I don't support elrufai action but the attacking him for using Jesus name in vain and in insult is just silly. Nigerians have insulted and ridiculed their main God "Muhammad" so many times. Used his name to insult the muslim community. We see this all the time on NL. Don't cry foul when they do the same, what goes around comes back around. If you want others to respect your religion or the founder of your religion, then respect theirs. Before anyone starts, I'm not a muslim. I don't ever forsee myself of becoming a muslim Tufiakwa but I still believe this is double standard. If una are going to do it, expect them to do it as well.

Everdora: God is not asleep, El-rufai will definitely pay for his crimes.

Never knew some christians where this myopic...Haven't u kwn the ways of your God by now?I do think God has better things doing than seeking revenge For_a senseless,inconsequential joke.[color=#006600][/color]

When I read an article a while ago identifying Nigeria as a country with one of the lowest average IQs, I dismissed it immediately, but having read the responses of Nigerians on this thread, I tender my apology to the author of that article. The average Nigeria is indeed very daft. All of you insulting El Rufai, should please look at yourselves in the mirror and realize, i-diots like you are the reason why we have the likes of the leaders in Nigeria..

I challenge any one of you to please tell me how El Rufai, or the person the tweet originated from, insult Jesus Christ.

GARRI (x7):


If ur IQ was half as high that of a PIG you'd know it wasn't his tweet. Seems he replied someone else's tweet...

dull iq u have...he retweeted,not replied..bt it does not mata...if u retweet a porrrrnnnn stuff,would u say its not urs...y would u retweet such nonsense....try dat with muhamed n we would wake up with head flyings 4r ds stupid malu pple

Maxymilliano: EL-RUFAI DEFILES JESUS CHRIST ON TWITTER…

Earlier today, in his futile attempt to defend Mrs Oby Ezekesili , former FCT minister , Mallam Nasir El-Rufai derided Christians by the use of sexual epithets when referring to our Lord Jesus Christ. He simply defiled Christ on twitter

He went overboard when, on his Twitter page, today January 27, 2013, said our Lord Jesus Christ had sex with Mary Magdalene.

We see this as a very insensitive, irresponsible, and a offensive thing to say about Christ, and an attack on the sensibilities of Christians globally.

El-Rufai betrayed his lack of respect for our Lord Jesus Christ and obvious hatred for Christians. How else can one explain his effrontery and buffoonery when he seemingly jokingly twitted that Christ had sex with Mary Magdalene.

El-Rufai who aspires rule a multi religious nation, should have been circumspect in his use of words when referring to the sacred.
It is on record that less offensive things have been said about the Prophet Mohammed which led to loss of Christian lives.

The former minister has just told Nigerians that he lacks the decency to rule a multi religious nation, if he should display such disrespect for the sacred and thinks it is funny.His Tweet shows he is not a decent man.

He has disregarded the collective sensibilities of Christians all over the world by this very offensive reference to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Signed

Dr Thomas Agande

Below is the link to El Rufai Tweets

https://mobile.twitter.com/elrufai/status/295556718170083328

Nasir El-Rufai
@ elrufai
“ @zebbook : If Jesus criticizes Jonathan's govt, Maku/Abati/Okupe will say he slept with Mary Madgalene.”....LWKMD.....
3:39 p.m. Sun, Jan 27



83 Retweets 9 Favorites

wow! abi this dr. thomas agande na native doctor?? come on man... only a buffoon will read the post retweeted by el-rufai and understand it to mean, "jesus christ farked mary magdalene." when people say nigerians are a retar*ded bunch, na because of people like dis o.....and there's "dr" right in-front of his name! chai, my country is a motherfucka! smh....

One facts still remain,all decendants of Ishmail are ant-christ. So, whatever their actions,speeches and thoughts are always evil. The muslims are pretntious and cunnuing so beware of them. Their Quaran had commanded them to hate and even kill the christians. They want to take over the govt. Of Nigeria so that they can islamize it. They killed christians in the north without mercy but the fierce judgements of God is waiting for them if they refuse to repent and accept the gospel of Salvation of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. John 3:16, Acts 12:14. This is the end-time and the anti-christians are here.

