seunkom1: to b candid, im a christian what the man said is not politically incorrect. No where in christianity are we encouraged to go to isreal for pilgrimage. most of us christian are looking at it from d view that muslim do go to mecca, which i belive we are just imitating, and it doesnt guarantee u eternal life. Besides the injustice jews show to palestinians no God fearing christian will support it.
pls just my view, no tongue lashing.

Delafruita: some people just cant shield their ignorance.am certain you and almost every other person dt commented on this thread didnt even finish reading the write-up.his criticism isnt from a religious standpoint,rather it is from a political viewpoint.which is why he began by saying a journey to isreal isnt a cardinal principle in christianty as is mecca to muslims.the crux of the matter is that since nigeria claims to recognize palestine,a jamboree to isreal is like saying one thing and doing another.no nigerian president or head of state has visited isreal for obvious reasons and same applies to almost every nation that recognizes palestine.if pilgrimage to isreal were to be a cumpulsion on christians,it would have been a different thing but it isnt so by visiting isreal,our president has negated our policy on palestine.its simple as that which is why Gumi described Jonathan as a bad politician

seunkom1: to b candid, im a christian what the man said is not politically incorrect. No where in christianity are we encouraged to go to isreal for pilgrimage. most of us christian are looking at it from d view that muslim do go to mecca, which i belive we are just imitating, and it doesnt guarantee u eternal life. Besides the injustice jews show to palestinians no God fearing christian will support it.
pls just my view, no tongue lashing.

Awakulowo2: I don't think Gumi is making any sense here. GEJ is a Christian and he can visit the holy land as a Christian and the President of the most populous Black Nation. The only problem here is the number of ibos that travelled with him. ibos are there for their selfish interest, ask Stella Oduah. The ibos should have travelled as biafrans not as Nigerians.

ebenezer4o2: I've carefully read the article from the beginning to the end and also read everybody's comments.

One thing I've discovered is that some religious bigots have however sworn to their ancestors who were chronic muslims that they will for ever Islamize Nigeria and also tagged Nigeria as an Islamic country,tufiakwa!

If that's what and why they wanted power to be shifted to the North,I'll however not support their course by God's grace,shame to Gumi or whatever he calls his stinking and meaningless name.

Awakulowo2:
I don't think Gumi is making any sense here. GEJ is a Christian and he can visit the holy land as a Christian and the President of the most populous Black Nation. The only problem here is the number of ibos that travelled with him. ibos are there for their selfish interest, ask Stella Oduah. The ibos should have travelled as biafrans not as Nigerians.

Desric:
Nigerians will never cease to amuse me, of what purpose does GEJ tourist visit to Israel serve his Religious belief? It is a known fact from time immemorial that Muslims all over the world as a matter of compulsion in fulfilment of the laws and demands of Islam must visit their holy land of Makkah if they can afford it, just like baptism is to the Christian fold.
What the President and his cohorts have done is a big show of shame and disgrace, if he so loved to visit that land, he should have done that quietly and not in this jamboree and wasteful nature. If I may ask, who sponsored this journey and who approved the bill? Anyway, its like the Igbos are part of this jewish tribe, because they are always dependant like parasites, not having a say of their own always hiding under someone's cover, Hypocrisy, Mediocrity and sycophancy is their birthright and trade mark. Nigeria must be better someday if we do not break and divide that's my believe.

Arysexy:


U are entitled to ur opinion, GEJ is entitled to exercising his religious right. Wia did bible tell u to use phone?

U ppl are sick! Do u know d essence of pilgrimmage? It lifts d spirit, it makes real those stories u av been hearing in d bible which u myt av been doubting if they wia real. Goodluck has d right to strenghten his faith which is one of d advantages of dis pilgrimage.

From Israel they are going to Rome and also Greece.Am sure muslims won't be insulted when they go to Rome but insulted when in Israel dia sworn enemy

Wsdm:

And how have you demonstrated that?
In 2011 presidential election; Jonathan got more than 24% votes from the Muslim dominated North and Buhari a Muslim got virtually nothing from the Christian dominated South.
Check all the posts by Muslims all over the social media; no single Muslim insults JESUS( may God bless him), compare it to the Christians that hurl insults not even to the Prophet MUHAMMAD( may the Peace and blessings of God be on Him) but to ALLAH ostensibly showing DEEP hatred to the Muslims. We know that very few of you can really tolerate people of other faith. But the Muslims have been taught to respect everyone.

