By Nafata Bamaguje A recent Pew research poll of eleven countries showed that ISIS has its highest support among Nigerian Muslims. According to the , 20% of Muslims in Nigeria support the mass murdering savages and rapists known as Islamic State. This is nearly twice that of Malaysia (12%), the Muslim country with the next highest ISIS support. Given that Muslims comprise roughly half of Nigeria’s 160 million people, 20% of 80 million Nigerian Muslims comes to about 16 million ISIS supporters. It goes without saying that the overwhelming majority of these 16 million “tiny minority of extremists” are in our religious violence prone core North. One would think that with the...
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