At the recent Davos World Economic Forum, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo insisted to journalists "I told you, when I first came to office, that sharia would 'fizzle out'.... And that is exactly what happened. Sharia is not an issue in Nigeria." Sounds great-but it is not quite true. Recent events show not only that Islamic sharia law remains an issue for Nigerians but that, for all to many, it is a deadly issue. In early January, in Yobe, Nigeria, a man calling himself Mullah Omar led an uprising by a group calling itself the "Taliban." While the names had a...