When Una don Dey send this people away, give me this one…
Iran that is a Muslim nation combines education with religious teaching. They are the fourth most intelligent humans.
Iran ranks 4th globally in IQ precisely because they COMBINE Islamic teaching with formal education. Not replace it.
The strongest Muslim civilizations were the ones advancing science and mathematics while Europe was in the dark ages.
A cleric telling you education is irrelevant is not protecting your faith. He’s producing a generation too uneducated to protect themselves.
You can have a PhD and still pray Fajr. These are not opposing goals.
To fill 50 litres of a Corolla car:
During Obasanjo’s time it cost ₦3,750. During Yar’Adua’s time, it cost ₦3,250. During GEJ’s time, it cost ₦4,350.
During Buhari’s time, it cost ₦11,900.
Now under Tinubu’s regime, to fill the same 50 litres of a Corolla car cost ₦61,350
Iraq in 1991 negotiated a ceasefire.
Saddam Hussein pulled back from Kuwait.
The stated objective of the coalition was achieved.
The UN mandate was fulfilled.
The war was over.
Twelve years of the most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed on a country followed.
Five hundred thousand Iraqi children died.
Not from bombs.
From the sanctions.
From the inability to import medicine.
From the destruction of water treatment infrastructure.
From the systematic economic strangulation of a country that had agreed to the terms it was given.
Madeleine Albright was asked in 1996 whether the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were worth it.
She said: "We think the price is worth it."
On camera.
With her name attached.
Then in 2003, after twelve years of compliance with weapons inspection regimes, after twelve years of sanctions, after twelve years of no-fly zones enforced by American and British aircraft over sovereign Iraqi territory:
They invaded anyway.
There were no weapons of mass destruction.
They knew there were no weapons of mass destruction.
The sanctions had worked.
The inspections had worked.
The compliance had worked.
They invaded anyway.
Because the compliance was never the point.
The compliance was the process by which Iraq was weakened enough to be finished.
Negotiations. Compliance. Sanctions. Inspection regimes. Another decade of negotiations. Invasion.
This is the sequence.
This is what "negotiations" produced for Iraq.
Half a million dead children as the price of the ceasefire.
Two million dead as the price of the invasion.
A country that has not recovered twenty years later.
This is the table they invite you to.