₦airaland Forum

*cough* i'll pretend i didn't see that last comment.
i'll take spoilt's and denex's cue and leave.

Please go into your arsenal and bring up one of your argumentative tactics:

1. Deny that you are a jew (though I don't know of any relevance which this may have in the current discussion, but you may just do it anyway. It is in the manual).
2. Impugn your adversary by tagging them a self proclaimed idiot, followed by calling them a bigot.
3. Impugn your adversary by calling them an anti-semite.
4. Accuse you your adversary of hate, racism and being a white supremacist (though I don't know of what good this may be too).
5. Put in all effort to ridicule your opponent and totally assassinate their character so that whatever facts they declare will be doubted.
6. Employ dualisation of meaning and ambiguation of meaning of the information in order to make any conclusion inspecific.
7. When you are totally trapped in a corner and don't know what to say, employ tactics of diverting attention, duplicity, derailing the argument or ask unconnected questions in order that you may find loopholes in your opponent's answer, and then attack.
8. Of course, if all these fail, you can now use your multiple IDs to come in and be supporting yourself and backing your own inane points.

Denex, i'm sorry but i just had to quote this for further emphasis. it couldn't be so farther away from the truth.

Employ dualisation of meaning and ambiguation of meaning of the information in order to make any conclusion inspecific.

another excellent observation. OMG so on point

i was actually a little tempted to explain what i mean by "american nigerian" in details. lol

davidylan:
Next time do much more than read the topic, 2 posts on the last page and suddenly assume you know everything that is being discussed. Clearly the real discourse has long shifted from the title of the thread.

The Fulani make up 24% of the Senegalese population. Different cultures?

there's no such thing as the "real discourse" unless specified by the original poster.
my initial posts on this topic were in response to the quotes i found interesting and my opinion on this topic in general. I don't see why exactly you have a problem with that.


yeah there can be different cultures if a people of the same origin live in different locations. culture is influenced by environment you know.
a nigerian in nigeria will be different from an american nigerian in culture.

Deny that you are a jew
though I don't know of any relevance which this may have in the current discussion, but you may just do it anyway. It is in the manual

nice observation. I thought i was the only one who noticed that tactic.
a topic about muslims will all of a sudden turn into a random argument about highways. lol

One thing that cuts across from your ill-timed contribution is that this topic is not about whether christians have been innocent but RATHER about countering the usual islamic attempt to put down the constant religious crisis in the north down to "tribal conflict" rather than the religious problems they really are.

no. this topic presents an incident (title: "northern nigerian killer muslims at work again". content: article from paper) and invites members to give their opinion about it.

the original poster did not mention anywhere in his post about the topic you just made up for yourself.

i've made my contribution, and i'm off. . .

I still believe the whole intolerance bothers on ignorance, misconception, racism and ethnic antagonism. I am very positive some people read the Quran upside down while some people read it but give it some twisted interpretation to suit their twisted imagination.

I totally agree with you Grafikdon.
same applies to pretty much every religion including christianity where people can read the bible and interpret it to suit their imagination or wishes/ beliefs.

i have muslim friends from senegal too. it's so surprising how attitude of people with same religion changes with geographic location. but then these locations have different cultures and therefore, the way they practice their religion will reflect that.

little tad of info: the catholic church/ Vatican city was in collaboration with the Nazi regime in eliminating jews throughout Europe.
this is just an obvious reminder to show that no religion is without its own problem.

davidylan:
and do we presume tribal wars by fulanis is also the problem in Niger, Chad, Mali, Sudan, Gaza, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan?

the fulani scenario denex used was just an example of the many tribal conflits that exist throughout the world among different peoples.
don't twist his post. he never said tribal war was invented by the fulanis which is what you're inferring.

what does hullabaloo mean?

denex:
This is why I keep repeating that this whole thing is all a tribal war whose flames are fanned by religion.

i agree. although i prefer the term "ethnic clash"
same difference i guess, no problem.

Northern Muslims are just unmannered beasts
with a religion that obtains from the cesspit Angry

yeah but you also have to keep in mind that that's what the West think when they hear news stories about violence in Africa (darfur, fights over oil etc).
"Those unmannered primitive savages of Africa."

Whenever I say the word Muslims,I always exclude the Yoruba ones.
They are a tolerant,educated bunch.
Some even went to CMS and Methodist high schools and have mixed with Christians from time Imo River.
The Yoruba muslims are not your typical ones in flowing robes.
They live peaceably amongst their fellow Nigerians.
The nothern Nigerian Muslims ought to learn a thing or 2 from them.
They intermarry with Christians.
It's not uncommon to see a household with Christian and Muslim siblings or Christian mom going to Chuch and her Muslim husband praying on the floor beside a plastic blue and white kettle Grin

no wonder the northern ones sacrifice them to allah when the time comes

yeah that's because yoruba muslims have more in common (in terms of cultural attitude (you mentioned "flowing robes" as an example) / political stances) with their christian counterparts and even to an extent their igbo counterparts.
unlike the northerners that differ from us in soooo many ways apart from religion.
from my opinion, difference will almost likely create conflict. i don't think it's a matter of which culture/ religion is better than which.

congratulations to him on the award. i wish him speedy recovery.
what sort of a world do we live in?

I'm talking about the ones from previous years. srry for the confusion.

is islam the "in" thing now or what?

an ipod nano for a 10 yr old. wow. that's a little too much i guess.
I'll worship whoever gives me an ipod for a gift forever

the chocolate isn't bad. that's a good gift actually.

i was watching one of those videos recently. my mouth was hurting from laughing too hard

trust David to jump on any muslim/northerner/ anybody that's different from him. lol

HAPPY early BIRTHDAY TO NIGERIA!!!

i agree.
, but seriously though, i'm old. been here since 2005

jayvin01 it is!

i envy you guys
i feel sleepy all the time, i'm about to start drinking coffee (even though i hate it) to keep me awake.

i feel sleepy right now but i have work to do.

where did all these new nairalanders come from sef?
all of you name yourselves

the corrs definitely!!

Laughter yoga.

http://images.google.com/images?q=laughter+yoga&ndsp=18&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&rls=RNFA,RNFA:1970--2,RNFA:en&start=0&sa=N

that's a pretty low number

I don't get it but . . . I HATE YOU!!

e se sa fun link yen
mo enjoy oro yin. emi naa proud of mama wa Ngozi Iweala.

God bless Nigeria. a da fun gbogbo wa

your girlfriend truly is a nutcase. ex-lesbian/ 2 abortions.
i really don't know. just keep praying i guess or make up your mind. there are some good advice on here.

OMG that is disgraceful. nigeria disgraces me when i hear stuff like this. lol
since when did women become criminals for the way they dress?


more women need to join the nigerian police force. lol
but seriously though, more women need to infiltrate the system and positions in those high places that pushed this ridiculously sexist suff.

since when did sharia arrive in lagos?

is there anyone at all who have said something on behalf of these ladies in the govt?

these women don't even look 'scantily dressed."
for a burning hot country (weather wise) like Nigeria, most of these women are FULLY dressed imo. what are they supposed to be wearing suits?

debosky:
I suspect this is just police opportunism to make a quick buck and to sexually assault our women. It should be condemned and stopped immediately!

i was thinking this too.