Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 8:10pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Do you like my head because you're a skull miner or do you want my charity because you're a headslamming street beggar? MoIbrahim: No way! Biko, I prefer to worry about the smallness of the space between your eyes due to the shape of your head. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 7:31pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
 Worry about the empty space between your ears first. Between you and I, who begs for money by chanting Bambi allah?  MoIbrahim: No sir. It is just the shape of your head that is worrying me. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 6:46pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
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Islam › Re: Simple Evidence That The Quran Is Man Made by ContractKiller(op): 6:41pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Everytime I reveal the impotence of the criminal fake god of the headslammers I always become fortunate!  It is the believers like this who are children of misfortune [img] https://images./42VRcztEftwWpjwz2zzEp8.jpg[/img] jahsharon: I thought you will be preparing for the birthday of your lord, what do you want to be unfortunate in Christmas period? |
Islam › Re: Simple Evidence That The Quran Is Man Made by ContractKiller(op): 6:39pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Yeah I know that one  They were so embarrassed that they changed it from "Allah and his angels send prayers on the prophet" to "Allah and his angels send blessings on the prophet"  AgentNairaland: In Addition, allah even prayed in Quran...
Verily, Allah and His angels pray (yusalloona) for the prophet . O ye who believe! pray for him (salloo) and salute him with a salutation! S. 33:56..
allah and his angels prayed for Muhammad  |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 6:33pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
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Islam › Re: Simple Evidence That The Quran Is Man Made by ContractKiller(op): 6:20pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Really? Then who are all those fools who keep telling me that the quran is a book of science? Don't they know that logic is one of the cornerstones of science? Let them answer my simple question: Who is the speaker in Surah 1:1-5? BabaRamota1980: The Quran is a book of faith. Its not a product of thesis, therefore logic and intelligence is not what you need when reviewing what it says. If you do not have faith in it simply ignore it. There are many that have faith in the scripture.
If you attack any part of it you also attack a Chapter called Maryam, in which the virtues of Mary is extolled. You attack the Chapter on Abraham, you attack the chapter on Moses, on John the Baptist.
I advise you focus your disagreements with Northerners on their cultures and mindsets, which is all separate from the Quran.
Leave the Quran out of your spite...unless you also want to ridicule its praise and love on all those ancients of faith mentioned in it. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 6:17pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
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Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 6:14pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
 That 50 naira is less than 1% of what I make in a day  You see, people with high IQs don't have to beg unbelievers for a living. Imagine the shame of relying on a kuffar to feed your 23 little beggar children  I'll be letting your family look through my dustbin for food this Christmas! MoIbrahim: N50 that you got from being a hired killer or a robber? Which? |
Islam › Re: Simple Evidence That The Quran Is Man Made by ContractKiller(op): 6:02pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Let them gather. I know they can never challenge me with logic or intelligence because the founder of their religion lacked both of those attributes. 9jabull: Op your a critical thinker, its only those that reason critically can understand you, just be prepared because the will soon gather to attach you. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 5:58pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
 Disease ridden, roadside street beggars who depend on my 50 naira handouts to survive should shut up when I'm talking  [img] https://images./1gmu0HA28zfJnzDc8QKlzF.jpg[/img] MoIbrahim: Only one group of people in Nigeria refer to others as subhumans. One cannot be any more accurate about the shape of your head. Result of swallowing too many stones without drinking water.
You look mirror so? |
Islam › Re: Simple Evidence That The Quran Is Man Made by ContractKiller(op): 5:54pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Thank you  . Now tell me the identity of the speaker in Surah 1:1-5 if it is not allah. Cajal: ...is better not to talk than to talk the way the DEVIL WOULD HAD WANTED U TO TALK THIS WAS HOW DEVIL START ... WATCH UR STEPS MAY GOD Almighty FORGIVE U ..because this maybe as a result of mental inadequacy |
Islam › Simple Evidence That The Quran Is Man Made by ContractKiller(op): 5:30pm On Dec 22, 2019*. Modified: 6:57am On Dec 23, 2019 |
Muslims claim the Quran is the direct word of their god. Not the word of any prophet or man. Hence MuhaMAD always referred to himself as a "messenger".However, simply reading through the quran shows how dishonest these claims are.
