tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52021987393395791862024-03-13T17:01:48.831+00:00nigeriananarchistUnbowed. Unbent. Unbroken.nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-42662799456824316632017-08-18T12:51:00.002+01:002017-08-18T19:04:31.607+01:00My Heart Is Not With Barcelona<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I do not share their sentiments. And I never will. The reason is simple: they have all failed to acknowledge root of these killings - islam. When this glaring fact is brought to their attention, they call it islamophobia and preach tolerance. They say it is the work of "extremists" or "jihadis", and those who follow, literally, the words of the koran, regarded by muslims as the holy and unassailable word of Allah, the "most benevolent and merciful" god of islam and all muslims. Why should they then not follow it to the letter? They are only being true to their faith in doing so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It will be easy to hate muslims and go after any muslim on the streets in retribution for what their fellow adherents have done, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40323929" target="_blank">and this has actually been done</a>, but this would not only be counterproductive, but also illegal, and most certainly inhuman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is time we admit that islam is a problem. A huge one. It is not islamophobia to do so. The quagmire here is how to raise this issue without endangering muslims. But it is one we must confront if we're to start making any impact on this "war against terror". It is a 'war' that will never be won until the enemy is correctly identified and isolated. Until then, we shall continue to live in the very real fear (phobia?) of the next, inexorable, 'terror' incident.</span></div>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-9362592044911399542016-08-26T12:19:00.000+01:002016-08-26T12:19:01.337+01:00Four Year Old Girl Caged By Foster Parents After Being Accused Of Witchcraft<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A four year old girl <a href="http://saharareporters.com/2016/08/25/ondo-police-rescue-4-year-old-girl-caged-parents-%E2%80%98witchcraft%E2%80%99" target="_blank">has been rescued</a> by the Ondo State Police Command of the Nigerian Police in south-west Nigeria following reports that she was being locked away all day in a kiosk by her foster parents. The victim, who at least, it is claimed, goes to school, was always severely beaten with a horsewhip and then forced into the kiosk by her foster mother who is also her aunt. The little girl lost both parents to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her foster mother, who accused her of being a witch, has denied child abuse, and said she only locked her niece in "her small shop" whenever she had to go to work in her farm, but the little girl has spoken to the police about her abuse at the hands of her carer. She also said she could not run away from her abuser because she was scared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is not surprising that the victim has been accused of witchcraft by her carer. Belief in witchcraft is still rife in Nigeria, and the dire economic situation does not help. Since the couple looking after her are obviously poor, and apparently do not have children of their own, it would be easy to blame their poverty and childlessness on their foster child, hence the venting of their frustrations on her. Her foster mother could have easily taken her along with her to the farm. Why lock her in a claustrophobic kiosk all day long, most probably without food, water, and nowhere to relieve herself?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The little girl's decision not to run away from her abuser may have saved her life, as she may have easily been the victim of sexual abuse, or ritual killers. There are so many children in Nigeria suffering even more terrible abuse and neglect simply because those who look after them, including the biological parents of such children, have accused them of being witches, or possessed by demons. This 'diagnosis' is almost always made by a pastor, or the local native/witch doctor who torture their victims into 'confessing' to be witches. Many children have been maimed for life from having their fingers burnt in fires in a bid to extract such confessions, and many have lost their lives. This <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/danish-woman-rescues-child-witch.html" target="_blank">story</a> about a 2 year old Nigerian boy, who was thrown out by his parents for being a witch, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but who was rescued by a Danish woman,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> readily comes to mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigeria's worsening economic woes will only serve to push people further into the abyss of depression and desperation, and little children, such as the hapless little girl above, are just one of countless 'collateral damages'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As soon as I heard about the Belgium bombings on the news yesterday, I immediately said to myself that ISIS was going to take credit for the attacks, which they soon did. Just like after the recent Paris attacks, to which the carnage in Brussels is apparently closely linked, politicians and world leaders have all weighed in with their rhetorics, glaringly ignoring the real problem here: islam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On one hand, one can regard ISIS as a 100 per cent terror organization using islam as a cover for its barbarism, and on the other hand, they can be seen as muslims who are simply following the tenets of their religion. However one looks at it, the culpability of islam cannot be ignored. Even with the argument that ISIS is only exploiting the parts of the koran that approve of their actions, the fact remains that the koran, islam's 'holy' scripture, purportedly written by their god, contains justification for virtually all their actions. Their fellow muslims, who, luckily for us, choose to ignore most of the vilest parts of the koran, have argued themselves sore trying to convince us that these terrorists are not muslims, and that their terrorism is unislamic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bill was of course rejected mainly on religious grounds, with the muslim senators (who are in the majority) saying that it went against the constitutionally recognized sharia law. This was actually the opinion of </span><a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/nigerias-paedophile-senator-facing.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nigeria's peadophile senator, Ahmed Sani Yerima</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, a former governor of Zamfara state, one of Nigeria's most <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/nigerias-misplaced-priorities.html">educationally backward</a> and economically deprived states. He was the first governor to implement sharia law in his state before he was emulated by some other northern Nigerian governors. He is also facing corruption charges. A fellow muslim senator from Borno state, Boko Haram's 'home' state, Ali Ndume, who just a few days ago recommended that Nigerian men should marry more wives, and </span><a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/199980-nigerian-women-lambast-ndume-asking-men-get-wives.