DanNafada:

And it is better to sit behind our computers and rant than to keep quiet. As long as we rant about truth and what is right. Unfortunately making things happen in reality so as to forge a change is ever more difficult in Nigeria because of the mix of ethnicity and religion.
A typical example is the Stella Oduah scandal. A good number of people actually think that the whole thing should be ignored as it is only a smear against Igbos! As for religion, you can see the "my pilgrims vs your pilgrims" war going on in this thread, which is only a tip of a ginormous iceberg.

That is why Nigeria is going to be in a $hithole for a long time. Getting everyone to come together, irrespective of tribe or religion, to fight the stench is going to be nigh impossible.

Magic Bishop:

And you are a f00l to think that Islam tolerates you as a black man.

The last black slave was sold openly in Mecca in the 60's. It was considered goodluck to purchase a slave in mecca when carrying out hajj.

Your prophet bought, sold and kept blacks as slaves and openly condemned africans

seankay: If only we(Nigerians) could see beyond Religion and ethnic intolerance than we would realise dat only a few enjoys what is meant 4 d majority.If we don't support our bad leaders cos we are of d same religion or ethnic,we criticise and tell em d truth always den dis country we be on a fastlane of development.
APC can't bring d change needed,likewise d very corrupt PDP,they are all d same set of people only out there 2 enrich dere pockets by looting wat is meant 4 d development of our dear country.


We need a change,we are tired of dem,dey are d same set of clueless cabals and dey ve been ruling since 1960!

Metallurgist: internet crusader with little sense, check xtainity history(for 9ja xtain ar newcomers) muslims hav rule for over a thousand years in jerusalem and hav allow both jews and xtains to live, do businesses and performed their religious rights without persecution, then tell me who is the intorant worshiper amongs us, beside for the clueless gup to went to pilgrim as an incubent speaks volumes in his insensitivity to others rights, hav it being a muslim incubent president,CAN would hav said he want to make islam the official religion, and one more thing what the difference bwn the idol of mary and jesus to the idol of ogun, zeus, budha, or hindu, .......IDOL WORSHIPERS

litetias: Plane crash where art thou. Reach out thy hold over these lazy charlatans who lord it over the poor ones.

Magic Bishop:

alas, a bokoville arrives.

Before your stone worshiping pilgrimage began, Christians have been going on pilgrimage to the holy land.

You are not used to the idea afterall, this is the first christian president to embark on such a trip.

Why is it an issue for you intolerant stone worshipers?

Magic Bishop: Christain Pilgrims Vs Kabah Pilgrims

litetias: Plane crash where art thou. Reach out thy hold over these lazy charlatans who lord it over the poor ones.

GentleMimi:
be careful how u wish people evil. No matter what they've done,never make such hateful declaration. God is the best judge to inflict punishment

misterh: Inasmuch as i don't like engaging in religious arguments, i can't stand misinformation being spread. Give me proofs of your assertion. Islam does not discriminate against people based on skin colour. Give me evidence that the prophet bought and kept slaves. Don't let us derail this thread, abeg.

tintingz: Can you show me where Prophet Mohammed sold and kept blacks as slaves... You must be high on something

One of the followers of the prophet(sa) was a black man "Bilal" prophet Mohammed bought him from his master and gave him his freedom.

Next time give prove of what you are posting before you post rubbish.

Kingspin:


Brainwash sample. Islam is a newcomer and Christianity have existed over 6000 years ago before Islam photocopied wrongly , no wonder Prophet Muhammad told his fellows not to call him JESUS.

]Pls you guys should show the world the picture of Prophet muhammad first while he was on earth, why hiding it.

And what peaceful co-existence are you talking about the one of jihad or by your bokoharam brothers. A religion that point gun at people to convert to Islam. Jihad or bokoharam, Talibans etc are branches of Islam. A religion that at war with western education pls keep that religion in your house.

I wonder, what and how the world would have look like if it an Islam world maybe people and the world will be without light bulb till date and still move around unclad. I belt you Muhammad would have adjusted in todays reality if it happens he's still alive.

Moderate Muslims came to be cos of education tell others to try it. Moon/Blood Worshiper. You guys exist in the past.

kennyamusan: May I use this medium to inform some of my unlearned collegues here that going by the antecedent of things happening in Nigeria now,it is no far fetch that the political sector is heated up.I wonder what the problem is with Nigerians,the mere mention of any religious activity is seen as an act of holiness ,Nigerians claim holier than thou habit and this is one of the major distubance we have.During the previous Holy Ghost conf of the RCCG,he went kneeling down for prayer,this generates lot of sentiment both home and abroad,recently he commissioned a power project,rescused victims on the highway,but if I may ask what has he done about Boko haram in the last one year,what jobs has the FG created in the past 2 years,our Almight ICPC and EFCC are broke for the past one year,ASUU is on strike cause his children are not in Nigeria,stella bought 255m dollars bullet proof cars,Nitel workers are groaning,children are dying,youth are helpless yet he wants to give us the impression that religious sentiment would win us over.I am not moved as you can never tell a blind man that it is rainy,all this is geared up towards 2015 election but I weep for Nigeria,I weep for my country cos Nigerian are foolish,My people are destroyed cos of lack of wisdom,knowledge and COMMON SENSE which many claim to have but lack internally,I don't like his way of life but I love his song,fela has said it all.A true prophet wld never visited any Holy land but knows the intricases of life(u are entitled to ur opinion).Let's face it, we need actions and not fashion.if he likes let him go 2 mecca as well.Faith is justified by work and not mouth or travelling,Llet him go there and see how true leaders are ruling their country as brave men and not as chicken.shikena

quality01: Another waste of national scarce resources. God we really need 'an act of God' according to stella oduah to occur as they travel.

