The Islamization of Nigeria, a case study.(or more than you ever wanted to know about the Falani and Igbo people of Nigeria)

The Fulani, were, and are, a nomadic people who have been influential throughout the history of North West Africa for over a thousand years. They were also responsible for introducing and spreading Islam over much of western Africa. The height of the Fulani empire was between the 1100s and early 1900s. Usman Dan Fodio was a fundamentilist Muslim who used religious fervor to ignite his devotees to undertake a series of holy wars. Following the success of his Islamic jihadists, non-Muslim Fulani joined the ranks with their fellow tribesmen to form an extensive and powerful empire, an African Islamic caliphet.

Fulani tribe (sourced by online Nigeria )

Their Fulfulde language is closely related to the languages of Senegal, suggesting the possibility that their ancestors migrated from the Middle East through North Africa to Senegal. By the 10th century, they had adopted a new language in Senegal and begun to spread eastward, reaching present-day Nigeria by about the 14th century.

A number of African states, including ancient Ghana and Senegal, had Fulani rulers. The Fulani became zealous Muslims (11th cent.), and from 1750 to 1900 they engaged in many holy wars in the name of Islam. During the first part of the 19th cent. the Fulani carved out two important empires. One, based on Massina, for a time controlled Timbuktu; the other, centered at Sokoto, included the Hausa States and parts of Bornu and W Cameroon . The Fulani emir of Sokoto continued to rule over part of Northern Nigeria until the British conquest in 1903.

At the close of the seventeenth century there was little Islamic influence (politically or militarily) in the land that would come to be known as Nigeria in 1914. That changed when Usman Dan Fodio, declared hisjihad, because as he saw it, sharia, "Allah's" law was not being implemented to his liking in Gobir . { Does any of that sound familiar? } Failure to properly implement sharia lead to unjust conditions, and only more Sharia law, as understood by him and his adherents, could make things right. Rivers of blood were spilled to bring about the Sokoto Caliphate.

Usman and his devotees all had memorized the Quran , and understood the prophets message better than those in power. So he felt it was his duty to spread 'allah's' law, as codified in the words of Mohammad, that are recorded in the trinity of Islamic sources ( Qur'an , hadith and Sunnah Biography of Mohammad ) This military conquest was to encompass large parts of Northern Nigeria, and parts of neighboring Cameroon.

The Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria was one of the largest empires in Africa during the 19th century. The empire developed as a result of the Fulani jihads (holy wars) which took place in the first decade of the 19th century across what is now Northern Nigeria. The Sokoto Caliphate was the center of politics and economics in the region until it fell to French and British colonial armies in the early 20th Century.

The Sokoto Caliphate was founded in 1804 by Uthman dan Fodio who became the first Sultan of Sokoto or in the terminology of the time, the first sarkin musulmi (commander of the faithful). Although dan Fodio refused to embrace the term Sultan, each of his successors called himself the Sultan of Sokoto.

Dan Fodio, a Fulani religious leader and teacher who lived in the Hausa city state of Gobir, initiated the jihad in 1804 after he and his followers were expelled from the city . From exile he called for holy war against the leaders of Gobir and other Hausa city states. Gathering a large army of Fulani and Hausa supporters he conquered Gobir and eventually Sokoto, Kano, Katsina, and the other major city states. By 1815 when his armies ended their conquests, Uthman dan Fodio's religious empire included most of what is now northern Nigeria and northern Cameroon as well as parts of Niger . Dan Fodios jihad also influenced the holy wars in nearby regions and resulted in the creation of Islamic states in Senegal, Mali, and Chad

(sourced by black past.org )

What made the Nigerian Caliphate so strong was it's usage of Slaves as a military instrument.

sourced here at County studies a service of the Library of congress.

An attempted coup d'tat by the general of the cavalry in 1817 backfired when the cavalry itself revolted and pledged its allegiance to the Sokoto Caliphate.The cavalry was largely composed of Muslim slaves from farther north , and they saw in the jihad a justification for rebellion.

It is hard to understand how slaves would give their loyalty to the theocratic construct, (caliphate) that enslaved them in the first place, but such is the power of submission (Islam)

Another notable Islamic slave society was that of the Sokoto caliphate formed by Hausas in sub-Saharan Africa (northern Nigeria and Cameroon) in the 19th century. At least half the population was enslaved. That was only the most notable of the Fulani jihad states of the western and central Sudan, where between 1750 and 1900 from one- to two-thirds of the entire population consisted of slaves.

