Ahmad-Salim

Oppurtunities dont happen, you create them.

[Zagazola @ZagazOlaMakama]

ZAGAZOLA CHECKS: Exploiting Kaduna Muslim Family’s Kidnap to Push Christian Persecution Narrative Is Misleading

A kidnapping is a crime against its victims, not a licence to manufacture a religious narrative.
The abduction of Ahmed Abubakar Zakka, his wife and their infant daughter from their residence in Alrahus Estate, Millennium City, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, is deeply troubling. The family deserves our solidarity, and the security agencies must do everything possible to secure their safe and unconditional release.

But the attempt attributed to Ryan Miller to present this incident to American audiences as evidence of Christian persecution in Nigeria was very disturbing. The question is what does the religious identity of the victims have to do with a claim of Christian persecution when the family at the centre of this particular case is Muslim?

Miller may have opinions about Nigeria’s security crisis, but opinions must not be substituted for evidence. A Muslim family cannot simply be repackaged as a symbol of Christian persecution to fit a predetermined narrative.

Doing so distorts the reality on ground, misleads audiences and risks turning a family’s suffering into an instrument of propaganda in the international community.

The video reportedly circulated on October 12 shows a father holding his young child while an armed man threatens him, as his wife pleads beside him. The reported ₦300 million ransom demand, this simply shared more light on the cruelty of the criminal enterprise of Banditry in Nigeria and added credences to the fact that no one is spared both the Muslims and Christians

Nothing about this horrific ordeal should be trivialised, politicised or manipulated to serve an agenda unrelated to the victims’ actual circumstances.

The question Ryan Miller must answer is straightforward: what evidence establishes that this particular abduction was motivated by the victims’ religion? If no such evidence has been presented, why is the incident being offered to American audiences as proof of Christian persecution?

A criminal incident does not become religious persecution simply because it occurs in Nigeria. Nor does the suffering of a Muslim family become evidence for a claim about Christians merely because someone wants to use it that way.

Nigeria’s security crisis is complex. It involves terrorism, banditry, mass kidnapping, communal violence and criminal networks whose activities have devastated populations in different parts of the country.

Any serious assessment must distinguish between the perpetrators, their motives, the identities of their victims and the evidence available in each case.

There is also a reality that international commentators too often overlook: Muslim communities in northern Nigeria have endured enormous losses from Boko Haram, ISWAP, banditry and mass abductions. Muslim worshippers, clerics, farmers, traders, schoolchildren and entire communities have suffered killings, displacement and captivity.

Their suffering does not disappear because it complicates a simplified narrative about Nigeria.
This does not diminish the genuine attacks and persecution that Christian communities also experience. Every documented case deserves acknowledgement and justice.

Ryan Miller and other commentators must understand that Nigeria’s tragedy is not a licence to mislead the world. If they want to establish Christian persecution, they should present documented cases, identify the perpetrators, demonstrate the religious motive where evidence supports it, and distinguish those cases from ordinary criminal kidnappings or attacks driven by other factors.

Our position is clear every Nigerian life matters, every victim deserves justice, and no community’s suffering should be manipulated to erase another’s.

The Zakka family must be rescued. The kidnappers must face justice. And anyone claiming to speak for victims of persecution must be held to the same standard

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

One miscalculation after another…

- Israel should have never oppressed Palestinians for decades
- Hamas should have never committed the Oct-7 massacre
- Israel should have never committed the Gaza genocide
- Hezbollah should have never attacked Israel
- Trump should have never attacked Iran
- Saudi should have never attacked the Houthis
- The TDF should have never attacked Ethiopia

Yet all the above happened, and it's about to get a lot worse

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@BRICSinfo I like how he is being honest

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.

I will not be silenced.

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@wildklip You can never see a Muslim burning bible or Torah because they’re all holy books

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@spectatorindex Mr trump will not like this

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@MarioNawfal Momma with the sauce 😂

[Paul Gray 🇨🇦 @902Gray]

$MDA $MDA.TO
MDA Space built the Canadarm, is sitting on a C$4B backlog, just grew revenue 34% — and the stock is ~39% off its high.
Canada's space program, on sale.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

He knows my name is Abdul. He says it everyday.

But he’s not just attacking me. He’s attacking all of us. He thinks so low of us. He thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor’s office. He thinks we don’t know any better.

It’s time for change.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Everybody has to know about this. Do not let them bury it

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@CanBorder Can you be serious for once. What if they are fake news watches

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Gaza before and after the Genocide

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@jamb_hq This is a way embezzle government money

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Funeral prayers were held at Gaza City’s Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church for a Palestinian mother and daughter who were among five killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine if America’s right-wing Christian evangelicals actually gave a damn about the killing of Christians in Palestine by Israel.

[Ahmad-Salim @afakach]

@yabaleftonline Trolling kinh

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Google’s updated satellite images of Gaza have caused widespread shock, allowing the public to see the result of Israel’s war. But up until only a few years ago, this wouldn’t have even been possible.

Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains the hidden forces behind digital maps.