For example Sura 1:1-5 says:
“ In the name of Allah” and continues as follows:
"Thee do we worship and Thine aid we seek.”
Since according to muslims the Quran is the direct word of Allah, this would have to mean Allah is the person talking in Surah 1:1-5.
Allah is the one saying to himself:
"Thee do we worship and Thine aid we seek"
If that is the case, then who is allah worshipping and whose aid is Allah seeking in Surah 1:1-5 of the quran?
If the answer is allah, then this means that Allah is worshiping Allah and seeking Allah's help. That doesn't make any sense.
If Muslims say that MuhaMAD is the speaker in Quran 1:1-5 then it means that the Qur’an is the word of Muhammad, not Allah and is therefore a man made book. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 4:38pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
You're right. It's okay to come from a part of the world where begging, illiteracy, backwardness, pestilence, hunger, poverty and wretchedness is the only thing your fake god can give you despite blowing yourself up and scraping your forehead into the ground 5 times a day. What a shame. [img] https://images./4dqWBzDqEywMjb2ejxJdSX.jpg[/img] GorkoDimo: You cannot bring down to your level with the us vs you shit.
And there is no ethnic Government in Nigeria.
But its OK to be an idiot. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 4:32pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
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Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 3:51pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
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Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 3:18pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
It seems you don't know Sirjamo on this forum or you wouldn't have wasted your time in trying to advise him not to be stupid. toye440: Extremism gives birth to terrorism. Pls an attempt to rubbish this article, only makes u stupid. U practice a religion u know nothing about because u inherited it frm ur parents. Pls prove me wrong that fedral job isnt islamic job. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 3:16pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
You mean shaped with wisdom and knowledge? Thanks for the complent. One can only hope that the lower life forms might actually evolve one day from their current state of backwardness to one of enlightenment. But sadly, there's no sign of this ever happening. [img] https://images./3psZSlFkRaf0mhqAVzaZsB.jpg[/img] MoIbrahim: From your toxic vituperations, one could easily tell how your head is shaped  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Muslim Woman Decorates Hayap, CAN Chairman’s House With Christmas Tree In Kaduna by ContractKiller: 3:12pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Na only you dey wait for I MESS. IAmStrange: She won't do that or she will be ashamed to do it when Imes comes 
Imes, we await your coming  |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 3:06pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Stupidity is a hard thing to suppress no matter how hard a fool tries. [img] https://images./1Ia5RX1o58XtvZEn2siXWV.jpg[/img] [img] https://images./EEWhZkt1VMhHggwNHOS50.gif[/img] helinues: Which war against Christians?
Do Christians love themselves? Cos me Wondering why Catholics wont marry an Anglican... Or is it Pentecostal that have vowed not to have anything to do with Celestial church?
If Una don deceive Una self finish, make we know
Modified : Why do religious people get aggressive whenever there religious beliefs are been questioned? Still on the questioning
Abi why the attacks on my innocent questions.. Stay clear or ban awaits attacking comments |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 3:01pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
The real fools are the ones who wear suicide vests to blow themselves up after being promised 72 virgins in paradise. Patrioticman007: They are willing tools at the hands of imperialist, that took their ancestors as slaves. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 2:58pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
No problems. I only reserve my contempt for worthless scum, illiterates who breed like animals and want to dump their problems on Christians who are their superiors. [img] https://images./1K5HOGMnhkE7HwWS0EbXwA.jpg[/img] MoIbrahim: Contract killer, your name simply exposes who the real killer is. Sorry. |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 2:55pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
Yes, Fulanis who waged the Fulani Jihad and who controls the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, are not pagans. There must be a special gold medal for some types of stupidity. ednut1: Fake news. Fulani herdsmen no sabi who be muslim or xtain. Many are pagans |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 2:49pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
The real fools are the filthy uneducated scum whose main preoccupation is begging for a living, breeding children like animals and then waging war on human beings who are a thousand times better off than them. It seems no matter how much these animals sctape their foreheads on the ground they always remain poor and wretched. MoIbrahim: A teh you! |
Politics › Re: The New War Against Africa’s Christians - Wall Street Journal by ContractKiller: 2:46pm On Dec 22, 2019 |
This is an article by the WSJ one of the oldest and most reputable print media in the world. Everything written in the article was researched and the writer met with the people he was writing about. Rape of non Muslim females is encouraged in Islam. MuhaMAD himself did it through out his career as a fake prophet. Fulanis have ALWAYS fought under the banner of Jihad, just as they did under Usman Dan Fodio. Sirjamo: This is a misleading and mischievous article. Fulani don't fight for Islam, they fight for their Animals. Majority of nomadic Fulani don't believe in any religion, they don't go to mosque, neither do they offer Salat anywhere.
