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Friday Reflection: As the Saudi Regime Shed its Fraudulent Islamic Gown

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” - George Orwell

�Rapper Nicki Minaj to perform in Saudi Arabia this month - News Report

Nicki Minaj, a female rapper known for her vulgar lyrics and semi-nude dresses will be performing in Jeddah on July 18. The primitive regime made the announcement on July 3 as part of its drive to what it calls “easing restrictions on entertainment”.

One of the important ingredients of the evil agenda of Western imperialism and global Zionism is the portrayal of the Saudi Wahhabi regime as "the representative of Islam". The Saudi regime is in control of the two most holy sites of Islam, Makkah and Madina. All thanks to the British imperialism! Holy sites are very important for the billions of followers and that was why the genocidal Western imperialism made sure that all the holy sites of Islam and Christianity are under their control. In Palestine they planted a racist Zionist settler colonial entity using the fraudulent claim that "The Bible gave Palestine to Jews". How can a religious holy Book become a Regional Geography text book, we ask?

The savage and barbaric Saudi regime is a front of Western imperialism in the Islamic world. Whenever they need bloodthirsty murderous terrorists to slaughter the innocent, rape girls and women and destroy towns and cities, the savage Saudi regime supplied them. This was how Al-Qaeda and ISIS were created.

Murderous Wahhabi terrorism serve two purposes for Western imperialism:

+ Brutal slaughter of the innocent in the name of Islam to promote their evil agenda
+ Promote the hate of Islam and Muslims around the world. The Islamophobia industry is well oiled and growing.

Saudi Arabia is rich in crude oil resources and is the biggest exporter of oil in the world. Saudi Arabia is a rich milk factory of US imperialism. Every year the US make billions of dollars from looting the Saudi treasury. Recently I shared a video on my Twitter Handle of how the US President #Trump described the ease with which the US gets money from #Saudi Arabia:

He said:

"Honestly, it’s easier than collecting $113.57 from a tenant in a bad location in #NewYork City. And it’s safer too"

The Saudi regime wearing that fraudulent gown as representative of Islam has deceived millions of gullible Muslims around the world. Some foolishly equate any criticism of the savage Saudi regime as criticism of the Islamic faith. They stupidly considered the worship of the Lord of the Ka'aba as the same with the worship of Saudi barbarism and primitivity. Western imperialism exploit this gullibility and promote the savage Saudi regime as the voice of Islam and Muslims.

The vulgar rapper, Nicki Minaj, will be twerking in Saudi Arabia this month. The bloodthirsty Nigerian Wahhabi clerics should be invited to make the high table. Northern Nigeria was peaceful with religious harmony until Wahhabism arrived in mid 70s and spread hate and intolerance.

The fact that the savage Saudi regime is shedding that fraudulent gown of Islam signify the beginning of the end of a journey. The journey of massive hate mongering, Takfirism (excommunication), murderous terrorism and intolerance in the Islamic world. The savage Saudi regime is the mother of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, BokoHaram and all the murderous Wahhabi terrorist groups. All of them were inspired by the Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism. They slaughter an infant and scream "Allahu Akbar!". They rape an innocent girl and scream "Allahu Akbar!" They burn a Christian family in Northern Nigeria and scream "Allahu Akbar!".

On a Final note, The end of this absolute evil will be a welcome development to the largest section of humanity but the genocidal US regime that is leading Western imperialism will lose a close ally and friend.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Friday Reflection: When the US regime Helped Saddam Gassed Iran

<<Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand.>> - News Report

During the bloody 8 years Iran-Iraq war the genocidal US regime helped the late Iraqi dictator Saddam to gas Iran. More than 10,000 Iranian soldiers and civilians were killed by the Chemical weapons attacks and many more thousands injured. Seeing the Saddam army was on the verge of defeat, the US regime supplied Saddam with all the components of making Chemical weapons. Iran advanced and occupied a section of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Kurds welcomed the Iranian army. Out of anger Saddam bombed the Iraqi city of Halabja and killed more than 5,000 children, women and men. No sanctions from the West and no condemnation.

After the Chemical weapons attacks, top Iranian military commanders visited Imam Khomeini (ra) to seek his permission to manufacture Chemical weapons to avenge the Saddam attacks. Imam Khomeini told them that the production and use of Chemical weapons is Haram (prohibited). That they should manufacture Gas Mask and other protective gears that will insulate them from the US-supplied Chemical weapons.

Despite the fact that Iran has the capability to manufacture chemical weapons but till date Iran does not posses chemical weapons. This is true humanity! The US regime possessed tens of thousands of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. This genocidal regime is the only one to have used nuclear weapons on defenseless civilians. They slaughtered more than 300,000 mostly women and women on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war. The US regime extensively used chemical and biological weapons in Vietnam. They murdered millions.

A genocidal regime that used nuclear weapons to mass murder civilians does not have any right to determine who should have nuclear weapons and who should not have. The US regime came close twice to use nuclear weapons in the past. And having a genocidal barbarian like Trump as leader this genocidal regime might use nuclear weapons again one-day.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Answer to Trump that Iran is not "nice" & "compassion":

After the savage Saudi regime with order from the genocidal US regime sponsored the brutal and inhuman slaughter of 1000+ innocent children, women and men in Zaria in December 2015, there were two options:

+ War
+ Peace

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, opted for peace and ordered "Go to court and seek redress". The Iranian leadership supported the wishes of Sheikh Zakzaky on this. We went to court and won but the gang of wicked mass murderers and bloodthirsty Wahhabi barbarians in Nigeria refused to obey the court judgement.

Today the Resistance Axis is strong. US President Trump and his genocidal gang are aware of this. One bullet to Iran and all US military bases in the Middle East will burn, all of them!

If the option of war was chosen in Nigeria, to destroy the cowardly Nigerian army to avenge the #ZariaGenocide would have been the most easiest of things. A genocidal army that buried Shia children alive in Mando mass grave according to the comprehensive report of the London-based Amnesty International is notorious in running away from the rag tag #BokoHaram barbarians and leaving their weapons behind.

But Sheikh Zakzaky opted for peace. The peaceful posture of Sheikh Zakzaky should not be taken as a sign of weakness by the wicked mass murderer tyrant Buhari, Elrufai and gang. The Resistance Axis is strong.

Check Yemen!!!

The savage Saudi regime is spending billions of dollars yearly for weapons and importing mercenaries and with support from the US and UK regimes yet the Yemeni Resistance is winning. There are more than 30,000 Sudanese mercenary army fighting for the savage Saudi regime in #Yemen.

The genocidal US regime created #ISIS terrorism. Without Iran and the Resistance Axis there will be no Christians in the Middle East today. Millions of Christians in the Middle East are free today all thanks to Iran and the Resistance Axis. If you are from Nigeria whenever you see "Muslims" burning Christian families alive in the North then they are bloodthirsty Wahhabi savages. Real Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims are not barbaric. When the bloodthirsty Wahhabi barbarian Buhari incited post-election violence in 2011, hundreds of Christians sought refuge at the residence of Sheikh Zakzaky. He accommodated them, fed them and took good care of them. This is true Islam. The same residence of Sheikh Zakzaky that was bombed by the cowardly Nigerian army with Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) during Zaria genocide! The home of refuge was bombed by the Buhari terrorist army with women and children inside according to the comprehensive report of the London-based Amnesty International. Please read again this comprehensive report!

The genocidal US regime that created Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist groups is the one that is not "nice" and "compassion". Those that created, fund and sustain ISIS terrorism are worst than the ISIS barbarians that they created.

Dear Friends, it was the genocidal US regime that slaughtered more than 4 million civilians in Vietnam. Are they "nice" and "compassion"? Using a fake and fraudulent Intel that was supplied by the genocidal Zionist regime, they slaughtered more than one million Iraqis and looted the country. The first thing they went for when they arrived Baghdad was Iraqi gold.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Reform the Almajiri System of Education & Not Ban it:

The Almajiri system of Education has a glorious past that majority of Nigerians are ignorant of. It is the system of education in the West African sub-region well before colonialism. It was the educational system that produced world acclaimed scholars such as Sheikh Abdullah bin Fodio and his famous brother, Sheikh Othman bin Fodio.

In the past, the community take the responsibility of feeding and housing the Islamic scholar with his students. Farmlands were also given to the scholar to farm the foodstuffs he will need and his students. In those days students do not go and beg for food like what we are seeing presently. Feeding and housing the scholar and his students was the duty and responsibility of the community. The institution was well respected then.

Then things changed with the advent of colonialism. Communities absconded from their responsibility and the Almajiris (students) are forced to go from house-to-house begging for the food to eat for themselves and their scholar. They eat the lesser food and take the best ones to their scholar. I once organized an Iftar feast (breaking of Ramadan Fast) for some Almajiris. When they saw that the feast included Chicken pepper soup they boldly told me that they will take that to their scholar. I asked "why?" They said he is their teacher. I insisted but they also insisted. Then I negotiated a compromise. I gave them some money to their scholar to buy chicken and they ate the Iftar feast.

In the past promising children are sent to the Almajiri schools to come out as dignified scholars of Islam unlike now where stubborn children are send.

My suggestion is that the Almajiri system of Education should be reformed to meet current standards. Science and technology subjects should also be introduce. The Shia education seminary is a good example of how to run and fund Islamic education. Experts should be dispatch to these seminary schools in Qum, Najaf, Mashhad etc to learn how they are run.

Funding:

Khums tax is not prominent among Sunni Muslims. So State governments and rich philanthropist should partake in funding the Almajiri system of education. Street begging by these students should be ban. The children are exploited as child labours and abused. They are also recruited by criminal gangs. The Federal government has an important role to play. Former President Goodluck Jonathan built some Almajiri schools in Northern Nigeria and he is a Christian. The Northern elites failed to follow up on this and the schools collapsed.