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for which he received the fury and vitriol of Nigerian women</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, was also one of those instrumental to shooting down the bill. There was also opposition by some christian senators who quoted verses from the bible in support of their sick stance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigerian women are at the receiving end of numerous atrocities. They are usually blamed and even scorned when they report cases of rape to the police; and in some communities, a woman who has just lost her husband may be forced prove her 'innocence' in her husband's "untimely death" by either sleeping all night in the same room with her husband's corpse, or drinking some of the water used in washing corpse before the final burial rites. There is of course the more familiar discrimination in education and inheritance, and it is an established fact the children in a marriage 'belong' to the man. These children are usually kept by the husband's family in the event of his death regardless of the family's ability to cater for them. Wives whose husbands die intestate are almost always stripped of everything they own by the man's family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This situation has seen marginal improvement in recent years because women are more aware of their legal rights since many of them now get married usually after acquiring tertiary education, as opposed to just after completing primary or secondary education. This slight change is, unfortunately, painfully limited to the southern part of the country since the mainly muslim north is still neck deep in islamic ordure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigeria's senate president, who has a pending corruption case in court, has promised that <a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/200243-gender-equality-bill-will-reintroduced-saraki.html">the bill will be "reintroduced"</a>, noting that Nigeria was operating a democracy. This was the same senate that passed the bill criminalizing homosexual relationships/marriage, and those who "support it", in record time in May 2013, prescribing a 14 year jail term for anyone convicted. The law was then said to </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">be "in line with the people's cultural and religious inclination". This time, they have thrown out a bill seeking to secure the rights and improve the quality of life of women in the Nigerian state. These same senators are witnesses to Nigeria's comatose energy sector, prostrate economy, and astronomical unemployment rate, dire situations they have done absolutely nothing to remedy. Most of Nigeria's 109 senators have either been slammed with corruption charges in the past, or have cases currently in court. They have also refused to look into the corruption that is choking the life out of a once promising country. They are instead only interested in stifling the rights of homosexuals and women.</span></div>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-36874851962676932152016-03-16T17:21:00.001+00:002016-03-16T17:21:42.999+00:00Boko Haram Bombs Yet Another Mosque, May Be Helping Muslims Rethink Their Religion<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earlier today, in Umurari village, five kilometres from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in north east Nigeria, two female suicide bombers detonated bombs in a mosque. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-maiduguri-mosque-bomb-boko-haram-suicide-attack-kills-worshippers-a6933866.html" target="_blank">At least 17 persons were injured, and 22 died</a>. The mosque was attacked at about 5:30am Nigerian time while worshippers were getting together for the morning prayers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/borno-state-muslims-do-not-learn-as-six.html" target="_blank">once suggested</a> that muslims, especially those in the regions where Boko Haram still holds sway, stopped gathering for prayers; not that they were going to ever read that post, or heed my suggestion if they did. Boko Haram claims its mandate is to establish islamic (sharia) law in Nigeria, but since the Nigerian armed forces have intensified their campaign to expunge the terrorists from their strongholds, they have been desperately fighting back. The cowardly attacks on defenceless and vulnerable fellow muslims may just be the tonic needed to make the muslims in these areas rethink their faith. Considering that the majority of those who happen to inhabit the strongholds of the terror group are illiterate, it would be hard to make them see that the same folks who are bombing their mosques are not only terrorists, but also fellow muslims. Local imams and religious leaders and scholars will be quick to pounce on their ignorance to feed them the oft-quoted mantra that those who commit such violence in the name of islam or their god, Allah, are not real muslims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I noted yesterday that the Boko Haram insurgents <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.com/2016/03/killing-for-their-god.html" target="_blank">are in fact following the teachings of the koran to the letter</a> with their senseless and wanton acts of carnage and violence. They are bombing mosques because they want to send a message to the Nigerian state about their intent to enthrone sharia law across the nation. They consider the so called 'moderate' muslims, who label them as 'extremists' not to be true muslims. If you are not for them, then you are against them, and attacking your place of worship, where they are guaranteed many casualties, even if it happens to be a mosque is therefore justifiable and in line with their ultimate goal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Muslims all over the world should begin to realise that they can no longer ignore the numerous edicts in the koran and the hadith calling for the death of infidels and apostates, imposing a tax on non-muslims, and the outright discrimination against women. Those who commit terrible atrocities in the name of the muslim god do so because it is explicitly outlined in the koran. Many muslims find the koran disturbing, but leaving the religion may mean losing one's life, and for many, they would rather don the toga of deceit and call themselves (moderate or conservative) muslims, than risk losing their social standing, livelihoods, privileges and even lives.</span></div>
nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-54980891286718749802016-03-15T20:54:00.001+00:002016-03-15T20:54:25.960+00:00Killing For Their God<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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insurgents started their onslaught on the Nigerian state and peoples in 2009,
every single act of carnage they have carried out has always left me asking the
same question: “Which god will approve of this in its name?” Members of
the terror group claim they are killing in the name of Allah, their god, and
that this god asked them to do so, in order to establish its laws in place of those of
the Nigerian state; so they continue to kidnap, maim, and murder their fellow
human beings en masse at the behest of this god. These same terrorists are also
willing to die, or so they claim, for this god (although several videos have
shown them running for dear life when the guns of Nigeria’s armed forces are
turned on them) and they call it martyrdom, which has its rewards in paradise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Killings in the name of
religion or a deity, is about as old as religion itself. The bible and the
koran expressly approve the killing of apostates. While I have wondered why
these terrorists are able to kill for their religion and their god, I have also
often wondered if I could take the life of another human being. I did not have to think long and hard to come up with an answer.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> If I determined that someone wanted to kill my child at all
costs, and this left me with the choice of having to live with the death of
either my child or the would be killer, I would rather live with the fact that
I killed someone in defence of my child’s life. In this case, the need to protect my child would have superseded the fact that I consider human life to be sacred. It would be quite difficult to find that person who also would not kill another in self defence, or more appropriately, to save their own life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those, including the Boko
Haram terrorists, who claim to kill for their god or in its name, cannot, in my
opinion, be grouped into the above categories. I only wanted to establish that
even the best of us, all compassion, decorum, and morality be damned, could be
pushed to do that which we abhor under certain circumstances. Boko Haram
members, and their ilk all over the world, kill because this is what they have
been asked to do by the koran which they claim contains the actual words of
their god in writing. These words were not written by 'divinely' inspired
writers like the bible was; they were written by this god itself, hence the
sanctity accorded to the injunction to kill in its name. It can be clearly seen
that the reason Boko Haram insurgents have continued to kill innocent Nigerians is because
they believe it is right to do so; they have been mandated to do so, and they
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being’s life may never be justifiable and in some cases, it is inevitable, but when a group of persons
kill others just because they have been asked to do so by a book purportedly
written by some deity, then that belief system has to be thoroughly examined.
