A Moslem has spoken his POV, I think this is one of the most fascinatin accounts of BH. A must read!


[size=18pt]Religious Violence In Nigeria: Boko Haram As A Tool Of Religious, Political & Foreign Interests[/size]


March 10th, 2012
Religious Violence In Nigeria: Genesis & Motives & The Emergence Of Boko Haram As A Tool Of Vested Religious, Political & Foreign Interests

Author: Muhammad Sani Isa

Introduction

NewsRescue[OpEd]- The Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) threatened that, the Christian Doctrine of ‘’Turning The Other Cheek’’ has been tested to the limit and breaking point and they can no longer contain and restrain their members from violently reacting to the killing and maiming their members and bombing of their churches as well as burning and looting of Christian property perpetrated by Muslims and their terror wing; the Boko Haram (BH) in short.

On the surface, CAN’s concerns are quite legitimate in that, they have the duty of protecting the interest of their members in the face of such wanton attacks. However, one needs to chronologically look at the chain of events that led to the deterioration and breakdown of peace, security, law and order in the country. It is only by looking at the chain of events that landed us here that we can apportion blames and pin down faults. We need to look at and answer the following questions before we can squarely and rightly pin point who is at fault and who is not:

What is the genesis of religious crisis and intolerance in the country?
Who triggered the chain of events that led to the present status quo?
Are Muslims the only culprits?
Is BH an Islamic terror wing?
Is it BH acting on behalf of Muslims with their authority, consent and approval?
Who are members of BH? Are all Muslims automatic members?
Is its membership restricted to Muslims only?
Are there no Christian links to BH?
Who sponsors and nurtures BH?
Who supplies them with arms, ammunition and bombs?
Is BH responsible for the bombing and torching of Mosques, the National Headquarters of Jama’atu Nasri Islam (JNI) in Kaduna and other Muslim targets?
Is CAN oblivious of the fact that, there are Christians linked to BH one way or another?
Is CAN unaware of the fact that, Christians are linked to the supply of weapons, arms, ammunition bombs and other instruments of terror and violence to BH?
Has CAN decided to overlook and ignore the fact that prominent Christian elders were the godfathers of Muhammad Yusuf, the founder of BH and that, it was these elders that always bailed out Muhammad Yusuf whenever he finds himself on the wrong side of the law?
Has CAN decided to gloss over the fact that, the last person Muhammad Yusuf called on his cell phone after his capture just before he was brutally murdered by a Christian policeman was this Christian godfather of his?
Why Muhammad Yusuf was hurriedly murdered? Was this hurried murder of Muhammad Yusuf an attempted cover up so as to avert exposing these godfathers of Muhammad Yusuf’s?
Is CAN unaware of Muhammad Yusuf’s suspected link with the Vatican?

Answers to these questions will clearly and easily debunk all the smear campaign by CAN and the heaping of blame on Muslims in an attempt to give a dog a bad name; as well as expose CAN’s shedding of crocodile tears in order to cover up the atrocities Christians committed against the Muslims.
Genesis & Chronology of Religious Disturbances

Our claim that, CAN is only shedding crocodile tears is because; religious disturbance and intolerance is deliberately triggered by the Christians in 1987 in the provocative preaching by one Reverend Abubakar Bako at the temporary site of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya in which Rev. Bako insulted and made blasphemous comments on the person of our noble prophet Muhammad SAW. When a Muslim lady student protested and objected to Rev. Bako’s provocative desecration of the person of the prophet SAW, the lady was molested by the Christians; that kick started the first Kafanchan massacre of Muslims.


Documents on 1987 Kafanchan Massacre of Muslims

The Christians went berserk and went about killing Muslims, burning and looting their houses, shops and other properties. Even youngsters in Qur’anic schools (tsangayu) were not spared. Qur’anic schools such as the Tsangaya of Malam Ahmadu Dan Mai Kosai and that of Malam Uzairu were brutally attacked and dozens of Almajirais mercilessly exterminated. Many Muslims were forced to flee the town and turned refugees. Many of the established Muslim businessmen like Alhaji Dankeke Mato and Alhaji Salama lost their businesses and had to relocate to Kaduna. This premeditated genocide led to reprisals and retaliations in Kaduna, Funtua and Katsina.

The next act of provocation perpetrated by the Christians was the 1991 Reinhart Bonke’s botched up crusade of Kano which led to some disturbances. As a result, there were reprisals against the Muslims throughout the South East Geo-Political Zone.

Again in 1991, Sayawa Christians in Tafawa Balewa Local Government of Bauchi State provocatively massacred the Muslim District Head of Lere, Malam Abubakar Bawa despite his old age; being an octogenarian. As a result, Mr. Kyauta (alias Kyankyaso), the ring leader of this brutal murder, was convicted and jailed. On his release from prison, Kyankyaso spearheaded yet a genocide like attack against the Muslims in 1995. In the mayhem, in Tafawa Balewa alone, 166 Muslims were brutally massacred, the market in which the stalls were owned by Muslims was completely burnt down and over 70% of Muslim houses were razed to the ground. The whole Muslim community was displaced and turned refugees in towns like Dass, Bununu, Liman Katagum and Bauchi.