Wahhabism failed to infiltrate the Almajiri system of education and this must be maintained so as not to turn them into incubators of murderous Wahhabi terrorism. Saudi funding should not be accepted as the Saudi Wahhabi regime only spread Wahhabism, the evil ideology that inspired all the murderous terrorists that are killing the innocent on the name of Islam. Pakistan presently have this problem.

Saudi funded schools are incubators of murderous Wahhabi terrorism in Pakistan. Some of their products were exported to Syria and Iraq as #ISIS. Nigeria should learn from this. Saudi money is poison.

Inputs from prominent Islamic scholars such as Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi and Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky are needed on how to reform the Almajiri system of education.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.cim

The Decline of Northern Nigeria Under Buhari:

“Most Northern politicians utilize the poverty they created to induce voters into ‘electing’ them to leadership positions. They cherish the meekness, and servility that characterize the northern setting,” writes Ibrahim Zangina

President Buhari will go down in history as a monumental fraudster who deceived millions of masses of Northern Nigeria with the fraudulent promise of good governance but plunged millions of them into extreme poverty and hunger.

The prevalence of extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria is not God sent as the shameless paid Islamic clerics will want us to believe. It was created by the brazen looting of the treasury and scantily patronizing religion to deceive the gullible. Check Yarima Bakura and his fraudulent Sharia in Zamfara state. Today Zamfara state is not only the poorest state in Nigeria but the banditry capital of Nigeria.

To deceive the gullible President Buhari is busy appointing Northerners to all available positions and the brainless idiots will cheer! These idiots are ignorant of the fact that his appointments does not transform to good governance, progress and development. Appoint all the Buratais and Kyaris, Northern Nigeria still remain the extreme poverty of the world and infested with BokoHaram terrorism and armed banditry.

Northern Nigeria is on the decline and this is the truth, and the whole truth. #WakeUp

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The U.S. regime Cyber and Economic Terrorism against Iran:

The US MQ-4C Spy drone was supposed to be a Stealth drone, a drone the arrogant Americans think the Iranians will not see. All the latest advanced US technology was included in this drone. But the Iranians not only saw it but casually destroyed it with an Iranian-made Air Defense System. The Iranians saw it from the moment it took off from a UAE airbase and monitored all its flights. The video is available.

After downing the US drone, the genocidal US regime launched massive Cyber attacks on Iran. This is Cyber terrorism by the genocidal regime that created #AlQaeda and #ISIS.

Few countries will now want to purchase this drone after the Iranian humiliation. A single one cost about 180 million dollars. This price tag will crash. Can you now see why the notorious gambler Trump is so unhappy?

Then Trump threatened more sanctions on Iran. This is economic terrorism by the genocidal US regime. Is the genocidal barbarian Trump ignorant of the fact that #Iran fought a bloody 8 years war under debilitating sanctions from the whole world & emerged stronger. There is no sanctions that Iran has not seen.

Iran was under sanctions from the West, Russia, China, India, Japan, etc. Iran was under Western and UN debilitating sanctions and Iran not only survived but emerged stronger. Why will Iran not survive Trump sanctions? We ask

"Trump is an idiot in the White House." - Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

This famous saying of the Hezbollah leader is important. Only an idiot will think that the Iran that fought a bloody 8 years war under debilitating sanctions from the whole world and survived will not survive Trump sanctions.

The recent biggest "sin" of Iran is that it led and spearheaded the defeat of the US-created ISIS terrorism in the Middle East. ISIS is a proxy army of Western imperialism and global Zionism to further their imperialist agenda. The US commander in Iraq stated that ISIS terrorism will last for more than ten years. An Iranian military commander replied him that ISIS terrorism will not last more than Three years. When ISIS invaded and ransacked Iraqi Christian towns, the Christian community in Iraq asked for arms support from the US. The US regime did not give them. They then asked Iran. A month latter two plane load of weapons landed in Baghdad airport for them. Iran also sent military officials to train them on how to use the weapons to defend themselves.

The Iran that won in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon against US imperialism, why will Iran change? Change for what and to where? Change to accept US imperialism and genocidal barbarism? Change to accept the savage Saudi regime as the representative of Islam? Change to accept the unjust and genocidal occupation of Palestine? Change to accept the genocide in Yemen?

Sanctions will never make Iran change to accept the genocidal US imperialism and global looting of resources. Sanctions will never make Iran to allow the filthy hands to US imperialism on it resources again. In the past the US and UK regimes looted Iranian resources. They successfully executed a coup in Iran in 1953. These will never happen again. Iranian wealth is for Iranians. They can continue to milk Saudi Arabia and other subservient Arab states for now and that will not continue forever. That will also end one day. No evil last forever.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Former Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi is Dead

The trending news today is the sudden death of the former Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi. He died in court of the fraudulent trial by the bloodthirsty tyrant Sisi. Sisi murdered thousands of civilians just to hold on to power.

I have mixed feelings about Morsi. My Syrian Friends will not be happy with me if I praise him due to his support for the murderous Regime change agenda of Western imperialism and Global Zionism in Syria. And some Shia Muslims will frown at that because the weak Morsi allowed bloodthirsty Wahhabis to mob beat a prominent Shia cleric to death.

Morsi's presidency was a product of a popular uprising against the Western-backed Mubarak regime. People of conscience from around the world supported this uprising and hoped that Egypt will be free of domination of genocidal European barbarians. But sadly that did not happen. The clever imperialists hijacked the Egyptian Revolution, overthrew Morsi, murdered thousands and installed tyrant Sisi. The Egyptian Revolution lacked Leadership and this made it easy for the hijack. Morsi failed to be independent of Western imperialism. He listened to them and he gullibly thought they were on his side. He thought their noise on democracy is real. He failed to learn from history. How many democratically elected governments did these greedy imperialists overthrew? Many to say the least.

Give it to the Iranians. They executed a successful Revolution in 1979 and they protected the Revolution from hijack by Western imperialism and global Zionism. To stage a Revolution is not enough. Revolution must be protected and defended. Egyptians staged a Revolution and went back home and slept. When they woke up the Revolution is gone! Hijacked by greedy imperialists!

Democracy is a tool for them to further their evil imperialism agenda of domination and looting of resources. Their support of democracy is not on principle. No US President or any British Prime Minister has ever called for democracy in Saudi Arabia. None! When they freed Kuwait from Saddam invasion and occupation they did not establish democracy. They imposed the deposed King.

General Sisi is worst than Mubarak. Sisi is a lap dog of Western imperialism and Global Zionism. A tool of the savage Saudi regime. The biggest Arab nation in terms of population is not free. It is an imperialist colony. The opposition is divided and forcefully subdued. The banner of freedom and independence is down in Egypt. The dungeons of tyrant Sisi is full of Activists.

The mistakes made by the late Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood should serve as a lesson to those who cherish freedom & independence in the Arab world. To side with Western imperialism on any issue in the Arab world is to side with the genocidal occupation of Palestine. One of the blunders Morsi made was that he sided with them in Syria. Ignorant of the fact that the Regime change agenda in Syria & the genocidal occupation of Palestine are one and the same.

General Sisi fabricated lots of charges just to keep Morsi in prison. Now Morsi is dead, this wicked mass murderer tyrant can live forever! One of the charges was association with HAMAS! HAMAS is a Resistance organization that freed Gaza from genocidal Zionist occupation.

The Zionist regime is not the only one blocking Gaza. Egypt is also blocking Gaza. Leaders like Sisi are disgrace to Arabs and Muslims. They serve filthy foreigners against the rights of their people.

President Morsi is dead. They used him and dumped him in prison. God eternally rest his soul, forgive his sins and mistakes!

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Buhari & His Fraudulent Promises

Nigerians and history will remember Buhari most as a wicked mass murderer and notorious mass grave digger. #ZariaGenocide

But Nigerians will also remember him as a dispenser of fake and fraudulent promises to deceive Nigerians. Before the 2015 general elections Buhari made mountains of promises and did not fulfil a single one. Some people thought he will repent from that but the unrepentant clueless tyrant is at it again.

Recently Buhari blurted that in the next 10 years they will lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. Dear Friends, in the last 4 years Buhari and gang did not lift 100 people out of poverty. Intact they plunged millions of Nigerians into extreme poverty. Today Nigeria is the extreme poverty capital of the whole world. All thanks to clueless Buhari!

If we may ask what are the signs that Buhari will lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty? Where are the indicators and with what indices can we project this? Banditry and terrorism has taken over more than half of Nigeria and kidnappings is in control of the other half. How can Nigerians be lifted out of extreme poverty with this massive insecurity?

Not contended with the above fraudulent promise, Buhari said Nigeria will be like China soon! Which China if I may ask? Is it the China tea cup or the China that has Hong Kong? How can the low capacity Buhari turn Nigeria to become like China? Is it by magic or by African witchcraft?

Or is it with prayers as his gullible supporters want us to believe? They always blame God on the monumental failures of Buhari. Massive insecurity they blame God! They fraudulently claimed insecurity is a "trial" from God! For Extreme poverty they blame God and hungry Nigerians. To them "sins" is the cause of extreme poverty. Buhari's wife recently wore a £4, 200 gown to a function, why did they not blame God for this extravaganza in the midst of sea of abject poverty? Where did she get the money to buy such expensive designer cloth from Paris, France? Definitely stolen from the public treasury but they want hungry Nigerians to continue to pray. Yes, continue to pray for your hunger to end while they continue to loot the treasury.

China did not lift millions of its citizens from extreme poverty with prayers. They did it with proper planning and clinical execution of projects. And treasury looters are not celebrated in China. They take then to firing range and shoot them to death. You don't loot the treasury and then become an Emir or Chief or Oba in your village in China. You loot, you die. China is not building electric trains with prayers.

Prayers and actions goes hand in hand. You act positively and then pray to God for success. This is the Modus Operandi of all the chosen ones of God. They are close to God than us but they act.