There are at least 1.6 billion muslims in the world, and the koran is the basis
of their belief. We are indeed lucky that a great majority of these muslims
have chosen to cherry-pick their ‘holy book’ and spared the world total chaos.
This group calls themselves "conservative" or "moderate" muslims. This is
nonsense as far as I am concerned. They read the same koran that their "extremist" brethren read, and any talk of a misinterpretation of their
scriptures by the latter group is an attempt to cover up the fact that they
find much of their scripture disturbing, but are unable to do anything about
it. Hiding under any label that tries to obscure the fact that those who
actually do exactly what the koran says are in fact true muslims will only
show that 'moderate' muslims are in fact hypocrites. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They do not follow their 'holy' book, which
they claim contains the divine words of their god, to the letter; and then they
condemn those who do, and try to dissociate themselves from those we should
consider the true followers of islam, for their strict adherence to the koran. It is the same thing Christians do when they are pointed towards
the barbarisms embedded in the old testament of the bible. They are quick to
jump in to say that "it is the old testament" and the 'old ways', something
Jesus came to rectify in the new testament, but these same people quickly point
to the exploits of their god in the lives of numerous old testament characters,
especially its kings and prophets.</span></span></div>
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based terror groups around the world are doing exactly what the koran asked
them to do. Usman dan Fodio spread islam, across what is northern Nigeria
today, with the blade of his sword and the blood of innocent men, women, and
children. He was carrying out the work of his god as outlined in the koran.
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-83640709552504702712016-03-09T18:21:00.000+00:002016-03-09T22:36:19.700+00:00Family Of Nigeria's Late Minister Of Labour Blames Death On Diabolical Forces<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I am not in a position to ascertain the extent of Mrs Ocholi's injuries, to which she eventually succumbed, she would at least have had a fighting chance in a more decent society; one in which human life is considered invaluable. Most government hospitals and primary healthcare centres are poorly staffed and do not have the facilities to handle emergencies and more complex medical problems. Mrs Ocholi would have required an x-ray to check for fractures or a CT scan for head injuries, but these, especially the latter, are a rare luxury in many hospitals. Even where they are available, they are out of the reach of the average Nigerian who can barely afford the basics of food, clothing, and shelter. At least 70 per cent of Nigerians live below the poverty line. I am also quite certain that she was taken to hospital by the occupants of a second car which was travelling behind the car occupied by the Ocholis, because there would have been no emergency services available. The fact that those who extricated her from the badly damaged SUV probably had no medical training or rudimentary knowledge about how to handle such a delicate situation may have aggravated her injuries, and even contributed to her demise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are thousands of Nigerian medical personnel in Europe and North America; experts in their various fields and who are contributing excellent and world class healthcare services to the citizens of these countries whose leaders know what it means to run a country. Those entrusted with our common patrimony, chiefly derived from the oil that is abundant in the bowels of the Niger Delta, are only adroit at devising ways to steal as much money as they can. Many of these men and women in power enjoy the best healthcare in the world paid for by the oil money that is supposed to be judiciously employed to provide the same world class healthcare right in their own backyards. As well as quality roads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr Ocholi resumed office about five months ago, and so the car he was riding in was about that old. It would of course have been a brand new car, with at least a three-year warranty. But on Nigerian roads, I doubt if this warranty would hold up, because the state of the roads would certainly ensure the car would be in much worse shape than the manufacturer would expect it to be after three years. I remember Peugeot cars, which used to be assembled in Nigeria in the 80's, carrying a sticker which read 'BUILT FOR NIGERIAN ROADS'. The Nigerian leadership who must have commissioned that assembling plant with so much fanfare (the plant has since gone bust) must have missed the sarcasm in the phrase. They would have assumed the French car maker was talking about building strong cars. One thing I have always had at the back of my mind as a driver (I got my licence in Nigeria at 15 after my driving instructor had bribed an official on my behalf) was to always monitor the state of my tyres, including tyre pressure. He stressed the importance of good tyres to driving, something that has stayed with ever since. Mr Ocholi's driver may have neglected this very important factor, which may have contributed to the puncture, while at top speed, of one of the rear tyres - the cause of the accident. Punctured tyres are a common cause of accidents in Nigeria, and this is due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to very old tyres with lower than the minimum thread depths, incorrect tyre pressure, and wrongly fitted tyres. The poor state of the roads, may have also contributed to the damage to the offending tyre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cars on Nigerian roads are issued a 'certificate of road worthiness' on registration. Please bear in mind that more than half of the cars on Nigerian roads are used cars imported mainly from the USA and Germany. The 'certificate' is for life, as no other routine maintenance is required, unlike the rigorous annual checks required for cars after a certain age, in saner climes, even if the manufacturer's warranty is still in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am deeply saddened at the demise of the Ocholis, but many Nigerians may find it difficult to feel sorry for them because it is those like him who have created the Nigeria we are all living (and dying) in today. Nigerian leaders surround themselves with sycophants who daily sing their praises and shower them with encomiums. These thieving leaders, at every level of government, are extolled for even the most insignificant actions, and the parochial sycophants that make up their milieu even go as far as taking their praise singing to the pages of newspapers, and on radio and television. These sycophants only succeed in separating the leaders from the reality faced by the people, which is why successive presidents and state governors have continued to read prepared speeches about how they have improved the life of the average Nigerian. They really do not know better. That is leadership Nigerian style, and from time to time, like today, they get to feel the pinch we feel every second of the miserable existence to which they have condemned us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can still clearly remember a crusade Mr Ezeugo organized in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state about 10 years ago. The publicity flyers stated that he was storming the city to root out all blood related diseases. I do not know anyone who attended, but I am certain that the venue must have been jam-packed with miracle seekers. This is certainly the end of the road for Mr Ezeugo; he will not be praying his way out of this one.