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samson ebele:
Nijgerians ! we can never be satisfied. why embarassing all these actors and actresses
especially jim i. eucharia(ashawo),segun arinze(big eyeball ).please, let us celebrate their good work and criticize their bad work.They are acting/actors. We all know that their accent can never be as smooth as that of the white so why the complaints.Celebrate them and somebody will celebrate us too.
GUY E NO EASY TO STAND IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA.

Bros, we are not embarrasing them. Afterall not everyone finds Tom Cruise entertaining and they still criticise him. If we don't criticise our own, how will they get better?

Stephanie Okereke - stop using a fake accent.

Emeka Ike - stop rolling your eyes at everything

Georgina Onuoha - speak English normally; it's nothing to be ashamed of.

All the bleaching actors and actresses, STOP!!! It is most annoying!!!!

Desmond Elliot- scream less and modulate more

And for all accent fakers, STOP! It reduces our viewing pleasure

Neither! Jim's accent is too fake for words and Hank's has expired! They should both come back down to earth!!!!!

Neoteny:
@whoever cares to read

the question of wether we can justify acts of violence committed in the name of religion is not valid, for if the biblical God (who knows more than you, supposedly) commanded and inspired men and spirits to kill wantonly and for the merest infraction on the part of nonbelievers then i fail to see how we should question his wisdom in such acts since as god he knows better. the christian world in all its revisions of the bible (where they take out offensive or inconsistent contents) saw fit to leave such material in all its gore, and that to me means such slaughters are given validity and even justification by the scribes of and editors of christendom. if that be the case, why should we muslims question Allah's wisdom when he commands us to slay those who denigrate the person of the Prophet? and let me here tell you that almost the whole bunch of you arguing in this thread do not realize that we cannot bring ourselves as true muslims to disparage the character of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) because he is an eminent personality in Islam, as is his mother Mary after whom a whole chapter is named in the Quran (Maryam). obviously some people are trying to incite rage in the muslim members of Nairaland. but it wont work, agent provocateurs!

someone said my earlier comments on the Biblical slaughters were out of context, but i gave chapters and verses for any to read and it is plain for all to see. and my argument, kid, is not flawed; all it does is to point out that the christian god too gave commands to people to kill without bothering to explain himself to mere, mere mortals.

and yes the jews didnt kill jesus because he was a christian (the term "christian" is a pauline invention, never mentioned in the bible), but they did kill him because they said he claimed to be a messiah, so his crucifixion was on religious grounds.

and to the one who said cartoons were made out of the holocaust blah blah and nobody got killed-well,sir, that was a mockery of a christian horror meted out on jews, not an Eminent personality. of course, modern christians see nothing inherently wrong when hollywood and the likes of Dan Brown mock god, jesus and the Bible be it in Dogma or Da Vinci Code. christians laugh it off because they have lost the strength of their faith, diluted by the filth of the west. and i say to you that you have lost sight of the principles your christ bled and died for if you can join the heathens in putting a crown of thorn on your savior and laugh while swigging pepsi cola. we muslims refuse to go that way.

violence seems the predominant issue here, and people seem to lose sight of the fact that if you take all the violence of the 20th to the 21st century and weigh it, over 99% percent of it lies at the non-muslim doorstep. we didnt do the first world war nor the second, we didnt do korea, we didnt do vietnam, we didnt do panama, and we sure as hell didnt do the gulf wars (ok, saddam is a beast, but that didnt justify the last gulf war) so on what basis are we to be called violent? the IRA took more lives down history than hamas took, so why are we not branding the whole irish stock as violent? or is it because they are christians? selective amnesia really works for you guys, doesnt it?

im not going to address certain people in this post because going by their vituperative and counterproductive posts, they are nothing short of Godless scum for whom the notion of a God is too much to swallow. therefore they rant against the Prophet of Islam (SAW) and given half a chance they will take down Jesus(PBUH) too. so my muslim brothers and sisters, simply ignore the venomous ones and address the more sensible ones such as cristally.

one of the unwashed heathens said our prophet took women captives.= If you see a pretty woman among the captives and would like her for a wife, then just bring her home and "go in unto her." Later, if you decide you don't like her, you can "let her go." deuteronomy 21:11-14

now let's talk about sex in the bible.