Delafruita:
ur post shows that you lack knowledge of middle east politics.its as simple s this,isreal and palestine have their issues and nigeria supports the palestinean agitation.its one thing to have foreign relations with isreal while its another for our president to visit isreal on a pilgrimage in a capital city that is one of the major reasons for the discord between isreal and palestine.

thaoriginator:
Spencer Dark
Look at all of them laughing in israel... When I've been ahome for 4months now, my future and career is being deliberately delayed. This man just has to go 2015, I once supported him fully, but he has had enough of that seat. And to my fellow 'christians', I hope you all won't make noise if one day a muslim man sits there and takes his fellow muslim governors and members of his cabinet to mecca on a tour such as this. I hope you all won't cry foul and say he is too islamic to be your president. Has God so forgotten and left nigeria that they all have to go to israel to look for him?.. How much have and will they spend on this tourism, for staying there up to a week?. When they come back they tell ASUU there's no money because they prefer to spend on frivolities like this, and luxuries like armoured cars. If they are all this religious, why can't God protect them and secure their supposed threatened life, why do they need armoured cars? You set up a 3-man panel to investigate someone you're travelling with the next day, why won't you give the panel 2weeks!, They keep deceiving the masses

atlwireles:
He speaks for millions of muslim in this country and Apc e-rats agree with him. This was their country till Jonah came along.

bjdon:
The only thing that surprises me about this statement is that some people are surprised. Many of you young people simply don't understand what Nigeria used to be like. You've lived through the Obasanjo and GEJ era. Anybody over 40 understands fully well that Nigeria used to be like in the 70's, 80's and 90's. The Northern Muslims reigned supreme. Arabic inscriptions were on Federal govt properties and the national currency. Major meeting in the Army were conducted in Hausa. When young people come on here and make comments like 'Religion does not matter just competence' blah blah I laugh at their naivety.

Thank you Shiek Gumi for showing these young naive southerners EXACTLY how northern Muslims think.

noblezone:


Some of us are insisting that we don't have anything in common with the Jihardists!

We must as a matter of necessarily and urgency, draw our boundaries.
Let them have their Islamic Republic while we have our free republic or republics as the case maybe.

If we succeed to prevent them from taking over in 2015, for how long shall we continue to do that?
One day they will get power and use our resources to deal ruthlessly with us (some of us may not be here by then).
It is a duty we owe our next generation.

I am from the Biafran side, the Odua, Middle Belt and Niger Delta must do what is necessary now!

atlwireles:


The Jamboree, are billions we spend sending Muslims to mecca yearly. The day we break this country up, 95% of Muslims will stop going to Mecca. Because that jamboree stops.

Femolacaster:
Although i am not a Gej fan, but to be candid, this Gumi is mentally deranged. Didn't Yaradua go for hajj as well as Atiku. Let that eediot know that Nigeria is not an islamic state.

dozzybaba:
I have two question for this gworo man.

Sheik Gumi, please tell us where to find Abu sheikau.

Sheik gumi, how many Christian throats did you hold up in high heavens after slitting them and shouting Allahu akbar.

noblezone:
Jonathan Has assaulted The Sensibilities of Muslims by Visiting Jerusalem-Gumi

Respected Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has said that President Jonathan's pilgrimage to Israel has assaulted the sensibilities of Muslims and in his opinion shows that President Jonathan is not a good Christian.

Read his views below

JONATHAN IN ISRAEL

I am not a keen political commentator probably because my brain also filters information through the prism of religion, but I definitely now believe that Mr. Jonathan is neither a politician nor does he mean well for other Nigerians.

His ‘tourism’ to Israel is a big political blunder, I said tourism because its never in the annals of true Christianity to partake pilgrimage as it’s a cardinal tenets of Islam to go on such pilgrimage to three most Ancient mosques in the World. In a hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim from Abu Huraira, the prophet – peace be upon him was quoted as saying: “No religious journey is allowed except to three mosques”. They are the Makkah mosque, the Medina mosque and the Jerusalem mosque.

Nigeria along with many other African and world countries has sided with the plight of the Palestinians that were forced out of their homeland, killed and scattered. There are still Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and all over the world. They are prevented from entering their mother land just because it was confiscated by the Western powers with Israel used as a ‘front’. It’s a share case of colonization with expulsion of the rightful occupants. For this reason no Nigerian president in the past, Muslim or Christian has visited Israel in order not to honor such injustice.

