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bidexmat:Unfortunately church leaders and influential christians got carried away by their own swaggs, influence and wealth and became blinded from seeing the big picture. Maybe the new land regulating church administration will give them brain reset and that's if they are willing to fight for christians and not their selves as usual. |
soulpeppersoup:Maybe its gonna be sooner than you think? Couple of weeks back a man called TVC during a discussion programme that the next president of Nigeria is VP Yemi Osinbajo. Just thinking loud cos there's been prophecies or should I say wishes by some religious leaders too. |
Zenlife:Haba you failed to understand the sarcasm Read again. |
Segadem:I wouldn't want to be seen as encouraging violence cos anyone against certain decisions / actions / inactions of government these days are easily termed enemy of state. However I have been reading my favourite books in order to catch a 'fox' that has been 'eyeing' my rabbit. Sun Tzu said in the "ART OF WAR" and I quote: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete" Even Nicollo Machiavelli said: "God is unwilling to do everything Himself lest He deprive us of our freewill and that portion of glory that belongs to us". A gift of life is sacred and must be protected |
jpphilips:I have nothing against government taxing religious organizations and neither am I a pastor nor one of those gullible religious followers. My concerns are for those who placed their trusts in fake religious leaders whose major interests are the extravagant life styles and positions attached to their offices. However it is dangerous for a secular society like ours to allow either by commission or omission her laws to be stylishly and deceptively aligned majorly to Islamic religion/agenda either sharia, paedophilia, symbols, Kaduna state religious law e.t.c And I hope you are also aware the sultan of sokoto kicked against gender equality bill but quick to support grazing bill and any other that'll push their agenda. So when some southerners think they are intelligent by supporting certain decisions of government they failed to realise they are mostly foolish by not realising the underbelly moves of certain decisions/actions which are inimical to southern Nigeria. All I am interested in is a fair and just Nigeria for all and if that is not possible then will it not be sensible to explore true federalism / regionalism or allow those who are willing to opt out of this contraption to do the needful ![]() But I hope christian leaders will get their acts together for a common cause devoid of selfishness. |
The law though not new but its a two edged sword meant to regulate church activities/influence (politics is partly involved) and check excesses of church leaders vis-à-vis their extravagant lifestyles. On the long run Christianity is the loser because there's a silent move to subjugate christians either some believe it or not. Influential christian leaders who has been hobnobbing with politicians got caught unawares due to their selfishness and greed cos they failed to do the 'needful' before this law eventually became effective. How many times have these soul robbers spoken out against killing of christians in the north? Aside few bold ones who hasn't been 'eating' from aso rock largesse of either pecuniary gains or appointment / elections ![]() Until these idiotic influential christians/leaders wake up from their slumber of living large, luxurious bling bling light hugging life styles they wont realise the dangers they pose to their followers who erroneously thought they have shepherds but who are nothing but self serving wolves. And for those christians who will only say God will fight their cause well I like to remind them too that heaven helps those who helped themselves. |
Abang shouldn't have been redeployed but dismissed and prosecuted. I hope there are no forthcoming cases by the ruling party in Delta state that requires the services of this judge cos the APC is notorious for criminality and impunity. |
RIPEnglish:Many believed because he's the grand patron of miyetti Allah cattle breeders hence his reluctance to do the needful. |
NaMeAboki:Guy you are just a hypocrite. People like you always turn blind eyes to killings of christians but in a hurry to discountenance media reports of murderous rampages by your Fulani militia terrorists. So go and sleep cos jihadists like you are devoid of sensible reasoning. |
Self defence is the one and only solution. Our security architecture is either incompetent or complicit so waiting on government protection is akin to suicide. |
NaMeAboki:Did you termed same media biased when it brought Fulani presidency to power via propaganda and lies ![]() You guys can continue to feel fly cos you won the presidency with powers attached to muscle the downtrodden, dissent, opposition and push northern agenda but the media war? It's a NO NO. The mainstream media and social will continue to expose evils taking place under this government until there is total reversal of such wickedness. |
So you guys decided to exterminate other tribes because of a claim that one of Dan fodio commanders founded southern kaduna Your governor's warped reasoning ain't different. Sick idiots.
