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Corrections:You need to apologize for making this wrong analogy. First of all, your analogy does not make a case for the Muslims who are not fanatical but who are suffering for the crimes of the fanatical ones. In your analogy, the Christian's carelessness caused an inferno that destroyed relatively more of his properties than that of the Muslim. But in the case of Boko Haram, the malaise was not caused by the carelessness of the good Muslims. Maybe you don't know it. But, when Boko Haram started off by spreading teachings that many imams were uncomfortable with, many messages were sent to the authorities concerning the sect (Boko Haram) Prior to the clashes, many local Muslim leaders and at least one military official had warned the Nigerian authorities about the Boko Haram sect. Those warnings were reportedly ignored. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/02/nigeria-boko-haram-islamist-sect How can you then accuse these good Muslims of carelessness? They were vigilant and as soon as they began to get wind of the disastrous activities of the sect which went contrary to the teachings in the Quran, they alerted the authorities who failed to do anything. Your analogy is thus very wrong and off point. The Muslim leaders were not careless. They were vigilant but the government of the day (under Yar'Adua) failed them. Many of you Christians have not even bothered to read up on the history of Boko Haram. You all make misinformed judgement and lump all Muslims together under one umbrella. This is very unfair. You say it is a Muslim Quran inspired terrorist group. But what about The Lord Resistance Army which is a Christian Bible inspired terrorist group in Uganda? What about The Army of God , a Christian Bible inspired terrorist group in the United States? What about TheNational Liberation Front of Tripura a Christian Bible inspired terrorist group operating in India? And there is the deadly Anti-balaka, a Christian terrorist group killing Muslims in Central African Republic. These people have even cut up pregnant women simply because they were Muslims. Now, imagine a new generation of Muslims in Central African Republic calling all Christians killers simply because of the madness of the Anti-balaka in Central African Republic. How would you feel as a peace loving Christian? Only uneducated people stereotype or make unfounded generalizations. Even the Bible can inspire violence. It depends on how you read it. Jesus said: Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34) Any misinformed person can use this verse to create violence. Jesus is the foundation of our faith. He says He has not come to bring peace but war. Would it be fair if someone now concludes that Jesus was a violent person and which would mean that Christianity should be violent? No! Only someone who takes this verse literally would make the mistake of inciting violence using that verse. Think of Boko Haram members as misguided people who take every word in the Quran out of context or who read meanings to word literally rather than figuratively. For instance, when Jesus dared the hypocrites to destroy the temple and that He would build it in 3 days, they thought he was talking about the temple. They didn't know that He was talking about His own body. So, that someone or some people are inspired by the Quran to commit atrocities does not mean that the Quran supports their atrocities. They read the Quran literally and ended up doing the opposite of what it teaches. If a Christian is inspired by Jesus's instructions to get a sword: and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. (Luke 22:36) How is that the fault of the Bible? The Christian failed to consider the context in which the instruction was made. |
Some people actually think that it is easy to convert penalties. Even Messi himself admitted that he was not good at taking penalties and would like to improve. This shows that taking penalties demands skills too. |
PHijo:The primary target of Boko Haram is Western influences Christians are not their primary targets. No religion has been spared by these mad people. Obviously, more Muslims have lost their lives than Christians. Boko Haram is a terror group. It is not a Muslim group. Their motive is to spread terror. When they bomb motor parks and markets, you think they were targeting anyone in particular? They were hiding under religion to spread terror. If you think Christians are the primary targets, I want you to provide answers to these questions: What is the ratio of prominent Muslims to Christians that have lost their lives to Boko Haram? How many churches compared to mosques/central mosques have been bombed since 2011? What is the ratio of Christians to Muslims in IDP camps? |
matex97:What about the Christian terrorist groups like the Anti-balaka that have targeted Muslims in the Central African Republic, including cutting open pregnant women? They profess the Christian faith. But does it make them true Christians? |
Danhoys:In the future, enable OTP transactions so that you will be the one to authenticate your transactions in the future. As for whether you will be able to recover your money from your bank, it is very possible. As long as the person who used your card has not received his order, your bank can alert AliExpress and make them cancel the order. Your bank will block your card and the money will be sent back to your bank account. |
kunleweb:The EU is not infallible. Even the sophisticated intelligence unit of the United States once misled a whole country into believing that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. |
DAVE5:I don't understand. Are you implying that Buhari has enacted laws that benefit only Muslims? And you must never forget that Buhari cannot solely enact laws. |
kunleweb:First of all, define what it means to be killed gleefully? The convoy of emirs were attacked and emir of Gwoza was killed. How can you tell if that was or was not a gleeful killing? What priest was killed and how did you deduce glee in the way he was executed? |
kunleweb:And what makes you think those Muslim clerics who lost their lives were killed in pity and not delight. Boko Haram regards anyone who speaks against them as an enemy. If you like, call yourself the Sultan of Sokoto. If you are against them, you are an infidel. |
