Short story of a fatwa

This is the story of what happens when the butterfly effect is butchered by religious intolerance.

This is the story of a 21-year-old Nigerian journalist, a miss world beauty pageant and 15 fateful words.

This is the story of Isioma Daniel:

"On Monday I heard of the fatwa by email. I used one cyber-cafe but later had to move to different places because there were too many Nigerians and I was worried that someone might cotton on. When I browsed through the Google news site I read the fatwa by the Zamfara state government through their spokesperson, Mamuda Aliyu Shinkaf. "Like Salman Rushdie, the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty." I felt calm. It was then I realised that there was no going back to Nigeria. This was no longer a lie-low-until-it-all-blows-over-then-you-can-come-back scenario. Two hundred people dead; in the name of religion."

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May 19, 2005 | 03:17 PM