BOKO HARAM The casualties are those who are dead; they are well out of it.--John Pepper ClarkThere is, recently, a numerical densification of security personnel in Lagos and the next-by towns prompted me to forward this piece. There was fear of Boko Haram.They incubated for years, they and other such groups, as if they were nursing missionaries for a new explosion of spiritual re-baptization. Eventually, they bloomed and brought forth their fruit: it turned out that it was the same things that are eating both the spirit and flesh of Africa and many other peoples and places, that they've been nursing: zealous ignorance and destructive violence.They have zeal for God but not according to good knowledge which breeds wisdom, and first of all respects life to the utmost.The Islamic sect, Boko Haram ( pronounced: /gbộkō haraamm/), a name signifying book taboo, in short, which went on genocidal rampage in Nigeria in late July and early August, came on stage too nigerianly, on an intensely discrepant world view.Going about massacring people for belonging in modernity, they defeated themselves philosophically and rationally even before they got defeated physically, or nearly so, by their frightened compatriots.They teach that the Occidental educational and socializational systems are taboos, forbidden in the holy writ of Qur'an.These doctrines and their forceful attempt to impose it on other peoples, who by Justness, do not do them any harm in living, is fiercely inconsistent with the holiness they wanted to preserve.Or, the people are hungry (discontented). This might be a case of religionized hunger strike. Typical Nigerians generally religionized everything, from the noble to the ignoble.. They especially use God as the packet in packaging their immoralities and immodesties….Or, this people, as always, religionized their bloodthirst…If a teacher has to beat people to make them believe that he is a teacher, then he is not one. So also any religio-worship system that has to be imposed on people is either useless or useful but undesirable to the people.To me, illiteracy and innumeracy are harams themselves: two of the biggest non physical harams harssing the peoples of W. Africa in particular…The computer: computer-dependency and computer-addiction have virtually killed the faculty of creative imaginativeness in the exposed proportions of this generation. The computerized youth of Nigeria redefine poverty as any life outside elitist extravagancy. Unskilled people perpetrate crime with their unskilledness; skilled people use their skill to perpetrate crime too, and turn around to say that government did not provide jobs. But this is human factor, or better, Nigerian-Ffactor. For example; the sacred and miraculous event of giving birth to babies has become bastardized by some people recently. Some young women now procure pregnancy for sale! Human factor. It is not the pregnancy that is bad. It is those who get it for bastard purpose. Anyone, modern or ancient, sufficiently immoral could do that..The GSM equipment: The GSM equipment they used in coordinating themselves and the engined vehicles they used in transporting themselves are all of modernity.Medically, from Djibouti to Dakar; from CapeTown through Windoek or Walvis Bay to Tunis, the modern way is better…Pre-colonial Africans lived more healthfully than this post-colonial, fast-fed generation. But they did not know how to combat diseases effectively. Although some extra-selfish medical practitioners of different specialties do now unite into exploitative cartels, maintaining the presence of medical diseases and disorders while pretending to be eliminating them. But this is a different case. The removal of which will never call for the removal of literacy.There may be starkly illiterate bone reconstructors, fracture healers, in some pristine villages. There's a universe of effectiveness they could add on if they could personally infuse literate-ness and numeracy into their calling. Fraud is bad and is heightened with literacy. But the presence of thorns does not make the rose un-beautiful. Certainly, one cannot be medically very effective and responsive, even for one person only ,nowadays without some modern literacy.Does one need reasoning or faith to see that literate nations are better culturally; especially in the aspects we call science, technology, which are of course, faith exercised. Spirituality and materialism also work better with literacy…Just as conscience cannot be legislated , the conscience of 'free' people must regulate or regiment itself. Although the Qur'an does not mention such things as democracy, science…, it does not, by inference, condemn or prohibit them. The Qur'an, the Sunah, the Hadith…for the believer, contain a range from absolute obligation to absolute sin (prohibition). In between are things ( commissions and omissions) that are praiseworthy but not necessarily obligatory or rewardable; permissible but not rewardable, and not necessarily praiseworthy; reprehensible but not necessarily punishable. None of these is literacy and non-Arabic education. Even Shar'ah has some moral requirements for its establishment. We may need faith in our living. But we don't need any to see that some Islamic states now make their vaccines, fertilizers, tractors…Modernity is ever present. Yesterday is modern to the day before, just as tomorrow is to today. Destructive or injust part of modernity have to be culled out. But book…Even the holy prophet, Mr. Muhammad, injoined his earliest followers to read, read, study! That was before they Quranic canon were selected and assembled. In otherwords, they were to study Greek and Hebrew and Af-RiKan (ancient Egyptian) literatures. Islamic (Arabic) scholars preserved many of what there are in today's written history.And other inconsistencies of Boko Haram.Yet, with all their inconsistencies and