(sourced by Encyclopedia Britannia )

Plantations in the Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate

At a time when coastal West Africa was responding to the growth of legitimate trade, the Sokoto Caliphate was experiencing dramatic expansion in the plantation sector . Plantations ( gandu, rinji, tungazi ), which used slaves captured by the Caliphate armies, were established near all the major towns and were particularly important around Sokoto, Kano, Zaria and other capitals. Plantation development originated with the policies of Muhammad Bello, first Caliph and successor to Uthman dan Fodio, who was concerned with the consolidation and defence of the empire.

Now slaves, and the overseers of slaves, were granted certain privileges under an Islamic system of law, and the Sokoto caliphate institutionalized Concubinage, or sex slaves , as part and parcel of the traditions of the prophet found in the sharia. (the divine law of 'allah')

It was not effectively eradicated until the 1920s

Court records from 19056 offer a rare view of the status of women slaves in early colonial Northern Nigeria. It is shown that British officials found it easy to accommodate the aristocracy of the Sokoto Caliphate on the status of these women, despite British efforts to reform slavery. Those members of the aristocracy and merchant class who could afford to do so were able to acquire concubines through the courts, which allowed the transfer of women under the guise that they were being emancipated . British views of slave women attempted to blur the distinction between concubinage and marriage, thereby reaffirming patriarchal Islamic attitudes. The court records not only confirm this interpretation but also provide extensive information on the ethnic origins of slave women, the price of transfer, age at time of transfer, and other data. It is shown that the slave women of the 19056 sample came from over 100 different ethnic groups and the price of transfer, which ranged between 200,000 and 300,000 cowries, was roughly comparable to the price of females slaves in the years immediately preceding the conquest . Most of the slaves were in their teens or early twenties . The use of the courts to transfer women for purposes of concubinage continued until at least the early 1920s.

Not only were the slaves of the Sokoto caliphate used sexually, and as agricultural labor, (everybody did that) they were part of a unique Islamic tradition. Learned from the Turkish Ottoman Empire, who had sent Mamelukes to Africa for centuries, and to a lesser extent, Janissarys as well.

In the following article Professor Emeritus Jere L. Bacharach, a specialist in Medieval Middle Eastern history , describes the little known saga of one of the largest groups of persons of African descent in the region, military slaves . These enslaved men, utilized for centuries in the Muslim world , had no counterpart in Europe or the Americas

(sourced by Black past.org )

Sokoto was a place name before it was the name of the Nigerian caliphate. It was the first " ribat " established in Nigeria, to further the goals of Jihad.

In historical perspective, Sokoto was founded as ribat (military camp or frontier) in 1809 When Shehu Usmanu was at Sifawa. It later became the capital of the caliphate after Shehu's death.

(sourced by the Encyclopedia Britannia )

This system of rabats (PDF) allowed Islam to spread and hold on to territory it has conquered.

The Plantation mentality worked well in Nigeria, until a young "Igbo" man named Equiano Olaudah , went and educated himself.

He freed his mind, leading to a physical emancipation a short time later after experinsing an esotaric emancipation.

As any plantation owner will tell you, whether in the Antebellum American South, or Nigeria, an educated slave is an "uppity" slave. Equiano was so "uppity", and though so well of his abolitionist memes, he brought the entire stinking house of cards, that was the slave based economy of the Nigerian caliphate, crashing down.

By 1777 at the age of 32, Equiano, after having mastered reading, writing and arithmetic, purchased his freedom. He settled in England, befriended Granville Sharp, the first prominent British abolitionist, and soon became a leader of the emerging anti-slavery movement . Equiano presented one of the first petitions to the British Parliament calling for the abolition of slavery.

(sourced by Black past.org )

This "uppity" Igbo man, helped shatter "allah's" house in Africa, with only words presented with hard fought experience, spoken before a bigoted British society. Who unbelievably heard, and were receptive to his message.

This alone may engender harsh feeling from the ummah (theocratic Islamic community) I will call this "strike one" in the Muslim "revenge-mongering" perpetrated against the Igbo people.

Strike two could be the continued unwillingness to submit, Igbos had their own concept of a monotheistic deity or G*d. this may be related to the African pagan concept of the "Great creator" being. But Equiano was Baptised as a Christian himself

and strike three, could be.

