The price we have paid for adopting religious bias at the expense of our lives here in Nigeria!

I am Wale a 24yr old Nigerian and my username here on read.cash is Walex which is also a username i virtually make use of in all my network interactions and other social network handlers and economic activities I've engaged myself in over time and in my many years of existence and experience as a young growing cute kid back in the days to this time of my adulthood, I've never seen a continent/country that seem to idolize and swim in religion like we Africans/Nigerians especially back home here in the northern part of Nigeria would do yet at the uncharacteristic expense of our own dear precious lives.

Before i proceed in this discussion, I'd like a situation everyone pays a rapt attention at my disclaimers' policy here below.

Disclaimers' policy.

Pls never get it twisted as my statement here does not in any way remove the importance of religion as God's own heavenly established organization which was brought down to stay with mankind as their only means of reverencing God himself aside the service of lips and prayers we give to him as well or does it in any way possible, hold into any account, any particular religion as the bad actor here, rather, it only means to help us in finding the right balance and better approach to situations especially the ones that deals with the religious bias as is the case here in Nigeria rather than being barbaric towards the protection and profane of our religious beliefs in whatsoever capability we may deem fit.

Christ started the first church and as such, he(Christ) then urged all Christians when he said, "go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit..."

That was a lovely prospect if you ask me as it only represents a commission we are given for survival into God's kingdom and note, that above expression never said, "Go therefore and force disciples of people... ", but alas,

what we are currently noticing in the world today especially from this part of the world where I come from, is that most persons have murdered their fellow persons in cold blood due to some religious bias, divide and many more that seem to go in every negative aspect of what that lovely commission and command we were initially given by God to do - " making disciples of people of all nation".

Some time in a place called Mile2 in Lagos state Nigeria, some group of hoodlums claiming to be protecting Islam and its interest, killed, mimed and murdered more than 400 school children below the ages of 12 in a single attack on the grounds of fighting for their religious right in 1998 and what do we call such a barbaric and horrendous act if not criminal, yet the claim was for a protection of the Islamic religion, hmmmn, how cruel!

After that was the follow up of another greatly announced deaths and murder in cold blood of some higher institution leavers who were asked to serve their father's land in what is known as the clarion call of the national youth service corpse (NYSC) by these sets of Islamic sects that claim to be fighting on the basis of their religious preservation then had them murdered in their numbers that seemed so disturbing to an extent that even the international community and human rights campaign organizations made a direct demand and request from the Nigerian government to explain why the lose of those students lives that has remained unexplained till now.

After that event of a mass death on the basis of religious preservation and protection then follows yet another gruesomely disturbing one in 2015, when a bus loaded with commuters heading towards the Eastern part of Nigeria was bombed leaving scores of human lives including children dead and yet again, the attackers all claimed they had perpetrated their evil act on the grounds of their religious preservation and protection and yet again, the government remained very defiant to act and yet again, the international organization for human rights made demands for explanations from the Nigerian government on the mass deaths of most of her citizens in Iyanya Abuja an attack that was aimed at the united nations organization's building in 2011 in the federal capital territory of the country and yet again, they remained unexplainable, who's deceiving who?

Yet again, the country still noticed another very worrisome case in that in a period of August 2018, a middle aged man was flogged some 80 strokes of the cane for what the murderous Islamic hoodlums see as an insult and a blasphemy of the Islamic religion when it was revealed that the accused man used just a part of a decayed Islamic book of the law called the Quran to wrap a pack of an item he had bought from the market and when asked, they openly maintained in an interview that they are bent on fighting against all who fight against or blasphemes Islam, yet, we have a government that seem not to have ever brought anyone of these erring groups to book for taking unlawfully, the laws into their hands and committing a dastard act that by law is very much punishable under all sections and subsections of the state laws enshrined in the constitution.

Even in a similar situation, a woman in the northern part of Nigeria was beheaded following the same similar situation for which the middle aged man was flogged some 80 strokes of cane.

