ISLAM EXPLAINED By Husain Zakariyya

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This one sounds more fictitious than the first one that was monitored only by Reuters for Nigerians. The call sounds very fairy too, more so that it was posted in Arabic, when they knew that Nigerians do not speak Arabic language, when they knew that Nigeria is largely in perpetual blackout due to power failure, when they knew that most Nigerians cannot access internet; that’s attention-grabbing! 

Here sensibility calls for screening of everything you read or hear. The first offer was everything modern, from warfare training to heavy equipment, to men, to intelligence, but only to ‘fight only the West African Christians’. The second call expanded the war to include the entire African continent, and no offer of finances or military equipment was made. That the ‘jihad’ should be fought with only ‘sword and spear’! Is it imported terrorism not suicidal for the Muslims? Haba al-Qaida? You think we are that docile?

Recently also, Moammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader, made another reckless offer to Nigerian leaders: thus; ‘nothing would stop ethnic violence in Nigeria except splitting the oil-rich nation into Muslim and Christian states’, the official news agency reported. Moammar Gaddafi told a group of African student leaders in Tripoli that the violence in Nigeria is a “deep-rooted conflict of a religious nature” that requires a radical solution.

Nigerians, and particularly the Muslims are not idiots as to answer the call of anybody to break their part of the covenant of mutual and peaceful coexistence that the founders of Nigeria entered into on our behalf and the generations yet unborn, since over 50 years ago! Nigerian Muslims sue for peace since inception, and will keep their oath as ours forever!

Thus all these recent calls should be strongly and vehemently disregarded, discarded and ignored. 

Please live Nigeria and Nigerians alone. Nigerians can manage their problems internally. We have done that and we will continue to do that again and again!

Long live Nigerians! Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria!

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