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Me I boy Yoruba northerner sha. Kwara

My colleague here finished from Kent. She knows me as a NL-addict but she doesn't do NL. I'll ask her to use my username to offer advice fro you.

duduspace:
Davidylan ke? yu peeps shld have also nominated Abuzola or Olabowale for the muslims to even things out.

I hope you know there is the Muslims section?

Campaign for what?

Anyway, I can't help you o, because with all my campaigns, I also lost election in the Uni 
I used to be a godfather in departmental politics from years 1-3 and candidates used to consult me(once they have my approval, they have had about 500 votes already), but when I came out to contest for Sec Gen, na lady defeat me 

But more seriously, I think Obama's Audacity of Hope, which I'm currently reading should be helpful.

Farouk is not in this class. Most of the folks here are in their late twenties and early thirties and have control over a sizeable wealth than Farouk.
Farouk is just a small boy still dependent on his parent. There are many of them like that in the north. There are thousands of them like that. But unlike Farouk, most of them take to socializing. I stayed in the north for more than a year and I saw the gap between the children of the rich and those of the poor. One thing I observe about rich Hausa/Fulani people, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, is that they spend anything on their children and give their children too much free hands. Small boys of ages between 12-18, you see them in Kano, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Abuja, Sokoto driving posh cars. In schools like ABU, FUTY, Sokoto, Unimaid etc, the rate at which students use posh cars far outstrips that of Southern Unis except maybe Unilag.

In the South, many rich parents will not even allow their kids to touch their cars until maybe after secondary school. You will meet many students in the Unis and you wont even know they are from wealthy homes.

Just my observation.

soloqy:
That name sounds fictitious. Aloysious-Katsina- Alu ? .

Generally, Igbos and southerners bare the name Aloysious. Is he from the east or South? Did they just add the appendage to sound typical?

Why do you want to know where is from ?
Think he's from Benue state though.

Aisha2 has my vote

Crackles got my vote here.

@Mbulela,
Don't have time rehashing my previous contributions here. You may go through my recent posts: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;u=118312;sa=showPosts
I'm also working on an article 'Farouk, what message?' or 'Farouk, Kalo Kata, Shame Inc.' for publication. A copy may be in NL here.

And kindly modify my actual name you wrote up there to my NL username Jarus.

Thanks

Ronke has said it all. If the poster believes talking about hell and being warned against drinking and extramarital sex is depressing, then he better retrace his steps cos he does not want to hear the truth, one thing is for sure, Jesus(ASW) sure did preach them if they do not preach them in churches of today.

Part of the poster's point are right but others smack of the ranting of an ignorant Muslim. I agree with the part that 'this kind of crap can happen to any misguided devoted moslem youth'. I totally agree with that. Some of our youths today who are just picking the deen tend to go too far if not rightly guided or apply wisdom. I know a person, a very brilliant chap that led the Lagos state SSCE in 1997, led the whole of Ife Engineering in his year one, but suddenly abandoned his studies and face religion only. He had issues with the authorities and later left the Uni. Such a thing, to me, is extreme. The same thing happened to Farouk, I think. He was said to be just a normal, devout Muslim when he entered UCL but when he got to year 3, he began to exhibit some extremist traits. I don't have any problem with his been religious, in fact I appreciate children of the rich that opt for the path of religion rather than womanizing around and oppressing with their father's posh cars as is common especially in the north. I read about his preachings in Kaduna, which are on normal Islamic issues, not political ones.
Here are some of his internet postings:

First post: 28 January 2005 [, ] I have no friend. Not because I do not socialise, etc but because either people do not want to get too close to me as they go partying and stuff while I don’t, or they are bad people who befriend me and influence me to do bad things.

As I get lonely, the natural sexual drive awakens and I struggle to control it, sometimes leading to minor sinful activities like not lowering the gaze. And this problem makes me want to get married to avoid getting aroused [, ] But I am only 18 [, ] It would be difficult for me to get married due to social norms of getting to the late 20's when one has a degree, a job, a house, etc before getting married. The last thing I want to talk about is my dilemma between liberalism and extremism [, ] How should one put the balance right?

February 5, 2005 [, ] I get lonely sometimes because I have never found a true muslim friend. I'm active, I socialise with everybody around me, no conflicts, I laugh and joke but not excessively. I will describe myself as very ambitious and determined, especially in the deen. I might sound boring, but if you want to know more about me, just give me shout.

