By James M Dorsey

A recent ban on a militant, Iranian-backed Shiite group raised the spectre of the Saudi Iranian rivalry spilling onto Nigerian streets as security forces launched a manhunt to find the alleged Boko Haram operatives who killed 65 people attending a funeral.

Nigeria, Africa’s foremost oil producer, banned the Iranian-backed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) this weekend after demonstrations in the capital Abuja to free its leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky turned violent. At least six people were killed.

“The Saudis watching the Iranians trying to break into northern Nigeria is almost like watching someone else try to befriend your best friend,” said Ini Dele-Adedeji, a Nigerian academic at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, referring to the region’s religious elites that have aligned themselves with the kingdom.

Saudi cables released in 2015 by WikiLeaks reveal concern about Iranian-funded Shiite expansion in West African and Sahel nations including Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.

Mr. Dele-Adedji said Saudi and Iranian funding was “on the surface…about these countries helping out with ‘charitable work’ activities. But beyond that it’s also a way for those countries to almost create extensions of themselves.”

Mr. El-Zakzaky, a Sunni Muslim student activist inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution, initially agitated for a repeat in his native Nigeria. When that didn’t work, Mr. El-Zakzaky went to Iran, converted to Shiism, and started wearing the white turban of a Shiite cleric.

Returning home in the 1990s, he became the leader of the Islamic Movement and turned it into a vehicle for proselytizing and gaining followers.

Things got out of hand when Nigerian troops killed hundreds of Shiites in the ancient university town of Zaria in December 2015 and arrested Mr. El-Zakzaky and hundreds of his followers. The army accused the Shiite group of attempting to kill Nigeria’s army chief-of-staff, a charge the movement denies.

Iran has been funding Mr. El-Zakzaky for years and the area of Zaria he worked in became the “mecca for the dispossessed in Nigeria,”according to Matthew Page, a former U.S. State Department specialist on Nigeria. The Islamic Movement has been receiving about $10,000 a month from Iran, he estimated.

Mr. El-Zakzaky used the money to fund soup kitchens and homeless shelters, Mr. Page said. “This was a very inexpensive way for Iran to have a toehold in Nigeria,” he said.

Ghanem Nuseibeh, founder of London-based consultants Cornerstone Global Associates estimated that Mr. El-Zakzaky’s organization operates more than 300 schools, Islamic centres, a newspaper, guards and a “martyrs’ foundation.”The network is similar to welfare systems established elsewhere by Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed groups.

The Nigerian government first declared the Islamic Movement a security threat in 2017, comparing it with the Boko Haram insurgency, according to Nigerian diplomats.

Peregrino Brimah, a trained medical doctor who teaches biology, anatomy and physiology at colleges in New York never gave much thought while growing up in Nigeria to the fact that clerics increasingly were developing links to Saudi Arabia.

“You could see the money, the big ones were leading the good life, they ran scholarship programs. In fact, I was offered a scholarship to study at King Fahd University in Riyadh. I never thought about it until December 2015 when up to a 1,000 Shiites were killed by the military in northern Nigeria. Since I started looking at it, I’ve realized how successful, how extraordinarily successful the Wahhabis have been.” Mr. Brimah said.

He decided to stand up for Shiite rights after the incident in which the military arrested Mr. El-Zakzaky.

The Nigerian military said that it had attacked sites in Zaria after hundreds of Shia demonstrators had blocked a convoy of Nigeria’s army chief General Tukur Yusuf Buratai in an effort to kill him.

Military police said Shiites had crawled through tall grass towards General Buratai’s convoy “with the intent to attack the vehicle with [a] petrol bomb” while others “suddenly resorted to firing gunshots from the direction of the mosque.”

A phone call to Nigerian President Mohammed Buhari in which King Salman expressed his support for the government’s fight against terrorist groups was widely seen as Saudi endorsement of the military’s crackdown on the country’s Shiite minority.

The state-owned Saudi Press Agency quoted King Salman as saying that Islam condemned such “criminal acts” and that the kingdom in a reference to Iran opposed foreign interference in Nigeria.

Mr. Brimah’s defense of the Shiites has cost him dearly, illustrating the degree to which Saudi-funded ultra-conservatism and Iranian agitation has altered Nigerian society.

“I lost everything I had built on social media the minute I stood up for the Shiites. I had thousands of fans. Suddenly, I was losing 2-300 followers a day. My brother hasn’t spoken to me since. The last thing he said to me is: ‘how can you adopt Shiite ideology?’ I raised the issue in a Sunni chat forum. It became quickly clear that these attitudes were not accidental. They are the product of Saudi-sponsored teachings of serious hatred. People don’t understand what they are being taught. They rejoice when a thousand Shiites are killed. Even worse is the fact that they hate people like me who stand up for the Shiites even more than they hate the Shiite themselves,” Mr. Brimah said.

