After 9/11 that's how the Imam of our mosque in Sec Sch gathered us at night & made us pray for Osama so he escapes capture

Looking back, I regret being a part of that congregation that ws used by extremists masquerading as Muslims using people's children https://twitter.com/ParadiseNewsNg/status/1264450211335696390
We were all innocent children from the ages of 17 & below, we had no idea the reputation of who we were praying for.

But the extremists that rallied us in the mosque knew for a fact that if were in Afghanistan our sch would ve bn bombarded by Osama as it's a girls school
Maybe he hoped the Taliban will expand their reign of terror to Nigeria & stop us from studying.

I will always follow up on my children so no extremist use their innocence because that's what they specialize in doing.
Over the yrs, I ve interacted with so many acclaimed Muslims & I realised a handsome number of them re unhappy about the freedom & education we ve in Nigeria, the pray in their hearts a Taliban like govt will be established in Nigeria & take away that freedom from us
The way they re over concerned abt moderating the lives of women speaks volumes, all their dreams lays in shrinking the space of Women completely.

To them, a Woman's existence is a sin in itself as she's blamed for any & everything that's wrong with the society
It looks as if to them Men re faultless so if a Man sin, it's the fault of a Woman, she ws the one that provoked him so her space shld shrink even further.

She shouldn't study, shouldn't go to stadium, shouldn't go to cinemas so as not to corrupt in the world
To cap it all, if you look at the segment of arewa Twitter that the likes of Bashir & Bello Shagari re cozy with, you will realise they exhibit the above attitude.

No wonder Bashir thinks kidnap & rape of a 14yo isn't a crime, to him it's Ese's fault Yellow did that to her.
Note that the school is great, there's this excellent educational standard, good library too infact they don't do D or E. Grading starts from C which is 50 to A if you fall below 50 it's F9

The only challenge ws the overbearing influence of religious activities which ws abused.
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