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Similarly, after last November’s Paris terrorist attack, which left 129 people dead, the UK’s Independent published an article titled, “Paris attacks: Isis responsible for more Muslim deaths than western victims.”  And the Daily Beast argued that, “Before the Paris horror, ISIS was killing Muslims on a daily basis. We Muslims despise these crazy people more than anyone else does….  But the number one victim of this barbaric terror group is Muslims. That’s undisputed.”

Along with distancing Islam from violence—real Muslims are not supposed to kill other Muslims in the name of jihad—this argument further clouds the issue of who is the true victim of Islamic terrorism:  Why talk about the Muslim slaughter of non-Muslims—whether Western people in Paris or California, or Christian minorities under Islam—when it is Muslims who are the primary victims most deserving of sympathy?

Yet this argument is flawed on several levels.  First, the Islamic State does not view its victims as Muslims.  Indeed, mainstream Sunni Islam—the world’s dominant strand of Islam which ISIS adheres to—views all non-Sunnis as false Muslims; at best, they are heretics who need to submit to the “true Islam.”

With the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, or IS), an old apologia meant to exonerate Islam of violence has become prominent, again.  Because ISIS is killing other Muslims, so the argument goes, obviously, its violence cannot be based on Islam, which bans Muslims from killing fellow Muslims in its name.

This point is always stressed whenever Islamic jihadis commit massacres in the West.  Speaking soon after the San Bernardino terror attack that left 14 dead, U.S. president Obama, who earlier insisted that the Islamic State “is not Islamic,” elaborated:

ISIL does not speak for Islam. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death... Moreover, the vast majority of terrorist victims around the world are Muslim (emphasis added).

Agbereo govt by agberoes for their lazy parasitic Agbereos

Enjoying the destruction of the intolerant north by their own hand

donestk:
We ain't a nation.

Just a geographic space.

Europe will regret ever taking leftist bullsh1t seriously

coolitempa:
Suegbe....where we're over a thousand massacred.....where is your proof other than your say so.....and does religious affiliation superceed nationality....?.if so, where?

Go and ask the likes of Khadija Dare who have since trashed their Nigerian and British passports to join ISIS.

Burantashi was ambushed by Boko militants a few weeks back only for his convoy to be blocked by protesting Shiite minorities.

If the COAS can be so careless on his own security then it is obvious the man has no single clue

Capnd143:
Iran and their hate for anything that is connected to Israel and the United States

You will not get any sympathy for your foolish president by mentioning that Iran hates Israel and US..


Reminder that over a thousand religious minorities where massacred by the army who are supposed to protect them.

Demmocrats:
let them come haba "We are not Afraid"

Pls be specific.

We in the ND do not want to be part

Cheers

FemiFaniKayode:
people come online and post rubbish. @ op Did you take time to read your wonderful bullshittttt before posting?...
You hide like a coward and call a 74yr old man (let us forget he isnt the President) a mumu

It is your mentally deranged, saliva spitting iiiimbecile of a father that is a slow poke

Shift

coolitempa:
Stupid Nigerians. A foreign power gets involved in our internal affairs under the guise of religious solidarity and all we do is criticise our own leaders.....where is our patriotism.....smh.....

Which part of your internal affairs are you talking about? Is it the massacre of over one thousand religious minorities?

Yeye

MinorityTribe:
Bros Boko haram like many Islamic terrorists are confirm Muslims of Saudi Arabia branch of sunni Islam Wahabilism. It is a shame the so called head of all Muslims is also the biggest terrorist sponsors. But Iran and the Shi'a population know this why are they still going to Mecca for pilgrimage?

Iran considers the Kabalah in Syria more holy than the Kabbah in Mecca.

The Iranians only go to mecca to troll Saudi Arabia with protests

You do know that the last stampede was caused by the Saudis shooting at a group of protesting Iranians?

MinorityTribe:
Seek Logistics from other Shi'a-Arab government? That is the point, which Shi'a arab government will they seek logistics from? Yemen, Syrian, Iraq? To the best of my knowledge west Africa or indeed Africa Muslims at large are dominated by the Sunnis even the terrorists, Smuggling in weapons into Nigeria would be difficult or impossible. Hezbollahs are mostly of Arab/Persians dysentery. In other words they are whites and a large population of them moving into Nigeria would be easily noticed. Again Shi'a movement in Nigeria don't really have a territory, They are just scattered across Nigeria like the Jews were in Europe and can't really organized to stage an attack. For your information not all Shiites in Nigeria are a member of the Zakzaki IMN. Unlike Boko haram that may have some top men backing them both in the military and politics the Shiites has none or few in Nigeria. Iran didn't foresaw this and they really aren't prepare for any Shiites clampdown in Nigeria unlike in Lebanon, Syria etc This is not the first time the Shiites in Nigeria have been attacked, They are worst scenario than this since the regime of Abacha, What did Iran do?

