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Today is a good day to talk about the gaslighting that& #39;s always attempted anytime you criticize anything northern: whether personality, socio-economic conditions, cultural practice, or even a criminal (like Yunusa Yellow). It is called an attack on the north & Islam.
But the North & Islam aren& #39;t the same. They are mutually exclusive. There are millions of northerners, like myself, who aren& #39;t Muslim. In every northern state, there are lots of indigenous people who aren& #39;t Muslim, who are Christian or another faith altogether.
For all the name-calling Babachir DAVID Lawal has gotten here, you have never called it an attack on the North. If Boss Mustapha gets criticized, it won& #39;t be an attack on the North.
There are also millions of Muslims in Nigeria who aren& #39;t from the North. Why is a criticism of Bola Tinubu not an attack on Islam but a criticism of Buhari is? Why is a criticism of Ishaq Akintola of MURIC not an attack on Islam but a criticism of Pantami so?
For all my active years on Twitter, I get this every time I do any kind of commentary about the North. Sometimes, I& #39;ll be on my own sef & I& #39;ll just see "amasonic hates the North & Islam". The same north I& #39;m from, I grew up in, I still have family in & go often?
This isn& #39;t just a matter of not knowing where I& #39;m from by merely looking at my name. There are times I& #39;ve tweeted a thing & gotten heat for it. Another person will tweet it & you& #39;ll see them agreeing in the comments. The difference between us? Our identities.
I talk about sth in the North, I get "but this happens in the East, you don& #39;t talk about it." But I& #39;m not from the East, I& #39;ve never lived there. I talk about where I know better by virtue of birth & breeding. Who stopped you from talking about the East?
I keep coming back to this article from 2012 (I won& #39;t tag the author). But pay attention to the 5th paragraph, posted in the screenshot. If it was me or someone whose name doesn& #39;t conform to an identity, it would have been endless bashing
https://www.google.com/amp/s/zainabusman.net/2012/02/17/a-people-in-terminal-decline/amp/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/zai...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/zainabusman.net/2012/02/17/a-people-in-terminal-decline/amp/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/zai...
Even for ppl who don& #39;t want to be identified as northerners, you insist there is no such thing as the Middle Belt, only North. But yet, you don& #39;t recognize them as northerners. They speak, it is the same "you hate the north & Islam."
Gaslighting at its best.
Gaslighting at its best.
I& #39;ve said before: I& #39;m not going to preface any commentary of mine about anything North with "I& #39;m from the north" so as to make it valid. It& #39;s not cos I& #39;m denying my identity. I& #39;m proud of where I& #39;m from, of my culture, my heritage, & I& #39;ve never regretted being from the north.
