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The Yorubas pride themselves as a people who accommodate both Muslims and Christians in one unit, making them religious hybrids, arguably, the only ones on good old planet earth. But they ignore one salient point that when you are a hybrid, you lose certain original qualities from both parents. You can ask the breeders and geneticists in your realm to explain that to you. The hybrid nature of Yoruba religious inclination is why Tinubu is helpless today in tackling religion-motivated killings in Nigeria. It is also why 99% of the Christian pastors and adherents who deny or downplay Christian genocide by Muslims are Yorubas. You see, the North has taken a stand. The East and South South have taken a stand. It's easy for them because they are either "this" or "that", and not "this-that". The Yoruba are having a hard time taking a stand because they are "this-that" (hybrids).

Again, hear ye me, hybrids come with certain new qualities but they forgo certain original, sometimes important, qualities.
Hopeyougeritbutifyoudontgeritthenfogetaboutit.

Were you high when you typed this nonsense

IbnB:
Were you high when you typed this nonsense

I wasn't. But even when I am high I make more sense than 100 of you combined.

AAEEI:
I wasn't. But even when I am high I make more sense than 100 of you combined.

It's obvious you are high on loud

To be fair, the South East and South South have also been "this-that" in recent years, especially with the emergence of Obidients and the IPOB phenomenon.

This is a very deep observation. Thank you for sharing.

AAEEI:
The Yorubas pride themselves as a people who accommodate both Muslims and Christians in one unit, making them religious hybrids, arguably, the only ones on good old planet earth. But they ignore one salient point that when you are a hybrid, you lose certain original qualities from both parents. You can ask the breeders and geneticists in your realm to explain that to you. The hybrid nature of Yoruba religious inclination is why Tinubu is helpless today in tackling religion-motivated killings in Nigeria. It is also why 99% of the Christian pastors and adherents who deny or downplay Christian genocide by Muslims are Yorubas. You see, the North has taken a stand. The East and South South have taken a stand. It's easy for them because they are either "this" or "that", and not "this-that". The Yoruba are having a hard time taking a stand because they are "this-that" (hybrids).

Again, hear ye me, hybrids come with certain new qualities but they forgo certain original, sometimes important, qualities.
Hopeyougeritbutifyoudontgeritthenfogetaboutit.

And how has your monotonous SE fared?

A people who are so divisive that they have their own highly and strictly observed internal discrimination caste system in place.

mascot87:
It's obvious you are high on loud

Address thetopic. Thanks

The truth is that Yorubas have the parlance of live and let live.
They have the most vibrant Christians and Muslims with the belief that your belief does not affect mine or stop me from attaining paradise and vice versa.
They have learnt to live together amicably through the Grace of God.

The problem of Nigeria are Hausa Fulani and Igbos who are extremists.There are a lot of Muslims in Edo but they don't discriminate.

When you see something, say something.

Putinofrussia:
The truth is that Yorubas have the parlance of live and let live.
They have the most vibrant Christians and Muslims with the belief that your belief does not affect mine or stop me from attaining paradise and vice versa.
They have learnt to live together amicably through the Grace of God.

The problem of Nigeria are Hausa Fulani and Igbos who are extremists.There are a lot of Muslims in Edo but they don't discriminate.

Yorubas are a liberal bunch but one who revere their own culture above everything so much so that Yoruba Christians created a sect that panders to their spiritualism in the form of the Afro Spiritual Celestial church.

98% of Yoruba Muslims don't care much for Islam .

The fanatical Yorubas are mostly from Kwara and Osun who have always wanted to impose themselves as rulers in Yoruba land under Islamic theorocracy .

DomPerignon:
Yorubas are a liberal bunch but one who revere their own culture above everything so much so that Yoruba Christians created a sect that panders to their spiritualism in the form of the Afro Spiritual Celestial church.

98% of Yoruba Muslims don't care much for Islam .

The fanatical Yorubas are mostly from Kwara and Osun who have always wanted to impose themselves as rulers in Yoruba land under Islamic theorocracy .

Your delusion,sir.

What is the ethnic breakdown of the Nigerian army and police?

The entire human civilization is based on the principles of live and let live. Perhaps that is why Yorubaland is relatively peaceful compared with other places within Nigeria and even in the entire world.

In any given population you can always find something to differentiate one from the other even in a very homogeneous population.
Some people even invent a caste system just to find a reason to divide people who are essentially the same.

We don't have that in Yorubaland and some of us will go to any extent to keep it that way.

ElSudani:
The entire human civilization is based on the principles of live and let live. Perhaps that is why Yorubaland is relatively peaceful compared with other places within Nigeria and even in the entire world.

In any given population you can always find something to differentiate one from the other even in a very homogeneous population.
Some people even invent a caste system just to find a reason to divide people who are essentially the same.

