(In his new piece, NAIJ.com’s contributor and former minister of
aviation Femi Fani-Kayode has in strong terms condemned the visit of the
United State’s secretary of state John Kerry to some specific parts of
Nigeria. He also criticised his meeting with selected notable
Nigerians and some incidents that have taken place within the past few days). Now
read on.
Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode |
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 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 legalize 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?
John Kerry (left) sitting with the Sultan, Sa'ad Abubakar III in his palace . |
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.
President Buhari and John Kerry |
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. Kingsely Okah, a public
commentator, wrote the following on Facebook: “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 committed by some reprobate
Muslims whose foot soldiers are Fulani herdsmen and their grand patron Buhari.”
To buttress 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 Islam 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. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter US Secretary of State John
Kerry recent 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.
Source: Naij.com
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