mal-adventures, the Boko Haramateurs are really the sort of people who may change Nigeria or parts it positively, if only they would indoctrinate themselves towards civil socio-political change, not murderous fanaticism. And if only they would live it out, exemplify it, bring forth the socio-material and spiritual benfits… to the unforced awareness of others.There are things genuine faith does that intelligence and intellect alone do not do. One of them is uniting people for a purpose or purposes. Yet genuine faith is never without intellection. Those who rush to force others to believe in the Holy Creator show by the force they use that they themselves have not started believing…But the often assumed view that murderers are only those who destroy life by direct action may not stand…In reality, murderers include those who kill by omission; that's, by inaction or indirect action.Those who physically kill others, whether by the naked strength of their naked limbs or by instrumentation, are often mere field lieutenants.Someones elses are really guilty of this blood shedding surrounding Boko Haram adherents.Were I a fanatic, able to muster such un-materialistic courage and conviction that somethings are wrong with the Nigeria of now, and should be corrected, I will not go daggering people. Nigeria is full of real harams. These harams I will fight with the utmost vehemence. Violence might be involved once it is in the reasoned faith of the believers in the cause, but only in the defence of liberty, justness: which make up worthy human dignity.Here are some of the harams.▶Injust ImprisonmentNigeria's prisons house criminals as well as good people whose destinies are being unmistakenly sealed in ruin, just for some powerful real criminals outside to have their way. All those being kept in jails for not participating in crime must be liberated.Some men started awaiting trial at 46. Now they are 60-plus of age. A young man got to be awaiting trial at 16. Now, he's 30, with his scraggy beard; and his case has not even been heard for the first time.▶Rehabilitation CentresRehab' centers and orphanages, especially those in the cities, are mostly markets for dealers in human limbs and pieces. Fetish ritualist-murderers. Typical example is one in Ikorodu. Their powerful clientele of moneybags and politicians shield them often from both the law and public outrage.Only genuine institutions by persons with rehabilitative charcters should be allowed.▶▶▶Police StationsThe Nigerian police itself is a sweltering haram; one of the biggest harams in Nigeria. It should be forced to stop detaining people for no offence and for no investigation's sake. Ransome-motivated abductions have been happening in Nigeria for long, in low profile, before the armed unions of the far-south made it international. Police agents habituated arresting and detaining people for nothing's sake than to collect bails from them. Many people have had precious weeks, months of their life wasted in police cells just because some armed, uniformed, lawless agents wanted extra-illegitimate fund for their prodigal living.If they arrest you when you could not pay the bail immediately, they detain you in anticipation of your kins coming in search of you.Luckless ones who ask loud questions are mown down in accidental discharge or other concocted cover-ups. Sometimes they frame the detainee to cover their track…Of course, this is a brand of robbery, the trade best known and most practiced by Nigerian elites. Robbery.**Poverty Eradicationists and Women EmpowermentistsAll those who go or come to make dupes of naïve villagers, especially women, in the name of empowerment must be forced to restitute. Here(Nigeria), women empowerment is or has become a beautiful name for an ugly intention. Excepting few genuine ones, these women empowermenters come to the villages with sophisticated dishonesties from the cities and announce the advent of ultra-paradisaic living to the poor folk."Look at me. As I appear so will you and even better, the rest of your life. Your children and grandest children will continue to benefit…Only you have to pay a token for these forms."The "token", of course is often a big deal to the simple farmers. In one instance, many managed to pay for the forms. And that was the end. The empowermenters disappeared foever! Women against their fellows. These and their collaborators: local chieftains?, local police agents, local government FirstLadies , must be forced to refund and restitute…There are lots of things needing redress in Nigeria, most of them man-established harams, some, natural but remediable societal deficiencies. Especially in education and physical environment.This Boko Haram episode (more of such are ahead) and the scheduled furtherance of genocide in the Nigeria Delta which is imminently gathering moment in the guise of amnesty*, continue to show us that the Nigerian state can protect the people but willingly does otherwise. Did you know the stupendous amount of resources spent, and the brutality invested in decimating these mal-nurished, under-armed sectarians, some of whom (especially the acclaimed leader) would have given us fresh facts or ideas of what should or should not be done for betterment, had they been taken to court alive? How many title-bearing robbers (governors, represent-á-thieves,etc. ) have ever been frightened, let alone dealt with? How many gun-bearing robbers and ritualist-murderers,unless anonymous ones, are queried genuinely…even half in the measure of what was done to Boko-Haram people?☼There's a lot of indication that the government isn't sincere.Plus the armed agencies already benefiting hugely from the conflicts. They are itching and endeavouring to make it continue…. |
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Merits Of Boko Haram In Nigeria
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