Thank you for confirming that Boko Haram are not a fringe group but draw an unending stream of fresh recruits from mainstream Sunni population.

Tomorrow some idiota will tell me Boko Haram are not muslims.

Yeye

As long that there are monarchies and despotic govts across the Arab world then Israel will remain safe.

Why? Because kings and despots will never agree to a pan Arabic state.

A divided Arab world at war with itself is no threat to Israel.

This is what Gaddafi wanted but you don't expect the House of Saud to give way to Gaddafi and vice versa.

Ironically, ISIS is anti monarchial and also against secular govts. ISIS wants the same model in Iran replicated across the Arab world under their banner but their hatred for Shiites is greater so that is why they are taking the time off from expanding their caliphate to genocide the Shiites, Kurds and Yazidis.

It's a cluster phuck out there in the ME. Too bad your illiterate President just put us smack into the ring of fire.

Sall:
I don't need to read through the trash you post out here. But I know for sure your entire generations the one before or after no one can ever attained the height buhari has ever gotten to FOOL

Shift

MinorityTribe:
He may act tough against Tel Aviv just to appease the fanatic Norths that voted for him but he is working with Israel. Read my above comment. It may surprise you but Israel and Saudi Arabia are actually good allies who share a common goal of dominating the Middle East and decapitating Iranian influence over the region.

The State of Israel exists today all thanks to Ibn Saudi who was the Shekau of the dying Ottoman Empire. The current state of Israel was a province in the dead Ottoman empire that was captured by Ibn Saud.


Israel is in bed with the Saudi monarchy because the Israelis will prefer a despotic monarchy across the Arab world than have a theocracy like Iran.

Islam forbids monarchies and in this is why Iran is so dangerous to the Saudis because every year Iran sends a delegation of pilgrims to mecca to protest against the Saudi monarchy

Racial diversity has been confused with multiculturalism and so if you are a German who opposes migration you will be quickly condemned and labelled a fascist racist.

But is Racial diversity the same thing as multiculturalism? The answer is a resounding NO!

Brazil is a racially diverse nation while Nigeria is a multicultural society.

While Brazilians are homogeneous to a large extent on their cultural identity, Nigeria a black Nation is a pot pourie of cultural identities.

While the racially diverse Brazil only has criminality as their biggest problem, the black nation of Nigeria is plagued with ethnic and Islamic militias.


A society's laws and traditions are defined by its people to accommodate all interests. These laws and customs can promote a prosperous and stable society as long as the laws and customs adopted are agreed by all. A situation where every group wants to impose their own laws and customs on others smacks of pure intolerance. That is why today we have a bunch of Islamists lunatics fighting to impose their ungodly religion on others.

Nigeria is proof that multiculturalism does not work.

MinorityTribe:
He may be taking orders not only from Iran but from Israel and the West. They all share the same hatred for Iran.

He is a puppet of the US and Saudi Arabia and being a fanatic boko I doubt if we have an ambassador in Telaviv since he was sworn in.

Buhari hates El Zacky because the Sheik stated early last year that Buhari and GEJ should not contest the elections.

Buhari is obviously also foolishly taking orders from Saudi Arabia.

This will not go down well for innocent Nigerians as Iran has been known to order terrorist attacks. At the end of the day chances are that innocent Christian southerners abroad will pay for Buhari's stupidity.

Pls Iran if you must retaliate do it in northern Nigeria.

Okaka27:
oh c'mon bro
We don't need a rocket scientist to explain to us that u re clearly jobless

Abeg shift.

Buhari just succeeded in securing northern Nigeria as the next staging ground of the foolish sectarian war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Congrats Buhari you can now follow the footsteps of your jihadist ancestors

Abdullah ah-Zaher became the youngest person given the death sentence, according to campaigners Reprieve.

Campaigners claim Abdullah ah-Zaher, who attended the protest four years ago was put on death row as part of a crackdown on political dissent.

The 19-year-old has been moved to solitary confinement and could be beheaded at any moment. 

Despite possible repercussions, his family have gone public with his story, in a final bid to save his life. 

