The news that mobs have murdered another person in Sokoto State for allegedly making a blasphemous comment against Prophet Muhammad has on
ce again rattled Nigerians. I used to ask why is that. Why are people so worked up when such a thing happened? Is it that they were not expecting it or that the gap between the previous one and the latest was not long enough?I did not indulge in that line of questioning this time. What I did instead was to throw into the mix Jesus’ trial for blasphemy.Many often forget that Jesus was tried for blasphemy and sentenced to death for calling himself the Son of God.
Conscious that no man is an Island, I have wondered aloud,"Who did this to us?" My wonderment doubles when I remember that we Africans are often doing the killings in the name of foreign religions, political philosophies, arbitrary border lines drawn by foreigners, flags, and faiths. I have asked myself how the people, who in 400 years to come will occupy the land we now inhabit, think of us when they read about the things we do today.
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