May 9, 2005 [Responding to a post about the Westernisation of some children in Saudi Arabia] Don't expect the Saudi government to do anything that will stop this [,  ] Don't forget it is the government that allowed the US to come into the country to 'protect' them [, ] It is the government that allowed Haram Satellite TV to be broadcasted.

And there are stories even that the Princes drink alcohol themselves. Plus they are good friends with the American government. [, ] The Prophet (SWH) did say a time will come
when the leaders will be the worst among the people. Indeed this seems to be the time. There are so many pious Saudis out there and great scholars. But not only in Saudi, almost everywhere in the world now, we are ruled by the worst of people, tyrants. May Allah help us and guide us all, and establish for us good leaders who fear Him.”

It is obvious from those posts that he was God-fearing, ambitious and yearning to improve his deen, untypical of a silverspoon but unfortunately, he fell into wrong hands in Yemen and went to the extreme. How I just wish I meet this boy before this incident and advise him on moderation. I don't think it takes deep knowledge in Islam to know that suicide bombing or killing innocent souls by any form is not allowed in Islam.

To some extent, I also agree with the poster that we often overdo the blaming of America and the West for our problems.

Every other thing written up there by the poster, to me, is arrant gibberish, especially "Thats why a great deal of us are rushing into churches. Its not because theres anything special about churches, but you see this sense of fulfilment and happiness around Christians though they dont run the country. Though they dont take the lion share of the nations oil wealth. Christians dont tell you about hell fire everyday, and they dont depress you with those "Dont Drink", "Dont Bang a sexy chic or you are doomed poo", and they dont make their followers lives miserable like these moslem Alfas have successfully done".

I am a Muslim and I live a fulfilled life by the grace of God. If glossing over the truth somewhere is what attracts you to a set of people, then I'm afraid for him. In fact, I wish I can be hearing about hellfire and the evils of drinking and prostituting everyday, so as to make me fearful of my God and move away from sins, rather this talk of 'I want to buy this car, I want to build this kind of house I hear everyday'. The truth is bitter, but then it must be told. Our heart is naturally disinclined to hearing the truth. Therein lies the poster's problem.

deols:
A part of my heart bleeds for Farouq. He had it all. Education, money and most importantly Islam. Added to these is his good looks, the kind you call innocent. The unfortunate thing is his association with the wrong group.

Alhamdulillah he didnt succeed in this. I hope he gets outta ds reformed with so much repentance.

Exactly. I read his internet posts on Facebook and Islamic Forum Site and he came across as a young man that tried to uphold his deen, but overzealousness or wrong association led him to teh extreme. What a pity, Farouk!

OMG, why did this boy do this?

It's the spambot at work. I have also fallen victim a number of times. It auto-deletes posts taht look like spam, like copying and pasting from a site, long typing etc.
Next time you are typing long post, you may copy and save a copy on Word so that you if Spambot catches it, you will ahve access to what you typed.
I don't have power over this, maybe higher authorities can help.

violent:
Waoh! didnt realize on time that this dude is the moderator. . . . was just about using the "Report to moderator" button on one of his threads

LOL

Another very shameful act. Preparing my articles on these developments already.

Abu Zola:
Lagosboy i do miss you as well, you are my main man in this secton with the way you battle Tajweed and your breaking it down, and being a Fiqh/tajweed scholar, barakallah,

Welcome back Abuzola. I'm happy to have you back. I seriously missed you. I sent a text to Muhsin to give me your number and he gave me, but I tried it for days and it wasn't going. I hope you will be a good boy now.

Answer: one overrated, one underrated.

The poster obviously knows nothing about the situation before making that post. Hasn't he read that US authorities have also confirmed that his father reported him?

Knowing what a close person can do is no brainer. It is very easy. From the type of statements that come out of somebody's mouth, you can know what he can do. Probably, within the household, the son has been uttering serious anti-US statements like 'If I see Bush, I can kill him. . . .serious infidel, killer etc' ,praising known terrorists and expressing support for them, reading books that encourage terrorisme etc. There are several other ways of knowing the extent of what somebody can do due to his hatred for a people/policy.

Maybe Farouk had been uttering such statements and passionately acting in ways that show that he can do anything out of his hatred for US.

Having observed the ideology his son harbours, it is therefore easy for the older Muttalab to know what his son can do, and this might have informed his reporting to the authorities to forestall it. The father, I think, is not culpable, except we want him to shoot his son.


