June 6, 2015
By Anna Badkhen
In the early 19th century, (click here) a Fulani scholar, cleric and trilingual poet named Uthman dan Fodio launched one of West Africa's earliest jihads. Hurtling camelback and horseback, Dan Fodio and his followers delivered Islam to the mostly animist rural savanna on the tips of their spears and broadswords. In the flood plains of the Inner Niger Delta, in what today is central Mali, one of Dan Fodio's disciples, a Fulani orphan named Ahmad bin Muhammad Boubou bin Abi Bakr bin Sa'id al Fulani Lobbo, led an Islamic rebellion and founded the theocratic empire of Massina. Modern-day Fulani remember and revere him by his nom de guerre, Sekou Amadou — Sheik Mohammed. His empire stretched from Timbuktu to Ségou and lasted 44 years....
A caliphate would define itself by cities and not national borders. The ancient militaries were successful in destroying those that governed and brought in their own leaders city by city.
A mystical movement would rule with a change in leaders. The mystical character of the movement would stabilize the new leaders. The people would not resist a movement that proved they now had a stronger god than the previous.
...Two years ago, I joined a Fulani family in Mali for a year of migration on the routes that still abide by the schedules Sekou Amadou had drawn in 1818. But the landscape they traverse is no longer the same. Mali has been growing progressively hotter and drier since the 1960s, and cyclical dry spells that occasionally wracked Sekou Amadou's Sahel are now killer droughts. Expanding farms are helping destroy what's left of pasturage....
The USA military has warned about the instability in the world because of the climate crisis.
Humanitarian aid can have an effect on the impacts of the droughts. However, the aid has to enter into the lives of people and not the black market that seeks profits from such aid. The people have to realize relief in order to stop the unrest and chronic searching for a new savior.
...Human Rights Watch reports that the movement's members have so far summarily executed at least five men, including a village chief, believed to have collaborated with the Malian army; burned several government buildings; brought down a communication tower; and warned civilians to keep away from the government, the U.N. and the French troops....
Daesh is the ultra conservative that is using modern day governance as an enemy to god. There is not much new about such movements. Leaders reach back to a time with a strong reference in success and model themselves after it. That doesn't mean the leaders of the ? new ? movement are deliberately carry out a strategy. I simply don't believe they are that smart. If these new regimes were actually mimicking the past they would not be looking for Western munitions to carry out it's killing.
A caliphate was not born from machines, it was born from camelback and horseback.
The idea Daesh has a profound certificate from god is hideous in it's manifestation. God would provide the right number of camels. Yes? The West would not have a chance if it was actually god acting through Daesh. God would have little to no challengers. Get for real.
Daesh's success still only exists in a power vacuum. The excuse 'Defending Islam" was and is not the issue. There are powerful leaders in the Middle East that defends the faith of the people. Daesh is the opportunistic movement due to disgruntled people that define their lives as antiquated. Well, if the people are still using ancient migration routes to feed their livestock I suppose there will be suffering that other countries don't realize.
The biggest problem the leaders of Middle East nations face is to bring ALL their people into modern days. They should never assume citizens are admiring the governance if they are not receiving the benefits of it.
By Anna Badkhen
In the early 19th century, (click here) a Fulani scholar, cleric and trilingual poet named Uthman dan Fodio launched one of West Africa's earliest jihads. Hurtling camelback and horseback, Dan Fodio and his followers delivered Islam to the mostly animist rural savanna on the tips of their spears and broadswords. In the flood plains of the Inner Niger Delta, in what today is central Mali, one of Dan Fodio's disciples, a Fulani orphan named Ahmad bin Muhammad Boubou bin Abi Bakr bin Sa'id al Fulani Lobbo, led an Islamic rebellion and founded the theocratic empire of Massina. Modern-day Fulani remember and revere him by his nom de guerre, Sekou Amadou — Sheik Mohammed. His empire stretched from Timbuktu to Ségou and lasted 44 years....
A caliphate would define itself by cities and not national borders. The ancient militaries were successful in destroying those that governed and brought in their own leaders city by city.
A mystical movement would rule with a change in leaders. The mystical character of the movement would stabilize the new leaders. The people would not resist a movement that proved they now had a stronger god than the previous.
...Two years ago, I joined a Fulani family in Mali for a year of migration on the routes that still abide by the schedules Sekou Amadou had drawn in 1818. But the landscape they traverse is no longer the same. Mali has been growing progressively hotter and drier since the 1960s, and cyclical dry spells that occasionally wracked Sekou Amadou's Sahel are now killer droughts. Expanding farms are helping destroy what's left of pasturage....
The USA military has warned about the instability in the world because of the climate crisis.
Humanitarian aid can have an effect on the impacts of the droughts. However, the aid has to enter into the lives of people and not the black market that seeks profits from such aid. The people have to realize relief in order to stop the unrest and chronic searching for a new savior.
...Human Rights Watch reports that the movement's members have so far summarily executed at least five men, including a village chief, believed to have collaborated with the Malian army; burned several government buildings; brought down a communication tower; and warned civilians to keep away from the government, the U.N. and the French troops....
Daesh is the ultra conservative that is using modern day governance as an enemy to god. There is not much new about such movements. Leaders reach back to a time with a strong reference in success and model themselves after it. That doesn't mean the leaders of the ? new ? movement are deliberately carry out a strategy. I simply don't believe they are that smart. If these new regimes were actually mimicking the past they would not be looking for Western munitions to carry out it's killing.
A caliphate was not born from machines, it was born from camelback and horseback.
The idea Daesh has a profound certificate from god is hideous in it's manifestation. God would provide the right number of camels. Yes? The West would not have a chance if it was actually god acting through Daesh. God would have little to no challengers. Get for real.
Daesh's success still only exists in a power vacuum. The excuse 'Defending Islam" was and is not the issue. There are powerful leaders in the Middle East that defends the faith of the people. Daesh is the opportunistic movement due to disgruntled people that define their lives as antiquated. Well, if the people are still using ancient migration routes to feed their livestock I suppose there will be suffering that other countries don't realize.
The biggest problem the leaders of Middle East nations face is to bring ALL their people into modern days. They should never assume citizens are admiring the governance if they are not receiving the benefits of it.