DAVE5:I don't agree with the highlighted. The average Nigerian Christian is selfish through and through. |
kunleweb:There are no evidences that more Christians have been killed than Muslims. Aside Chibok and one or two other villages, many villages in Maiduguri are dominated by Muslims. If you count the number of villages that have been attacked, you will realize that Muslims have suffered more than Christians since 2011. Moreover, there is no pattern to Boko Haram killings. Initially, they were targeting policemen and soldiers, then they bombed churches and then they bombed mosques, and then they slaughtered students from a government school (not a religious institution), and they bombed bus stations and markets, then they target Muslim leaders. Go and check the timeline of Boko Haram attacks and see if there is a pattern that suggests that Christians are the targets. |
kunleweb:Unlike you, I will speak for every human being because that is what Jesus Christ would do. Religion has divided us but it doesn't mean we should stay behind the divides and forget that there are Muslims who have lost their lives to Boko Haram. They may not be Christians. But they were human beings. They were as much victims of a beast called Boko Haram as the Christians were. In 2016 or thereabout, Boko Haram bombed a mosque and killed the Muslim worshippers who had come for the early morning prayer. Those people were human beings. Muslim is just a label. |
kunleweb:Many Muslims have been held as well. Only a misinformed person would believe that Boko Haram is entirely driven by religion or religious convictions. It is a terror group, and its ultimate goal is to spread terror. Leah would have been released if she had renounced her faith. The group did not seem interested in any of the girls, at least not as much as they were in the Chibok girls. So, they allowed the girls go as soon as they renounced their faith. They did not even attempt to force the girls to learn the Quran as they did with the Chibok girls. As long as you renounced your Christian faith (they didn't care if it came from the heart), they let you go. They let many of the other girls go. But kept Leah because she wouldn't renounce her faith. They probably would have also let her go or even murdered her if the uproar that greeted her continued captivity did not arise. When certain persons kidnap the leader of another religion, it doesn't require soothsaying to understand what it clearly implies.It doesn't necessarily mean that the act is driven by religious convictions. The emir of Gwoza was a Muslim yet he was attacked by Boko Haram and killed. Many Islamic clerics have been attacked and killed, and many mosques have been bombed. Boko Haram will go against anyone who opposes their ideologies, even if that person were a Muslim. Even Europe released a memo less than two weeks ago about systemic killing of Christians even under the watch of security agencies.Who is Europe? Do you mean the European Union? The release of close to 1000 murderers who took innocent people's life is clear indicative to Tell some people the government belongs to them and they can do and undo and nothing would happen. Since this administration came in, mention cases where we've had successful convictions in clear cases of murder,ethnic cleansing and genocideMany alleged Boko Haram members have been released by the law due to a lack of evidence against them. And there are the ones who were found guilty who have gotten even life sentences. There were the repentant ones who were deradicalized and reintegrated into society. This is bad strategy, it doesn't mean the government is for/in support of Boko Haram. The intention of the government was to encourage the other fighters to lay down their arms and embrace peace. Think of it like a peace offering. I feel it is a bad strategy, and that there might be better strategies. But to use this to accuse the government of favoring Boko Haram is rather shallow. |
Buhari is trying. Those sponsoring all these insecurities will get it soon. Their punishment is never asleep. Just because Baba did so well by taming Boko Haram and reducing it to an unsophisticated group that only attacks villages and kidnap people, they are not happy. They want a chaotic country. They want Buhari to resign so that they can have unrestrained access to the national cake. All I know is that even this nonsense will pass and Baba and Nigeria will come out in one piece. We survived the recession, and we have more than tamed Boko Haram. Many kidnappers have also been arrested. It is only a matter of time before their sponsors die a painful death because I know that it would be almost impossible to get them to confess to their crimes. All those big men who masterminded the killing of those policemen by soldiers so that a kidnap kingpin could escape. Your end will come one day. |
PHijo:How can you prove that 6 million people lost their jobs under APC? I have trashed this countless times here. Unemployment is not the same as job loss. For instance, if we have records that in Q2 of 2015, about 2 million people became unemployed, does that mean that 2 million people lost their jobs? People become unemployed for many reasons other than job loss. Some leave their jobs for reasons best known to them. Some lose their jobs because of their own negligence (which then is not a fault of government or the economy). Imagine, some lecturers have also lost their jobs because they could not control their sexual urges. Now, this number of ràndy lecturers might be captured in the unemployment pool. They have become unemployed, but does it mean they lost their jobs because of the poor economy? This is unlike under PDP where government directly took people's jobs away from them without any compensation. It took an APC government to remember these poorly treated people. |
PHijo:There is no how you can say APC (which has had less than 8 years) is worse than PDP which had 16 years and did nothing extraordinary for which it should be remembered. |
mrZENographer:It is just like the Lassa fever. It can be symptomless. But they are not as deadly as the Ebola. Forget the conspiracy theory. The coronavirus spreads quickly just like the Lassa but it doesn't kill as quickly. |
