Christians in Northern Nigeria use the word ‘Crises’ in the same way that the word ‘Troubles’ was used in Northern Ireland of a terrorist attack or other act of sectarian violence.
‘Have you heard there was another Crisis yesterday in Kanu (or Kaduna or Jos)?’ means children were abducted, or a church was torched, a pastor was killed, or a bomb exploded in a market.
Decisively anti-Christian
The difference is that the Troubles in Northern Ireland were sectarian, in the name of a sect, but not truly religious – whereas the attacks on Christians and churches, for all the misleading spin in some of our Western media (the violence is mutual, the conflict is over land), are decisively anti-Christian and instigated by militant extremists in the name of Islam. The members of Boko Haram (and other groups) would not differentiate between Catholics or Protestants, Pentecostals or Independents!