Dear Friends, We await the #Next fraudulent promise of the clueless Buhari.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Friday Reflection: Trump & the Barbarian Code

"We believe that our problems will not be solved by negotiating with the U.S., and no free nation would ever accept negotiations under pressure." ~ Ayatollah Khamenei

The US President Trump is a barbarian. From his genocidal utterances about North Korea and Iran, Trump is a genocidal savage like those murderous barbarian hordes that we read in history. A barbarian force people to negotiate under pressure.

A Nuclear deal was signed and stamped by six world powers and Iran. The UN sealed the deal. The Nuclear agency has consistently stated that Iran is fulfilling all it obligations under the deal. But the barbarian Trump is not satisfied with this. The notorious greedy gambler want more.

Trump torn the Nuclear deal, renegades from the agreement that the US government signed and started imposing sanctions on Iran. When Trump sees that his economic terrorism is not having the desired result of halting all Iranian Oil exports, he spew a genocidal threats to destroy Iran. This is Trump, the true barbarian!

Iranians and the wise Iranian leadership were unfazed by the genocidal Tweets of Trump. A nation with more than 8,000 years consistent history has see more bloodthirsty barbarians than Trump. The barbarian Trump then switch gear and reversed. He sent phone numbers to the Swiss government foolishly expecting Iranian leaders to call him.

Nobody called. He waited and waited by the phone but nobody called the barbarian from Iran. Then he went to Japan and gave a letter to the Japanese PM for the Supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei.

Mr. Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, met with Ayatollah Khamenei-- the Leader of the Islamic Revolution-- on June 13, 2019, but failed to deliver the letter of the barbarian Trump. Ayatollah Khamenei rightly said no free nation will negotiate under pressure. Negotiations under pressure is the hallmark of genocidal barbarians and not the way of those who desire freedom and chose to live free.

From his Tweet after his letter was rejected by Iran, the arrogance of Trump appeared subdued. He is facing a civilization that was not built on genocide of indigenous population and slavery. He is facing men and women who relied on God, and only God they kneel to. Trump saw the Husseini code, the code of real freedom and independence.

God bless Ayatollah Khamenei! His reply to that genocidal barbarian Trump gladden the hearts of all those who chose to live free from the occupation, domination and bondage of greedy imperialism that desire to enslave humanity.

On a Final note, the barbarian Trump should continue imposing sanctions and Iran will continue to progress on all front. The world is bigger than Trump. Which sanctions has Iran not seen? They fought a bloody 8 years war under debilitating sanctions and emerged stronger.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Friday Reflection: The Tyranny of Banning AIT/Ray Power Communication

God condemned all forms and guise of tyranny and oppression in the Quran. Tyrants and wicked oppressors are all enemies of God and humanity.

To gag the Press the genocidal Buhari regime suspended the license of AIT/Ray Power communication, an electronic media outfit. The biggest of it kind in Nigeria. This is the road to authoritarian dictatorship by the wicked mass murderer tyrant Buhari.

After the Saudi-sponsored brutal and inhuman #ZariaGenocide, the genocidal Buhari regime used AIT to spread campaign of calumny against Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Shia Islam and Iran. I wrote a strong worded protest letter to the AIT management. The AIT chairman, Dr Dokpesi, personally contacted me via my email address. We discussed extensively and after he investigated and saw the malicious propaganda he promised me that will never happen. And it never happened again since then. He kept his promise despite the huge monetary temptation from the gang of wicked mass murderers who are funded by the savage Saudi regime.

When tyrant Buhari and his murderous gang brutally slaughtered 1000+ innocent children, women and men in Zaria in December 2015, all Nigerians should have condemned this brutal and inhuman genocide and insist on justice for the victims. But this did not happen. Some even celebrated the genocide. Some helped to justify the genocide. Some were indifferent since the victims do not belong to their religion or tribe. They are ignorant of the fact that tyranny has no boundary or limitations. A bloodthirsty tyrant like Buhari have no conscience. This tyrant is thirsty for the blood of the innocent. He is a shameless coward and a bloodthirsty barbarian. If you are silent to his tyranny then one day it will reach you.

We strongly condemned the unjust and tyrannical action of the NBC for suspending the licence of AIT/Ray Power communication. The corrupt clown that head the NBC is a Buhari crony. A very corrupt Wahhabi. He embezzled 2.5 billion Naira and he use part of it to contest election in Kwara state and lost. Nigerians should stand behind the freedom of the press banner. Buhari is absolute evil.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@Yahoo.com

Update on Sudan:

�“It is obvious that behind this repression, there is the hand of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates”

- Ahmed Abdelaziz, Algerian-Sudanese analyst

�AU suspends Sudan from all AU activities until a civilian govt is formed - Reuters

�� Amnesty says security forces committing 'murderous rampage'

In recent days more than one hundred peaceful protesters had been slaughtered by security forces and allied militias in #Sudan. Activists fished out more than 40 dead bodies from the River Nile.

This murderous killing spree is part of the counter Revolution by the military junta to scuttle the aspiration of Sudanese people. There is direct involvement of the Saudi and UAE regimes of this violent crack down. But they are just a mask. The real actors are the US and UK regimes on behalf of Western imperialism and Global Zionism.

One of the key issues is the involvement of the Sudanese army in the ongoing genocide in #Yemen. The Saudi coalition is losing the war with the recent successes of the Yemeni Resistance. Pulling out the Sudanese army from Yemen will collapse the Western-backed coalition.

Dear Friends, it is important that we stand with the oppressed people of Sudan against their wicked and evil oppressors. Bloodthirsty leaders who slaughter innocent civilians are worst than the most wildest beast. They slaughtered the innocent and dumped the dead bodies in the Nile River. Murderous barbarians!

The International Criminal Court, ICC, should keep record of the brutal slaughter of innocent protesters in Sudan. Former President AlBashir definitely have companions to ICC jail.

#ElbinawiTweets

Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand. https:///vZdTQ7g6ng

It Is #Eid!

A great Sufi poet once said: "It will be EID again, the day I am reunited with my beloved..."

And who is my beloved?

The latest Martyr of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Saeed, is my beloved. He was brutally murdered by that bloodthirsty Wahhabi Vampire cum body bags terrorist Elrufai during last Friday Quds Day Rally in Kaduna. #FreeZakZaky

Those Shoe-less warriors of Yemen are my beloved. They humiliates the murderous invaders, humble the arrogant imperialists and protect #Yemen. #SaveYemen

All displaced Palestinian refugees are my beloved. Forced out of their ancestral homes by the most evil and savage barbarians to walk this earth. #FreePalestine

Those ultimate warriors of the Resistance Axis who defeated and destroyed the US-created #ISIS terrorism are my beloved. They sent these bloodthirsty Wahhabi barbarians to Hell so that the world can have peace and security. #No2ISIS #No2Saudi

The murdered 30+ Sudanese protesters recently murdered by the military Junta are my beloved. They came out to seek freedom and independence for Sudan, they were brutally murdered by filthy agents of imperialism.

Dear Friends, the day I am reunited with these beloved will always be a day of Eid.

Eid Mubarak to All Friends, brothers and sisters, God accept our worship! And many thanks for all the Eid messages.

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On Burning the American and Israeli Flags During #QudsDay Protest by the #IMN

Nigerian Newspapers and News websites reported the massive Quds Day protest by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria last Friday. The headlines of some of them was "Shiites burn American and Israeli flags in pro-Palestinian protest". Some Nigerians especially Christians raised issues against this and I will like to make clarifications. I was told Femi Fani Kayode, Former Minister of Aviation, was one of those. It is important to note that Femi Fani Kayode is an Israeli asset in Nigeria. He blocked me on Twitter. This piece is not meant for him and his likes. Even if the Israeli regime slaughtered one thousand Palestinian children in a day Femi Fani Kayode will cheer and celebrate. People like him believed that God sanctioned the ongoing genocide in Palestine in the Bible. A massive deviation! How can God sanctioned the genocidal murders of bloodthirsty Zionist barbarians who hate Jesus (as)?.

Protest is a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something. A whole nation was uprooted from their homes, tens of thousands killed, their farmlands stolen and their dignity trampled. That nation is Palestine.

The International Quds Day was earmarked by Imam Khomeini to show support for this oppressed nation. This is why the Islamic Movement in Nigeria joined the rest of humanity and march on this day. To protest the illegal and unjust occupation of Palestine and the genocidal subjugation of Palestinian Muslims and Christians by racist Zionists.

The Apartheid in occupied Palestine is worst than that of South Africa says all South African officials that visited occupied Palestine. And to quote the great Madiba of Africa, Nelson Mandela: "Our freedom is not complete without the freedom of Palestine".

Dear Friends, if I may ask who are the biggest obstacle to the freedom of Palestine? The answer is the Israeli entity and the US regime. The US regime provides yearly more than 4 billion dollars in military aid to the Israeli regime. The US regime veto all UN resolutions that are meant to condemn the genocidal actions of the racist Zionist settler colonial entity. The US regime sanctioned nations like Iran that are at the forefront of the #FreePalestine struggle. The Israeli regime cannot survive without the massive support of the arrogant US regime. Though US President Trump recently confessed that the Israeli regime would not have survived without the support of the Saudi regime (This is a topic for another article in future InshaAllah).

Burning of flags or the symbols that caused protest is a usual occurrences in protest marches around the world. To burn the American and Israeli flags in pro-Palestine protest is to strongly condemn the murder of innocent Palestinian children. Burning of these flags symbolized the total rejection of the occupation by these entities.

Imagine if you are uprooted from your ancestral land and forced to become a refugee in another land? What will be your reaction and how will you want the larger humanity to react to your plight?

Above is the main reason why the Islamic Movement in Nigeria burn American and Israeli flags in Quds Day protest marches.

