The scourge of islamic slavery and violence

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AKK 12 years ago

Writer is confusing Arabism with Islamism.

Writer is confusing Arabism with Islamism.
PASQUIN 12 years ago

I am amazed at the wealth of knowledge the writer has. Please direct us to series you have referred to in your concluding paragraph. However, the writer living in the UK makes me inclined to believe that he imbibed fully the ...
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I am amazed at the wealth of knowledge the writer has. Please direct us to series you have referred to in your concluding paragraph. However, the writer living in the UK makes me inclined to believe that he imbibed fully the story/history of slavery from one side.
My second issue is that from this article I cannot see the difference between religion and nationalism . ie ISLAM and ARAB NATIONALISM.
Son of Man 12 years ago

Most often have we laid all the blame of slavery on the European forgetting the immense contribution that Arab slave invaders played in destroying Africa.

They pretend to treat all humans the same in the name of Islam howe ...
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Most often have we laid all the blame of slavery on the European forgetting the immense contribution that Arab slave invaders played in destroying Africa.

They pretend to treat all humans the same in the name of Islam however behind close doors the black man is beneath him.

Arabs like the European Christians have brainwashed our African brothers and sisters to the point of stupidity.

Our chiefs once assisted the European invaders in destroying Africa, now our Muslim brothers are assisting Arab racist from places like Saudi, Pakistan, Yemen and co with the influence of money in destroying Africa. Look at what they have done to Somalia? That country is set back many years in time.

How long is it going to take our Muslim brothers and sisters to realize that these Arabs can just be as racist or even worse than whites?

Have we all forgotten what they did to African soccer players who tried playing in the Arab league in North Africa and the Middle East?

We need to treat each other as one before any outside intruder. I however doubt if we can ever be our brothers keepers since the black race is also the most divisive and most self destructive of all races.

All the same hope is not lost
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Go get the nearest book on islam and slavery and compare it with the Atlantic slave trade (Christians) and you would know that at least islam had some extenuating circumstances: manumission and assimilation!

Go get the nearest book on islam and slavery and compare it with the Atlantic slave trade (Christians) and you would know that at least islam had some extenuating circumstances: manumission and assimilation!
Son of Man 12 years ago

Arab slavery wasn't as brutal as that of the Europeans because there were no plantations in the Middle East for the African slave to work on, either they were kept at home as servants or resold to the European.

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Arab slavery wasn't as brutal as that of the Europeans because there were no plantations in the Middle East for the African slave to work on, either they were kept at home as servants or resold to the European.

And where is your prove of the Arab treating the African Slave any better? I gave examples of present day events using African soccer players in the Middle East and North Africa.

What xtenuating circumstances: manumission and assimilation did Islam had that wasn't in the Bible? Don't forget that both the Bible esp the Old Testament and Quaran are very similar.
C. K. MAN 12 years ago

THE STUPID EWE idiot FOOL Andy C.Y. Kwawukume is now propagating for the dirty EWE Prof. Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor. Ewes think they are smart but unfortunately they are the most useless beings ever. "EWES are bloody fools!

THE STUPID EWE idiot FOOL Andy C.Y. Kwawukume is now propagating for the dirty EWE Prof. Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor. Ewes think they are smart but unfortunately they are the most useless beings ever. "EWES are bloody fools!
C.K.MAN 12 years ago

you are a real SON of a DOG...

you are a real SON of a DOG...
Richard Acquah 12 years ago

Today you have really showed your ignorance . Just stick to your hyperbolic poems and talk about things you have no clues about.

Today you have really showed your ignorance . Just stick to your hyperbolic poems and talk about things you have no clues about.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Another great lie from the mouth of a born-again unrepentant liar. If indeed the Arab slave traders believe in assimilation, we would definitely be seeing black Arabs as natives in Saudi Arabia and other core Arab states like ...
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Another great lie from the mouth of a born-again unrepentant liar. If indeed the Arab slave traders believe in assimilation, we would definitely be seeing black Arabs as natives in Saudi Arabia and other core Arab states like we have in the US, Britain, Brazil, Portugal, Germany etc.

Furthermore, you just got to accept that without Christian (Western)education you wouldn't be where you are today - might still be dwelling on tree tops like the chimps. And Islamic education? Nothing to write about that except you tie a large cloth (the Islamic degree) all over your head after reciting the Koran from first to the last page. I wonder whether you'd use that degree (the big cloth) to carry loads on your head at Kejetia?
Kojo! 12 years ago

Making frantic efforts to profile her haemaphrodiac self as an intellectual but the she/he stinks.

