation of mass panic occurring today is serving as an identical prerequisite. From national call of outright discrimination called for by Newt Gingrich to hate speech masquerading as talk radio, the marketing of fear being disseminated upon a public that is increasingly willing to give up their personal privacy out of fear from a Muslim enemy can raise the level of those wanting to commit acts of violence from a religious discriminatory perspective to the events currently playing out in Nigeria on America’s shores. This current crisis in Nigeria must be discussed along this line in an international discussion to prevent these events from outsourcing to different shores. The transatlantic slave trade was justified by wicked people, because they stated and believed Black people were not only inferior, but savage in nature and therefore needed to be subjugated in the most inhumane of ways in order for their oppressors to have their humanity. Before violence on this level can exist, a justification for it must be circulated en masse. Anyone seeking to understand human events in the shaping of the world can benefit from this. Those who seek to shape the world in order to control human events do not want this analyzed, or understood by the people. Sadly, those who have refused to report these unfortunate events only see it as an African problem, not a human one.
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