Pukkah:

The ease with which many Nigeriansmuslims go for violence is worrisome. The pastor should not have been beaten. Afterall, he didn't attack them.

Pukkah:

The ease with which many Nigerians go for violence is worrisome. The pastor should not have been beaten. Afterall, he didn't attack them.

edo.girl:

what the attackers did was clearly excessive and deplorable. that said, i dont understand people's intolerance of on-road worshippers. i assume this happens once a week, and only for a couple of hrs or so at most. it's nothing more than a minor inconvenience. simply turn back and use alternate roads. people getting totally worked up & telling the rest of us how such things can't happen in new york, london or timbuktu, is meaningless. our cultures and way of life are different. the suggestion that praying on the road is barbaric is uninformed. thankfully, on-road praying is still uncommon. where/when it happens, our tolerant side should accommodate the resulting inconvenience and move on.

edo.girl:

what the attackers did was clearly excessive and deplorable. that said, i dont understand people's intolerance of on-road worshippers. i assume this happens once a week, and only for a couple of hrs or so at most. it's nothing more than a minor inconvenience. simply turn back and use alternate roads. people getting totally worked up & telling the rest of us how such things can't happen in new york, london or timbuktu, is meaningless. our cultures and way of life are different. the suggestion that praying on the road is barbaric is uninformed. thankfully, on-road praying is still uncommon. where/when it happens, our tolerant side should accommodate the resulting inconvenience and move on.

9jaganja:

ummm I know the worst case is still the redeem church's camp ground =. tho not on the road, it really causes a mess for the road still,  The pastor was insensitive simple,  It was an islamic festival not like they do it everyday geez,

He deserves the beating, 

Please I don't want to here non of you "Americans" saying "in the US",  Please please,   Please during parades etc,  roads are blocked too,  Notting Hill carnival in the UK is same,  Caribana in Toronto, is same, it goes on,  So please don't display your ignorance here

asha 80:

you are comparing yearly rituals to weekly ones?

9jaganja:

Sectarian violence almost erupted at Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja on Sunday when one Pastor Ernest Onyems of the Shore House Church narrowly escaped being lynched by Muslim youths who were offended by his comments over the use of a road as praying ground for the Sallah celebration.

Please when did Sallah turn to a weekly thing

Another "American" ,

asha 80:

blocking of roads during specific days of the week for prayers whether friday or not.

9jaganja:

And churches don't make the worst noises during night vigil? or on Sundays?

Now I used the above example because the victim of his own insensitivity is a pastor.

Have you been to barking market? Umm a better example is Premier league matches which sometimes demands the closing of roads in big matches,

Look, you have no argument here, the pastor was insensitive or just being a hater,  No where in the article did it say every week it said sallah celebration and that ain't every week,

He deserves the beating,

asha 80:

blocking of roads during specific days of the week for prayers whether[b] friday or not.[/b]

asha 80:


you are actually arguing with yourself here.

i said

what makes you think i meant only moslems with that comment 

my main grouse is that you are comparing festivals like nothing hill carnival(annual event) to worship days (weekly affair)  with respect to obvious inconveniences.


sallah might just be the final nail to the pastors mind but if you know abuja well fridays there are almost always like that.

9jaganja:

And no where did it say they do it every week, And your first reply to my first comment obviously gave out your stand. Sallah is a yearly event so comparing it to another yearly event in this context is not logically flawed ok?

How did you know sallah was the blah blah that pissed the pastor off? Was that said in the article? or was it a supporting logic for your vague stand?

Seriously you have no point so pleaseee go away

9jaganja:

  Please please,   Please during parades etc,  roads are blocked too,  Notting Hill carnival in the UK is same,  Caribana in Toronto, is same, it goes on,  So please don't display your ignorance here

ekt_bear:

Don't you need a permit for all of these things? Randomly blocking the road without getting a permit from the city and paying a fee would probably get me jailed. . .

ekt_bear:

There is a difference, even though the end result is the same. One is legal, the other is not. And that matters.

I am almost 100% certain that whoever throws the new year's eve ball in NYC gets a permit first.

Majority of northerners may be Muslim, but Abuja is not necessarily majority Muslim. For all we know there are more Christians there, tbh.

Majority or not, you cannot flout the law and inconvenience even a minority.