The Social Progress Index, a comprehensive measurement of a nation’s well-being, which includes everything from access to water to freedom of movement, ranks Islamic countries behind every other region in the world, including non-Muslim African countries. The Muslim world does even worse on Transparency International’s Perceptions of Corruption Index. Life expectancy numbers are among the world’s lowest, more than 15 years fewer than North America. And, not surprisingly, on a per capita basis, Muslim nations publish scientific papers at less than one-tenth the frequency of Europeans.

If we are surprised by these numbers, Najmuddin Shaikh is not. The former foreign secretary of Pakistan recently lamented, “The Islamic world is in disarray and decline and that Muslim communities find themselves under siege-like conditions in the West and elsewhere is perhaps an understatement.”

Why has the Muslim world been unable to keep pace? Why is it besieged? The easiest response is to say they did this to themselves. The evidence of this is so pervasive it is hard to refute. For example, just last week alone, while the world was focused on France, there were dozens of other terrorist attacks where Muslims killed Muslims.

In Yemen, a large group of young men were applying for entry into the police academy. They were queued up along a stone wall, which intensified the blast of a car bomb—33 died.

In Iraq, a wholesale market is held every Saturday morning in Baghdad’s western district of Baiyaa. There a bomb killed five. Later that morning another blast killed three more people in the nearby town of Madian.

In Lebanon, on the same day, a suicide bomber walked up to the crowded Omran Café in Tripoli and triggered his vest. Bloodied survivors were pulling themselves out of the rubble when a second bomber stepped in amongst them. There were nine dead and 37 injured.

In Pakistan, as people gathered to celebrate the Prophet’s birthday by distributing alms at a mosque in Rawalpindi, a bomber pushed his way in. The blast shattered all the nearby windows and killed seven.

In Nigeria, militants wrapped explosives around the midriff of a small 10-year old girl, and told her to walk into the market. When she reached the stalls where the chickens are sold, it went off, killing 19.

This is an incomplete list, from just last week, but it illustrates the broader story well. Internecine conflict in the Islamic world is endemic. The unrelenting Shia and Sunni schism dominates it, but it also includes tribal and ethnic divides. In 2013, there were 12 Western victims of terror attacks compared to 22,000 non-Western fatalities. These do not include those killed by the barrel bombs that Syrian President Assad dropped on his own people, or civilians killed by warfare in Afghanistan or Iraq. From the jungles of Sulawesi to the deserts of Libya, Muslims are killing Muslims at a rate that dwarfs the more highly publicized conflict with the West. In that light, it is hard to subscribe to the theory this is a clash of civilizations. Rather, it is one culture turning on itself.

The self-inflicted wounds are not always violent. The Taliban banned girls from being educated. In Syria, Islamic State closed all schools. In 2013, militants in Mali burned the fabled and ancient libraries of Timbuktu. In a speech just days before the Paris attacks, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pleaded for an end to this self-destruction: “The Islamic world is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost. And it is being lost by our own hands.”

Focusing just on the violence does not take into account the broader context, the economic and geographic circumstances in which these countries find themselves. The Maghreb (northwest Africa), the Arabian Peninsula, the Central Asia steppes, the Gulf of Guinea, the Indus valley, the Indonesian archipelago: each of these presents different but equally daunting barriers to building modern economies and functioning states. Whether it is drought or monsoons, a lack of harbours or impassible mountain ranges, the Islamic world was not dealt the best geographic hand.

It has faced economic hurdles, too. The international demand for heroin has created a lucrative but destructive poppy trade that the United States and all its allies could not even slow. Similarly, but perhaps less dramatically, the oil reserves of the Middle East and West Africa have been both a blessing and a curse, fuelling building booms, corruption and instability.

There are also the historical circumstances that must be acknowledged. The legacy of disastrous foreign intervention is everywhere. For hundreds of years the Dutch treated Indonesia as a warehouse, merely to be raided for its wealth, forestalling the evolution of local institutions. When independence came, dictators Sukarno and Suharto merely perfected what the Dutch had begun.

Bangladesh faced a similar colonial legacy, but one that was followed by partition and a brutal civil war. The elites who emerged redefined corruption, and it is difficult to judge which has done more damage: the typhoons or the politicians.