Boko haram too might be claiming Islam, but they are deceiving themselves. Whenever their camps get raided by security agents, they always find thousands of Condoms, alcohol, hard drugs and women they keep as sex slaves. Rape alone is punishable by death in Islam so all Boko haram has been sentenced to death Insha Allah, thousands of our Mujahedin in the civilian JTF have been helping the military to destroy those unfortunate infidels called Boko haram, because they have no place in Islam and the World!!! |
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Islam › Re: Who Wrote The Qur’aan And How Was It Put Together? by ContractKiller: 10:33am On Dec 20, 2019 |
The quran isn't even a complete book. Even muslim scholars acknowledge this. [img] https://images./33nvz1QR1fBJLqSHhRhSOu.jpg[/img] [img] https://images./2tOrp48HegYifNvAP4Ecbj.jpg[/img] [img] https://images./3WRFDA0mKduzki1Sbdue47.jpg[/img] Rashduct4luv: Question Who wrote the Qur’aan and how was it put together?
Answer Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly: Allaah has guaranteed to preserve this Qur’aan Himself. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Verily, We, it is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (i.e. the Qur’aan) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption)” [al-Hijr 15:9]
Ibn Jareer al-Tabari said in his Tafseer, 14/8: Allaah is saying, it is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (Reminder), i.e. the Qur’aan, and We will guard the Qur’aan against anything false being added to it that is not part of it, or anything that is part of it being taken away, whether that has to do with rulings, hudood punishments or matters having to do with inheritance.
Al-Sa’di said in his Tafseer (p. 696): It is We Who have sent down the Qur’aan in which there is mention of all issues and clear evidence, and in which We remind those who want to be reminded.
“and surely, We will guard it” means, when it is being revealed and after it has been revealed. When it is revealed, We protect it from the tampering of every accursed devil, and after it has been revealed Allaah instilled it in the heart of His Messenger. Allaah protected the words from being changed and from anything being added or taken away, or from its meanings being distorted. So no one can attempt to distort its meanings but Allaah will guide someone to explain the truth of the Qur’aan. This is one of the greatest signs of Allaah and His blessing to His believing slaves. Another aspect of this protection is that Allaah protects the people of the Qur’aan against their enemies, and no enemy can overpower them and eliminate them.
The Qur’aan was revealed to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in stages over a period of twenty-three years. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And (it is) a Qur’aan which We have divided (into parts), in order that you might recite it to men at intervals. And We have revealed it by stages” [al-Isra’ 17:106]
Al-Sa’di (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: This means, We have revealed this Qur’aan in stages, to differentiate between guidance and misguidance, between truth and falsehood.
“in order that you might recite it to men at intervals” means, slowly, so that they may ponder and think about its meanings, and understand the different branches of knowledge contained therein.
“And We have revealed it by stages” means, gradually, over a period of twenty-three years. Tafseer al-Sa’di, p. 760.
Secondly: Literacy was not widespread among the Arabs. Allaah described them in such terms when He said (interpretation of the meaning):
“He it is Who sent among the unlettered ones a Messenger (Muhammad) from among themselves” [al-Jumu’ah 63:2]
They used to memorize the Qur’aan by heart, and a few of them used to write down some verses or soorahs on animal skins, thin white stones and the like.
Thirdly: At first the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade the writing of anything other than the Qur’aan, and he forbade them to write down his words for a while, so that the Sahaabah would focus on memorizing the Qur’aan and writing it down, and so that the words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) would not be confused with the words of Allaah, and so the Qur’aan was protected from anything being added or taken away.
