Muslims and Christians riot in Nigeria

Once again, I'll be the first to admit I have to do some digging to find "the rest of the story." But the barest details suggest that there was an election in Nigeria and one side disagreed with the results ... and riots broke out today.

Over 300 appear to be dead already.

Here's some thoughts on Gateway Pundit ... who quotes Reuters and adds: In 2001, more than 1,000 people died in religious clashes in the city of Jos.

Sectarian Violence Claims Hundreds in Nigeria

The city is situated in Nigeria's "middle belt," where members of hundreds of ethnic groups commingle in a band of fertile and hotly contested land separating the Muslim north from the predominantly Christian south. Authorities imposed an around-the-clock curfew in the hardest-hit areas of the central Nigerian city, where traditionally pastoralist Hausa Muslims live in tense, close quarters with Christians from other ethnic groups.

The fighting began as clashes between supporters of the region's two main political parties following the first local election in the town of Jos in more than a decade. But the violence expanded along ethnic and religious fault lines, with Hausas and members of Christian ethnic groups doing battle.

Angry mobs gathered Thursday in Jos after electoral workers failed to publicly post results in ballot collation centers, prompting many onlookers to assume the vote was the latest in a long line of fraudulent Nigerian elections.