Isioma Daniel, a journalist working for Thisday wrote that the Islamic prophet Muhammad would probably have approved of the Miss World competition: 'The Muslims thought it was immoral to bring ninety-two women to Nigeria and ask them to revel in vanity. What would Mohammed think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from one of them.'



This sparked outrage among some Muslims , and from 20 till 23 November the city of Kaduna was the stage of bloody riots.


Already in the evening of 16 November, prominent Muslims angrily spread the message via fax and SMS . The Lagos office of ThisDay was inundated with
telephone calls from furious Muslims; the editor told Daniel that she was to blame, and on Monday 18 November she was stripped of all her responsibilities.


On Tuesday 19 November, the newspaper published a retraction on its front page and apologised, but to no avail.

On Wednesday morning of 20 November, the ThisDay office in Kaduna was sacked and burned to the ground by "four busloads" of Muslim fanatics, while another group raided the offices of other newspapers elsewhere, picking out the copies of ThisDay and lighting them in public, according to an employee of the local opinion magazine Weekly Trust, who suspected an organisation to be behind the attacks.


The local office chief of ThisDay went in hiding. Also churches were assaulted by Muslims. Daniel immediately quit her job at ThisDay when she heard about it, and stayed at home in the midst of death threats and worried colleagues, relatives and friends.



On Thursday 21 November, armed rioters attacked shouting Allahu akbar ! ( " God is great " ) and No Tazarene! ("No beauty contest" ) and killing Christians, storming and looting Christian houses, companies and
churches and burning them down.

Groups of Muslim youths built barricades with burning
car tyres , passers-by in Christian neighbourhoods were attacked by them, drivers were pulled out of their vehicles and murdered on the spot with machetes and
axes .


Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers were between the ages of 12 and 26, armed with machetes, cutlasses , butcher's knives, sticks and guns, their faces painted unrecognisably with charcoal; they appeared not to be from the neighbourhood.



The attackers also slaughtered two Muslims students (who fiercely denied being Christians) by accident because they wore T-shirts rather than traditional Islamic clothing.

The riot police did little to nothing to stop the riots. That day, 50 people were killed and 300 wounded according to early estimates.

Additionally, there were many burnt out cars and destroyed buildings.

The Sultan of Sokoto called for calm and peace on national television, but the federal Minister for Abuja
burst into tears in front of the cameras, crying that Daniel has blasphemed the prophet


The Committee to Protect Journalists and Amnesty International eventually helped Daniel to go in exile in Europe, because it was too dangerous for her to return to Nigeria.

Among those killed were the parents of Nigerian footballer and international, Victor Moses , who fled the country as a result.


Source: Wikipedia

ElRufai insulted Jesus Christ but Christians didn't go looking for Muslims to kill.

but the federal Minister for Abuja
burst into tears in front of the cameras, crying that Daniel has blasphemed the prophet

Tears of terrorism!

The North is the major part of our problems ..

Op, some points were missing.
It's not as if the story was on the 1st page, it was somewhere in the middle of the newspaper. As a reader of newspaper, you only read the front page and some interesting stories in the 2nd to the 5th page or so and start flipping the rest. And then turn back and read the backpage for sports and commentary. So this was a story a Muslim fanatic read by chance and contacted his fellow jihadists.
ThisDay wrote a full front-page editorial to plead with the blood suckers.
The riot didn't happen only in kaduna. They rioted in abuja too after their friday prayer. And the program was shifted from abuja where it was originally billed to hold to PH or Lagos or so, but somewhere in the south.