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Here is the quote:

Wole Soyinka Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk. When I was imprisoned, without trial, it was as a result of a position I took as a citizen. Of course I used my weapon, which was writing, to express my disapproval of the [Biafran] civil war into which we were about to enter. These were people who’d been abused, who’d undergone genocide, and who felt completely rejected by the rest of the community, and therefore decided to break away and form a nation of its own. Unfortunately, the nature of my imprisonment meant that I couldn’t practise my trade because I was in solitary confinement for 22 months out of the 27, and I was deprived of writing material. So I had to somehow break through the barriers, smuggle in toilet paper, cigarette paper, scribble a few poems, pass messages outside. I was able to undertake exercises to make sure that I emerged from prison intact mentally.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9600954/Wole-Soyinka-If-religion-was-taken-away-Id-be-happy.html

His claim is that they suffered genocide BEFORE the civil war, rather than during it.

Well, I'm going to grab some lunch. And while digesting my food, I will digest your open proclamation that you will censor non-Muslims who post about Islam.

I will be back with some responses, of course.

lmaoooooooo

And another, called "Ten Obvious Reasons Why Islam Is NOT A Religion Of Peace?":

https://www.nairaland.com/1023906/ten-obvious-reasons-why-islam

Do you not see why moving threads like this to Islam for Muslims is a very bad idea? Unless your goal is actually for such threads to never see the light of day.

Here is another thread which you moved to the Islam for Muslims section, Seun:

https://www.nairaland.com/1075765/girl-flogged-mali-speaking-men


Clearly the OP of that thread is not Muslim.

What sense does it make to move it to that section so that maclatunji can delete posts and ban people for commenting?

Here is the tag-line for the Islam for Muslims section:

"A forum for Muslims to share their faith. Muslims only please, even the moderators are Muslims."

Does it make any sense whatsoever to move a thread made by a Christian (me) discussing some Islamic s3xual shrine in Indonesia to the Islam for Muslims section?

Look, the Islam for Muslims section is a ghetto ruled by maclatunji. By moving threads created by non-Muslims there, you are essentially censoring them.

Non-Christians should be able to create threads on things happening in Muslim countries w/o being censored, yes?

Poor Canada. The death of a national icon

More to the point, why are you making this about you? Why are you such a self-centered drama queen?

I don't give a sh1t about you...what I wanted to know is who moved the threads, and why. The former has been answered, the latter not.

Jarus: 3 response-posts to every single hit. I can see I am hitting you hard, exposing your hare-brain.


I can bring at least 2 quotes where you were unequivocal that I was the one behind it. You never did same for any other possible mover.

Should I expose you once again?

Oya, go modfy the posts before I open your yansh again

1. Why on earth would I modify the posts?

2. Supply those 2 quotes where I claimed that you are the one moving the threads. How would I even know this sef, given that I don't have this log button?

3. While you are at it, can you supply the 3+ times you claimed we have discussed this already? You made that claim here (https://www.nairaland.com/938835/lets-complaints-suggestions-enquiries-here/18#12581682), but so far have not backed it up.

A weakling like you hitting anyone hard.

See your vacuous reasoning, measuring my post count versus yours and declaring that a victory.

Well, you are the same person who asked me to look at the log button. So perhaps I should not be surprised.

ndu_chucks will not kill me with laughter

[quote author=ndu_chucks]How did they verify the identities of these boys? The prudent thing for a caught kidnapper to do is provide a believable fake name - they played on the bigotry of the Yoruba police officers by identifying themselves as Igbo. Those officers bought the lie like fools. Those boys look like Kunle, Tunji, and Dayo to me. SMH[/quote]

codeline: pls can anybody tell me the difference btw 15yrs old girl and a 12yrs old aisha that mohammed married or the 13yrs old that the former gov of Zamfara married.

The case of the 15 year old girl is even better than the one of a 12 or 13 year old.

Here is one:

phreakabit: [size=18pt]This is a set up![/size]

Here is another:

afam4eva: Don't let me start with you...

I'm disapointed that only few bigots have shown face. I hope this meal will go round...

But where is the rest of the crew?

It is only because it is a high-profile crime that we learned the name of the criminals.

Don't they usually withhold the name of suspects?

Where is bashr8

Where is FSU/Nchara

Where is Andre Uweh aka Ndogohihiga

Where are the rest of these folks?

Or did they click the thread, then leave immediately when they saw the names?

