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When you rise above hate and prejudice, you have success within reach. The main price of keeping someone down is staying down with that person too. Obafemi Awolowo University has in a systematic way been hell bent on keeping Islam and Muslims down and inevitably it has been kept down by its antics. While educational institutions the world over have been recognized as the bastions of independence thought and expressions thereof, Obafemi Awolowo University has decided to leap onto the other side of intellectual and progressive thoughts. It behooves normal, sane intellect of man to be able to see that differences in religious beliefs shouldn't prod me to attack you. Looks all the way like no one in the helms of decision making in OAU has ever come across the word 'xenophobia'.

OAU has earned the unenviable reputation of holding out as the major Educational propagator of hate and prejudice against Muslims. A short while ago, it was brought to our notice the inhuman ban on the wearing of the face veil by Muslims. This had been enforced with maximal intimidation and force, using threats, arrests and detentions: point blank reminders of the dark days of the Military. Shame! Agents of the school went to press and claimed that the obnoxious ban was for security reasons. Silly as the argument sounds, little did the unschooled degree holders realize that they were inadvertently alluding to our claim that this is classic Islamophobia.

Some unfortunate 3rd columnists also whipped up another disastrously laughable argument that the ban was only on the face veil (Niqob) and not obvious signs of Muslim identity. OAU would step up its creative niche of Islamophobia a few weeks back when[b] Muslim ladies were prevented from writing examinations in the Nursing department.[/b] The reason: they missed a practical class during the semester. The lecturer in charge went on to record this single miss as haven failed to make the required 75% attendance of lectures. While one would have expected that such a fraudulent mathematics only belongs in our corrupt political settings, the hatred for Islam ensured that more ignominy was dropped on OAU by these officials of the department. The story behind this happening is that there was a practical class that was rescheduled for the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Ile Ife as the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex staffs were on strike then. The missionary hospital acted true to type by insisting that the Muslim ladies in headscarves remove their headscarves. The ladies insisted on keeping it on and were subsequently thrown out of the class. The story goes on till the bad mathematics of the Nursing department officials ensured that they didn’t write the examination.

Nothing could have emboldened these people if not the envisaged tacit approval of the higher authorities. How public officials decide to denigrate someone else's faith while thinking they are furthering theirs is beyond me. Obviously, these educators have not been well educated themselves. This should not in any way be seen as an isolated case as many such occurrences have been recorded. OAU could go on priding itself as celebrating the advancement of academic excellence or whatever, for all I care, its deviation from the moral standards expected of an institution of higher learning is rather unbecoming. While universities all around are deploying new means to harness the symbolic town and gown relationship, OAU is tearing up the gown and burning down the town.

Some people are obviously obsessed with Adolf Hitler and Ariel Sharon; two names that have brought untold hardship to the world because they saw any other person with a different way of life as less than human. This is exactly the same category that the various people at Obafemi Awolowo University that have made Muslim sisters their target in impressing their wounded egos fall into. And what an abysmal level to operate in at this present age of human advancement!

Someone sure didn’t read Langston Hughes.

"I have as much right

As the other fellow has

To stand on my two feet

And own the Land

I tire so of hearing people say,

Let things take their course

Tomorrow is another day.

I do not need my freedom when I'm dead

I cannot live on tomorrow's bread

Freedom is a strong seed

Planted in a great need

I live here, too.

I just want freedom

Just as you"

Muslims have suffered in the lands of their fathers, and the forceful conversion in order to have a mere primary education in the days of colonialism kick started this. One would have however expected a school of OAU's standing to act within its purview to dismember prejudice and hate. Alas, what do we have? The OAU authority and its many representatives have inadvertently pushed the Muslim woman to the lowest rung of the societal ladder. They have rendered our women low and vulnerable to insult by people whose education has failed to transform into agents of good. What a piece of headscarf or a face veil has done to harm these people may not be found out by rocket science or molecular biology but it is crystal clear: a striking hatred for Islam and Muslims.

They had nothing against them, except that they believed in Allah, the All-Mighty, Worthy of all Praise! Qur'an 85:8

In principle, Obafemi Awolowo University says "Muslims are not welcome here and they may go to blazes for all we care".OAU has done a great damage to liberty and equity; they have rendered those words hollow and empty.



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calling Kim Kardashian a role model to many Nigerian girls is the biggest slap on our faces ever.


she is real though..she didnt pretend to like darey's songs..I like that.

may Allah reward her abundantly. I am glad ur test went fine. good result in sha Allah.

tree grows in human lung when a seed is mistakenly sawllowed. it is rare though.

v love: Why the aggression?
That is why u are called JESUS, WHAT U SAY U WILL DO, THAT IS WHAT U WILL DO, THAT IS WHY U ARE CALLED JESUS

why would Jesus want this baby kept for that long. the longer beyond 40 weeks, the more risks of losing it.

so if this is a miracle of a sort, why does it have to be this way?

maybe their patience was being tested all the while and so she wasnt pregnant. but after being pregnant, does d baby need to be distressed to prove a 'miracle'? haba

I don't believe ds at all

like mayowaak said, the pregnancy became post term by the end of d 40th week. labour should have been induced immediately. failure of that would have led to complications leading to d death of the fetus. 25months is just too long.

possible occurrences are-
*she was not sure of her last menstrual period before pregnancy
*she didnt have an early ultrasound which would have helped in telling the gestational age
*she didnt have antenatal care nor the monitoring that goes with it
*these people are lying

1. betathings
2. olawalebabs

..anyone else please

tbaba1234: We should be more concerned with what is going on in indigenous muslim communities, Islam in the west/latin America will be fine.

