Fulani Attacks, Hausa Muslim Dies -By Ishaq Habeeb

The issue that allegedly triggered the recent violence in Jos was that a fortnight ago, men believed to be Fulani militia, attacked Irigwe community and laid waste 40 people, burnt down unspecified number of houses and as is their style, vanished into thin air shortly after.

Now a fortnight later, the aggrieved Irigwe youth, decided to block road, stopped cars, cherry picked Muslim passengers and machetes them in cold blood, in reprisal to the ‘Fulani attack’ on their community.

Now one of the secondary dangers of this barbaric culture of reprisal that’s since become a norm, in Jos, southern Kaduna and other places, is that oftentimes, innocent Hausa Muslim travelers and remote village dwellers, where few Fulanis also resides (not the actual Fulani militia), ends up as victims of such Fulani militia attacks on random villages at various times for whatever bad blood they must’ve have against such places and also of the eventual reprisals by residents of the attacked communities.

Now the major reason for this silly idiosyncracy isn’t far fetched, because for the ignorant, barbaric, islamophobic residents of those villages, Fulanis and Hausa are mutually inclusive, since to them, the two appear culturally and religiously homogeneous hence must share the same agenda; the common denominator here being, Islam, other than that, I don’t see how Hausa could strike any, as Fulani, physiologically and traditionally.

The shocker to this age long madness of confusion is having now added the Yoruba Muslims to the equation, seeing that as news have it, some of the slain motorists in Irigwe community were Ondo Yoruba Muslims, that were only in Jos for a quick visit.

The sick irony in all of this is that some of those Fulani pastoralists are only Muslim by birth and name, that aside, the only real religion they have is ‘Fulani’ itself and the real god they really worship and can kill and die for, any day, anytime, anywhere and whoever, is their cow (nagge). Their cattle is what they live for and the primary essence of their existence, mess with that and win yourself a lifelong enemy.

Now one easy way to put my theory to the test, is wait until any Hausa community, dared kill or rustle Fulani cattle the way some members of those attacked communities do sometimes – whether as revenge for having their farmlands devoured by the herd or simply for evil intent as is mostly cited – then you would’ve seen how the Fulani militia, will unleash their wrath on such Hausa community in like fashion, the Islam identity you think we share we damned.

Now if the Hausa people were half as vengeful as the Fulani and those other tribes, and will also always choose to avenge any such unprovoked attacks on their communities or people, over the crimes of Fulani militia or in some instances, even that of the govt, with Hausas overwhelming number advantage, then Nigeria as we know it, would’ve long been history by now.

May Nigerians have sense

May Nigerian govt grow a conscience

May peace take over Africa and the world