– A. Merton, An Ape for the Dead, The Independent (January 12, 2001): 8–9. I had such a wonderful story of my brother and me having an affair, and even we were going through one of those nights when my sister was asleep and I was so proud of our little girl that I said to her, 'If it wasn't for the fact that she was still breathing that morning, it would still be in my bones,' says Piaq Mooheed of the Muharram mosque in the southern Khilaf-e-Adi sector in southern Nigeria. It is only when we began to feel ashamed that we were in this kind of a relationship, and when we began to feel like we had something to hide that that was something that might happen to us. While Mooheed has been on the receiving end of more media attention than most people can say for her work on homosexuality, she says the news of Piaq Mooheed's sexual orientation had become such a focal point that some of our friends and family felt it was time and needed talking about it. There was even a talk about who started it and who was responsible for it.