In response to Mr. Brimah’s writing about the clash, General Buratai invited him for a chat. Mr. Brimah politely declined. When Mr. Brimah reiterated his accusation, General Buratai’s spokesman, Colonel SK Usman, adopting the Saudi line of Shiites being Iranian stooges, accused the scientist of being on the Islamic republic’s payroll.

“Several of us hold you in high esteem based on perceived honesty, intellectual prowess and ability to speak your mind. That was before, but the recent incident…and subsequent events and actions by some groups and individuals such as you made one to have a rethink. I was quite aware of your concerted effort to smear the good name and reputation of the Chief of Army Staff to the extent of calling for his resignation,” Colonel Usman said in an email to Mr. Brimah that the activist shared with this writer.

General Buratai “went out of his way to write to you and even invited you for constructive engagement. But because you have dubious intents, you cleverly refused…. God indeed is very merciful for exposing you. Let me make it abundantly clear to you that your acts are not directed to the person of the Chief of Army Staff, they have far reaching implication on our national security. Please think about it and mend your ways and refund whatever funds you coveted for the campaign of calumny,” Colonel Usman said.

Mr. Brimah’s inbox has since then been inundated with anti-Shiite, anti-Iranian writings in what he believes is a military-inspired campaign.

Mr. Brimah’s predicament reflects the fallout of the Saudi Iranian rivalry in West Africa as a result of Saudi and Iranian funding that has let the genie of intolerance, discrimination and bigotry out of the bottle.

Issoufou Yahaya, in the Sahel state of Niger, recalls his student days in the 1980s when there wasn’t a single mosque on his campus. “Today, we have more mosques here than we have lecture rooms. So much has changed in such a short time,” he said.

Source: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/08/02/saudi-iranian-rivalry-polarises-nigerian-muslims/

Ok

El-zakzacky should be released. We're not achieving anything with his arrest. At this point in time in Nigeria, we don't need distractions from troubles, which are not planned for. We never still get stable electricity talk less of Infrastructures. Stop the distraction please.

Mtswww! Don't let anyone deceive you, the Shiites are not even up to 7% of the Muslim population in Nigeria.. it's just the media hype that is giving them an undue public attention, I dare anybody to mention one public figure in the government since the inception of nigeria that is a Shiite

Politically and population wise, shiite can never be a threat to the core north bcuz of their paltry numbers. People even went as far as saying that Atiku will divide buhari's votes in the north cuz of shiite, he couldn't even get 25% of votes in kano where they are mostly based

Matthew Page, a former U.S. State Department specialist on Nigeria. The Islamic Movement has been receiving about $10,000 a month from Iran, he estimated.

Ghanem Nuseibeh, founder of London-based consultants Cornerstone Global Associates estimated that Mr. El-Zakzaky’s organization operates more than 300 schools, Islamic centres, a newspaper, guards and a “martyrs’ foundation.”

It's strange very few people mention the IMN links with Iran. I didnt know his history until omohayek actually mentioned it. The dude did try start Iranian style revolution so, it's no surprise the FG is wary of him. From what I was told Iran doesn't have muxh sway in Africa unless Turkey helps out. If they're able to move 10k for charity I do think they can do same for other clandestine activities.

I just dont understand why if they have all this information available about him the court would give him bail. The prosecution must be bad at their jobs. They can release him, put him on house arrest, have him wear ankle moniter and ban social media use.

OP abeg modify your title.

Rivalry polarizes "NORTHERN" muslims.

This is an ISIS Hasbara

Israeli State Intelligence Services, ISIS.

Blue3k:



It's strange very few people mention the IMN links with Iran. I didnt know his history until omohayek actually mentioned it. The dude did try start Iranian style revolution so, it's no surprise the FG is wary of him. From what I was told Iran doesn't have muxh sway in Africa unless Turkey helps out. If they're able to move 10k for charity I do think they can do same for other clandestine activities.

I just dont understand why if they have all this information available about him the court would give him bail. The prosecution must be bad at their jobs. They can release him, put him on house arrest, have him wear ankle moniter and ban social media use.