Funny enuff, @Zebbok is a Christian.I Follow him on Twitter.

take dat: If there is anyone to take the blame, it should be @Zeebook for his exaggeration. El-Rufai must have simply retweeted it to show how most have deciphered government's antics and intolerance to criticism!

Thank God you know its governement propaganda. If it were muslims, they won't reason like this, they will start murdering people.

Genius100: When I read an article a while ago identifying Nigeria as a country with one of the lowest average IQs, I dismissed it immediately, but having read the responses of Nigerians on this thread, I tender my apology to the author of that article. The average Nigeria is indeed very daft. All of you insulting El Rufai, should please look at yourselves in the mirror and realize, i-diots like you are the reason why we have the likes of the leaders in Nigeria..
I challenge any one of you to please tell me how El Rufai, or the person the tweet originated from, insult Jesus Christ.

:O.You mean its cool to refer a sacrosanct figure,while tweeting an obviously stale banter

There is nothing wrong with this tweet na..he is just trying to proove a point ..foolish journalist will just exxagerate online elrufai disses jesus christ...

Infact people should also go researck about the true historical jesus not the biblical one. They will know mary madgelene was jesus companion hehe !!

jmaine: Elrufai is simply a pig , so i aint suprised

what kind of pig white or black one?

If he travels out of Nigeria he's doomed. He has created hatred for himself globally.

la furia: as if nigerian comedians have not ridiculed jesus enough and everybody laugh it off. the use of jesus, God and pastors as source of indirect joke has become a norm by comedians and yet they have never been called to attention. el rufia laffs at a joke made by a christian to make jest of the government and u only have problem with el rufai rite? Christians should be admonished not to use jesus name to make jokes anyhw it may be

and beside he wasnt laghing to ridicule jesus if u tink so, far from it, rather at wat the nigerian government would have done if someone as perfect as jesus was to accuse the government of corruption, meaning whoever attacks the govt will be accused of wrong doing as well. the idea of the joke came from dan brown who said jesus had a relationship.

like someone said, it depends how you interpret the intent of the tweet.

i reason along wt u. av always wondered why comedians make jokes and mockery of Christ and christianity. let the church call these comedian folks also to order, because it seems they can not make sales except they crack jokes about Jesus, church or xtianity.

If anything, this just buttresses the fact that the jonathan govt is thin skinned and cant take criticism, as per even if someone like Jesus christ ctritises this govt, they would still find something to say. I dont see anything really wrong with the tweet but El Rufai shouldnt have retweeted it.

@ la furia understands the tweet perfectly.

Seriously, I've been so stunned at the response of some people who claimed being Christians here accusing and raining abuses on the poor man!. I wonder if they are really different from the Muslims they are quick to claim are violent. Millions of Jokes had been made concerning Jesus and highly provocative films had been made but these Christians but nothing happened because those in anyway does not reduce Him in any infinitesimal measure. So why the dust on El- Rufai's tweet ? Besides, I don't see what is so new that he said that other Christians and even Christians clerics had not said. YOU CANNOT FIGHT FOR GOD OR PROVOKE HIM TO JUDGEMENT< HE KNOWS ALL, AND HE'S NOT EMOTIONALLY CARRIED AWAY LIKE US.

la furia: as if nigerian comedians have not ridiculed jesus enough and everybody laugh it off. the use of jesus, God and pastors as source of indirect joke has become a norm by comedians and yet they have never been called to attention. el rufia laffs at a joke made by a christian to make jest of the government and u only have problem with el rufai rite? Christians should be admonished not to use jesus name to make jokes anyhw it may be

and beside he wasnt laghing to ridicule jesus if u tink so, far from it, rather at wat the nigerian government would have done if someone as perfect as jesus was to accuse the government of corruption, meaning whoever attacks the govt will be accused of wrong doing as well. the idea of the joke came from dan brown who said jesus had a relationship.

like someone said, it depends how you interpret the intent of the tweet.

Remember the Miss World Beauty paegent? Some Christians got roasted and burnt for it, it had nothing to do with them. Remember the Danish cartoons in far away Denmark that does not concern us? Some Christians got killed and roasted for it too. Remember the allegations against Gideon Akulaka? He got killed without a formal trial. There are countless others.

By all your 'defence', I can see that Muslims are simply hypocritical.

Can El Rufai retweet a thing about Mohammed? No. What would happen when someone retweets a thing about Mohammed? People get killed, maimed and roasted.

