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Africa Subsaharan
Shi’ites’ Protest: Before Another ‘Boko Haram’ Is Created
2016-10-21
[LEADERSHIP.NG] The intensification of protest by members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as "Shi’ites", which the media has reported to have claimed 16 lives in Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto and Kano States, is disturbing. As the group continues this fight for the release of their leader, Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, anyone with historical knowledge of the birth and rise of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
’ will agree that the existing situation signals danger.

As we all react in anger to these horrible attacks and boorish protests, we need to also reflect, candidly, on the causes of terrorism, and adopt the best solutions to restore peace to our agitated communities. Analysts have in the past argued that terrorism feeds on poverty and unemployment. I certainly do not buy into this highly publicised link between poverty or unemployment and extremism. By way of example, Haiti and Liberia are countries with eighty per cent (80%) of their population living below poverty line, yet they have not noted cases of extremism terrorism.
Posted by:Fred

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