Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
12 REASONS WHY BOKO HARAM IS NOT GOING
AWAY
1. Yar'adua's Government's use of brute force
initially which murdered the innocents and our
collective silence over this evil. Of course he
did not intend to kill innocents but he gave an
open order in a country with overzealous force
men.
2. The siddon look attitude of the "Mallams"
over these killings of whoever had a beards or
wore a "jumped" trouser. The same Mallams
who now fall over each other to be the first
that the non-Muslims will hear calling Boko
Haram names. Perhaps if they as much as
assisted then when injustice was being done to
innocent Muslims they would have had a moral
standing to call for calm when necessary.
3. The weakness of the Muslim authority in
Nigeria due to advent of democracy. This made
the Sultan and other Muslim leaders helpless
when their children (I mean these few Muslim
youths) where being killed and when they
began to retaliate in excess.
4. Our continuous collective lie over the origin
of this matter and insistence on not accepting
correction.
5. The incompetence of President Jonathan
and the politics of those who brought him in
including Murtala Nyako who attempted to
redeem face with a junk memo, and a host of
others who are now so conveniently in the APC
while Nigerians deceive themselves thinking
there is some change apart from Buhari.
6. The Northern excess politics which led to
lack of corporation with the Jonathan
government in the incompetent little they had
to offer. Instead some of my Northern
brothers who are known to be very responsible
people tolled the path of irresponsibility by
finding anyone who has a southern name to
blame. And perhaps out of fear of being seen
as a traitor (a tag easily given upnorth) the
others didn't correct them.
7. The bigotry in the South which made some
Service Chief sleep while fellow humans and
fellow Nigerians were being slaughtered and
the same bigotry which made some
southerners plot the retirement of brave
soldiers from the North and flooded the
military with materialistic cowardly
southerners who will run for their life the
slightest chance they get. All of these tracable
to the enmity coming from the civil war era
which came about due to the strive for power.
8. The culture of conspiracy theory promoted
by Northern political and religious elites and
Southern pastors and riff raffs who suggested
that Boko Haram members are not Muslims or
they are CAN members or they are agents of
reducing the population of the North and that
Boko Haram is a Northern agenda to discredit
Jonathan.
9. The politics of Northern politicians and
leaders who left the matter and didn't try to
help on their private capacity. It is instructive
to note that not a single arbitration was called
by Emirs nor was any called by renowned and
respected Generals from the North. Everyone
was either trying to leave the problem and
point at it for the political benefit of Arewa or
they were being careful not to be tagged as
having relationship with Boko Haram because
they have political ambitions. Yes the
government was incompetent. Will I leave my
house to burn just to show that the fire service
is not working or because it is the job of the
fire service to put off fire.
10. The activities of liberal Muslims who
named Boko Haram non-Muslims too quickly.
When you name a people apostates who should
be killed hastily, they will in turn name you
apostates who should be killed hastily. The
over zealousness is a disease both parties
suffer. One is overzealous in faith and goes to
the extreme, the other is overzealous in
disguised atheism and goes to the extreme.
This overzealousness is what led to the arrest
of the women and children of these group and
that was when they began killing women and
children too out of their own over zealousness.
11. The denial of the Muslims that this is a
MUSLIM issue and should be solved by
MUSLIMS. And the lies of the non-Muslims that
Boko Haram's excesses is what Islam preaches.
The former gives legitimacy to BH because any
"Jihadi" group worldwide sees anyone America
is fighting as being correct. The later divide
attention and puts Muslims under the pressure
of publicly cursing BH. A situation that has led
to the absence of a single normal Muslim cleric
or leader who can arbitrate if settlement was
to be made. There is nothing wrong if you, as
an influencial Muslim, desist from publicly
cursing BH with the sole intention of being
able to bring about peace by settling the
matter. Ahmad Silkida for example tries not to
insult the group not because he supports their
activity but because he needs to continue to
have access to them so as to broker peace.
12. The attitude of "the end justifies the
means". This is the same attitude that makes a
Muslim involve in democracy despite Islam
being against it. The idea is if we can use it to
bring about Sharia then it is ok. The same way
Boko Haram says they can kill innocents if it
will weaken the government despite Islam
prohibiting this.
For those of us who don't buy your democracy,
our position is that the means is as important
as the end so we don't venture into the
prohibited matters claiming to have a bigger
target. We believe that what is wrong is wrong.
NB: I didn't write this to please anyone if I did
maybe I would have held back of some of the
points. But the people dying are innocents and
I can't be rubbing the back of anyone
compromising the truth when the absence of
truth is costing us lives. If you find any of my
observation wrong or offensive please feel
free to correct me. But I won't write to please
you. Sorry, lives are involved.
Al-Faruq
06/07/15

I think you are spot on.

Some points are on point.

Hmm! You made a lot of sense, but you need to space the points properly for better reading experience.

my brother what can i say?. Morning sir.

Will this stop the bombings and the killing ?

you are right

You are not entirely correct and you left out the main reason why boko haram and other islamic terror organisations would not go away which is their deep seated islamic beliefs based on teachings in quoran and examples from the life of your islamic prophet. If we really want to be honest then we would agree that islam is to blame but the average muslim would never admit this because of sentimental reasons.

Jagoon:
You are not entirely correct and you left out the main reason why boko haram and other islamic terror organisations would not go away which is their deep seated islamic beliefs based on teachings in quoran and examples from the life of your islamic prophet. If we really want to be honest then we would agree that islam is to blame but the average muslim would never admit this because of sentimental reasons.

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ParrishNorwood:


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Jagoon:
[s]You are not entirely correct and you left out the main reason why boko haram and other islamic terror organisations would not go away which is their deep seated islamic beliefs based on teachings in quoran and examples from the life of your islamic prophet. If we really want to be honest then we would agree that islam is to blame but the average muslim would never admit this because of sentimental reasons.[/s]

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