</span></div>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-46512872608599636072016-02-26T12:50:00.002+00:002016-02-26T12:50:47.041+00:00Nigerian Military Rescues 1890 Persons In A Fortnight, Still No Signs Of The Chibok Girls<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Nigerian Army has confirmed <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/2016/02/26/nigerian-military-rescues-1890-persons-from-boko-haram/" target="_blank">the rescue of at least 1890 persons</a>, in the last two weeks, since it began a new offensive against the Boko Haram insurgents. Yet, there is no word that the Chibok girls, or at least some of them, are among those rescued.<a name='more'></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Buhari and General Buratai, Nigeria's army chief, <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/nigerias-army-chief-promises-to-rescue.html" target="_blank">have recently promised</a> to bring back the Chibok girls from their abductors, and I have continued to maintain that they are both lying through their teeth. What is it that both men stand to gain from their lies? Why is it so hard for them to admit to the families of these girls and the world that the Nigerian government has failed these girls? Buhari was not the president when they were abducted from their dormitories, and General Buratai was not the Chief Of Army Staff then, and they are both aware that it took the government of former president Goodluck Jonathan all of two weeks to even acknowledge the kidnap of these girls. Why are they therefore so bent on taking the glory for the rescue of these girls when those who should have properly managed the situation then did not do their jobs? I may not be privy to the intelligence that they may (or may not) have on the alleged location and condition of these girls, but I am very certain that they are lying each time they remind us of their promise to rescue the Chibok girls, and they know it. It is this knowledge that they are deliberately lying to the nation and the parents of these girls that is particularly egregious. It is perhaps too late now to admit that those girls will never be reunited with their families, and so they have to continue to maintain the lies. But time will out them for this unforgivable treachery. They have boxed themselves into a very tight corner, and I am waiting to see how they intend to wiggle their way out of this one. They may be relying on the very short memory of Nigerians, or for some other catastrophe to overshadow this one, but not everyone will forget. Particularly the families. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One cannot even begin to imagine the harrowing nightmares that these families have been put through. I have experienced my own share of tragedies, but this is one that I would not wish upon my enemies, yet, Buhari and Buratai continue to give them false hope with their wicked lies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am particularly very disappointed at president Buhari's crass insensitivity to the plight of the families of the Chibok girl. For someone who became president after the fourth attempt at the polls, he has quickly forgotten the negative feelings engendered by his three previous defeats at those polls. Those feelings should at least give him an idea of what these families are going through, but since he has finally become president, all is forgotten. That is certainly not a presidential quality, and is reminiscent of former president Olusegun Obasanjo, who became president 1999 shortly after his release from Nigeria's inhumane prison system. He had promised during his campaign to make the squalid conditions he faced in prison fit for humans, but he quickly forgot his travails in prison while he was there, as soon he became president. Nigeria's prisons are still unfit to raise animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Buhari, a former army chief himself, should show some military balls, and human empathy and tell the world the truth about the Chibok girls. He simply cannot continue to tell us that he can rescue them when he knows he cannot.</span></div>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-77343841067204363522016-02-25T12:40:00.000+00:002016-02-25T12:40:54.066+00:00Nigeria's Army Chief Promises To Rescue Chibok Girls<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-56603198195729669432016-02-24T21:56:00.000+00:002016-02-24T21:56:41.138+00:00Nigeria's President Goes To Saudi Arabia To Pray For The Country<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Mohammadu Buhari of Nigeria, in the midst of a myriad of crises bedevilling the country, has seen it fit to jet out to Medina, Saudi Arabia, for the lesser hajj or umrah, <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/photos-buhari-arrives-medinah-to-pray-for-nigeria/" target="_blank">where he will pray for the country</a>. He had, less than 10 weeks into his presidency last year, <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/nigerias-cleric-president.html" target="_blank">recommended the introduction of two new books into the curriculum</a> of all Federal Government Colleges across the country, an action he said was necessitated by the declining moral and religious values in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigeria is battling dire crises on several fronts: there is the Boko Haram insurgency, an economy in tatters, a nosediving currency, an unacceptably high unemployment rate, restive youths in the Niger Delta where the oil, which accounts for at least 80 per cent of Nigeria's income, is located, and which has lost over 70 per cent of its value since it peaked at over $130 per barrel in 2012. But Mr President, who in less than nine months of being in office has spent almost as much time in Nigeria as he has junketing, sees prayers to the muslim god as the solution to his country's problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He of course took a retinue of party loyalists on the journey to the home of (sunni) islam including the governor of Borno state, where Boko Haram terrorists continue to kill and maim innocent citizens. I would offer advice, but let me not waste space, because even if president Buhari were to personally read this, it would not stop him from praying for the nation, and believing in the efficacy of his prayers to actually solve the country's seemingly intractable problems. But I would say this: great countries are not prayed into being; they are a product of plentiful blood, sweat and back breaking hard work, and the willingness to put these in, I must add. No country has ever, and will ever, pray its way to greatness.</span><br />
