The Age of Terrorism that is now upon us has proven to be the greatest modern challenge to the legitimacy of all governments and international organizations who claim a commitment to human rights. Nowhere is this more evident today than in Nigeria, where terrorist violence and mass slaughter by Islamist groups are reaching genocidal proportions.

When President Obama famously dismissed the Islamic State as a “JV team,” he set an example that policy elites in the West unfortunately still often employ in dealing with religiously and ideologically motivated violence that they cannot understand. When necessary, deny facts that fail to conform to your view of reality.

Of course, this fashionably post-modern approach to foreign policy has its downsides. In the case of the Middle East, the downsides included an infamously savage reign of terror by ISIS that engulfed the Middle East in barbaric slavery, violence, and genocide.

Moreover, because western elites ignored the virulent nature of ISIS ideology — a religious totalitarianism committed to a global Islamist caliphate — they also failed to anticipate the reality that this ideology would inspire both a new terrorist movement and lone wolf actors around the world. ISIS was defeated in the Middle East but the “idea virus” that animated ISIS still lives on — with the mass murder and chaos engulfing parts of West Africa serving as a prime example.

In an earlier era, when the United Nations was confronted with warnings of an impending genocide in Rwanda, experts found bureaucratic reasons to do nothing effective. Specifically, when Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire, the Commander of UN peacekeepers in Rwanda, saw the bloodshed breaking out in that spring of 1994, he sought permission to intervene from UN headquarters. That request was denied — supposedly because there was no United Nations peacekeeping resolution with a mandate authorizing him to enforce peace.

Four years later, former U.S. president Bill Clinton went to Rwanda to apologize for the inaction from the United States and the international community in Rwanda that allowed a mass genocide to take place. President Clinton said, in part:

“The international community, together with nations in Africa, must bear its share of responsibility for this tragedy. We did not act quickly enough after the killing began… We did not immediately call these crimes by their rightful name: genocide.”

These exact words describe the situation today in Nigeria. Sunni Islamist militias — apparently often with the active or tacit approval of local military or police — are engaged in the mass slaughter of Christians, Shia Muslims, and local tribal religious groups. But many western policy elites – including some officials at the United Nations – explain these systematic campaigns of mass murder as really being about “grazing rights” or “land and water rights.”

Such narratives, one expert told me, “confuse the international community and provide cover for terrorists to kill tens of thousands and displace millions. How can desert encroachment explain or justify the mass slaughter of innocent civilians?”

The time has come for the international community to stop all pretense that what is happening in Nigeria is anything less than a genocide. Just as the free world united in the struggle against ISIS in the Middle East, every nation that aspires to the term “civilized” needs to join in ending this next international tragedy-in-the-making before it’s too late.

Matthew Daniels, JD, Ph.D, is Chair of Law & Human Rights at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and the author of Human Liberty 2.0.

Source:
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/452820-the-tragic-cycle-of-genocide-denial-has-returned-this-time-nigeria

buhari is terrorist in chief

Hmm

When you see a known terrorist group and ignore them and turn around to label peaceful people a terrorist organization the result is what we have today in Nigeria.

The time has come for the security of the people to be committed into the hands of the people in the local communities. We can no longer continue to wait for orders from an air conditioned room before the security of our people are guaranteed. The Nigeria security apparatus are know to be collaborating with these terrorist. The Nigeria security apparatus have been infested and compromised by men and women who have terrorist ideologies. We must act now to stop the impending doom.

The time to ask and demand for state and community police by the local people is now. Its not possible and it does not make sense that foreigners who come from other states can guarantee security to the local people. We must act now before things get out of hand.

Hh

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FRESHG:
YARIMO AKA IAMMO TINTINGS NGENEUKWUENU OKOROAWUSA ENUGUPIKIN NOSIEBABA AND ALL THE NAIRALAND HERDSMEN ARE ALL INVITED TO THIS THREAD

Low self esteem would always make people like you swallow Americans rotten shiit like it was your last meal

Your type are so low and inferior that you go about looking for tribe to codemn or religion to critisis just to feel abit better about your lowly self


If you like Insult all Yoruba today, tomorrow jump to Muslim next week jump to Fulani, las las na your own self you dey bring evil ontop not yoruba or people that are better than you
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What do you expect? The president is the chief jihadist.

If Islam is a religion of peace, why does it encourage jihad?

Since buhari can't sit up which I would have adviced him to do, then I think we need a military coup in Nigeria that will conduct a fresh election and bar all politicians who have held any appointments from contesting.

Tomide007:
Since buhari can't sit up which I would have adviced him to do, then I think we need a military coup in Nigeria that will conduct a fresh election and bar all politicians who have held any appointments from contesting.

Brilliant!

So we can fight another civil war and arrive at exactly this same position, 50 years later.

Tomide007:
Since buhari can't sit up which I would have adviced him to do, then I think we need a military coup in Nigeria that will conduct a fresh election and bar all politicians who have held any appointments from contesting.

Seconded

I hope president Cow Muhammad of Nigeria is seeing this? The world is taking note. He should not expect any external support when the oppressed decides to pick up arms in Self defence

The ruga president chief grand patron of the terrorist organization is in power

FG should designate Fulani Herdsmen as a Terrorist group and proscribe Myetti Allah now!

Meanwhile, oyoruba Muslims are not only denying the ongoing jihad and deflecting the crime spree to Igbos but are also defending these Fulani vermin

I will be so happy when fulanis finally wash their blood soaked swords in the lagoon.

Amitez:
FG should designate Fulani Herdsmen as a Terrorist group and proscribe Myetti Allah now!

your president is a herdsman!

For those who don't know, "the hills" is trump's favourite newspaper/site. visit his Facebook timeline and confirm.

If you know you know.

FRESHG:
YARIMO AKA IAMMO TINTINGS NGENEUKWUENU OKOROAWUSA ENUGUPIKIN NOSIEBABA AND ALL THE NAIRALAND HERDSMEN ARE ALL INVITED TO THIS THREAD

Who be this one?


okpo!

SheikhMuniru:
We Are NOT Terrorists, Islam Is All About Peace.. Stop Giving Us Bad Name In Islam

.Taaaaar

nototribalist:
taaar

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