His father Hassan al-Zaher said: “Please help me save my son from the imminent threat of death. He doesn’t deserve to die just because he participated in a protest rally.” 

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According to the campaign group, Reprieve, Abdullah was arrested for being in the area of a protest in March 2012, beaten by police and tortured.

He was then allegedly forced to sign papers police fabricated.

Saudi media reports suggest 52 prisoners will be executed at any time. 

Abdullah was held alongside Ali al-Nimr, who has been sentenced to a death penalty for allegedly instigating a revolution using his Blackberry.

A Reprieve spokeswoman said: “What we know from the families of the three is that they are in solitary confinement and being prepared for execution.

“They have been moved and undergone medical examinations, which seem to suggest their beheading is imminent.
The whole business of executions in Saudi Arabia is shrouded in secrecy, and prisoners are often beheaded without any notice to family or lawyers.”

His father has said his health is deteriorating and when he attended this protest at the age of 15, he wasn’t even fully aware what they were protesting for.

Okaka27:
are u employed , get a job ASAP

Learn to use your brain next time you want to comment.

It is highly sad and dangerous that at this epoch period we are saddled with a confirmed dunce and blind fanatic for a president.

I understand that as a descendant of Uthman Don Fodio, Buhari feels he needs to continue the Jihad.


The very same people that are jointly funding and arming Boko Haram alongside the northern elites are not happy with the slow rate of destabilisation and are opting for the more faster muslims civil war.

Just recently the Saudi demonic king put Nigeria as one of its Sunni allies in their stup1d war with Iran.

Buhari I know you are a confirmed mor0n but I never knew you were really this daft.

You are about to throw this country and your precious north to the dogs over you blind mumu follow follow boi boi ways to Saudi Arabia.


Dunce

Koleman:
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Why did you edit your post?

It’s not about human rights or justice. It’s about destabilizing your neighbors by exploiting their internal divisions. It’s how Islam achieved its original conquests by pitting Christians against each other.

Russia wants to put Syria back together again, but it also wants it vulnerable and in need of Moscow’s help. Iran feeds the chaos to control Syria’s Shiites and set off civil wars around the region. The Saudis, Qataris and the Turks want Obama to put the Muslim Brotherhood and various Islamists in power. 

Obama wants the problem to go away because ISIS is making him look bad. But all the other players care even less about ISIS than he does. Russia did not get into Syria because of ISIS. Since then the terror group has become a major nuisance and Putin isn’t likely to forget or forgive, but neither is he going to spend too much time and money fighting a non-aligned terror group. ISIS is not a threat to Russia. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar however are a threat to Russian interests and fighting their militias comes first.

The state sponsors of Sunni terror find ISIS more irritating because the Caliphate’s major objective is to crush rival Jihadist groups funded by Sunni countries and force them to submit to the Caliph. ISIS doesn’t want to be another Saudi or Qatari terrorist puppet. It wants to be its own terror state and subsume them all. But it’s exploiting the Saudi and Qatari popularization of Islamic terrorism to do so.

The Sunni states see Iran as much more of a threat than ISIS. If their various Islamist militias lose, ISIS is their backup plan. And while they may put on a show, they won’t fight too hard against it. They may still need ISIS. Iran and Assad likewise see ISIS as a useful way to entangle their Sunni enemies in infighting. 

And so, despite all the posturing, fighting ISIS is not actually a priority for anyone.

The Russians have put on a good show, but it’s more about boosting arms sales through pointless displays of advanced weaponry than about destroying ISIS. Putin’s bombing campaign is the equivalent of one of his staged pictures hunting zebras or diving underwater to spear sharks. Obama is no slacker at staging photoshoots either. His bombing campaign is also a show, but it’s an even more hollow display.

And there’s no realistic endgame to any of it.

Syria’s problems are built in. The only thing that would help is fundamentally redrawing the maps of the region along ethnic and religious lines. But while everyone is eager to impose a two-state solution on Israel, no one talks about two-stating Syria or three-stating Iraq. And so it isn’t going to get any better.

ISIS is smarter and more practical than Al Qaeda. That makes it more dangerous in the long run. It’s not thinking about terrorist attacks in Europe or America just in order to kill us, but to build the beginnings of Islamic states in the West by creating local terror networks that pledge allegiance to it.

Obama isn’t completely wrong when he says that ISIS wants to divide us. But what he refuses to admit is that we didn’t create those divisions. Islam did. If Sunni and Shiite Muslims can’t live together after over a thousand years, what are the odds that they will learn to coexist with us within the next decade?

