Again have your say!
RE: Some people are gay…. Aisha –greetings from a British old timer who was in Nigeria before you were born! A miner among other ventures, and in spite of the man made problems is still here; mostly based in Jos Plateau. I appreciated very much your article of Saturday 6th July with a photograph of […]
RE: Some people are gay….
Aisha –greetings from a British old timer who was in Nigeria before you were born! A miner among other ventures, and in spite of the man made problems is still here; mostly based in Jos Plateau. I appreciated very much your article of Saturday 6th July with a photograph of London bus not because I am one of those: 4children, two born in Jos Plateau and many lady friends past and present confirm my status. Like yourself I wonder at the present influence these queers, pooftas, arse bandits have in UK, US and Australia, the last once the outpost of traditional masculinity.
Recognizing that these people exist and allowing them to form civil partnerships, if they want to, is a reasonable civilized attitude by any government but allowing them to hold any position of influence in a church or place of prayer is not. And to have a marriage in a church is outrageous and akin to blasphemy. What many of these people need is counselling and psychiatric treatment to reconcile themselves to their unnatural condition and hopefully a cure is possible in many cases as some of them have been lured into this unnatural practice by money from established queers. I know at least one such case by a British teacher and a pottery officer in Nigeria.
Given the nature of politicians seeking votes internationally, it is probably the reason Cameron in UK, Obama in the US and whoever in Australia treat them with such respect! Good writing Aisha – more power to your pen.
Sincerely,
Gerry Staley
RE: Open letter to Muslim women
Firstly, I’d like to say to your publishers as in the bible, physician heal thyself. Your weekly magazine Tambari promotes some of the issues being raised. What is happening to Northern Muslims is an eruption that is slowly coming up. Tambari can be more creative in appealing to the youth and improve sales. Must pictures of poorly clad Muslim girls be encouraged? The media is so powerful. This is what Hollywood, the American government and Co. use to brainwash their people and the world. Use your media power to practice what you preach!
You don’t have to come out hardlined, there are subtle ways. Study the professionals in the west. It starts with the little things.
Secondly, I would advise we all make leaflets (of this letter) and give to as many Muslims as we can. Even non-Muslims can benefit from this.
Ma’assalam, Shala Malani, Abuja.
Re: “Who falsified this hadith?”
All four of my adult daughters are university graduates, two have Masters degrees and soon, I hope, one of my younger sisters would go for her PhD. I share the misgivings about Dr Fatima Mernissi. Morocco has had quite a mixed Middle Eastern population. Brandeis University in Massachusetts in the U S was named after U S Supreme Court Justice Louis B Brandeis. Please endeavour to thoroughly investigate the deep background of Dr Mernissi and the university. Imams Bukhari and Muslim’s collections of Hadiths are accepted as SAHIH because of the rigour with which each hadith had been traced and its authenticity established before inclusion. A woman can play any role she feels comfortable with and achieve the highest esteem, respect and fame. I personally find Michelle Obama as impressive as her husband, but she seems certainly far more serious and genuine. Yet life is not a battle of the sexes. African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries must beware of outside efforts to pitch women against their menfolk and even children against their parents, in order to destabilise our societies.
Amb. Kabiru Ahmed – a retired Foreign Service Officer, Dr Bala Mohammad Road Kano.
Re- Who falsified this hadith?
A very nice piece. Let our Muslim women know that Islam has dignified and honoured them. The issue of political leadership given to men does not make them better than women in the sight of Allah. It is a responsibility that must be accounted for. So they should even thank Allah for sparing them from such a burden. They should also trust Allah, for He will never deprive them of it if there was any good in it for them.
Shehu Umar
Re: Who falsified this hadith?
I read with admiration your piece of the above title just as I have read all your essays under this column. This particular one is exceptional because of the topic you discussed at this point in our country’s political life. I have read some publications on the role of women in politics with respect to Islam and many scholars tried to explain the hadith in question but none was as comprehensive to me as the explanation you put forwad. Now I understand the logic, truly if the men in a society are useless to the extent that it requires their women to abandon thier role as guardians and custodians of the home front to fill the gap created by the failure of the men, then it is unfortunate. Thank you for this insightful edition.
