Islam for Muslims / Re: An Atheist's Letter To Nigerian Muslims (El Rufai's Tweet Didnt Result In Riots) by vicope: 5:20pm On Jan 30, 2013 |
vedaxcool: Oh dear mazaje, ever so ready not to use his small grey matter in getting to the truth, let me expose you and your lying memri tv, which if you had any respect for the truth u would have atleast wondered how truthful the material you putting forward actually is, like I said earlier greedy northerners like you who hide "your" wealth abroad rather than use it to aid your fellow tribes men in getting a better life, something you should have atleast learn from your white overlords, who attimes think of you as zwerte piete but still use their wealth in making the less privilage ones in their society have something to look out for, I reiterate that riots in the north is the hand work of street urchins who use it as a pretext to loot people property that is why even muslims from other part of the country pay dearly during such riots, the op is plainly garbage and nothing more than the pontification of an individual who tries to give something he dearly lacks and hardly understand
Accusations of bias Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for The Guardian newspaper wrote in a public email debate with Carmon, that his problem with MEMRI was that it "poses as a research institute when it's basically a propaganda operation." [6] Earlier, Whitaker had charged that MEMRI's role was to "further the political agenda of Israel." and that MEMRI's website does not mention Carmon's employment for Israeli intelligence, or Meyrav Wurmser's political stance, which he described as an "extreme brand of Zionism." [4] Carmon responded to this by stating that his employment history is not a secret and was not political, as he served under opposing administrations of the Israeli government and that perhaps the issue was that he was Israeli: "If your complaint is that I am Israeli, then please say so." Carmon also questioned Whitaker's own biases, wondering if Whitaker's is biased in favor of Arabs -as his website on the middle east is named "Al-Bab" ("The Gateway" in Arabic)- stating: "I wonder how you would judge an editor whose website was called "Ha-Sha-ar" ("The Gateway" in Hebrew)?[6] Selectivity Several critics have accused MEMRI of selectivity. They state that MEMRI consistently picks for translation and dissemination the most extreme views, which portray the Arab and Muslim world in a negative light, while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets.[4][30][30][31] [32]Juan Cole, a professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, argues MEMRI has a tendency to "cleverly cherry-pick the vast Arabic press, which serves 300 million people, for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials...On more than one occasion I have seen, say, a bigoted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when I went to the source on the web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance. These latter were not translated."[33] Former head of the CIA's counterintelligence unit, Vincent Cannistraro, said that MEMRI "are selective and act as propagandists for their political point of view, which is the extreme-right of Likud. They simply don't present the whole picture."[34] [35]Laila Lalami, writing in The Nation, states that MEMRI "consistently picks the most violent, hateful rubbish it can find, translates it and distributes it in e-mail newsletters to media and members of Congress in Washington".[30] As a result, critics such as Ken Livingstone state, MEMRI's analyses are "distortion". [36][37] A report by Center for American Progress, titled "Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" lists MEMRI as promoting Islamophobic propaganda in the USA through supplying selective translations that are relied upon by several organisations "to make the case that Islam is inherently violent and promotes extremism."[38] MEMRI argues that they are quoting the government-controlled press and not obscure or extremist publications, a fact their critics acknowledge, according to Marc Perelman."When we quote Al- Ahram in Egypt, it is as if we were quoting The New York Times. We know there are people questioning our work, probably those who have difficulties seeing the truth. But no one can show anything wrong about our translations."[34] Alleged translation inaccuracy See also: Tomorrow's Pioneers# Translation controversy The accuracy of MEMRI's translations are considered "usually accurate" though occasionally disputed and highly selective in what it chooses to translate and in which context it puts things,[39] as in the case of MEMRI's translation of a 2004 Osama bin Laden video, which MEMRI defended.[6][37][40][41][42] Norman Finkelstein, in an interview with the newspaper In Focus compared MEMRI to the "propaganda techniques" of the Nazis.[43] Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, Al Jazeera invited Hani al- Sebai, an Islamist living in Britain, to take part in a discussion on the event. For one segment of the discussion in regard to the victims, MEMRI provided the following translation of al-Sebai's words: the term civilians does not exist in Islamic religious law. Dr Karmi is sitting here, and I am sitting here, and I’m familiar with religious law. There is no such term as civilians in the modern western sense. People are either at war or not.[44] Al-Sebai subsequently claimed that MEMRI had mistranslated his interview, and that among other errors, he had actually said: there is no term in Islamic jurisprudence called civilians. Dr Karmi is here sitting with us, and he's very familiar with the jurisprudence. There are fighters and non-fighters. Islam is against the killing of innocents. The innocent man cannot be killed according to Islam. By leaving out the condemnation of the "killing of innocents" entirely, Mohammed El Oifi writing in Le Monde diplomatique argued that this translation left the implication that civilians (the innocent) are considered a legitimate target.[36] Several British newspapers subsequently used MEMRI's translation to run headlines such as "Islamic radical has praised the suicide bomb attacks on the capital"[45] prompting al-Sebai to demand an apology and take legal action. In his view, MEMRI's translation was also "an incitement to have me arrested by the British authorities."[46]