We don't have that in Yorubaland and some of us will go to any extent to keep it that way.

Yorubaland today is the least peaceful in the South. The South East is more peaceful today

AAEEI:
Yorubaland today is the least peaceful in the South. The South East is more peaceful today

Whatever you say my friend.

I think this analogy of hybrids is a stretch. Are you saying the Yorubas should be rigid and not embrace their diversity? There is strength in diversity.

Tinubu is tackling the issues the best way he can. Every region has its own peculiarities, so how does being a hybrid affect that?

The.west central ni ko. See number in west central

Putinofrussia:
The truth is that Yorubas have the parlance of live and let live.
They have the most vibrant Christians and Muslims with the belief that your belief does not affect mine or stop me from attaining paradise and vice versa.
They have learnt to live together amicably through the Grace of God.


The problem of Nigeria are Hausa Fulani and Igbos who are extremists.There are a lot of Muslims in Edo but they don't discriminate.

Yoruba are confused religionists that are unequally yoked among them. It's like evil and good dragging the same space. Now evil is winning in SW as Islamic terrorists, many of them Yorubas, are turning on their own people. Sharia is coming there, steadily.

You don talk am well. Hybrid life can be tough sometimes.

My neighbour is a serious Yoruba Muslim, she fasts and wears hijab...but just last week I saw her going to see a pastor for prayers

Personally...I don't them serious ! They are neither here nor there

That's why Hausa folks don't take their Muslims serious also the same way SE don't take their Christians serious ....

AAEEI:
Yoruba are confused religionists that are unequally yoked among them. It's like evil and good dragging the same space. Now evil is winning in SW as Islamic terrorists, many of them Yorubas, are turning on their own people. Sharia is coming there, steadily.

Says an extremist,a terrorist.

As usual, the extremists from the SE must find a way to justify ugliness they are known for ,i.e prejudice and intolerance, to then castigate religious tolerance of Yorubas that would be the panacea to a major problem of Nigeria, from time immemorial, if all Nigerians emulated it.

You all wake daily looking for anything to use to castigate Yorubas who do not care about you. Sad. Very sad.

ariesbull:
My neighbour is a serious Yoruba Muslim, she fasts and wears hijab...but just last week I saw her going to see a pastor for prayers

Personally...I don't them serious ! They are neither here nor there

That's why Hausa folks don't take their Muslims serious also the same way SE don't take their Christians serious ....

Let me ask:

Since you assume North West and North East are predominantly extreme Moslems while South East and South South are predominantly and extremely Christians.

Don't we have northern Moslems, South South and South East Christian people patronising and seeing traditionalists clerics and deities for consultation, fortification and guidance?

If you wouldn't deny these allegations in my question then you would realize that you are just being an extremist, hateful, tribalistic and racist by singling out the Yoruba people and describing them as hybrids or "neither here not there"

You are all hybrids masquerading as religious fanatics and extremists.

AAEEI:
The Yorubas pride themselves as a people who accommodate both Muslims and Christians in one unit, making them religious hybrids, arguably, the only ones on good old planet earth. But they ignore one salient point that when you are a hybrid, you lose certain original qualities from both parents. You can ask the breeders and geneticists in your realm to explain that to you. The hybrid nature of Yoruba religious inclination is why Tinubu is helpless today in tackling religion-motivated killings in Nigeria. It is also why 99% of the Christian pastors and adherents who deny or downplay Christian genocide by Muslims are Yorubas. You see, the North has taken a stand. The East and South South have taken a stand. It's easy for them because they are either "this" or "that", and not "this-that". The Yoruba are having a hard time taking a stand because they are "this-that" (hybrids).

Again, hear ye me, hybrids come with certain new qualities but they forgo certain original, sometimes important, qualities.
Hopeyougeritbutifyoudontgeritthenfogetaboutit.

What is the stand taken by your South East and South Christian religious leaders? Mention and reference the South East and South Christian leaders that have indicated that Nigeria is experiencing Christian genocide.

President Tinubu's challenge is majorly political not religion induced.

The Yoruba people have always been diverse and accommodating to all religion and tribe. The Yoruba people have embraced the advantages and also manage the disadvantages of such diversity and that is the reason for the development in Lagos and Ogun.

Wallade:
Let me ask:

Since you assume North West and North East are predominantly extreme Moslems while South East and South South are predominantly and extremely Christians.

Don't we have northern Moslems, South South and South East Christian people patronising and seeing traditionalists clerics and deities for consultation, fortification and guidance?

If you wouldn't deny these allegations in my question then you would realize that you are just being an extremist, hateful, tribalistic and racist by singling out the Yoruba people and describing them as hybrids or "neither here not there"

You are all hybrids masquerading as religious fanatics and extremists.

