JackBizzle:


So, you are telling me that the Quran reasons the same way racist, sexist, slaveholding American white men used to do. They would sleep with their black slaves but never allow their women to do the same.

Such a selfish religion. Despite christian women being able to marry non christian men, it has surpassed islam in size and numbers. Can you see how ridiculous the ruling that muslimahs should not marry non muslims is?

JackBizzle:
@ halimasadiya and oladim001

You wonder why there is hate for Islam? There are 3 intertwined reasons.

1) ignorance about Islam
2) Islamic terrorism
3) defensive/lying Muslims.


For number one and two, some people see Muslim terrorists and assume foolishly that all Muslims are terrorists.

Also, I know some Christians who have lost some family to terrorists and they are bitter about it. They can't leave the anger against Islam because they see the terrorism as an Islamic issue. The problem is that there are terrorists from different religion. All religiona have bad eggs.


The third reason relates to two of you (oladim and sadiya). There are conservative and moderate versions of Islam but sone Muslims tend to deny the conservative side of Islam to appease or calm non-Muslims. This actually annoys the non-Muslims who see this as lies/taquiyah. Also, which version of Islam should non Muslims trust? The respected scholar who says Islam allows wife beating or the other scholar who says wife beating is not allowed in Islam?


For example, oladim001 and halimasadiya are both lying when they say Islam empowers women.

I once dated a muslimah. I was still a christian then. I almost died when some Muslims in the community found out. When I asked sly Muslim buddy why people were angry because of our relationship, she show ed me the quran passage that says a Muslim woman cam not marry a non-Muslim.

yes, a Muslim woman cant marry a non Muslim but a Muslim man is allowed to marry non Muslims especially Christians and Jews. Is that equality? Is that empowerment?


The quran broke my heart. I Had to break off the relationship. I almost even became a Muslim.

annunaki2:
@halimasadiya

Are you aware that there are 109 hateful terror inspiring verses in your quoran? That is apart from numerous others found in your sahih hadiths that informms us of the sunnah of mohammed which faithful muslims are meant to emulate.

UyiIredia:


The Crusades where a legitimate response to Islamic aggression on European soil. The Slave Trade wasn't pioneered by Christianity though I have no doubt that so-called Christians took part. The KKK wasn't Christian at all but a bunch of white supremacists who hated blacks for NO just cause. Furthermore these things you mentioned were in the past in recent times Christians have not been violent.

curi00:
It's true Black Africans muslims were the first to wear the "boubou" but it was brought by the North Africans Moors not the Fulanis.

Omooba77:

There is NO oil in the Chad Basin sir!

Omooba77:
There is NO oil in the Chad Basin sir!

Omooba77:
There is NO oil in the Chad Basin sir!

VomeSchakleton:


Yeah! Exactly! I am happy that we are satisfied with what is ours and secure enough to admit what we borrow. No offense to yorubas reading this but it seems they have a knack for twisting and changing history and well established facts to their favor and sticking by their innovations based on what I've seen on this forum.

VomeSchakleton:


The funny thing is almost all "Yoruba Agbada" incorporates the famous Hausa eternal knot, so I guess the question of who they adopted it from has been answered.

banku:
You are totally misinformed. Look very well with your korokoro eyes again and come up with Fulani or Arabs wearing AGBADA. Don't you know the difference between Agbada, Bubu and Babariga?

Agbada is exclusively Yoruba invention before being adopted everywhere else. Olodo!

VomeSchakleton:


Huh! History and mystery are synonymous. Too many different accounts of one same event.

VomeSchakleton:
All very interesting but I think the songhai origin and influence of this makes more sense, I might be wrong but I always believed it crept in from the songhais when they invaded major Hausa states.

gisthit:
nice work,keep it up

Ajuran:



I came to this dump in January 2012.

absoluteSuccess:




I never heard any news about Fulani herdsmen that's not bloody. But I think fulaman is not a herdsman. His sentiment is for them.

He likes his own but labels you for liking your own too, it's complicated.

macof:





Oduduwa and the middle east claim is obsolete and more importantly lacks credibility. .. no serious person believes all that trash

Suurulere:
Hard Facts About Alhaji (sir) Ahmadu Bello

His father died when he was 6 years old.

He was the only surviving son of his father and mother, Mariyamu.

He was a great grand-son of Shehu Uthman dan Fodio, the great Fulani jihadist.

He got his Islamic and Arabic education as a teenager from Mallam Garba who was the Imam of Rabbah village.

He finished at the age of 16 top of his class.

He attended the Teacher’s Training College, Katsina (later Barewa College) where he was a School Prefect and Class Captain.

Thereafter, he graduated as a Teacher in 1931 with a credit equivalent Grade III result.

He was appointed by the Sultan of Sokoto to work as a teacher at the Sokoto Middle School, where he was once a student and taught from
1931-1934.

He was appointed a rural administrator (District Head) at the age 25 in 1934.

He gave birth to a daughter after his death (posthumously).

He became a candidate for the succession to the throne of the Sultan of Sokoto at the age of 29.

He made attempts to become the Sultan of Sokoto but was not successful, losing to Sir Siddiq Abubakar III who reigned for 50 years until his death in 1988.

The new Sultan immediately made Sir Ahmadu Bello the Sardauna (Warlord) of Sokoto, a honourary title and promoted him to the Sokoto Native Authority Council, these titles automatically made him the Chief Political Adviser to the Sultan. Later, he was put in charge of the Sokoto Province to oversee 47 districts.