The " Black Jews " of Africa are Igbos

We believe we are from Israel, and we only recently discovered that so many old Ibo traditions were in fact Jewish ones , said Uba, 60, who was wearing a large silver Jewish star around his neck. In 1999, he founded the Association of Jewish Faith in Nigeria, an organization with some 20 congregations, most of them in his native region. He is one of an estimated 30,000 Nigerians a fraction of the nations 135 million people who claim to be Jewish

(sourced from Rasta livewire )

Over the last decade or so, an astonishing phenomenon has developed: a Jewish rebirth of sorts occurring throughout the Igbo community. Synagogues have been forming spontaneously throughout Nigeria, along with the tentative growth of Hebrew and Torah study. Kulanu explained to me that they had developed a relationship with the Igbo Judaic communities, who were especially eager for a visit from a rabbi for an extended period of time.

After I said I would consider a visit to Nigeria, Kulanu put me in touch with their field representative there, an Igbo lawyer and scholar named Remy Ilona who would quickly become my dear friend and my new Igbo brother. Remy has done extensive research on the Israelite heritage of the Igbo and over the past few years he has become an important resource person for their new Judaic communities. As I corresponded with Remy,I was immediately taken by his intense passion and commitment to his heritage, to his people and to what he called the Igbo teshuvah their return to reclaim their original birthright.

(sourced by Kulanu Nigeria )

Just how big do your balls have to be, to proclaim you're Jewish in a nation with "the Black taliban" as neighbors?

There is now a black Taliban movement in Kano . One local mullah dubs himself Kandahar, after the capital of Afghanistans fanatics.

(Sourced by national geographic )

We now have a indigenous group, known as the Igbos, who reject "allah", his messenger boy Mohammad. Have "Jewish" tendencies, but are largely Christians, with the few odd "monotheistic pagans" scattered here and there. Most all of the Igbos will raise a glass of alcohol, dance to their hearts content as they sing their praises with joyous music, directed at what ever Deity they recognize.

How do think the anti-happy brigade of the chronically pissed-off, disgruntled, angry Islamist, allah worshiping, fellow Nigerians feel about all this.

What is a pious muslim to do?

what would Mohammad do?

It's an unjust world, Sharia, or allah's law is the answer, as Usman Dan Fodio knew in 1804, Boko Haram knows now.

3. Between 1937 and 1959, the Igbo spearheaded the freeing of Nigeria from formal British occupation of the country which eventually ended in 1960. For all intents and purposes, Nigeria collapsed as a state with any serious prospects in the wake of the Igbo genocide that it launched on 29 May 1966. The singular lesson for Africa and the rest of the world from the incalculable tragedy that is called Nigeria is glaringly clear for whoever wishes to observe: one does not murder the potter and expect the pottery making-in-progress to attain a classic investiture. Despite earning the stunning sum of US$650 billion in oil sales in the subsequent 40 years, a significant proportion of this from occupied Igbol and in the Delta, Rivers, Imo and Abia administrative regions, Nigeria has cascaded into a degenerative abyss politically, economically, intellectually, socially, morally and spiritually.

4. Forty years ago, Igbo people singularly and cruelly bore the brunt of the savage politics of mass murder, organised and executed meticulously and ruthlessly by the central coordinating operatives of this movement under the racist and chauvinist imprimatur of religious fundamentalism and exclusivity. Twice, during the course of two decades earlier, these operatives had staged murderous campaigns against the same Igbo in the north Nigerian towns of Jos and Kano in dress rehearsals for the 1966-1970 final solution...

As the virulence of this politics has since spread globally and indeed defines the dominant concern of international relations in the current epoch, the world no doubt needs to learn quite a lot from the Igbo experience. How have the Igbocoped with the visceral politics of hate and death in the past one-half century of a cataclysmic history? Despite the present Nigerian occupation of their homeland, the Igbo possess the critical indices for the far-reaching socioeconomic transformation of this region of Africa. They have an impressive industrial land manufacturing base that requires a radical up grade and diversification, a disciplined workforce and an indefatigable intellectual, entrepreneurial land managerial class.

The Igbo youth, 16-40, makes up part of Africas most educated and talented grouping . Despite the occupation, Igbo male and female students out-perform the rest of Nigeria across the entire spectrum of the education system . (On this, see particularly Okechukwu Agbors excellent study, Look who is going to school in Nigeria, [accessed 13 February 2009]; a change of the title of Agbors essay to, for instance, Igbo education during the era of occupation , underscores, even further, the historic relevance of his study

(sourced by Nigeria world )

Do the Igbos "Jewish tendencies" have anything to do with this animosity?