Talib Hamman
RE: Who falsified this hadith?
I read your article who ‘falsified this hadith’ and also read the comment made by Abdullahi Lamido. I just write to correct him about what he said concerning the sahaba ie companions of Prophet Muhammad SAW. The sahaba are human beings, people like us. They are bound to make mistakes because they are not prophets. Only the prophets are purified and cleansed by Almighty Allah from Satan. Therefore he should go and study further about Abubakar.
Jauhara Abubakar
RE: Beloved first daughters
I read your write up, it’s very touching. It’s not easy for a mother to lose her first daughter, it takes time and a lot of patience before both parents return to their normal day to day affairs…May their souls rest in perfect peace and Jannatul Firdaus be their final abode. ameen.
K H Kila
RE: No Oritsejafor, I don’t agree
Reading your column “Another Dimension” of Saturday, March31, 2012 with the above caption was quite intriguing. I was not disappointed because knowing the Trust Newspapers’ columnists for their biased and jaundiced opinions about religious issues, one would have been shocked to read anything contrary. Particularly fascinating is the intrinsic idiocy of points raised in the write up. I am aware of the anti-CAN and anti-Christian agenda of the Media Trust which compels all staff working there, whether Christian or Muslim to toe the Islamic line of thought.
You wrote about southern voices being on the rise against negotiating with the Boko Haram sect “when people are after peace and an end to bloodshed”. And you asked if we must mar our search for peace with regional sentiments. Unfortunately, however, your postulation on this issue cannot be used as a basis to measure if the voices against negotiation with the sect are regional. Your position also pre-supposes that everybody in the north, including Christians on whose behalf the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has been speaking, are Muslims and pro-dialogue. This is a wrong and a quick-fix approach to the measure of support for dialogue with the Boko Haram sect.
To avoid any doubt, Christians in the north are opposed to a dialogue that would negotiate them to be in a Sharia state which is what the Boko Haram is proposing. It is, therefore, not a regional sentiment for Christians in Nigeria to aver that they are against dialogue with the sect. If you acknowledge the fact that southerners’ call on the government not to dialogue with Boko Haram are increasing, that can only mean one thing: the decision to dialogue is unpopular. If you also agree that not all northerners are robots who can be swayed by opinions such as yours, then the truth is that there are northern Muslims who are also opposed to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect, but are merely maintaining silence on account of envisaged attacks from members of the Boko Haram sect and fundamentalist writers like you.
What Pastor Oritsejafor, as the leader of Christians in Nigeria has done, therefore, is to state a fair summation of the opinions of Christians, whether in the south or north. What is wrong with that? Christianity promotes democracy and abhors systems that have now thrown the Arab world into chaos.
Kenny Ashaka is the Special Assistant, Media and Public Affairs to the President of CAN.
Re: No Oritsejafor, I don’t agree
I write in respect of your warped article above titled. It is ok when you disagree with Oritsejafor but commenting on the unfortunate events in Zango Kataf and environs in 1992 smacks of narrow mindedness. Once it has to do with Christians in Southern Kaduna, you tend to present everything Christian/Southern Kaduna as heartless, wicked and a people without the fear of God. It is ok by you to see and refer to everybody as guilty except the Hausa/Fulani Moslem of Southern Kaduna. It is not genocide when Southern Kaduna students are raped and killed in Zaria, but it is genocide when they stand up to defend themselves. The Hausa/Fulani want to be indigenes in Kafanchan or Jos but won’t let even indigenous Christians of Katsina or Zaria to practice their religion freely.
I appreciate the fact that you need to defend your own but you should do that with some decorum.
Be objective and stop this foolish way of setting the stage for a fight. One thing I know: no religion or ethnic group has the monopoly of violence. Until you realise this, keep on with your delusional path.
Musa Luka