Fourthly: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) appointed a group of his companions who were trustworthy and knowledgeable to write down the revelation. They are known in their biographies as those who wrote down the Revelation, such as the four Caliphs, ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘Aas, Mu’aawiyah ibn Abi Sufyaan, Zayd ibn Thaabit and others – may Allaah be pleased with them all.
Fifthly: The Qur’aan was revealed in seven dialects as was narrated in the saheeh hadeeth of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). This was narrated by al-Bukhaari (2287) and Muslim (818); these were the dialects of the Arabs which were known for their eloquence.
Sixthly: The Qur’aan continued to be preserved in the hearts of the Sahaabah who had memorized it, and on the skins and other materials until the time of the caliph Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq (may Allaah be pleased with him). During the Riddah wars many of the Sahaabah who had memorized the Qur’aan were killed, and Abu Bakr (may Allaah be pleased with him) was afraid that the Qur’aan would be lost. So he consulted the senior Sahaabah about compiling the Qur’aan in a single book so that it would remain preserved and would not be lost. He entrusted this mission to the chief of memorizers Zayd ibn Thaabit (may Allaah be pleased with him). Al-Bukhaari narrated in his Saheeh (4986) that Zayd ibn Thaabit (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:
Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq sent for me when the people of al-Yamaamah had been killed [i.e., a number of the Prophet's Companions who fought against the false prophet Musaylimah]. (I went to him) and found ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said (to me), “ ‘Umar has come to me and said: ‘Casualties were heavy among the Qurra' of the Qur'aan (i.e. those who knew the Qur’aan by heart) on the day of the battle of al-Yamaamah, and I am afraid that more heavy casualties may take place among the Qurra' on other battlefields, whereby a large part of the Qur’aan may be lost. Therefore I suggest that you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur’aan be collected.” I said to 'Umar, "How can you do something that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not do?" 'Umar said, "By Allah, this is something good." 'Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till Allaah opened my heart to it and I began to realize the good in the idea which 'Umar had realized." Then Abu Bakr said (to me). “You are a wise young man and we do not have any suspicion about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). So search for (the fragmentary scripts of) the Qur’aan and compile it in one book." By Allah If they had ordered me to move one of the mountains, it would not have been heavier for me than this ordering me to compile the Qur’aan. Then I said (to Abu Bakr), "How can you do something that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not do?" Abu Bakr replied, "By Allaah, it is a good thing." Abu Bakr kept on urging me to accept his idea until Allaah opened my heart to that to which He had opened the hearts of Abu Bakr and 'Umar. So I started looking for the Qur’aan and collecting it from (what it was written on) palm stalks, thin white stones and also from the men who knew it by heart, until I found the last Verse of Soorat al-Tawbah with Abu Khuzaymah al-Ansaari, and I did not find it with anybody other than him. The verse is (interpretation of the meaning):
"Verily, there has come unto you a Messenger (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty...” [al-Tawbah 9:128] until the end of Soorat Baraa’ah (i.e., al-Tawbah).
Then the complete manuscript (copy) of the Qur’aan remained with Abu Bakr until he died, then with 'Umar until the end of his life, and then with Hafsah, the daughter of 'Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him).
The Sahaabi Zayd ibn Thaabit (may Allaah be pleased with him) knew the Qur’aan by heart but he was methodical in his confirmation; he would not agree to write down any verse until two of the Sahaabah testified that they had heard it from the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).
This Mus-haf (written copy of the Qur’aan) remained in the hands of the caliphs until the time of the Rightly-Guided Caliph ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan (may Allaah be pleased with him). The Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them) had dispersed to different lands, and they used to recite the Qur’aan according to what they had heard of the seven recitations from the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and each of their students used to recite according to what he had heard from his shaykh. If a student heard someone reciting in a manner different from what he knew, he would denounce him and accuse him of making a mistake, and this went on until the Sahaabah feared that there would be fitnah (trouble) between the Taabi’een and successive generations. So they thought that they should unite the people in following one recitation, which was in the dialect of Quraysh in which the Qur’aan had first been revealed, so as to dispel any disputes and resolve the matter. ‘Uthmaan (may Allaah be pleased with him) was consulted, and he agreed with this opinion.