In indigenous muslim communities, the kind of corruption that goes on is ridiculous. The kind of bidah that goes on is bad, man. I had a local alfa that used to say all kinds of things, when i think back, i just smh but i know many people take those things as fact.

Our kids are disenfranchised, do you know how ridiculous it is for someone to leave Islam for christianity? but this is happening everyday because the muslim are not doing something correctly.

I totally agree with you on this. massive da'wah and re orientation is trully needed. It is amazing how Muslims in Nigeria are generally classified.I had a.discussion with a friend and we had a problem deciding whom an average Nigerian Muslim was. it ended up being so so below par. I just pray that everyone realising the need for this puts in some action.

Another problem is da'wah trainings. how about people who go out to give d da'wah ending up not being representative of Islam enough or lacking the ideals of a da'ee.

well I remember learning a thing or two about giving da'wah, one of which was not getting angry in d course of it, being patient whenever tantrums are thrown towards you in d cause of giving it. But many of us fail at these things.

many people with the knowledge dont have d skills and many blessed with it are only sweet mouthed. I wish we can have a front-da'wah movement. with strong and passionate people at it, using all forms of media.

please try to present it better next time. It is hard to read in this format.

I had an intention of writing my reply to the thread u stated but haven't been able to and now this?

If no one thought it necessary to learn arabic, how do you think you would have been able to have the translations that helps you with understanding what the Qur'an is.

While learning arabic is not compulsory, it actually is a form of empowerment. It helps you get the meaning and not have to depend on anyone for the translation and you cannot deny that a lot is not lost in translation. there are even certain things in Yoruba that you cannot entirely express in English language.

Arabic is a beautiful language and I learn it because of so many of the reasons you try to disprove. In fact, you will need to try again. Your points are not convincing enough.

I am afraid that people like you would come out one day and want to pray solaat in your native languages.

the end is near for real.

bukatyne: You sometimes remind moi of a friend of mine Aisha

really? it must be good then

fellis: Lol. See how you wrote your post as if this thing is a drama series that we are anxious about the ending.
Look, if it isn't convinient for you to give feedback then forget about it. No wahala.

wow. maybe it is like it to me. The one reason I like NL is that i feel challenged about what I know, compelled to learn more and I enjoy that. Of course it has to reflect in my post. It is more about me o and I am not sorry about it.

censorship happens everywhere.

curse words are censored on tv with a sound abi none of u ever heard that?


if this is the Iranians way of doing it, so be it. they owe it to their people to protect them from any and everything they deem fit.

fellis: What do you think of these verses and the Hadith?

[Qur'an 4:34]Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend (to support them) from their means’

[Qur'an 2:228]...and due to the wives is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable. But the men have a degree over them. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If I were to command anyone to prostrate to anyone other than Allah, I would have commanded women to prostrate to their husbands. By the One in Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, no woman can fulfil her duty towards Allah until she fulfils her duty towards her husband. If he asks her (for intimacy) even if she is on her camel saddle, she should not refuse.”
Narrated by Ibn Maajah, 1853; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.

I am coming back to these o. was a lil bit indisposed ystrdy...will be back in sha Allah and two things can happen-

1. reaffirm my stand on what I av been saying all along.

2. change my stand


...which one shall it be. later today is like reall late..bear with me pls.

bukatyne: Yes Mummy

I like being a mummy sha

ghazzal: lol....... birds get lost, fall into traps, become prey...... better not like a bird

thank God for ISLAM

u get my analogy

fellis: So Salafists are in mud and Quranists are in shít? I wonder which disgusting substance Sunni Muslims are living in.........

and I wonder how this kind of statements make shia Islam desirable

a psychiatric check up is necessary then



the only reason she will do that 2 herself is if she suffera from a mental disorder.

na wah

what was she thnkn

toba: can we now talk?

y not?

so far u can explain the benefits from d very beginning. if it is worthwhile, no problem

d man has been watching doctors or oprah.


like someone said, how many researches has he carried out.
how many clinical trials?

Mr. Ashiru has goofed o. so d intestine now has a clock hmmn.


dont eat close to bed time..is d message

beejay, stop lying to yourself.

A muslim doesnt need to keep saying, I am a Muslim myself.

I pray that someday, u'll mistakenly type with your other username.

yeah!

ask me all d questions. am I free, like a bird?


or like a flag?

toba: u fit? Go check out my new profile pix. i was wearing 'akoto' and a protective glass. The background would tell u where i was at that time

so u want me to see ur new photos..yeepa! aye ti baje.

ok. I av seen them.