The poster's argument, to me, hold no water.

Hmmmnnnn, a very tough one. I have always been trumpeting Cristalz's and Lawyer's efforts. I have never hidden my admiration for their moderating style, but it's a pity I'm competing against them. If my name had not been there, I would have had to throw a coin between both of you but the matter has been settled by having my name there too. So I dropped the vote for myself

Culled from Daily Trust: http://www.news.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11786:what-faruk-preached-by-kaduna-friends&catid=46:lead-stories&Itemid=140

The alleged airplane bomber Malam Faruk Umaru Mutallab’s short career as an Islamic preacher did not give any indication that he could carry out a violent act because he concentrated all his preaching on normal religious topics, a young associate of the Mutallab family told Daily Trust yesterday. The young associate went to school with Faruk and knew him intimately.

According to him, a preaching session is organised every week at Little Scholars, a nursery and primary school located off Kaduna’s popular Rabah Road, close to the late General Hassan Usman Katsina’s house. Although the school itself does not organise the preaching session, it lends its assembly hall for the purpose. Several persons take turns to preach at the school, the source said, and on several occasions late last year and early this year, Faruk Mutallab also did some preaching there.

The associate said he remembered Faruk once giving a long talk of the importance of Muslim women covering themselves with the hijab, or veil. On another occasion, he said, Faruk preached about the importance of fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. On yet another occasion that he was present, the source said dwelt knowledgeably about the meaning of Suratul Ahad, the 63th chapter of the holy Qur’an. The source said at no time in his preaching did Faruk ever dwell on political topics or gave any indication that violent action was justifiable. He said the session is attended by many people from the middle-class houses all around; he saw Faruk’s own mother at two of the sessions where her son spoke, he said.

Another associate in Kaduna who knew the alleged bomber described him as reclusive, saying Faruk Mutallab had very few friends and mostly kept to himself. The associate, who schooled with Faruk in London, said while in Britain, Faruk refused to exchange greetings with women, and usually moved away when his friends stopped on the way to exchange greetings with women. Whenever women greeted him, the associate said, Faruk will bow his head slightly in acknowledgement but would never shake hands with them.

Yet another associate, who knew Faruk Mutallab at the British School in Lome, Togo, said he spent the money given to him by his wealthy father mostly on religious books. Besides books, he said, Faruk bought little else, and he usually had alot of money to spare when they came home for the holidays, which money he often took straight back to his father.

Faruk had left Nigeria earlier this year to study for a Masters degree in Dubai, but two months ago, he left Dubai for Yemen, saying he wanted to improve his Arabic. But once there, he called family members to say he didn’t want any links with them again and then switched off the phone and destroyed the SIM card. It was at that point that Mutallab Senior informed American Embassy officials in Abuja that his son presented a security risk. The family did not even know that Faruk sneaked back into Lagos on Christmas Eve, from where he took the KLM flight to Amsterdam and thence to Detroit.

Tears almost flowed from my eyes as I read this article. Here is a young man, born with silver spoon, given the best of education, but a poor understanding of the religion or overzealousness led him into bringing shame to his family, country and religion.

Sincerely, I would have admired the boy if he did no more than what was written up there, as it is very rare and indeed Allah's blessing for a young man born with silverspoon to end up a preacher, rather that becoming one spoilt brat that womanize around as is the case with most children of the rich, but it's a great pity he overdid the thing and went to the extreme. It's a great pity. Haba, Farouk. Suicide bombing has no place in Islam. It's a great pity. A case of exaggerated piety.

itocoonlin:
Fellow Nairalanders, plz let talk abt the person of senator John Udoedehe, he was a one time Uyo local Government Chairman, a two time senator of the federal republic of Nigeria, and while in the senate he served as a chairman house commitee on Women Affairs, recently the immediate past Minister for State for Federal capital Territory. and now he is warming up to become a Governor of a Great state Akwa Ibom state.
i know he is a man of vision but what can u say abt him?

Welcome, Udoedehe's image maker!!!

Profitable, but you need solid reputation before it becomes profitable.

The early stage is the most difficult stage for a newspaper or Magazine, but if it survives the first two or three years or shorter(like Next and Sun), and it stamps a name in teh market, then it can begin to amke huge profit through adverts. Some papers and magazines that don't care about reputation also compromise and make money projecting the image of some people or organization through what will appear to readers as independent, neutral reporting.

