Personally I’m not the least bit interested in how many people get slaughtered in Nigeria in the name of religion. I’m more concerned with events closer to home.
“When will we ever just be able to all get along..”
Never for as long as there are religions which contain factions which cannot tolerate other religions (or even different branches of their own faith).
It’s an unfortunate fact that there are parts of the world where the inhabitants do not quite see the Western way of life as at all acceptable or even tolerable. Many people have moved from those places to the West and continued to conduct their lives (aided and abetted by liberal minded governments) in the same way as they did “back home”. They believed that, similarly to the way “infidels” are handled back home, the West would soon be licked into shape after they'd arrived and the gradual Islamification of the continent would follow as sure as night follows day. There were bound to be cultural clashes when this occurred but warnings that “multiculturalism” was dangerous and undesirable went unheeded. I know that the recent atrocities are examples of the most extreme forms of these differences but they stem from the times when a rabid preacher (recently jailed for life in the US because we did not have the stomach to do it ourselves) was allowed to preach hatred and bile in St Thomas’s Road Finsbury Park to his disciples sitting in the road, surrounded by assistants wearing face masks and watched over by PC Plod smiling benignly at them. There were bound to be extremists among the “peace-loving” population that saw our “tolerance” towards these acts as a sign that anything goes. And it seems they were right.
Being tolerant is an admirable characteristic which British people demonstrate in bucketloads. Being taken for a ride by people who hate you and wish to subjugate you to their way of thinking is quite a different thing and the West is now reaping the rewards of that confusion. This has been brewing for a couple of decades and is now unstoppable. The Muslim faith believes there is only one way and the extremities of that faith believe there is only one way to achieve that aim.
And please don’t trot out the “vast majority of Muslims are peace loving blah blah blah…”. That’s very true. But the vast majority of them, because of the teachings of their faith, also see segregation by gender as perfectly acceptable, see women as second class chattels (putting women’s rights in the UK back 200 years), would be happy to see homosexuals castrated and see adulterers (ladies only, natch) stoned to death. There are fundamental and irreconcilable differences between their culture and that which the majority of people in the UK wish to follow. The time has come for “traditional British Tolerance” to be shoved aside and a single culture unfettered by Islamic traditions to be encouraged. Those wishing to follow a different line might then find it better to try their luck elsewhere. Like, say, Nigeria.