NIGERIAN HAUSA-FULANI TERRORISM, NOW GONE INTERNATIONAL!

Once again the world is witnessing a scenario similar to what happened immediately following 9/11 when instead of putting Saudi Arabia on the spot, world attention was shifted away to Afghanistan and later Iraq? Saudi Arabia which produced and possibly radicalized 19 out of the 20 terrorists that brought 9/11 into being, bringing down the World Trade Center in the process was left out of the firing range in what has been termed the politics of oil? Now the true identity of the Northern Nigerian Fulani terrorist, who master-minded and carried out the Christmas day attack on an American airline, Delta Airlines, and on American soil, Detroit, is now being papered over and the blame is being poured on Yemen, a place he allegedly received his training? What about where he grew up and got his primary indoctrination?

Icheoku says, why the taking it easy on Northern Nigeria, a known hotbed of Islamic extremism; which have imperiled Nigeria for so long just because they are in power in Nigeria and be extension makes decision about Nigerian oil? Why is the world not being inundated with the fact that it is the same area in Nigeria that have been terrorising their domestic population with many religious riots that gave the world this terrorist? Why is this particular information and fact not being forcefully put out there or are Northern Nigeria sharia state of Katsina receiving the same treatment that saw Saudi Arabia's slap on the wrist post 9/11? Icheoku says, public shame is one way of putting a stop to such shameful act of terrorism and the Islamic Sharia Katsina State Nigeria should be singled out and put on the spot for the infradig of their son, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab.

For so many decades terrorism under the subterfuge of religious riots have been plaguing Nigeria with over 38,000 Nigerians killed and properties worth several millions of dollars lost in the ensuing mayhem. When one factors in the terror of the Biafran Nigerian genocidal civil war that claimed over two million Biafran lives then the tolls' graph skyrockets sharply? Who are these terrorists that have shed so much of Nigerian bloods of innocents but the Hausa-Fulani Muslim northerners, who are so bereft of any sense of modernity, decency and positive thinking that their religion provides them the subterfuge and excuse to kill and maim innocent 'non-believers' who they consider not good enough to inhabit this earth with them? Icheoku wonders aloud why the American media is not harping on this terrorist's Islamic background and the fact that Nigeria is a multi-ethnic, divergent peoples' country where the Islamic north is utterly different from the predominantly Christian south; and where the sharia north have been the source of all the blood-letting since going on in Nigeria from her independence in 1960? Now the whole entity called Nigeria and Nigerians are now being put on the spot for a mad Hausa-Fulani spoilt terrorist's action. This terrorist has a very powerful Nigerian Fulani father who possibly pulled strings to get him multiple USA entries visa, provided him with several thousands of dollars some of which he used to finance his terrorism including the $2831 cash he paid for his round trip ticket from Lagos to Detroit via Amsterdam, carrying only a back-pack?

The elder Mutallab is a well connected Funtua Katsina State Fulani Nigerian, a distant cousin of the ailing Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua and therefore America 'must tread softly' in order to avoid any possible oil interruption in retaliation? Icheoku says, once again the need to wean America off foreign oil has come to the fore by reason of this terrorist not being put on the x-ray machine to investigate his antecedents in view of his peoples' existing and continuing domestic terrorism in Nigeria. Our dependence on foreign oil has now made ordinary nitwit Fulani terrorist an object of extreme caution by the media who has not been hard-charging in going to the place that raised the animal to see things for themselves. Instead their searchlight is pointed at Yemen, when he just went the last few months to burnish his terror skills; but what preceded his terror-pilgrimage, no one seem to mind? Where did he come from, who are his parents; where is Funtua; where is Katsina state Nigeria and such other burning questions, no one among the press corp wants to unravel.

Terrorism has been a persistent scourge in Nigeria and for a very very long time; but that these northern Nigerian terrorists have grown bold enough to now take their blood-letting overseas. If any person is in doubt, ask southern Nigerian people and Christians alike the life of fear and trepidation they live in on account of these murderous north? How many times have there been religious upheavals in Nigeria which claimed several thousands of Nigerian lives and destroying properties worth several hundreds of millions in the process? Was Bauchi riot a picnic or were people not put in fear of their lives? Jos mayhem was not a cartoon character but many hundreds of lives were lost and many others put in permanent fear? Maiduguri, Katsina, Kano, Gongola, Benue etc are all hotbeds of terrorism in Nigeria including the Miss world riots that killed over 50 people? Nigeria authorities under Hausa-Fulani thump usually classify these mayhem as religious riots and you ask yourself what is religious about killing human-beings just for worshipping differently? So many people are killed, maimed and constantly put in fear for their lives and safety of their properties and what other definition of terrorism surpasses that? Icheoku does not get it especially the lack of hard-charging investigation by the world press on what has been ongoing in Nigeria's Muslim Hausa-Fulani north. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab is not just a freak or a streak occurrence, no, he is but one in several thousands of potential terrorists who the Muslim Northern Nigeria is churning out in great numbers and putting through the system. If anyone is in doubt, let the person check the dossier of the incessant and frequent religious upheavals that have occurred in Nigeria over the years since independence in 1960; including the one which occurred on Monday, December 28, 2009 in Bauchi State, the bedrock and centerfold of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.

