When reports cam out of gunmen walking into churches and opening fire indiscriminately it had all the hall marks of a state sponsored terrorist act.
Similar incidents were carried out in Northern Ireland by organs of the British state as detailed in the Autobiography of Gerry Adams
The goal of the attacks?
To create an atmosphere of tension within the country which brings with it massive increases in spending of military equipment. This is the most obvious result but I won’t pretend I have any clues about Nigerian politics to speculate on other motives.
Whether these attacks will cause ethnic tensions is not clear but Goodluck Jonathan coming out and highlighting the attacks are artificially create and sponsored by the state should help massively in calming down any emotions which could arise from the attacks.
The pressure is now on Goodluck Jonathan to put a stop to the attacks now he has acknowledged that he knows where the groups are getting their funding and support.
If he can put a stop to the attacks, he could be viewed as something of a hero.
Muslims today employ terror in almost all their imagined disputes. Whether its the Phillipines, Chechnia, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Nigeria, Sudan, Somolia, Iraq, Israel, Algeria, Indonesia…
Only a very small percentage of Islamic religious clergy, in Islamic countries, have issued decrees (fatwas) against this method of Jihad. This is a critical indicator of how well accepted terror is within the Islamic community because fatwas are issued frequently, for any perceived affront to Islam.
Even the slightest perceieved misrepresentation of Islam is sure to get a slew of fatwas in response. So, if “terrorists” truely have hyjacked Islam as the ignorant white non-muslim tv anchors have said, then the immediate result of 911 or any terror act would be a slew of fatwas, many of which, would actually demand the murder of the terrorists themselves.
Where were the Fatwas? After 911 Colin Powell went on a mission to get some…and got none.