Nigerian history: There's been Muslim-Christian violence since independence. Islamists say all of Nigeria would have been Muslim if not for the arrival of British [So is the violence Islamist attempt to continue pre-British Islamization project?]

The attacks in Jos and in the nearby town of Maiduguri are just the latest of an estimated 1,500 killings this year. They are a sign that long-brewing tensions between the ethnic Berom community, which tends to be Christian, and the ethnic Fulani community, which tends to be Muslim, continue to simmer.

Tensions have flared between Nigeria’s north and south since the days of independence in 1960. Militant Islamist preachers claim that Nigeria would have been turned into a wholly Islamic state, led by the powerful sultanate of Sokoto, if not for the arrival of British colonial administrators in the late 19th century, which halted any further Muslim expansion. However, this viewpoint represents the fringe, and border towns in the central region generally see peaceful coexistence between the two communities, until a militant group from one side or the other decides to stir things up.

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor

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Comments: It could be that (certain number of) Muslims in northern Nigeria want to continue the Islamization project that was going on before the British came (so can't blame it on the West), and bring the whole of Nigeria, including southern Christians and animists, under or over to Islam (forcefully via jihad?).

The report said it's only a fringe view but is it really? It is a well known fact that many Muslims want to bring the whole world under a global Islamic caliphate (an Islamic state ruled by a caliph or Islamic ruler) through conversion or by force through jihad.

So the real reason for Muslim violence and terror isn't some local issues like politics or economics, but the attempt by Islamic supremacists to either conquer and convert, or subjugate, humiliate and dominate non-Muslims.

Muhammad himself started the Islamic jihad conquests that continue to this day.

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