Tyche:

Try and read between the lines. Something tells me though that you already know the truth

Me ke? I jus dey observe

Ishilove:
Nwoke, I've been replying nonstop. Check your email.

Nneoma; Ndo o! Bike use my profile to resend it, I just changed my email address. Couldn't access the previous one.

Ishilove:
Me ke? I jus dey observe

*Hands her a Google Glass*

I did some digging into his profile. Common people,are these the tweets of a mentally disturbed man? You religious zealots need to start inculcating the traits of tolerance. Last time i checked,Nigeria was still a free country.

Mad Cow:


Nneoma; Ndo o! Bike use my profile to resend it, I just changed my email address. Couldn't access the previous one.

Hokay

Ishilove:
Hokay

I dare you to respond to the comment above your last comment.

Mtchew.

Ishilove:
They haven't reached a final verdict, but prior to his admission he has been displaying abundant signs of kolomentality.

so we were told, but is that the truth?

Nigerian atheist freed from mental ward, held for blasphemy against Islam, gets death threats

LAGOS, Nigeria — A Nigerian atheist released from the mental ward to which his Muslim family committed him by force said Thursday he is getting death threats for blaspheming against Islam.

Mubarak Bala, a 29-year-old chemical process engineer, said he is in hiding in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria where Shariah law holds and some interpretations have blasphemy punishable by death.

"People are threatening me, I mean life-threatening threats," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He said he was too frightened of drawing attention and wouldn't allow an AP video journalist or photographer to come to his hiding place.

Bala said that since he renounced Islam and declared himself an atheist, he has not only lost the trust of his father and elder brother, but many friends.

"Most of my friends condemn me and tell me I am bound for hell and that in an Islamic state, I would be killed. Blasphemy is a serious thing here," said Bala, who describes himself on his Twitter page as an ex-Muslim.

Northeast Nigeria is in the throes of an insurgency by extremists bent on turning all Nigeria into an Islamic state under Shariah law, though half of Nigeria's 170 million people are Christian. The uprising has killed thousands and increased tensions between Muslims and Christians in a country where adherents of both faiths are passionately religious.

Bala said he wants to leave northern Nigeria but first is trying to reconcile with his family, especially the father, two uncles and older brother who beat him up, drugged him and committed him to the psychiatric ward of Kano city's Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.

News of his plight came through tweets that he sent on a smuggled telephone from the hospital toilet.

Businessman Bamidele Adeneye, who had been corresponding with Mubarak about humanism through social media before he was committed, saw one of his desperate SOS messages and mobilized help through the #FreeMubarak Twitter campaign and the London-based International Humanist and Ethical Union.

Adeneye said he has also been getting death threats.

"I'm getting calls from people who say 'Where do you live, we are coming to get you.'" But he said he would continue to help Mubarak because, "That man is intelligent, his only sin is being honest about what he believes."

He helped organize help from Kano lawyer Muhammad Bello Shehu, who said he had been preparing to take Bala's case to court when the doctors discharged all patients because of a strike.

"Currently Mubarak has said he wants to reconcile with the family before he leaves and we have had some family meetings, that is ongoing right now, and they appear apologetic, to a certain extent," Shehu said.

Shehu is seeking an independent psychiatric evaluation of Mubarak's health to counter the claims of hospital doctors that he has psychological problems and family claims that he suffered a "personality change" that led to his renunciation of Islam, he said.

Bala's father, Muhammad Bala, did not immediately respond to phone calls and text messages. In a blog, the father describes himself as a journalist and director general of Kano state's Directorate of Societal Reorientation, one of the bodies that enforces Islamic Shariah law.

On Twitter, Bala has described his father as an Islamic leader who "can't afford to have a non-Muslim family member, so he declared me insane."

http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/e37d9ebb2308435d91ea431f0b8ae94f/AF--Nigeria-Atheist/#.U7V5NtRdWUl

There's nothing wrong with the guy. He renounced Islam and he is supposedly insane.

naijadeyhia:


the problem with u is dat u follow a religion but christians dont. christianity is a way of life and not a religion. keep following mumuhammad and we will follow Christ vis his holy spirit

the problem wit u is dt u dn't knw wat au doing, cos islam is d complete nd d only way of lifee. copy, copy. try harder

Islam.....

You are sick if you believe this story,a mentaly ill person that wrote clean nd plainm english on twitter,knows how to holla his frnd to use his fone,Nah.......Better stop decievin urselves,He's not ill

The guy is perfectly sane and lucid from all communications made with him - including his own tweets. And he writes intelligently and articulately - more articulate and eloquent than the average Nigerian graduate. Only religious bigots and fanboys would be quick to believe the story of his insanity.

He obviously comes from a rich, powerful family who had him sectioned at the hospital with the complicity of the doctors. That doesn't mean he's insane. If I quarelled with my dad and he got the police to arrest and lock me up without charge, it doesn't mean I'm guilty of anything.