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-56222821557719328742016-02-22T16:47:00.000+00:002016-02-23T21:29:34.817+00:00Leadership Of Christian Association Of Nigeria Jittery Over Nigeria's Muslim President's Alleged Plans To Foist New Hands At Their Helm<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Christian Association of Nigeria's, CAN, leadership is in <a href="http://www.thetrentonline.com/can-election-oritsejafor-quits-in-july-as-buhari-apc-plot-to-install-northern-president/" target="_blank">panic mode</a> over allegations that Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari is perfecting plans to sponsor a candidate loyal to him for their elections coming up in July. The current president of CAN is pastor Ayo Oristejafor, a wily prosperity preacher from the oil city of Warri, who benefitted immensely from former president Jonathan's insanely corrupt government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mr Oristejafor</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> has a private jet to show for his lucrative relationship with the former president, the same jet that was leased from him and used to smuggle $9.3 million in cash to South Africa, and when the South African authorities nabbed the money launderers, former president Jonathan personally stepped in to say that the money was meant for the purchase of arms to be used in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents. Mr Oristejafor denied any knowledge of the purpose for which his jet was leased, claiming he simply leased the jet to a client and was not in control of whatever the lessee wanted to use it for. Nigeria's former National Security Adviser under ex-president Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army, is currently in court <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34973872" target="_blank">facing corruption charges over how he distributed another $2.1 billion</a>, supposedly meant for arms to fight Boko Haram, </span><span style="font-family: "\22 trebuchet ms\22 " , sans-serif;">among members of Nigeria's then ruling political party, the People's Democratic Party, PDP.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The leadership of CAN have vowed to resist president Buhari's alleged intention to foist his candidate on the association during the next elections. They intend to do this "in the name of Jesus in whose presence "every knee </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">must bow</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">". Their excuse is that whoever president Buhari, a muslim, installs, would avoid any "violent criticism" of his government. How typically hypocritical! These same people shut their mouths and stuffed their pockets with lucre from the nation's treasury when Jonathan was president, and not even one of them raised a voice in criticism of the massive corruption that was going on all around them. They have all of a sudden become a bulwark against the corruption of elected officials.</span></span><br />
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are genuinely afraid (and they should be) that they will lose their influence
in CAN, and the concomitant political connections they have enjoyed for
nearly half a dozen years. The catholic church </span><a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/116774-why-we-pulled-out-of-can-catholic-bishops.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #420178;">withdrew its membership of CAN</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in January
2014 citing the involvement of its leadership in partisan politics which was
contrary to the association's ethos. Why are Mr Oristejafor and his fellow
quislings so afraid of a change in leadership in CAN? Is he afraid that he will
no longer be able to maintain his private jet? He can continue to lease
it out to money launderers. Perhaps they are afraid that the full extent of their
corrupt activities will be exposed for Nigerians to see. Whatever the
reason, it is as clear as day that these 'men of God' are actually fearful of
the increasingly real prospect of going into political oblivion. But July is
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-37934928344010390392016-02-19T08:07:00.000+00:002016-02-19T08:07:08.780+00:00Murder Trial Of TB Joshua Stalled Again<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The course of the trial is <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/trial-of-prophet-tb-joshua-and-his.html" target="_blank">not at all surprising</a> to me as I had known all along that it was going to be this way. None of the relatives of the mainly South African citizens who died when the building collapsed have come forward to demand justice or at least talk about the needeless deaths of their loved ones as a result of Mr Joshua's and the engineers' carelessness and callousness. They have simply buried their dead and moved on. They dare not question a 'man of God'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nearly three weeks ago, the picture above was circulating around social media, but it was just a few days ago that the story was picked up by the British press. The child in the picture is being fed by a Danish woman who lives in Africa, Anja Ringgren Loven, founder of African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation. She later took Hope, that is the boy's name, to hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope, who is two, had been thrown out by his parents for being a witch and was left to fend for himself; a prime candidate for ritual killers or some sick sexual predator, barring which he would just starve to death. And the community where he may have been wandering for days was populated by christians (who all believed he was a witch) and had a government. The former governor of the state, Goodwill Akpabio, who is now a senator of the federal republic, was involved in many corruption scandals during his tenure as governor. Just before leaving office, he gave himself juicy allowances for life as ex-governor which included a luxury home, healthcare paid for by the state for life, and changing his cars every three years or so. He even owned a private jet paid for by the state while he was governor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most children are abandoned or left to fend for themselves by their parents or carers mainly because the means to look after these children are not there. But to abandon a child as young as two to the elements and all sorts of dangers because that child has been labelled a witch by a woman who is apparently mad is most harrowing. That Mrs Ukpabio has continued to spread her deadly delusions across southern Nigeria is an indictment of the governments of Akwa Ibom state, neighbouring Cross Rivers state where her church is based, and the Nigerian government. She was deported and banned from entering the UK in April of 2014 when the British press exposed her witch hunting mission to the country. When will the Nigerian leadership grow some balls and prosecute this wicked witch for grievous bodily harm to, and possible murder of children?</span></div>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-1192773697223148232016-02-17T08:36:00.000+00:002016-02-17T08:36:52.385+00:00Convicted Muslim Paedophile Fighting To Keep British Citizenship<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shamir Ahmed, 63, nicknamed 'daddy' is currently <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3449760/Rochdale-child-sex-grooming-gang-ringleader-convicted-30-rapes-uses-European-human-rights-law-fight-avoid-kicked-UK.html" target="_blank">serving 22 years in gaol</a> for lacing the drinks of girls as young as 13 with drugs, having sex with them, and passing them around to members of his group. He was the leader of a Rochdale sex grooming gang made up of Asian men, and is now fighting the British government's attempt to strip him of his British citizenship. He was sentenced in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The decision by Home Secretary, Mrs Theresa May, to strip Mr Ahmed of his British citizenship is based on the fact that being British comes with responsibilities, and the latter, who also holds a Pakistani passport, by virtue of his despicable crimes, has lost that privilege. He came to the UK when he was 14.