All in all, almost half of Nigerian papers and Mags die within the first one or two years.

honeric01:
@FBS
I am appealing the election, i need to see the ballot papers, i need to see the usernames of those who voted, i need to see how long the usernames have been members of nairaland, i need to see how many post these usernames have.

Thanks

Now this is interesting. You mean some people could have gone ahead and open multiple usernames and use them to vote for themselves. I no trust Naija men o. Anything fit happen 4 naija o

This election must be the most the most surprising . . . everybody dey shout Sagamite, Sagamite but na rasputinn den dey vote for

Ok, maybe the Rasputinn supporters are not the lousy type. Just click and go type, no story. Na sagamite I vote for sha

y me:
i think i pick Aloy,he is really current with celebrities news

and your vote made teh difference

A big congrats to the big boss, Ajanlekoko. It was a one-horse race. A well deserved honour for the man that, alongside TKB and Oyb, made thsi section lively, enlightening and educative this year. We only hope we will learn more from you next year.

Congrats to the winners, the people that added spice to the sections in the outgoing year.

To the man that beat me to second place in careers section, Ajanlekoko, I say a big congrats. You really deserved it. It was glaring that you were the best the section had to offer.

To Muhsin that won in the section I moderate, I say congrats too. I'm happy some people are watching your passion and wisdom.

Semid4lyfe, now that your rigorous campaign has fetched you the phone section award, no story again o. Let the celebration begin. Me I no dey drink sha 

To Sagamite, Ibime, Aloy-Emeka and other winners I roll with on NL, I say congrats.


I hope teh winners will change their signatures to 'Nairaland XXXX Section Poster of The Year 2009' abi una no go show your awards off 

I am reposting here my contribution to the discourse in the Politics section:

I'm a Muslim and without any regrets, irrespective of the undoings of some bad eggs among us. As for those blabbing that every Muslim is a potential terrorist, I have grown beyond engaging those people and would rather ignore them.

Farouk's case is most likely to be a case of overzealousness or youthful exuberance or exaggerated piety. It is most condemnable and embarrassing.

As for his father, Alhaji Muttalab, I only pity the man. The man is arguably the north's most experienced banker and a former MD of UBA and until last week Chairman of First bank.


And the claim that he was the one that recommended Sanusi appears true. I remember reading the full story in, I think, TELL or Newswatch soem months ago. Yar'adua, worried by the situation in the banking sector, I read, contacted Muttalab as the north's leading and most experienced banker and asked him, who do you think can do the job effectively, and he advised yar'adua that he knew one boy, very brilliant and has a non-nonsense mien, hsi name is Lamido Sanusi. That was how Yar'adua invited SLS and spoke with him and got the job unsolicited.

Still on Farouk, the father had already raised alarm over some extreme religios views of the boy months ago, as reported in this Thisday report:

The older Mutallab was said to be devastated on hearing the news of Abdul Farouk's attempted bombing and arrest. A source close to him said he was surprised that after his reports to the US authorities, the young man was allowed to travel to the United States.

The family home of the Mutallabs in Central London, is currently being searched by men of the Metropolitan Police.
THISDAY checks reveal that the suspect, Abdulfarouk  Umar Muttalab who is an engineering student at the University College, London had been noted for his extreme views on religion since his secondary school days at the British International School, Lome, Togo.

At the secondary school, he was known for preaching about Islam to his school mates and he was popularly called “Alfa”, a local coinage for Islamic scholar. After his secondary school, the suspect went to University College London to study engineering and later relocated to Egypt, and then Dubai. While in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, he declared to his family members that he did not want to have anything to do with any of them again.

On Sanusi, I have read much of Sanusi's writings on Islamic issues(many of which I still have on my system as I type now) and know his views and I'm pretty sure he will never approve suicide bombing of any form.

And on a personal note now, I always appreciate silverspoons trying to uphold their religious beliefs in the midst of distracting wealth. It's rare and most children from stupendously rich homes tend not to care about religion, Islam especially. However one trend I have observed these days, like the case of farouk, is that some of them go to the extreme. I remember reading how the son of a former governor of Kwara state also joined a boko-haramesque sect some years ago and was caught, alongside others, training in Adamawa/cameroun border. It's a pity.

Inna Lilahi wa inna ilaehi rajiun

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