The greatest lie ever told is that the southwest is tolerant & accepts every religion. This is both a fallacy & a myth. It is a fallacy in the sense that it is meant to mislead many into believing such, whereas the events of the day always point to the opposite. It is a myth because that false belief is widely held but events that happen always say otherwise. Typically, a Yoruba Muslim experiences the steepest resistance when he or she chooses to exercise his or her own religion according to the dictates of the religion. They'd be termed fanatics, Islamists or fundamentalists. The only tolerance is when they choose to be only Muslims by name, the "I am a Muslim, but...." or those that aid the ideology of Kufr spread regardless of how that affects Islam.

In its true definition, RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE should mean, serve your own and allow me serve mine without hating or disrupting, while peacefully co-existing. I must not throw away mine to be a tolerant one, because I won't expect you to throw yours if truly you're an adherent of the religion you proclaim. You also cannot define my religion for me, just the way I can't define yours for you. Islam is what it is because of practice not just verbal proclamation. If you'd spend your entire life shouting "I am a Muslim", yet you don't practice it, you're wasting your time. Every Muslim reserves the right to practice his or her own choice of religion, just as the constitution is what gave every other person the rights to practice theirs.

Let's embrace tolerance, based on the concept of "Be and let me be". Dey your dey, make I dey my dey. Serve what you choose, and how, and allow me serve mine and how my religion dictates.

No Nigerian is more Nigerian that another; North to South, East to West.