Story, Story, Stooorrryyyy! Why not address the issues raised from the koran? It is not already stating the obvious. I schooled in Maiduguri and I can tell that what I experienced was beyond street urchins, we have educated muslims who will kill non-muslims at any instance. Muslim students will kill at any provocation, are those one street urchins too. If you complain that the North is poor, are they not receiving budgetary allocation from oil revenue that they do not even contribute to the nation? Is the fault of the christians that one man will marry five wives who will give birth to eight children each? When I saw what the citizens of Niger Delta go through in the creeks, their poverty is worse than that in the north. At least in the north, they plant without fear of oil spillages and pollution. They have massive land for agriculture unlike the creeks in the south-south. The war in mali, yemen, egypt, libya, afghanistan are also caused by street urchins I guess. Mr man, I was once a muslim who converted, I know so much about the Koran and the Bible too. It is only in the Koran you will see a verse telling muslims to slash the necks of infidels. Any muslim who doesn't support violence is not a true muslim (and this is one reason why the northern muslims despise the southern muslims who have choosen to live and cohabit with christians). The problem the southern muslims have is that civilization, education and exposure has affected their way of life, they know the truth about the Koran but they always avoid it for the sake of peace. Islam is the problem of this world. Quote me! 2 Likes |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Top 5 Government Agencies To Work For by vicope: 3:24pm On Jan 30, 2013 |
andre99: @vicope u really know the koko for all this agencies as well, pls which federal ministry does your friend works that makes such a huge amount monthly, I will just like to know so we try hard to push our way there, no one wants to suffer. Your friend is a happy fellow for life. Na pensions o! ![grin](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/grin.png) |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Top 5 Government Agencies To Work For by vicope: 5:18am On Jan 30, 2013 |
In my opinion and based on my experience, I would say it is very difficult to choose a particular group of agencies. Some agencies like CBN, NNPC, FIRS, NIGCOMSAT, NCC pays entry graduates well above 240k, there are also other allowances and bonuses from seminars, trainings and so on. However, some agencies do pay average btw 120k-180k like Customs, Immigrations, NSCDC, SEC, NARSDA, but you can be opportuned to make twenty times ur salary monthly if posted to a 'juicy place' e.g ports and borders for customs, airports, passport offices, borders for immigrations, oil installations for civil defence etc. Another set of agencies like NACA, NOSDRA, NABDA, NASENI, SON, etc pay btw 70-120k monthly. They make extra money from field assesments, trainings and seminars. These sets of agencies gives u all the time in the world. Sometimes some staffs do not show up @ work for 2 consecutive days and there will no problem coz there's virtually no work to do. However, as long as its govt work, you could get lucky anywhere, I know a friend who works in a federal ministry, his monthly take home is less than 58k but he makes over 800k monthly, thanks to the fact that he is in accounts department and they know how to perfect their runz, some people dey NNPC wey no dey see pass their monthly salary and allowances. So it all depends on ur dept, and opportunities open to u. Gbam! 12 Likes 2 Shares |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Top 5 Government Agencies To Work For by vicope: 4:59am On Jan 30, 2013 |
andre99: From what I do know very well, the top 5 gotta be;
PTDF (Petroleum Technology Development Fund) - I still don't know what they do here but the pay is mad, if u work there and u decide to further ur education you take a leave, they will pay for your masters programme.
NOSDRA (National Oil spill Detection and response Agency) - This is another good place, most people that work here I doubt it if they have ever been on a field before, na to just come office talk talk talk
AGIS (Abuja Geographical Information System) - Na them they in charge of all Lands wey dey FCT, if u be coper sef and u dey work here, u fit buy car after 6months, no way u go dey here wey u no go get land to urself, the runs and pay here is crazy.
The MINT (Nigeria Security Printing and Minting) - For here, when u start working here, u go fresh pass MINT money, the workers here no too much and I don't know why GOVT have left it like that, only few people work here.
NCC (Nigeria Communication Commission) - they are the ones wey MTN,Glo and so on they always bribe wey everything still cost, na so so seminar, if na international seminar, there is what they call estacode, u are paid in dollars for the trip, and their salary sef crazy.
Let me stop here they still plenty for abuja, but anything wey fit make you dey work for these places above, you are a made man for life, Job security is 100% and tell me what they do 'NOTHING' God dey o. I swear. U have said it all! I know all these places you have mentioned and you have spoken only the truth. |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: National Oil Spill Detection And Response Agency (NOSDRA) Is Recruiting. by vicope: 3:07pm On Jan 25, 2013 |
They av actually finished their recruitment. It started early december and only people who were shortlisted are collecting their appt letters. |
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NYSC / Batch A 2013 Posting To State Of Choice by vicope: 1:41pm On Jan 25, 2013 |
nHello everyone, For prospective batch A 2013 corp members who will like to be posted to their states of choice should contact me (Victor 08024121239). This is 100% genuine. Only interested ones should call me. No flashing please. Deadline is February 20 2013. |