Any you all say calm down, El Rufai has apologised? Smh. Well, by this incident Christians have shown that they don't fight for God.

Let the floodgates of tweets open.

Please el-rufai didn't retweet, rather he mentioned zebook in his tweet.

Genius100: When I read an article a while ago identifying Nigeria as a country with one of the lowest average IQs, I dismissed it immediately, but having read the responses of Nigerians on this thread, I tender my apology to the author of that article. The average Nigeria is indeed very daft. All of you insulting El Rufai, should please look at yourselves in the mirror and realize, i-diots like you are the reason why we have the likes of the leaders in Nigeria..

I challenge any one of you to please tell me how El Rufai, or the person the tweet originated from, insult Jesus Christ.

have you really really reflected that the article might be referring to you. And ur handle reads Genius100. What an irony. In simple words, statements that directly or indirectly or even subtly refer to a revered figure in any religion in any derogatory way should be avoided. The statement in whole is understandable but using Jesus sleeping with a prostitute to drive home the point is simply disgusting. And for el rufai to have retweeted that, you are both classic examples of what that article said.

jmaine:

Yes, exactly like you . . . . .Now take a stroll . . . .

You are a bastar.d.... A fu.c..king troglodyte!
You flipping oxymoroni.c son of a babboon!!
Tosspot

take dat: Reno and his clique wants to play the religion card to gain sympathy from unsuspecting folks. The truth is that this government is averse to criticism and if Christ himself challenges this government, they will look for silly excuses to cast aspersions on him.[/font][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]

Ah! Finally there's someone that understands some English in here! The author of the tweet, who unfortunately is totally overlooked - @zebbok was only trying to make a case for the overt exuberance of Maku, Reno, Okupe at attacking any critic of their boss (Oby-Ezekwesili in this case), totally disregarding the person's credibility - a sign akin to godlessness! Sheer satire!

Enough said

Theres urgent need for a common sense vaccination for we nigerians to begin to fish out the conspiracy theories in our politics . Theres a saying that to whom a brain is given sense is expected. I know that after reading the things i will drop here, thousands of folks will kill me with different labels. No wahala that is the cross of good conscience and right judgement away from general public feelings and ill conceived perception.

Mallam Elrufai deceived madam skin punk Ezekwesili to enter an ill fated accountability battle with the FG with promise of VP Slot come 2015 insha allah.Now she's locked in a battle that will gradually become her undoing. The same Elrufai that confiscated lands and even allocated some to his friend in deceit (skin punk oby) with which she gave her so called pastor husband to erect a monumental church in Abuja.

But after the storm settles about her fictitious rantling, the question remains; what happened to the huge education funds she collected within 7 months? (not to mention the funds she collected in Solid minerals Ministry)

let the acclaimed madam due process set herself as example by accounting to Nigerians first. let me mention that truly she"s one of the few folks that have made us proud but she has soiled her reputation by becoming a politician. She has joined Soludo in ignominy. As for Elrufai, he is locked in a deadly battle with the Holy Spirit in an attempt to defend his purported running mate come 2015 insha allah from allegation of misappropriation of huge education funds in 7 months.

I hate it when folks begin to run their mouth as soon as they vacate office and are not recalled. No Nigerian is indispensable no matter ur proffessorial majesty. Oby Ezekwesili and her ilk pride themselves as indispensable and the only knowledgable people with the magic wand to change Nigeria. And even more annoying is that they wear a fake garment of religious piety after contributing to our problems. the Onus is on nigerians to shine their eyes to all this ongoing deceit of the public for fame and power.

how many times did she engage in debate when she was minister? she should not worry when Maku leaves office she should come for debate then she will receive the rudest shock of her life that she's been overrating her self.

Elrufai has been caught in his web of evil hatred and deceit. Tribute to the dying Elrufai hausa fulani dynasty; FROM DIVIDE AND RULE to DECEIVE AND RULE? no way. not this time and age my people. This is not about GEJ its about rescuing the people from Men and women of Evil venom in beautiful disguise. Nigeria must and will be freed in the midst of fake apostles of change and accountability. Nonsense!

