Bund gegen Anpassung



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12.12.2002


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His Excellency Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo
The President of Nigeria

Lagos, NIGERIA

Freiburg, den 12.12.2002



Mr. President,

news have reached us that rioteers in your country sacked the building of the daily newspaper »This Day« and menaced its writer Isioma Daniel because of an article concerning Nigeria's »Miss« elections they did not estimate because of religious prejudice.
Now, based on the 1789 Human Rights Declaration, all religions are equal and free to think and to publish whatever they want, provided these publications do not violate public law, but by no means they are allowed to breaking common law, especially by rioting, acts of violence or incitating acts of violence, e.g. by some »fatwa« as reportedly was issued by some religious council of Zamara. If that were the case, we expect Your Excellency to use your whole authority to get this council's members arrested and severely punished. As citizens of this One World we cannot tolerate a state that lets appeals to killings and murder unpunished, when they happen inside its borders, especially when they already show some success; fostering religious terrorism by impunity is a menace to everybody's security in the whole world.
Furthermore, we have been told that your country's police arrested exactly the editor of »This Day«, Mr. Simon Kolawole, during the riots instead of the rioteers. We know similar incidents from our own country's »Reichskristallnacht«, so of course we hope that the story is wrong, Mr. Kolawole living in freedom and security and such a shame as it would inevitably stick to your country if that message came true will be avoided. We are sure that Your Excellency will find ways to avoid, that disgusting contingencies like that one may ever be detrimental to your country's reputation that must not be polluted by the repulsive smell of religious ravings.
Anyway, we would be grateful for Mr. Simon Kolawole's adress and send him our greetings by this means.
Wishing Your Excellency a wise, enlightened and successful time of governing, we respectfully remain,
yours


C. Müller
Bund gegen Anpassung




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