Icheoku faults President Barack Obama's call 'to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, or anywhere they are plotting attacks against the U.S. homeland,' for not also singling out and specifically mentioning Saudi Arabia and Nigeria among the named known terrorists-breeding countries of the world? It is our attempt at political correctness and not to hurt the feelings of our oil supplying countries aka oil politics that is militating against our resolve to fight terrorism to its conclusive logical end. Any effort which does not incorporate Saudi Arabia and Northern Nigeria is half-measure; and the earlier we start calling out these countries for their complicity, irrespective of the oil-levers which they hold on the world, the better for the effort at fighting and defeating terrorism. Why the president held out in calling out Northern-Nigeria for its continuing terrorism both in their religious intolerance induced domestic terrorism and this December 25 incursion into America, baffles Icheoku. Such tacit condonation of evil by these people should be condemned unequivocally irrespective of our dependence on their oil.

How a Fulani terrorist from Northern-Nigeria brought bomb-making materials aboard several airplanes is what those security operatives in both Amsterdam and Lagos should try to figure out. In Lagos however, it will be much easier for a person with his pedigree to be driven right straight into the tarmac without necessarily going through the security screening. But at Amsterdam, who knows, except his name recognition continued there in Europe or he had some other accomplice facilitating his movement? Also who gave this animal visa in view of what is already known about him and why was the visa not cancelled upon his father's notification of his terrorist inclinations or an APB declared on him through out the world?

Terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Northern Nigerian Fulani Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula member, brought Nigeria an unholy Christmas gift they did not bargain for and which no one ever wanted. According to one analyst, what terrorist Umar Mutallab did has 'brought instant disaster to Nigerians everywhere, particularly those frequent travellers among them and those in economic and political exile in foreign lands?' Icheoku says, there is no faulting a well reasoned analysis and this is in tandem with the general thinking amongst Diaspora Nigerians. Icheoku says those well-documented history of Northern Nigeria religious fanaticism that frequently unleashed mayhem on peace loving Southern Nigerians and Christians alike, are nothing other than domestic terrorism; perpetrated by the likes of this Fulani terrorist from sharia Katsina state, Malam Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab! This has been of general knowledge the world over but they chose to ignore it as Nigeria's internal problem, but now that the genie has been let out of the bottle, the re-branding of Nigeria as a terrorist state will soon take a centerfold!

Icheoku condemns a certain commentator's attempt at rationalising or trying to explain the inexplicable that was December 25, 2009 that because al-Queda is a global scourge, with cells embedded not only in Islamic nations but also in such liberal democracies as Britain, Denmark, Canada and the United States of America; that in a sense, "there’s nothing really extraordinary that a Nigerian had stepped up to play his hideous part in a tragic plot." This is the most bizarre of thoughts to ever recently come out of any sane mind? Why must it be in such despicable and atrocious act of terrorism that Nigeria must stand up to be counted; why not in a more positive contribution to humanity or even in the search for a solution to global warming or HIV/AIDS epidemic? Whoever this human-being that tried to reconcile the sad event of December 25 to an understandable degree should have his head examined for some abnormalities. What Umar did is condemnable, irrational and should be so condemned by every Nigerian whose heart still beats and blood gushing through his veins.

Icheoku agrees intoto and completely with another commentator that the Nigerian state helped create terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab for their continuous and subsisting yielding and tacitly supporting of such crazed-out Muslim fanatics in Northern Nigeria like terrorist Mutallab who continuously shed bloods of innocents without ever being prosecuted or held accountable for their atrocities? They grew bolder and decide to export their mayhem and to America; the same way Al-Queida grew bold after Yemen ship bombing, embassies bombing in Africa and then decided to make incursion into the mainland. The solution, the United States of America should pay more attention and be more actively involved in Nigeria and Africa, without relying so heavily on sitreps from the British and the French; two people who profit heavily from the lopsidedness in the continent's political governance. Solution to problems of terrorism goes to the roots of the terrorism, the reason Icheoku called out Saudi Arabia and Nigeria as two countries that needed admonition and possible reprisals for their role in being technically supportive of terrorism. If America paid enough attention to all the terrorism masked as religious riots going on in Nigeria over the many years and continuing till date, may be this animal would have been flagged earlier and since taken out of commission, before he dared to strap some bomb on his butt intending to blow up our airplane and on our own soil. Enough of your terrorism, domestic and international, Muslim Sharia Northern Nigeria!