Another reason. We know that the brutal and inhuman Zaria genocide was planned in Tel Aviv, financed by the savage Saudi regime and supervised by the genocidal US regime. 1000+ innocent children, women and men were brutally slaughtered by the Nigerian army in less than 72 hours. The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky is the biggest supporter of Palestine on the African continent. They thought destroying IMN and killing the leading lights of the Movement will stop the yearly massive Quds Day protests and rallies in Nigeria and by extension Africa. It was revealed recently that the Israeli regime supported the re-election bid of President Buhari. A form of reward for his genocidal onslaught on the peaceful Islamic Movement in Nigeria. Zionists are bloodthirsty just like #ISIS and BokoHaram terrorists.

On a Final note, the Bible will never condone, sanction or celebrate genocide. Not in Palestine, not in everywhere! Quote me everywhere on this!

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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Grave_Yard - Like Inauguration of the Fading Tyrant Buhari

Nigerian President Buhari was sworn in today for another 4 year term. The most noticeable thing is the total absence of celebration all over Nigeria. Nobody is celebrating, not even in Buhari's hometown of Daura. Gloomy and the feeling of hopelessness reign all over Nigeria.

At the inauguration venue President Buhari conscious that Nigerians are tired of his fraudulent lies, fake promises and sheer deception did not make any inauguration speech.

To laugh at the massive extreme poverty he plunged millions of Nigerians, President Buhari came in a 61 million imported Mercedes Benz. A self-centered tyrant. For the last 4 years, President Buhari does not record a single achievement. No single school built, no single hospital, Nothing! What Nigerians sees from the bloodthirsty tyrant is armed banditry, massive unemployment, prevalence of extreme poverty, massive corruption, senseless killings and massacres and divisions.

No wonder #StolenMandate is trending on the Nigerian Twitter street. The fading tyrant massively rigged the election to hold on to power. The power he only uses to slaughter the innocent and dump their dead bodies in mass graves at night.

Give tyrant Buhari one thousand years and nothing will get better in Nigeria. Monumental failure is the capacity of this wicked mass murderer. Clueless Buhari and gang will ask Nigerians to pray to God for the solutions of their problems because they do not have the solutions. They use God as a cover to their monumental failures and at the same time blame God for their rascality and failures. They use religion as a tool to impoverish Nigerians while at the same time looting the Nigerian treasury. They swear with the holy Quran and Bible but nobody trampled on the spirit of these holy Books like them.

Fellow Nigerians,

The #NextLevel of tyrant Buhari is more hunger, banditry, kidnappings, unemployment and pathological lies. Buhari has nothing to offer. Go to tyrant Buhari if you want to dig mass graves for innocent civilians. For his monumental failures Buhari will blame everybody including God but never himself. The leadership rascality of tyrant Buhari is legendary. Only Nigerians can rescue Nigeria from this hopelessness. Nobody will come and rescue Nigeria for you. Nigeria belong to all of us.

To fully understand the low standard to President Buhari please watch his recent edited interview by the National Television, NTA. That interview was edited more than 17 times and that monumental rubbish was the output. Just imagine if it was not edited! How can such a directionless character bring progress and development to Nigeria? How

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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Oppression, Oppressor & the Oppressed

"Oppose the oppressor and support the oppressed" - Imam Ali (as)

On the sad occasion of the Martyrdom Anniversary of one of the greatest men in human history, we reflect on one of his important sayings.

No companion of Prophet Muhammad (sa) was celebrated by the great thinkers and philosophers - and majority of them non-Muslims - like Imam Ali (as). Imam Ali (as) was an embodiment of all excellent human virtues.

He was a loyal Friend of the Messenger of God (sa), a close companion, a passionate follower, the strongest supporter and a blood brother. The level of his oceanic knowledge was only exceeded by that of the Messenger of God. In eloquence, he only has followers. And for swordsmanship, the greatest warriors of his time fell from his famous sword.

If you want the coded and purified knowledge of the Message of Prophet Muhammad (sa) then ask Imam Ali (as). The fact that the Prophet appointed him as the "Gate of Knowledge" of which he is the "City of Knowledge" was a pointer to this historic fact.

Whenever and where ever there is oppression, only 2 choice exist. It is either you oppose the oppressor or you support the oppressor. There is no middle course. It is impossible to support both the oppressor and the oppressed. To prevent oppression, one is even helping the oppressor because oppression is gross injustice that is condemned in all human societies.

Imam Ali (as) gave a clear cut judgement to this by saying "Oppose the oppressor and support the oppressed". Silence to oppression is also part of support for the oppressor. Approval of oppression is an active member of the oppressor. Whenever you see a supposedly human rights activist blaming the oppressed them that activist is compromised. There is no justification to oppression because wicked oppression is absolute evil.

Tribe, religion, sect and race are not important in supporting the oppressed. Support all oppressed no matter their tribe, religion, sect or race. The oppressed might not like you due to brainwashing but that is also not important. Give your support to all oppressed. This is the righteous path of all Prophets and Messengers of God throughout history. Jesus (as) stood with the oppressed against wicked and evil oppressors. Prophet Muhammad (sa) also did the same. How about you?

We must also reject selective humanity. The West is notorious in promoting and advancing selective humanity. To them there are First Class human, Second Class human and Third Class human. To them first class human are found only in the West. Second class human are found in Eastern Europe while third class human are found in Asia, Africa, Latin America and South America. If a terrorist attack occurs in the West, you see Hash Tag everywhere but if it occurs in Africa, it does not even make the Headlines.

And they brainwash idiots that they are carrying the flag of freedom, democracy and human rights. They will go to Vietnam and murder 4 million Vietnamese civilians and they will still parrot "Human Rights"! Their soldiers will rape Iraqi boys in front of their parents as a form of torture yet they will scream "Human Rights"!

On a Final note, All human lives are sacred and we must respect them. Nobody has the right to kill the innocent.

On this sad occasion of the Martyrdom Anniversary of Imam Ali, heartfelt condolences to the Imam of our Time (as)!

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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Buhari & Netanyahu, Birds of a Feather

The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Shimon Ben-Shosan, said on Thursday that his Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President, Mr Reuvin Rivlin, could visit Nigeria soon, 61 years after an Israeli PM came to Nigeria in 1958.

Ben-Shosan also said Israel would want President Muhammed Buhari to pay a visit to the country, saying that such visits from the topmost political leaders on both sides would be “historic.”

He spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when he presented his Letters of Credence to the Nigerian President. Buhari had already invited Netanyahu to attend Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebrations coming up on June 12.

Dear Friends, the brutal and inhuman #ZariaGenocide was planned in Tel Aviv, financed by the Saudi regime and supervised by the genocidal US regime under Obama. The goal was to destroy the Peaceful Islamic Movement in Nigeria and kill Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. 1000+ innocent children, women and men were brutally slaughtered in less than 72 hours in Zaria and their dead bodies wickedly dumped in mass graves at night.

What is the "sin" of the #IMN and Sheikh Zakzaky?

The biggest supporter of the Palestinian cause in Africa is Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. Every year on International Quds Day, millions of followers of Sheikh Zakzaky march for the freedom of Palestine. And the strongest opponent of murderous Wahhabi terrorism on the African continent is Sheikh Zakzaky.

Sheikh Zakzaky unmasked the brutal slaughter of the innocent using the fraudulent name of Islam as an evil imperialist agenda to loot resources, demonize Islam and destroy the unity of Muslims. Bloodthirsty Wahhabi terrorists will rape a girl or boy and scream "Allahu Akbar ". All the heinous crimes and atrocities of murderous Wahhabi terrorism are blamed on Islam and Muslims by the growing Islamophobic industry in the West despite the fact that more than 90% victims are innocent Muslims.

Some years back the Resource Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria organized a public lecture to mark the International Quds Day in Arewa House, Kaduna. The program was well attended and Sheikh Zakzaky gave a captivating lecture on occupied Palestine. After the lecture the then Israeli ambassador to Nigeria, Moshe Ram, publicly threatened Sheikh Zakzaky. The world saw the execution of this threat during the 2014 massacre of pro-Palestine protesters by the Nigerian army in Zaria and the brutal and inhuman Saudi-sponsored Zaria genocide. A total of six (6) children of Sheikh Zakzaky were brutally murdered in less than 2 years.

We are not surprised at the cordial relations between the genocidal Buhari regime and the corrupt paid Saudi agents in Nigeria on the one hand, and the genocidal racist settler colonial Zionist regime on the other. The whole world knows of the cordial relations of the Saudi and Israeli Zionist regimes. They are both creations of the British Empire to serve Western imperialism in the Middle East.

The picture I desperately want to see and share with my Friends is the embrace of President Buhari and that notorious Child-killer Netanyahu who slaughtered more than 700 innocent children in Gaza in 2014. These two are birds from the same feather. Wicked mass murderers and bloodthirsty barbarians who love the taste of blood. If you see them happy then they had slaughtered innocent civilians.

The fight for the freedom of Palestine is not about religion, tribe or race. It is a human obligation. Who sleep on the same bed with the murderers of Palestinian children? Answer: Arab despots. No one betray the Palestinian cause than those who claim Sunni Islam. They say king Salman and Buhari are Sunni Muslims!??

On a Final note, the Zaria genocide failed to destroy the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and by the special Grace of God, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky is still alive despite multiple injuries. And before the Zaria genocide, the international Al Quds Day protest march were held in only 30 cities and towns in Nigeria but last year more that 50 towns and cities hosted the Quds Day protest. This is the largest of such protest outside Iran.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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Friday Reflection: Last 10 Days of Ramadan

The best days of the fasting month of Ramadan are the last 10 days of the month. In these days there is a most special day, Laylatul Qadr (the Night of power), the night that the Holy Quran was revealed.

The Quran categorically stated that the Night of power is better than one thousand months of constant worship. If we divide 1000 by 12 (1000/12) that will be 83 years! Angels of mercy descend on this Blessed Night and embrace all those who seek closeness to God.

Authentic Traditions of the Prophet (sa) pointed to the odd days of the last 10 days of Ramadan as the days that this special Night can be found.