Al-Bukhaari narrated in his Saheeh (4988) from Anas ibn Maalik that Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamaan came to ‘Uthmaan at the time when the people of Shaam (Syria) and the people of Iraq were waging war to conquer Armenia and Azerbaijan. Hudhayfah was alarmed by their (the people of Sham and Iraq) differences in the recitation of the Qur’aan, so he said to 'Uthmaan, "O Ameer al-Mu’mineen! Save this nation before they dispute about the Book (Qur’aan) as the Jews and the Christians did before." So 'Uthmaan sent a message to Hafsah saying, "Send us the manuscript of the Qur’aan so that we may make copies of the Mus-haf and we will return the manuscript to you."
Hafsah sent it to 'Uthmaan. Then 'Uthmaan ordered Zayd ibn Thaabit, 'Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Sa’eed ibn al-‘Aas and ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Haarith ibn Hishaam to copy out the manuscripts. 'Uthmaan said to the three men who were from Quraysh (the tribe of which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was a member), “In case you disagree with Zayd ibn Thaabit on any point in the Qur’aan, then write it in the dialect of Quraysh, for the Qur’aan was revealed in their tongue." They did so, and when they had written many copies, 'Uthmaan returned the original manuscripts to Hafsah.
'Uthmaan sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur'aanic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt.
Ibn Shihaab said: Khaarijah ibn Zayd ibn Thaabit told me that he heard Zayd ibn Thaabit say: “When we made copies of the Mus-haf I missed a verse of al-Ahzaab that I used to hear the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) recite. So we searched for it and we found it with Khuzaymah ibn Thaabit al-Ansaari. (The verse was) ‘Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allaah’ [al-Ahzaab 33:23 – interpretation of the meaning]. So we put it in its place in its soorah in the Mus-haf.”
Thus an end was put to dispute and the Muslims were united. The Qur’aan has remained and will remain narrated from generation to generation and preserved in men's hearts until the Day of Resurrection. This is how Allaah has preserved His Book, in confirmation of the verse in which He says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Verily, We, it is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (i.e. the Qur’aan) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption)” [al-Hijr 15:9]
And Allaah knows best.
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Islam › Re: Who Wrote The Qur’aan And How Was It Put Together? by ContractKiller: 10:23am On Dec 20, 2019 |
That's funny since MuhaMAD himself was unable to memorize the Quran [img] https://images./3lunuCWoblaiG5lWuTpVvj.jpg[/img] Ladyzeus: Actually there are millions of Muslim around the world that memorizes and and can recount the Qu'ran without mincing a single alphabet. Most of these ppl are not Arab and only learn Arabic for such purpose. So how will such feat be impossible for an eloquent speaker of the Arabic language |
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Politics › How Northerners Traffic Their Own Children by ContractKiller(op): 5:55pm On Dec 16, 2019 |
By Ismail Adamu [img] https://images./1RWViY06NSe8ucRxZ6wTSR.jpg[/img] The man in a village at the outskirts of Tsafe in Zamfara State is just one in thousands, may be millions, of parents in Northern Nigeria, but he provides a perfect example. He produces so much more children than he can cater for. Once his male child is around age four to five, he buys a plastic bowl for him and takes him to the bus station in Tsafe and gives the driver N500 and says ‘a daura min shi a injin’ (let him sit at the bus engine – behind the driver’s seat) ‘and please take him to Malam … in Zaria or Kaduna or Katsina’. He never sends them to Gusau, because it is close by. At that bus station, he has bade farewell to the child and freed himself from the “burden” of feeding, clothing, providing shelter, educating and training that child – his own child whom he gave birth to! On arrival at the city or village, usually hundreds of kilometers away from his family, the almajiri (abandoned) child is received by a Malam who is expected to teach him to memorize the Qur’an by rote, without its translation, interpretation of its meaning, the prophetic traditions, Islamic history, morality, or value system. Interestingly, the child is taught nothing about how to worship or how to relate with other members of the society. Worse, the little child has to grow up without any form of parental or adult care or supervision. Nobody will cater for his feeding, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education or training. A malam can have up to 200 almajiris at a time, and he does not give one tiny damn about how they manage to feed, bath or ease themselves. In other words, these little children are expected to survive a parental exile. In the end they learn nothing, while they have already been deprived of western education. These