Simon Kolawole Affirms What We have Been Saying
since 2009 to BH and the Jonathanians: 'You’re not a
Muslim. You’re a terrorist’ - by Simon Kolawole -
November 30, 2014 via TheCable This quotable quote, more than anything else,
captures my position on the Boko Haram maniacs. It
is taken from Season 3 of the American political
thriller, Homeland. Nicholas Brody, a retired US
Marine sergeant who had turned against his country,
converted to Islam and become a terrorist while fighting in Iraq was on the run. He was a suspect in
the bombing of CIA headquarters. A bounty of $25
million was placed on his head. On self-exile in
Venezuela, he escaped from his overbearing
“protectors”, moved into a mosque and introduced
himself as a Muslim to the Imam, who gladly received and housed him. But not long after that, the Imam discovered Brody
was a fugitive declared wanted in America for
terrorist activities. The Imam immediately confronted
Brody, telling him to leave his mosque and shouting:
“You are NOT a Muslim. You ARE a terrorist!” That, ladies and gentlemen, is the missing jigsaw in
our attitude to Boko Haram in Nigeria. We continue
to view these thugs through Christian and Muslim
lenses rather than see them for what they truly are:
bloody-sucking terrorists from the pit of hell. No
genuine Muslim should be proud of the activities of these demons. No genuine Christian should rejoice at
the unending slaughter of the innocent. No true
Nigerian should be happy that a section of this
country has been turned to killing fields by
deranged fanatics, who murder children and women
with brainless fervour, who haul bombs into crowded churches and mosques. For too long, we have failed to isolate these retarded
adults and treat them as a different bunch of
gangsters who are a threat to all of us Muslims,
Christians, Northerners, Southerners, PDP, APC,
Jonathan, Buhari, etc etc. When this whole madness
began to unfold on a large scale, we chose to treat it as a religious or political problem. To many Muslims,
it was a problem for Christians until Boko Haram
went past churches and started attacking emirs and
mosques. To many Christians, it is “these Muslims
who hate us” but we can now see that even “these
Muslims” hate fellow Muslims. The attack on the Central Mosque in Kano last Friday is as barbaric as
the one on St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, on
Christmas day in 2011.
To many Southerners, terrorism is a problem for
Northerners. “Let them keep bombing themselves” is
their terrible attitude. But they forget that the victims in Abuja, Nyanya, Maiduguri, Kaduna, Kano and
elsewhere are full-blooded Nigerians from different
tongues. “Let us divide Nigeria” is a chart-buster
among some Southerners as if having blood-
drinking terrorists next door is going to be a tea
party. Ask Kenya about the al-Shabab menace in neighbouring Somalia. Ask Turkey about the hazard
of ISIS in Iraq. Ask Mali about the fall-outs from the
fall of Muammar Ghaddafi in Libya. It is pure
ignorance to think that leaving innocent Northerners
at the mercy of these lunatics is a great idea when
they will eventually share border with you if your dream of breaking up Nigeria comes true. The politicisation of Boko Haram is absolutely odious
and horrendous. On the one hand, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) sees it as a publicity
tool to win votes by highlighting how clueless the
PDP-led government is. A party chieftain once said
APC would end Boko Haram within three months if voted into power. That easy? On the other hand, the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been trying to
demonise APC as the sponsors of Boko Haram all
because of 2015. And I keep saying: if PDP is sure
APC is behind terrorism, is it not the job of
government to arrest and prosecute the suspects? Does the PDP government have a game plan to
defeat terror? Is the game plan working? That
should be their preoccupation rather than
demarketing APC. For too long, we have had a wrong attitude towards
Boko Haram. We underestimated the problem. We
played politics with it. We have been pointing fingers
back and forth. We have been propounding all sorts
of senseless theories. The only theory that I
understand, and I will continue to say this, is that Boko Haram is a committee of vampires. They display
their insanity by hiding behind religion, but they
easily lose the case when even Muslims become their
prey. What point are they making by killing
worshippers at a Jummat service? What God do they
believe in that takes pleasure even in the death of Muslims like them? The only sensible conclusion is
that these hooligans are not Muslims. They are
terrorists. What exactly do these guys want? I have been
monitoring and analysing Boko Haram’s
pronouncements since the emergence of Abubakar
Shekau as their leader in 2009. He has never
suggested ceasefire or complained about poverty or
lack of infrastructure. He has been incredibly consistence with his mission statement: to establish
an Islamic caliphate and get rid of the infidels.
Infidels, in this case, are not just Christians who, in
any case, are their natural targets âbut Muslims who
do not share their bestial brain. From the very
beginning, he said he had a divine mandate to kill human beings “like chickens”. He said the Nigerian
system is anti-Islam and he had a divine call to
cleanse the land. He has said this again and again
and again. If we are wise enough, it should be clear to all by
now that we are not dealing with a religious
problem, even if it has a religious content. We are not
dealing with a political problem, even though they
have a political message. We are not dealing with a
regional problem, even if the North-East happens to be their base. We are dealing with a security
problem. A national security problem. A problem that
spares no one. We saw this problem start in the
backyard of Maiduguri. It became a Borno problem.
It became a regional problem. They started with
swords and daggers. Now they are using bombs. They started with hit-and-run. Now they are in
command of towns and villages. If we are to learn from the pattern of insurgency
around the world, what we are seeing is just an
introduction. Nobody knows the next frontier.
Nobody knows their next strategy. And nobody is
safe. Nowhere is safe. That is why it hurts me to my
bones when we play politics with this insurgency. It hurts me to my soul that we cannot see beyond our
nose. It hurts me deep when we introduce 2015 and
regionalism and bigotry into this unambiguous
national security tragedy. What we have in our
hands is, evidently, a copycat of Al-Qaeda, Taliban,
ISIS, name them funded, equipped and motivated by forces who have a global terror agenda, headlined
by Osama bin Laden in the last decade. Fellow Nigerians, I am convinced beyond reasonable
and unreasonable doubt that this Boko Haram
lunacy can only be tackled when we take away the
religious and political veil from our face. We need the
buy-in of every Nigerian to confront this insanity. We
need the political class across the divides. We need Nigerians of all religious persuasions. We need a
national consensus to cast out these devils. They are
not Muslims. They are terrorists. 'You're Not a Muslim. You're a Terrorist' | TheCable www.thecable.ng/youre-not-muslim-youre-terrorist