I know you are a Muslim and an Oyoruba, so let me ask the following :

1. Where you at any time a member of the Muslim Student Society, MSS?

2. Do you know who floated the organization?

3. Do you know who was the inaugural chairman of MSS?

4. Did you know if you were Sunni or Shiite before Buhari came with his divisiveness?

5. Are you aware that the MSS was inspired by the Iranian Islamic revolution that saw Ayatollah Khomeini come to power?

6. Are you aware that the MSS was at the forefront staging violent protests across the North demanding for inclusion of Sharia law in the 1979 constitution?

7. Are you aware that the likes of El Rufai, Amir District Head Sanusi , current Sharia CJN, Tanko and many notable northern figures today were all members of MSS at the time violent riots were being staged?

What I don't understand is why the useless Jewish tool (Matthew Page) did not highlight the role of Saudi Arabia in sponsoring violent Islamic terrorist organizations in Nigeria like BH and ISIS.

Blue3k answer this now.

This is where Muric should help the Government.

Asnafsaeed:
Mtswww! Don't let anyone deceive you, the Shiites are not even up to 7% of the Muslim population in Nigeria.. it's just the media hype that is giving them an undue public attention, I dare anybody to mention one public figure in the government since the inception of nigeria that is a Shiite

Politically and population wise, shiite can never be a threat to the core north bcuz of their paltry numbers. People even went as far as saying that Atiku will divide buhari's votes in the north cuz of shiite, he couldn't even get 25% of votes in kano where they are mostly based

The shiites and IMN are dangerous to only Jews as they are the sole group that demands Jewish withdrawal from Palestinian lands.

The IMN is dangerous to Israel because it educates northern moslems on the plight of Palestinians something the Sunnis do not do and which the Jews are scared of.

Rather the Sunnis are fixated on jihad on Christians and a return to classical medieval Islamic theorocratic society with the Fulani amirs as absolute authority. Israel is perfectly fine with the Sunnis in Nigeria and it is no secret that the Amirs, Sultan, northern imams, scholars, businessmen, Generals all take their orders from the House of Saud.

The House of Saud on the other hand is headed by crypto Jews who are in an open scandalous relationship with Judean.



Buhari's stupidity and reverence to the House of Saud without knowing he is working for Judean is why they made him president of Niggeria.

This is why Jewish dominated media and their useless freemason lackeys who parade themselves as western leaders did all they could to get Buhari elected.

Buhari is a Rothschild puppet working had to start a proxy war in Nigeria on his own northern Muslims on behalf of Saud.

His next level goal is to ensure total jihad on the entire populace so that Nigeria will be a stupid as his Arewa constituents who will not be able to read and see the hand of Judas.

Here is your complimentary red pill for reading this post.

The more I read through this topic over alongside the comments there in, you really wonder who paired Northern and Southern Nigeria together..

hear hear....sooo,el shaky shaky was sunni before....

interesting....ipobians will close their hears to this information....

Lol zionist larper you dont me. Im neither of those things. I dont know why you clowns make baseless assumptions.

1. Nope
2. N/A
3. N/A
4. N/A but yes muslims in Nigeria know difference just like Christians know diffence between demonizations.
5. Nope
6. Nope but that's interesting.
7. Who cares did they participate in violent acts.

MossadAgent:



I know you are a Muslim and an Oyoruba, so let me ask the following :

1. Where you at any time a member of the Muslim Student Society, MSS?

2. Do you know who floated the organization?

3. Do you know who was the inaugural chairman of MSS?

4. Did you know if you were Sunni or Shiite before Buhari came with his divisiveness?

5. Are you aware that the MSS was inspired by the Iranian Islamic revolution that saw Ayatollah Khomeini come to power?

6. Are you aware that the MSS was at the forefront staging violent protests across the North demanding for inclusion of Sharia law in the 1979 constitution?

7. Are you aware that the likes of El Rufai, Amir District Head Sanusi , current Sharia CJN, Tanko and many notable northern figures today were all members of MSS at the time violent riots were being staged?

MossadAgent:
What I don't understand is why the useless Jewish tool (Matthew Page) did not highlight the role of Saudi Arabia in sponsoring violent Islamic terrorist organizations in Nigeria like BH and ISIS.

Blue3k answer this now.

Its pretty widely known Saudi Arabi sponsors salfi jihadist all over the world.

Blue3k:
Lol zionist larper you dont me. Im neither of those things. I dont know why you clowns make baseless assumptions.

1. Nope
2. N/A
3. N/A
4. N/A but yes muslims in Nigeria know difference just like Christians know diffence between demonizations.
5. Nope
6. Nope but that's interesting.
7. Who cares did they participate in violent acts.

You know jack sh!t then, so let me advice you to do proper research before siding with the Sunni and Satanic Jewish narrative.