are children who live at the mercy of the society, are groomed by the harshness of the weather, and obtain their values from the streets. They eventually grow into social misfits that harbour anger and grudge against the society. This is why they are willing recruits in any insurgency or organised crime that will bring down the society. Parents who sentence their children to almajiri practice do not deserve to have them in the first place. They are already creating tomorrow’s insurgency while we watch them as if it is none of our business. Once parental care is omitted in child upbringing, and the irresponsible culture is practiced on such a large scale – breeding over ten million almajiris at a time, then we have at hand a perfect recipe for disaster. I realized that the over ten million almajiris in northern Nigeria are equivalent to the population of seven African countries put together; like Gambia, Gabon, Namibia, Swaziland, Botswana, Cape Verde and Djibouti. What a monumental waste of human resource! The almajiri system of education has long been overtaken by civilization; but we live in denial of this fact. The system is just too good to let go, because it provides a convenient excuse for even the poor to produce children in double digits without having to worry about the financial burden of feeding or educating them. It is a system that allows you to relinquish your responsibilities to the society – and encourages its practitioners to use religion as a cover for their laziness and irresponsibility. Obviously, the Hausa/Fulani practice of almajiri education has outlived its purpose. Gone are the days when there were only a handful of Islamic scholars who were only found in major cities. Today, Islamic knowledge is everywhere, and Islamic scholars are found in good number in every village and town, and the whole Islamic world has dropped the almajiri system of education except in Hausa/Fulani societies in Niger Republic, parts of Chad, rural Senegal and Mali and then all parts of northern Nigeria. The system was practiced decently in the past, but irresponsibly at present. It is no longer part of Islamic education. It is now an irresponsible practice in Hausa culture. Gross child abuse, child destitution and child trafficking is happening on a massive scale right in our neighborhoods with zero effort by any legal or traditional authority to stop it. This is an indictment on all of us – our people, our Imams, our Emirs, our governors and all. We move around with a big scar on our common psyche, though not without consequences, both immediate and remote. Insurgencies have happened more than once in Borno, which has received the largest number of almajiris in northern Nigeria’s history. When Islam came first to present day Borno, and to a few Hausa city-states, the Kanem Empire received almajiris from Hausa land to acquire Islamic education. When the trend was sustained for over a century, the Kanem caliphate started dispatching Islamic scholars to Hausaland to spread Islam and teach the religion to the Hausa tribes. This (and trade) is what accounts for the large Kanuri population in present day Kano, Zaria, Jigawa, Katsina and other northern cities and towns. Despite sending scholars to Hausa kingdoms, tsangaya schools in Maiduguri, Bama, Potiskum, and other parts of the Kanem Empire still received almajiris in thousands. Today, the insurgency that is at war with Nigeria has fighters that were not shown parental love while growing up, thus have no love to reciprocate. They were deprived children who grew up without hope for the future or a purpose in life. So Boko Haram gave them money, guns, and a purpose to die for. They are victims of a system we condoned, so the north must learn to see them as its own shadow chasing the north. No single politician in the whole of northern Nigeria cares about this menace, this time bomb. Thanks to Goodluck Jonathan who was the only leader in recent time that attempted to sanitize almajiri practice and even partnered with the Islamic Development Bank to build 35 modern almajiri schools across northern Nigeria, all of which have now been abandoned by the current northern state governments. Though, modernizing almajiri practice is only a cosmetic solution. it is more therapeutic than curative. The only solution is to regulate the irresponsible mass production of children. This can be done through the promulgation of a strictly enforced legislation by the national and northern state assemblies to criminalise the almajiri practice – in the light of the danger it promises all of us if allowed to linger. This legislation should entail the deportation of all almajris back to their villages to live under the care of their parents. If parents realize they have to cater for their children, they would be forced to procreate responsibly. The second option is for northern Nigeria to sit back and watch the horror movie. http://newsbitsng.com/how-northern-nigeria-parents-traffic-in-their-own-children/Mynd44 OAM4J Lalasticlala Dominique Obinoscopy Seun |