This article convinced me that the islamic world is on an irreversible decline. though it's long, it's very compelling and worth the time spent reading it.

On the morning of the shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Maclean’s contributor Scott Gilmore filed this column. In the Jan. 29 issue of the magazine, he expands on his argument: 

On Jan. 7, Islamist gunmen ran through the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo screaming “The Prophet is avenged!” By coincidence, at the very moment they were killing the journalists, the International Space Station passed silently over Paris.

Consider that for a moment.

As terrorists committed a primitive act of tribal savagery in the name of a prophet who lived 1,400 years ago, right above them, orbiting through space, was the most sophisticated expression of mankind’s ability to transcend ignorance and fear with hope and reason.

Twenty-five nations from around the world have come together to build the space station. They include old enemies who fought each other for centuries over God and gold, Cold War rivals, small countries and large. But none are Islamic nations.

It has become a cliché to point out that science and reason once flourished in the Islamic world. Nonetheless, it is true. While Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, Islamic scholars made dramatic advances in every field of science including mathematics, optics and experimental physics. Our modern world was built on the scientific breakthroughs of Islam. From the eighth century, mathematicians such as Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, who helped develop algebra, there is a direct line of progress that ends with the space station itself. But we no longer associate Islam with progress. In fact, a Muslim astronaut would surprise us as much as a non-Muslim terrorist (although there are many examples of each).

When the Parisian police siege ended on the blood-smeared floor of a kosher supermarket, the Prophet had not been avenged. He was diminished. This terrorist attack, and the others before it, merely isolated the Islamic world further from the global mainstream. In its aftermath, we and our leaders repeat, again and again, “Not all Muslims”—and yet we collectively treat Muslim nations as a threat that must be contained. Equal members of the global community? No. Partners in the space program? Impossible.


The Islamic world is in relative decline. Or, more precisely, a large number of countries with a Muslim majority are not developing as rapidly as the rest of the world, and in some cases, like Syria, they are even regressing.

This is a golden age for most. In the last 100 years life expectancy has more than doubled. In the last 50 years the poverty rate has fallen by 80 per cent. During that same time, the number of wars fell by a similar figure and the number of nations governed democratically tripled.

But, while the global community leapt forward, Islamic nations (as defined as members of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation) have progressed at a much slower pace. This is the case across a wide variety of metrics.

mustymatic:

Christians will disown uu...lol

Christians worship only one God as well.

mustymatic:

Like I said, follow Jesus closely n be a Muslim... you religious bigot

What is the message of Jesus? What is his greatest commandment?

Annunaki:
Demmzy15 since you have decided to make a big foól of yourself, insult the history of your progenitors and worship your fulani slave masters, can you in your own words explain to us how dan fodio established the fulani empire with special emphasis on how ilorin a yoruba town came to be ruled by fulanis.

Still waiting for an answer.

analice107:

It is applicable to us sir. Except you are saying that you have no business being engrafted into the Abrahamic Covenant. You are in or you are out. You don't pick and choose which part of the covenant includes you.
The work of the kingdom is much more tasking today than it even was in those days. What are we to use to take the gospel to the ends of the earth? What are we to use to run orphanages? Etc.
That some pastors are abusing their offices and stealing God's money doesn't nullify the covenant or ordinances of Tithing. Why are Christians struggling everywhere in the world? Why do we resort to getting our hands dirty to make it financially? It's because Satan has deceived us to depart from the ordinances that opens financial doors supernaturally. Is God still the one who gives you power to make wealth? As a christian, if you do not give back to him who gave you the wisdom and ideas to make that wealth, then you are going to suffer alot trying to do it yourself.
Till today as we speak, the Jews don't compromise the covenant of Tithing. Go and compete with them in any way and see.
Satan has really lied to us.
If you don't pay it's okay, but let's not discourage others.

Sweet heart don't get it twisted, the Abrahamic covenant had absolutely nothing to do with tithes and Abraham's tithe was a one off incident which he did from war booty that didn't belong to him and not from his regular income.

