Thanks, Prof.Falola,
But with all due respect are you not avoiding reality?
Your No.1 is not true - " 1. Evil and Good are equally distributed all over the country. All ethnicities have their evil leaders."
There us no other ethnicity in the country engaged in nation wide terrorism apart from right wing Fulani.
Even Boko Haram dont have that national spread.
There is no ethnic leadership in today's Nigeria supporting terrorism apart from right wing Fulani ethnic leadership, particularly Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural Organisation which has severally owned up to and justified massacres by Fulani herdsmen and gone scot free under the watch of Nigeria's Fulani led govt in which practically all, if not all the security agencies are headed by ethno/religious affiliates of the same right wing characters.
You are a historian. You are well informed of the dangers of appeasement of persistently dangerously belligerent characters.
Neville Chamberlain's efforts to appease Hitler before WW2 are well known.
You are also informed about the use of the janjaweed in Sudan by President Omar Al Bashir, the same line being towed today by Buhari. Miyetti Allah and the Fulani herdsmen militia.
Efforts like yours to claim, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that all is well, will not dissuade the right wing Fulani warlords, as the rivers of blood they are spilling makes clear, as they persistently struggle to manipulate govt policy in tandem with the massacres they are committing, trying to force Nigerians to bend to their dominance in order to gain respite from this incessant bloodletting.
The only way they can be made to pull back is persistent push back from Nigerians, like the recurrent outcries over the various moves to hoist Fulani herdsmen settlements on other Nigerians, the latest being the RUGA plan.
Fora are badly needed for these issues to be aired and debated as is done here.
Its wise to prevent extreme attitudes but your stated stance looks like a flight from reality.
You might have blocked my post on the possibility of all out war in response to the war already declared on unwitting Nigerians by the right wing Fulani. The imminence of that all out war is already staring us in the face.
Safer to raise issues and debate them than claim that the house that is Nigeria is not already on fire by right wing ethnic supremacists.
SW, SE, Midwest, Southern Kaduna, the entire nation is crying out under the burden of Fulani herdsmen terrorism and you are declaring that "Evil and Good are equally distributed all over the country. All ethnicities have their evil leaders"?
Thanks
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 17:10, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Some postings on the Fulani that I rejected have bothered on hate speech.
Let us all exercise caution and to remember the following:
1. Evil and Good are equally distributed all over the country. All ethnicities have their evil leaders.
2. The victims are the poor
3. Hate speech can trigger genocide
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