Nigeria, April 20 -- Conversations on Islam and global politics will always come up. So, it did in the last few days with various talks around Israel and Gaza, Israel and Iran, the Middle East, and many more. As I told my colleagues at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, geopolitics will always be messy; empires are almost always irresponsible and immoral, whether it was the British Empire at its height or the contemporary empire forged by the United States. All empires eventually collapse, victims of their hubris and narrow vision. In the contemporary creation of global dominance, those who are evil see others as evil, and they create compelling narratives to damage others. Racism was like that: you took the muscle power of blacks to build your...