In 1943, a drama played out when he was thrown before the Sultan’s court for misappropriating jangali (cattle) tax for the Gusau region where he was the Councillor.

He was sentenced to 1 year in prison, but spent 3 months in jail.

By 1944, he was back at the Sultan’s Palace to work as the Chief Secretary of the State Native Administration.

In 1949, at the age of 40, he was nominated for a seat in the Regional House of Assembly.

He spoke impeccable English, and respected many European values.

Sir Ahmadu Bello keenly encouraged female education.

In 1954, Sir Ahmadu Bello became the first Premier of Northern Nigeria.

He never had material accumulation instincts, did not accumulate wealth and gave out whatever came into his possession. He was scrupulous and prudent with public finance but generous with his own money.

In 1955, he made his first pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The ‘Work and Worship’ motto on the Northern Nigerian crest was adopted by him.

He chose to remain the Premier of Northern Nigeria and gave the position of Prime Minister to his hand-picked candidate, the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who was then the Deputy President of the NPC.

Sir Ahmadu Bello never sought the leadership of Nigeria.

He once stated that he would rather be the Sultan of Sokoto than to be the leader of Nigeria.

At various times, he made inflammatory statements about the Ibos as He once referred to them as the ‘Jews of Nigeria’ whose sole purpose is to dominate wherever they find themselves.

In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926) made him a Knight of the British Empire (KBE), and that explains the ‘Sir’ in his title.

In 1962, he became Pioneer Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria.

He founded the Bank of the North (now Unity Bank).

He founded the Northern Nigerian Development Company.

He established the 16,000-seater Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna.

He established the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna (the only military university in Nigeria)

He established the University of Northern Nigeria, which stretched from Samaru in Kaduna State to Funtua in Katsina State, on the 4th of October, 1962 now known as Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

By the beginning of 1966, it was quite clear that the Sardauna was one of the most powerful figures in the country, and many believed that he was actually the most powerful, even much more powerful than the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

His party, Northern People Congress (NPC), held sway over 29 million out of 55 million Nigerians.

On his way to Umrah (the Muslim lesser pilgrimage), he received a letter with threats to kill him.

The letter was said to have stated: “We have arranged to kill you and the Prime Minister (Alhaji Tafawa Balewa).”

As a devout Muslim, the Sardauna believed that giving his life in the service of Northern Nigeria was worth the sacrifice and that death was a certain end.

He later said of the threat: “Don’t worry, continue to get useful information. I know what to do.”

On the evening of 14th January, 1966, armed soldiers, led by Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, arrived at his residence at Lugard House, Kaduna, with the message of death.

He told his family to stay away in safety but they would have none of that. They all trooped behind him as he came out of the family quarters and in a matter of seconds, he was surrounded by the soldiers led by Nzeogwu who fired at his babanriga. And immediately, blood sputtered from the point of impact through the beard on his face.

At that point, his first and eldest wife, Hafsatu, threw herself at him in a final embrace. They were both shot.

He was believed to have been killed instantly when a bullet penetrated his spinal cord.

Brave till the very end, he had faced the soldiers and introduced himself as the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region.

He once referred to Nigeria as the ‘mistake of 1914′ but he later worked for and gave his best for the new nation of Nigeria.

He died leaving £10 in his bank account.

Source: http://www.historyvilleng.com/2016/03/13/what-you-may-not-know-about-alhaji-sir-ahmadu-bello/

mrvitalis:
Tribalism in Nigeria stated with this man and awolowo... .. zik was the one who really wanted one Nigeria. .. . And if we had 3 zik.. . Nigeria would have been a more integrated country

juniorportland:
he was a tribal bigot and hated the Igbos

by the way am Yoruba

KOYINSTEL:
For Christians, there should be no second thought about abstinence before marriage, it's stated clearly in d Bible that fornication is a sin.(I don't know about d quran tho). God knows best, no matter ur reason for supporting fornication,it's useless because u can't claim to know more than ur creator who recommended no sex b4 marriage. God always chooses the best for His pple so u guys should know that d best thing is to stay out of fornication nd for ur info,it's very very possible with the help of God, nd no matter what turns out to be the sexual problem after marriage, God will surely sort it out... God is very much interested in every part of our lives including our sexual lives. God created sex nd He has told us when to engage in it acceptably. God will help us,God bless u

jhasper:
(2)The Fulani also colonized Nigeria
.
.


Surprised? Yes, Nigeria was colonized twice. It is
common knowledge that Nigeria was first
colonized by the British and Portuguese but what
is often down played is that the Fulani also
colonized a part of the country –the Hausa
states in northern Nigeria.
Most Hausa city-states of the north was under
the control of the Fulani by 1810, 6 years after
the launch of Jihad under the leadership of the
popular Fulani Islamic cleric, Shehu Usman dan
Fodio.
The Jihad started after the Fulani immigrants
(also called the Town Fulani) who had settled in
the Hausa states of the north due to the
attractive urban culture of the Hausa resented
amongst other things what they considered to be
an unfair cattle tax levied by imperfect Muslims.
So the Fulani in the town (Town Fulani), despite
the influence exerted on them by Hausa customs
joined the Cattle or Bush Fulani to begin a holy
war which led to the conquering of most Hausa
states.
Since then the Fulani refused to leave and
gained more prominence and power due to the
formation of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Could it be that this domineering attitude is
responsible for the “above-the-law” posture that
the Fulani herdsmen seems to be displaying?