The moment a religious cleric visited b@nd!t commanders in the forest, listened to their "grievances," and publicly demanded blanket amnesty, he did not broker peace. He gave them legitimacy.
That was the turning point. What began as criminal enterprise was repackaged as a struggle with "grievances" and the state, worried about religious sensitivities, looked away. Nigeria could have nipped this nonsense in the bud years ago. It did not. And today, we are all paying the price.
Now, b@nd!ts and k!dn@pping networks have not only infiltrated the South‑West. They are emboldened enough to demand changes to existing state laws as a condition for releasing kidnapped school children and teachers. Let that sink in. Criminals are dictating legislative terms.
This is not negotiation. This is capitulation.
Some problems cannot be solved at the negotiating table. Only military force can address them. Every "dialogue" has incentivised further attacks. Every concession has provided militants with a platform to expand their operations.
The lesson is clear: you do not negotiate with people who make money from k!dn@pping children. You hunt them.
No more amnesty. No more legitimisation. No more religious cover for criminality. The only language b@nd!ts understand is the one spoken through the barrel of a gun.
I used to think Eid al-Adha was simply about sacrifice.
About Ibrahim.
About Ismail.
About qurban.
But the older I get, the more I realize it was never only about that.
Then one day I came across a line that stayed with me ever since:
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
If American bases in your country are used to threaten Iran, then your soil is no longer neutral.
It has entered the war already.
And if Iran strikes the machinery of aggression that sits on your land, do not call that madness.
Call it consequence.
You cannot rent your geography to empire and then act shocked when geography becomes fate.
You cannot host the knife and then complain when the bleeding begins.
There was a time when the Muslim world produced men who would cross deserts for the cry of the oppressed.
Now it produces regimes that cannot even expel an ambassador while children are being shredded live on camera.
And yet they have the audacity to question Iran.
No.
The real question is not what Iran has become.
The real question is what they have become.
What kind of rulers hear the call of Palestine, of Lebanon, of Yemen, of the besieged and bombed, and still find their harshest words reserved for the ones who resist?
If someone demanded the bombing of churches or synagogues, they'd be rightly barred from mainstream discourse, if not pursued legally for promoting terrorism. But this despicable human demands the bombing of mosques, & she'll be a commentator on your next prime news show.
@adeiza01@JokombaJibreel And what evidence do you have that says reading translated Quran that didn't exist during the time of the prophet is more beneficial to the reading the Arabic text it is revealed in?
@manuel_michael_@AirtelNigeria I literally messaged their marketer who sold me their ODU device and she told me she's using MTN because Airtel network is poor!
@AirtelNigeria@Stephaynexx what nonsense mobile number are you asking for as if it is an individual issue... I have about 3 airtel lines and none of them is able to access internet!
Sheikh Assim Al Hakeem (@Assimalhakeem) responds to a question about Muslims living peacefully with non-Muslims, through the Islamic lens, at the 1Ummah Peace & Unity 2025 held in Lagos 🇳🇬 over the weekend 😀.
Watch & Listen
@dami_breez@KamiyoJnr@usmanomolara3 If he hasn't started his prayer he will attend to you before going. But if he has commenced it already before you get there yes he should speed it up but he can't break it because of you especially when he doesn't even know what is going on yet.