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Really ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's all the fuc.k I gave. |
Waiting for the presidency to confirm which African countries these Fulani terrorist militia came from. Is it Mali, ivory coast or SA ![]() Or Dem follow Buboo come from Ghana ![]() I am staying tuned to my TV. |
Not only christians but other innocent Nigerians as well. The natural law of reciprocal action (karma) never fails. |
As good as he sounds he didn't say anything new outside what we've been saying before now on the need for restructuring. However his: "May 2017 be the year we look into the future with the eyes of faith and take steps to accomplish all that we know is possible" is what we'll await to see. |
Pavore9:Then you shouldn't have made that assertion that it's cultural cos that's a lie. Kowtowing or prostrating when greeting the elderly in Yoruba culture is different from such slavishness which is becoming very common amongst christians who has turned their church leaders to gods of men. |
Pavore9:Which culture ![]() The same culture he didn't observe when he visited Ooni of Ife or was he not supposed to prostrate for the king then ![]() |
Rev Sam Ken may as well dance on a palm tree but he should please leave Awolowo out of his delusions. |
You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia -Alastair Crooke Fmr. MI-6 agent; Author, ‘Resistance: The Essence of Islamic Revolution’ BEIRUT — The dramatic arrival of Da’ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed — and horrified — by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia’s ambivalence in the face of this manifestation both troubling and inexplicable, wondering, “Don’t the Saudis understand that ISIS threatens them, too?” It appears — even now — that Saudi Arabia’s ruling elite is divided. Some applaud that ISIS is fighting Iranian Shiite “fire” with Sunni “fire”; that a new Sunni state is taking shape at the very heart of what they regard as a historical Sunni patrimony; and they are drawn by Da’ish’s strict Salafist ideology. Other Saudis are more fearful, and recall the history of the revolt against Abd-al Aziz by the Wahhabist Ikhwan (Disclaimer: this Ikhwan has nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood Ikhwan — please note, all further references hereafter are to the Wahhabist Ikhwan, and not to the Muslim Brotherhood Ikhwan), but which nearly imploded Wahhabism and the al-Saud in the late 1920s. Many Saudis are deeply disturbed by the radical doctrines of Da’ish (ISIS) — and are beginning to question some aspects of Saudi Arabia’s direction and discourse. THE SAUDI DUALITY Saudi Arabia’s internal discord and tensions over ISIS can only be understood by grasping the inherent (and persisting) duality that lies at the core of the Kingdom’s doctrinal makeup and its historical origins. One dominant strand to the Saudi identity pertains directly to Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism), and the use to which his radical, exclusionist puritanism was put by Ibn Saud. (The latter was then no more than a minor leader — amongst many — of continually sparring and raiding Bedouin tribes in the baking and desperately poor deserts of the Nejd.) The second strand to this perplexing duality, relates precisely to King Abd-al Aziz’s subsequent shift towards statehood in the 1920s: his curbing of Ikhwani violence (in order to have diplomatic standing as a nation-state with Britain and America); his institutionalization of the original Wahhabist impulse — and the subsequent seizing of the opportunely surging petrodollar spigot in the 1970s, to channel the volatile Ikhwani current away from home towards export — brather than violent revolution throughout the Muslim world. But this “cultural revolution” was no docile reformism. It was a revolution based on Abd al-Wahhab’s Jacobin-like hatred for the putrescence and deviationism that he perceived all about him — hence his call to purge Islam of all its heresies and idolatries. MUSLIM IMPOSTORS The American author and journalist, Steven Coll, has written how this austere and censorious disciple of the 14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, Abd al-Wahhab, despised “the decorous, arty, tobacco smoking, hashish imbibing, drum pounding Egyptian and Ottoman nobility who travelled across Arabia to pray at Mecca.” In Abd al-Wahhab’s view, these were not Muslims; they were imposters masquerading as Muslims. Nor, indeed, did he find the behavior of local Bedouin Arabs much better. They aggravated Abd al-Wahhab by their honoring of saints, by their erecting of tombstones, and their “superstition” (e.g. revering graves or places that were deemed particularly imbued with the divine). All this behavior, Abd al-Wahhab denounced as bida — forbidden by God. Like Taymiyyah before him, Abd al-Wahhab believed that the period of the Prophet Muhammad’s stay in Medina was the ideal of Muslim society (the “best of times”), to which all Muslims should aspire to emulate (this, essentially, is Salafism). Taymiyyah had declared war on Shi’ism, Sufism and Greek philosophy. He spoke out, too against visiting the