Rachel Crosby speaks about her BlackBerry phone the way someone might speak of an embarrassing relative.

“I’m ashamed of it,” said Ms. Crosby, a Los Angeles sales representative who said she had stopped pulling out her BlackBerry at cocktail parties and conferences. In meetings, she says she hides her BlackBerry beneath her iPad for fear clients will see it and judge her.

The BlackBerry was once proudly carried by the high-powered and the elite, but those who still hold one today say the device has become a magnet for mockery and derision from those with iPhones and the latest Android phones. Research in Motion may still be successful selling BlackBerrys in countries like India and Indonesia, but in the United States the company is clinging to less than 5 percent of the smartphone market — down from a dominating 50 percent just three years ago. The company’s future all depends on a much-delayed new phone coming next year; meanwhile RIM recorded a net loss of $753 million in the first half of the year compared with a profit of more than $1 billion a year earlier.

Among the latest signs of the loss of cachet: One of the first steps Marissa Mayer took as Yahoo’s newly appointed chief executive to remake the company’s stodgy image was to trade in employees’ BlackBerrys for iPhones and Androids. BlackBerrys may still linger in Washington, Wall Street and the legal profession, but in Silicon Valley they are as rare as a necktie.

[b]As the list shrinks of friends who once regularly communicated using BlackBerry’s private messaging service, called BBM, many a BlackBerry owner will not mince words about how they feel about their phone.

“I want to take a bat to it,” Ms. Crosby said, after waiting for her phone’s browser to load for the third minute, only to watch the battery die. “You can’t do anything with it. You’re supposed to, but it’s all a big lie.”

The cultural divide between BlackBerry loyalists and everyone else has only grown more extreme over the last year as companies that previously issued employees BlackBerrys — and only BlackBerrys — have started surrendering to employee demands for iPhones and Android-powered smartphones.

Goldman Sachs recently gave its employees the option to use an iPhone. Covington & Burling, a major law firm, did the same at the urging of associates. Even the White House, which used the BlackBerry for security reasons, recently started supporting the iPhone. (Some staff members suspect that decision was influenced by President Obama, who now prefers his iPad for national security briefings. A spokesman for the White House declined to comment.)

Out in the world, the insults continue. Victoria Gossage, a 28-year-old hedge fund marketer, said she recently attended a work retreat at Piping Rock Club, an upscale country club in Locust Valley, N.Y., and asked the concierge for a phone charger. “First he said, ‘Sure.’ Then he saw my phone and — in this disgusted tone — said, ‘Oh no, no, not for that.’ ”

“You get used to that kind of rejection,” she said.

“BlackBerry users are like Myspace users,” sneers Craig Robert Smith, a Los Angeles musician. “They probably still chat on AOL Instant Messenger.”

BlackBerry outcasts say that, increasingly, they suffer from shame and public humiliation as they watch their counterparts mingle on social networking apps that are not available to them, take higher-resolution photos, and effortlessly navigate streets — and the Internet — with better GPS and faster browsing. More indignity comes in having to outsource tasks like getting directions, booking travel, making restaurant reservations and looking up sports scores to their exasperated iPhone and Android-carting partners, friends and colleagues.

“I feel absolutely helpless,” said Ms. Gossage. “You’re constantly watching people do all these things on their phones and all I have going for me is my family’s group BBM chats.”

Ryan Hutto, a director at a San Francisco health information company, said he frequently depended on others, often his wife, for music playlists, navigation and sports scores. “After two or three questions, people start to get irritated,” Mr. Hutto said.

His wife, Shannon Hutto, says with a sigh: “Anytime we go anywhere, I always have to pull up the map. If we’re searching for a restaurant, I pull up the Yelp app. If we need a reservation, I pull up OpenTable. I kind of feel like his personal assistant.”[/b]

Still, a few BlackBerry users say they’re sticking with the device, mainly because of the BlackBerry’s efficient, physical keyboard. “I use my BlackBerry by choice,” said Lance Fenton, a 32-year-old investor who frequently travels and needs to send e-mails from the road. “I can’t type e-mails on touch-screen phones.”

Mr. Fenton said he could not wrap his head around iPhone fever. “I constantly ask people, ‘What is so great about it?’ and they have these nonsensical answers,” he said. “Someone told me I’m missing out on some app that maps their ski runs. I ski four days a year. On the road, I don’t need a ski app.”