Dear Friend, instead of cropping in uncertainty of this day, why not enliven the whole last 10 days of Ramadan to be absolutely sure. This is just once every year. Just once! Bombard the last 10 Nights of Ramadan with prayers, recitation of the glorious Quran, Dhikr, Dua and other good deeds. As a seeker on the path of righteousness, go for perfection. This is why E'tikaf is recommended.

In the last 10 days of Ramadan, there is the international Al Quds Day which is the last Friday of Ramadan and which is the day to show solidarity with the world oppressed. Organize and participate in anything that will raise awareness of the plight of the oppressed and show solidarity.

Wicked and evil oppressors abound around the world. We have one in Nigeria called "Buhari". This bloodthirsty Wahhabi terrorist brutally slaughtered 1000+ innocent children, women and men in Zaria in December 2015 and wickedly dumped their dead bodies in mass graves at night to bury the evidences. Not done, this notorious Child-killer abducted the survivors and framed them with murder! Yes, he murdered their children and framed them with murder! #ZariaGenocide

May God in His infinite mercy accept our worship and grant victory to the oppressed! God destroy all wicked and evil oppressors! Ilahee Ameen

#Ramadan Mubarak to All Muslims!

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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The genocidal taunts of that notorious barbarian called "Trump"

"US will need 'one million soldiers' to invade Iran, warns British Admiral"

I disagree with the British Admiral. There are countries two million soldiers can not invade and occupy. And Iran is one of those countries. In any war with Iran every single house will be contested. It will be very bloody and half of your soldiers will not come out alive.

Trump quit the Nuclear Deal thinking he can force Iran into another deal that, that notorious Child-killer Netanyahu will draft. This Idiot in the White House think sanctions will cripple Iran, the Iran that fought a bloody 8 years war under debilitating sanctions and came out more powerful.

After Trump genocidal taunts against Iran, a poll was conducted and his rating fell. Americans can now see the genocidal barbarian they now have as leader.

Threatening to wipe out an entire population is the peak of barbarism of the hoards of bloodthirsty barbarians that Trump is a symbol. He has Nuclear weapons and he is threatening to wipe out humanity with Nuclear weapons.

Racism is embedded in their psyche. They did not drop Nuclear bombs on Germany. Germans are Whites like them. They dropped them on Japanese civilians and slaughtered more than 300,000 mostly women and children.

The main reason why that bloodthirsty White Supremacy terrorist of New Zealand has Trump as a hero.

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Yemeni Resistance Did Not Attack Makkah

The recent retaliatory attacks on Saudi oil installations by the Yemeni Resistance was a great success that prompted the savage Saudi Wahhabi regime to start spreading lies that the Yemeni Resistance attacked Makkah! I even saw a hash tag on Twitter on this.

The oil installations that were attacked were in the capital, Riyadh, and not in the holy city of Makkah. The corrupt Al Saud are notorious in blackmailing Muslims with their control of the two holy cities of Makkah and Madina.

These notorious manufacturers of murderous Wahhabi terrorists uses that control to parade themselves as the representative of Islam. Any attack on them they want Muslims to believe that it is attack on Islam. These loyal tools of Western imperialism and Global Zionism have nothing to do with Islam. They represent the imperialism agenda of Western imperialism.

The brave and courageous Yemeni Resistance did not attack Makkah and will not attack Makkah and Madina. But all Saudi military bases are within range. The savage Saudi regime has destroyed more than one hundred Mosque in Yemen, with some of them more than one thousand years.

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The Israeli regime worked for President Buhari in the last presidential election:

When the Opposition Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar sent me a Messenger last December, we discussed extensively. One of the points I raised to him was that the Saudi and Israeli regimes will team up and work for President Buhari against Atiku. The Saudi regime has funded Buhari in the past. They will do so again since he is presently executing their evil agenda in Nigeria. The biggest enemy of the racist Zionist Israeli regime in Africa is Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky.

A report released by a U.S.-based firm, Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, revealed that the Isreali-based firm (Archimedes) worked for President Buhari to smear his leading opponent, Atiku Abubakar during the last general elections on social media platforms.

The Associated Press (AP), published the report on Friday titled: “Isreali disinformation campaign targeted Nigerian election”.

Both the racist and barbaric Saudi and Israeli regimes do not want peace to reign in Nigeria. They want the wicked mass murderer tyrant Buhari to continue his genocidal attacks against innocent and defenseless Nigerians.

The US President Trump has a natural aversion for Buhari. In their last meeting Trump described Buhari as "sick and lifeless". But Trump is a hostage in the White House. He is not in charge. Global Zionism is in charge.

#FreeZakZaky

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The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Yoruba socio-cultural and political group, Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Sheikh Abdulrahman Abubakar of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, all agreed with Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, that the country was under siege.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/05/state-of-the-nation-bakare-can-afenifere-ohanaeze-onaiyekan-others-raise-concern/

Armed Banditry in Northern Nigeria

"Armed bandits sack 98 communities in #Zamfara State" - News Report

I woke up today to find an audio tape sent to me by a journalist of the massive protest by angry citizens from Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina state on banditry. Today Northern Nigeria is not only the extreme poverty capital of the whole world, Northern Nigeria is also the banditry capital of the world.

The peaceful protest in Katsina state was right and correct. The leaders should be told the truth of their gross failure to provide adequate security to innocent and defenseless Nigerians.

The question we ask why the sudden surge of armed banditry in Northern Nigeria?

The monumental fraudster Buhari promised Nigerians especially the people of Northern Nigeria heaven and earth of good governance and wealth creation. After more than 3 years in power people saw the exact opposite of what President Buhari promised. People are seeing extreme poverty, massive unemployment, officialized corruption, nepotism and massive deception. In order to realize the Buhari promised dream, some people took to armed banditry in Northern Nigeria.

These bandits move in groups, 100 to 200 armed bandits per group. They attack villages and towns and loot all things that have value. They also abduct women and girls and turn them to their sex slaves. They have well decorated camps deep inside the bush and forest where excess food is available. This is very attractive to the hungry and jobless youths of Northern Nigeria.

Some communities are sacked by these armed bandits. Close to one hundred communities were sacked by armed bandits in Zamfara state. Please do not ask me where were the army and police when these murderous plunder took place. Ask President Buhari who is notorious in sending more than 50,000 heavily-armed security forces to rig elections in some states but can to send adequate security to protect Nigerians from armed bandits.

Solution to armed banditry in Northern Nigeria

+The government should provide adequate security that include surveillance drones to protect Nigerians from the scourge of armed banditry.

+Nigerians are desperately in need of good governance. Leaders were elected to serve the people and not to steal and loot the treasury. There is prevalence of poverty and hunger in the land. Not everyone will endure extreme poverty and hunger. Some will resort to armed banditry for solution.

+ Massive illegal mining in Northern Nigeria should stop. Foreigners are behind these illegal mining and some of them are funding these armed bandits to de-populate the region for them to have free access.

+ Buhari's service chiefs are monumental failures. They had failed woefully. A responsible leader would have replaced them since. But is Tyrant Buhari responsible? Army chief Buratai brutally slaughtered 1000+ innocent children, women and men in Zaria in December 2015 for Tyrant Buhari in less than 72 hours. And like #ISIS and #BokoHaram terrorists wickedly dumped their dead bodies in mass graves at night to bury the evidences. Tyrant Buhari defended this genocide on National Television. The video is there for those that want to watch.

On a Final note, the oppressed people of the North West should not continue to sit at home and be attack by armed bandits. Protest is your right. The people of Batsari did the right thing. Come out and protest for improve security and good governance.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

Another word for Emir Sanusi,

By Jaafar Jaafar - 2 years ago

Jaafar Jaafar

While the hyperbolic lyrics of the legendary Sarkin Kotson Kano Abdulrahman’s magnum opus – Sir Sanusi Sarkin Yaki Zakin Daga Na Abashe – turned the late Sir Sanusi’s inborn hubris into believing that he was above his peers and superiors, his grandson chose to take inspiration from a tribe of cyber buskers cheering him to banishment.

Barely three years after his ascension to the Kano throne, the present emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has dumped a set of etiquettes laid down by Muhammad Al-Maghili during Emir Muhammadu Rumfa’s reign in the 1480’s to inspire awe and instil respect for leaders; demolished the century-old Soron Ingila built by Emir Abbas and used by colonialists shortly after Kano conquest in 1903 and; squandered at least N4billion bequeathed to him by Emir Ado Bayero in 2014.

Lord Lugard at work in his office in the Emir of Kano’s palace after the capture of Kano in 1903. Queen Elizabeth was also received in the same palace in 1956 by Emir Sir Muhammadu Sanusi. Credit: Royal Geographic Society
Let me make it clear to people who think I was paid to write against Emir Sanusi that my conscience is the mainspring of my actions. For the sake of making a point, on Wednesday last week a notable personality who marvelled at my last article on Emir Sanusi sent me a ‘gift’ of N200,000. I declined to accept the gift in order to clear my conscience that I have NEVER collected money from anybody to write against the emir.

Well, I really do not bother about the effete challenge of a clan of Internet meerkats, tying to challenge an armadillo of a journalist. What I am more concerned about is setting the records straight with fairness but without fear or favour.

There are certain traditions a traditional office holder is expected to adhere to. That is the reason it is called traditional institution. Traditional rulers are chief image-markers of their people, chief custodians of culture and traditions, ambassadors of their people, etc. But Emir Sanusi chose to drift from this tradition. I have never heard an Eze saying the Igbos are 419ers or drug-traffickers, nor heard an Oba denigrating the Yoruba people.

While I have my reservations about Ganduje’s light rail project, Emir Sanusi’s conclusion that tens of thousands of enterprising stall owners in Sabon Gari Market, industrious traders of Yankura, dutiful traders at ’Yan Lemo, resilient vendors of Kurmi, venturesome grain dealers of Dawanau, billionaire merchants of Singer and Kantin Kwari Markets are all there to attend “wedding and naming ceremony” is abusive. And I am being charitable.