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr Ahmed has alleged that his trial was tainted and a miscarriage of justice. He also described it as being institutionally racist and designed to scapegoat muslims. He complained that his conviction was by 11 white jurors, and that everything is blamed on muslims these days. Well Mr Ahmed, you live in Britain, and it is still a majority white country. There is always a high chance of finding that white jurors will be in the majority in any court case. And playing the 'victim' and 'persecuted muslim' card? You had sex with children, something not alien to your religion, but still abhorred in the UK and in all of the civilized world. You spiked their drinks and raped them; something that would still be criminal even if your victim was an adult. The presiding judge in your case described you as a "violent hypocritical bully", and you are proving him right by not acknowledging your crimes and showing remorse for them. How ungrateful can you be to a country that you have called home for nearly five decades?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/richard-dawkins-as-victim-of-political.html" target="_blank">recently wrote about</a> 12 men who had been convicted in Bradford, UK, for their grooming and repeated abuse of a 13 year old British girl. Although the nationality of the girls Mr Ahmed so callously abused was not stated, I am guessing they are also white British girls, as they are a 'favourite' of Pakistani sex grooming gangs in the UK. Mr Ahmed wants to keep the passport, and the concomitant privileges, of a country whose young girls he believes are only good enough to be drugged, raped, and passed around to his friends to be raped some more. In his country of Pakistan, it is <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/child-marriage-still-legal-in-pakistan.html" target="_blank">legal to marry girls</a> and of course have sex with them without the need to drug them first. That is the future of girls in his country, so it would actually be close to impossible for this swine to want any better for girls anywhere else. He is divorced with four children, and I wonder how he would feel if it were his daughter, if he has any, that was being passed around to satisfy the cruel lusts of men old enough to be their grandfathers.</span></div>
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-19869618159150903732016-02-15T19:19:00.001+00:002016-02-15T19:19:57.858+00:00Nigerian Pastor 'Resurrects' Dead Child<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From around the 1:30 mark, he carries the 'dead' child to the altar where he lays her down, and she can be clearly seen, as the camera zooms in, to be breathing, and that her eyes are wide open. He then pours 'holy water' on her and she of course reacts to water being splashed on her face to a tumultuous applause from the congregation. The only extraordinary thing that happened was that the thousands gathered there that Sunday morning were too blinded by their utterly absurd christian beliefs to even notice that the child was alive. What is wrong with these people? The story was that the parents of the child who fell ill rushed her to the church instead of a hospital, and this is actually a very normal occurrence in Nigeria. It was reported that the child died just before they got to church, and she was promptly handed over to the pastor who resurrected her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr Okafor, also known as 'the oracle' is separated from his wife, with whom he has four children, amid allegations, from her, of physical abuse. His miracle is no different from <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/nigerian-faith-healer-grows-shortened.html" target="_blank">this one</a> I wrote about where another Nigerian pastor purportedly grew a shortened limb. It is extremely saddening that these charlatans and fraudsters are allowed to get away with so much flimflam. Those who speak out against them are shouted down and warned not to invite the wrath of the christian god for speaking out against a 'man of God'. Well, I will continue to expose their deceit and villainy and wait for the wrath of God. For now, God is certainly feeling mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I can imagine how sermons in most Nigerian churches will play out today. Many will preach about love, others will celebrate 'christian love' or Christ's undying love (remember he died because he loved us) as opposed to secular or "worldly" love, while many others will spend a lot of time condemning and really bashing all the sex and expressions of lustful desires that will take place today in the name of love.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every single church in Nigeria strongly condemns all forms of sexual activity, except within the confines of marriage. Even within this 'holy' union, the interference of the church is still strongly felt as many churches have refused to allow the married couple (and marriage must be between a man and a woman) to enjoy sex. They have introduced rules about what can and cannot be done by married couples in the privacy and sanctity of their matrimonial bed. Many pastors have condemned oral sex, and others others have spoken out vehemently about sexual positions, recommending, nay, decreeing, that the man must always be on top with the woman facing him as the only position approved by the christian god. Anal sex is of course an abomination and should never even enter one's thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fear and guilt are very effective means of control. They are used in varying degrees by dictators, sexual predators, bullies, terrorists, and of course religion, which uses both to maximum effect. Sex is enjoyed by the majority of humans, and it is utterly callous that something that is a part and parcel of our nature as human beings should be exploited for pecuniary gains (I have always maintained that churches exist to make money). I am of course talking about sex between at least 2 persons who are of the legal age, and are able to give such consent, and not prostitution or the sexual exploitation of children for money.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those who drew up the blue prints for christianity must have really felt insecure or were so obsessed with the sex lives of others that they were not totally satisfied with eternal damnation in hell as the only deterrent to humanity's tendency to sin. They took a perfectly normal behaviour and desire, and made it into something dirty and sinful, an act that could land one in that same hell fire. For those whom they allowed to have sex (remember, only a man and a woman who were married) they could not even keep their lecherous noses out of their sex lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There may be no ceremonies to celebrate virginity by donning a purity ring in Nigeria like is the practice in the USA, but virginity is still held at a premium and sex before marriage is frowned upon, although it is all a lot of noise as many couples have sex before hitting the altar, and many women are pregnant on their wedding day. It is not my place to tell anyone what to do with their sex lives because it is private, something christianity has refused to leave that way. But I think it will be appropriate to state here that no one should ever feel guilty of giving in to, and enjoying, a natural and normal desire within the confines of what they and their chosen and consenting partner(s) are comfortable with, within the confines of extant laws. Neither should they feel any guilt when they also enjoy a spot of solo action, if you know what I mean...</span></span><br />
