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I have watched with horror as the so called Zamfara state in Nigeria issued a death sentence on otherwise free and innocent citizen of Igbo decent without a word from Igbo leaders and Governors. At the very least shouldn’t the leading Igbo Organization or Eastern State Government in Nigeria also issue a ‘Fatwa’ on the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State? Time and history has shown us that the only way to deal with this Islamic Lunatics is to meet them fire for fire. To this end I suggest that a sizable Igbo Organization at home or abroad Issue a “Wanted Dead or Alive” with a $10,000 reward on the head of the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State on Nigeria. (I for one will be only too glad to contribute my quota towards this end)
This may achieve three goals: 1. Let the Hausa / Fulani Islamic lunatics know that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” 2. Northern Nigerians cannot use a state apparatus that is paid for by Southerners to threaten a Southerner Nigerian. 3. Focus international attention on the type of Islamic lunatics Southern Nigerians are forced to share a country with.
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Maybe this is what will help the world wake up to what the Saudis, Sudan, Gaddafi, and the rest if the IOC member Countries have as plan to take over the control of Southern Nigerian Oil. From a local American press:
quote:Book eight, numbers 3325 and 3328, of the sayings and deeds collected by the esteemed ninth-century editor Abul Husain Muslim bin al-Hajjaj al-Nisapuri records how Muhammad heard that a young woman was so beautiful that a disciple said, "She is worthy of you only." Muhammad had her brought to him and was so enraptured that he "granted her emancipation and married her."
Christians as defenders of press freedoms By Marvin Olasky
SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
W hat will it take for liberal U.S. journalists to stop calling Muslim and Christian fundamentalists similar threats to freedom of speech and freedom of the press? And when will American editors draft resolutions attacking the suppression of freedom now going on in Nigeria?
The horror of Nigerian developments may make us miss what's happening to press liberty there. Last week, Muslim anger over a newspaper article about the Miss World beauty pageant touched off riots that left 220 dead and more than 1,000 seriously injured.
How bad was it? Los Angeles Times correspondent Davan Maharaj reported that "Thousands of Muslim youths armed with knives and machetes (were) burning cars and assaulting bystanders they suspected were Christian."
Christian fundamentalists did not act that way when writers depicted Jesus as a homosexual, or when an artist submerged a cross in urine. But perhaps we should look at the huge provocation that launched the disaster: A writer for the Nigerian newspaper ThisDay, speculating on how Muhammad would react to a beauty pageant, wrote that "he would have probably chosen a wife from one of them."
That's it? Sure, given the tinderbox that Islamic extremists have made of northern Nigeria, it was a dumb comment to make. But it's also a reasonable speculation, as stories about Muhammad's life that have semi-sacred status within Islam show the religion's founder appreciating and sometimes appropriating to himself the beauties of his time.
Book eight, numbers 3325 and 3328, of the sayings and deeds collected by the esteemed ninth-century editor Abul Husain Muslim bin al-Hajjaj al-Nisapuri records how Muhammad heard that a young woman was so beautiful that a disciple said, "She is worthy of you only." Muhammad had her brought to him and was so enraptured that he "granted her emancipation and married her."
Nigeria's Islamic "fundamentalists" don't want anyone to raise questions about how Muhammad actually lived, because that might hurt their effort to set up an extreme Islamic regime. Like some European kings up to several centuries ago, they think the job of journalists is to deliver propaganda for their cause.
Most Muslims in the United States are great citizens and enjoy living in a free country -- but why do Muslim leaders in Nigeria and many other countries fear freedom? Do they believe that if people start thinking for themselves, many will turn away from Islam? Some countries under Christian influence were once governed by similar fears. But John Milton, the Puritan author of "Paradise Lost," wrote in the 1640s, "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field . . . let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter."
Milton's view soon took hold in countries led by Christians who had confidence in God's providence. Milton's view is still suspect in much of the world, especially in Muslim-dominated areas. The enemies of journalistic freedom used to have their capital in Moscow; now it's Mecca. Radical Islam has now replaced Communism as the world's most potent hater of press liberty.