Emir Sanusi’s Financial Recklessness

About six weeks after becoming emir, Sanusi began the butchery of the emirate council’s life-time savings in fixed deposits in First Bank, UBA, Zenith, FCMB, AfriBank, Access, etc.

On July 24, 2014, the sum of N400m fixed by his predecessor was first broken from First Bank to the transaction account of the emirate council at the same bank. Less than three weeks after, on August 13, 2014, another fixed deposit of N200m was recalled to the main account. The recall of the fixed deposits continued steadily until December 8, 2016 when about N4billion he inherited were drawn into the main/transaction account and mercilessly exterminated.

Following his visit to former President Goodluck Jonathan on July 24, 2014, and subsequent release of his travel documents by the SSS, the emir began criss-crossing the world. On August 1, 2014, Emir Sanusi approved the payment of N152,624,723 to a now sanctioned bureau de change operator, Dabo Gate Ideal. Twelve days after, on August 13, 2014, the same company was again paid N15,458,660. On December 10, 2014, Western Union Travels and Tours Limited, a travel agent to DELOITTE, was paid N6,993,203. Three weeks after, precisely on December 31, 2014, the same company was paid N5,566,235 from the emirate council account. Two weeks after, the company was again paid N9,071,000 from the emirate council account on January 14, 2015. This payment trend to Western Union Travel and Tours and Classic Air Service for chattered flights and foreign travels continues till date.

Contrary to reports that the emir’s expensive cars were gift from friends, documents available to me show that on August 27, 2014, Nigeria’s famous exotic car dealers, Triple K Investments, were paid N142,800,000 from the First Bank account of the emirate council for the supply of exotic cars. Still on August 27 and October 16, 2014, Emir Sanusi approved the payment of another N154,873,000 and N36,223,000 respectively to the same Triple K Investment for the supply of exotic cars. Again, the same company was paid N5,060,000 on December 17, 2014.

In my last article, I hinted that the emir spends a lot on Internet bills. Now to prove this assertion, here is the breakdown of his expenditure on calls and Internet. On June 29, 2015, Airtel was paid N2,639,185.19; on July 22, 2015 (N1,471,163.49); on August 31, 2015 (N4,954,883.61); on September 29, 2015 (N2,638,626.18); on November 9, 2015 (N1,012,077.36); on December 21, 2015 (N8,697,900.09); on March 11, 2016 (N3,640,356.14); on April 26, 2016 (N1,000,000); on August 22, 2016 (N3,000,000) on September 21 (N2,000,000); on December 19 (N5,000,000) and; on February 9, 2017 (N2,000,000).

I couldn’t believe when I once heard the emir once spent N7m on Internet in ONE month! Now imagine this: The total amount the emir spent on Airtel from June 29, 2015 to February 9, 2017 is N37,054,192.06. This amount alone could build a modest school or a cottage hospital with equipment as a way of matching his words with action.

While the salary bill of the emirate was in average of N7million (usually defrayed by the interests accrued from over N4billion fixed deposits Emir Ado Bayero made), the emirate received a steady grant from local government deductions of N127,898,110.07 every quarter – about N42m monthly.

While he buffeted the savings on his expensive lifestyle, to be fair to him, he increased the salary to N17,078,441.56 in September 2014. The salary bill further ballooned under Sanusi to about N23m after the emir put his distant cousins, uncles and other relatives on salary.

When recession bit harder, grants decreased and balance in the account fell to as low as N800,000 at a point, the emir now slashed the salary to the status quo ante, but he never stopped lavish spending on foreign and local travels, Airtel data/calls, questionable NEFT transfer of about N12m monthly, cars, sartorially hyped up outlook, etc.

In monthly grants, the emirate council received between July 30, 2014 and March 1, 2017, the sum of N1,672,953,660. While the total debit from June 8, 2014 to April 11, 2017 is about N6 billion, the current balance in the account as at April 11, 2017 is N23,487,406.12.

For someone who is preaching the gospel of economic management, financial prudence, I wonder why he woefully failed set example in his tiny fief.

Let me, as obedient subject, once again remind my emir, a monarch who does not mind deposition on the alter speaking the “truth”, that when certain Sanusi Lamido Sanusi escaped firing squad by whiskers and jailed for about two and half years under Abacha’s Decree 2 in Sokoto Prisons for “inciting violence”, his rights to both movements and free speech were trampled.

I hope somebody will take some lessons.

Friday Reflection: Why we promote unity on this Platform?

"Do not be divided!" - #Quran

10 years ago we started, we created social media platforms to spread News and post our narration of history. The social media platforms are owned and controlled by the West and our narration is Anti-imperialism. It is not easy. Platforms with huge followership blocked and disabled. And no reason given! This is the hostile climate that we operate.

Why do we stand for unity?

As Muslims we believed all creation started from Adam and Eve. So all humanity are linked to this root of creation. This means we all have the same father and mother. By extension we are all relatives. It is important to note that God did not create "Adam and John". No, God created Adam and Eve!

We call for Muslim unity to confront the numerous challenges facing the Islamic world. Unity is strength while division is weakness. The enemy always sow the seeds of division among Muslims. The Sunni/Shia thing is not a war. It is a matter of choice. Muslims have the right to chose the school of thought to follow. Only God is the Ultimate Judge!

In Nigeria, we promote unity of Muslims and Christians for peaceful coexistence. And we promote unity for all tribes. God created us different race and tribe for recognition sake. Without race and tribe, we will all be the same, like the soaps from a soap factory.

Within the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, we promote unity and reject divisive tendencies. In the face of genocide and existential threat presently confronting the Movement, unity is very important.

When you present me with allegation against a brother, the first thing I do is to ask for proof. If you can not provide the proof I will throw your malicious slander to your face and copy your slander to the brother you slandered. Islam categorically condemned and reject slander. You expect this soldier of the Soft War to spread your fraudulent slander to friends? That will never happen!

On a Final note, No government or group is funding this platform. I have a huge file with the Nigerian secret police. Few friends and I fund these platforms. Three (3) special friends help me fund these platforms. Two in Nigeria and one in UK. The two Nigerians are my close friends, Engineers like me. We were together at the University in Zaria back then. And the person in UK is a female, a beloved sister. Without the financial support of these friends, we would have close shop since. A little favor from Friends. In this Blessed month, please included my three friends and their families in your prayers. Please!

#Ramadan Mubarak

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

Burn that Useless Nuclear Deal:

I am still surprised that Iran is still in the Nuclear Deal after the withdrawal of the genocidal US regime on a day like this last year (May 8 2018). With the withdrawal of the arrogant US regime it violated #UNSCR 2231. The Evil Empire also pressured the 3 European countries - UK, France and Germany - to withdraw. It will be myopic to think that the US regime acted alone with out the consent and cooperation of the 3 European powers. They are allies united in perpetrating evil around the world.

Their goal is to roll-back the decline of Western imperialism and Global Zionism. The world now do not buy their monumental lies of freedom, democracy and Human Rights. Iran is at the forefront of the Anti-imperialism struggle. Out of wickedness and monstrous sadism they want to deny Iran the benefits of JCPOA by re-imposing debilitating sanctions.

No sanctions can halt the decline of the greedy Western imperialism that is steeped in genocide, inhuman massacres and plundering of the wealth of other nations. In the past 500 years, more than 90% of all genocides were perpetrated by these Western powers. As Africans have we forgotten the murderous genocide in Namibia by the Germans or have we forgotten the Congo genocide by Belgium? Or the Algerian genocide perpetrated by France?

Today these genocidal Western powers hide behind their proxy armies of #ISIS and Al-Qaeda to perpetrate their inhuman slaughter of the innocent. It was not accidental that they are closely allied to the savage Saudi regime and global Wahhabism. They saw the extreme intolerance and bloodthirsty nature of Wahhabism, that was why they are allied with this murderous and bloodthirsty ideology to infiltrate Islam, divide Muslims and harm Muslims.

There are still African countries that still pay "colonial taxes" to France. The French are still not tired of looting resources in Africa and the gullible Africans still accept the imperialist looting of their resources. That is why these greedy imperialists powers hate revolutionary individuals like Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky of Nigeria who spread Awakening and Awareness of the evilness of imperialism. #WakeUp

If Iran can not benefit from the #NuclearDeal then what is the use of remaining in the deal? I asked...

Harun Elbinawi
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Ramadan: El-Zakzaky diistribute foodstuff to the poor and pray for Muslim faithfuls

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The Spirit of the Ramadan Fast

The ninth month of the Islamic calendar is "Ramadan" and it is obligatory for all Muslim that have come to age to fast. Fasting of the month of Ramadan is one of the pillars of Islam.

Fasting did not start with the advent of Islam. There is fasting in Judaism and there is fasting in Christianity. To get closer to God the Believer make sacrifice by abstaining from eating and drinking. This create a bond between the Believer and the Lord of Creation.

I will try to highlight commendable actions and activities during the month of Ramadan.

Intensification of Worship

Recitation of the Holy Quran, Duas, increasing Nawafil prayers and Dhikir (remembrance of God). The Holy Quran was revealed in the month of Ramadan. So it is right and correct to brand the Month of Ramadan as the month of the Quran. In Nigeria, Tafsir sessions traditionally takes place during the month of Quran to keep Muslims abreast with the message of the last code of guidance. The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, use to conduct the Ramadan Tafsir sessions at the destroyed iconic Zaria Husseiniya. During the Saudi-sponsored #ZariaGenocide, the Nigerian army bombarded the Zaria Husseiniya and murdered hundreds of Worshippers that included women and Children.