That said church activities can be funded from free will offerings and donations to the church, you cannot use church funding requirements as justification to twist the word of God to raise money for the church. Also note that the church as always grown and survived without tithes. The monetary tithe from income doctrine is a doctrine that crept into the church in the late nineteenth century and it was introduced by American evangelical churches. Prior to that the church had grown and thrived for 1,800 years without tithes so your suggestion that the church needs tithes to fund it's activities does not suffice.

flightz:
I'm not bothered. I was just angry at how we have commercialize the church. Its amusing at how everybody in the seems brainwashed because it was an interactive session. Anyway, I'm not going to that church again. Second time they will annoy me.

That's nice, I stopped going to my former church as well because of the emphasis on the false tithe doctrine.

flightz:
That was the message today about borrowing your tithe and paying back with 1/5th. Is it the 1/5ht of the tithe or 1/5th of the total income?

It has nothing to do with borrowing your tithes, read the passage properly again in context. Biblical tithes was meant to be strictly agric produce, if for any reason you decide to monetise it, you paid a penalty of 1/5th of the value. That said tithing is an obsolete jewish law which is not applicable to christians.

mustymatic:

Yeah.. Do follow his teachings and be like; worship one God not three gods and so on n so on
Peace

Yes I worship only one God.

https://www.nairaland.com/2243902/historical-facts-ilorin-kwara-yoruba

I just read your post above, what the writer of the thread failed to include was that afonja being the treacherous traitor that he was had a pact with the fulani jihadists to rule ilorin under their control thereby betraying his allegiance to the Oyo empire and the Alaafin. One thing is clear, ilorin came under Fulani control due to the treachery of Afonja.

Demmzy15 since you have decided to make a big foól of yourself, insult the history of your progenitors and worship your fulani slave masters, can you in your own words explain to us how dan fodio established the fulani empire with special emphasis on how ilorin a yoruba town came to be ruled by fulanis.

It's really amusing how some people can be so brain dead and brain washed that they would be eulogising a vermin that waged war, conquered their progenitors and forcefully converted them to islam. Islam really has a way of screwing up the heads of it's adherents.

true2god:
You seem to be brain-dead, no offense, just an obervation. You just open a thread you cannot logically defend.

Stop eating up NL bandwidth if you have no reasonable contribution to make in any thread you create.

Don't mind the empty headed almajiri, I thought he had something up his sleeves when he threw up the challenge. I didn't know he will resort to the usual muslim strategy of attacking christianity to justify islam.

@demmzydunce I am still waiting for you to come and explain to us how dan fodio established the jihadist fulani empire through 'peaceful' means.

The best way to rehabilitate them is to prove to them that islam is false and that mohammed is a false prophet cause as long as they believe in mohamed and his teachings, there is every probability that they will return to terrorism.

mustymatic:

Normal christian reasoning, so u heard, you listen to pastors instead of jesus.. How ridiculous is your statement, and always boasting n degrading other tribes, I wonder wat ur tribe is, u r representing them really...Follow Jesus closely and be a Muslim

"Follow Jesus closely and be a muslim" are you being amusingly sarcastic or you just want to get us irritated

Demmzy15:


Proves please?!

Do you have any brains at all You are asking me to prove a well documented historical fact Maybe you need to go back to study history in secondary school.

But enslaving millions and then forcing Christianity on them as a means of consolation is evangelism abi?!

No one ever enslaved millions to impose christianity on them you bloody islamic liar.

Checkmate!

Didirin

I wasn't there neither were you, so you've indirectly called yourself a liar. History tells us everything and you can't prove that fathers were forced to accept Islam unlike yours!

history tells us that ilorin was captured by the fulani jihadists and it's citizens forcefully converted to islam.

You know your problem, you christians made so much mouth that 6 million convert yearly and you were refuted silly, just one brother fedex01 destroyed all of you. Oyo state has a majority Muslim and soon, Shariah would be established there, so you can continue wailing. I'm updating my thread about Islam in Osun and Oyo states. Please explain what you mean by rapid decline!

Go to oyo state and visit a church, the number of kazeems, kabiru, silifats, mohammed, suleman, rasheed, rasaq e.t.c you will see there who have renounce islam will certainly give you a nervous break down.

You've not answered me, we're the missionaries supervised, yes or no?

If you meant supervised by their parent churches that sent them, Yes but if you mean any other thing, it will be the hallucinations of your puny islamic brain.