Who is assuming? Where did I tell you that North are extreme Muslim

What I said that Yoruba are hybrid and they are not pure Muslims that's why you can't see Yoruba and Hausa pray together in a mosque here in Lagos or Yoruba lead Hausa in prayers ...they see them as not pure Muslims and I have seen it well

Even their Christian..visit babalawo and fetish ...things


That's the fact

I know many of their pastors that do juju ! It's only in yoruba land that a Muslim will marry a Christian .
Which is travesty and madness

Even in Bible it is a sin...Bible said don't be unequally yoked with non believers

AAEEI:
Yoruba are confused religionists that are unequally yoked among them. It's like evil and good dragging the same space. Now evil is winning in SW as Islamic terrorists, many of them Yorubas, are turning on their own people. Sharia is coming there, steadily.

You people are the only ones I know, worldwide,that makes excuses for wrongdoing and endorse distasteful qualities of man.

You lot , for example, are the only ones who'd argue that being racist or an ethnic jingoist is somehow good and desirable while mocking those who are not.

It is why I don't know one Igbo, from leaders to followers, who have thought of the thousand victims of Kanu's IPOB and UGM madness to insist he deserves jail and punishment.

Instead you all proclaim him "innocent" to begin accusing and cursing "Yoruba" Judge doing his job.

Yet most normal people will not get a cohesive answer from any of you if they demand to know what you base your claim of Kanu's innocence on other than your warped outlook and views.


You will continue, as has been your history, to go from one disaster to the next attempting to mock and denigrate those who are far better human being than you that you should be looking up to.

Putinofrussia:
The truth is that Yorubas have the parlance of live and let live.
They have the most vibrant Christians and Muslims with the belief that your belief does not affect mine or stop me from attaining paradise and vice versa.
They have learnt to live together amicably through the Grace of God.

The problem of Nigeria are Hausa Fulani and Igbos who are extremists.There are a lot of Muslims in Edo but they don't discriminate.

unfounded assertions. You're at best consoling yourself. I get the op's point. Igbos can simply be described as Judeo-Christian and Hausa Fulani can be described as Islamic-sahelian. What can Yorubas be described as?

It simply means that Yorubas have no dominant value system. They have major competing value systems which is a time bomb. Value system is like a compass to every civilization and also provide social stability. If you don't have a dominant one, it means the society lack ideology and it'll be difficult for the society to reach a consensus and take decisions on crucial issues. This is why the Yoruba as a collective have no known aspirations unlike the Igbos and Hausa Fulani.Hence, their survival depends on the continued unity of Nigeria because Nigeria act as a stabilizing force for them. This is why they act as spoiler to other people's aspirations that threaten their survival. This was why western Nigeria had heavy precolonial social tension and it's also why they didn't resist colonialism unlike Igbos and Hausa Fulani. They needed a stabilizing force to fill the void that a lack of value system created.

AAEEI:
Yorubaland today is the least peaceful in the South. The South East is more peaceful today

I was taking you seriously till I got to this. I will just presume that this statement was made when you hadn't taken your medication. So, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.

Armaggedon:
unfounded assertions. You're at best consoling yourself. I get the op's point. Igbos can simply be described as Judeo-Christian and Hausa Fulani can be described as Islamic-sahelian. What can Yorubas be described as?

It simply means that Yorubas have no dominant value system. They have major competing value systems which is a time bomb. Value system is like a compass to every civilization and also provide social stability. If you don't have a dominant one, it means the society lack ideology and it'll be difficult for the society to reach a consensus and take decisions on crucial issues. This is why the Yoruba as a collective have no known aspirations unlike the Igbos and Hausa Fulani.Hence, their survival depends on the continued unity of Nigeria because Nigeria act as a stabilizing force for them. This is why they act as spoiler to other people's aspirations that threaten their survival. This was why western Nigeria had heavy precolonial social tension and it's also why they didn't resist colonialism unlike Igbos and Hausa Fulani. They needed a stabilizing force to fill the void that a lack of value system created.

you’re right.

DomPerignon:
Yorubas are a liberal bunch but one who revere their own culture above everything so much so that Yoruba Christians created a sect that panders to their spiritualism in the form of the Afro Spiritual Celestial church.

98% of Yoruba Muslims don't care much for Islam .

The fanatical Yorubas are mostly from Kwara and Osun who have always wanted to impose themselves as rulers in Yoruba land under Islamic theorocracy .

having multiplicity of religions is not liberalism but tolerating other people with different religious, cultural and economic beliefs. Western civilization invented the word liberalism but their value system is based on Christianity. In fact, you must assimilate "western values" to be accepted.

Yorubas being tolerant is what we often hear but all available data say otherwise. For instance an Igbo gathering will switch to English language just to accommodate few non Igbo speakers but Yorubas will speak their language to the confusion of a considerable number of non Yoruba speakers present. Yet they are the first to feel offended on hearing your own language. This fact is well known and it's the simplest example of intolerance.