American journalists should not buy the lie that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution succumbed to in September when it stated that "freedom of thought and conscience (are) highly prized in Islam." Ask Salmon Rushdie or hundreds of other Muslim writers --those who have not been murdered. Ask imprisoned ThisDay Editor Simon Kolawole, or those mourning Islam's victims in Nigeria.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo criticized ThisDay and said murderous riots could happen in his country "any time irresponsible journalism is committed against Islam." That's what's so sad: This is not a one-time occurrence, but something to be expected "any time."
American journalists should be thankful this Thanksgiving that we can write and speak freely. We should be thankful that Islam in America is not like the Nigerian variety. We should do what we can to help those suffering persecution in other lands. We should stop insulting Christians who, more and more, are prime defenders of freedom of the press.
Olasky is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas and the editor-in-chief of World.
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Thank you for opening this thread. Don't worry your head about so called "Igbo leaders". Their way of proving that they are detribalised is by turning a blind eye and maintaining an irresponsible silence as our hardworking citizens are returned in body bags. You bet the price for transportation to the East will have been hiked up by the Igbo operators.
And guess what? The "Igbo leaders" will put out luxurious buses to get the survivors of the massacre home to vote for them at the next election. The following report is from a European christain missionary in BiafraNigeria:
NIGERIAN TELEVISION NEWS REPORT OF THE SITUATION
We observe that Government is much more concerned with appeasing the muslim community, and gives the impression of justifying their wicked violent acts against the Christains because of the said offensive publication of the National Daily, which they have used as an excuse to persecute Christains in Kaduna and environs:
1> At 7.00PM State news, no specific mention was made about the looting and burning of the Churches even though a brief shot of a few Churches was made.
2> At the 9.00PM Network News, the muslims were the aggrieved that were being assuaged with promise to bring to book the author of the write up, who is the "tormentor". The impression we got was that, whatever the Christain's physical injuries, and painful losses resulting from the looting and destruction of our Churches, & properties was simply attributed to hoodlums that took advantage of the "justified" response of the Muslims.
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OU: I hear you! It is just so frustrating. If a dumb Hausa/Fulani Northern Nigerian Muslim cum Deputy Governor of a rogue Nigerian State of Zamfara, can issue a death sentence against a Southern Nigerian Citizen, What the f-u-c-k are the Southern Nigerian Governors Doing?
In the absence of that can't any Southern Nigerian Organization Issue a Death Sentence against this Said Governor?
What is wrong with Southerners?!!!
By the way the next time I hear anyone refer to Islam as the religion of peace..... I just might run out on the street with Smith & Wesson and God knows just what i might do....
Welcome back to the forum. I am quite sure something must have touched you to come out from ROMLAND.
On the other hand, I do not think placing a Fatwa on the governor of Zamfara State would be the right and justifiable approach to solving such a fragile problem that exploded in Kaduna and other cities some days ago.
If the promoters of the beauty contest had reasoned with the situations in the Islamic states, they would have been better off taking the contest to a venue outside Islamic majority.
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So far it seems that Wole Soyinka and Rev. John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja. are the lone Southern Nigerian Voices calling these Hausa/Fulani Islamic babarians to order.
Perhaps not lost in irony and definately good for Southern nigeria is the fact that these two guys are Yoruba while Igbo leaders and Organizations maintain an uncanny silence over death sentence passed on one of thier own.
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I completely agree with you, an eye for an eye justice is the only language this lunatics will understand. I am so surprise that at this time no Igbo organization both at home and abroad have deem it necessary to respond back to the stupid Governor from Zamfra state.
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Wind There was immediate response to the riot itself at Aba and later Owerri, but some Igbo leaders who are still dreaming of Igbo presidency scuttled it. Like OU said don't worry about the so called Igbo leaders it's times like this that people finally see what we have been saying to the youths " there is no one looking after your affairs, your future is in your hands ". We shall see what they will do with Igbo presidency now the sharia genie is out the bottle.
