Tragedy of a Nation

"The tragedy of Nigerian Muslims and Christians is that they don't really have that many men of God; what they have are only so many men of Mosque and men of Church, whenever religion is invoked, the mood becomes one of war rather than that of peace, of fragmentation instead of fellowship; and religious leaders create parties of men instead of inculcating piety in them, they engender confrontation instead of fostering cooperation among men. Instead of teaching their followers to see oppurtunities in their encounters with the other, they teach them to see only threats. And they nuture people who can kill in the name of God but cannot live according to the dictates of His religion. in Nigeria, it is as if the crusades are being fought all over again. Christians behave as if they have drunk out of the Devil's goblet of hatred instead of lamb's cup of Christians love. Muslims appear as if they have launched a Jihad whose goal they don't understand, against an enemy they don't even know, on behalf of religion they don't represent."

Mallam Adamu Adamu, 2010.

Name calling, abuses, insults, curses and fighting are the norm when they try to have conversations.

An ignorant person is one who curses his father because he hates his brother. No be your papa too?

They both trace their origins to Abraham and Adam. Yet...........