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John Kerry and the Sultan of Sokoto |
Mr. John
Kerry, the American Secretary of State, President Barack Obama's confidante and
Mrs. Hilary Clinton's successor in office, came to Nigeria the other day.
The first
meeting that he had was with the Sultan of Sokoto, who is the supreme leader of
the Fulani Caliphate, the spiritual leader of all the Muslims of the north and
the man who said, only last week, that "Christians commit wicked acts and
crimes against humanity" and that "the wearing of the hijab is the
right of every Muslim".
The second
was with the the 19 northern governors, 16 of whom are Muslims.
The third
was our Muslim-fanatic and sharia-loving President who has refused to call his
kinsmen, the Fulani herdsmen and militants, to order or to arrest and prosecute
even one of them for mass murder and genocide.
On the very
same day that all this was happening the Islamic Development Bank visited the
President and opened their first office in Nigeria.
The
government has also quietly put two separate pieces of legislation before the
National Assembly for consideration which, if passed, would on the one hand
legalise criminal sharia law and on the other give grazing land to the Fulani
herdsmen in the Middle Belt and the south.
The
Christians of Nigeria should make of all this what they will.
I wonder
whether they still "love and trust" the "liberal" Hilary
Clinton and Barack Obama?
I wonder if
they still believe that Clinton and Obama love ALL Nigerians and not just those
that they helped to get into power last year?
Think hard
and think deep Christian before it is too late and you are overwhelmed.
Consider the
religious war that took place in Lebanon years ago and that is taking place in
Syria today.
No-one wants
a war because war is the ultimate evil yet the bitter truth must be told.
And that
bitter truth is as follows: if the radical salafist and wahhabist Muslim
fundamentalists of the core north, with their powerful friends in Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, Qatar and Obama's America push us over the edge and such a war ever
happens here, it will be 100 times worse than those two put together. Worse
still it will go on from generation to generation.
Do those
that wish to Islamize us and wipe out our faith think it would be worth all
that?
Are they
prepared to pay such a terrible price by trying? The truth is that they are
playing with fire.
They are
playing Russian roulette with a loaded gun and the single bullet that is in the
barrel is about to go off in their faces.
The Bible
says that knowledge is power. How many Nigerians know that Egypt and Turkey
were once nations which were 100 per cent Christian until they were Islamized
through the back door?
It took
hundreds of years but, slowly and surely and as a consequence of the total
acquisition of political power by the Muslims in both of those countries
coupled with the continuous display of complacency, ignorance, weakness,
indolence, fear and cowardice on the part of successive Church leaders and
leading members of the Christian community, they were totally and completely Islamized.
Today the
Christians in both Egypt and Turkey constitute a pitiful and tiny minority: 10
per cent in Egypt and 0.4 per cent in Turkey.
I hope that
the new leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), as they
prepare for their first meeting in Maiduguri, Borno state on the 26th of
August, are taking note of all this.
May God
forbid that we should ever allow it to happen in Nigeria.
Yet one
thing remains clear: the Christians of Nigeria are not like their counterparts
that once constituted a majority in Turkey and Egypt. They are much more
resilient and they are much stronger. They are also much more capable of
defending themselves when pushed to the wall.
Despite
consistently turning the other cheek and constantly striving to keep the peace,
they are not ignorant, weak, cowardly, complacent, fearful or indolent.
When push
comes to shove, unlike the Christians of Egypt and Turkey, they will not go
down without a fight.
A word is
enough for the wise.
As a graphic
reflection of the anger that is slowly building up amongst Christians in the
land, Mr. Kingsly Okah, a public commentator, wrote the following on Facebook.
He wrote:
"John
Kerry came for the Sultan of Sokoto's birthday and not a state visit. He came
to perfect the western seed of discord foisted on us by the ouster of President
Goodluck Jonathan. He came to lay credence to the American support of an
Islamic agenda in Nigeria. He came to endorse genocide being commited by some
reprobate Muslims whose foot soldiers are Fulani herdsmen and their grand
patron Buhari".
To butress
the point Mr. Aboki Galadima of the Christian Information Network, which is a
powerful and fast-rising Christian platform on the social media, went further
by writing the following to it's members. He wrote:
"This
is such a significant event that minority nationalities and Christians all over
the country MUST digest and act.
1. John
Kerry has just confirmed that spiritually, Nigeria is now an Islamic State.
2. His
inspiring attacks on corruption, bad governance and all that stuff are
thrilling but only a facade. He and the government of the United States of
America are here to divert attention from the real thing.
3. They are
pushing the absurd narrative that we should blame past governments, who they
claim did not tackle poverty etc., for the rise of Islamic terrorism in the
north and that the Sokoto Caliphate has always been the region which provides
Nigeria with decent human resources for good governance.
Haba!!
Please somebody advise me to halt for now. These diversions should be rejected
and resisted. The legality of using lslam to kill and destroy in Nigeria must
be challenged. This Network should keep this fight alive and on the front
banner of national discourse".
Both Mr.
Okah and Mr. Galadima have spoken the minds of many in the Christian community.
It would be most unwise for those that are now in power and their misguided
friends and supporters to ignore them, attempt to silence them or to dismiss
their concerns with the usual, insults, arrogance and contempt.
I say this
because there can be little doubt that Mr. John Kerry spoke nothing but
unadulterated garbage.
Permit me to
end this contribution with the following.
Mr. Jude
Chijoke Ndukwe, a writer, a public affairs analyst and one of the most
courageous and formidable intellectuals of the new generation of Nigerian
leaders captured the mood rather well when he wrote the following in a powerful
contribution a few days ago. He wrote:
"A man
named his dog 'Buhari', he was promptly arrested and prosecuted. 8 people are
killed in Zamfara by Islamic fundamentalists, as usual no single arrest is
made.
Unless
leaders of the Hausa-Fulani core north change their ways and mentality about
religion, education, girl-child and women's rights etc, their region will
remain Nigeria's most impoverished, most illiterate, most diseased, most malnourished
and most backward even if Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, Theresa
May, John Kerry, Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton et al visit the Sultan on a daily
basis".
Mr. Ndukwe
has spoken the gospel truth. Let he who has ears hear what the Spirit of the
Lord is saying. Shalom.
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