BIAFRA INDEPENDENCE 2014

Terry Paulson


What would you say to the Founding Fathers
who gathered in Philadelphia to craft the
Declaration of Independence knowing that it
would mean war with England? Would you
have told them to wait, to keep trying
diplomacy, or to wait for England to leave
them alone? Would you support their taking
up arms to protect their people and their
rights? Thank God, they justified and
supported the war for independence that made
America free.
While the world is once again preoccupied
with tensions in the Middle East and in the
Ukraine, there is a growing call for
independence for Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu , the
Director of Radio Biafra, is the world-wide
voice for the indigenous people of Biafra
(IPOB) in the south and southeast of Nigeria.
They are weary of seeing their women raped,
their churches burned, and their villages
bombed and terrorized.
They remember the 1967-1970 Biafra-Nigeria
Civil War that resulted in the genocide of over
3 million IPOB Christians while the world was
focused on Vietnam and the conflict in the
Middle East. Once again, they're seeing buses
of Muslim terrorists/cattle herdsmen
vandalizing their farms and villages.
Thankfully, six have been arrested when two
bombs were found and defused at the Living
Faith Church,popularly known as Winners'
Chapel, in Owerri, Nigeria.
Enough is enough. The IPOB are ready to
defend themselves. To the largely Christian
population in Biafra, the concept of a Holy
War is not a theoretical discussion; it is a
matter of survival and freedom from the
Islamic Caliphate that is sweeping the Middle
East and Africa. But they know that any
declaration of Independence is but a piece of
paper; independence must be earned.
Why focus on Nigeria when ISIS has
aggressively secured a beachhead in Syria and
Iraq for their self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate
united under Sharia Law? The Middle East is
but the tip of the iceberg in the drive for an
Islamic caliphate. For years, Africa has been a
target of the extremists' dream of a unified
Africaunder Islamic control.
The brazen attacks on Christians and moderate
Muslims by Boko Haram in Nigeria have been
happening for years. In 2012, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton had been reluctant to
label them a Foreign Terrorist Organization
(FTO) for fear of cutting them off from
diplomatic contact.
Only the reported abduction and threat to sell
200 young Nigerian women into slavery or
forced marriage has awakened the western
media. The comments by video in May of Boko
Haram's leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau ,
speaks of their all too public mission:
"You infidels of the world, you have met a
trouble, we must follow Allah, and you should
die with bitterness. Brethren cut out infidels
from their necks, brothers you should capture
slaves; just because I took girls in western
school they are worried. I said they should
even desert the school, they should go and
marry. Nonsense, I am the one that captured
your girls and I will sell them in the market. I
have my own market of selling people; it is the
owner that instructed me to sell. Yes, I will
sell the girls people, I am selling the girls like
Allah said until we soak the ground of Nigeria
with infidels blood and so called Muslims
contradicting Islam. After we have killed,
killed, killed and get fatigue and wondering on
what to do with smelling of their corpses,
smelling of Obama, Bush, Putin and Jonathan
worried us then we will open prison and be
imprisoned the rest. Infidels have no value. It
is Jonathan's daughter that I will imprison;
nothing will stop this until you convert. If you
turn to Islam then you will be saved."
When Britain laid out the borders in Africa for
the breakup of its empire, countries were not
formed to help build viable nations. Nigeria
was formed as a dysfunctional colony that
combined naturally competing peoples in a
way that would sow perpetual discord and
allow Western companies to freely take
advantage of the natural resources they
treasured.
As Nigerian Ambassador Bola Dada asserted,
"Our problem is not leadership, it's our weak
foundation. No one can govern Nigeria
successfully now because of the faulty
foundation. So the foundation has to be pulled
down before we can see any way out."
The current Christian President, Goodluck
Jonathan, has been neutered. He wants a
united Nigeria, but he has no real power.
Under the alleged support of sponsors like
General Babangida, known as IBB, Islamic
extremists have infiltrated the armed services,
police departments and the political
administration. Their mission is clear--protect
Islamic extremists and Boko Haram. It's no
wonder that Islamic terrorists are expanding
their attacks throughout Nigeria.
This demand for the independence of Biafra is
far from new. In March 2008, 145 countries
voted to support the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
People . Although not supported by President
George W. Bush, President Obama endorsed
UNDRIP in 2010.
The people of Biafra want independence and
are asking for help around the world. The IPOB
can trace their roots in Judeo-Christian
heritage to the lineage of Jacob, one of the
founding patriarchs of both faith communities.
The fight for Biafra independence provides a
tangible way to thwart the drive for an Islamic
caliphate in Africa. It's time once again to
support a people whose time for independence
has come. It's not our fight, but, with UN
justification, it's a fight we should support.