@ZayynHassan Don't blame them. Nigerians don't read and don't care to educate themselves. They can turn on Sowore no matter the sacrifices he has made because the hate they have for muslims run deeper.
@DrCroc28 Stop asking us. Go ask the US why the Library of Congress dome has "Islam" written under a figure honoring its contribution to civilization, and why the Supreme Court's own courtroom frieze places Muhammad among the 18 greatest lawgivers in history. Ask them why.
The real picture is both sides raided, conquered, persecuted, and killed across thirteen centuries of contact. Neither "Islam attacked first" nor "Christians were worse" survives contact with the actual record. You are a Christian and want to score cheap points. Understood.
Your al-Hakim write-up leaves out the other half of the story.
Before 1009, Byzantine emperors (Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes) ran their own aggressive campaigns deep into Muslim Syria for decades. Sieges, burned crops, starved towns.
You accuse Christianity of the “Crusades,” but what were they, and why did they happen?
This is Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Islamic ruler who conquered Jerusalem in 996.
He was called the “Mad Caliph.” Why? Because of what he did to Christians and Jews in Jerusalem.
These were some of the things he did to Christians and Jews:
He had the tongues of Coptic Christians cut out in an attempt to stop their religious rituals.
He ordered Christians to wear large crosses around their necks weighing 2 kg.
He ordered Jews to wear bells around their necks. He also ordered them to sleep during the day and work at night.
He gravely oppressed both Jews and Christians.
What became one of the major catalysts in the buildup to the Crusades was his destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
That was the church built over the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.
The destruction was an attempt to erase the Christian memory associated with the site.
According to Yahya ibn Sa'id, his order was:
“Demolish the church of the resurrection so that no trace of it remained.”
It was after this, in November 1095, that Pope Urban II called the First Crusade at Clermont in the West.
Against this backdrop was centuries of Muslim conquest of formerly Christian territories.
In 634 AD, just two years after Muhammad’s death, the Muslim conquest of the Levant began under Caliph Abu Bakr.
Around 50,000 Christian soldiers were killed.
After years of warfare and exhaustion, Jerusalem surrendered in 637 AD to Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab.
Patriarch Sophronius personally handed the key to the city to him.
Within just a few decades of Muhammad’s death, the first caliphs had conquered vast territories, with Christians making up much of the population of the lands conquered in Egypt, Jerusalem, and Syria.
The conquests eventually extended into Persia, North Africa, Spain, and elsewhere.
It was Charles Martel, in 732 AD at the Battle of Tours, who was able to repel a Muslim force that had advanced into Frankish territory.
So, the Crusades cannot simply be presented as unprovoked Christian aggression.
They arose within the context of centuries of Muslim conquest, warfare, persecution, and the loss of Christian territories.
So what exactly is your point?
I don’t even want to get into colonization.
The Arabs were themselves major imperial powers, and the history of Islamic expansion cannot simply be separated from imperial conquest.
Sundiata Keita was an imperial ruler of the Mali Empire.
And the wars in the Middle East?
Many of them were fought by secular Arab nationalist states, not simply by religious Christians or Muslims.
Your points are mostly baseless.
Picking one caliph's crimes to justify one war while ignoring the violence Christian armies committed before, during, and after it isn't history. It's a highlight reel.
@movaciy@Ogidi_Of_Owa If that's his argument then it's a stupid argument. NASFAT have been doing so for years. This is not something only one religion has a monopoly of.
@ConelAA@Millz_umar You rightly said Kano Emir and Kano is a state made up of diverse groups. Be it the majority might identify as Hausa. He can as well attend Igbo or Yoruba events as the interest of all under his chiefdom is his responsibility.
@Bamtefa_Adedapo@Asakemijimi So Muslims can build hospitals, universities and banks but it's a robotic system they can't invest in because your argument is predicated on Redeemers doing it first? So the one Nisa invested in 2015 were you the one that facilitated it for them?
@Omoiyaoluko The CEO and Founder of the hospital where this surgery took place is a Muslim and the first ever robotics surgery in West Africa was also performed in the same hospital in 2025.
@Bamtefa_Adedapo@Asakemijimi You said "Redeemers university just performed the first African robotic surgery", which was a lie. And the CEO and founder of Nisa is Dr Ibrahim Wada. What does the name sound like to You?
@Bamtefa_Adedapo@Asakemijimi "First African robotic surgery" is false, robotic surgery predates this in South Africa and Egypt, and Nigeria's own first robotic surgery was in 2025 in NISA Premier Hospital.