Wen a dog wants τ̅☺ die , it doesn't hear its masters whistle anymore . Rufia is close τ̅☺ 6ft by beefing his maker .

dat man is a bleeped stake illiterate men with money nd lytle brain mayb d death of his daughter is affecting its stinkin muslim skull big looser

Elrufai was trying to agree with zebbok that Jonathanians are allegedly allergic to criticism, but why would they use Our Lord Jesus Christ for such a joke or comparison? He definitely doesnt think with hs brain.

Rhino.5dm:
Bros, I hate PDP with all I have, but this isn't about playing politics with what other people revered. There is a big difference between politics and making mockery of what people hold as thing of worship.

what I want to know here is, even if he merely retweeted @Zeebook's tweet, can he do same for any joke about Mohamed? The answer is CAPITAL NO!!!. A respected leader should know the difference between politics and emotion, particularly in a volatile country like Nigeria.

It is a height of stuupidity for El-rufai to have overlooked the multiplier effects of his mindless joke and go below the belts to LWKMD this tweet.



If me and you follow go aso rock come dey eat with jona and me come quietly talk say " This is the clueless one" and you way hear me come talk am loud " This is the clueless one!" and come laugh join am, who you think say the sss go catch? me way talk am small or you way shout am loud and even put laugh join am?

;∂ ;∂

i heard a nonentity saying mohammed is his own main god,i fink he has a liquidated brain,hw cn a servant 2a woman be a god,well,i dnt blame him,he must b a mallam,ajorojara joro,lik el-rufai,mind u,muhammed is a mere servant 2me n he is burning in hell as i'm posting,if a dead god is ur god,go wit hm bt our own 'xtian' God is a livin God n we worship Him.so malam,mind ur words cos if He re-tweet ur lif lyk u did,u go blame ur lif,ur pikin is jst a start,nxt on line is u.bastard.

la furia: as if nigerian comedians have not ridiculed jesus enough and everybody laugh it off. the use of jesus, God and pastors as source of indirect joke has become a norm by comedians and yet they have never been called to attention. el rufia laffs at a joke made by a christian to make jest of the government and u only have problem with el rufai rite? Christians should be admonished not to use jesus name to make jokes anyhw it may be

and beside he wasnt laghing to ridicule jesus if u tink so, far from it, rather at wat the nigerian government would have done if someone as perfect as jesus was to accuse the government of corruption, meaning whoever attacks the govt will be accused of wrong doing as well. the idea of the joke came from dan brown who said jesus had a relationship.

like someone said, it depends how you interpret the intent of the tweet.

Any way, whatever d case may be, if it were Mohammed's name or any Islamic cleric's name dat was used dat way, so many people would had lost their heads in d name of religion.

Table Leg :

You are a bastar.d.... A fu.c..king troglodyte!
You flipping oxymoroni.c son of a babboon!!
Tosspot

Lol !mbecilic rage fully on display . . . . The maggot is feeling so fly . . .

ballabriggs: Another rubbish designed by Omokri and Oronto Douglas to misinform the unsuspecting.

Every sane mind can see the tweet belongs to someone else and not Nasir El Rufai.

Even if the tweet came directly from him, why can't normal human beings see the intent rather than playing cheap politics with it.

I can't still understand how that ridicles Jesus. A muslim wont mock Jesus because Jesus is a revered figure in the Quran. In Islam whenever the name of Jesus is mentioned, everybody must say "Alei Salatu Wasalam" - meaning something like He who is blessed by God.

The tweet was only explaining how lowly the presidential aids can go - in view of the events that followed Mrs Ekwezili's allegation againt the gov.

Unfortunate that even people that know nothing about being holy or Godly will also come here and start spewing trash about the tweet.

GARRI (x7):


If ur IQ was half as high that of a PIG you'd know it wasn't his tweet. Seems he replied someone else's tweet...

Jmaine baba, you get mouth like zly, no mind all those retards.

The tweet, though was not originally El Rufai's, but retweeting such a religious sensitive joke borders on irresponsibilty and vain attention seeking on the part of El Rufai.
He is a politician and government critic for
crying out loud. He's a role model to thousands of young Nigerians. He've shown a bit of his real self.

Difference between Christians and Moslems.
Assuming it was a christian that joked with
Prophet Mohammed the way Nasir El Rufai did
so, a whole lot of people would have been killed in Muslim dominated areas and there'll be riots.