Magic Bishop: Christain Pilgrims Vs Kabah Pilgrims

Magic Bishop:

alas, a bokoville arrives.

Before your stone worshiping pilgrimage began, Christians have been going on pilgrimage to the holy land.

You are not used to the idea afterall, this is the first christian president to embark on such a trip.

Why is it an issue for you intolerant stone worshipers?

kennyamusan: May I use this medium to inform some of my unlearned collegues here that going by the antecedent of things happening in Nigeria now,it is no far fetch that the political sector is heated up.I wonder what the problem is with Nigerians,the mere mention of any religious activity is seen as an act of holiness ,Nigerians claim holier than thou habit and this is one of the major distubance we have.During the previous Holy Ghost conf of the RCCG,he went kneeling down for prayer,this generates lot of sentiment both home and abroad,recently he commissioned a power project,rescused victims on the highway,but if I may ask what has he done about Boko haram in the last one year,what jobs has the FG created in the past 2 years,our Almight ICPC and EFCC are broke for the past one year,ASUU is on strike cause his children are not in Nigeria,stella bought 255m dollars bullet proof cars,Nitel workers are groaning,children are dying,youth are helpless yet he wants to give us the impression that religious sentiment would win us over.I am not moved as you can never tell a blind man that it is rainy,all this is geared up towards 2015 election but I weep for Nigeria,I weep for my country cos Nigerian are foolish,My people are destroyed cos of lack of wisdom,knowledge and COMMON SENSE which many claim to have but lack internally,I don't like his way of life but I love his song,fela has said it all.A true prophet wld never visited any Holy land but knows the intricases of life(u are entitled to ur opinion).Let's face it, we need actions and not fashion.if he likes let him go 2 mecca as well.Faith is justified by work and not mouth or travelling,Llet him go there and see how true leaders are ruling their country as brave men and not as chicken.shikena

1025: why 19 govs only?
i expect him to leave with at least 31.
the total cost of this move can take care of ASUU demands.
if they like, let them enter the moon, it does not change their wicked ways and heaven will reward them not because they were in isreal rather according to the works of their hands.

Magic Bishop:



Far more Africans were swallowed up in the fourteen hundred years of Islamic slave trading than in the three centuries of European practice. An estimated 17 to 20 million Africans were exported from their native land to the Muslim world, but this isn't the whole story. With a transport survival rate of less than 1 in 3, Dr. John Alembellah Azumah estimates that perhaps 50 to 80 million more died in route.

Here is a quote from an observer in Zanzibar that sheds light on the harsh conditions of Islamic slavery:

"As they filed past, we noticed many chained together by the neck... The women, who were as numerous as the men, carried babies on their backs in addition to a tusk of ivory or other burden on their heads... It is difficult to adequately describe the filthy state of their bodies; in many instances not only scarred by [the whip], but feet and shoulders were a mass of open sores... half-starved ill-treated creatures who, weary and friendless must have longed for death."

The text (quoted from Dr. Azumah's The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa) goes on to describe the fate of those who became too ill or too weak to continue the journey - as related by a Muslim "herdsman":

"Spear them at once! For, if we did not, others would pretend they are ill in order to avoid carrying their loads. No! We never leave them alive on the road; they all know this custom."

When asked who carries the ivory when a mother gets too tired to carry both her baby and the ivory, the herdsman replied, "She does! We cannot leave valuable ivory on the road. We spear the child and make her burden lighter."

After Muhammad's companions overthrew the Christians in Egypt shortly after his death, they began demanding slaves from the Nubians to the south. For over 600 years, the black African kingdom was forced to send a tribute of slaves to Cairo on a regular basis.

According to the Quran itself, blackness is a product of being too close to where the sun sets and rises (Muhammad thought that the earth flat and the Africans lived along the edge). Islamic scholar Ibn Qutaybah described black people as "ugly and misshapen because they live in a hot country where the heat overcooks them in the womb and curls their hair."

Again quoting from The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa, Dr. Azumah provides several examples of Islam's early attitude toward blackness:

The hadith in which an Ethiopian woman laments her racial inferiority to Muhammad, who consoles her by saying, "In Paradise, the whiteness of the Ethiopian will be seen over the stretch of a thousand years."


The Muslim Arab and Persian literature which depicts blacks as "stupid, untruthful, vicious, sexually unbridled, ugly and distorted, excessively merry and easily affected by music and drink."


Nasir al-Din Tusi, the famous Muslim scholar said of blacks: "The ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro."


Ibn Khaldun, an early Muslim thinker, writes that blacks are "only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings." He also insisted that "the only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage." (In truth, over 500,000 Africans in Basra overthrew their Arab-Islamic masters in the largest slave uprising in history in what is known as the Zanj Rebellion).


Classical Islamic law allows a light-skinned Muslim man to marry a black woman, but a black Muslim man is restricted from marrying a light-skinned woman. As the literature of the time put it, "only a LovePeddler prefers blacks; the good woman will welcome death rather than being touched by a black man."


Another hadith quotes Muhammad: "Do not bring black into your pedigree."

kennyamusan: I am beginning to suspect our president,first,it was his wife with the peace house(I wonder if she knows the meaning of that,cause she won't want to be reminded of Amaechi's fight),then,National Confab,now Pilgrimage to the holy land,I wonder what next cause am sure,this certainly is not the end but just the beginning.