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Islam Not Behind Nigerias Problems Fact Check

“From my previous post on the poisonous nature of Islam to Nigeria, I remain unapologetic about it. A lot of people are crediting our plight to a failed system, it can be true but not completely true. Some of us can't say the truth for one of these two reasons. Either because you don't want to hurt your friends or relatives that you know they are not terrorist or you are ignorance of what islam is. Let me say it. Our problem is not about failed system but about a deceptive system. Historically, we have two group of people in Nigeria that have two different motives. those working towards the good of the nation and those working towards esterblishing an islamic Republic. Since from inception, a Muslim has never been after building Nigeria but an Islamic State. when other people are busy thinking about Nigeria, a northern Muslim is only thinking of an Islamic Nation. From the first of their nationalist to the least, they have never work towards making Nigeria great but towards conquest. FOR long, they have deceptively programmed Nigeria for this agenda and to undo this system, the nation will be battered. That is why leading Nigeria by a non Northern Muslim will be very hard. The problem is not the failure of the system but the system put in place is not for Nigeria but for Islam. Only Muslims do what they are doing in this nation and go free. No Yoruba, Igbo or any other tribe can do this and go free except a northern Muslim. Don't even deceive yourself that we can build this nation together. they are not after this nation building but after building an Islam empire. If you see any of them that is not a terrorist, you will realize that he is either a public sympathizer or a secret one. Even when they come out publicly to condemn, it's a deception, because their book support such deception. Please let's pray more and when are ready to go against it then we do. but no single government can fight this evil, it has long been planned. while men slept.... My Humble Submission”
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Confidence: High Checked on June 12, 2026

Summary

There is no credible evidence supporting the assertion that Islam is inherently poisonous to Nigeria or that northern Muslims are collectively seeking to establish an Islamic empire. Reliable sources describe Islam as a religion with diverse interpretations and refute the notion that it promotes violence or a singular political agenda in Nigeria. The claim is therefore unsubstantiated.

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politifact.com
  • PolitiFact | Islam

    "The city of Minneapolis has set up a Sharia hotline for residents to report citizens who criticize Islam, in order to prosecute them for ‘hate crimes.’"

nytimes.com
  • Opinion | How Politics Has Poisoned Islam - The New York Times

    Instead of seeing this politicization of religion as natural — or even, as some Muslims do, something to be proud of — we should see it as a problem that requires a solution. This solution should start with a paradigm shift about the very concept of the “caliphate.” It’s not just that the savage Islamic State has hijacked this concept for its own brutal purposes.

iium.edu.my
  • Islam: Basic Principles and Characteristics

    Tawhid is a revolutionary concept and constitutes the essence of the teachings of Islam. It means that there is only one supreme Lord of the universe. He is omnipotent, omnipresent and the sustainer of the world and of mankind. Now can one observe the inexhaustible creativity of nature, its purposefulness, its preservation of that which is morally useful and destruction of that which is socially injurious, and yet fail to draw the conclusion that behind nature there is an all-pervading mind of whose incessant creative activity the processes of nature are but outward manifestations?

islamicity.org
yaqeeninstitute.org
  • Finding Truth in the Age of Fake News: Information Literacy in Islam | Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research

    The Prophet ﷺ sent him to collect alms from tribes among Banu Mustaliq, who had recently converted to Islam. Walid was afraid of them, perhaps because of a dispute he had with them or a rumor he heard (depending on the narration), so he returned to the Prophet ﷺ and incorrectly claimed that the tribes had rejected giving alms and that they wanted to kill him. The Prophet ﷺ became angry and he sent Khalid ibn al-Walid to investigate. Khalid found that they were, in fact, still Muslims and the rumor of their rebellion was false.

  • Is Islam a Violent Religion? Debunking the Myth

    Islamic scholarship unequivocally affirms the practice of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who very clearly established freedom of religion. ... Moreover, the Pew poll also omitted from its published report some information that is absolutely essential in appropriately interpreting the survey data. By far, the most cited datum in the poll was the fact that 88% of Egyptians supported the death penalty for apostasy.

islamqa.org
  • Consuming Poison to Prove Islam in a Debate - IslamQA

    If someone tries to prove the legitimacy of Islam by consuming poison and it backfires i.e, the preacher is harmed by the poison or it claims their lives; then such will cause Islām to be further extensively misunderstood.

en.wikipedia.org
  • Criticism of Islam - Wikipedia

    The standard Islamic view holds that the Qur'an was compiled shortly after the death of Muhammad in 632 and canonized during the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan (r. 644–656). This position has been increasingly supported by manuscript evidence and recent scholarship. The Birmingham Qur'an, radiocarbon-dated to 568–645 CE, led Nicolai ...

vridar.org
  • The Poisonous Cocktail of Salafism and Wahhabism - Vridar

    In later posts we turn to the empirical evidence for this explanation. ... This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. If you enjoyed this post, please consider donating to Vridar. Thanks! ... ” a belief in the self-sufficiency of Islamic doctrines and a sense of self-righteous arrogance vis-a-vis the ‘other’ ” It sound very much like Pope Benedict XVI hatred of “relativism “. Although the “self righteous-arrogance ” there is sugar-coated with smooth aristocratic divine right.

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