grave of the prophet and the celebration of his birthday, declaring that all such behavior represented mere imitation of the Christian worship of Jesus as God (i.e. idolatry). Abd al-Wahhab assimilated all this earlier teaching, stating that “any doubt or hesitation” on the part of a believer in respect to his or her acknowledging this particular interpretation of Islam should “deprive a man of immunity of his property and his life.” One of the main tenets of Abd al-Wahhab’s doctrine has become the key idea of takfir. Under the takfiri doctrine, Abd al-Wahhab and his followers could deem fellow Muslims infidels should they engage in activities that in any way could be said to encroach on the sovereignty of the absolute Authority (that is, the King). Abd al-Wahhab denounced all Muslims who honored the dead, saints, or angels. He held that such sentiments detracted from the complete subservience one must feel towards God, and only God. Wahhabi Islam thus bans any prayer to saints and dead loved ones, pilgrimages to tombs and special mosques, religious festivals celebrating saints, the honoring of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, and even prohibits the use of gravestones when burying the dead. “Those who would not conform to this view should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated, he wrote. Abd al-Wahhab demanded conformity — a conformity that was to be demonstrated in physical and tangible ways. He argued that all Muslims must individually pledge their allegiance to a single Muslim leader (a Caliph, if there were one). Those who would not conform to this view should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated, he wrote. The list of apostates meriting death included the Shiite, Sufis and other Muslim denominations, whom Abd al-Wahhab did not consider to be Muslim at all. There is nothing here that separates Wahhabism from ISIS. The rift would emerge only later: from the subsequent institutionalization of Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab’s doctrine of “One Ruler, One Authority, One Mosque” — these three pillars being taken respectively to refer to the Saudi king, the absolute authority of official Wahhabism, and its control of “the word” (i.e. the mosque). It is this rift — the ISIS denial of these three pillars on which the whole of Sunni authority presently rests — makes ISIS, which in all other respects conforms to Wahhabism, a deep threat to Sas to Wahhabism, a deep threat to Saudi Arabia. BRIEF HISTORY 1741- 1818 Abd al-Wahhab’s advocacy of these ultra radical views inevitably led to his expulsion from his own town — and in 1741, after some wanderings, he found refuge under the protection of Ibn Saud and his tribe. What Ibn Saud perceived in Abd al-Wahhab’s novel teaching was the means to overturn Arab tradition and convention. It was a path to seizing power. “Their strategy — like that of ISIS today — was to bring the peoples whom they conquered into submission. They aimed to instill fear. Ibn Saud’s clan, seizing on Abd al-Wahhab’s doctrine, now could do what they always did, which was raiding neighboring villages and robbing them of their possessions. Only now they were doing it not within the ambit of Arab tradition, but rather under the banner of jihad. Ibn Saud and Abd al-Wahhab also reintroduced the idea of martyrdom in the name of jihad, as it granted those martyred immediate entry into paradise. In the beginning, they conquered a few local communities and imposed their rule over them. (The conquered inhabitants were given a limited choice: conversion to Wahhabism or death.) By 1790, the Alliance controlled most of the Arabian Peninsula and repeatedly raided Medina, Syria and Iraq. Their strategy — like that of ISIS today — was to bring the peoples whom they conquered into submission. They aimed to instill fear. In 1801, the Allies attacked the Holy City of Karbala in Iraq. They massacred thousands of Shiites, including women and children. Many Shiite shrines were destroyed, including the shrine of Imam Hussein, the murdered grandson of Prophet Muhammad. A British official, Lieutenant Francis Warden, observing the situation at the time, wrote: “They pillaged the whole of it [Karbala], and plundered the Tomb of Hussein... slaying in the course of the day, with circumstances of peculiar cruelty, above five thousand of the inhabitants ...” Osman Ibn Bishr Najdi, the historian of the first Saudi state, wrote that Ibn Saud committed a massacre in Karbala in 1801. He proudly documented that massacre saying, “we took Karbala and slaughtered and took its people (as slaves), then praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and we do not apologize for that and say: ‘And to the unbelievers: the same treatment.’” In 1803, Abdul Aziz then entered the Holy City of Mecca, which surrendered under the impact of terror and panic (the same fate was to befall Medina, too). Abd al-Wahhab’s followers demolished historical monuments and all the tombs and shrines in their midst. By the end, they had destroyed centuries of Islamic architecture near the Grand Mosque. But in November of 1803, a Shiite assassin killed King Abdul