MossadAgent:



You know jack sh!t then, so let me advice you to do proper research before siding with the Sunni and Satanic Jewish narrative.

Who told you I took a side clown. You're making assumptions based off nothing. I know plenty dude. Dont get carried away because of a few factoids.

• mss inspired by Iranian revolution ok so what?
• mss sponsored attacks in us for was only interesting fact.
• the rest of information either irrelevant to me or known. Who doesnt know saudi Arabia funds terrorists.

Asnafsaeed:
Mtswww! Don't let anyone deceive you, the Shiites are not even up to 7% of the Muslim population in Nigeria.. it's just the media hype that is giving them an undue public attention, I dare anybody to mention one public figure in the government since the inception of nigeria that is a Shiite

Politically and population wise, shiite can never be a threat to the core north bcuz of their paltry numbers. People even went as far as saying that Atiku will divide buhari's votes in the north cuz of shiite, he couldn't even get 25% of votes in kano where they are mostly based

The shia population is much smaller than sunni anyway. If Iran was serious about getting converts they fund more orphanages for almajari then wait for demographic shift to occur naturally.

Blue3k:



Its pretty widely known Saudi Arabi sponsors salfi jihadist all over the world.

The hawks in Washington be it the neocons of the Bible totting Republican and Jewish loving side or the neoliberals of the satanic globalist Rothschild side of the DNC, all want to go to war with Iran on behalf of their Jewish masters.

This article is only attempting (lamely) to portray IMN as a terrorist organization being sponsored by Iran while ignoring the role of Israel/Amerikkka/Saudi support for Sunni terror groups like BH and ISIS.

America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq on similar trumped up charges of "terrorism".

How did that go for these two countries? Not very good you will agree.

Now, since the useful idiots in Washington can not get their people to support another Jewish war on Jewish enemies - in this case Iran, the freemason tools at the hand of Judas will wage their "freedom wars" in Nigeria which will only benefit their pockets and those of their Jewish bankers.

Do you want an Amerikkkan styled freedom war in Nigeria?

Ask Libya how that turned out.

MossadAgent:


The hawks in Washington be it the neocons of the Bible totting Republican and Jewish loving side or the neoliberals of the satanic globalist Rothschild side of the DNC, all want to go to war with Iran on behalf of their Jewish masters.

This article is only attempting (lamely) to portray IMN as a terrorist organization being sponsored by Iran while ignoring the role of Israel/Amerikkka/Saudi support for Sunni terror groups like BH and ISIS.

America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq on similar trumped up charges of "terrorism".

How did that go for these two countries? Not very good you will agree.

Now, since the useful idiots in Washington can not get their people to support another Jewish war on Jewish enemies - in this case Iran, the freemason tools at the hand of Judas will wage their "freedom wars" in Nigeria which will only benefit their pockets and those of their Jewish bankers.

Do you want an Amerikkkan styled freedom war in Nigeria?

Ask Libya how that turned out.

Stop rambling talking points. The author just pointed out ties to iran. I agree US politicians are zionist and bend over in terms of foreign policy. The USA has no plans of coming to Nigeria dont just make up dumb conspiracy theories. There's no geopolitical gain for USA or Israel.

Blue3k:


Stop rambling talking points. The author just pointed out ties to iran. I agree US politicians are zionist and bend over in terms of foreign policy. The USA has no plans of coming to Nigeria dont just make up dumb conspiracy theories. There's no geopolitical gain for USA or Israel.

Lol.

You are so naive.

You are already living in a simulated Zionist controlled world.

Nigeria and Saudi Arabia which are headed by Muslim tools of Judas is a simulation of the zionist OWG.

IMN will be labelled as an international terror organization over their links with Iran to make the case that Iran sponsors global terrorism.

With that they can justify invading Iraq and also Nigeria just as they used 911 to frame Iraq and Sadam even though Sadam had no links with Osama and Al Qaeda.

Do you not see?

Or are you so blind to reason?

The Jews can easily get a Sunni to carry out a false flag terror act in Nigeria and in the West and thereby frame it on IMN and Iran.

Already that plan has began with the proscribing of IMN and labelling as a terrorist organization by the Buhari sunni govt.

MossadAgent:


Lol.

You are so naive.

You are already living in a simulated Zionist controlled world.

Nigeria and Saudi Arabia which are headed by Muslim tools of Judas is a simulation of the zionist OWG.

IMN will be labelled as an international terror organization over their links with Iran to make the case that Iran sponsors global terrorism.

With that they can justify invading Iraq and also Nigeria just as they used 911 to frame Iraq and Sadam even though Sadam had no links with Osama and Al Qaeda.