pls in one word, you mean ?

Well the article made some sense but...

Lets pause for a minute......

And ask ourselves why the aformentioned terrorist group ie ISIS ,Alqaeda ,Taliban and Boko haram are all in Muslim dominated areas.

There is hardly a muslim country not associated with terrorism.

#My candid opinion though

BH and there sponsors are demon. Seeing some pictures from the Kano's bomb blast, I arrived at the conclusion that some one/people somewhere are making some form of blood sacrifices for I course I know not of. How can humans be this wicked if not under the influence of some blood drinking demon.
May God save us all.

But they clearly told the world they're muslims and they're fighting the course for muhamed and doing the will of their allah. They even make quotes with backups from koran, even yell allah barka in jubilation. therefore, its very glaring where they draw their inspiration. So i believe them intoto...or do u want me to start arguing with shakau?

nellyelitz:
But they clearly told the world they're muslims and they're fighting the course for muhamed and doing the will of their allah. They even make quotes with backups from koran, even yell allah barka in jubilation. therefore, its very glaring where they draw their inspiration. So i believe them intoto...or do u want me to start arguing with shakau?

SMH for you

benebaby77:

SMH for you

99100:
Well the article made some sense but...

Lets pause for a minute......

And ask ourselves why the aformentioned terrorist group ie ISIS ,Alqaeda ,Taliban and Boko haram are all in Muslim dominated areas.

There is hardly a muslim country not associated with terrorism.

#My candid opinion though

You are right, all these blood-thirty terrorist groups you mentioned commit all their atrocities and crimes against humanity in the name of Islam.

However, you would be shocked to also find out the extent to which those Muslim terrorists are 'helped' in committing their terrorist crimes by non-Muslim players (who may be individuals, organizations or even governments) who have their own varying agendas for aiding and abetting such atrocities, and those agendas could be local or international. For instance, do you how the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS came into existence, who was financing and arming them at their inception, and why?

islam is one religion that is always angry inwardly...just a little push,u see sorrow,tears and blood