Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the infamous Nigerian terrorist also known as the “underwear bomber” who tried to bomb a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas day in 2009, which would have led to the mass murder of 289 persons on board the flight and possibly hundreds more on the ground had the plane crashed in built-up areas, was finally sentenced to life in jail on the 17th of February. For a depraved and bloodthirsty terrorist such as Abdulmuttalab whose unsuccessful attempt to bomb the Northwest Airlines flight would have snuffed out the lives of hundreds of people, the life sentence is somewhat lenient. Measure for measure, such a soulless person deserves in the least a death sentence that adequately compensates in the strictest possible terms for the premeditated act of mass murder he tried to commit.
It is still however laudable that the American justice system has to a large extent served justice to a man who would never have faced trial in Nigeria. Just recently, Mohammed Ali Ndume, a senator, was revealed to be one of the sponsors of the boko haram group of terrorist mass murderers, but a few weeks later he walked free from detention, granted bail by a kangaroo judicial system. In other parts of the world terror suspects are never granted bail until judgement is delivered by competent courts. Another self confessed boko haram member, Mallam Ali Konduga was sentenced to just 3 years in prison after confessing his membership and role in a group that has been engaged in vicious acts of terrorist mass murders. Nigeria is the only lawless jungle where terror suspects are bailed and mass murderers are jailed for only 3 years.
It is also not a secret that the sponsors and perpetrators of the decades long acts of targeted ethno-religious mass murders in the sharia North are well known to the authorities, but none of such culprits has ever been brought to trial. It is thus against this backdrop that the eternal caging of Abdulmutallab (like the animal that he is) by the American justice system is welcome
because he would have walked free in Nigeria.
But yet more tragic and revealing is the mindset and hate revealed in Abdulmutallab’s testimony during his sentencing in which he proclaimed that the “mujahideen is happy to kill in the name of God because that is what the Koran says”. He also alleged that his botched bomb attack is a reaction to the injustices of American foreign policy against Muslims. Interestingly, what Abdulmutallab reveals in his testimony is the mindset that drove the northern jihad and its attendant genocide centuries ago and that is driving the present day acts of targeted ethno-religious mass murders in the sharia north. It provides an insight that “to kill as many as possible in the name of God” drives the boko haram mayhem and all the other organized group of mass murderers that have murdered hundreds of thousands of people in cold blood since 1945 in the North.
Yet again more surprising is the hypocrisy in Abdulmutallabs testimony in alleging the injustice of American foreign policy against Muslims when there is more social, political and economic injustice against the beleaguered masses in Nigeria. The doctrine of leadership in Nigeria is anchored on the twin evils of the “Almajirization” and “Babangidization” of the nation. “Almajirization” quite simply defined as total insensitivity to the citizenry and the abandonment and pauperisation of the masses and “Babangidization” being the institutionalisation of corruption across the nation. These twin evils and doctrine of leadership which was planted and institutionalised by erstwhile Northern leaders from Abdulmutallab’s home turf is responsible for the mass poverty, mass unemployment, monumental corruption, lack of basic amenities and infrastructure such as electricity, pipe borne water, functional hospitals, functional schools, functional refineries, good roads etc that has culminated in the institutionalisation of social, political and economic injustice in Nigeria.
It is thus surprising that in spite of the monumental and indeed genocidal injustices in his own country, Abdulmutallab ignored the log in his own country’s eyes and preferred to see the spec in America’s eyes by choosing to act on injustice in American foreign policy when his own nation was being literarily consumed in the intense heat of injustice. If Abdulmutallab was genuine about fighting injustice, his theatre of war and suicide bombing campaign should have started from Nigeria where he would have had so many targets in his own backyard with the Babangida’s, the Abacha’s, the Abdulsalami Abubakar’s the Umaru Dikko’s, the Adamu Ciroma’s, the Atiku Abubakar’s, the Rilwanu Lukman’s, the Sani Yerima’s, the Dangote’s amongst other Northern leaders in his own backyard who pillaged and brought the nation to absolute ruin.
It neither makes sense, nor is it rational to ignore the fire in your own house while fighting the fire in another man’s house. It is thus evident that Abdulmutallab never sought to fight against any imaginary injustice in American foreign policy, for if he was ever truly driven to fight injustice, he would have started from his own country and backyard. Like all demented and bloodthirsty terrorist mass murderers, he acted only in the name of his Muslim god, who feeds on the blood of innocents as he himself had confessed that the “mujahideen is happy to kill in the name of god”. Fortunately, he will be eternally consigned to a cage and the world will thankfully be rid of such a sick murderous monster.
Nigeria is now at a dangerous and existential crossroad, held hostage by a whole population of terrorist mass murderers and sympathisers who as Abdulmutallab said are ideologically bent on joyfully killing in the name of God. I do not see how the nation can come out of such a predicament except there is a separation between such fundamentalist Muslims and other religions. There is no nation on earth where significant numbers of fundamentalist Muslims cohabit peacefully with other religions. The Abdulmutallab’s and boko haram is only a sign of what is to come. Those who have ears let them hear!
Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
Email: lawrencenwobu@yahoo.com
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the both of u who r calling urselves names on internet,aw can u both justify ur religion? hav any of u seen God in peron before? the God whom i serve says,when u see ur neighbor u have seem Him,if u cloth the naked and feed the starving u hav done that to me.Now u both r calling names because of God or religion,which of u believe in what God has said? yet we preach oneness and one Nigeria when we dont see ourselves as one can there be peace in and among us with this attitude?
Chekwubeonuigbo.
Your name or whatever you called yourself,you are very stupid,an ingrate and a mungolism.How can God tell you to kill and you can kill your family n yourself. You muslems are fools.
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let me tell u smthng u,re stupid @sammy or wht ever ur name is do uknw jesus is amessenger of Allah mean GOd he holds in’islam aplace of unique among the prphtsofGod he is faithful servant of GOd his messages are recorded in wht we knw asgospels/(injil) according qur,an andalsoknown historical facts, the gospels as they are 2day, have been falsified by the christians.quest, wht do u worship ajesus or his creator
Sammy
“Who is this Allah” a book an ex-muslim wrote n ask rhetorically,it is even stated dat dis allah lead astray his subjects,realy Qur’an 2:216 ask muslim 2 kil (jihad) chapter 5:51 states it clearly dat ”the jews n xtian” ar aswore enemies of muslims,a true muslim may only pretend but av it at heart,yet Islam came 578yrs after christianity yet even their prophet told dem 2 meet xtian 2 explain d Qur’an 4 dem if they’re confused,wit all dis contradictions,one can not but ask”who on earth or hell is this allah”?. Dat is neva tired of human blood,it is a blasphemy to cal him God,no,he’s simply allah in kaaba,d 4 square black shrine in mecca dat no one is alowed 2 c yet al muslim must go round it as much as 7times in adoration,wel,abdulmuttalab has bn QUARANTINED cos he can no longer co-exists wit humans 4 life, an evil like boko harams can not b changed but only destroyed d world is groanin under d terror of dis Religion,no wonder aljazeera said pple ar leavin d religion in quatums,if dey can’t liv wit other humans let dem go 2 another planet,may b “pluto” etc,else if so continues it shld b declared “Religion of disaster” world wide n a state of emergency placed,painfuly pple ar clamoring 4 amnesty 4 boko haram 4 eatin n drinkin innocent blood,but like d america bluster if dey changed not,”kill dem all” am compel 2 ask what shld we cal a god dat delight in violence? Certainling not d Holy, loving,compasionate,4given God,then,WHO IS DIS ALLAH?.