Do you not see?

Or are you so blind to reason?

The Jews can easily get a Sunni to carry out a false flag terror act in Nigeria and in the West and thereby frame it on IMN and Iran.

Already that plan has began with the proscribing of IMN and labelling as a terrorist organization by the Buhari sunni govt.

Lol ok clown keep telling yourself USA is out to get you. There's no proof They're planning any sort of invasion. Its was Israel that linked Iraq to 9/11 saying they whitnessed anthrax sale thst never happened. They also supplied bad intelligence working with politicians in the office of special plans. The situation are not same.

You're just a paranoid conspiracy theoriest for the most part. You mix a few facts with go off the rails with faulty conclusions. There's no documents to cite or word from any politician. They even doing weapons deals and working with Nigeria but your saying there's an imminent invasion.

Let it not result to crisis in Nigeria

Blue3k:


Lol ok clown keep telling yourself USA is out to get you. There's no proof They're planning any sort of invasion. Its was Israel that linked Iraq to 9/11 saying they whitnessed anthrax sale thst never happened. They also supplied bad intelligence working with politicians in the office of special plans. The situation are not same.

You're just a paranoid conspiracy theoriest for the most part. You mix a few facts with go off the rails with faulty conclusions. There's no documents to cite or word from any politician. They even doing weapons deals and working with Nigeria but your saying there's an imminent invasion.

You are naive.

The Jewish religion calls for total anarchy and subjugation of the goyim.

Jews have been behind every conflict since the beginning of the 20th century.

Their blood lust to their false god Saturn aka Satan is incomprehensible until you do a proper research on Jewish blood lusts.

Saturn is the 6th planet. It signifies Saturday - the day of the Jewish sabbath.

The polar areas of Saturn have a perplexing hexagonal vortex never seen in nature. This vortex contains the seat of Satan or rather his formerly heavenly domain.

The satanic star of the Jews is not of David but the seal of Solomon when he dabbled in Saturn worship.

The Jews of today are not God fearing.

I had to bring this up so you will know what inspires so much blood lust from the Jews and their hatred of the true living God and His son Jesus Christ.

For the record: Nigerian Army = Sunni Militia.
Nothing more nothing less. And you wonder why killings and massacre of lives and properties of citizens is on the increase.
No doubt the rise of terrorism and genocide in West Africa and Nigeria in particular is being sponsored by no other but Saudi Arabia through fulanization and Islamization.

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MossadAgent:


You are naive.

The Jewish religion calls for total anarchy and subjugation of the goyim.

Jews have been behind every conflict since the beginning of the 20th century.

Their blood lust to their false god Saturn aka Satan is incomprehensible until you do a proper research on Jewish blood lusts.

Saturn is the 6th planet. It signifies Saturday - the day of the Jewish sabbath.

The polar areas of Saturn have a perplexing hexagonal vortex never seen in nature. This vortex contains the seat of Satan or rather his formerly heavenly domain.

The satanic star of the Jews is not of David but the seal of Solomon when he dabbled in Saturn worship.

The Jews of today are not God fearing.

I had to bring this up so you will know what inspires so much blood lust from the Jews and their hatred of the true living God and His son Jesus Christ.

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I dont care you inane rambling bring a coherent arguement about the topic. The United states has no plsns to invade Nigeria. They havent put one sanction on country and do weapons sales. The relations are friendly. You're just being a typical paranoid conspiracy theoriest saying they're out get us. When it doesn't happen this year or next you'll just tell us keep waiting their 6 months every year.

Photos of demonstration outside Nigeria High Commission London, to free El-Zakzaky. The protesters were all from Pakistan. Not one Nigerian was there!

all this terrorist countries should better keep their rivalry to their own country. Nigeria is not an Islamic country. they should know there are reasonable humans in the southern part of the country

Dem don carry their proxy war reach Nigeria!

Hmmmmm

With USA and Europe on Saudi's side, Iran is just fooling itself.

Muslims always feuding against each other

Asnafsaeed:
Mtswww! Don't let anyone deceive you, the Shiites are not even up to 7% of the Muslim population in Nigeria.. it's just the media hype that is giving them an undue public attention, I dare anybody to mention one public figure in the government since the inception of nigeria that is a Shiite

Politically and population wise, shiite can never be a threat to the core north bcuz of their paltry numbers. People even went as far as saying that Atiku will divide buhari's votes in the north cuz of shiite, he couldn't even get 25% of votes in kano where they are mostly based

Shi'a is majorly in Kaduna not Kano