Voting Through the Violence

Nigeria is an African country that, like many others, in in the process of converting to democracy.  There was just recently another election held for which 60 million people in the country turned out to vote.  However, the problem arose when members of Boko Haram murdered 41 people for trying to turn the country democratic by voting for a president.  The Boko Haram is a group of Islamic extremists who are trying to force the country to return to an Islamic caliphate for its government.  Their end-goal of this was to scare people away from the polls to prevent the election from occurring; luckily, they failed.

This event is horribly evil for numerous reasons, aside from the fact that murder is inherently immoral and wrong.  Most importantly is that this one tiny subdivision of the population is trying to decide what's best for the country despite the fact that most people support democracy.  The Boko Haram has to realize that they can't make a difference if 60 million support it and their one small group of extremists disagrees with it.  This is also wrong in that the Boko Haram is trying to deprive the Nigerians of the government they want just because it disagrees with their political views.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/28/boko-haram-attack-nigeria-election_n_6962354.html