The real shame is the Diaspora Igbo, where is the outrage ? Just who will make our case for US, BBC or New York Times? Come next summer WIC will hold their jamboree and claim to represent Ndigbo in diaspora.
Biafra It is an " eye for some eyes " one Igbo life is worth many almajiris. An Igbo lawyer or doctor is walking down the street only to be felled by a worthless almajiri how sad. Do you know how much the Igbo invest in training and raising their children male and female? To rub salt upon injury the BiafraNigerian government decides to bury the Igbo with these animals in a mass grave, and all some people can think about is Igbo presidency. There is no alternative to Biafra, it is the only way to secure a future for our children.
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Wind spoke well. Ekwe Nche Organization has issued a strong Press Statement, which we fully support. I propose that the Biafra Liberation Movement and the Biafra Committee for Immediate Action (BLM/BCIA) and Nd’Igbo Generation 60-70+ take the additional steps of placing a bounty on the heads of the Zamfara deputy governor, Mamoudu Shinkarfi, and the other retarded muslims who had the guts to call for the head of an Igbo woman.
I personally wish to affirm the statement by Ms. Chioma Daniel, that Mohammed would have been very happy to take one of those beauties as a bride. The only problem is that those women would not want an ugly cattle-herder with syphilis like Mohammed. I don’t know how many women Mohammed married and I don’t care to know. But, I am sure that none of them was as pretty as the beauties that the rabid Mohamedans chased out of BiafraNigeria under the pretext that “blasphemy” had been committed. Now, let one leprous hausa-fulani man declare a “fatwa” on me. Posts: 50 | Registered: Mar 2001
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quote:In statement signed by the National President of the association, the body submitted that while many Nigerians were not privileged to read the said publication, the repeated apology on the front page of THISDAY was quite appealing.
In a similar vein, a pan Igbo group, the World Igbo Congress (WIC) Inc. after an appraisal of the spate of violence that greeted the bid to host the 2002 Miss World Beauty Pageant has called on the Federal Government to evolve ways of averting violent crisis.
In a statement signed by WIC Secretary Genera, Dr. Luke Azubike, the group said the recent violence that rocked some states in the North has carved a negative image for Nigeria and blamed the government for not putting necessary machinery in motion to avert it even when its occurrence was imminent.
It maybe time that nigeria is split and it is a shame that Obasanjo hasn't resigned wet or withdrawn his name from re-election.
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Those weak press releases from Weak Igbo Conspirators (WIC) and BF belong in the trash can. The people in those groups are nothing but Nigeria politicians and apologists and they are more interested in avoiding trouble and fighting for positions than in condemning the atrocities. Tufiakwa!!!!
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quote: : “I am angry because the world has seen Sharia that is getting ahead. We will not stay (as one Nigeria) if they put us in an impossible situation.”
Ojukwu
The islamic terrorist in nigeria, like their counterpart in the middle east and the rest of the world are steadly getting to their end, it will not be long before we see their end and reign of peace.
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If you let these jihadists get away with this threat, all of us are in trouble. I have not seen the WIC press release. But, from reading the one by BF at egbeomo.com, it seems that BF is the "Biafra" arm of WIC. These jihadists must be condemned with terms that threaten consequences for their crimes.
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The WIC press release is not even worth commenting on, as for Biafra Foundation who would go to egbeomo.com to read anything about Biafra ? Go read Soyinka's release and compare that to the thrash these people are writting.
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Here is the full text of Wole Soyinka'a press statement.
quote:Deputy Governor Shinkafi's call for the death of a Nigerian citizen, under a so-called Fatwa, makes him a common criminal who should be hauled up before the courts and charged with incitement to murder. If this man had any grain of piety in him, he should be on his knees twenty-four hours a day praying for the souls of innocents whose lives were needlessly and gruesomely curtailed. He should be on his stomach groveling in contrition, pleading for the forgiveness of an over-patient, over tolerant nation whose civic dignity he continues to assail in the confidence of immunity.
