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[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

"You can judge the character of a person by how they treat people who can do absolutely nothing for them."

[Uncle K Esq @Supheey]

Lol!! Anytime I see this, I laugh. You can go to a typical neighbourhood in Kano or Zaria and find men sitting in the entrance of their households (zaure) teaching students texts that were authored years ago. This zaure style of learning has, for generations, attracted students from neighbouring countries who travel specifically to study under these scholars. You will find teachers who have handwritten books on sciences, logic, grammar, and other subjects. Yet, someone can look these people in the eye and call them illiterate simply because they do not communicate in the language of his colonial master.

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@elnathan_john Most Nigerians have a chronic ignorance of the nothern part and true happenings of the insurgency but always assumes they know and deem fit to comment about it. Hence the popular misconceptions.
We shall read!

NB: I completely desest the almajiri system of today

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.

First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.

Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.

Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn

As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.

Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.

[Ahmad Ganga @AhmadGanga]

No Christian —dead or alive —has ever been tried by Sharia court. None has ever been convicted based on Islamic jurisprudence. I dare challenge any non Muslim who’s been coerced to accept a verdict pass by a Sharia court.

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@Sir_Jakess @iambabangida_ I thought their best chance to state their demands is when they have someone in captivity why hiding it until when they have no leverage? Abi your brain spoil ni?

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Hey @grok, did the Israeli military arrest four college girls, including one US citizen, in the middle of the night and throw them in a torture prison? Can these “administrative detentions” drag out for years without charges? Very concise.

[Mohammed Jammal @whitenigerian]

Do you have an existing business in the Northern part of Nigeria? This is your chance to apply for the Arewa Business Support Fund. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@China_TVv Serious YES

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Did you know that if you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants together in a jar, they usually coexist peacefully? But if you shake the jar hard, they immediately turn on each other and start killing one another. The red ants see the black ants as enemies, and the black ants see the red ants as enemies. Yet the real enemy is the one shaking the jar.
The same thing happens in human society. Before we turn on each other, we should stop and ask ourselves: who is shaking the jar?

[Gabriel F Harris @geebereal99]

I want to teach you something about Arabic that will change how you see the language.
There's a pattern that turns any word into its "better/best" form.
Once you learn it, you can do it with almost any word. And it takes five seconds.
Let me show you how.

[Aliyu Giwa @aleeygiwa]

You can now reach your nearest Divisional Police Officer by phone.

To enhance response, accessibility, and community policing, her are the contact numbers of Divisional Police Officers across Nigeria.

Security is a shared responsibility. Please speak up, report promptly, and remain vigilant.

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@alouibrahim92 And nothing will happen to you

[Wilberforce Theophilus @Eze_Wilberforce]

This speech made more millionaires than a college degree.

[$ULTAN☠️𝕏 @Sarki_sultan]

This video no need further explanation.

Repost massively.

[BBC News Hausa @bbchausa]

Shamsuddeen Jibril, wani matashi ne da ya ƙirƙiri jirgin feshin gona da ma wasu sauran na’urorin fasaha don kawo wa manoma sauƙi da ma al'umma baki ɗaya.

🎥 - Fatawul Mohammed/Isiyaku Muhammad

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@Gosleepriya 116

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@Essay007 @matolysis @YusufAsunmogejo @Dammi_Esq Who does that?

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@matolysis @YusufAsunmogejo @Dammi_Esq Then they should estimate the profit earned from his money ever the period and share it

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@ShehuSani When the Lord decide to offer you longevity, He combine them all for you.

[Mujaheed Saye @mjay_saye]

@ebedeegram Say you na hin mentor😂