Making frantic efforts to profile her haemaphrodiac self as an intellectual but the she/he stinks.

KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

You are getting all the attention you crave through being a Bigot, Oh Akorang!

You are getting all the attention you crave through being a Bigot, Oh Akorang!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Pasquin,

I think the scrambling of the paragraphing has brought about the confusion. Different aspects of the topic of slavery just jammed into each other without the spacing.

As an introd. to the subject, I covered a w ...
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Pasquin,

I think the scrambling of the paragraphing has brought about the confusion. Different aspects of the topic of slavery just jammed into each other without the spacing.

As an introd. to the subject, I covered a wide array of different aspects of the subject in other to avoid simple minded people like Akadu coming to tell us Arabs set free their slaves and assimilate them, for instance. My response to them is, that's called "social death", a big subject on its own.

In Part 2 you'd see that it was limited largely to only Arab slavery and violence.

BTW, I first learned about slavery on the Upper Slave Coast, where I come from. Then, the usual bits we were taught in basic school before taking as an elective, Society and Politics in the Black Diaspora at Legon. In Europe, nobody taught me anything about slavery. I continue with my own self-education reading beyond what I knew before. I am still learning, as there is so much out there to read and not much time to do so. The refs. mentioned are itemised in Part 2. However, if you are really interested, I guess you'd find more in my upcoming 8-part series on the origins of the T-thing.

BTW, Arab nationalism is "islamism," since the term Arab does not refer to ethnicity in current usage. Once you have been fully assimilated, you can be black as charcoal but you also become an Arab! It is like becoming an American! You don't need to have Arab blood in you to become Arab.

Yes, secular Arabs have been trying to decouple Islam from the equation but if Syria falls, then it'd amount to another big set back.

Andy-K
C. K. MAN 12 years ago

C.Y. ANDY-K where is your sense? you got no sense!

You have been an IDIOT from the time immorial. I have nec´ver read anything connected with sense from your pieces. This declares you as an ultimate insane. "Kwasea"

C.Y. ANDY-K where is your sense? you got no sense!

You have been an IDIOT from the time immorial. I have nec´ver read anything connected with sense from your pieces. This declares you as an ultimate insane. "Kwasea"
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Your mad father who raped a giant she-ape to born you is rather the Kwasea.

Your mad father who raped a giant she-ape to born you is rather the Kwasea.
Oyibaba Bee 12 years ago

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."--Eleanor Roosevelt
Oyibaba Bee 12 years ago

There is no difference between state and religion in Islam. Non Muslims have to submit to Islamic rule or be subjected to heavy taxation or death.

There is no difference between state and religion in Islam. Non Muslims have to submit to Islamic rule or be subjected to heavy taxation or death.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Are you surprised? Nope. He is the illiterate of all the noise-makers here, a product of a backyard college in Europe that allowed him write his MA dissertation on Anlo Toilets!

Are you surprised? Nope. He is the illiterate of all the noise-makers here, a product of a backyard college in Europe that allowed him write his MA dissertation on Anlo Toilets!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

You only post ethnocentric watery "poems" on Ghanaweb. Why can't u also write some sensible articles for our perusal?

My dissertation on the rural banks of Ghana at the Univ. of Bergen, Norway, can be accessed through a go ...
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You only post ethnocentric watery "poems" on Ghanaweb. Why can't u also write some sensible articles for our perusal?

My dissertation on the rural banks of Ghana at the Univ. of Bergen, Norway, can be accessed through a google search. What about you anonymous cretin? My Dept., Administration and Organization Theory, produced some of the foundation pillars of the subject of Organization Theory after WWII.

If u have nothing sensible to write, stop spewing dirt here.

Don't waste my time!

Andy-K
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

Unlike your knowledgeable articles(C.Y Andy K), Akadu with his so called PhD writes only about Ethnocentrism not to solve the problem but to widen the divide further, I really do not know if really he has a PhD.

Unlike your knowledgeable articles(C.Y Andy K), Akadu with his so called PhD writes only about Ethnocentrism not to solve the problem but to widen the divide further, I really do not know if really he has a PhD.
Bea (UK) 12 years ago

Same duka daya

Same duka daya

Franky 12 years ago

How can an educated man use this kind of words? Are you jealous of the man? Tell us who is the inward looking here?

