The Rhino in the Room - Boko Haram’s War Against the West

Nearly all of what we hear about from this administration is Slavery is the Cause of Black problems in this County. Slavery is not part of America except in the minds of race batting politicians and hustlers. American Slavery is in the past.

The Rhino in the Room that is being ignored is African Slavery in Africa. It is the same Black on Black Slavery, now Muslim based, that is still active. This was the same trade in Black humans, by Black Slavers, that fed the TransAtlantic Slave Trade centuries ago. But no one mentions the current slave trade because it is Blacks selling and buying other Blacks. m/r

Dwelling in the Fire: Boko Haram’s War Against the West | The American Spectator

By Matthew Omolesky – 5.9.14

A millenarian nightmare at least three decades old.

A common vial sits perched on a police laboratory shelf in the arid northern Nigerian city of Kano, its cap smeared with rubber cement and fastened with an official seal. The contents of this bottle are unmistakable, with ashen powder, charred molars, and bone residue bearing all the hallmarks of a hasty cremation. Affixed is a label: The remains of the Late Malam Muhammadu Marwa alias Allah Ta-Tsine or Maitatsine. Such is the final resting place of the notorious millenarian prophet and anti-western insurgent who in 1980 set off a wave of violence as arbitrary as the contents of a fever dream, and whose legacy still manifests itself in the form of the riotous civil paroxysms that occur with malarial regularity in Nigeria’s roiling Islamic north. Today, with unprecedented attention being focused on the Nigerian Islamist militant organization Boko Haram, owing in no small part to its recent kidnapping and detention of almost three hundred schoolgirls in the so-called “evil forest” of the Sambisa, it is more necessary than ever to grapple with Marwa’s legacy and its implications for the future of a continent.

Marwa’s sobriquet, “Maitatsine,” provides a solid indication of his worldview, derived as it was from the Hausa verb tsini, “to damn.” In his sermons, Marwa damned most everyone, secular and religious alike, whether it was for driving cars, for smoking cigarettes, or for wearing buttons, and that was before theological considerations had even been broached. Yet Marwa and his followers — known as the ‘Yan Tatsine or the Kano-Kato— were themselves decidedly heterodox. They prayed facing north, not towards Mecca, and relied upon sympathetic magic and juju. Innovations like a proprietary “magic sand” that was said to ward off police projectiles, working in conjunction with mystical charms fashioned from hacked-up human organs, helped buttress the preternatural confidence of the ‘Yan Tatsine movement, as did a certain willful ignorance crasse et supine. “Any Muslim who reads any book beside the Koran,” Marwa declared, “is a pagan.”

For the learned Alhaji Abubakar Gummi, the Grand Khadi of the Northern Region at the time, Maitatsine was merely one of a “trail of one-track minded malams [religious scholars] versed only in the recitation of the Quran by heart, and not fully comprehending what it contained.” Widespread criticism along these lines did nothing, however, to prevent thousands of fanatics and lost souls from squatting in the Yan Awaki quarter of Kano, particularly after their Mahdist-millenarian prophet assured them that “all land plots in this world belong to Allah and he does not have to ask permission of anyone before building on any plot.” All that remained was to craft invincibility potions, stockpile arms, and await both the inevitable confrontation with Nigerian security forces and the marrow-burning rapture sure to follow.

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