Obviously, one hasn’t read the last on the Muttalab issue.
It’s ok to wear defensive cloaks and claim that Nigeria isn’t a terrorist nation, even in the face of glaring evidence that the world is not ready to buy whatever excuse we have to counter their media-fed perception that the country is a hotbed of religious violence. We have a record too fraught with such. I have never been to the UK or know the reality of religious tolerance there, but I think it amounts to hasty generalization to conclude that the UK is a cesspit for Islamic extremism. Soyinka’s statement, undoubtedly, is informed by his anger against the enlisting of his country on a terrorist watchfile, not necessarily his anger against the West. I salute his courage.

Let’s hope the UK will not ask Soyinka to propose a suitable sewage disposal system.

PS: A commentator somewhere called Soyinka’s statement “A Classic Nigerian Spam”. We’re in trouble!

Obviously, one hasn’t read the last on the Muttalab issue.
It’s ok to wear defensive cloaks and claim that Nigeria isn’t a terrorist nation, even in the face of glaring evidence that the world is not ready to buy whatever excuse we have to counter their media-fed perception that the country is a hotbed of religious violence. We have a record too fraught with such. I have never been to the UK or know the reality of religious tolerance there, but I think it amounts to hasty generalization to conclude that the UK is a cesspit for Islamic extremism. Soyinka’s statement, undoubtedly, is informed by his anger against the enlisting of his country on a terrorist watchfile, not necessarily his anger against the West. I salute his courage.

Let’s hope the UK will not ask Soyinka to propose a suitable sewage disposal system.

PS: A commentator somewhere called Soyinka’s statement “A Classic Nigerian Spam”. We’re in trouble!