Today Nigeria riddled with insurmountable political, economic and social problems, our least priority is a state visit to a controversial state where human suffering is the norm of the day. What do we stand to gain from Israel? For one, the Jews -I am saying this without any prejudice- are traditionally known to be misers while we African are seldom not beggars. Charity is not in there lexicon. Jesus – alaihis Salam- has condemned them in the most explicable terms no other human has done. ‘Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?’M't:23:33.
In the Quran, Jews were also cursed with misery and lowliness; they can only parasite on other nations to survive and on Allah’s mercy on occasions. Allah said: “ Shame is pitched over them (Like a tent) wherever they are found, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah and from men; they draw on themselves wrath from Allah, and pitched over them is (the tent of) destitution. This because they rejected the Signs of Allah, and slew the prophets in defiance of right; this because they rebelled and transgressed beyond bounds”. Q3/112

Notherless the Quran in fairness said “Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book are a portion that stand (For the right): They rehearse the Signs of Allah all night long, and they prostrate themselves in adoration. “ Q3/113.

What concern us now, is that Jonathan has succumbed to the pressure to support the Jews at the detriment of the oppressed Palestinians and the teaming millions of Nigerians living under the most appalling conditions, our children out of schools, and the ostentatious life style of his ministers, cronies and oil thieves.

If Jonathan wants religious peace in Nigeria, his visit to a religiously controversial state is a mistake. The message is that he is insensitive to Muslim’s sensibility. There is share recklessness in such an adventure. Truly Islam has enjoined Muslims to interact, mutually benefit with the Jews in business and marriage. Muslims are allowed to eat their food, therefore it should be understood that the Muslim’s apathy towards them is because of Zionism and the plight of their fellow Muslims. The Jewish experience is Spain under the Muslim rule is well documented. They prefer Muslim’s treatment to the Christians. Even in recent history what the German Nazi did to the Jews cannot be effaced.

My advice to Israel is that they should not interfere with Nigerian problems, treat Mr. Jonathan as a simple tourist. As I also beseech them to facilitate Muslims going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem as instructed by the prophet of Mercy.

May Allah protect us from all evil! Amin.

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/jonathan-has-assaulted-the-sensibilities-of-muslims-by-visiting-jerusalem-gumi

Wsdm:

No Muslim hurl direct insult to an elderly Christians in the age of Gumi. That shows the level of training and self discipline between the two.
Back to the issue; If Jonathan visits that place on personal religious ground, no problem. But his entourage is pointing at STATE-PILGRIMS-VISITS. And this should concern the adherents of other faiths because , he is not the president of a particular religion.

Delafruita:
some people just cant shield their ignorance.am certain you and almost every other person dt commented on this thread didnt even finish reading the write-up.his criticism isnt from a religious standpoint,rather it is from a political viewpoint.which is why he began by saying a journey to isreal isnt a cardinal principle in christianty as is mecca to muslims.the crux of the matter is that since nigeria claims to recognize palestine,a jamboree to isreal is like saying one thing and doing another.no nigerian president or head of state has visited isreal for obvious reasons and same applies to almost every nation that recognizes palestine.if pilgrimage to isreal were to be a cumpulsion on christians,it would have been a different thing but it isnt so by visiting isreal,our president has negated our policy on palestine.its simple as that which is why Gumi described Jonathan as a bad politician

dealslip:


The president is still a Christian. He is free to visit anywhere recognised as the cradle of Christianity whether, Jerusalem or Rome. Has he lost his freedom to religion becos he is now president. Stop looking for irrelevant reason. Who fought the other Muslim president when they went to Mecca. Gumi should stop fanning the embers of religious tensions. The country is at a boiling point. Because of this baseless write up of his, many people may lose their lives before the week runs out in some northern state. Let every country take care of its problem. Don't disturb Nigeria because of religious affiliation.

Delafruita:
some people just cant shield their ignorance.am certain you and almost every other person dt commented on this thread didnt even finish reading the write-up.his criticism isnt from a religious standpoint,rather it is from a political viewpoint.which is why he began by saying a journey to isreal isnt a cardinal principle in christianty as is mecca to muslims.the crux of the matter is that since nigeria claims to recognize palestine,a jamboree to isreal is like saying one thing and doing another.no nigerian president or head of state has visited isreal for obvious reasons and same applies to almost every nation that recognizes palestine.if pilgrimage to isreal were to be a cumpulsion on christians,it would have been a different thing but it isnt so by visiting isreal,our president has negated our policy on palestine.its simple as that which is why Gumi described Jonathan as a bad politician