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"Mr President, the religious and ethnic violence in Nigeria has claimed thousands of victims over the past 10 years. Since 2009, we have been seeing a marked escalation in connection with the activity of the extreme Islamist sect which has been mentioned here many times. Since July 2009, it has been behind 160 bomb attacks against Christians in which over 900 people have been killed, including 44 last Christmas. The group aims to introduce Sharia law in all of Nigeria’s 36 states. It has launched a religious war against Christians and is threatening to drive them out of the north of the country, which makes Christians a very heavily persecuted religious group. In the Middle East, there is already the risk that Christian communities will disappear, and this may translate into a wave of migration to Europe.
The situation in Nigeria is one of political instability and corruption, factors which have led to an extremely uneven distribution of wealth. Nigeria has the second highest GDP in Africa and is an important supplier of crude oil to Europe, but a huge proportion of its population are trapped in poverty and have barely USD 2 a day on which to live. This provides the basis for the growth of religious fanaticism. The European Union should be striving to strengthen dialogue with the Nigerian Government, to bring it to put robust measures in place which will guarantee public order and justice."@en1
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