THE ISLAMAPHOBIC MEDIA (1)
It is against the letter and spirit of Islam to be despondent. The current horrible tide of Islamaphobia and biasness of the media are not new. But we should remember that it is in the very nature of falsehood to vaporize when truth takes its true shape. The very weapons of Islamaphobia shall once again become its tools for returning souls to Allah.
Were pastor Akanji Oluwaseun, Emmanuel and their accomplice who abducted schoolgirls in Ikorodu Muslims, what do you think the headlines will be by now? ‘Boko Haram shifts base to South West’, ‘Muslims Kidnappers at it again’, ‘Ikorodu girls kidnapped by Muslim terrorists’, ‘new tactics of the Muslim terrorist’; etc. Already we have been told he is a fake pastor. Perhaps, we will be properly guided if we can have the list of all fake pastors so that when they kidnap or kill next time, we will not be surprise! Thank God, they are not Muslims.
When one pastor, in Osun state, organized members to attack a church in the regalia of Muslims, he said it was a drama, it went into cooler. When one Christian law student in UI entered the mosque on a Friday to shout Jesus while the faithful were praying it went into the cooler; when a Christian principal flogged a Junior girl 43 strokes, no media deem it fit to give it coverage because it is a Muslim girl!
You will not see any Muslim attacking or attributing the actions of Reverend King, the molester and murderer, who even killed a member of his church to Christianity. There are several other cases by some so called-pastors raping, embezzling, do we say Christianity sends them? No, it is their human propensity that must be condemned by all human beings.
Muslims hate no one as we all have right to our religion by law. But why can’t our so-called counterparts allow peace to reign. When Sani Yerima married one young lady, it was the talk of the town, there are thousands of such happenings where no media is turning search light; when Sanusi Lamido married too it was the talk of the town.
But history has it that King Richard II (1400 AD) married a 7yr old girl, Henry VIII (1500 AD) married a 6yr old, the Catholic Encyclopedia says” Mary the mother of Jesus was 12 when she married 99 old Joseph”; and the Bible says “but save for yourselves every GIRL who has never slept with a man” (Numbers 31:17-18); examples abound but a seasoned historian simply knows that many socio-climatic factors determine marriages across climes and times.
What makes Ese/Yunusa’s case so special? How many of the so-called religionists are its true adherents? A lot of such happen all the time but makes no headlines but because for whatever reason he is a Kano Muslim boy from the Sanusi Lamido’s enclave, the news must go sensational. I ask what exactly is the national gain in hypocritically blowing the issue out of proportion. Thank God, the Muslim scholars have spoken on the issue. It is clearly one of those media manipulations. I am very sure if the boy is from the Eastern or western part, it may not make any news.
One who lives in a glass house should not throw stone at others. A lot of terrible and criminal acts and rituals are being perpetrated by some so-called pastors or church leaders, locally and internationally, we hear, we read, we see on YouTube. People forget that the greatest gift of the global village is information. We read about breast sucking and ritual pastors, etc, and our media are either silent or explain it away as ‘fake pastors, devilish man of God’, etc.
President Buhari’s trip to Saudi Arabia and even entering the Kabah is tilted to mean that he wants to Islamise Nigeria; whereas former president Jonathan’s several trips to Israel was a prayer for the country and no any Christian coloration was attached. Students of history know the strategic divisive role Israel plays in the world; the arms deal during Jonathan cum those involved was never linked with Christianity; were it to happen during Buhari, the media would have captioned as ” Buhari prepares for Jihad buying armament..”.
Let us always treat issues based on their context and condemn evil no matter the perpetrator whether Imam or Reverend, Pope or Sultan, evil is evil, we should make our thorough investigation and research and should not tilt towards injustice. I am afraid that in the near future, if there are no sanctions on this kind of bias reporting, the media may plunge this nation into ethno-religious war. No nation goes into such and come back to normalcy easily.
These attacks, biases will breed nothing but widening of gaps of intolerance. The tide is already changing. An instance is how youths have engaged the Lagos state government on the issue of Hijaab even to the level of Appeal court. These coming youths are more informed and aware of how their fathers suffered in the hands of Christian missionaries when they had to change their names from Rasheed to Richard as an example. Some of them attended public schools where enmity against Islam is not hidden.
It is really high time Muslims returned and lived by the ideals of Islam. They should be consistent in their practice of Islam. The well-to-do and the few politicians should know that Allah will take them to account in the hereafter. One of the greatest services our rich men can render to Islam in the modern times is to invest more on media to enlighten and counter attacks on Islam. Let our Ramadan media patronage be around the year. There may perhaps be the need to boycott media platforms that are acrimonious to Islam.
Adeniyi O.Z. (PhD)
omotopeadeniyi@gmail.com

Rubbish! How many people commit offences and claim they were motivated by the bible? The term Islamophobia is not even correct becos it implies an irrational fear of Islam whereas our fear of Islam is absolutely rational! There is too much violence in your religion that every other religious groups are scared of them. Address us only after you have addrrssed the problems inherent in Islam. No time for political correctness.