How can an educated man use this kind of words? Are you jealous of the man? Tell us who is the inward looking here?
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

You conveniently side-stepped Andy-K's invectives to comment on my mild language!

You conveniently side-stepped Andy-K's invectives to comment on my mild language!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Oh! Yeah, he should focus on my fitting response to you too, eh?

You came to leave insults and attempts to denigrate me all over a piece I wrote, and following my resolve not to ignore jerks like you who just come to le ...
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Oh! Yeah, he should focus on my fitting response to you too, eh?

You came to leave insults and attempts to denigrate me all over a piece I wrote, and following my resolve not to ignore jerks like you who just come to leave one liner insults on posts, I upbraided you appropriately. Everybody can see that you started it. The least they can say is that I should not lower myself into the mud-pit of pigs like you to grab some mud to throw at you too and hence dirty hands too. I try to keep my face clean though while I stuck yours in the mud and stamp on it. Only language cretins like you understand!

Why don't you just criticise what I wrote and leave my poor person alone? My poor person is several times more august and of a better pedigree than your pathetic, cowardly self who can't even use your real names! For a long time, when some people who really knew my family background said that they knew a "Kwawukume" and they were this and that, I'd say, "Oh! We are just namesakes. Heard of them." Had a girlfriend once who didn't even know my surname; thought it was "Kay".

You see, when S. Africa was getting Apartheid, my father was appointed as their first African Administrative Manager, with 20 whites under him, not to mention the scores of African staff. It is a pity he committed class suicide on behalf of all of us and renounced wealth and material things, a tradition I have followed. I measure my wealth and worth in the number of books I have read and ideas I have for humanity.

When I wrote a polemical thesis challenging the immigration and educational policies of the Norwegian govt, it set in chain events which led to changing their immigration legislation. I just want my mouth to hold the calabash properly and then I'd take on the world. Right now, I am just flexing my muscles.

Now, which dog born you too, since you turned this to the personal, "Proud Denkyira Princess"? BTW, when are you going to Vume and Torgorme to start the repatriation of the descendants of the Denkyira fugitives who settled in the trokosi infested area of Tongu since 1700? Or, since they now speak Ewe too and are infested with trokosi, they are no longer proper proud Denkyiras, eh?:-)
Just wait until I come to that chapter in our history very soon.

Andy-K
AKADU "THE SOCIAL OUTCAST 12 years ago

just take it easy with that low life caracter/social outcast? YOUR GOOD IS BETTER THAN HIS BEST,he is just bitter and empty...

just take it easy with that low life caracter/social outcast? YOUR GOOD IS BETTER THAN HIS BEST,he is just bitter and empty...
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Franky, that thing is a bush pig. Leave it alone.

Franky, that thing is a bush pig. Leave it alone.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Akadu, you a beast and a swine for that matter!! If Andy is a product of a backyard college in Europe, then what about your bloody self? A descendant of a raped giant-she ape and a very ungrateful element for that matter.

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Akadu, you a beast and a swine for that matter!! If Andy is a product of a backyard college in Europe, then what about your bloody self? A descendant of a raped giant-she ape and a very ungrateful element for that matter.

You'd probably have ended up as a subject of anthropological research in some American or European research centre if the Anlo lumberjacks had not rescued you from your she-ape mother in the Denkyira forests and handed you over to the Ministry of Social Welfare to nurse you in a motherless babies' home.

OK Andy has done a dissertation on Anlo Toilets!! Next time, I'd love to read your own dissertation on the merits/demerits of "The Inhuman and Barbaric Practice of Head-Hunting for Burial of Chiefs in Akanland in the 21st Century".
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

Akadu Only seeks attention and the best way to seek attention to Akadu is through ethnocentrism.

It goes to show how sad and depressed he is and possibly one of those displaced Ghanaians with cheap PhD's still wallowing in ...
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Akadu Only seeks attention and the best way to seek attention to Akadu is through ethnocentrism.

