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Idekeson (m)
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Rise above them or sink to their level, we still get crushed. We must create a space to survive. It's all about survival, baby!
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madam (f)
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It has been reported that some angry christians in Onitsha have started killing northern muslims there in retaliation to the killings of their Ibo brothers up north by Muslim fanatics. Someone just told me now that the christians at Onitsha are pushing the Muslims into the River Niger, Na wa |
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alheri (f)
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Now that is not good news at all. Why are they going and acting like that? Thats taking it too far, it should all stop!
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choice.A
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I'm not presently in Nigeria, but my heart weeps as I sit here speechless at what is happening. O God, only You can stop the wave of killings in our nation. Amen.
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nikinash (f)
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i just can't understand why people who have most probably haven't seen the cartoons wioll go around killing people who also have neither seen the cartoon nor had anyhting to do with it? can't understand.  |
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GL (f)
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Seun,
we Nigerians are not all fools, we know the difference between ethnic and religious crises. this is the excuse muslims give after such religious crises. so it is an ethnic crises, how come they burn down churches, and even schools, with their fellow northern christians inside. The crises in Onitsha was an ethnic one (in response to northerners/muslims killing their folks) - it was directed at northerners/muslims. From what I've read so far, Ibos weren't killed, yet there are some Ibo muslims. I'm not certain yet if northern christians were killed. The north, however, has never shown any distinction between northern christians and southern christians in past crises.
Ijebuman,
what do you say about the yoruba practice of burying people alive with kings when they die? that's great, isn't it? most of our 'superstition' (i'm referring to your analogy of a broken down car) in christianity in nigeria is the left-over of our African Traditional Religions, which are the masters in superstition. The christians in the West, find African christians very superstitious.
Sapereaude,
Jesus never asked them to kill all those who didn't believe in Him. Only a minority believed in Him when He was around anyway.
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ijebuman (m)
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Ijebuman,
what do you say about the yoruba practice of burying people alive with kings when they die? that's great, isn't it? most of our 'superstition' (i'm referring to your analogy of a broken down car) in christianity in nigeria is the left-over of our African Traditional Religions, which are the masters in superstition. The christians in the West, find African christians very superstitious.
I am not aware if this practice is linked to the traditional religion, as the practice of burying people alive with kings was not unique to our part of the world. It was also very common in Ancient Egypt as well, where the pharaoh was buried with all his worldly possessions including his servants. If you want to bring up traditional practices of the past then i should remind you of what Christainity too was like back then. Anyone accused by the church of heresy (e.g people who claimed the earth was round and not flat or said anything contrary to the christain beliefs of the day) were burned alive. Then of course I could also mention the christain crusades against muslim states in the Middle East which started around 1096 where christains slaughtered non christains without mercy all in the name of God. Not all superstition is linked to religion anyway, many people in the west believe the number 13 is unlucky, many also believe in alien abduction and UFOs. |
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gwatala (m)
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I do not find most of the cartoons funny myself. Maybe just two of them actually really are funny. You know that they were really commissioned to provoke, right?
Don't get me wrong. No violence is justifiable. But no deliberate provocation is either.
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Loyalty (m)
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Well i see how people look at issues, i'am a very liberal muslim,liberal in the sense that i try to understand ppls views irespective of their cultural,religious,ethnical background. i look at those views in a way i feel people would want me to look at it, well the danish newspaper mocked what we muslims have regards for the most, Prophet muhammad is certainly the summit of respect in any good muslims heart. Now you have some guy who does'nt have a sound beleive in anything make jest of him, he does nt know the prophet so i believe he shouldn't have a say. and so he shouldn't say what is'nt true about him, he should have mocked what he believed in, how is that for being fair.
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allonym
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I've come to believe that it is wrong to have had those cartoons of Mohammad. However, I feel the response to them was wrong. Those should have been the catalyst for frank and open discussions between Muslims and others over what is . . . ok to mock and what is not. For example, it is now pretty much accepted that you don't call an african american n*gger. Heck, saying the word has almost become taboo. . .(well. . outside of african american culture, but that's a discussion unto itself). The point is, there are plenty of examples of speech that we already self censor. I think this article provides a good response: http://media.www.dailylobo.com/media/storage/paper344/news/2006/03/31/News/Muslim.Sheds.Light.On.Danish.Cartoons-1775558.shtmlAnd I wish that was the kind of follow up the cartoons got, education and discussion, not violence and destruction. |
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moondust (m)
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well, I don't want 2 stir up any dust or start another wave of violent protests in d streets, so i reserve my comments
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