Broken Hallelujah

21-year-old Isioma Daniel was enjoying her first job as a journalist when a single sentence spun her life and country into chaos.

It was around the time that Amina Lawal had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Nigeria was hosting the Miss World pageant and Daniel was assigned to cover it. But a few words of one article - considered heresy by Nigeria's mullahs - sparked riots that turned Muslims against Christians in bloody rampages that killed hundreds of people and destroyed dozens of villages.

Before the dust settled, the pageant had been cancelled, the beauty queens had fled, and Daniel had escaped into exile with a "fatwa" issued against her life. She remains one of the most sought-after people in the world. Dead.

What did she write in the newspaper about the beauty pageant that lead to the riots and hundreds dead?

"What would Mohammed think? He would probably have chosen a wife from one of them." Link