Last of them all even though it doesn't seem like I have not given you all the past events of such dastard acts due to a limitation of time but the most recent one that is really causing an uproar and may well degenerate into something that would unstable the government of the day is the one that happened some four days back when a student by the name Deborah of a popular polytechnic in the Northern part of Nigeria was gruesomely beaten to a pulp and eventually burnt to ashes despite the so called efforts of the so called department of secret service(DSS), a joint task force of both the Nigerian army and their police counterpart was overpowered by the onrushing mob. The trouble began when the said deceased girl who happens to ha e being in the same WhatsApp group with these blood tasty Islamic sects got irate from what they felt was a blasphemy from who seem to have credited all her academic excellences to God and not to Mohammed as she's but a Christian but before it became dawn on us, she had been encircled and within a short period of time, had been lynched despite the so called security forces intervention to prevent such from happening.

The issues of terrorism and counter terrorism amidst the pains of deaths from miming by a popularly and a world's recognized terror group called the herdsmen who are responsible for a death toll of over 300 innocent lives and the most recent and most alarming of them all was the mass killings that occurred when this terror group called the herdsmen clashed and killed christain farmers in June 2, 2018 for what they believed was a protection of their Islamic rights and their boko haram counterparts who's listed by the united nations as the third deadliest terror group in the world and are credited for bombing many market places, houses, shops, schools and other major gatherings houses belonging only to Christians, have culminated in the dangers of our lives preservation we are facing now. Click this link to read more about the world renowned deadly group, the book haram in my country Nigeria - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.who.int/emergencies/situations/nigeria-crisis&ved=2ahUKEwjS_v-cmPL3AhWPasAKHcmnCcgQFnoECBMQBQ&usg=AOvVaw3ZXZAgpm56HcetLXiuQ_9r

Yet again, the clash that happened sometime around October 19, 2018 in Kaduna state Nigeria when some Hausa youths clashed some Christian youths and killed scores of them in cold blood and when asked what was their grievances, they simply said, "it is for the right of Islam to be a top religion that they've carried out such a heinous crime on others lives". You can read more about it here - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.channelstv.com/2018/10/19/communal-clash-kills-at-least-55-in-kaduna/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjOxNS8nfL3AhVKhlwKHUgoCtIQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2cmpfQ3dmkrA1Q-Gxt2o-v

Yet again in the year 18th of February, 2006, there was yet another bloodbath that we experienced at the hands of all those claiming that thy are fighting a just cause for Islam killed scores of people including children and pregnant women for a simple reason that there was a prophet Mohammed's cartoon photos seen in the streets of Maiduguri, a street in the Northern part of Nigeria by some Christian persons that led to that attack and a bloodbath and of which over 30 churches were burnt down to ashes.

You can read more about it here - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-muhammad-cartoon-protests-spark-attacks-christians%23:~:text%3DABUJA%252C%252020%2520Feb%25202006%2520(IRIN,on%2520local%2520Christians%252C%2520police%2520said.&ved=2ahUKEwjk-4Pgn_L3AhVti_0HHTzkCaYQFnoECAgQBQ&usg=AOvVaw25rKCB5PRIIc2URDIABsN7

Not to even talk more about the crisis that claimed many innocent lives of vastly women, children and pregnant mothers in Jo's Nigeria in the year 28/29th of November 2008 and many more of its kind my limited time factor won't make room for me to discuss them here.

I'm in pains at the moment especially when I remember all these unfortunate happenings of terrorism in Nigeria and the government's continued support of these vices given the fact that the government of the day is purely and typically Islam.

For how long are we going to continue to live in such fear of the unknown in an everyday of our lives as hardly would you close your eyes in sleep anymore hence you are a Nigerian?

How many more shall continue o lose in all these endless cruel and brutal murder of our children, grandchildren, parents and grandparents on the basis of religion and its bias that accompanies it? My heart bleeds! Pls do note that your reader's discretion is advised which is aimed at controlling how you may feel about these disturbing discussed situations here in case you are a Muslim bad from the constant mention of too many atrocities pitched against your religion or you are a Christian feeling very aggrieved at the toll of a lose of huge Christian lives at the hands of their Muslim counterparts as I maintain yet again that your reader's discretion is purely and duly advised thank you.

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