Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - U.S. strikes ISIS in Nigeria after Trump warnings on Christian killings - The

''Democracy is not wishful thinking. It is the system of government preferred by the masses. The electoral process would not be enough to prevent violence. However, combined with heavy investments in education, infrastructure, and industrialization, there is likely to be significant increase in happiness and civility, making militarism obsolete. Yes, the Middle East crisis would be more effectively solved through a single state solution for all residents to share the territory on the basis of one person one vote and the right of refugees to return. The decades of relying on militarism have proven that War is good for absolutely nothing.'' -Biko Agozino 

(emphasis mine)

Valuable when employed judiciously.

While you engage in  ''heavy investments in education, infrastructure, and industrialization [ leading to] significant increase in happiness and civility'' how best should you respond to terrorist campaigns of murder and massacre?

Preach to them?

Dialogue with them as Nigeria has been doing as they escalate their campaigns and take over increasing ranges of territory?

Nigeria is already ''a single state [in which] all residents share the territory on the basis of one person one vote'', yet some are insisting that is not enough for them as they want to dominate the social space through murder, massacre and terror.

The Nigerian situation is very different from the struggle between the Palestinians and Israel. 

i wonder why Biko is in effect sermonizing out of context, preaching a doctrine that is impractical as a single solution to the issues being discussed.

toyin

On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovadepojuifa@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks.

the article reinforces my position though

a  thrust of the article is excerpted below

''Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Remains Rare

''As the Bourbon Street attack suggests, the jihadist movement in the United States is resilient. However, the data so far do not indicate that it is resurgent comparable with its past peaks. The number of jihadist attacks and disrupted plots against the United States decreased after the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in 2019 and has stayed much lower than at the peak of its territorial control.

The decline in jihadist attacks in the United States is a complex phenomenon resulting from a variety of factors, some of which are out of policymakers' control. 

Military pressure on the Islamic State has likely deprived would-be jihadist terrorists in the United States of an important source of support for their attacks.

The reduction in facilitated attacks may be credited, at least in part, to U.S. counterterrorist pressure. Although virtual facilitators do not require control over territory the way terrorist trainers of the past have, facilitation still requires skills like ideological persuasion or bomb-making training—skills that diminish within terrorist organizations when operatives are killed or captured.''

How does this align with my views?

Military force is critical in defeating and as a deterrent against violent ideologies, particularly those that want to overthrow the state.

Secondly, I hold that even in Northern Nigeria, with a Muslim majority population, any group that pursues its goals of creating a particular kind of Islamic society through terrorism rather than through the democratic process must never be legitimized, never be integrated into politics for any reason so as to avoid a degeneration into poisoned ideologies aligned with inhumane ways of reading the Quran and other foundations of Islamic thought.

There is a critical need to decouple Islam from the colonising and imperial culture of violent jihad, one of the greatest problems of the modern world.

Boko Haram, ISWAP, ISIS, who are seeking to impose their version of Islam on others through violence are of course different from Hamas who are seeking justice in connection with the loss of Palestinian homeland.

thanks

toyin

On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM John Edward Philips (Yahaya Danjuma) <yahaya.danjuma@gmail.com> wrote:

On Dec 27, 2025, at 15:50, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovadepojuifa@gmail.com> wrote:

How come there has been no further Islamist terrorist attack in the US after 9/11?

This isn't quite true. Just because you haven't heard about something doesn't mean it didn't happen. 

Jihadist Terrorism in the United States csis.org

 

"Analysis of the jihadist attacks yields three main findings. First, the frequency of recorded jihadist attacks and plots against targets in the United States has been low since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in 2019. . . . 

"Second, the lethality of jihadist terrorism in the United States has fallen since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State. . . . 

"Third, international terrorist organizations have inspired, not directed, jihadist terrorism in the United States,"

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