Assisting the Poor and the Downtrodden

To help and assist the poor, needy and downtrodden is a custom of all Prophets and Messengers of God. The taste of hunger will force the halves- to remember the halves-not. Charity is highly recommended during the month of Ramadan. There are families who stay hungry for the whole day, why not help them with a meal? Do not limit your assistance to members of your sect and religion. The overwhelming majority of those that yearly receive the Ramadan grain assistance from Sheikh Zakzaky are Sunni Muslims. We should also remember poor Christians during the Ramadan fast. God reward all good deeds.

Visitations

Paying visits to family and friends especially to break fast is part of the Ramadan spirit. Eating in group strengthen the bond of friendship and brotherhood. Inter-sect visit is also important. Visit your Sunni friends, brothers and sisters. Visit your Shia friends, brothers and sisters. Organize a Ramadan breakfast and invite your friends and family relations at least for one day of the entire Ramadan period.

Avoid Sins

For the entire 12 months of the year, the month of Ramadan always record less Sinning in Muslim societies. Even those Muslims that take alcoholic drinks desist from doing that during the month of Ramadan. I once saw a sales graph of an Alcoholic factory in Nigeria and I saw a month with sharp reduction of sales. When I asked I was told it is the month of Ramadan. It is hope the reduction of sinning will continue even after the month of Ramadan. The Seeker of truth is a constant traveller for perfect conduct, character and behavior.

Remembering the Oppressed

Oppression and injustice should be condemned by all people of conscience. In Islam, God categorically condemned all oppression and oppressors. There is no excuse to oppression. Nobody has the right to oppress others. Denying people of their rights is oppression. Killing the innocent is gross oppression. Stealing the lands of people is gross oppression. Looting the resources of any nation is gross oppression. After the 1979 victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Khomeini (ra) designated the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as the International Quds Day. A day to remember the genocidal occupation of Palestine by genocidal Zionist barbarians backed by the arrogant West. All oppressed are remembered on International Quds Day.

On a Final note, enliven the spirit of Ramadan and spread love, kindness, generosity, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. And please remember Sheikh Zakzaky in your prayers. They brutally murdered his 3 children in his residence and in his presence, burnt his 70+ year old elder sister alive and framed him and his injured wife with murder! These bloodthirsty barbarians are the most evil savages among men.

Ramadan Mubarak!

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

Helicopter Escort VIPs on the Train From Abuja - Kaduna

A brother sent me a video of a surveillance helicopter escorting the Train from Abuja to Kaduna for Very Important Person (VIP) of the Buhari regime. The Abuja - Kaduna axis is presently under the occupation of armed Kidnappers. They freely abduct Nigerians and Demand for ransom.

In Nigerian political history the biggest fraud is that "Buhari love the poor". Millions of the poor masses of Northern Nigeria believed this monumental fraud. While there is no single indices of development and progress that will prove this fraudulent hypothesis but there are still brainless idiots who believe this.

VIPs close to Buhari do not ply by road the Abuja - Kaduna axis. They go by train where tickets are monopolized for the rich and super-rich yet they were given a surveillance helicopter to protect them. If we may ask where is the helicopter to protect poor Nigerians? It is important to note that these helicopters were bought and maintain with public funds but they are not for the poor.

More than half of the Nigerian police of 250,000+ are attached to the ruling elites and Super-rich for their protection. They constitute less than 1% of the entire population. The remaining half are posted to protect the 99.9% of the 210 million population. How can you have security with this arrangement? Yet the masses are silent, they are waiting for God to fight their battles and wars against naked tyranny and wicked oppression.

I strongly believe that Nigeria needs a Revolution. The present Nigerian system is skewed against the poor and in favor of the ruling elites and their cronies.

The members of the Nigerian National Assembly are among the most highly paid in the world while the Nigerian minimum wage is the most lowest in the world. This simple comparison will give you the clear picture of our Nigeria of today.

Governance in Nigeria is not about service to the people, governance in Nigeria is about looting and plundering the treasury. President Buhari is notorious in lying to Nigerians that he is poor. The "poor" Buhari could not even afford 45 million Naira to buy his party presidential candidate form. But recently his wife told Nigerians that they are planning to build a private university that will be named "Mohammed Buhari University". They need a minimum of 10 Billion Naira to build a private university. Dear Friends, remember Buhari is a poor man!

Armed bandits has slaughtered more than 10 thousand innocent Nigerians from 2015 - to date. All of them are poor Nigerians with their wives and children. Girls abducted at will by these armed bandits to become their sex slaves. They return them to their parents when they are pregnant. Surveillance helicopter not send to protect the poor villagers of Zamfara, Kastina, Sokoto and now Jigawa states.

And with all these an #idiot will parrot "Buhari love the poor". Please tell them to say these to the birds. Windless lies that even the birds are not interested.

The court-affiliated Scholars with tell you to go and pray so that armed bandits will not attack your village. We ask you "Are you more pious than the chosen Prophets and Messengers of God?" Despite their proximity to the Lord of Creation, they acted and prayed. But this lazy Sinner only want to pray with no action. With such orientation your miserable condition will remain the same as long as you live with monumental fraudsters like Buhari deceiving you that they are poor and glorifying poverty to appease you. #WakeUp

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

Sri Lanka, Terrorism & Aftermath

Since the 21st April, 2019, Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka that led to the death of more than 300 innocent civilians, my brother and close friend from Sri Lanka, Ziad Muhammed, kept on bombarding me with links about the murderous barbaric slaughter of innocent civilians.

Muslims are not the majority in Sri Lanka. Islam and Christianity are the minority in Sri Lanka. Buddhism is the majority religion in Sri Lanka. So Muslims and Christians should have a good relationship as minorities in other to counter the excesses and domination of the majority. And the fact that both Islam and Christianity are Monotheistic religions makes this alliance necessary and important.

We will try to analyze factors that caused that murderous terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka and the resulting consequences.

The Western-backed Saudi regime is notorious in funding the terrorism-enabled ideology of Wahhabism using the fraudulent cover of funding Islam. Muslims minorities are the most vulnerable to this Saudi funding. The terrorist group that executed the Sri Lankan attacks was funded by the Saudi regime. The major goal of murderous Wahhabi terrorism is to further the evil imperialist agenda of Western imperialism and Global Zionism. Today Sri Lanka is a candidate for a NATO military base. All thanks to that terrorist attack! The US regime is presently building a 100+ million dollars Drone base in Niger Republic. All thanks to BokoHaram! This is their Modus Operandi.

I see a link between the New Zealand and Sri Lankan terrorist attacks. The Wahhabi terrorist group that executed the Easter Sunday carnage claimed that they did that to avenge the New Zealand attack. The carnage in Sri Lanka allegedly perpetrated by a Muslim group has been manipulated to negate and nullify the positive vibes between Muslims and Christians emanating from the aftermath of the New Zealand massacre. There is a force out there that do not want a harmonious relationship to exist between Muslims and Christians. They sponsored a White supremacy terrorist to slaughter innocent Muslims in New Zealand and sponsored murderous Wahhabi barbarians to slaughter innocent Christians in Sri Lanka.

This is part of weaponization of brutal violence and terrorism by the evil imperialist cabal that want to control and dominate the whole world. They will use all means to facilitate their domination and the establishment of military bases to facilitate this domination. But they will want you to think they are helping you and protecting you from the murderous terrorists they created, fund and sustain.

On a Final note, it is important that we reject the fraudulent narration of Terrorism by the genocidal barbarians that created them. Humanity must unite against evil imperialism for a free and just world.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

The Bloodthirsty Wahhabi barbarian Umar Labdo at it Again:

Dear Friends, two brothers sent me the recent outburst of Prof Umar Labdo on the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. I thought with the present reality of loss of relevance of these bloodthirsty Wahhabi barbarians who brutally slaughtered 1000+ innocent children, women and men in Zaria in December 2015, no rejoinder is needed to counter his concocted day dreaming and intense hallucinations. Then another brother sent it again today!

For those who did not know this bloodthirsty Wahhabi savage, Umar Labdo once wrote a complete manual of #ShiaGenocide in Nigeria. After the brutal and inhuman Saudi-sponsored Zaria genocide, President Buhari, Elrufai and gang included him into the kangaroo Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) to "investigate" the genocide. Imagine the rascality of the government that included the bloodthirsty terrorist that wrote a manual on how to execute Shia Genocide to investigate a Shia genocide! Last year Umar Labdo again wrote an anti-Shia book that was sponsored by that notorious Child-killer Elrufai and launched in Kaduna. To give a summary, Umar Labdo is a paid Saudi agent in Nigeria.

Despite all massacres, illegal arrest and detention and persecution by the murderous terrorists who executed the brutal and inhuman Saudi-sponsored Zaria genocide, they had failed to break the will of Righteous Resistance of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.

Umar Labdo spoke on behalf of his gang of Wahhabi mass murderers want Sheikh Zakzaky send to exile! They know that killing him in the illegal detention facility will herald their end. They desperately wanted to kill him. This was what the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman commanded.

Umar Labdo did not only stop his venomous charade on Sheikh Zakzaky. He descended on Christians and was sadden that they are calling for #FreeZakZaky with a very loud voice. Umar Labdo is of the brand that slaughtered 300+ innocent Christian on a Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. His kind executed that monstrous barbarism in the name of Islam. Whenever you hear bloodthirsty barbarians burning Churches in Nigeria, they are of the same kind with Umar Labdo. While they are willing tools of Western imperialism and Global Zionism to the core but they hate Christians.

The worldview that Sheikh Zakzaky is promoting and propagating emanates from the justice-seeking instincts of humanity and such instincts can never be exiled. Not by the evil imperialism, and not by their bloodthirsty Wahhabi slaves like Umar Labdo.

Islam was never an enemy of Christianity and Christianity was never an enemy of Islam. Both Islam and Christianity are two monotheistic religions and only they celebrates the miraculous birth of Jesus (as) and the purity and chastity of his Blessed Mother, Mary (as). The Christian king of Ethiopia was the first to save persecuted and tortured Muslims in the early advent of Islam.