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-44332068963054986482016-02-14T07:38:00.001+00:002016-02-14T07:38:16.191+00:00Richard Dawkins As The Victim Of Political Correctness<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The NECSS responded quite rapidly in distancing itself from Richard Dawkins. Did they even bother to contact him to explain his retweeting of that video? Was he allowed to explain himself, or perhaps apologize if the NECSS were able to show him he was wrong or had indeed done anything wrong? Mohammed slept with at least one girl aged below 10, that makes him a paedophile, and he is today revered by over 1.5 billion persons, many of whom will kill anyone who draws this paedophile or says anything untoward about him. Mohammed also approved the rape of women and never acknowledged it as such. In his book, a woman cannot be raped (those who claim to have been, will have to produce four male witnesses) and having sex with girls the moment they begin their period (many girls start as young as 8) is permissible. There have been worse videos made and endorsed by atheists online, and the NECSS is only dissociating itself from Professor Dawkins in order to be seen as politically correct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whoever made that video obviously wanted to spite muslims, and he or she clearly succeeded if Prof Dawkins could like the video enough to retweet it. The 'offending' part of the video that engendered the swift action of the NECSS is most probably at the end where the 'islamist' asked for permission to rape the 'feminist', and she responded by saying "don't be silly, it's not rape when a muslim does it." Sadly, she was mostly correct. In the last few months, there have been a rash of violent violations and rape of women by muslim immigrants, from Africa and Syria, in the countries that have accepted them so generously and with open arms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just a few days ago, the British press was agog with the news of long gaol sentences <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3437252/Twelve-men-repeatedly-gang-raped-abused-vulnerable-teenage-schoolgirl-saw-utterly-worthless-jailed-total-140-YEARS.html" target="_blank">handed down to a dozen men of Pakistani descent</a> who groomed and and repeatedly gang-raped and abused a 13 year old white British girl. This is not the first time a group of Asian (muslim) men have been convicted for the grooming and raping of white British girls. Members of these criminals' community actually said that it took two to tango since the horrendously abused girl "played her part" in her abuse. </span><span style="font-family: "\22 trebuchet ms\22 " , sans-serif;">This should give an insight into the mentality of those who carry out, and continue to carry out, the deliberate and systematic grooming and raping of white British girls. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was also reported, on that same day, that another Pakistani man had <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3436922/Child-rapist-flees-UK-Pakistan-half-way-trial-judge-gave-permission-attend-funeral-lying-dead-relative.html" target="_blank">fled to his home country midway through his trial for raping a child</a> in Manchester. The judge gave him permission to attend an uncle's funeral in Pakistan. How sure are we that a relative of his even died? Part of an Igbo (south east Nigeria) proverb says that "...things always go missing when a particular person is around, yet this person denies being a thief..."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The general overseer of Fingers of God Church, Alagbado, in Lagos, Nigeria, Bishop Kayode Peller, has accused prophet TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, and pastor Chris Oyakhilome of the Believers Love World Incorporated, of <a href="http://www.thetrentonline.com/tb-joshua-and-chris-oyakhilome-use-demonic-powers-to-perform-miracles-bishop-peller/" target="_blank">using demonic powers to perform miracles</a>. Mr Peller is the son of Professor Peller, arguably Nigeria's most popular and most successful illusionist and magician. Mr Peller himself took after his father before he became a clergyman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The younger Peller, </span><a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/how-i-sold-my-son-to-buy-cocaine-bishop-peller/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">a self confessed drug addict</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, of all people should know that his father, whose footsteps he followed before becoming a 'bishop' had no 'magic' powers. It was all illusions, sleight of hand and tricks. There was nothing supernatural about what the late Professor Peller did when he held audiences, including presidents and royalty, spell bound with his performances. Imagine the magical duo of Penn and Teller suddenly becoming preachers and claiming they were using the power of the devil during their magic days. They have repeatedly told their millions of fans all over the world that their art was perfected over decades of hard work and practice. They have never claimed to have any supernatural powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr Peller should remember that while he was a magician, he had no magical powers, and that to imply that he did in order to validate and lend credence to his present occupation as a pastor is a lie, and a discredit to his former profession and all professional magicians. Let him also be under no illusion that his new job is the real thing. It is as real as the supernatural, or "demonic" powers he claimed to possess as a </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">magician.</span><br />
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-9706338426166273562016-02-08T12:44:00.000+00:002016-02-08T12:44:04.445+00:00Nigeria's Football Coach Flees Country Out Of Fear Of Witches<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigeria's national football team coach, Sunday Oliseh, himself a former player, <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/oliseh-flees-nigeria-accuses-staff-of-witchcraft/" target="_blank">has fled</a> the country to his Belgium home after accusing his "enemies" of occult manipulations on his life. His decision to temporarily relocate to Belgium was premised on his thinking that the witches after him would be unable to fly out to meet him there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr Oliseh was in charge of the national football team at the African Nations Championship (CHAN) held in Rwanda which concluded yesterday. Nigeria was knocked out in the group stages of the tournament which DR Congo won. Mr Oliseh contracted a viral infection in the course of an unrelated official assignment, and during the tournament proper, he became increasingly suspicious of those around him including his backroom staff. He actually called a meeting to let them know that there were plans by witches and wizards to undermine the success of his team. He also warned those who were fond of putting their hands in their pockets before shaking hands with him not to do so again for fear that they would touch diabolic