It goes to show how sad and depressed he is and possibly one of those displaced Ghanaians with cheap PhD's still wallowing in poverty and suffering depression because their peers are doing better elswhere.
AKADU "THE SOCIAL OUTCAST 12 years ago

you sound very SILLY&CHEAP...

you sound very SILLY&CHEAP...
AHOOFE,the hopeless man 12 years ago

at least,his is better than your best...you DUMP OX'

at least,his is better than your best...you DUMP OX'
GHANABA 12 years ago

BE IT ARABISM,ISLAMISM OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT,ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN.THE QURAN IN ITS ENTIRETY IS COMPLETE TRIPE.IT FOLLOWERS SUFFER FROM WILFUL BLINDNESS.THAT IS A FACT WITHOUT APOLGY.BOMBINGS AND KILLINGS EVERYWH ...
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BE IT ARABISM,ISLAMISM OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT,ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN.THE QURAN IN ITS ENTIRETY IS COMPLETE TRIPE.IT FOLLOWERS SUFFER FROM WILFUL BLINDNESS.THAT IS A FACT WITHOUT APOLGY.BOMBINGS AND KILLINGS EVERYWHERE AND THE PEPERTRATORS ARE ALWAYS MUSLIMS.

Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Revisit your world history and you would know that Christians have caused more havoc than any religious group!

Revisit your world history and you would know that Christians have caused more havoc than any religious group!
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

You're a blatant and incorrigible liar. If the Christians had not come down to your hamlet, I reckon you and your stock must still be dwelling on tree tops like your chimps. True or false?

You're a blatant and incorrigible liar. If the Christians had not come down to your hamlet, I reckon you and your stock must still be dwelling on tree tops like your chimps. True or false?
Nii Lantey 12 years ago

In the name of Christianity, more violence has been visited on the world. Christianity is the worst when it comes to atrocities.

In the name of Christianity, more violence has been visited on the world. Christianity is the worst when it comes to atrocities.
Esi Kitson 12 years ago

Vidoo!

Vidoo!
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Fuck off, you bastard.

Fuck off, you bastard.
amata 12 years ago

The worst murderer in the history of the world, so they say, was a Christian, not a muslim.

The worst murderer in the history of the world, so they say, was a Christian, not a muslim.
THE CHOSEN ONE 12 years ago

DERANGED AND CONFUSED AFRICAN ILLITRATE.

DERANGED AND CONFUSED AFRICAN ILLITRATE.
Ghanaman 12 years ago

We are all dumber after reading this nonsensical garbage. Wow. Ghanaweb must filter the thoughts of mad men!!!

We are all dumber after reading this nonsensical garbage. Wow. Ghanaweb must filter the thoughts of mad men!!!
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

Good piece.

Keep up the good work

Good piece.

Keep up the good work
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

African Muslims are still slaves to Arabia Muslims. Did you see them how they were so happy the day they name one of Accra streets after one of Saudi's Princes. When I hear of Muslims Islamic scholars, I ask myself that, what ...
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African Muslims are still slaves to Arabia Muslims. Did you see them how they were so happy the day they name one of Accra streets after one of Saudi's Princes. When I hear of Muslims Islamic scholars, I ask myself that, what is in Quran these Muslims have studied that they call them Islamic scholars?

Everything in Quran is kill him if he won't submit to this cruel and destructive religion. Look at how these barbaric Muslims are treating Christians in Southern Egypt. Why do we allow these barbaric Muslims to live in our midst?

Islam is the main armed wing of the devil. Islam is destructive and barbaric. It must be shunned by real human beings. And these Arabs still carry African slaves. Go to Mauritania and you will see how Arabs treat black Africans.
Agyeman 12 years ago

Very true,Jingo Bell.

Very true,Jingo Bell.
CHARCOAL SELLER. 12 years ago

Religion is the deification of a people's culture, foreign religious dogmas imposed on anyone is a form of mental enslavement, religion is one of the most powerful weapons in any enslaver's arsenal, because in religion, no ev ...
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Religion is the deification of a people's culture, foreign religious dogmas imposed on anyone is a form of mental enslavement, religion is one of the most powerful weapons in any enslaver's arsenal, because in religion, no evidence or facts is required, belief is all that matters, ironically, too many people think that belief is more relevant than facts, and they drift through life in abject poverty, confusion and ignorance.

I am neither Jewish, Christian nor Muslim, I am a Shango man, who loves and respects my Jewish, Christian and Muslim sisters and brothers, however, I detest those who use religion as a front for terrorist activity, as the Jews in occupied Palestine, Christians and Muslims worldwide are engaged in.

