They are heroes. Very brave, and fierce. Losing them would very bad for Ukraine and the world. Sadly, I suspect that they are being tortured as we speak.
Previously, we reported that Osun delegates met Vice President Osinbajo while wearing Tinubu caps. I've been informed that the vice president didn't show any anger towards them. One of them, who goes by the name Sogo Omo Osun, dropped a statement on Facebook: "Osinbajo saw Asiwaju's cap on us and still allowed us to take pictures with him. No doubt he is a leader and a realist".
YakubuA: But we can never forgive anyone that insult the Prophet.
Millions of people all over the country have insulted your prophet because of the wicked, barbaric act that you committed or supported against a bright young girl whose only crime was that she made some spicy statements that you didn't like after doing well in her studies.
If your goal was to get people to stop insulting your prophet, you have failed. You've achieved the opposite effect. Killing people does not make them love or respect your religion. It leads to hatred and disrespect. If Christians were killing Muslims for insulting Christianity, do you think that would cause you to respect Christianity more? No. Those who sow violence won't reap respect. Muslims need to change their ways.
Haylel: Six years later, she's looking for another payday. Tell me a joke - was she traumatized by the rocket between Elon's legs?
I believe that most of the women who testified against Harvey Weinstein had already been paid off. That's why they kept quiet previously. The world seems to have decided that rich and powerful men shouldn't be able to get away with sexual abuse and harrassment just because of their money. That a rich man shouldn't be able to go through life harrassing/abusing every woman he fancies just because he is so rich that he can afford to buy anyone's silence. I think this new perspective is good for women and by extension, good for the world.
Haylel: If any woman works for me as a secretary and I, at a point in time, made sexual advances at her and she refused, her work with me is over. It's not because I'm having a revenge or something, but I'd rather cut her away than allow the urge make me do something we'd both regret. The 250k dollars is enough for her to move on.
It's unfair for a woman to have to lose her job (e.g. at a unique company like Tesla that is changing the world and very good for her CV) because of sexual advances that she did not ask for. No amount of money justifies taking away a woman's freedom to work where she wants to work. But yea, if you have already made the mistake, that's one way out of the situation.
However, in the post #metoo world, the women may still talk even after collecting the money. One should keep that in mind next time one feels the urge to ask a subordinate for a sexual act.
Haylel: Even if she's telling the truth, what has he done? He made a sexual proposal and she refused, case dismissed.
He exposed his private part to her before making the sexual proposal. He should have waited for her to say yes. That's the main thing he did that was wrong.
The lady knew where he was going but played along until they reached the line that she wasn't willing to cross, then she refused. I don't blame her for that. People have bills to pay.
mastertek: You can only be either romantic person or tech savvy, you can't be both.
Men that are very romantic and can bed any women easily, do no have brain to be a tech savvy and invent something like EV, SpaceX, etc
Elon Musk has dated many young actresses. Some have even had kids for him. Knowing that, one would assume that he has got skills. It's surprising that he has to resort to bribing employees for sexual acts.
peterdrock001: At least he didn't rape her. His penis was erect and he was alone with her yet he didn't force her. Though his actions are wrong but we still have to give him some credit for the fact that he didn't go beyond that
Nobody deserves a gold medal for not raping. That's what you're supposed to do. It's the bare minimum.
Elon Musk has been making noises on Twitter alleging that democrats were going to come after him for political reasons. Now we know why:
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.
* A flight attendant for SpaceX said Elon Musk asked her to "do more" during a massage, documents show.
* The billionaire founder exposed his penis to her and offered to buy her a horse, according to claims in a declaration.
* After she reported the incident to SpaceX, Musk's company paid her $250,000 as part of a severance agreement.
The incident, which took place in 2016, is alleged in a declaration signed by a friend of the attendant and prepared in support of her claim. The details in this story are drawn from the declaration as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend.
According to the declaration, the attendant confided to the friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was encouraged to get licensed as a masseuse so that she could give Musk massages. It was during one such massage in a private cabin on Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, she told the friend, that Musk propositioned her.
The flight attendant told her friend that the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla founder asked her to come to his room during a flight in late 2016 "for a full body massage," the declaration says. When she arrived, the attendant found that Musk "was completely naked except for a sheet covering the lower half of his body." During the massage, the declaration says, Musk "exposed his genitals" and then "touched her and offered to buy her a horse if she would 'do more,' referring to the performance of sex acts."
The attendant, who rides horses, declined and continued with the massage without engaging in any sexual conduct. The attendant "is not for sale," the friend's declaration said. "She is not going to perform sexual favors for money or gifts." The incident occurred during a flight to London.
"He whipped out his penis, it was erect," the friend said, describing the allegations. "And he started propositioning her, like he touched her thigh and told her he would buy her a horse. And he basically tried to bribe her to perform some sort of sexual favor."
The flight attendant told her friend that work began to dry up after she refused Musk's advances. "Before the incident, she regarded Mr. Musk as a person to look up to," the declaration says. "She figured things could just go back to normal and she would pretend like nothing happened," the friend told Insider. "However, she started to feel as if she was receiving some sort of retaliation where her shifts were cut back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSWNQxyKtQ Peter Obi visited Arise TV this morning to speak to Reuben Abati, Tundun Abiola, and Rufai about his ambition to be elected as the next president of Nigeria in 2023.