Lot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Pet.2:7-8. 19:8

Lot and his daughters camp out in a cave for a while. The daughters get their "just and righteous" father drunk, and have sexual intercourse with him, and each conceives and bears a son (wouldn't you know it!). Just another wholesome family values Bible story. genesis 19:30-38

"Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two?" judges 5:30

After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to "go in unto thy brother's wife." But "Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and , when he went in unto his brother's wife , he spilled it on the ground, And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also." This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of both masturbation and birth control. genesis 38:8-10

If a man has sex with another man, kill them both (gay rights in modern age, huh?.leviticus 20:13


"And the Lord visited Hannah [again], so that she conceived." Did he get her pregnant in the usual way? 1 samuel 2:21

Old King David tries to get some heat by having a beautiful virgin minister unto him. 1 kings 1:1-4



"And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez, " .1 Chronicles 2:4 (See Gen.38 for all the sordid details)

The author of this psalm allegedly is David. If so, then it's not surprising that his "loins" would be "filled with a loathsome disease." After all, his promiscuity was legendary, and he probably didn't practice safe sex. psalms 38:5, 7

"I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." song of solomon 2:3

Isaiah has sex with a prophetess who conceives and bears a son. (You weren't expecting a daughter, were you?) God then tells Isaiah to call his name Mathershalalhashbaz. (It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?) isaiah 8:3

in jeremiah 13:22 God compares the destruction of Jerusalem to the rape of a woman who deserves to be raped because she has sinned. um, so some women DESERVE to be RAPED?

Two sisters were guilty of "committing whoredoms" by pressing their breasts and bruising "the teats of their virginity." As a punishment, one sister's unclothedness was discovered, her children were taken from her, and she was killed by the sword. And the fate of the surviving sister was even worse: Her nose and ears were cut off, she was made to "pluck off" her own breasts, and then after being raped and mutilated, she is stoned to death. ezekiel 23:1-49

Neoteny,

I like the fact that just like Babyosisi, you are taking time out to make your point, factualy; but as a curious human being, why is curiousity about Islam such a prickly issue? This is MY experience. I know that not all muslims are not that way about Islam but my questions are yet to be answered. One can go on and on, comparing Christianity and Islam and we wouldn't get anywhere because religious issues are very emotive and nobody ever wins in such arguments.

You, on the other hand, appear to be using facts rather than emotions to reply, so can you please answer this question- Why is the issue of Islam so prickly with muslims? I'm not concerned with comparing Islam with Christianity, I just want to know why, that's all

When Bollywood started, the movies were worse, much more worse than Nigerian films; they got better as they went along. They copied Hollywood films UNASHAMEDLY but their people supported them and still do and now they are the biggest thing, next to Hollywood. Not only that, they are beginning to go mainstream. e.g 'Bend it like Beckham', Bride and Prejudice etc.

I LOOOOOOOVE Nigerian movies, sure a good percentage of the films suck; the story lines, dialogue and so on but so do Hollywood films. they just cover it all up with special effects and such e.g What women want (apart from mel gibson's performance, it was a washout!) and they are so many others but I wouldn't want to go into  that.

Nigerian movies are NIGERIAN and not American, Indian or Chinese so expect the Nigerian factor to be at work; however like those Chinese films that made us laugh with their 'unsynchronised speech', Nigerian films WILL get better. Let's love them and get involved positively to make them better

@ Brownsuga

I schooled in the north of Nigeria, which has the greatest population of Muslims and to be honest, they can be very intolerant of any criticisms to their religion. They don't even bother to try and enlighten you even when the question is one of innocent curiousity. I agree that there are very good muslims out there and I did and still do have quite a number of muslim friends, who belie that negative image of muslims that we have today but and i emphasise, BUT, some of them get very uncomfortable when critical questions are asked of Islam, while others shift the blame to the western world. Unfortunately, for those of us who GENUINELY want to know and understand more about the religion, this leaves us wondering if Islam is a religion of peace, what is so difficult about answering questions about it then?

In fact, I remember one incident clearly when in my Form 3 (or year 9 as it is known in the UK), i picked up a Qu'ran and a senior student, (a muslim girl) snatched it out of my hand, claiming that infidels are not allowed to touch the holy book. When I inquired why, i couldn't get a coherent reply. That left a lasting impression; regardless, I still keep an open mind about Islam and muslims but when people like you for instance (and I mean this with every respect) and others on this forum do not give simple and clear answers to questions asked about Islam no matter how inane and anal they might sound, believe me, you leave open to wrong interpretation.

People have called Jesus all sorts of names, claimed he was gay and in latest development (see DA-VINCI CODE) are claiming he was married and christians in the UK, Nigeria or anywhere else are not carrying any campaigns of violence against whoever. This is is not to suggest that christians have not committed atrocities in the name of God but in the main, we believe that if God be God, let him fight for Himself; he is more than able to do that.

So my fellow forumites, can the questions on Islam be answered or should we be left with what negative impression that seems to be following muslims in today's world?

Some of the Best Nigerian Movies I've seen include:

                                                Igodo
                                                Blood sisters
                                                Keeping Faith (the dialogue was very impressive)
                                                Slave Masters
                                                Aki na Ukwa (before the 'boys' began to appear in any and every film)
                                                True Feelings
Thunderbolt (Magun)
Saworoide
Ori
Ile
Oga (Chameleon)
to mention a few. Of course 'one man's meat, ' so I know some may not agree with this list