popsy2:It doesn't come close to the Ebola. So, if we were able to manage the Ebola, coronavirus is a simple issue. And just so you know, our ministry of health has been praised worldwide for its ability to tame Ebola. |
Sunnycliff:The coronavirus does not even come close to the Ebola. If we could manage the much deadlier Ebola, we should be able to manage coronavirus. |
Very wicked, and heartless people. They call themselves men of God while all they do is eye people's hard-earned money. They want to take all that money away from these young men and women who are just finding their feet in life. |
Even to beat a goat is bad, let alone a human being, let alone your significant other. Your wife/husband are your partners, not your children or animals. Even in today's world, beating children this way is tantamount to physically abusing them. |
I always wonder how the guy always looks big in pictures. When I saw him sometime back, he looked really small beside me. |
Agugbadin:Which lives has he impacted? He is a false teacher who perverts the gospel for pecuniary gains. The United States is far less religious than Nigeria. They don't give a damn about a prosperity preacher who built his physical wealth from teaching "things of the spirit". They don't even give their own prosperity preachers any preferential treatment. Is it one wealthy prosperity preacher from the poverty capital of the world that they would give a visa to automatically? |
FrLukas:The first time, you wrote that no perpetrator of killings in the Middle Belt zone had been arrested, I countered that. You shifted the goalpost and fixated on charges and convictions. I showed you proof. Now, the issue is about numbers. Do you know the type of people who behave like this? Dishonest people. Make up your mind. Are you interested in arrested perpetrators, convicted perpetrators, or the number of convicted perpetrators? |
FrLukas:Why didn't you bother to follow the links and read the reasons why some of them were acquitted of all charges? And it is not every time that Boko Haram members are taken alive. Many are killed. Many of those arrested where arrested based on suspicions, and because there were no evidences, the court acquitted them. You think the law is emotional like you. You win cases with evidence, not suspicions or speculations. You can't alert the police or military to your neighbor simply because he keeps late night. You have no evidence that he is a Boko Haram member, and you expect the law to take your speculations as facts. You need to have your head seriously examined. |
FrLukas:You shouldn't be taken seriously ![]() Initially, you wrote that no perpetrator of killings in the Middle Belt had been arrested. Now, you are more interested in knowing how many perpetrators had been convicted. Anyway, read this: After the first phase of the trial in October, 45 Boko Haram fighters were sentenced to between three to 31 years in jail, while about 500 people were discharged. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/nigerian-court-releases-475-boko-haram-suspects-180218160036240.html |
FrLukas:You are too emotional. And it is not possible for you to even have minimal leadership skills. Imagine you were Buhari, just one small abuse, and you will rain down missiles on everyone. Now, calm down, and and go and get more information about the killings in the Middle Belt zone. You claim that no perpetrator has been arrested, but it is obvious that this claim is based on emotions. Didn't you accuse Buhari of ethnocentric bias? Yes, you did. But it is not like you are devoid of bias yourself. You have no proof of anything, yet you write that thousands of people have been killed without any of the perpetrators arrested. When last did you hear bombings perpetrated by Boko Haram? Did the military not burst a kidnapping syndicate in Benue last year? Do you know how many Fulani herdsmen that have been arrested since 2015? |
emidika:It is a subject combination for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the Faculty of Law. She can even get into some courses in the Social Sciences. But her Literature grade is very poor. She stands no chance, not even with money. No school will give her admission with that poor grade in Literature. Let her resit, and if she makes her papers in one sitting, she can put in for any Arts and Humanities courses, or put in for Law or some Social Sciences courses that cross with the Arts such as Sociology, Psychology, Political science, and Public administration But first thing first: she must make at least a credit in Literature to stand a chance. If not for that Literature, her result would have been fine. |
FrLukas:You people are always quick to judge. What makes you think the president is happy about the killings? Do Plateau and Benue not have governors? Must the president take the blame for everything? You people are the ones who are rather playing tribalism with serious issues. You think he is ethnocentric, but there is really no proof of it. Even if you say you wouldn't trust him to manage your kiosk, it doesn't change the fact that he is far more experienced in leadership than anyone you may directly know in your family or beyond. When it comes to leadership, nothing beats experience, not even PhD degrees. As a matter of fact, in life, experience is very valuable. If you can't trust Buhari (with all his experience) to manage your business, then you (who does not have any leadership experience close to Buhari's) would be far incapable of running the business. |
PapaBaby:A retired general is someone you mentioned as not qualified to be a gate man? Do you know how many leadership positions the man has held? He was once governor, minister, head of state, and now president, among many other leadership positions. Supposing he doesn't even have any academic certificates, his experiences surpass all certificates necessary to be president of a country. |
This Nigerian Police Force ehn. SMH... Who gave them the right to kill unarmed suspects whom they already had in their custody? Those men were still suspects for Christ's sake. How did we get this unprofessional police force? Everyone involved in the murder of the suspects should be treated like a murderer. |
