Violence. Not Just For Muslims Anymore.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/12/30/Nigeria.violence/
Religious hatred simmers in terror suspect's homeland

Before the terrorist bomb attack on an American airplane, the only thing I knew about Nigeria was that the entire economy was based on defrauding gullible people. The 419, or the Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud.

Turns out I was wrong.

Nigeria is also well know for corruption. Which I suppose if the whole economy is based on defrauding the rest of the world, I shouldn't be surprised. On the corruption index of the most corrupt countries on the planet, Nigeria is only 130 out of 180 countries. Which means they could be more corrupt if they wanted to be.

And there is more.

Nigeria is also well know for it's religious wars. Evidently more than 10,000 people were killed in the fighting between Muslims and Christians in the last 10 years (that is about 1,000 per year). Evidently the Muslims feel that to be considered part of the Muslim world, they need to kill Christians. And evidently, when Christians run out of cheeks to turn, they find that killing is a reasonable response.

It is good to know that Muslims don't have a monopoly on killing believers of another faith.