A slight reflection on “...but you framed them in the most inhumane manner.” (Ojogbon Falola
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“...but you framed them in the most inhumane manner.” (Ojogbon Falola : The Dangers of Islamophobia)
Shall limit myself to that rich opening paragraph, the “...but you framed them in the most inhumane manner”, the mere mention of “the British Empire at its height “ - the height of its glory, and stop there, before its steep decline, lacking both the ambition, the required energy and wherewithal to follow the intricacies of the closely knit arguments embodied in the next fourteen paragraphs that culminate in the essay’s conclusion with the exhortation to the relevant powers-that-be, and in this case, according to Ojogbon Falola it’s up to Sokoto, and the ball is in the court of Sokoto - if only the Grand vizier in the person of Shehu Usman Dan Fodio himself were here, because according to Ojogbon Falola, it’s not President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, no it’s “ Sokoto must contribute to finding a long-lasting solution to the crisis of Islamophobia.”
Indeed , the demonization of the enemy framed them in the most inhumane manner. For example, according to “God’s chosen people”, “We are fighting human animals”
“You knew all the books, you did not know love” ( David Diop : The Vultures)
Pan Africanists, humanists must admit that this gives the chills : “Historical records have shown that about 60 million human lives were destroyed in World War II, of which 26 millions were Russians; 10 million Black people from Africa and America who were deployed as mine-sweepers by the military commanders of USA, Britain and France got their bodies blown into pieces; and while 6 million European Jews were said to have been systematically murdered throughout Western Europe” ( Baba Kadiri ; PSYCHOPATHS AND SADISTS)
And indeed, it was not Islam that was responsible for the Holocaust, speak less of God from whom all blessings flow, being responsible. Nor do Muslims say that the Jews should only have themselves to blame…
Given the state of the world today - with Muslims as the most persecuted and the most endangered species everywhere - for example Trump’s ban on Muslim immigration to USA - unprecedented and un-American, The Dangers of Islamophobia is the kind of subject matter that has to be tabled again and again, as a matter of uttermost urgency to be discussed at the UN General Assembly and at the Security Council, if they are really interested in establishing the Christmas message of peace ( shalom - om shanti shanti shanti ) on earth and goodwill to all men .
This is also far from the merely prophetic or academic :
Israel Versus Iran – A Trigger Towards Armageddon?
Israel vs the Palestinians - Israel vs the Arabs, is it a religious conflict or not? Is it a conflict between the followers of the Hebrew Prophet Moses (a. s.) and the followers of the prophet to all mankind/ human beings, Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w) “a mercy to the worlds” ? And then you’ll hear some of the Igbo Omeworom ya brothers and sisters rabble yabbing, “But many of the Arabs are Christians” -long before Johnny just come and the Igbos as "one of the lost tribe of Israel" which is also so true, so true, latest news coming in is that a few days ago a certain Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel - a devout proselytiser was stabbed by a Muslim adversary, whilst the bishop was preaching live on TV, in Sydney.
“It’s a religious war”, said the pious Peter Obi, and maybe he wasn’t only talking about his Nigeria
Indeed, if it is not a religious conflict then why is Bishop David Oyedepo who is neither Arab nor Hebrew nor Greek on the side of the people who approved of Jesus's Crucifixion? Cornelius Ignoramus would like to know. The answer is that the missionaries have successfully colonised the minds of their so called Nigerian apostles who have been captivated and entranced by Paul preaching “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” - indeed he was ”not ashamed” and neither are Paul’s followers, hence to no avail Marcus Garvey has been saying, “We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind”
Israel - poor bunker state - is being projected as the only Western Military outpost and the last bastion of Western Civilization in the Middle East - one of the reasons why Israel, not geographically located in Europe participates in the Eurovision Song Contest , and has actually won the contest four times, in 1998 won with a song performed by Dana International who, “though assigned male at birth, identified as female from a very young age.” Well, not surprisingly she won it twenty years before the drag queen Conchita Wurst won it - and it’s a song contest, open to both males and females. (In Africa of course, out of national pride or religious bigotry, it would be natural for Boko Haram, the Fulani Herdsmen, Pastor Kumuyi and some of the other Nigerians who do not totally identify with the modernisation of Western Civilization to object to a transvestite representing Nigeria at a Pan African Music Contest, even if it’s about music and not about sex…
A juicy piece of gossip : Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938
With regard to Empire, in the tactical and strategic name of Divide and Rule the Brits split the Indian subcontinent along the all too real fault lines - engineered the Hindu - Muslim interface which peaked in the years of struggle leading to Independence resulting in the subcontinent being split into India - the predominantly Hindu section - and Islamic West and East Pakistan - today's Pakistan and Bangladesh and this happened after Muslims had ruled vast swathes of India for over 800 years. Today , of course there are more Muslims in India than there are Muslims In Pakistan - perhaps because it was easier for lower caste former Hindus to convert to an Islam where they transcended and still continue to transcend the Hindu Caste system these days when there is a Hindu resurgence / renaissance, happening right now thanks to Modi and the BJP , much talk about Hindu Rashtra, with the Puri Shankaracharya calling for the establishment India as a Hindu Rashtra
We must admit that in terms of Divide and Rule, with the amalgamation wrought by Lord Lugard as the one Nigeria, there’s a semblance of real equilibrium, population-wise, the Christian-Muslim divide being circa 50 - 50 . At this stage everybody knows by rote, exactly what is Islamophobia but no one is talking about its putative opposite, if indeed there can be said to be one
In my view, and in the view of many of those most directly concerned, and most directly affected, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict // the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is both a tribal and religion-based conflict - as is the split that is becoming ever more horrifying - the split between the Sunni and the Shia // the split between the Sunni and the Shia which the enemies of both, are more than willing and able to exploit ( as per the old formula of “ Divide and Rule) so that it should give even Sokoto the shivers to hear the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia saying that if Iran goes nuclear , no way, the Saudis will also have to go nuclear, in the name of no harm to the balance of terror / M.A.D.// Mutual assured destruction