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Terrorism-Defining the problem is the first step

If you want to fight and win a battle then the first step is to have a problem statement. Define the problem. A problem not well defined will be more difficult to solve. If you solve it by chance then you may not even know. That is the IFA cast for Nigerians who don't know that the fiscal part of their national challenges have been degraded in the last few years that the tax to GDP ratio rose to like fifteen percent from much lower than that. They have a challenge caused by a lack of knowledge. Okanran Owonrin is the odu. I don't have that challenge because I have been proposing taxation as the solution to even Nigeria's corruption since 2007.

The same challenge is what the whole world is facing concerning religious extremism and terrorism. You hear people say there are thousands of religions. There must be freedom of religion as a human right and etc etc. They fail to properly define what is the problem. To them, Buddhism or Hinduism is just the same thing or in the same category as Islam or Christianity. They are all religions. The problem is not the word as words are just sounds but the danger in saying wolves are lambs and acting accordingly. Wolves are not lambs and that you use the same word for them and keep them in the same encampment will not save you or your business from the natural result of the action.

Atheists too join the fray in muddling everything up. They say there are at least five thousand Gods and if you believe yours is the only one then it is obvious you are deceiving yourself. When in reality there is no human culture with no name for the almighty God just like they have names for everything like water, stone, man, woman , father, mother and etc.

Back in 2006 or 2007 before I knew anything about Ifa, I pointed out online that Ifa isn't a religion because if you know how to do something and you teach people then it isn't a religion. It is not the same thing done by Christians and Muslims who hear voices in their heads. Then many years later, someone on Quora further helped by saying religion means bound together with root in latin. It means essentially the same thing as fascism. Not that being bound together is in itself bad as lawyers, doctors etc are bound together and it is for good but we all know it can be dangerous too when something not commonsensical is binding people together. We know it is dangerous when people are bound together like a cult group. An Indian on Quora defined a cult simply as something easy to join but whose members will kill you if you try to leave. I add that even if they only hate you when you leave it is still a cult and that makes Christianity and Islam cults. What now makes them very dangerous is that they register with the government and are licensed to be going about saying to children and impressionable people that if they don't join them then God will eternally damn them.

I refused from the onset to accept that any non invasive spiritual tradition is a religion. If you want to start the fight at all then you have to separate Islam and Christianity from the rest because if you don't do that your fight will be restricted to religious tolerance and that will never be adequate in centuries.

To start the fight against religious extremism at all, you have to separate the wheat from the chaff. Use whatever word you like. A rose by any other name will smell as sweet but you MUST separate Islam and Christianity from the rest. Without doing that, the problem simply can not be solved.

Are you saying Islam is a religion of terrorism?

There are 3 targets

The sponsor of the terrorists

The arms suppliers

The logistics companies delivering items to the terrorists in the bush

helinues:
There are 3 targets

The sponsor of the terrorists

The arms suppliers

The logistics companies delivering items to the terrorists in the bush

A corrupt evil nation of people, the chicken has finally come home to roost.

favor914:
A corrupt evil nation of people, the chicken has finally come home to roost.

Annoyingly, the arms and logistics are handled mostly by the Southerners, only the sponsor are mostly Northerners

helinues:
Annoyingly, the arms and logistics are handled mostly by the Southerners, only the sponsor are mostly Northerners

Guy, Nigeria is a Hypocrite nation of people, the same people that promoted endsars, likes of them Falana & Co, we do not want Police on the road anymore people, we prefer the bandits to police.

We have a court judgment, when u apprehend the Criminals do not show their faces, the bandits have rights also, Ironically, are the ones shouting insecurity today.

@OP.

Not too sure what you are saying but, in my opinion, the obvious cause of terrorism emanating from the North is fundamentalist Islamic brainwashing that starts literally from when a child is born.

The North needs brave leaders who will bell the Cat. I.e literally make the effort to fight over-religiosity in the region and how everything centres around Islam.

For terrorism to end Northern leaders must step up and create a deliberate policy to run Islamic fundamentalism clerics and fundamentalist Islam out of business.

The likes of Saudi Arabia deliberately transitioned towards moderate Islam to become more business-friendly nations open to do business with and accommodate the world.

This is why I despise Northern leaders who are power-obseesed like Atiku, who coincidentally lives in the Middle-East, and cannot fight for what is transforming Saudi Arabia, Dubai etal for the better.

If there is no effort for what is shown below to be done in Northern Nigeria, with leaders and followers in the region sticking with tacit support for fundamentalist Islam rather than adoption a deliberate policy to transform towards moderate Islam, then terrorism will not end and the only option will be for the rest of us to protect ourselves which is what I believe PBAT views his solution strategy with State policing.

TopBanter:
@OP.

Not too sure what you are saying but, in my opinion, the obvious cause of terrorism emanating from the North is fundamentalist Islamic brainwashing that starts literally from when a child is born.

The North needs brave leaders who will bell the Cat. I.e literally make the effort to fight over-religiosity in the region and how everything centres around Islam.

For terrorism to end Northern leaders must step up and create a deliberate policy to run Islamic fundamentalism clerics and fundamentalist Islam out of business.

The likes of Saudi Arabia deliberately transitioned towards moderate Islam to become more business-friendly nations open to do business with and accommodate the world.

This is why I despise Northern leaders who are power-obseesed like Atiku, who coincidentally lives in the Middle-East, and cannot fight for what is transforming Saudi Arabia, Dubai etal for the better.

If there is no effort for what is shown below to be done in Northern Nigeria, with leaders and followers in the region sticking with tacit support for fundamentalist Islam rather than adoption a deliberate policy to transform towards moderate Islam, then terrorism will not end and the only option will be for the rest of us to protect ourselves which is what I believe PBAT views his solution strategy with State policing.

Haven't you met well educated Muslims? Financially well off extremists? The underwear bomber is a son of a former bank chairman. It is not poverty but a problem of brainwashing. They are convinced they are right. It is the government that needs to sit down and determine if it is right and safe to place the public practice and spreading of Christianity and Islam under the list of fundamental human rights. It isn't a right to spread harmful beliefs just like it isn't right to be propagating homosexuality, beastiality and etc as acceptable. Those are not rights. You can do them at home but spreading them is not a right or rather it shouldn't be a right.