They fled Makkah at night and went to Ethiopia that was called Abisiniyya then. The king protected them and granted them security. Muslims and Christians are not enemies and they will never be enemies. They are brothers and sisters in Humanity. Umar Labdo and gang are averse to this. These bloodthirsty Wahhabi barbarians love the taste of blood and they hate Sheikh Zakzaky for hating the taste of blood.

On a final note, Buhari, Elrufai, Umar Labdo and gang murdered 1000+ innocent children, women and men in Zaria in December 2015. Yes, they murdered 1000+ innocent souls in Zaria in less than 72 hours! They killed them, burnt some of them alive and buried some of them alive in mass graves. Mass graves has never buried a genocide and the Zaria genocide will not be an exception.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

From begging to banditry: Revolt of the almajiris

ON APRIL 28, 2019

By Dele Sobowale

“No revolution is the fault of the people but the fault of the government.”—Johann Goethe, 1749-1832, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ.

A revolution is underway in the northern states of Nigeria. The downtrodden constituting 99.9 per cent of the population, hitherto docile beggars, saying rankaindedeto the privileged 0.1 per cent, are sick and tired of begging. They are now demanding for their own share of “the national cake” to be delivered to them – at gun or cutlass points.

Nigeria will never be the same again. The North is now gradually sliding into the dictatorship of the beggars or almajiris.

As usual, Nigerian pseudo-socialists, like the original European promoters of the idea, had not expected the least developed region in this country to trigger the revolution, just as the uprising which occurred first in Russia and died there as well was wrongly predicted. Our local copy cats had been writing and talking about revolution in Nigeria on the assumption that highly educated Nigerians would lead it.

History might eventually record that the Nigerian revolution (and make no mistake about it there is one on) was spear-headed by those with nothing to lose – no job, no house, no family to speak of, and no hope.

For too long there has been ample evidence to prove that the most difficult enemy to fight is one who has nothing to lose.

The privileged class in Nigeria had been busy since 1914, and particularly since 1960, nurturing millions of fellow citizens who can only be described as people without hope living in another Nigeria from the one inhabited by their overfed leaders.

“There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.” Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616.

It has always been a puzzle to me why leaders – Presidents, Governors, Ministers, Commissioners, party leaders – who we presumed were/are intelligent and wise could have individually and collectively failed to understand that we cannot continue to increase the number of jobless adults and children out of school without eventually reaching the breaking point. Nigeria has one of the widest income disparities in the world – less than one per cent own over seventy per cent of the wealth.

The North as a whole is the worst – with the North East and North West being the absolute worst. For as long as anybody can remember religion has been misused to get the vast majority of “have-nots” to accept their penury as an “act of Allah”.

The extremely wealthy, even if the wealth was accumulated by looting the public purse got away with robbing the masses because of the pervasive docility. Every delinquent individual readily was submissive to the privileged whose only obligation was to give pittance to the people they have robbed by way of alms giving.

A governor caught on video receiving bribe shows no remorse and even receives presidential endorsement because president and governor belong to the oppressive class. Class solidarity was always more important than justice. For over four decades since first setting foot in the North, I had wondered when the injustice would result in absolute rebellion. I was certain that the system of institutionalised serfdom could not continue for ever.

The chickens have come home to roost in the North and the revolt might spread all over the country. The former beggars have dropped their bowls and have acquired bullets and guns. They are now forcing the Haves, who have suppressed them to pay. Henceforth, it will be “Your money or your life.”

The report by DAILY TRUST a few weeks ago is revealing. The four most dangerous places to be in Nigeria today from the standpoint of kidnapping and murder are: Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Federal Capital Territory. President Buhari resides in two of them.

“If there is government in place, then it should listen to people and address the security challenges. We have mass burials from time to time and there is no sign that government cares about what is happening.”—Catholic Bishop of Yola, Rev. Stephen Mamza. To that query President Buhari gave an answer which is most pathetic and which tells us all we need to know about why we are in this mess and may never get out of it. Read what our leader said. Speaking through one of his echoes, we were told that “but for Buhari’s efforts, Yola and other towns in Adamawa and the rest of the Northeast would still be under the control of Boko Haram”.

Two reasons among several render that rejoinder most unpatriotic. One, there was never a time all of the North East or Yola were under the control of Boko Haram. Parts of them yes, but not the entire region. A president does need to stretch a small truth to the breaking point in order to exonerate himself. Two, on the same day that the President’s spokesman was uttering that falsehood, Nigerians were informed thus:

“Gun men kill 14 in Katsina and Benue.” Nine of the fourteen were slaughtered in Katsina State. Under Jonathan nobody was killed in Katsina State and Kaduna had not become the murder capital of Nigeria. While the Bishop was making a general observation about insecurity, Buhari and his small-minded spokesmen turned the entire problem to a political debate – APC versus PDP. With such little intellect at the top levels of government, it is easy to understand why Buhari might be the last to grasp the significance of what appears like random violence ravaging Nigeria now. Allow me to present a true account of what happened four days to Easter last week.

“The Devil finds work for idle hands.” I was in Suleija after venturing into a part of Nigeria which was once very safe but which has now become like the “lion’s den” for travellers – especially for those driving good cars and well-dressed. Not to test my luck, I had chartered an old jalopy from the Motor Park instead of the usual Camry. We stopped at a filling station to refuel and my eyes could not believe what they saw. A leading member of the National Assembly, NASS, was sitting in the back seat of a car which no panel-beater would touch. I recognised him and moved to introduce myself and to ask what was the matter with his cars?

Almost in tears, he told me he was heading for Kaduna state but he had to disguise out of fear of being kidnapped or murdered. He would enter his community at night and depart before light of dawn for safety. His family once paid ransom to kidnappers and he was not ready to go through the trauma again. He finished with words that will live long in my memory.

“The kidnappers we dealt with were all graduates. They spoke good English. They said they were all unemployed and they too must live somehow. Dr Dele, God save the North. We are in deep trouble.” He was not alone.

I know people who would spend every possible week end in their country homes in Kaduna State until a year ago. That was three years after Jonathan left office and Buhari took over. They don’t go anymore – unless it is absolutely necessary. The Governors of Zamfara and Katsina recently cried out loud that their states were under the control of bandits and kidnappers. The Presidency does not dispute those claims. The Governors of Zamfara and Katsina under Jonathan never cried all the way to Abuja that their states had been taken over by criminals. The fact that the President’s own state is under siege by gun men should have been embarrassing to the people (if that is the right word?) at Aso Rock if commonsense is still present there.

If the President’s men and women have taken any trouble to collate the crime reports daily presented by all our newspapers, they would have discovered an alarming correlation between unemployment and serious crimes in rural and urban communities. Even the murders seemingly committed for rituals have as their goal acquisition of wealth by people whose means of legitimate livelihood is not secure. The North has more of them and it is breeding them faster than any other part of the country.

“The child is the father of the man.

” William Wordsworth, 1770-1850. When in 2006, Dr Oby Ezekwesili was the Federal Minister of Education and the number of millions of children out of school was reported, any demographer could have told President Obasanjo that the bandits and kidnappers of 2019 were already with us waiting to grow up and terrorise us. The five years old boys of 2006 are now lanky eighteen years old lads; the ten years old have turned to men 23 years old. While the very young might be afraid to kidnap, rob and murder, the eighteen-plus, without parental guidance all the time, are not so squeamish. There are millions of them now. That is bad enough. Now we have a new set of future delinquents – ten to thirteen millions – out of school. Most of them will live to reach eighteen and above. Millions of their older brothers identified in 2006 will still be alive when the fresh crop of idle hands gets set to be engaged by Satan. The numbers will swell and the security forces will never be able to cope with the deluge of criminals unless we do something urgently. The problem is national.

But, the North is now experiencing a revolt of the beggars. They no longer wait patiently at the gates of the few wealthy people in their communities. They now have set about redistributing wealth by violence.

No better definition of revolution can be found anywhere. Hitherto, they were afraid of the rich and powerful. Henceforth, the privileged will be afraid of them. It is no coincidence that Kaduna-Abuja expressway has become the frontline of battle.

A good percentage of the over-pampered Northern elite travels through that route on their way to their well-appointed palaces. Next to that is Katsina. It is the home of the newly-rich. More public officials from that state had been alleged to embezzle public funds since Buhari became President than ever before.

The bandits can observe new mansions springing up and they want their share of the loot. Kidnapping will not end any time soon. Like vultures, bandits and kidnappers can literally “smell money”.

They are not even afraid of the security forces. They fight back; and they can afford to select their targets. They know the army is over-stretched and cannot be everywhere. Most important of all, they have nothing to lose. The soldier who dies in conflict with them probably has a wife and children. He really does not want to die. The bandits have nobody waiting for them at home.

That is the nature of the army which Nigerian leaders have assembled and which is now launching a full scale assault on the country – especially the North. They have thrown away the begging bowl; they now confront the rest of us with bullets and guns. We might be engaged in this war for fifty years or more.

THEY JUST CAN’T STOP LYING.

“Wherever God erects a house of prayer/ The Devil always builds a Chapel there/ And, it will be found upon examination/ The latter has a larger congregation. Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731. Buhari meant well when he tried to achieve religious balance in the appointments of his closest officials. I cannot speak about Muslims.

But, the President must have inadvertently strayed into the Devil’s chapel to select his Christian advisers. The Pastors in Aso Rock are probably the worst worshippers of Satan ever to enter the Rock. One claimed that the FG bought millions of cows to feed the kids.

Farmers wonder where he got the cattle from since none of theirs was bought. The second went to the South West saying only blind men can fail to see Buhari’s monumental achievements.

Are Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, a Professor needing no glasses, as well as everybody in attendance laughed derisively at the Aso Rock Pastor. Has shame or honour gone out of fashion in churches? Is the king of darkness the only one working full time?

VANGUARD