Nigeria: Muslims Talk Things out With Christian Accused of Blasphemy Against "Prophet" Mohammed....
Just kidding, they went on a rampage trying to kill him until the police shot tear gas at them....
Commercial activities were paralysed in northern Nigeria's largest city Kano on Sunday when Muslim traders protested an alleged blasphemy of the prophet Mohammed by a Christian trader.
Hundreds of angry traders at the Sabon-Gari market were seen setting bonfires on major streets leading to the market, and called for the killing of the trader.
"A Christian trader was accused of making some blasphemous inscriptions against prophet Mohammed in his shop by his moslem colleagues who pounced on him," Kano police spokesman Baba Mohammed told AFP.
He said the man escaped to the police station in the market, from where he was quickly ferried to the state police headquarters for protection.
He said the police used tear gas and fired shots in the air to disperse the protesters, while the market and other businesses were shut to prevent the situation from escalating.
Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria has been a hotbed of religious strife in the west African country of some 140 million inhabitants.
In 1996, a number of Muslims scaled the fence of a prison in Kano where a Christian, Gideon Okah, was in protective custoday after he was accused of sacrilege against the Koran.
Okah was subsequently killed, with his murderers hoisting his head onto a spike in jubilation.
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