We have received an alarming report about a plan by a religious extremist and potential collaborators to "kill and burn a bitch" in Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri. This plan was revealed in a Facebook post written by Muhammad Mustapha Kukawa in Hausa, translated by Facebook:
It reads: "We will do delegations to Ramat Polytechnic later, we will go to the department of SLT to meet the HOD or rector of the school. If there is any situation meet us at the cross of Bolori. We will kill a bitch and burn it"
The Facebook page of Muhammad Mustapha Kukawa contains some disturbing posts in Hausa. In one, he says, "Some Islamic scholars came out saying, taking laws into one's hands is not Islamic teaching. We will not follow you on this one, I swear. We will kill anyone that touches the prophet. Write this and keep it. I cried yesterday. I was so angry and sad because I was not there at the killing place.
In another one, he says, We don't know any government in this country full of injustice. Here are the instructions: anyone who touches the prophet, either a Christian or a Muslim, he should be killed immediately. Don't think there is an authority to come to you, just blame God's judgement on him. "
Please if you are a Christian student or staff member of Ramat Polytechnic, particularly a female student or staff member who is disliked by muslims, I would advice you to take precautions or disappear as soon as you can. If you know anyone who knows anyone in Ramat Polytechnic, please advice them to spread this warning far and wide. The campus security should be vigilant enough to prevent a repeat of what happened in Sokoto.
Nuruddeen Lemu, the director of research and training at the Islamic Education Trust and Da’wah Institute of Nigeria in Minna, has in effect condemned the extra-judicial killing of Deborah Samuel by explaining in detail why muslims should not defend it. Read the explanation below:
CONSEQUENCES OF EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS
If we continue to defend and justify people who take the law into their own hands, because we feel so hurt by the words and actions of others (against Islam or our beloved Prophet - pbuh), and because we don't trust the justice system, we will find it very difficult to blame any violent ethnic or religious group in Nigeria who also take the law into their own hands because they feel aggrieved by the words and actions of others, and because they too don't trust the justice system.
Extrajudicial punishments and killings that are justified for one crime, soon become justified for other crimes. There is nothing new or surprising about that! What justified killing one person, soon justifies killing 20. If instead of focusing on and improving the justice system, we decide to justify taking legal authority out of their hands, and putting it in the hands of angry mobs, we risk a state of anarchy/ fitna .
If things go further out of hand, there will be no state apparatus that can control the anarchy because we would have done what was needed to disempower the state completely. We run the risk of sliding into a state of emergency ( darurah ) that will force the government to curtail more freedoms and rights in the name of "national security". It takes us into a future that is far worse than the bad situation we are already in.
We will, with all our love for Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) end up creating a society that is the exact opposite of what we hoped our faith would lead us towards. We will instead if we are not careful have more blasphemy - the very thing that has aggrieved us! We will probably have more imprisonments and more extra-judicial deaths by more mobs. We will have more angry congregations, more social disorder and some mosques and churches closed down. Definitely more security challenges. We will endanger the freedom to practice our faith, which we currently have, if we do not choose to handle cases of blasphemy, in a manner that is consistent with Islamic law.
And if the recent past has lessons for us, it would be that we could easily create the perfect environment, religious narratives and grievances needed, for the rise and support of more violent extremist groups. Who else, besides Shaitan and opportunists, happily benefits from the fitna/civil strife of anarchy?! Who gains?!
How can our anger and indignation about blasphemy, be a justification for throwing away a system for dealing with crimes and offences. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and all the great classical jurists (fuqaha) of all schools of Islamic jurisprudence, have categorically asked us to maintain and follow the rule of law, and respect for constituted legal authority.
And if the system is imperfect and cannot be trusted, how is it a better idea to start a new "system" that is far far far worse than what we currently have?!
How can placing legal, judicial and executive authority in the hands of mobs be a solution?!? How does it help to replace an imperfect justice system with the anarchy of angry mobs?!? How can we pray for peace, while simultaneously perpetuating a system that will most effectively destroy it?! How is it Islamic to replace bad with that which is far worse and evil? How is it more Islamic to choose the greater of two evils?!?
Is it not even an Islamic legal maxim that states, "avoiding harm takes precedence over accruing benefits"?!? And what exactly is the clear benefit of permitting extra-judicial punishments and mob action?!?
Should we not instead do all within our power to address the flaws of the judicial system; to call upon those vested with the judicial authority to deal with hate speech and acts of blasphemy?!? Let us seek and support Islamically acceptable ways of seeking redress for all wrongs and crimes. And mob action is definitely not one of them!
Let us please focus on improving the justice system. Let's call upon them and only them, to do what only they should do. "And beware of a tribulation that may not be limited to the wrongdoers among you... " (Qur'an 8:25)
A001: Most didn't even bother to read the content of the attached photo of the fatwa (verdict) before commenting.
The headline is misleading. How is the punishment stipulated in that fawta better than what those blood-thirsty miscreants did?
Everything about the religion of Islam is despicable.
Sadly, the best Muslim take on the subject is that her punishment should have been left to the authorities. They still maintain that proper authorities have the right to kill people for blasphemy, but we will cross that bridge when we get there; for now we amplify the less violent ones.
KingOfTheDamned: Seun you are fat very fat, your cheeks a swollen and your chin is trippled with folds on your neck at the back of your head. You are shaped like an avacado that's over ripe. You are so fat , I mean so fat it's unbelievable.
There you go fatty, fatty, fatty fatty
You're missing the point. We are all nice and tolerant when we have not been offended. Putin is perfectly nice when he's not invading your country. It's how we behave when someone offends us that defines who we truly are.