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* Raymond Ibrahim: "WORLD TAKE NOTE!": Genocide of Christians by President of Nigeria
* Amir Taheri: The Hat, the Turban and the Cap: Which Can Save the Mullahs?


** "WORLD TAKE NOTE!": Genocide of Christians by President of Nigeria ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • October 6, 2019 at 5:00 am
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* "It's tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn't a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad entirely in black, chanting 'Allahu Akbar!' and screaming 'Death to Christians.'" — Sister Monica Chikwe, reported by John. L. Allen Jr., Crux, August 4, 2019.
* "Hundreds of indigenous Numan Christians in Adamawa state were attacked and killed by jihadist Fulani herdsmen. When they tried to defend themselves the Buhari govt. sent in the Airforce to bomb hundreds of them and protect the Fulani aggressors. Is this fair?!" — Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, Daily Post (Nigeria), December 6, 2017.
* Such is the current state of affairs: a jihad of genocidal proportions has been declared on the Christian population of Nigeria, and spearheaded by that nation's president and his fellow Fulani tribesmen, even as Western media and analysts present Nigeria's problems as products of economics — or "inequality" and "poverty," to quote former US President Bill Clinton on the supposedly true source that is "fueling all this stuff."

According to Bosun Emmanuel, the secretary of Nigeria's National Christian Elders Forum, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (pictured) "is openly pursuing an anti-Christian agenda that has resulted in countless murders of Christians all over the nation and destruction of vulnerable Christian communities." (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim president of Nigeria — who reached that position in part thanks to former US President Barack H. Obama — continues to fuel the "genocide" of Christians in his nation.

Most recently, Father Valentine Obinna, a priest of the Aba diocese of Nigeria, attributed the ongoing slaughter of Christians to the planned "Islamization of Nigeria":

"People read the handwriting on the wall. It's obvious. It's underground. It's trying to make the whole country a Muslim country. But they are trying to do that in a context with a strong presence of Christians, and that's why it becomes very difficult for him [Buhari]."

Nigeria is roughly half Muslim, half Christian. A 2011 ABC News report offers context on when and why Muslim anger reached a boiling point:

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** The Hat, the Turban and the Cap: Which Can Save the Mullahs? ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • October 6, 2019 at 4:00 am
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* The nature of political power, in any system, is that those who secure a share of it always want more.
* The military chiefs, more specifically the top brass of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have always promoted their ambitions through the vast media empire they control inside and outside Iran. What is new is that today they are advancing their bid for power directly and more openly.
* Does this mean that we now have two generals testing the waters for a direct bid for power?
* The hat, the turban, and the cap are of little use when the head is rotten.

The top brass of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major-Generals Mohammad Bagheri (left) and Qassem Soleimani (right), today are advancing their bid for political power directly and more openly. (Image sources: Bagheri - Mehr News/CC by 4.0; Soleimani - Tasnim/CC by 4.0)

As Hassan Rouhani's presidency drifts towards what promises to be less than a brilliant end, speculation is starting about the next phase in the power struggle that has been a permanent feature of the Khomeinist regime from the start.

Some Iran-watchers argue that the regime's true backbone consists of the military-security establishment using the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei as a frontman. While that view reflects an aspect of the Iranian reality, it would be wrong to conclude that the military chiefs would remain content with the present arrangement. The nature of political power, in any system, is that those who secure a share of it always want more.

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