₦airaland Forum

‼️⚡BREAKING:⚡‼️
Largest Hausa Activist group Support call for Sokoto Caliphate to be designed International Terrorist Organisation, issued a Rejoinder.

REJOINDER TO THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From the Indigenous Hausa People on the Historical Crimes of the Sokoto Caliphate (1804–1903) and Its Modern Echoes

For All Who Seek Historical Truth and Justice

We, the Indigenous Hausa people descendants of the ancient civilizations of Gobir, Katsina, Kano, Daura, Zazzau, Zamfara, Kebbi, and other Hausa polities respectfully present this rejoinder to the Government and People of the United States of America, and to all global institutions committed to human rights, justice, and historical clarity.

This is not an ethnic attack.
This is a moral obligation, a historical correction, and a defense of truth.

For over 200 years, our ancestors’ voices were suppressed.
Today, we speak in their name.

1. The Sokoto Caliphate: A Terrorist Empire in Modern Terms

The Sokoto Caliphate (1804–1903) was not an Islamic reform movement.
It was a violent empire built through:

religious extremism

mass enslavement

ethnic displacement

the murder of Indigenous Hausa Muslim scholars

the systemic destruction of Hausa institutions

The jihad violated every Islamic principle on justice and warfare.

Islam strictly forbids:

killing Muslims

enslaving Muslims

burning villages

raiding peaceful communities

declaring Muslims as unbelievers

attacking worshippers

starving populations

Yet the empire carried out all these atrocities.

By every international standard the Sokoto Caliphate meets the definition of a terrorist state.

2. A State Engineered Through Slavery

According to world-renowned historians Murray Last, Paul Lovejoy, Heinrich Barth, H.A.S. Johnston the Sokoto Caliphate was the largest slave-based system in 19th-century Africa.

In Kano alone (1820s–1850s):

About 40,000 slaves

Barely 1,000 free citizens

This was not “reform.”
This was a structured human-trafficking empire with:

slave markets

government-regulated price tables

sexual exploitation of girls

plantation estates (gandu) run entirely by enslaved labor

mass exportation to Fezzan, Tripoli, and Ottoman territories

This was state-sponsored slavery, imposed on Hausa and Middle Belt peoples.

3. The 1836 Gawakuke Genocide — 45,000 Hausa Muslims Massacred

According to H.A.S. Johnston:

> “More than 45,000 Hausa Muslims were slaughtered in a single campaign ordered by Sultan Muhammad Bello.”

This was not a battle.
It was systematic extermination:

towns burned

communities wiped out

survivors enslaved

children taken as property

For nearly two centuries, the world remained silent.
We refuse to remain silent now.

4. The Sokoto Empire’s Methods of Enslaving Indigenous Peoples

The Caliphate enslaved millions through:

a. Takfīr (False Accusation of Unbelief)

Hausa Muslims were labeled “apostates” to justify killing and enslavement.

b. Slave Raids

Launched from Adamawa, Bauchi, Zaria, Katsina, Zamfara.

c. Punitive Taxes

Non-payment of jizya and kharaji resulted in enslavement.

d. Sexual Violence

Women and girls taken as concubines, domestic slaves, and forced wives.

e. Children Erased

Indigenous identity wiped out through forced assimilation.

f. Plantation System

Massive estate farms run exclusively by enslaved people.

g. Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

Tens of thousands exported annually.

This was state machinery designed to erase Indigenous nations.

5. Victims of the Caliphate’s Violence

In Hausaland:

Gobirawa
Zamfarawa
Kabawa
Zazzagawa
Katsinawa
Kanawa
Garun gabas
Daurawa
Ningi
Gwari
Kurama
Hundreds of Hausa towns and villages

Middle Belt Peoples:

Jukun
Tiv
Idoma
Atyap
Jaba
Igala
Plateau communities

North-East:

Kanuri/Ngazargamu
Bura
Babur
Kilba
Gwoza mountain peoples

This was not a religious reform.
It was imperial domination of Indigenous nations.

6. Why Recognition Matters Today

We do not blame all Fulani people.
We address the historical empire and their modern ideological environment that protects criminality.

Just as the world condemns:

the Holocaust

the Armenian Genocide

the Atlantic Slave Trade

the Rwandan Genocide

ISIS atrocities

…so must it acknowledge the atrocities committed by the Sokoto Caliphate.

Silence is complicity.
Recognition is justice.

7. Our Formal Appeal to the United States Government

We respectfully request:

1. Recognition that the Sokoto Caliphate operated as a terrorist empire.

2. Inclusion of these crimes in global human-rights and historical-atrocity studies.

3. Acknowledgment of the millions enslaved, killed, or displaced.

4. Support for preserving Indigenous Hausa historical memory.

8. Modern Echoes: The Fulani Bandit Crisis and the Culture of Denial

We state clearly:

We have NEVER said all Fulani people are terrorists.