Quran http://www.islamawakened.com/Quran/7/4/default.htm

How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.

Cause !!!!

These Christians like many Christians in Nigeria did not, and will not submit.

(warning disturbing photos) http://www.cknnigeria.com/2012/07/exclusiveanglican-diocese-of-jos-sends.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CknNigeria+%28CKN+Nigeria%29

Effect!!!!!!!!

strait from Nigeria

EMEAGWALI: The killing of 50,000 Igbos in northern Nigeria was, in part, due to religious and ethnic differences. Millions of Igbos (including my family) fled to southeastern Nigeria. My family and I lived in Biafranrefugee camps duringthe30-month civil war. I have posted additional Biafra- related information at:

The roots of the present crisis, I believe, started with a lack of understanding of the Nigerian constitution. As an aside, Nigerian officials invited me to contribute my thoughts on the Nigerian constitution and my 10,000-word statement was posted at

The Nigerian constitution stipulates that we are Nigerians first and then Muslims (or Christians) second . However, some fanatic northern Nigerian elected officials are insisting that Muslims are Muslims first and Nigerians second and, therefore, are entitled to live by the sharia Islamic law. The contradiction is these elected officials were elected through a secular constitution that is the supreme legal document of the land. Each official swore to uphold the constitution. After being elected, some Muslim officials now want that constitution subordinate to sharia law . Proponents of sharia argue that the constitution guarantees freedom of religion while opponents argue that freedom of religion does not mean that Islam will be the state religion and take precedence over the constitution. When a northern Nigerian state adopts Islam as the state religion, it in fact puts the state above the nation and its constitution . In other words, "freedom of religion" does not entitle some northern states to create an Islamic state within the secular state of Nigeria . More specifically, the Nigerian constitution does not permit the adoption of Christianity or Islam as the state religion. Sharia Law is subordinate to the constitution and to impose it as the supreme law of a state is equivalent to violating and overthrowing the constitution . It is nonsensical for sharia to be superior to the constitution and to operate two sets of contradictory laws in any state, even if most of the state residents want sharia.

71 % of Nigerian Muslims want sharia law . they must have read Quran 9:29

Did 'allah" and it's misogynistic messenger boy Mohammad, suggest a way to convince non-Muslims to perhaps go along with this.

Yusuf Ali

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Fight people ?

Really, is that what he is suggesting? Is that any way for a prophet to get his way?

Prayers (Salat)

Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 8 :: Hadith 387

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah's Apostle said , "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter , then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah." Narrated Maimun ibn Siyah that he asked Anas bin Malik, "O Abu Hamza! What makes the life and property of a person sacred?" He replied, "Whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah',faces our Qibla during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have."

Left unsaid is not accepting Islam can lead to the confiscation of property (Booty in the Islamic sense) loss of life, enslavement of Wife and children.

Let me explain.

The Book of Jihad and Expedition (Kitab Al-Jihad wa'l-Siyar)

Muslim :: Book 19 : Hadith 4292

Ibn 'Aun reported: I wrote to Nafi' inquiring from him whether it was necessary to extend (to the disbelievers) an invitation to accept (Islam) before m". ing them in fight. He wrote (in reply) to me that it was necessary in the early days of Islam . The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) made a raid upon Banu Mustaliq while they were unaware

These poor people, they was just hanging out, chillin really, getting their thang on, and here comes this dude with a realattitude problem, getting all righteous and shit. Slaying, and enslaving people right out of the clear blue sky.

and their cattle were having a drink at the water. He killed those who fought and imprisoned others .

Mohammad oversaw the rape, pillage and enslavement of a people because he could, they never did a F***ing thing to him, the people never saw this shit coming, they were unprepared.

On that very day, he captured Juwairiya bintal-Harith . Nafi' said that this tradition was related to him by Abdullah b. Umar who (himself) was among the raiding troops.

Jawairiya bintal-Harith , was captured as part of the "booty", but she was really " bootylicious "

So even though she was claimed as the spoils of war, by another Muslim jihadist. Mohammad just had to "hit dat shit", you what I mean. And since Mohammad, was the apostle of 'allah' and all, he got the piece of ass he wanted. It's good to be king, or 'allah's apostle in this case.

