Muammar Gaddafi blames the British for Nigeria's problems and suggest Division.

Nigeria should be divided into two nations to avoid further bloodshed between Muslims and Christians, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said.
In a speech to students, he praised the example of India and Pakistan, where he said partition saved many lives.
Splitting Nigeria "would stop the bloodshed and burning of places of worship," state news agency Jana quoted him as saying.
A senior Nigerian diplomat said he did not take the suggestion seriously.
Hundreds of people have died in communal violence in villages around the central Nigerian city of Jos this year.
'Historic, radical solution'
Although the violence generally takes place between Muslim and Christian communities, the underlying causes are a complex mix of political, social and economic grievances.
Nigeria is roughly split between its largely Muslim north, and a Christian-dominated south.
Mr Gaddafi, until recently head of the African Union, characterised the Jos violence as a "deep conflict of religious nature" caused by the federal state, "which was made and imposed by the British in spite of the people's resistance to it".
He described the partition of India as a "historic, radical solution" which saved the lives of "millions of Hindus and Muslims".
Splitting India in 1947 caused a breakdown of law and order in which at least 200,000 people died. Some estimates say one million people were killed.
About 12 million people were left homeless and thousands were raped.
An attempt by the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria to secede in 1967 sparked a war which left more than one million people dead.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8570350.stm

Posted: at 16-03-2010 03:19 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming

Gaddafi though is a radical but he made a good point here calling for division.In my opinion it will be so difficult for the Christians and Muslims in Nigeria to accept ,trust and tolerate each other.The hatred is always there.Nigerian division will surely bring peace for every one.

Posted: at 16-03-2010 03:36 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

@Spekay,you see division doesn't mean non migration between Northern Muslims to the territory of Southern Christians and vice versa.The issue there is should in case division takes place,it would be easy for a Southern Christian traveling to the Northern Muslim territory to have it at the back of his mind that he /she has moved to a Nation where there is Sharia law and is bound to keep to the law that governs the people of the nation and the same applies to the other way round.
As you may bear with me this will bring much respect on each other and even tolerance than what the country is suffering constantly.

Posted: at 16-03-2010 03:59 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

food for thought....!!!

Posted: at 16-03-2010 10:55 PM (15 years ago) | Hero

Where does North start from where does it end ?   Are all the so called northern states towing the Sharia path?  Is every christian up north bound by Sharia law ?
If your suggestion is practicable might be an agreeable solution to the problem of religious intolerance

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Posted: at 17-03-2010 01:11 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

It makes sense - 'divided we stand'

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Posted: at 17-03-2010 02:30 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I think,its better,we remain one.....

Posted: at 17-03-2010 03:25 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

@Spekay,You see I personally love togetherness meaning unity,but as you and every other normal individual can notice that Nigeria as a whole is full of different people far to be called same people and hatred,intolerance and mistrust against one tribe to the other is what you observe within.That is why the whole nation remains stagnant,any thing goes and no one is accounted for because the people are not the same and can not stand with one word.The capacity of being a one nation Nigeria is too far bogus to our control.I am not a tribalist and not even interested in the resources rather the view of fact remains.Pls bear with me the magnitude of atrocities and killing each time any violent takes place would not take much life and damages if the people are separated.There is no way a fellow Muslim will wake up and begin to kill his fellow Northern Muslim for any reason be it likewise the Southern Christians wouldn't involve in such crime.Have you ever witnessed this modern days where a Cameroonian killing a Ghanaian for any reason so far or Nigerian killing any of their neighboring country men the ans is no but it is very obvious to see a Northerner ready to wipe the whole tribe from the South-East vice versa just in the name of religion and tribal dispute.Bear with me the British colonial masters cultivated this havocs intentionally because they were not ready to leave Nigeria in peace.How I wish this so called crude oil and gold are located to every corner of the nation so that division will be justified and balanced to avoid rebellious,brutal killing of the mases.Personally I do associate with friends or business partners of different religion like Muslims,whenever I have a Muslim visitor(s) I do prepare a special place for them to have their prayers and ask every one not to near that area with shoes or slippers on,that is hospitality,tolerant and respect to my understanding,the same way a Muslim colleague some times do accompany me to worship even together in a near by church while I was by him on visit, but I have never imagined if all this could hold so long if we (Christian/Muslim) are residing permanently with each other in the same resident.In such cases things may be different,hope you understand what I mean.

Posted: at 17-03-2010 08:40 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

anything...

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Posted: at 17-03-2010 09:00 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

i think gaddafi is very very correct,i dont realy see any form of unity in the so called diversity.divided we stand united we fall.

Posted: at 17-03-2010 09:45 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie