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The police in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have warned pro- and anti-Sharia demonstrators against acts capable of endangering lives and property, 'The Guardian' reported on Thursday.
The daily cited Police Commissioner Alhaji Hamisu Isa as saying that permits issued to both Christian and Muslim demonstrators would be withdrawn if they breached the peace.
On Monday, thousands of Muslims in Kaduna staged a rally demanding the extension of Islamic law to the state. Kaduna's population includes a large number of Christians, a media source told IRIN. In Kwara state, which also has many adherents of both faiths, Muslim militants vandalised Christian churches last December.
Since the declaration of Sharia in Zamfara last year, several other states in the predominantly Muslim north have considered introducing Islamic law, causing alarm among Christian minorities.
(See NIGERIA: Focus on religious tension, 12 January 2000)
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