What about the next hundred years? Because if this miracle doesn’t happen, we will be the next Syria.

We didn’t create Muslim xenophobia. We didn’t invent the tribalism and the intolerance that are tearing Syria apart. And we can’t make them go away by blaming ourselves or pretending that they aren’t there.

If we all converted to Islam tomorrow, we would have even more terrorist attacks. Syrians are massacring each other over differences in theology because Islam has a long history of settling theological disputes with violence. ISIS is a symptom of the problems inherent to Islam. 

Obama speaks of defeating ISIS by fixing the root causes of the conflict. But the root cause of the conflict isn’t poverty, unemployment or Global Warming. It’s Islam. Unless Obama has more luck bringing Shiites and Sunnis together than Osama did, he can’t fix Syria. All he can do is find more ways to make it worse.

Obama is betting the last of his foreign policy cred on beating ISIS by fixing Syria through a peace process that brings together Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and just about everybody who is anybody in the international terrorism and regime change racket to fight the ISIS war that he doesn’t want to fight.

There’s just one little problem. Nobody on the guest list wants to fix Syria. They want to control it.

The reason that ISIS exists is the same reason that Syria can’t be fixed. ISIS didn’t get so big because Muslims are angry about our foreign policy. It got huge because Sunni Muslims hate Shiite Muslims.

Al Qaeda in Iraq didn’t become popular because it killed American soldiers, but because it suicide bombed Iraqi Shiites. It really took off once there was a civil war underway between Syrian Shiites and Sunni Islamists. 

Osama bin Laden wanted Al Qaeda in Iraq to focus on Americans, not Shiites. Zarqawi knew better. Al Qaeda’s base in Iraq was a Sunni population that hated their Shiite and Kurdish neighbors even more than they hated the American soldiers trying to keep the peace between them. By massacring Shiites, Al Qaeda in Iraq stopped being another franchise of a goofy Saudi rich kid making snuff videos for Qatar’s fake Al Jazeera news network and instead became the protectors of the Sunni minority.

That’s why Osama bin Laden died in a room full of old cassette tapes and porn while the Caliph of ISIS has carved out his own country. ISIS was built by men who understood that Osama’s vision of a global Muslim Ummah pitted against the West was too remote to appeal to the Arab on the street. Instead it offered the local Sunni in Iraq or Syria the opportunity to steal from his Christian neighbors, take Kurdish girls as sex slaves and slap around some arrogant Shiites. Is it any wonder that ISIS is a hit?

Obama set up this mess by pulling out of Iraq and letting Iran and its Shiite puppets have their way with the country, while at the same time backing Sunni Islamist takeovers in the Arab Spring. He couldn’t have made a worse mess if he had deliberately set out to burn down the Middle East. But like Osama, Obama saw Muslims idealistically as a collective group united by their grievances against the West. 

Muslims hate the West, but they’re also torn apart by tribal and ethnic rivalries with a thick gloppy layer of Islam on top. And it’s those rivalries that make Syria and Iraq and much of the region so explosive.

Al Qaeda wanted to rally Muslims by attacking Americans globally. ISIS rallies Muslims by building a Caliphate locally that exploits existing fracture lines of ethnicity, tribe and religion. It’s not a new idea. The entire Syrian Civil War happened because the Saudis, the Turks, the Qataris, the Russians, the Iranians and the rest of the long horrible list have been exploiting these same divisions and rivalries. 

Obama’s peace process has no chance of working because they don’t want to fix the very divide and conquer element that gives them power over Syria. And even if they wanted to fix it, they couldn’t.

This is a region where government jobs are a family business and meritocracy is an alien concept. Everything works outward from smaller to larger family and kin groups. Government is either tyranny or a temporary power sharing arrangement between rivals; often it’s sizable doses of both.

Democracy just means that the majority oppresses the minority. The judiciary is another part of the power sharing arrangement. All politics is a tribal conflict by other means. The Sunni-Shiite split adds another layer of opposition and a violent fracture point that can turn a country into a civil war.

The Middle East’s great game is finding the fracture points in another country and exploiting them. That’s what Syria did to Iraq and Lebanon. Then the Saudis, Iranians and Turks did it to the Syrians. And then someone else, maybe even a reassembled Syria, will do it right back to them.

The so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just most of these same countries doing to Israel what they do to each other on a regular basis, find an angry minority, arm and train them, and grin at the carnage.