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The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, who heads the world’s 70 million Anglicans, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday on a two-week pastoral visit, media organisations reported.
Carey is scheduled to visit Zamfara on Saturday. The northern state took the lead last year in imposing strict Islamic law, which forbids consumption of alchohol, segregates men from women in public transport and prescribes punishments including flogging and amputation for a range of offences.
“I am not a stranger to places with strong Muslim concentration,” ‘The Guardian’, a Lagos daily, quoted him as telling journalists on arrival in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. “When I get there I would be asking a lot of questions. I would be asking, for instance, if Islam is a way of life, in what way is it possible to extend it to affect non-Muslims.”
AFP reported Christian leaders in Zamfara as saying they had been adversely affected by the introduction of the Sharia, with increasingly militant Muslims allegedly intimidating the Christian minority.
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