The bigger picture : Putting Trump’s threat to make holy war in Nigeria in perspective.
Cornelius Hamelberg
These days, in the new era of antisemitism, Muslims also have their problems, and it’s not only in the name of the kinds of rabid Islamophobia mostly to be found in Western Civilisation's hemispheres that the term “holy war” and its negative clang is being exclusively associated with what’s known as jihad in al-Islam. Once upon a time in history, there was the extended event known as The Crusades // The Crusades and part of the Crusader propaganda that got the holy Christian warriors all jazzed up with the holy zeal fever was the evil crusader propaganda that Jerusalem had to be liberated from Muslim control because Muslims they avowed, were worshipping “an unholy trinity comprising the Devil, Mahound, and the Black Stone in Mecca”
Although there are history books that report The Crusades from a Muslim point of view , the blasphemous propaganda element still survives as the soft underbelly of today's Islamophobia, conveniently being aided and abetted by newly coined terms such as “Islamic Terrorism” ( the term Christian or Christ-based terrorism is yet to be reported) but in the meantime Samuel P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilisations has contributed to augmenting the Judeo-Christian ethos or ethic and the comforting, superiority complex , the feeling ” we’re occupying the higher moral ground when it comes to what it's really all about, namely, the Civilised West vs them", plus what looks like the forever ongoing Islamic terrorism of e.g. Boko Haram, their associates & allies in Nigeria leaving nothing to the public imagination because it is fed daily by an endless stream of ill reports to be found here ( https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ ) and in the world press.
Fast forward, post-911, when one looks at what has happened in the Middle East since Trump’s second coming which officially started on January 20, 2025, and what Netanyahu has been proposing as The New Middle East, one can safely say without any danger of contradiction that if only we were to take off our blinkers we would see clearly that we are currently living through round two of the crusades
Going directly to the issue of the colossus on the world stage, Trump, you may well wonder why he’s not sending American troops to go and disarm Hizbollah, or why he does he does not appear to be overwhelmed with bad conscience about the death toll of Christians in the Ukraine-Russia imbroglio but he’s toying with the idea of sending American troops ( piece of cake ? ) to Nigeria , ostensibly to wipe out terrorism in that country…
One of the things to be truly appreciated aboutBrother Femi Fani-Kayode is that he is the kind of Nigerian who doesn't disappoint. No uncle-t or mouse-ie is he . Not only does he never take it lying down, God forbid that he would be found kneeling in abeyance or making sujood to a naked, wannabe American Emperor who wants to send troops to Nigeria without first obtaining a visa to do so.
Well here is Fearless Fang with just the requite degree of chutzpah 👍
Femi Fani-Kayode : TRUMP'S THREAT OF WAR!
However, one should always be careful with what one says because karma has the uncanny habit of coming back to bite you where you least expect it, sometimes, just to remind you; in dear Femi’s case here is what he himself said and he seems to have signed it 👍
Enough reason for Trump, commander-in-chief of the Greatest American Crusader Christian Army the world has ever known once more to be smiling , all the way to the bank…
But, seriously, at this juncture it's necessary to de-escalate the potential eruption of the next round of a war of words between Trump’s America and the powers that be in Nigeria - and here one must appreciate the current Nigerian government's efforts to deescalate and this memorandum of understanding from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Foreign Affairs : https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/c/4a_6dZNQyUM
Dr. Oohay
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