Information in this thread was written long before the current IPOB insurgency, but it is perfectly fitting into its narrative. Replace Ojukwu with Kanu in it, and everything will be clear where this whole thing is heading to.
PS: I didn't author it.
Please enjoy it!
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*THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT*
So many scholars of the Biafran war history, has always said that the war was instigated by the killing of Igbos in the North.
Azikiwe disproved that theory and said that the Igbo massacre, Ojukwu referred to in declaring Biafra, was just a facade.
Arewa Twitter has been struggling with sharply conflicting views on morality for a while. This calls for clarity:
Allah praised Muslims in the Quran as the best nation ever sent to this world because they call to what is good and forbid what is evil (moral condemnation) Q3:110.
This, however, doesn't mean moral condescension (what Gimba and his ilk ignorantly or mischievously mix-up as moral condemnation) is permissible.
Let us ask ourselves for a moment what the implication of collective silence on the erosion of our moral values is.
The implication is that the younger generation coming up will see these sins as normal, while they are grave with Allah. This is a great disservice to ourselves and a big sin before Allah.
I bought a new Toyota Corolla 2013 (South Africa) back in 2015. I have since been driving it without issues. However, something mysterious happened on the 3rd of June, 2020.
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On the day before (2nd of June), I returned home around 7:30pm, and parked the car without any issue. To my utter shock, my neighbours woke me up around 7:00am the following day (3rd June) to inform me that my car was on fire.
It sounded like a joke; for a car parked twelve hours ago to catch fire all by itself. "This has to be a sabotage", I whispered to myself before I quickly got dressed and went to check, and alas, she was on fire!
Wise people say for every place there's a befitting remark, and for every remark, there's a befitting place. Those who understand this saying, understand why some of us fault Emir Sunusi's emotional outbursts against the North at any given opportunity.
There are appropriate forums (ACF, NSCIA, JNI, etc) for bitter truth-telling, and such forums are very much accessible to the emir.
There are many leaders in the North who speak truths that are more bitter than Emir Sunusi's. But because they were told in a proper diction and at the appropriate places—away from the media, their messages were well understood and beneficial.
No, Muslim Women Don’t Need Careers To Be Empowered
By Umm Khalid
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We have some voices in the western Muslim community, both online and in real life, with well-intentioned but ultimately vacuous ideas about Muslim women, ideas that play right into the hands of the very Islamophobes they are trying to fight.
This type of mindset is especially visible on social media. Some Muslim men see the stigma that Muslim women face in the West, and their reaction is an attempt to “fight the stereotypes.”
The touching story of Abdurraheem Abdulkadir Maijamaa
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Back when I was an undergraduate in Bauchi, I knew Abdulkadir Maijamaa, who was my mother's customer. Abdulkadir owned a shop at Central Market in Bauchi metropolis, where he sold shoes. He was always a smiling and friendly youngman, and obviously religious and upright.
In December, my mum called to tell me a tragic story about Abdulkadir's son—Abdurraheem. She was in the market for shopping as usual, and how she saw Abdulkadir that day left her in no doubt that all was not well with him.