₦airaland Forum

When Boko Haram first emerged and targeted the Christians, the north was silent. The traditional leaders, Muslim clerics and State governors were loudly silent. Apart from a few less popular but true scholars who stood up and condemned the terrorists, the larger north dissociated itself from doing so in spite of raging public demand.
The papers were awash with criticism: why does the north not condemn Boko Haram? Where is the Sultan? Why does Buhari not speak? These were the comments that we remembered filled up main stream and social media. Many northern governors were even accused of financing Boko Haram, at least to keep them out of their States and left to destroy the northeast. Some northern eminents went even as far as praising Boko Haram while it bombed Churches religiously almost every weekend. Former PDP chairman, Bamanga Tukur is noted to have said, ‘Boko Haram is fighting for justice, Boko Haram is another name for justice.”

Later Boko Haram turned its sights on the silent and supportive north. They bombed and killed northern Muslims and other faithfuls in droves. They struck major northern cities and visited dozens of Mosques including Kano’s Central. Numbers say Boko Haram ended up killing more innocent northern Muslims than they had Christians in their early days. Tens of thousands were killed and 3 million displaced. The struggling northern economy was devastated beyond recovery as has been its reputation. Children and families have been broken beyond repair with hundreds impregnated by terrorists.
Dejavu
Today the Human Rights Watch and Nigerian Human Rights Commission has clearly condemned the excesses of the Military in Zaria between December 12th to the 16th of last year. Very few normal human beings can see reason to the massacre of pogrom defines. Hundreds were killed in response to an alleged attack on the nation’s military Chief and later explained on the basis of the Islamic movement being a “nuiscance.” Hundreds were kidnapped and held extra-judiciously incommunicado by the State including the head of the Islamic movement and his wife after their three more sons were shot and burned to death.
Graves of the minority Muslim group were exhumed as their homes were demolished by the Nigerian army and Kaduna State government.
The persecution continued with government lavishly sponsored hate campaigns against the oppressed minority, selecting fanatic scholars and other extremist community members to propagate extensive deadly hate campaigns against the already persecuted faithfuls. And to top it up, justice was denied with the administration, both State and Federal implicating the dead and defenseless without probe and selecting fanatic hate-filled brothers to lead the partial investigations at the involved-participant State-level.
And through this all, the north remained silent as they did during the days Boko Haram persecuted the Christians. Some…enough northerners even rejoiced, praising the military Chief who they fondly called, “Ayatollah Buratai.” There was no sense of guilt and no care. There has been no sense of remorse or regret. There is no recollection of what the days of silence and silent support of Boko Haram did to the north.
We will watch this one unravel, sadly.


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One day the muslim in the north will be wise to see religion has nuisance

hmmmm

Bayusity:

you know it's always easy to consider people's own believe as a nuisance especially when you don't have the same believe. But can Nigeria grow like that?

2kaybiel:
One day the muslim in the north will be wise to see religion has nuisance

you know it's always easy to consider people's own believe as a nuisance especially when you don't have the same believe. But can Nigeria grow like that?

rappeddy:
you know it's always easy to consider people's own believe as a nuisance especially when you don't have the same believe. But can Nigeria grow like that?

Nigeria will definitely grow bcoz religion is basically our problem if religion is taking out you will see that everything will fall to it right place but it can't people hide under the name of religion to perpetrate evil especially muslim who in their eyes believe that they are fighting the course of allah , as stated in in quran "Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…Sahih Muslim 19:4294"

2kaybiel:
Nigeria will definitely grow bcoz religion is basically our problem if religion is taking out you will see that everything will fall to it right place but it can't people hide under the name of religion to perpetrate evil especially muslim who in their eyes believe that they are fighting the course of allah , as stated in in quran "Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…Sahih Muslim 19:4294"

Stop quoting things out of context. You don't just go around killing people without any reason. Islam doesn't ask you to do that. The Hadith you quoted are instructions given to the Muslim army during engagement not at peace time but when war was upon them. Even that had conditions if you had quoted it completely. Rights of children and others was given its due place. Not what happens today with all extremist groups doing the opposite.

2kaybiel:
Nigeria will definitely grow bcoz religion is basically our problem if religion is taking out you will see that everything will fall to it right place but it can't people hide under the name of religion to perpetrate evil especially muslim who in their eyes believe that they are fighting the course of allah , as stated in in quran "Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…Sahih Muslim 19:4294"

Well said. Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool

[quote author=hakanai post=42081748]Stop quoting things out of context. You don't just go around killing people without any reason. Islam doesn't ask you to do that. The Hadith you quoted are instructions given to the Muslim army during engagement not at peace time but when war was upon them. Even that had conditions if you had quoted it completely. Rights of children and others was given its due place. Not what happens today with all extremist groups doing the opposite.[/quote so you want to tell me those killing in the name of Allah have no reason for doing so? One thing I am sure of is that if you op stay under the teaching of isis and bokoharam you will do nothing but to go out and kill for Allah. Fighting is obligatory for you (Muslims), even if you dislike it - Quran 2:216.

2kaybiel:
One day the muslim in the north will be wise to see religion has nuisance

I'm sorry to say that day may never come and you and i knows that...

