1 million Nigerians killed in religious crises — Don | Vanguard News
August 13, 2009
Speaking at the 11th convocation and investiture of fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL) yesterday in Lagos, he said national unity, transformation and political advancement will remain a mirage as long as corruption, electoral fraud, bad leadership, poverty, religious intolerance and social injustice still prevail in the polity.
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The absurdity of religious violence strikes most people on the surface.
More disturbing is the speaker's assertion that politicians have capitalized of religious fear, suspicion, and hatred for their own political ends. They perpetuate the divisions to advance their ambitions.
It is not unheard of in America where bottom-feeding political operatives seek to keep the fires of prejudice, bitterness, suspicion, and division burning just beneath the surface of the culture. It seldom results in murder, but it does create a dangerous climate that is conducive to societal progress.
We should stop ... stop and pray for nations that are suffering with religious violence and persecution .... and stop our behavior that approximates theirs.