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Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

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“Muslim identity and thought in Nigeria derive from the Sufi brotherhoods of Qadiriyya and Tijaniyya, primarily as a result of the historical role of the Kanem-Borno and Sokoto caliphates in the spread of Islam. The Sufi orders and the Izalatul Bidi’a wa Ikhamatis Sunnah (People Committed to the Removal of Innovations in Islam; hereafter Izala) are the two dominant contemporary Muslim foci of identity. The disdain towards and fear of boko (Western education) arose from its historically close association with the colonial state and Christian missionaries. This also suited colonial educational policy well, as the British had no intention of widespread education anyway. The aim of colonial education, particularly in northern Nigeria, was to maintain the existing status quo by “imparting some literacy to the aristocratic class, to the exclusion of the commoner classes” (Tukur 1979: 866). By the 1930s, colonial education had produced a limited cadre of Western-educated elite, who were conscious of their education and were yearning to play a role in society. Mainly children of the aristocratic class, the type of education they received was “different from the traditional education in their various societies, and this by itself was enough to mark them out as a group” (Kwanashie 2002: 50). This new education enabled them to climb the social and economic ladder over and above their peers who had a different kind of education, Quranic education. This was the origin of the animosity and distrust between the traditionally educated and Western-educated elite in northern Nigeria. Though subordinate to the Europeans, these educated elite were perceived as collaborators by their Arabic-educated fellows. Thus the antagonism towards Western education continues in many northern Nigerian communities, which have defied government campaigns for school enrollment to this day.”

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Book:Boko Haram: Islamism, politics, security and the state in Nigeria
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“The rejection of Western democracy derives from the same rejection of secularism but was further sharpened by the Saudi Arabian establishment’s aversion to democracy’s subversive streak and the threat it posed to the Saudi monarchy if unleashed. Saudi scholars such as Sheikh Bakr Ibn Abu Zaid consistently attacked democracy and the freedoms it flaunted as anti-Islamic. Mohammed Yusuf was heavily influenced by the writings of Saudi-based scholars such as Bakr Ibn Abu Zaid, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ibn Abd-Allah Ibn Baaz (1910-99), and Sheikh Muhammad al-Amin ash Shanqiti (1907-73). As mentioned before, all of Yusuf’s opponents side-stepped the issue of democracy being un-Islamic, thereby making the issue appear incontestable or settled.”

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Book:Boko Haram: Islamism, politics, security and the state in Nigeria
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“The vast majority of arrests carried out by the military appear to be entirely arbitrary, often based solely on the dubious word of a paid informant. Military sources repeatedly told Amnesty International that the informants are unreliable and often provide false information in order to get paid. One officer said: "The military uses civilian informants to get information and arrest suspects. Most of these informants are liars. They give false information to the soldiers who are desperate to simply shoot and kill. Many of the soldiers don't know about investigations. The soldiers take these rash actions mainly out of frustration, especially after seeing their colleagues killed.”

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Book:Nigeria: Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands: War crimes committed by the Nigerian military
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“The Nigerian government is playing with fire over this insecurity issue; they pardoned Boko haram terrorists, bandits, and terror herdsmen, but send a rapid response squad to peaceful protesters who are harmless. This is not a wise move or the right way to maintaining a One Nigeria. People should be able to protest against injustice and other things affecting their way of life as longs as they do it peacefully.”

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Author:Olawale Daniel
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“Misery wreaks havoc. The yawning gap between this place and the rest of the country is unfathomable to anyone who has not experienced it. Boko Haram recruits them like child's play because the sect at least offers a tangible, immediate solution. As shocking as we might find it, their message appeals to some. Dying for God is more thrilling than dying of hunger, humiliation, or because the neighbourhood dispensary has run out of antibiotics. Maybe one day someone will study just how personally distressed one must be to weaponise faith against one's own people, but that is not my job.”

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“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs were lost, and consumer consumption fell in a corporate death spiral as the aging technoczars were revealed to have feet of clay. Financial institutions underreacted, the government overreacted, and a society living on borrowed time paid for with borrowed dollars failed. Hard times and hunger came to the Western world, which was all the more of a shock because the generation that survived the last financial collapse had virtually died out.”

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“La luz de la esperanza comienza hoy, cuando La Elegida ha nacido a la luz del sol. Es linda, es hermosa, como una flor, pero su belleza se entorpece, al pasar por mucho dolor. Su vida crece, su vida madura, pero no sabe que es el empiece, de su gran aventura. Alta es la traición que se comete, pues la nobleza se entromete, en la que un brujo ablandará, el corazón que ella le brindará. Pero la felicidad no perdura siempre, pues otro miedo pasa por su mente, y no sólo eso, también terribles recuerdos llegan, cuando delante de ella pasa La Muerte. Un obstáculo más, un obstáculo menos, ¿qué mas da, si es la más fuerte? Pero, ¿de dónde viene la fuerza, sino de su rival? Su propia sangre la traicionará, una vez, tal vez dos, pero luego decubrirá su mortal error, pagando así su equivocación. Fuerzas más ya no le quedan, cuando descubre la triste realidad: las personas que llenaban su corazón, una vez que se van, ya no han de regresar. Y eso se lo demuestran una vez más, cuando su verdadero amor le ha de abandonar, por el hecho de que su misma sangre lo destruirá. La Elegida sufrirá mucho más que cualquier ser, pues la tristeza y el abandono la han de poseer. En tres años, ni uno más, será cuando su amante se le dará una segunda oportunidad, la que por fin terminará, la misión que en un principio se le encomendó. Pero un problema se presentará, pues su corazón no la reconocerá, así que su sangre la ayudará, a terminar lo que empezó, a seguirel camino del que una vez se fió, y a tener dos almas más en su vida ermitaña de las cuales se percató. El bien y el mal, pelean una vez más, entre la luz y la oscuridad. Pero, que quede claro, sólo alguien puede terminar la pelea encarnizada para que todo llegue a su fin. A quien la Elegida entregó su alma, será el único que destruirá al demonio que se encuentra dentro de cada pecado, de cada mal. Y una vez más trinfará, el bien sobre el mal. La Elegida reinará, como noble, con bondad, como ella es en realidad.”

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Book:Lani, la princesa gitana
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