objects hidden in their pockets and pass some curse to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Superstitious and religious beliefs have turned this once fine footballer, the pride of Nigerian football fans all over the world, into a paranoid wreck. Two of Nigeria's footballing greats, Kanu Nwankwo and Daniel Amokachi visited prophet TB Joshua on different occasions to receive miracle healing for a heart ailment and knee injury respectively. Mr Nwankwo eventually had surgery to correct his heart defect, and went on to play for a few more years, while Mr Amokachi's illustrious career was truncated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nigerian players always attribute their successes to either the christian or muslim god, depending on the religion of the person in question, but most of them, like many other players from Africa are known age cheats, who lie about their ages so that they can be featured in age restricted football tournaments. Nigeria is the most successful team and <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-nigerian-factor.html" target="_blank">current champions</a> of the FIFA under-17 world cup competition, but this success has hardly been transferred into the senior national football team. Perhaps the witches and wizards are also to blame.</span><br />
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-58065793184573671172016-02-04T11:39:00.001+00:002016-02-04T11:39:24.976+00:00Please Let Us Forget The Chibok Girls<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has continued to maintain that he will fulfil the pledge he made to the parents of the Chibok girls about bringing back their daughters alive from their abductors. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He <a href="http://pulse.ng/local/buhari-well-rescue-chibok-girls-alive-president-assures-id4643691.html" target="_blank">reiterated his promise to bring them home alive</a> and has reportedly said that he would not rest until he had done so. While it is good that president Buhari is optimistic about getting these girls home to their families, it is egregious for him to tell such callous lies and to politicize such a heart-breaking incident. I say that the president is lying because, except he is naive and stupid, even he does not believe his own words. So why has he continued to lie to the grieving parents and to the nation and the world?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have written a number of posts about the <a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/chibok-girls-and-shame-of-nation.html" target="_blank">Chibok girls saga</a>, and each time, I have suggested that we all accept the possibility of never seeing these girls alive again; and this possibility dwindles rapidly with every passing day. It is not that they are all dead, but the truth is that Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's maniacal leader, was not joking when he said he was going to sell them or marry them off to his 'holy warriors' or mujahideen. The terrorists have abducted so many others since the start of their deadly campaign, but the Chibok kidnapping woke the world up to their atrocities by the sheer number involved, and probably the fact that it involved teenaged school girls (many of whom have become women).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am taking the very painful option of letting go of the Chibok girls because the way it is being handled is not only disgraceful, it also says a lot about those to whom we have entrusted the running of our country. How long does president Buhari think he can continue with these puerile promises? How long will he continue to make a fool of himself? Why has he chosen to continue to keep these wounds fresh? Is he really oblivious to the fact that his inability to take a stand and be decisive in this matter is only prolonging the needless suffering of the relatives of these girls? If he is deliberately using this Chibok thing for some political purpose, does he really believe that the suffering it has engendered is worth whatever political dividend he hopes to gain from it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the use of young female suicide bombers by Boko Haram, who is to say that Stockholm syndrome has not set in for the kidnapped Chibok girls? It is very plausible that not only have they been brainwashed and coerced into joining the suicide bombing campaign, they may have willingly joined the bombing campaigns in solidarity with their abductors, and to get back at a country that has so callously betrayed them.</span></span><br />
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nigeriananarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17980657682440990879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202198739339579186.post-41514719796476703452016-02-03T13:19:00.001+00:002016-02-03T13:19:47.643+00:00Before Pastor Adeboye Claims This One...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, in Nigeria, in his usual manner released his<a href="http://nigeriananarchist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/prophecies-for-2016-by-nigerian.html" target="_blank"> 'prophecies' for the year 2016</a>, and included in his list was the prediction that a new sexually transmitted disease would surface this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just this morning, it was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35478778" target="_blank">in the news</a> that the Zika virus, which has been been declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, WHO, had been possibly transmitted sexually between partners in the USA. One of the partners had just returned from Venezuela and the other, who had not been to any infected areas recently became infected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I may be seen as jumping the gun here, but I am only pre-empting a scenario whereby Adeboye, or any member of his vast congregation would use this as proof of his 'prophecy' coming true. According to this <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1634799/sexually-transmitted-zika-virus-case-in-us" target="_blank">report</a>, and Wikipedia, a Colorado, USA, man had transmitted the Zika virus, via sex, to his wife in 2008, and this <a href="http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/2/pdfs/14-1363.pdf" target="_blank">academic paper</a> also documents a possible sexual transmission of the disease, in 2013, in Tahiti where the virus was isolated from a man's semen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The virus is transmitted by mosquitoes, and in adults, about 20 per cent of those who are infected show symptoms. The brouhaha surrounding the virus, today, is due to its effects on unborn babies in whom it causes the condition microcephaly, characterized by an abnormally small head due to the brain being underdeveloped. More on the condition can be found <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35370848" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr Adeboye's prophecies, on even the slightest scrutiny, are nothing but speculations that anybody could come up with, and are easy reminders to the tactics used by fellow charlatans who claim to be psychics, mediums, and other such nonsense. And for a man who claims to be able to bypass medical science and heal all kinds of ailments, relying on the same medical science to discover a new sexually transmitted infection to prove his prophecy right seems kind of ironic.</span></div>
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