Memo to American conservatives who are angry about "Happy Holidays" and feel attacked by the request for government buildings to refrain from religious adornments: this is what a "War on Christmas" really looks like.
Religious tension turned into horrifying violence in Nigeria on Christmas Day, as a coordinated bombing campaign targeting Christian churches forced worshippers to flee. A radical sect of Islamists claimed responsibility for the destruction that killed at least 40 Nigerians.
UK's Telegraph reports on a calming statement from one of the country's Islamic leaders.
Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, said after the meeting with President Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja that he wanted to assure "all Nigerians that there is no conflict between Muslims and Christians, between Islam and Christianity."
"It's a conflict between evil people and good people. The good people are more than the evil ones, so the good people must come together to defeat the evil ones, and that is the message."
The question now is, how will the government respond to protect the right to worship, and to quell the rising strife before it turns into a religion-based civil war?
