What makes Sheikh Gumi’s people, the fighters, as their warriors is easily traced to the protocolary of Muhammadan warfare of jihadism. The protocol says, “Fight against those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth [i.e. Islam] from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled” (Qur’an 9:29). Fighters of any cause are warriors, indubitably. Gumi is simply advocating for the legality of Boko Haram, ISWAP, atrocities of Fulani herdsmen and the inhuman abductions of people for ransom that has, all these years of this qur’anic cruelty, enriched in billions, If not a trillion naira in the treasury of Gumi’s jihadism.Read More