Daily Trust (Abuja)  Nigeria: Satanic Provocation   Last week's
sporadic violence over an amateur video that blasphemed the
Islamic religion and Prophet Muhammad has continued to linger in
much of the Muslim world and beyond.  Starting in Egypt, and
then Libya, where crowds stormed the American embassy in
Benghazi; it claimed the lives of Chris Stevens, the U.S.
ambassador to Libya and three of his embassy staff. It spread to
Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, Pakistan, and ignited anti-Western
sentiments in much of the rest of the world. The new Libyan
authorities have fittingly apologized to the U.S. government for
the deaths of the embassy officials.  Clearly, the motive for
making the blasphemous video is to disparage the Islamic
religion and its adherents in order to provoke their anger and
cause chaos and then turn round to brand Muslims as intolerant
and violent people with a proclivity for mayhem on the slightest
provocation. The fact is that Christians, Jews and Hindus would
react in a similar fashion if their r