Gombe Muslim Students Have Put Me In Sorrow By Killing My Friend

Right now I am deeply grieved by the barbarism that was meted out to a friend of mine, the late Mrs Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, by supposedly secondary school students in Gombe State. I actually saw a topic relating it earlier and contributed to it by pasting Reuben Abati's write-up in The Guardian of Saturday last week not knowing that the person in question was actually an acquintance. The full story can be accessed on the link below:

http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/nigeria-muslims-club-christian-teacher-to-death/

I knew her as a fellow student of Obafemi Awolowo University and she was a very gentle and easy-going person. I didn't know she was the one earlier because she has since gottten married and thus I couldn't recognize the surname. It was a mutual friend that called me tonight to inform me and since then I've just been disoriented. I've tried in vain to search for all the earlier threads on this issue but somehow they can't be found anywhere which is why I'm posting it anew. This is past midnight and I should be asleep but I just can't sleep. It is just unbelievable that human life will matter so little in the hands of young people. Later the likes of oyb and mukina2 will come on nairaland and start defending them. I am angry, hurt, depressed about the "unequal  yoke" in our country Nigeria and , I am just lost for words right now.

This issue must not be swept under the carpet, it's high time we said NO!!! to all these religion-inspired murders. The campaign is starting and I will not relent until it is brought to the highest levels of discussion. Please anybody that has the ear of any senator or house of reps member should bring this to their notice and demand that it should be addressed in the house. We have to do something about this as tomorrow it might be just anyone, though you won't catch me dead in  northern Nigeria anyway. The people are nice and everything but when religion is brought into the equation they just turn into animals. I chose not to expose myself to such risk and hence I WILL NEVER GO THERE!!

'Liberal' muslims must come out to condemn such barbarism. Sitting on the fence will no longer be acceptable to us.

The term "moderate" or "liberal" muslim has been exposed for the myth it really is. There are no "liberal" muslims, it is another special class of muslims invented by the politically correct media to placate a group that have made violence and intolerance pillars of their religion.

One wonders why the sultan has been silent ever since. Is this because this has nothing to do with ajami inscriptions?

I wonder how they expect her kids to view the religion of Islam when they grow. And the hypocritical islam defenders on nairaland have refused to comment on this, instead they are busy posting all sorts of rubbish.

I challenge all of you, BABS787, OYB, MUKINA2, BELLOTI, come out and defend this one. This is where we want you to prove your mettle and not on some idiotic thread where you trade fallacies!!!

@The One

You want to know what "moderate muslim" reaction will be?One word-denial.Just check out this thread -http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-45147.32.html

Islam preaches 'PEACE ' they always say. they are quick to kill in the name of the koran or islam and yet they keep lying to themselves stupid blood sucking demons!!!

@ The one,May The Lord,God almighty comfort you and all the other family and friends of this murdered woman.
I,too have lost relatives in the Muslim violence and I know exactly how it feels.

The Muslim apologists on this forum and everywhere else are not much different from the perpertrators of this horrific crime,the difference is that they exercise a little bit of self control but the mindset is the same.
When you look at the responses in the thread someone gave us a link to,you'll see what I mean.

In another thread the same discussion came up,let me quote what a liberal muslim said amidst her sympathy message to buttress my point that the Islamic mindset is not compatible with decent human thinking,pay close attention to the highlighted phrase.
I rest my case.

http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-26946.512.html

Bellotti,however did give a good response but when I hear the words he said from a man who upholds the killing of Muslims who convert to Christianity as prescribed by the Koran and Sharia,I take whatever he says with a grain of salt.
Islam is intrinsicly evil.

I am just getting to read the actual account of this story and what NONSENSE. If at the tender age Allah Akhbar means it is time to kill someone when these ones grow older what do we expect.

I think enough of the debates in here from a logial point this story ALONE provides an accurate picture of the islamic religion, i wonder where the notion of Islam is a peaceful religion originated from, its not just logical or possible.

Would apologist call the little girl extremist or the other students in the school, the problem is the teachings (instructions in their faith) they had received, it called for violence and death when an "infidel" touches the Quoran, it really beats my imagination little girls i just wonder what the future holds for these ones, if at that age they can exhibit babaric tendencies.

I am convinced that it is the teachings of Islam that is causing this nonsense, to prove this you wont hear the sultan or any muslim leader condem the act in strong terms (they can't go against their faith), how can we be convinced otherwise?

God save us from the spirit of the bondwoman AMEN.

@The One:

i sincerely sympathise with you concerning the death of your close pal. please accept my condolences.


@ the "moderate" muslims (so to speak ) in the house:

you guys seriulsy need to come out en masse and condemn this act actively!!! put yourself in the shoes of those hurting right now and condemn this act!!

She is yoruba and if you yorubas have accepted this as your fate then thats your cup of tea,am wondering where your OPC people are these days , let them do this to igbos and onitsha reaction would be a child play,as for the so called moderates who have kept silence along with their sultan and adegbite ,we are gradually getting to know their real nature ( violence

So apart from being a tragic incident, you turned it to a tribal/ethnic issue aswell, nice and you wonder what nigeria is turning into

@ topic iam sorry for the loved one that you've just lost, i hope she rests in peace.

i just read the editorial in the punch newspapers

and at times like this, i most certainly do not want to be a muslim or be associated with ISLAM.

its really a sad sad story

and it amazes me how some people can take a life that they didnot and can never create.

Its not consoling to know there are still muslims like you. Have you been reading the thread. What is you opinion on the issue, at times like this you don't want to be associated with islam but do you see anything wrong in killing or stoning a christain to death because she touched the Quoran (if she did). Please speak directly and strongly am tired of all this "moderate muslims" who politically oppose violence but don't stand up and be counted.

If i may ask what does the Quoran say abount "an infidel" touching the Quoran. I think the anlaysis of this thread and islam should start form there.

Aplologies for this long posting:

The One,
I sympathize with you. My heart really bled when the news broke. I even tried as much as possible to avoid looking at the picture of her widower and the 10 months old baby that was published in the daily Sun because the grief was too much for me. So I can imagine what you have to go through having known her personally.

Fellow nairalanders,
Let's leave islam and muslims alone o. They are not our fundamental problem in this particular instance. our problem is the worthless government that could not even hold anybody responsible for the death.

Few days before this killing, former Gombe state governor - hashidu something - was arraigned in court. His supporters came to the court house to "release" him. The judge was seriously injured in the attempt. Nobody has been held for the offence. Can you imagine the madness?

My concern is that we have no government and it's like anything goes as long as you have the clout to sail through. If islamic extremists know that the law will hold them responsible, even the principal, teachers, neighbors around the school will behave differently given the situation. Are there no islamic extremists or criminals in other places in the world? If they are afraid of the law things might change a little bit. Being an islamic fundamentalist is not an excuse to perpetrate crime. Rev. King was denounced by almost everyone that matters in Christendom (in naija). He has been sentenced to death.

If criminals - christian or muslim fundamentalists - know that the law can bite, they will think twice before they do evil. But unfortunately, the law will never bite until the gluttons that are ruling us leave trivialities alone and devote time to governance.