Junior66:
Rubbish! How many people commit offences and claim they were motivated by the bible? The term Islamophobia is not even correct becos it implies an irrational fear of Islam whereas our fear of Islam is absolutely rational! There is too much violence in your religion that every other religious groups are scared of them. Address us only after you have addrrssed the problems inherent in Islam. No time for political correctness.

and the old testament is also nt a religion of violence.

SUPERPACK:

and the old testament is also nt a religion of violence.

Anyday any Judaist or christian quotes the old testament or evennNe testament as his/her reason for commiting criminal offence(s) call my attention. Pls why is there no word like Christianophobia, Hinduphobia, Judaiphobia, Bhudophobia? We (non muslims) want to know because it is obviously that it is only Islam that seeks and needs protection from criticism.

Junior66:

Anyday any Judaist or christian quotes the old testament or evennNe testament as his/her reason for commiting criminal offence(s) call my attention. Pls why is there no word like Christianophobia, Hinduphobia, Judaiphobia, Bhudophobia? We (non muslims) want to know because it is obviously that it is only Islam that seeks and needs protection from criticism.

my brother what are u saying at the boldened or is it just ignorance or i dont care attitude?
Christianophobia: deals with the extreme fear of Christians or the Christian faith.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Christian_sentiment
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http://www.allaboutcounseling.com/library/christianophobia/
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/march-web-only/what-christianophobia-looks-like-in-america.html.
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http://www.blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alanjohnson/100239759/why-are-we-so-quiet-about-christianophobia/
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dont jump into ur conclusion without research, the person you are argueing with is your fellow christian, not a religious bigot like you.

Evel lies in man, and not his religion. I wnt u to understand that every man has evil in his heart. People are just oblivious of that. They only need something to catalyse the manifestation of the evil and immorality in them, hence the pastors reasons for acting the way they did.
However, none of them stood up to say they were inspired by the bible or that they were spoken to by the supreme being ordering them to kill, etc in the name of the redeemer, Jesus for 7 virgins or any reward whatsoever.
However, looking at the other side, I wouldn't be subjective, but its an obvious fact that the level of violence in the WORLD today has been from the side of the religious fanatics which I simply term as religious 'lunatics'. Ask any one of them what inspires them to kill or to be violent, they would refer you back to their holy books. Ive at least seen a video clip of a group of men reciting some verses of the holy book before beheading a fellow human kneeling right before them, hands tied, neck clogged and legs also tied.
Furthermore, I find it rather funny for people to keep saying "our religion is a religion of peace"
Really?
Peace?
And yet you drive spears into the necks of peoe of other religions just because they are unbelievers of your religion?
Im a living witness who barely survived the attacks in kano in the year 1999. Op, I would need u to leave your comfort zone, go into the hearts of the North and see what tribulations the Christians are facing.
An example is the locking up of a church and the worshippers therein and burning of the entire church leaving the people to burn in agony, crying and shouting out to their God.
And what were they reciting while burning other people? Allahu Akbar. Indeed.
Please keep this at the back of your mind. And always remember that someone said this
The next world war would fought between the Muslims and the entire world. Its gonna be a religious war where other countries "might" join forces to "defend" themselves from the Muslins. Take note of my quotations

macsilver:
Evel lies in man, and not his religion. I wnt u to understand that every man has evil in his heart. People are just oblivious of that. They only need something to catalyse the manifestation of the evil and immorality in them, hence the pastors reasons for acting the way they did.
However, none of them stood up to say they were inspired by the bible or that they were spoken to by the supreme being ordering them to kill, etc in the name of the redeemer, Jesus for 7 virgins or any reward whatsoever.
However, looking at the other side, I wouldn't be subjective, but its an obvious fact that the level of violence in the WORLD today has been from the side of the religious fanatics which I simply term as religious 'lunatics'. Ask any one of them what inspires them to kill or to be violent, they would refer you back to their holy books. Ive at least seen a video clip of a group of men reciting some verses of the holy book before beheading a fellow human kneeling right before them, hands tied, neck clogged and legs also tied.
Furthermore, I find it rather funny for people to keep saying "our religion is a religion of peace"
Really?
Peace?
And yet you drive spears into the necks of peoe of other religions just because they are unbelievers of your religion?
Im a living witness who barely survived the attacks in kano in the year 1999. Op, I would need u to leave your comfort zone, go into the hearts of the North and see what tribulations the Christians are facing.
An example is the locking up of a church and the worshippers therein and burning of the entire church leaving the people to burn in agony, crying and shouting out to their God.
And what were they reciting while burning other people? Allahu Akbar. Indeed.
Please keep this at the back of your mind. And always remember that someone said this
The next world war would fought between the Muslims and the entire world. Its gonna be a religious war where other countries "might" join forces to "defend" themselves from the Muslins. Take note of my quotations

