Interfaith outreach?
(CNSNews.com) — New interreligious violence around Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Jos has prompted fears that worse could be on its way. One Nigerian newspaper cited an alleged government security alert warning that the Islamist group behind the recent U.N. headquarters suicide bombing is planning to carry out more attacks in Jos.
Abuja’s Leadership daily said the alert from the Plateau state’s military special task force referred to a meeting in a village on the outskirts of Jos where members of the Boko Haram group discussed calling in others from the northern belt of shari’a-ruled states to “join the Muslims in Jos for a mass attack,” presumably on Christians in the area.
The paper said the alert also reported that five cars had been donated for use in suicide bombings, and that two individuals had put up 50 million Nigerian naira (about $321,000) each to finance attacks. Security forces were advised to search all vehicles entering the area.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth-largest oil exporter. Around 50 percent of its 155 million people are Muslims, while about 40 percent are Christians.