I admitted and Islam brought a solution, what of Christianity? Your God, Jesus, Paul, etc all supported slavery and this is what the slaveraiders used to justify their slavery of millions!

What solution the islam bring Was it mohammed's instructions to his cronies to rápe sex slaves that was the solution It is a fact that the West based on christian principles initiated and championed the fight to eradicate slavery globally. It is also a fact that it was the arab muslims that were the last to agree to end slave trade and till this day slave trade is still rampant in parts of core islamic societies.

kekakuz:
today,my Pastor told story of how dangote gave a Kenyan flight ticket to bishop because his flight was delayed and bishop blessed him with the key of business of Africa.
now am not counting the story,I just want to know if anyone out there has a more complete version of the story. its really inspiring.

Your pastor lied either deliberately or ignorantly. That story is a false story that is being peddled by prosperity gospel pimps to enhance their trade.

mustymatic:

A lot of murderous prophets dey d bible

The same prophets mohammed claims are muslims

Demmzy15:


LOL, you're just shouting "terrorist this, terrorist that", you've not showed anyone how Dan Fodio was a terrorist, I'm waiting for that please!

It is an historical fact that dan fodio invaded and captured several lands unprovoked and even forcefully converted them to islam. If that is not terrorism in your muslim mind, you need to get your head examined.

Dan Fodio followers harmed themselves during the reign of Nafatu, during this time, Yunfa himself was still a follower. They did that because they were forcefully conscripting for wars, and other oppressive policies!



Yunfa of course tried but failed, he tried shooting Dan Fodio but it backfired and injured him on his finger. He didn't stop there, he pursed him and killed 2000 of his followers in the battle of Tsuntua!

Al taquiya nonsense

No one forcefully converted my family to Islam, the Ilorin army didn't reach Oyo/Ibadan, but today Oyo state is a majority Muslim state. In fact there are some local governments you find 70-80% Muslims, no Fulani came. So checkmate!

Where you there when your cowardly progenitors converted to islam to know they weren't forced Or do you want me to remind you of the treachery of Afonja with your fulani slave masters? And what weed did you smoke that you are imagining Oyo state is a majority muslim state Oyo state is not only majority christian, islam is in rapid decline there, if you are in doubt blackfire will gladly educate you about the declining muslim population in Oyo state.

Lemme ask you this question and I need an answer, did the missionaries just go around preaching or they were supervised?!

The missionaries were very organised and we'll funded by their parent churches in the West. They preached mainly through doing good works, social services like schools and hospital backed with the conviction of the holy spirit.

Still doesn't change the fact that millions of Africans, Indians and locals perished because of this!



When Muslims enslaved, it was mostly during warfare. There was a time Muslims had white European slaves, in fact in Muslim Spain black Muslims had white slaves, so stop making noise here. The Europeans were racists who flogged your father's back and added Christianity to him!

Glad you are honest enough to admit that slave trade is a core part of the islamic culture and sunnah of evil puppet mohammed.

tayebest:




Quran 5:32 "...if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people..." ISLAM IS A PEACEFUL RELIGION

Al taquiya nonsense and islamic ignorance on display. In that verse you just quoted mohamed was quoting a verse from the jewish tamuld which was written hundreds of years before islam and if you read it in it's proper context, mohamed was saying it was an instruction given to the Jews. Mohamed himself was a chronic mass murderer.

Demmzy15:

Is that you're crazy or what?! Didn't you see the opening of the thread, why is that you guys are cowards like this?!

Coward! Why don't you refute what he stated instead of appealing to your silly rules. Already you deviated from the purpose of this thread by asking silly questions on how christianity got to nigeria cause the challenge was for us to debate the most notorious criminal(dan fodio) in Nigerian islamic history.

Demmzy15:


Yunfa was a student of Dan fodio so your brain should have told you he's a Muslim too. He didn't support Dan Fodio because his preaching didn't favor him at all, even though he was a Muslim he indulged in many unislamic practices, I stated an example in one of my previous posts!