Our focus is the pattern of collective denial by many Fulani elites and scholars who:

defend bandits

justify killings

shift blame

sanitize terrorism

accuse victims of “provoking attacks”

shield criminals through propaganda

Over 100 Fulani public figures clerics, elites, spokespersons have openly defended bandits or argued on their behalf.

This is not coincidence.
It is a continuation of the ideological culture of the Caliphate.

Common Tactics Used to Defend Bandits (and Silence Victims)

1. “Every tribe has criminals” used to dilute the reality.

2. Refusing to label bandits as terrorists.

3. Claiming bandits were “oppressed first.”

4. Calling mass murder “self-defense.”

5. Portraying atrocities as “revenge missions.”

6. Attacking Hausa vigilantes to divert attention.

7. Never condemning bandits directly.

8. Accusing the military of human-rights abuses whenever bandits are defeated.

9. Pushing for negotiation instead of justice.

10. Comparing bandits to Niger Delta militants.

11. Insisting dialogue is the only option.

12. Inventing the false “grazing routes were stolen” narrative.

13. Fabricating claims that Southerners kill Northerners, to distract from bandit atrocities.

These psychological tactics are designed to:

confuse the public

silence victims

shift blame

protect criminals

weaken resistance

prolong violence

This is not accidental.
It is ideological conditioning.

9. Why This Rejoinder Matters

We expose these tactics because our people are dying, and silence is deadly.

This rejoinder is:

a shield for the oppressed

a voice for forgotten victims

a call for global recognition

a defense of historical truth

a warning against manipulation

We speak so that future generations will not inherit lies built on our suffering.

Final Declaration

The historical record is clear:

The Sokoto Caliphate was a violent, extremist, slave-driven empire.
Its legacy continues to echo through modern justifications of bandit terrorism.

Not all Fulani are guilty.
But the truth cannot be suppressed:

> The Fulani-led empire committed atrocities now recognized as terrorism, genocide, and mass enslavement.

We demand acknowledgment.
We demand justice.
We demand truth.

Signed:

Sons and Daughters of the Ancient Hausa Kingdoms
Hausa Indigenous Activist Movement (2025)
Defenders of Historical Truth
CC:
#hausaactivist

Me I dey side line dey watch

But this. Has been an open secret

Truth always come to surface no matter.
Justice will always prevail

SO THE CALIPHATE IS INVOLVED ....

LORD, GOD OF HOSTS.....PLEASE STRETCH YOUR HAND OF JUGEMENT UPON SOKOTO!! ... AVENGE THE BLOOD OF DEBORAH!.

IN JESUS NAME!

This present sultan may probably be the last .

Sultan wey wan put sharia courts in Yoruba land

Full local government autonomy will address many of this nonsense. Centralization of powers at the federal and state governments level has caused more harm than good. It's even an insult to call a Hausa man Fulani

Osiris12:
This present sultan may probably be the last .

Sultan wey wan put sharia courts in Yoruba land

Hand go soon touch am 🤷🏿, Americans are calling for his headd

The loyal disciples of the caliphate down south will soon stage protest for their masters ..

In fact,as far as they are kwonsigned,those Hausa activists are ipob

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Some Hausas are tired of the subjugation by the Fulani

It might look and seem too late for the indigenous Hausa cos the Fulanis have taken over everything and are very wealthy but what is impossible with man in possible with the Almighty God

Are the Hausas just waking up from deep slumber?

Justiceleague1:
The loyal disciples of the caliphate down south will soon stage protest for their masters ..

In fact,as far as they are kwonsigned,those Hausa activists are ipob

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

the willing and stupid tools.

THE NORTHERN REGION IS AN ECONOMIC PARASITE AND A POLITICAL DRAW BACK ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUTHERN REGION.....
IF THE SOUTH MUST

orion7:
the willing and stupid tools.

THE NORTHERN REGION IS AN ECONOMIC PARASITE AND A POLITICAL DRAW BACK ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUTHERN REGION.....
IF THE SOUTH MUST

Una carry Nnamdi Kanu go Sokoto...

What were you guys thinking?

All eyes will be on Sokoto

Foreign

Justiceleague1:
The loyal disciples of the caliphate down south will soon stage protest for their masters ..

In fact,as far as they are kwonsigned,those Hausa activists are ipob

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

ARE THOSE HAUSA ACTIVIST GHOSTS

ErebeOcoco:
Are the Hausas just waking up from deep slumber?

So common sense nor tell you say this nonsense and ingredients are the handwork of MAZI media worriors like Gidgiddy

This is likely going to be the end of Fulani dominance.

It took more than two centuries for nature to halt them.


But it's true, nothing lasts forever, especially evil