Juwairiyah bint Al-Harith : Al-Harith was the head of Bani Al-Mustaliq of Khuzaah . Juwairiyah was among the booty that fell to the Muslims from Bani Al-Mustaliq. She was a portion of Thabit bin Qais bin Shammas share . He made her a covenant to set her free at a certain time. Muhammad accomplished the covenant and married her in Shaban in the sixth year of Al-Hijra.

At some point in Islamic theocratic concepts it's possible for a non-Muslim woman to become the "property" or "Booty" of the group who took her, if justified by claims of Jihad (2:190 ), in a theocratic sense, as explained in ( Quran 4;24 ) as well as ( 23;5-6 ) ( 24;33 ) and a few others. In the reliance of the traveler (a guide to sharia law) it says on page 276.

@O9.13 When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture , and the woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled.

Some historical context

The genocide of the Armenians was a jihad. No rayas [non-Muslim dhimmis] took part in it. Despite the disapproval of many Muslim Turks and Arabs, and their refusal to collaborate in the crime, these massacres were perpetrated solely by Muslims and they alone profited from the booty: the victims property, houses, and lands granted to the muhajirun [holy warrior jihadists], and the allocation to them of women and child slaves.

(sourced by Andrew Bostom )

Now these instructions to fight until subdued, can, and do, manifest themselves in most unfortunate ways.

" Al wala wal bara" , is the theory that a Muslim should hate the Infidel (non-Muslim) just as much as he loves allah. Now don't get me wrong, I thank the "black stone" of the kabba every day, that so few of it's submitters, listen to such nonsense.

Al Wala' Wal Bara' (Love and Hate for Allah's Sake)

Al Wala Wal Bara

In the current modern age, we find the Muslims in a pit of darkness. The Muslims of today have adopted the ways of the enemy. They forbid the good and enjoin the forbidden. They imitate the disbelievers and choose them as their friends and trustees. They mock believers who oppose the ways of the disbelievers and hypocrites. They help to deviate people from the Path of Allah and His Messenger (sallallahu alaiyhi wa sallam). They have left jihad for the pleasures and pursuits of the material world. They have abandoned Shariah and adopted Jahiliyyah. These people have strayed from the Straight Path and they have turned away from al wala wal bara, and as a result, have fallen into the trap of Shaytaan.

that "Al wala wal bara" concept, leads directly to such things as this video, from a Saudi religious scholar

Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Arifi:The Desire to Shed Blood, to Smash Skulls, and to Sever Limbs for the Sake of Allah Is an Honor for the Believer

Muhammad Al-Arifi: "There is no doubt that a person whom Allah enables to sacrifice his soul, and to fight for the sake of Allah, has been graced with a great honor. The Prophet Muhammad said that the dust of battle for the sake of Allah and the smoke of Hell shall never meet in a man's nose. [...]

"Devotion to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and the desire to shed blood, to smash skulls, and to sever limbs for the sake of Allah and in defense of His religion, is, undoubtedly, an honor for the believer. [...]

"Allah said that if a man fights the infidels, the infidels will be unable to prepare to fight [the Muslims]. By Allah, the infidel countries today the U.S. and its allies dare to fight the Muslims, to rape their women and turn them into widows, and to inflict their corruption on Islam and the Muslims on a daily basis only because they see that the Muslims do not even consider fighting the infidels and conquering their countries. [...]

"The Koranic verses that deal with fighting the infidels and conquering their countries say that they should convert to Islam, pay the jizya poll tax, or be killed. If the Muslims had implemented this, we would not have reached the humiliation in which we find ourselves today."

and he is not some crackpot, here is who is staring in the video.(sourced by Wikipedia )

Muhammad Al-Arifi is a theologian Saudi. He holds the position of Imam of the Mosque of the academy "King Fahd" of the Saudi Navy . He is a student of Ibn Baz . His books are very famous in the Muslim world.

Excuse me, but that's just downright hateful .

Just how does this Saudi Islamic scholar, misunderstand Islam so much?

If allah is a god, why would it need humans to commit murder, couldn't it just think it, and make it happen

But if "allah" is just a rock (the black stone of the kabba) it would need a helping hand, because rocks are inanimate objects, right?

Who is responsible for this

http://www.cknnigeria.com/2012/07/exclusiveanglican-diocese-of-jos-sends.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CknNigeria+%28CKN+Nigeria%29

The "ummah" ?

http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?319943-Love-and-Hate-for-the-Sake-of-Allah

Or a black stone?