Yunfa was a student of dan fodio so obviously he must have known he was a potential terrorist(jihadist) so when he saw dan fodio was arming his followers, he had to take a precautionary measure to exile him. But in my opinion Yunfa made a big mistake, he should just have killed him then cause if he had, the evil jihad dan fodio executed won't have taken place and the spread of islam would have been limited. Certainly you and millions of other Nigerians would have been. Spared the curse of being muslim if that criminal called dan fodio did not forcefully convert your cowardly progenitors to islam.

Christianity came in through the Portuguese and other Europeans who in return enslaved millions of Nigerians. The then came up with the deceit of education in which those who were them got converted, this is why the north refused to allow them!

Dunce, the missionaries had nothing to do with slave trade, if anything at all they were the ones that advocated that slavery be brought to an end. And slave trade had existed in africa long before the portuguese came. Arab muslims had been en slaving Africans in keeping with the sunnah of mohammed for millenia before then.

lexiconkabir:
and here comes the most clueless of all, empty barrel they say makes the loudest noise.

The useless islamic resort to insults when their evil cult is being exposed. If you had any brains in that your dimwitted skull, you would have refuted my statement if you had any facts rather than expose to the whole world how daft your genealogy is.

lexiconkabir:
@onetrackdid you used the word many? pls tell us the exact number that renouced islam, moreover the mecca of today is 100% of muslim officially, was that how it was in the past?

We all know why it's 100% muslim so stop trying to give the impression that everybody there voluntarily became muslim.

mustymatic:

You have explained how?
And then u disbelieve when Muslims explain to u... U r such a hypocrite. Those are from the bible u use nigga thats it

If you are so daft you can't comprehend what he explained above, you need to get your head examined.

true2god:
This statement (lies from an altaqiyya infested muslim) caught my attention:

'forceful land grabs by the Hausa Rulers...'

This statement shows you lack credibility, morality and human conscience, which resonate majorly among the arab-muslims, fulani-muslims and the tuaregs. I am sorry to tell you this, yoruba muslims are fake hence occupy the lowest point in the global islamic power pyramids.

All over west african, it had been established that the fulanis are normads, moving from place to place with their herd of cattle. The fulanis do not respect natural boundaries, they can enter any town\community with their cattle, destroy farmlands and declare terrorism whenever they are challenge. In all part of migeria, from ilorin to sokoto, they are settlers and not indigenes.

You called the hausas land grabbers, then I must also call the yorubas in kwara land grabbers, the yorubas in oyo land grabbers, the tivs in benue land grabbers, the langtang in plateau land grabbers, and all the ethnic groups who try to protect their land from the islamic fulani invaders land grabbers. Have you seen how islam have betrayed your sense of reasoning?

It is an insult for you to call the hausas, the original landowners, land grabbers while exonorating the islamic jihadism of usman dan fodio who was determined to conquer the entire country for allahh had it not been that the european power established their foot-hold in nigeria on time thus ended his crazy imperial drive towards the south.

As your prophet criminally said: I HAVE BEEN MADE VICTORIOUS THROGH TERROR (sahih bhukari 4:52, 220). So uthman dan fodio was only following the play-book and the sunnah of the criminal prophet mohammed. There is nothing uthman dan fodio did then that is different from what boko-haram is doing today. The only difference is the time. If shekau had been successful, your history book would have written that the hausas are 'land grabbers' and oppressors of muslims hence shekau fought against them.

Thanks so much for this, very Succint and a real TKO. You really took the pathological liar to the cleaners. Only islamic thinking can call original land owners land grabbers. I don't blame the dunce sha after all his criminal prophet after getting high on asheez claimed that allahh created the whole world for him.

Demmzy15:


The Sheikh's followers armed themselves because of things like this: harsh system of conscription(I hope you know what this means), illegal taxation, forceful land grabs by the Hausa Rulers, discriminating policies. The man who banned his followers was Nafatu not Yunfa, it was Uthman himself that helped Yunfa to become the kings



One of Sheikh Uthman's former student known as Yunfa became the king of Gobir. Dan Fodio then began preaching against all unislamic practices, as people began accepting, Yunfa saw that it didn't favor him so he decided to kill his teacher, Uthman.

He invited the Sheikh and he tried killing him with a pistol which then backfired and injured him on the hand. Yunfa subsequently forced the Sheikh and his followers from their hometown in Degel. Yunfa didn't stop there, he then encouraged all other Hausa States to Unite and wage war against Uthman Dan Fodio, the Sheikh had to defend himself so he made an alliance with some Fulani tribes who then helped him!

