More than 125,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009. Often left off the page is the other number: 60,000 Muslims, killed in the same years by the same forces, for the same reason — they are considered impure by the caliphate.
I run a free school in Abuja for hundreds of displaced Muslim children, and I have called for monuments to the Muslim men and women murdered for refusing the jihad. I am on the Christian side of this fight, and I am telling you it is not a war between Christians and Muslims. It is one power structure waging war on everyone who stands in its way.
The method shows it. As documented at a terrorist checkpoint in the Middle Belt, passengers were sorted — first by faith, then by sex. Christian men were executed on the spot. Muslim men were told to join or die with them. Many chose death. The women, Christian and Muslim, were taken as slaves. That is not sectarian chaos. It is a procedure, run village by village at national scale, and it names both the enemy and the victims.
"Christian versus Muslim" is not just wrong. It misnames the enemy, drives off the allies we need, and hands the caliphate the recruiting line it wants most.
The enemy is the ruling elite of the Sokoto Caliphate — a power structure, not a faith. When Usman dan Fodio founded it in 1804, his Fulani jihad conquered the Hausa, fellow Muslims, whose rulers he judged impure; he seized their land and bent their clerics to his authority. The project paused under British rule and resumed at independence. Its heirs — the Sultanate, the Miyetti Allah networks, the political machine in Abuja — hold two centuries of consolidated power over everyone else: Christians, Igbo, Middle Belt farmers, and Hausa Muslims alike.
The Hausa are among the most brutalized people in the north, ruled by an elite they never chose. They are not the caliphate. They are its subjects, and they should be our allies.
Muslims die in this war because of the doctrine the caliphate still teaches. Dan Fodio held that anyone who helps an unbeliever is himself an unbeliever, and that a Muslim who mixes Islam with unbelief — the apostate, the one who cooperates with Christians, embrace Western education, or refuses the jihad — is a lawful target. Dan Fodio’s teachings are core curriculum in almajiri schools across the north, where millions of boys are taken from their families and raised on it with no other voice in their ears.
It is why the Sultan's condemnations of violence are not what they sound like. In Dan Fodio’s clear and revered worldview, the Christian and non-jihad Muslim are not "innocent." When he says it is “a sin to kill the innocent,” he is not telling his followers to stop killing peaceful civilians. He is telling the jihadis not to fight each other — because by this doctrine they are the only “innocent” ones. For everyone else, it’s open season.
Dan Fodio’s overarching mission -- why he founded the caliphate, the core of his teachings -- is to prepare the ground for the coming of the Mahdi. Everyone who is not “innocent” by his standards must be cleared from the land -- killed, sold into slavery, displaced, “converted,” or fully dominated. This has been the pattern there for 222 years and it has not stopped.
The enemy is not Islam, and not the Muslims who reject this wholesale. It is the ruling elite of the Sokoto Caliphate — the Sultan, his clerics, his Miyetti Allah militias, the Boko Haram and ISWAP networks built on the same doctrine, the security commanders documented arming those militias with federal weapons, and the nine-million-dollar Washington lobby that buries it under "farmer-herder conflict" and "climate change." Naming it is not Islamophobia. Refusing to name it is cowardice, and it costs lives.
The wrong name has a price. It tells 60,000 dead Muslims their lives did not count. It casts the Hausa majority — the people with the most reason to want the caliphate gone — as the enemy. It hands every wavering young man in the north the caliphate's favorite claim, that the West is at war with Islam. And it files a national security emergency under “religious freedom” — a lane of reports and démarches — when the threat carries a 222-year command structure, Chinese money in its conflict zones, and a terror pipeline that has reached American soil.
To my brothers and sisters across Nigeria — every tribe, every faith: do not let them tell you this is your neighbor's fault. The Christian shot in Benue and the Muslim shot beside him for refusing to join the killers died at the same hand. The ruling elite of the Sokoto Caliphate has spent two centuries setting you against each other, because divided you are governable and united you are unstoppable. Name the enemy correctly. Refuse the lie that this is faith against faith. Stand with the displaced until they are home, and stand with one another until the killing ends.
It is time to rise.
#EarthShaker
Hard to watch.
A group of Iranian civilians boldly seizes a Basij operative in the middle of the street and takes him down.
The level of public rage in Iran toward its regime is hard to comprehend.
This is gory, graphic and saddening.
Here is a kidnapped NYSC member dehumanised by terrorists.
I will keep posting these videos because this is the only way to awaken the anger in all of us. We must speak up and tell the animals in govt enough is enough.
https://t.co/NqeNFSQ48G
The Reason Frank MBA was disqualified to become IGP:
I am a northerner but I will forever stand for truth, justice and equity. In the hierarchy of the Nigerian Police force, Frank MBA is next in line but he was disqualified because of a particular input in his CV. This input in many CVs has cost Nigerians and pulled us backwards since independence and if you find this input is in your CV, you're automatically disqualified from any position that holds value! This input is called the IGBO. Although people with this qualification mostly prove excellence in every field of life they find themselves, they'll never be allowed leadership positions, which raised questions as follows:
1. Is Nigeria cursed never to receive anything good?
2. Is it a crime to be Igbo?
3. Why hold them to ransom if we don't want them among us?
Governance may be rocket science to Tinubu and APC but not rocket science to Peter Obi. Peter Obi has toured the world to study governance models that work. Let's rally around him for a new Nigeria that's very possible
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@Sulaiman191919 @BrotherRasheed Guy you are not being truthful, who in his free will accept Islam if not through jihads or conquer? If you trace back your own lineage your ancestors accepted Islam either through jihads or under conquer, it pathetic that you are white washing a system that kills your ancestors
@MarioNawfal@AbangMercy "What has happened in the Plateau is not a clash between Farmers and Herders, please hear me well, what has been happening is GENOCIDE, and I want the international community to know this"
~ Governor @CalebMutfwang of Plateau Sate on the killings