Justice Babalakin’s Commission of Inquiry indicted the Sayawa Christians thus:

The Christian attack on Muslims on 22/4/1991 in Tafawa Balewa was premeditated.
The Commission identified nearly 22 ringleaders who are all Sayawa Christians.
The Basayi Chriatian chairman of Tafawa Balewa Local Government aided and abetted the Massacre and genocide against the Muslims. (Justice Babalakin’s Report pages 4-8, 22 and 24).

Since then, Tafawa Balewa has not known peace for 3 consecutive years, and has witnessed 4 major ethnic cleansing style of Massacre of Muslims in the hands of the Christians; (April 1991, July 1995, June 2001 and January 2011). As a matter of fact, all houses belonging to Muslims in Tafawa Balewa have been burnt down. All mosques in the town have been razed to the ground; there is no single mosque standing in the town except the one at the divisional police station.

In a similar pattern of ethnic cleansing mission of wiping out Muslim communities, the Katafs massively massacred Muslims in Zangon Kataf in both February and July of 1992. Hundreds of Muslims were killed and their houses burnt down. The Christian ring leaders of the massacres including Zamani Lekwot were convicted and sentenced to death by the tribunal headed by Justice Karibi Whyte; a Christian. Zamani and his gang of murders were however pardoned by the then president; to the dismay of the Muslims. That opened the floodgates and gave Christians the license to massacre Muslims at will; since the murderers always go scot free.

Analysts equate what this Northerner Muslim president did to Islam and Northern Nigeria to what Kamal Ataturk did to Islam and the Muslims in Turkey as well what Mikhail Gorbachev did to USSR.

With these precedents set in the cases of Kafanchan 1987, Tafawa Balewa 1991 & 1995, Zangon Kataf 1992, the stage was set for the systematic extermination and wiping out of all Muslim communities within the domains and strongholds of Christians in the North. It is pertinent here to recall and remind of the catalogue of Christian atrocities, provocations, premeditated brutal attacks of genocide and ethnic cleansing proportions against the Muslims as follows:

Kafanchan 1987, 1996, 1999 and 2011.
Tingno and Waduku in Numan L. G. Area of Adamawa State, 1988.
ABU Zaria, 1988.
Tafawa Balewa 1991, 1995, 2001 and 2011.
Jalingo 1988.
Bambam 1992.
Zangon Kataf, February and July 1992.
Jos, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2011.
Yelwan Shendam, 2005.
Kaduna, 2000, 2004 & 2011.
Zonkwa, 2011.
Mararraban Rido, 2011.
Matsirga, 2011, etc.

In all the cases listed above and many more, the Christians will systematically plan, get fully armed and launch commando type attacks on the Muslim community targeted; killing and exterminating any Muslim unable to escape they come across, loot and burn their properties including houses, shops, markets and mosques.

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In the case of year 2,000 Anti-Shari’ah crisis in Kaduna, the Christians decided that, Muslims do not have the right to observe the Shari’ah legal system. In premeditated attacks, Muslims were wantonly attacked and killed and their properties torched. When Muslims in Tudun Wada, Rigasa and other Muslim strongholds within Kaduna Metropolis rebutted this Christian onslaught, there were counter reprisals in the South East and South South. A Friday Mosque was burnt down in Ofaha-Oku, Uyo.

From the above catalogue, it is quite clear that, Christians are always the aggressors and the ones that spark and ignite unrest and mayhem. Muslims have never started any aggression; where Muslims have cause to attack Christians, it is always in retaliation to Christian premeditated aggression or extreme provocation such as Rev. Abubakar Bakos provocative, blasphemous insults on Muhammad, the Noble Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, or the inciting advertisements that heralded the proposed Reinhardt Bonke’s crusade in Kano, the heartland of Islam.

CAN’s fictitious and deceptive claim of always being at the receiving end of Muslim aggression is hereby amply debunked. It amply shows that, the Christians have since thrown the doctrine of turning the other cheek over board. CAN’s advertorial is only diversionary and an attempt to pull the wool over our faces to cover up their atrocities.
Boko Haram cannot be a Muslim Terror Wing

Coming to the CAN’s claim that, BH is the terror wing the Muslims use to unleash terror on the Christians; burning their churches and destroying Christian lives and property, without any fear of contradiction, one can say loud and clear that, BH is as close to the Christians as it is to the Muslims and apparently, its membership cuts across both religions. Otherwise what is the business of Jerry and Jerry being godfathers to Muhammad Yusuf, the founder of the BH; bailing Muhammad Yusuf out of trouble on a number of occasions? There is also the information circulating that, one of the Jerry’s was the last person Muhammad Yusuf called just before he was hurriedly executed by a Christian policeman. Was this hurried murder of Muhammad Yusuf an attempt to cover up and prevent him from talking and exposing his Christian and suspected Vatican connections? For Muhammad Yusuf was alleged said to have sent an emissary to the Vatican at least once. It is alleged that, it was the kind of red carpet reception the emissary received at the Vatican that made the emissary suspicious of BH’s Christian connection and resigned his membership of the organization. Other links between Christianity and BH include Lucy Dangana, a Christian lady from Benue State caught with large quantity of arms. Lucy confessed that, she was trying to deliver the arms to BH. There is also case of the Christian SSS operative allegedly caught trying to bomb a church in Gombe, circulating in our handsets. The story is yet to be disputed by the authorities. There is yet the story circulating of a Christian wearing kaftan and other Hausa gear trying to bomb a church. The most recent BH linkage with Christians is the truck load of arms intercepted in Ghana on its way to Nigeria; all those arrested are Christians from their names.

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