Aziz (taking revenge for the massacre at Karbala). His son, Saud bin Abd al Aziz, succeeded him and continued the conquest of Arabia. Ottoman rulers, however, could no longer just sit back and watch as their empire was devoured piece by piece. In 1812, the Ottoman army, composed of Egyptians, pushed the Alliance out from Medina, Jeddah and Mecca. In 1814, Saud bin Abd al Aziz died of fever. His unfortunate son Abdullah bin Saud, however, was taken by the Ottomans to Istanbul, where he was gruesomely executed (a visitor to Istanbul reported seeing him having been humiliated in the streets of Istanbul for three days, then hanged and beheaded, his severed head fired from a canon, and his heart cut out and impaled on his body). In 1815, Wahhabi forces were crushed by the Egyptians (acting on the Ottoman’s behalf) in a decisive battle. In 1818, the Ottomans captured and destroyed the Wahhabi capital of Dariyah. The first Saudi state was no more. The few remaining Wahhabis withdrew into the desert to regroup, and there they remained, quiescent for most of the 19th century. HISTORY RETURNS WITH ISIS It is not hard to understand how the founding of the Islamic State by ISIS in contemporary Iraq might resonate amongst those who recall this history. Indeed, the ethos of 18th century Wahhabism did not just wither in Nejd, but it roared back into life when the Ottoman Empire collapsed amongst the chaos of World War I. The Al Saud — in this 20th century renaissance — were led by the laconic and politically astute Abd-al Aziz, who, on uniting the fractious Bedouin tribes, launched the Saudi “Ikhwan” in the spirit of Abd-al Wahhab’s and Ibn Saud’s earlier fighting proselytisers. The Ikhwan was a reincarnation of the early, fierce, semi-independent vanguard movement of committed armed Wahhabist “moralists” who almost had succeeded in seizing Arabia by the early 1800s. In the same manner as earlier, the Ikhwan again succeeded in capturing Mecca, Medina and Jeddah between 1914 and 1926. Abd-al Aziz, however, began to feel his wider interests to be threatened by the revolutionary “Jacobinism” exhibited by the Ikhwan. The Ikhwan revolted — leading to a civil war that lasted until the 1930s, when the King had them put down: he machine-gunned them. For this king, (Abd-al Aziz), the simple verities of previous decades were eroding. Oil was being discovered in the peninsular. Britain and America were courting Abd-al Aziz, but still were inclined to support Sharif Husain as the only legitimate ruler of Arabia. The Saudis needed to develop a more sophisticated diplomatic posture. So Wahhabism was forcefully changed from a movement of revolutionary jihad and theological takfiri purification, to a movement of conservative social, political, theological, and religious da’wa (Islamic call) and to justifying the institution that upholds loyalty to the royal Saudi family and the King’s absolute power. OIL WEALTH SPREAD WAHHABISM With the advent of the oil bonanza — as the French scholar, Giles Kepel writes, Saudi goals were to “reach out and spread Wahhabism across the Muslim world ... to “Wahhabise” Islam, thereby reducing the “multitude of voices within the religion” to a “single creed” — a movement which would transcend national divisions. Billions of dollars were — and continue to be — invested in this manifestation of soft power. It was this heady mix of billion dollar soft power projection — and the Saudi willingness to manage Sunni Islam both to further America’s interests, as it concomitantly embedded Wahhabism educationally, socially and culturally throughout the lands of Islam — that brought into being a western policy dependency on Saudi Arabia, a dependency that has endured since Abd-al Aziz’s meeting with Roosevelt on a U.S. warship (returning the president from the Yalta Conference) until today. Westerners looked at the Kingdom and their gaze was taken by the wealth; by the apparent modernization; by the professed leadership of the Islamic world. They chose to presume that the Kingdom was bending to the imperatives of modern life — and that the management of Sunni Islam would bend the Kingdom, too, to modern life. “On the one hand, ISIS is deeply Wahhabist. On the other hand, it is ultra radical in a different way. It could be seen essentially as a corrective movement to contemporary Wahhabism. But the Saudi Ikhwan approach to Islam did not die in the 1930s. It retreated, but it maintained its hold over parts of the system — hence the duality that we observe today in the Saudi attitude towards ISIS. On the one hand, ISIS is deeply Wahhabist. On the other hand, it is ultra radical in a different way. It could be seen essentially as a corrective movement to contemporary Wahhabism. ISIS is a “post-Medina” movement: it looks to the actions of the first two Caliphs, rather than the Prophet Muhammad himself, as a source of emulation, and it forcefully denies the Saudis’ claim of authority to rule. As the Saudi monarchy blossomed in the oil age into an ever more inflated institution, the appeal of the Ikhwan message gained ground (despite King Faisal’s modernization campaign). The “Ikhwan approach” enjoyed — and still enjoys — the support of many prominent men and women and sheikhs. In a sense, Osama bin Laden was precisely the representative of a late flowering of this Ikhwani approach. Today, ISIS’ undermining of the legitimacy of the King’s legitimacy is not seen to be problematic, but rather a return to the true origins of the Saudi-Wahhab project. In the collaborative management of the region by the Saudis and the West in pursuit of the many western projects (countering socialism, Ba’athism, Nasserism, Soviet and Iranian influence), western politicians have highlighted their chosen reading of Saudi Arabia (wealth, modernization and influence), but they chose to ignore the Wahhabist impulse. After all, the more radical Islamist movements were perceived by Western intelligence services as being more effective in toppling the USSR in Afghanistan — and in combatting out-of-favor Middle Eastern leaders and states. Why should we be surprised then, that from Prince Bandar’s Saudi-Western mandate to manage the insurgency in Syria against President Assad should have emerged a neo-Ikhwan type of violent, fear-inducing vanguard movement: ISIS? And why should we be surprised — knowing a little about Wahhabism — that “moderate” insurgents in Syria would become rarer than a mythical unicorn? Why should we have imagined that radical Wahhabism would create moderates? Or why could we imagine that a doctrine of “One leader, One authority, One mosque: submit to it, or be killed” could ever ultimately lead to moderation or tolerance? Or, perhaps, we never imagined. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5717157?utm_hp_ref=world |
Adminisher:It will be better you remove blinkers from your eyes when quoting me. And since you believed force is the solution then I wish you all best of luck. |
idupaul:Well said. The FG is not genuinely interested in dialogue and force as an option can never be a solution. So it's a stalemate. OBJ and late Yar-Adua who are more intelligent did the needful but now Buboo wanted to play Hercules. His ego and lack of diplomacy will be his undoing cos he'll end up being the worst Nigerian president (which he is) with the way he's going unless he change (ironically change is his party mantra ![]() |
banki:Guys with dysfunctional mindsets like you often jumps to conclusions on issues. Where did I opined the runway shouldn't be fixed? And are there no other airports closer to Abuja like the one in niger state or another state? Why Kaduna that's prone to killings by buhari terrorist kinsmen? Or probably in his usual biased manner he wanted to seize the opportunity to ensure the upgrade Kaduna airport at the detriment of others. And how come the FG didn't carry airline operators along or aren't you aware they kicked against it? We know the dullard is too ignorant of economics to understand the importance of certain decisions hence his usual kneejack approach to critical issues. Brain cripp.le zombies like you and your oga at the top will always resort to insults as usual in the absence of superior arguement. Kindly advice your fellow Fulani sadists ruining the country with nepotism, incompetence and bigotry whilst Nigerians are being killed in their hundreds to buckle up or resign. Bunch of brainless misfits. |
doctokwus:So you expect the state assemblies to impeach them at gun point by Buboo or what ![]() Agreed your dull and incompetent leader is not fit for the office he occupies hence why the country is in a mess with crisis almost everywhere. |
DozieInc:He's fighting hard to have a legacy in place since Obamacare will bite the dust for sure. |
“They act before they think and they take decisions before consulting critical stakeholders. That way, they always end up putting the cart before the horse. That is how they have messed up the economy and now have brought unprecedented grief, misery, poverty and suffering on Nigerians” |
muller101:Lol ![]() ![]() ![]() Chisos...guy you wan burst my belle with laughter. That ain't cool though. |
![]() How can any government succeed in any fight against social ills when it engages bias in handling of state affairs. A government that's always in hurry to prosecute and demonise opposition and dissent is no government but a bunch of brainless, vengeful individuals who lacks foresight and cannot reason beyond cocoon of cluelessness. Wisdom ought to come with age but some allow bigotry and selfish interests to cloud their sense of reasoning whilst they continually place the country's unity at risk. |
ALMUSTAQIM:Are you the one leading the impeachment plot and how did he mock NA, made Adeboye to be rubbished? If Fayose won't know peace then what happens to Buboo under whose hundreds of Nigerians have been killed by hunger and Fulani terrorist herdsmen? |
Fayose didn't said he's above impeachment or about to be impeached. He alleged there are clandestine moves to coerce the judiciary to use Army Panel report to reverse his election victory. All this uninformed lawyers sef. |
Fayose should pay civil servants as soon as possible. That should be the no.1 priority. |
He's an upgraded version of Dino melaye. Toy boys. |
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