"He should cover himself in sackcloth and ashes and urge his followers to do the same until the nation pronounces itself ready to forgive a rampage of murder, brutality and arson.
"Let this 'elected official' understand that very few people in the Nigerian nation consider him - or indeed his governor boss who is unquestionably implicated in this latest outrage - as being possessed of one drop of spirituality. These are cynical manipulators of religious sensibilities who, when all the facts are known, may yet come to trial for the many hate crimes that have been launched against the citizens of this nation".
Declared Soyinka: "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Mamuda Shinkafi and all who think like him must remember the saying that those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. These bigots have resolved to unleash a cycle of terror, which routine breeds terror and counter-terror. Shinkafi and his collaborators wish to cow a hundred million people by the new explicit threat of their capacity to issue death warrants at will and summon the mindless, brainwashed hordes to an endless orgy of blood and mutilations."
The Nobel laureate has a strong advice for Obasanjo: "President Olusegun Obasanjo must unambiguously call this man to order. If he cannot defend the constitution he is sworn to uphold, he must make a public declaration to that effect so that we understand once and for all that we are living in a country without law, where every group and every individual must make their own".
He went further: "If, wherever she is, any harm comes to the menaced journalist, let Deputy Governor Shinkafi understand that there will be no hiding place for him on this globe and he will be brought to justice as a common felon, no matter how long it takes.
"Upstart politicians and presumptuous clerics should not be allowed to use their positions as base for the undermining of the constitution that binds us together. The age of intolerance, of bigotry, of rule by terror is being inaugurated before our eyes, and we pretend that all is normal within the nation.
"We have not thrown off the shackles of colonialism or dislodged the iron grip of military dictatorship to succumb now to theocratic insolence. Obasanjo must call a halt to this provocation before the nation is set on fire.
Could someone please send a copy of that to our so-called "Eagle on the (Mountain) Iroko," Achebe, who seems to have been paid to hold his tongue.
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Of recent Achebe seems to have acquired the Igbo leader syndrom of the Ohaneze type " see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil ". I was disappointed with his interview on BBC talking about lost opportunities in BiafraNigeria, not to talk of that his ill conceived visit to Aso rock in 2001.
This is the same man who went to South Africa only last month and told the world Steve Biko owed liberal whites no apology for not acknowledging their eforts against apartheid. He has made excuses for Mugabe and commented on so many irrelevant things. Well there is a burning issue at home and his kins folks are in danger of extermination and all we hear is silence.
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Fellows, Now that most forumites, especially the Igbos are seeing what I saw long ago, i.e. our enemies from WITHIN are not less dangerous than those from without, I guess its time to repost the warning I sounded when this Isioma saga started a few days ago.
Quote: -------------------------------------------------- "To all PROUD Igbo compatriots from the west and east of Nigeria, I remain steadfast in saying that for any future war Igbos will go into to be successful, the battle MUST start from the western and eastern divide of the Igbo nation."--NwaAro. --------------------------------------------------
Who would have imagined when I made the above statement a few days ago that a "yellowbelly" would have been the one to make our case? Dont be surprise that the next person who will follow Soyinka's foot-step will be Gani Fawehimi (a human right activist and a muslim by religion). Yet some would still want us believe that ALL muslims (without exception)are "terrorists."
MY BRETHREN, THE EARLIER WE BROADEN OUR BATTLE FOR FREEDOM FROM WITHOUT AND TIGHTEN IT FROM WITHIN THE BETTER FOR US. May God give us all the wisdom to see beyond the todays.
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It is very sad that a young writer like Isioma Daniel 'll have have to go through this in a democratic country. where is the free press and freedom of speech that comes with democracy? Nigeria is not, can not and 'll never be an islamic state!!!!!! as a young student hoping to go back home with my degree,i find my future in Nigeria blink!! with all these blood shed all in the name of Islam. One begins to wonder why Islam is the only religion in the world that people find it easiest to justify their thrist for blood!!!!!!!!. I think Obasonjo is lost control of that country and he should honourably leave!!!!!
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