Jos Crisis – the salient Issue

Why will a dispute over a building project throw the whole city into predicament? Why would a difference of opinion in a section of the city grossly affect the entire Jos city? What would make neighbours and friends suddenly become enemies?
A simple disagreement claimed over 300 lives, destroyed hundreds of houses, cars and various properties.
These are issues I kept thinking about during this present mayhem in Jos City. I keep thinking why there is such a tensed atmosphere in this city. Trust seems elusive.
There must be more than meet the eye in this crisis. I strongly believe that the crisis in Jos is more spiritual than physical. Consider this: this crisis makes people sad unnecessarily, heightens blood pressure, creates hatred that eats into people’s emotion, brings about insomnia (sleeplessness), lack of appetite for those that have food and acute hunger for those that are caught off guard, loss of business(a friend of mine lost all of business equipments- I don’t how he is going to start again), economic loss due to sit-at-home situation,
Could this be mere fighting and claiming of rights?
The world is unprincipled. It's dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn't fight fair. But we don't live or fight our battles that way--never have and never will.
The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture.
We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.

I think we should see beyond the fighting and religious disharmony? This crisis is meant to erode our sense of judgement and sensitivity to the flow of the spirit.
Consider Christians wishing that the Muslim community be evacuated to Toro in Bauchi state, calling those created in the image of God goats (am guilty of that, but am repenting right now), burning neighbours’ houses on the grounds of retaliating what has been done to some other Christians in some other parts of the city, leaving the city with no consideration for the will of God or express instructions from him.
I cannot be convinced otherwise that it can’t be the Holy Spirit that well up such hatred, violence, disorientation, fear and lack of compassion for fellow man.
We need to sit back and think deeply about the kind of spirit that is fuelling our reaction to the present situation. Our actions, reaction and non-action must be rooted in the Spirit of God.