u also forgot to mention that the christian did the same thing previously when the decided to exterminate the unbelievers. every religion is violent from a certain angle. the violence taking place in the Central African Republic is orchestrated by the christian militia against the muslims. i just believe that one day God will intervene and restore peace.
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Go through the history of HOLY WARS in the world and you will discover that both religion is violent depending on the angle u interprete ur Quran or Bible from.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

macsilver:
Evel lies in man, and not his religion. I wnt u to understand that every man has evil in his heart. People are just oblivious of that. They only need something to catalyse the manifestation of the evil and immorality in them, hence the pastors reasons for acting the way they did.
However, none of them stood up to say they were inspired by the bible or that they were spoken to by the supreme being ordering them to kill, etc in the name of the redeemer, Jesus for 7 virgins or any reward whatsoever.
However, looking at the other side, I wouldn't be subjective, but its an obvious fact that the level of violence in the WORLD today has been from the side of the religious fanatics which I simply term as religious 'lunatics'. Ask any one of them what inspires them to kill or to be violent, they would refer you back to their holy books. Ive at least seen a video clip of a group of men reciting some verses of the holy book before beheading a fellow human kneeling right before them, hands tied, neck clogged and legs also tied.
Furthermore, I find it rather funny for people to keep saying "our religion is a religion of peace"
Really?
Peace?
And yet you drive spears into the necks of peoe of other religions just because they are unbelievers of your religion?
Im a living witness who barely survived the attacks in kano in the year 1999. Op, I would need u to leave your comfort zone, go into the hearts of the North and see what tribulations the Christians are facing.
An example is the locking up of a church and the worshippers therein and burning of the entire church leaving the people to burn in agony, crying and shouting out to their God.
And what were they reciting while burning other people? Allahu Akbar. Indeed.
Please keep this at the back of your mind. And always remember that someone said this
The next world war would fought between the Muslims and the entire world. Its gonna be a religious war where other countries "might" join forces to "defend" themselves from the Muslins. Take note of my quotations

i understand u but believe me prophet Mohammed SAW didn't do any of this and you can get your self an English Quran if u don't understand Arabic. Allah never command us in the holy Quran to shed innocent blood. The people killing aren't doing it for religion. Islam never preach shedding innocent blood. We are peaceful.

SHAMHOOD:

i understand u but believe me prophet Mohammed SAW didn't do any of this and you can get your self an English Quran if u don't understand Arabic. Allah never command us in the holy Quran to shed innocent blood. The people killing aren't doing it for religion. Islam never preach shedding innocent blood. We are peaceful.

Thank you for your maturity in replying my post, I was expecting the usual trolling and all but you u disappointed me. You just succeeded in proving to me that not all Muslims are violent.
However, in reference to my previous post, I would say that I believe that some parts of the holg book asked the muskimsm faithfuls to force the unbelievers to pay some fines, or to kill them. I'll get back to you on the verses later.

SUPERPACK:

u also forgot to mention that [/b]the christian did the same thing previously when the decided to exterminate the unbelievers[b]. every religion is violent from a certain angle. the violence taking place in the Central African Republic is orchestrated by the christian militia against the muslims. i just believe that one day God will intervene and restore peace.
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Go through the history of HOLY WARS in the world and you will discover that both religion is violent depending on the angle u interprete ur Quran or Bible from.
.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

I like the fact that you give references to your points, but I'll need you to be precise on this one.
The previous references you even gave to the comme t before mine was in favour of Christianity because it only talked about the trials and tribulations that Christians go through all over the world.

macsilver:




I like the fact that you give references to your points, but I'll need you to be precise on this one.
The previous references you even gave to the comme t before mine was in favour of Christianity because it only talked about the trials and tribulations that Christians go through all over the world.

i was only trying to correct his assertion that their is nothing like christianophobia. bt i cant understand the question, be more specific.

macsilver:


Thank you for your maturity in replying my post, I was expecting the usual trolling and all but you u disappointed me. You just succeeded in proving to me that not all Muslims are violent.
However, in reference to my previous post, I would say that I believe that some parts of the holg book asked the muskimsm faithfuls to force the unbelievers to pay some fines, or to kill them. I'll get back to you on the verses later.

waiting for the verses