Propositions like this, make one to wonder if truly you are educated like you claim to be.
Quick thought: Cats: domestic or wild belong to the feline family before being divided along habitat, traits and all- yet they are under the kingdom "Animalia"
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The question of primacy among tribe, race, and religion assumes these categories are natural laws rather than inventions humans use to sort, rank, and exclude. They are NOT. They are tools. And the order in which they “come first” depends entirely on who benefits from the /1
I am first and foremost a Muslim. I am an adherent of Islam, an Abrahamic believer, and a Hanif before anything else. Only then am I Yorùbá.
To those who have made it their mission to question the loyalty of Yorùbá Muslims, you may continue your attacks. But know this: for a true Muslim, Islam will always come first. It precedes ethnicity, culture, and nationality because it is the primordial covenant with our Creator.
A Yorùbá Muslim is not conflicted in his identity. He was a Muslim in the divine decree long before he was conceived, and he entered the world as Yorùbá the day he was born to Yorùbá parents. These two identities are not rivals—they are perfectly compatible. One defines his eternal soul and purpose; the other shapes his language, culture, and earthly heritage. Both have their rightful place.
If any Yorùbá Muslim chooses, for whatever reason, to place ethnicity above Islam, then that person has failed to grasp the most fundamental principle of our faith: La ilaha illallah (there is no god but Allah), and nothing has precedence over Him. Such a person's reckoning is with Allah alone.
My identity is clear and unapologetic: Islam first. Always. Everything else follows in its proper order.
Chronology says tribe. Power says race. Influence says religion. But the real answer is: the one you’re being forced to answer for at that moment. The question is not which came first. The question is why we keep letting any of them come first. /6
immediate and amoral -- it protects its own and distrusts the rest.
Race came next, but not naturally. Race is tribe weaponized by colonialism and pseudoscience. It took the human tendency toward in-group preference and grafted onto it a fake biological ladder. Where tribe /3
hierarchy at any given moment.
Tribe came first chronologically. Long before anyone drew borders or sequenced DNA, humans organized around kinship, language, and shared survival. Tribe is proximity and loyalty scaled down to people you actually know. It is instinctive, /2
@iKON_LVN@tomiwebstr Going to prepare for great battle!!
cash in old favors and call on new ones… The summoning of war experienced and best tactical eruku’s!!!