This is propaganda at it's annoying best. Stop painting those shiites as saints and innocent victims, if you want to criticise the NA for it's acts go ahead do it, I also believe the NA was unprofessional in it's handling of the situation but calling it pogrom? That's pushing it. Stop trying to wipe up people's emotions against others to support your views, the situation is already volatile

knightsTempler:
I'm sorry to say that day may never come and you and i knows that...

yes I concur bro.

2kaybiel:
One day the muslim in the north will be wise to see religion has nuisance

Words of wisdom, useful to the wise but unfortunately will be discarded by the "gullibly" brainwashed fools up there.

hakanai:
Stop quoting things out of context. You don't just go around killing people without any reason. Islam doesn't ask you to do that. The Hadith you quoted are instructions given to the Muslim army during engagement not at peace time but when war was upon them. Even that had conditions if you had quoted it completely. Rights of children and others was given its due place. Not what happens today with all extremist groups doing the opposite.

I believe you my brother. Tho I am not a Muslim but a Christian, even in Christendom, people have quoted the bible out of context to suit their whims and caprices. If we do not keep our religiosity to ourselves, we can never make any headway as a diverse nation. This advice is for the northern Muslims in particular.

AlPeter:
This is propaganda at it's annoying best. Stop painting those shiites as saints and innocent victims, if you want to criticise the NA for it's acts go ahead do it, I also believe the NA was unprofessional in it's handling of the situation but calling it pogrom? That's pushing it. Stop trying to wipe up people's emotions against others to support your views, the situation is already volatile

Seconded.

I could swear this op is Shi'a

OP is and ipod miscreant

babyfaceafrica:
OP is and ipod miscreant

acenazt:
I could swear this op is Shi'a

I'm sorry, but I don't have to be a shia to see a spade and call it a spade. For your information I live in kaduna and I schooled in zaria.
when I was in school at Congo, zaria I lived in a house just a few metres away from the said El- Elzakzaky. I'm a Christian and about 80% of the population around Gyelesu around him are students and mostly Christians as well.
Not a single harm has been done to anyone around him in the name of religion. Even during the post election crises in 2011 which claimed so many lives in the north and even more bloody in zaria did not affect Gyellessu.
Pls don't make conclusion on hearsay and unjustified judgement. if you don't know, don't talk.

Just imagine it was the other Muslims that were treated this way, will there be peace right now? No one is saying that the Shiites have the right to block roads, but how does blocking a road justify killings that occurred long after the said road block. If at least one of the soldiers in the convoy with Buratai was killed by the sect then the army would have a say.

The question is, when will the thousands of non-shia Muslims who block high ways in the north every Friday of every week in the name of prayers be massacred for blocking roads?
Those of us who live in the north are first class witnesses to this idiotic and very annoying attitude
This is so bad that people are afraid to travel on Fridays and if you do take the courage to travel, then you are in for some serious risk. While traveling, It's either the driver (if he is a hausa muslim), just drive all the persangers towards the nearest mosque on the highway, go out of the car without seeking the persangers permission and walk straight to the middle of a croud already grounding their fore- heads on the ground to do as they do or your while traveling, your car just gets stuck in front of a great croud of so-called worshippers praying their lives in the high way.

For me if the Government could condone an every week event of road barricading, then why take an annual rroad blocking so seriously to the extent of alleging that the sect wanted to assassinate the chief of army staff?
Pls let us call a spade a spade.

rappeddy:
I'm sorry, but I don't have to be a shia to see a spade and call it a spade. For your information I live in kaduna and I schooled in zaria.
when I was in school at Congo, zaria I lived in a house just a few metres away from the said El- Elzakzaky. I'm a Christian and about 80% of the population around Gyelesu around him are students and mostly Christians as well.
Not a single harm has been done to anyone around him in the name of religion. Even during the post election crises in 2011 which claimed so many lives in the north and even more bloody in zaria did not affect Gyellessu.
Pls don't make conclusion on hearsay and unjustified judgement. if you don't know, don't talk.

bros I reside in kaduna too and I am currently a student of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

Whatever we do as human, we must adhere to principles of fairness, justice and respect for human lives. without these, we are not making the world a better and safer place for all to live!

acenazt:
bros I reside in kaduna too and I am currently a student of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

and a Sunni Muslim who doesn't value life

acenazt:
bros I reside in kaduna too and I am currently a student of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

So what's your point?

FutureNigeria:
Whatever we do as human, we must adhere to principles of fairness, justice and respect for human lives. without these, we are not making the world a better and safer place for all to live!

God will bless you. It doesn't matter what religion you belong, just know that humans are made by God and so only God can judge them to death and not you.

FutureNigeria:
Whatever we do as human, we must adhere to principles of fairness, justice and respect for human lives. without these, we are not making the world a better and safer place for all to live!

God will bless you. It doesn't matter what religion you belong, just know that humans are made by God and so only God can judge them to death and not us.

TIMEISWISDOM:
and a Sunni Muslim who doesn't value life

I value Life oh I just don't feel inclined to care about who lives or who dies. I cant stop it so I turn a blind fave