Saturday, December 24, 2011

Flare Up

Every now and then the Long War flares up into actual warfare. Examples of this include Lebanon a few years ago, Bosnia, then Chechnya, and Sudan much more recently. Now it's Nigeria, see this article in BBC News Africa for details.

Egypt may well be next, where almost 10% of the population is Christian in an otherwise Islamic country. Islamic parties are winning the recent Egyptian elections in a country that has had secular governments for more than a century.