How The Sokoto Caliphate Sold Over 4 Million Hausas Into Slavery
The Sokoto Caliphate, established by Othman Dan Fodio in 1804, presented itself as a champion and committed lover and promoter of Islam, but its inhuman invasions, captures, and treatments to the Hausas tell a different sad story. While the Sokoto Caliphate claimed to be promoting Islamic values, it used religion to justifying enslaving the Hausas, particularly those whom the Caliphate deemed "un-Islamic." Othman Dan Fodio's jihad against the Hausas was totally unnecessary because the Hausas accepted Islam before them, and were already practising all Islamic tenets and doctrines. So, why wage war against your hosts who received you with magnanimity, if not for economic enrichment purposes? The jihad was a war against un-Islamic practices, with the aim of purging or "purifying" the apostate and defiled Islamic practices of the Hausas in the region. However, the "purification" exercise was a total deception, a calculated scam (419) against the Hausas. ...