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"en.20120314.27.3-542-000"2
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"Mr President, Nigeria is the only country in the world where there are as many Muslims as Christians. Among its greatest political challenges today are to keep the country united and to fight terrorism.
In recent months, the extremist Islamic Boko Haram movement has carried out violent bomb attacks on civilians, government buildings and churches. The attack on a church during Christmas Mass was an inconceivably brutal act of terror. The purpose of these violent attacks against Christians is to put a strain on relations between Muslims and Christians and to make the current Nigerian leadership look incapable of maintaining the country’s unity and security. Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim military leader in the north, has made an impressive display of criticising the efforts by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government to improve security as ineffectual.
Conditions are now ripe for the religious fanatics in the country. It is easy to persuade the enormous numbers of young, unemployed, excluded people in northern Nigeria to be involved in violent, extremist Islamic activity against Christians and, furthermore, western values. Boko Haram is also thought to have links with al-Qaeda. The security situation is also being affected by combatants returning home unemployed from North Africa, Mauritania, Chad and Libya and by illegal weapons flowing out of that region. Nigeria’s leaders now need support in their struggle against terrorism and to stabilise conditions in the country."@en1
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