When the Sheikh was forced to leave, Yunfa pursued him and killed over 1500 of his followers in the battle of Tsuntua. [size=15pt]Now compare this to how Christianity came to Nigeria?! [/size]

So how did the problem Yunfa had with dan fodio justify dan fodio waging war and conquering most of the north of Nigeria and parts of Cameroon whilst also imposing his satanic religion on them? On the contrary, christianity came to nigeria through christian missionaries and it was spread through preaching and education. This is an historical fact and no amount of lies you state here will change these facts.

Controversialad:

I am objective in my research. as a matter of fact i am a practicing Christian but i love to research on controversial issues. so dont term this post a muslim propaganda

My dear, you lack understanding. Violence in the bible is reported history and not an instruction to believers to practise unlike islam that actively calls it's adherents to violence severally in the quoran. That aside christianity is based on Jesus teachings and not the whole bible and you will never see anywhere Jesus preached violence unlike in islam were their prophet is himself a terrorist.

stonemasonn:
it has nothing to do with Al Taquiya. Pls read it

It's full of islamic propaganda and mis representations.

Demmzy15:

The wiki page doesn't favor you at all!

The wiki page was obviously written by an al taquiya muslim who tried to water down the evils of dan fodio for obvious reasons but any discerning mind will still see through the mis representations.

Demmzy15:


That's what you're, a retard.



You need to prove the above assertion!



One of Sheikh Uthman's former student known as Yunfa became the king of Gobir. Dan Fodio then began preaching against all unislamic practices, as people began accepting, Yunfa saw that it didn't favor him so he decided to kill his teacher, Uthman.

He invited the Sheikh and he tried killing him with a pistol which then backfired and injured him on the hand. Yunfa subsequently forced the Sheikh and his followers from their hometown in Degel. Yunfa didn't stop there, he then encouraged all other Hausa States to Unite and wage war against Uthman Dan Fodio, the Sheikh had to defend himself so he made an alliance with some Fulani tribes who then helped him!

When the Sheikh was forced to leave, Yunfa pursued him and killed over 1500 of his followers in the battle of Tsuntua. Now compare this to how Christianity came to Nigeria?!

Al taquiya nonsense yunfa banished dan fodio because he was arming his followers. Obviously dan fodio must have had evil intentions to be arming his followers during peaceful times and yunfa being his former student would have known his extremist jihadist tendencies thus the precautionary measure of exiling the rodent.


Lead up to war

Usman dan Fodio, born in 1751, joined a growing number of traveling Islamic scholars through the Hausa kingdoms in the 1770s and became quite popular in the 1790s.[1] Originally, dan Fodio's preaching received the support of the leadership of Gobir; however, as his influence increased and as he began to advocate for self-defense arming by his followers, his favor with the leadership decreased. Sarkin Gobir Nafata, the king of Gobir, placed a series of restrictions on dan Fodio's preaching.[1] In 1801, Sarkin Gobir Yunfa, a former pupil of dan Fodio, replaced Nafata as king of Gobir. However, Yunfa increased the restrictions on dan Fodio and exiled him from Gobir to the village of Degel. A crisis developed later in 1803 when Yunfa attacked and captured many of the followers of a group associated with dan Fodio. Yunfa then marched the prisoners through Degel, enraging many of dan Fodio's followers, who attacked the army and freed the prisoners. Yunfa gave dan Fodio the option of exile before destroying Degel, which led to the large-scale hijra of dan Fodio's community to Gudu. So many people went with dan Fodio throughout the state that on February 21, 1804, Yunfa declared war on dan Fodio and threatened punishment to anyone joining him.[1] Followers of dan Fodio declared him to be the Amir al-Mu'minin, commander of the faithful, and denounced their allegiance to Gobir.

Rilwayne001:


the most violent prophet in the history of mankind is a biblical prophet https://www.nairaland.com/2492715/most-violent-prophet-history

Al taquiya nonsense, 1,400 years later mohammed is still killing through his true followers on a daily basis based on the evil instructions he left in his terror manual(quoran) nobody in world history comes close to mohammed when it comes to the number of deaths he inspired.