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Article: ONLY A SHOCK CAN SOFTEN MUSLIM EXTREMISM.(Commentary / Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2001
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Byline: Sam Omatseye
When the hijacked planes turned the majesty of the World Trade Center into a billowy nightmare of concrete ruin and dissolved human flesh, I had just contemplated another event in my native Nigeria. It was smaller in scale, but rooted in the perils of exaggerated belief.
Muslim fundamentalists in northern Nigeria had taken to the streets, clobbered hundreds of their Christian neighbors to death and torched churches and homes of Christians.
??? But once I saw the video of the disaster Sept. 11, I could not help to think less of religion but of the whole infrastructure of prejudice in the world, of which radical Islam is but ...