06/16/2025
𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐬
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬.
Imagine this:
The Fulani herdsmen forcibly occupy the entire Southeastern region of Nigeria—Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu—and drive out the Indigenous Igbos from their ancestral lands. The only place left for the Igbos to live is a corner of Anambra State—surrounded by fences, drones, and armed checkpoints.
You can't leave without permission from the Fulani authorities. You can't import food, medicine, or building materials without clearance. You can't protest—because if you do, you're labeled a terrorist. If you speak up, you're either bombed, arrested, or disappeared. Every now and then, your children are killed, your homes demolished, your hospitals flattened.
And now imagine this:
The justification for this takeover is a centuries-old religious claim. The occupiers insist that their holy book says the land belongs to them. The international community—led by the U.S. and its allies—backs them unconditionally. Every global institution turns a blind eye to the oppression, the apartheid, the systemic violence—because the occupiers are geopolitically useful.
Now ask yourself: If the Igbos in that scenario cry out in anger, in desperation, even curse their oppressors by chanting "Death to Fulanis" —does that make them terrorists? Or does that make them human?
This is not an endorsement of any form of terrorism or targeting of civilians—by either side. But if you strip this conflict of its slogans, religious filters, and propaganda, what you're left with is this: a people forcibly removed, caged, humiliated, and blamed for resisting.
That is the lived reality of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
And Iran? Like it or not, they're playing the role of a regional counterbalance. Much like what Cameroon might do if they saw the Fulanis occupying Igboland and the rest of the world cheering it on.
This is not about hatred. It's about historical injustice, dignity, and the right of a people not to be erased.
Stop calling the cry for survival "terrorism."
Call it what it is: a desperate fight not to be forgotten.
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This is Gaza...