Stephen Law is bemused, because in Nigeria…

Muslims are attacking Christians because they think that Christians prayed for the death of their leader, and their prayers worked.
Why would their prayers work, though, if, as Muslim’s think, Christianity is a false religion?

I assume that this is a rhetorical question, because the answer is pretty clear. Once you embrace supernatural woo, all kinds of magical thinking starts to crowd out logic and reason. And since the religious seem to have a need to feel persecuted and threatened, they are prone to conjure up all manner of demons and diabolic forces. The impulse to Manichaean thinking lies just below the surface of even the most impeccably monotheistic belief systems – even the respectable version of Roman Catholicism practised in Westminster:

WESTMINSTER, UK, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of Westminster, the leading diocese of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, has written that promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, can lead to dire spiritual consequences, in addition to the dangers to physical health.
Promiscuity, as well as homosexuality and pornography, says 73 year-old Fr. Jeremy Davies, is a form of sexual perversion and can lead to demonic possession. Offering what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years, Fr. Davies said, “Among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor.” […]
He also said that Satan is responsible for having blinded most secular humanists to the “dehumanising effects of contraception and abortion and IVF, of homosexual ‘marriages’, of human cloning and the vivisection of human embryos in scientific research.”

WTF? And this idiot is also a (medical) doctor? Better not let any schizophrenics get too close, or he’ll try to exorcise their demons.
And I particularly like this bit of woo from Davies:

Extreme secular humanism, “atheist scientism”, is comparable to “rational satanism” and these are leading Europe into a dangerous state of apostasy.

Let’s see:

apostasy |əˈpästəsē|
n. the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief.
Orig.ME: from ecclesiastical Latin apostasia, from a late Greek alteration of Greek apostasis ‘defection.’

I do hope that Fr. Davies is right!
UPDATE: More on the Nigerian mess from Compass Direct, via Thin Guy.