According to one eyewitness , the killers Killing had written Shia slogans on their foreheads ( the Alawi faith is a Shia sect ) .

A government inquiry Criminal_investigation later found Know that , while long-standing tensions existed Presence between Boko Haram and the Nigerian Security forces , the immediate cause Causation of the violence stemmed Causation from a confrontation Hostile_encounter between a group of sect members and police in the city of Maiduguri .

Prior to the clashes , many local Muslim leaders and at least one military official had warned Warning the Nigerian authorities about the Boko Haram sect .

Jawaharlal Nehru in his Glimpses of World History , 1934 wrote about Christianity in India : `` You may be surprised to learn that Christianity came to Arriving India long before it went to Motion England or Western Europe , and when even in Rome it was a despised Judgment_communication and proscribed sect .

Katy Morgan-Davies was born into the sect and had n't experienced the outside world until her release .