Compared to his representative in the Anglican Church of Nigeria. Archbishop Peter Akinola has long been the idol of American rightwingers for his brutal and bigoted attitude towards gays, liberals, and other tools of Satan. But his statement on the recent rioting in Nigeria contains one really classic sentence of the traditional Christian position: May we at this stage remind our Muslim brothers that they do not have the monopoly of violence in this nation
What makes me particularly angry and disgusted about this is that the Nigerian Christian thugs won’t end up defending the Christians in the North who are menaced by Muslim thugs: they will go and find small, defenceless Muslim communities in the South and burn them out instead.
Well, that’s the true Christian spirit at work.