ISLAMABAD: Muslim leaders gather Thursday for a rare summit in Pakistan designed to increase trade and investment but likely to be overshadowed by the Gaza conflict as diplomats scramble to arrange a ceasefire.



Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, key players in the Middle East, are scheduled to be among those attending the Developing Eight (D8) summit.



The D8 groups Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey, with an estimated total population of one billion people.



Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is also due to attend. Bangladesh and Malaysia will be represented at adviser- and ministerial-level respectively.



The summit will mark the first visit by an Egyptian president to Pakistan in four decades and by the first by a Nigerian leader in 28 years.



Its ambitious goal is to increase trade between member countries from $130 billion to $507 billion by 2018.



D8 leaders are set "to discuss ways to cushion the effects of the global economic recession and climate change and tackle ways to boost trade among themselves", the Pakistani government said in a statement.



Islamabad rarely hosts major international gatherings given the Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence that has plagued the country since the 9/11 attacks.



Security will be stepped up significantly, not least as the summit coincides with the holy month of Muharram.



Thousands of extra police and paramilitaries will deploy and construction work has been suspended around the diplomatic enclave to provide "God willing, foolproof security", Islamabad police chief Bani Amin told.


http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-76444-Pakistan-to-host-Muslim-leaders-summit

If after 28 years of quitting the membership of this group by virtue of absence from their summit.

What is GEJ Government trying to convey to majority of Nigerians who are mostly secular and will prefer that our great country to be categorized as religiously NEUTRAL to Islam, Christianity and our Traditional Religions

Soooooooooooooo, from all YOU could deduce from the article. . . you could only find a misleading title for your thread?
What exaclty is wrong with YOU CHRISTIAN BIGOTS?
Does Jonathan Goodluck not represent Muslims in Nigeria too?
ESPECIALLY AS HE IS SEEKING RE-DICTATORSHIP?

If he had gone to JERUSALEM to visit the HQ of CHRISTIAN BIGOTS. . . would you have complained?
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!

Like Obama has some Muslim ties. . . let us see if yawl will attempt to give GEJ the 'hate-treatment'!

ONLY AN IGBO BIGOT CAN START SUCH A THREAD!

The Socio-economic albatross of Nigeria aka IGBO CHRISTIANS rear their ugly heads again! TWA!

HA!
Title twisted again in the typical ALOY-EMEKA fashion!
ANSWER. . .YES!
Half of the country is full of MUSLIMS. . . OTAPIAPIA FULL ROAD!
Merry Xmas!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria

[size=20pt]According to a 2003 report, 50.4% of Nigeria's population are Muslims, 48.2% are Christians and 1.4% adhere to other religions.[1] Among Christians, 27.8% are Catholic, 31.5% are Protestant and 40.7% belong to other Christian denominations.[2] However, according to a recent Pew study conducted in 2011, 55.2% of the population is Christian[/size]

Ngwa o! GO AND DIG YA A GRAVE AND I WILL BUY YOU THE CASKET!
You can play with the numbers however you and YOUR FELLOW CHRISTIANS wish to! To achieve NOTHING BUT NOISE!
Fact remains. . .there are MUSLIMS in Nigeria and the PRESIDENT OR DICTATOR represents them too!

Lasinoh: Soooooooooooooo, from all YOU could deduce from the article. . . you could only find a misleading title for your thread?
What exaclty is wrong with YOU CHRISTIAN BIGOTS?
Does Jonathan Goodluck not represent Muslims in Nigeria too?
ESPECIALLY AS HE IS SEEKING RE-DICTATORSHIP?

If he had gone to JERUSALEM to visit the HQ of CHRISTIAN BIGOTS. . . would you have complained?
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!

The article stated clearly that Muslim Nations converged for a summit in Pakistan (irrespective of the purpose). It has a religious connotation hence the blackmail.

The Question is: Is Nigeria a Muslim Nation? Period

Ngwakwe:

The article stated clearly that Muslim Nations converged for a summit in Pakistan (irrespective of the purpose). It has a religious connotation hence the blackmail.