RIM’s most recent efforts to hold on to loyal customers, as well as software developers building apps for its next generation of phones scheduled to be available next year, have elicited universal cringes. In a recent promotional video, Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice president for developer relations, is shown belting out a rock song titled “Devs, BlackBerry Is Going to Keep on Loving You,” a riff on the 1981 power ballad by REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You.”

“This is the sign of a desperate company,” said Nick Mindel, a 26-year-old investment analyst. “Come on, BlackBerry, I always had some faith, but you just lost a customer. Frankly, I don’t think they can afford to lose many more.”

After eight years with a BlackBerry, Mr. Mindel said he just joined the wait list for the iPhone 5. When it arrives, he said, "I’m considering removing my BlackBerry battery, pouring in cement, and using the BlackBerry as an actual paperweight.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/technology/blackberry-becomes-a-source-of-shame-for-users.html

This guy...lol.

I didn't even know he felt self-important like this.

Have you considered that there is the slight possibility that you are mistaken, just as you were about this log button?

Who told you that I am the only person against this, anyways?

I can start a thread right now and have many others also voice their complaint.

Heck, Okija Juju started a similar thread some time ago, and many complained.

Jarus: Why am I the only person that comes to your mind when such happens? And it always turns I don't know anything about it.

So in this latest instance, when I mentioned both you and OAM4J when asking who moved the thread, were you also the only person? I ask again, are you high or drunk?

Afraid?

Are you insane? Or on drugs? What axe do I have to grind with you?

Why are you trying to make this about you, rather than this issue of people moving threads started by non-Muslims to Islam for Muslims so that maclatunji can then censor?

So you think it is some supposed issue I have with you that is my concern, not these moved threads?

Lmao. See delusion.

Or, does the fact that we had that short discussion in August mean I am not permitted to ask any further questions about who is moving threads and why they are doing so?

1. Shouldn't you bring up 2 more instances, since you claim here (https://www.nairaland.com/938835/lets-complaints-suggestions-enquiries-here/18#12581682) that we've discussed this more than 2 times (i.e., 3 or more)?
2. OK. And so regarding the latest incident, I didn't assume that it was you. So...how does this link you posted resolve my question about who moved those two threads, and why they did so?

Anyway, I saw mukina viewing the thread. Perhaps she can direct Seun's attention to this thread.

Hehe

It is only the respect I had for your prior to this that is preventing me from responding with serious insults. Anyway, I'll leave it at this as far as my response goes in this thread

Now, if we can temporarily ignore this unnecessary personal drama Jarus has created, perhaps we can answer some more interesting questions.

How can I find out from Seun why he is moving threads obviously started by non-Muslims to the Islam for Muslims section?

Jarus, you really need to calm your azz down.

I strongly dislike Islam in general, yes. But that doesn't mean I hate individual Muslims...or clearly many people in the politics section I interact with, I wouldn't. And obviously, I don't hate or dislike you.

But if you keep acting like a woman on her period, I will quickly start to dislike you. So, calm your azz down.

Jarus: You've been on that campaign for long and I have explained to you in the past, not once, not twice.

Campaign about what? Moving threads from Politics to the Islam for Muslims section? Kindly cite where you and I have discussed this. Since evidently we've done this more than twice, it shouldn't take you long, yes?

And you were categorical that it was me in some of your posts. That is character e-assassination.

So your claim is that me asking, "Who moved the thread? Jarus, did you move the thread?" is the same as me saying that "Jarus moved the thread, because he is a Muslim."

Is your brain functioning well today Shouldn't you at least wait for me to accuse you before you become defensive?

There are 4 people capable of moving threads, why the attack on me always? Oh, I have forgotten I am a Muslim and you once said you can't stand Muslims. Good for you

Mukina is presumably a Muslim, yes? So if I were only attacking Muslims, wouldn't I have mentioned her too?

I don't give a sh1t about whether you are Muslim or not...this really isn't about you, Jarus. It is about why is moving these threads so that Boko Haram's chief spokesman (maclatunji) then gets to censor them.

That is what is important to me, not some imagined witchhunt of you specifically.

I am even laughing about this "following me around."

Do you think I have interest to be following you or what you are doing?

Case pathetic? I see threads being moved from politics to "Islam for Muslims", when clearly the threads were started by non-Muslims.

I was under the impression that the only people with the power to move threads were the mods of the forum, and presumably also Mukina and Seun.

Is it completely unreasonable to suspect that one of you or OAM4J moved the threads?

Stop crying like a little girl, man the f up.