The Question is: Is Nigeria a Muslim Nation? Period

[size=20pt] AND THE ANSWER IS: YES!!!! PERIOD!!!! [/size]

Your 'usual' agenda thread to begin to drum hate and cause heads to 'knock' about the cyber airways nor go work ma!
There are Muslims in Nigeria. . .YES! NIGERIA IS BOTH A MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN COUNTRY!
Like CAMEROON AND MANY OTHERS IN AFRICA.
AS A 'CHRISTIAN'. . .MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL AND PREPARE TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF THAT YOUR SO-CALLED 'BABY JESUS'. . . . .YET AGAIN!

Some of us do not want NIGERIA TO BE KNOWN AS A DEN OF CHRISTIAN THIEVES AND RAP-ISTS EITHER!

Who cares?. . . . I DON'T!

Thank you!

GOD FORBID.

LET ME TELL ALL OF YOU, THERE IS WERE WE ARE GOING AFTER THIS LIVE AND WE ALL ARE GOING THERE IF YOU LIKE BE C OR M, E.T.C . SO MY BROTHERS WE ARE LIKE THIS (1). SO THERE IS SOMETHING IN YOU THAT TECH YOU TO DO GOOD EVERY DAY . BROTHERS LOVE EVERY BODY ( NOT SEX) AND DO GOOD THINGS TO HELP PEOPLE COME TO GOD OR LIVE AS CHRIST TOLD US . ONE LOVE MY BROTHERS .

This headline is misleading....ok, op, what is wrong with ur 20/20 vision? Where in the article was it stated that the summit was about islam? If so, why was saudi not there? When has TRADE become something of religion? I'm sure u didn't understand why the summit was held.

Nigerian christains are the worst set of christain u can find anywhere in the world because of their reasoning and mindset on certain issues....


My friend, when next we are having census in nigeria, make sure u agitate for a column where one can indicate his or her religion....maybe, that will give u number of muslims in the country...U go shock! U cant marry one wife and compare ur number with pple who marry more than one.



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maybe he converted to Islam?

same way our ____ brethren work hand in hand with our muslim brothers and sisters here.

Why is Islam always all about competition and dominance.

Arab Oil
Muslim land
Muslim Umar

As if these things are exclusive to them.

It is not even called anything if they kill each other.

Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous country and is home to the region’s largest Christian population. The West African nation has more than 80 million Christians, who account for about half of the country’s total population. There are more Christians in Nigeria than in any single nation in traditionally Christian Western Europe.1 In fact, Nigeria’s Christian population is nearly the same size as the total population of Germany. Nigeria’s Muslim population is nearly equal to its Christian population; according to the Pew Forum’s 2011 analysis of the global Muslim population, there were about 76 million Muslims in Nigeria in 2010.2

Because the proportion of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria is a sensitive political issue, the national census has not asked questions about religion since 1963.3 In 1953, 21.4% of Nigeria’s population was Christian, 45.3% was Muslim and 33.3% belonged to other religions, including African traditional religions. By 1963, the percentage of the population that belonged to other religions had declined by 15 points, nearly matching the 13.1-point increase for Christians. During this same period, the percentage of Muslims increased by less than 2 points.4 Christians have since increased in number and share to become about half of the population.

Nigeria’s large Christian community is diverse. It includes nearly 60 million Protestants (broadly defined), about 20 million Catholics and more than 750,000 other Christians. All of Christianity’s major groups have grown in Nigeria since the 1970s, but the growth of pentecostal churches has been especially dramatic in recent decades.5

1) Developing 8 (D8) is an economic organisation, not a religious organisation.

2) It was founded in 2007.

3) All the member states have large muslim populations.

4) The 2010 D8 summit was held in Abuja Nigeria.

5) It is 28 years since a Nigerian head of state visited Pakistan.

6) Nigerian Presidents have attended D8 summits at various times since the organisation was founded (eg, Yar'Adua in 2007 and Jonathan as host in 2010).


7) Section 10 of the 1999 constitution states:

10. The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.