The problem with too many journalists, is that they almost always seem to have a one sided view of terrorism, without examining or explaining the root cause of some aspects of terrorism, for them, it is easier and safer to blame religion than to delve into the politics attached to the religious violence.

Beloveds, do not be confused by these reactionary journalists, how could Islam alone be blamed for terrorism, when Christian NATO and Zionist Israel, are collaborating with Muslims, who terrorize nations and overthrow democratically elected governments in Africa, Asia and globally, latest example is Libya, where a multi-religious, internationally integrated christian NATO, Zionist Israel and Arab Muslims (some of whom are said to be linked to Osama Bin Laden's group,) collaborated and rained terror on Libya, to achieve undemocratic regime change, while knee shaking African leaders and most journalists remain mute on Libya, while continuing to make mindless speeches about only Muslim terrorism.

Journalists need to stop being PUNKS, be equal opportunity critics, man up, be objective, or shut up!
Kwame 12 years ago

Charcoal Seller you made my day and I also said thanks to Andy C. Y. Kwawukume for bringing the issue to the fore, and telling it as it is without saying that it is a taboo to call your brother in your family a slave because ...
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Charcoal Seller you made my day and I also said thanks to Andy C. Y. Kwawukume for bringing the issue to the fore, and telling it as it is without saying that it is a taboo to call your brother in your family a slave because he will visit you at dawn at drop tears on your bed.
The facts are that colonization was based on religion, racial segregation in the U.S. which was supported by the Zionist was based on the doctrine of the Abram religions. Apartheid was introduced by a priest of the Dutch Reformed Church, Reverend Wooweod. Both the apartheid regimes in Southern Africa and Fascist regimes in Southern Europe and colonial fascist regimes were all supported by NATO, Israel and the Abram religions. The Islamist supported the French colonial regime against the liberation forces in Algeria. The chemical and biological weapons that were used against freedom fighters in Southern Africa were supplied by NATO and Israel.
But the fact is that not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Jews are Zionists, but the fact remains that the majority of Europeans and U.S. citizens are ware mongers who gloat together with their presidents and prime ministers when they kill other presidents and prime ministers, just like the Roman soldier.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

You are right on course. In fact, they treat them as lesser human beings in Mauritania. Look at what Boko Haram is doing in Northern Nigeria? Just killing fellow human beings like rams. We must not allow those devils to subme ...
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You are right on course. In fact, they treat them as lesser human beings in Mauritania. Look at what Boko Haram is doing in Northern Nigeria? Just killing fellow human beings like rams. We must not allow those devils to submerge us?
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Old tired essays with grammatical infelicities as usual! I was also on Okyeame and most of the time, commentators took you to the cleaners! One thing we all observed about you is that your hangover writings reflect someone wh ...
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Old tired essays with grammatical infelicities as usual! I was also on Okyeame and most of the time, commentators took you to the cleaners! One thing we all observed about you is that your hangover writings reflect someone who defines himself by what others have to say, in effect mere opinions are huge earthquakes to your very core values. Psychologists call that inferiority complex and you are all over the place confirming it with the elegance of a fool!
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

The turbaned gunmen who infiltrated Nairobi's Westgate Mall arrived with a set of religious trivia questions: As terrified civilians hid in toilet stalls, behind mannequins, in ventilation shafts and underneath food court tab ...
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The turbaned gunmen who infiltrated Nairobi's Westgate Mall arrived with a set of religious trivia questions: As terrified civilians hid in toilet stalls, behind mannequins, in ventilation shafts and underneath food court tables, the assailants began a high-stakes game of 20 Questions to separate Muslims from those they consider infidels.
A 14-year-old boy saved himself by jumping off the mall's roof, after learning from friends inside that they were quizzed on names of the Prophet Muhammad's relatives. A Jewish man scribbled a Quranic scripture on his hand to memorize, after hearing the terrorists were asking captives to recite specific verses. Numerous survivors described how the attackers from al-Shabab, a Somali cell which recently joined al-Qaida, shot people who failed to provide the correct answers.
Their chilling accounts, combined with internal al-Shabab documents discovered earlier this year by The Associated Press, mark the final notch in a transformation within the global terror network, which began to rethink its approach after its setbacks in Iraq. Al-Qaida has since realized that the indiscriminate killing of Muslims is a strategic liability, and hopes instead to create a schism between Muslims and everyone else, whom they consider "kuffar," or apostates.
"What this shows is al-Qaida's acknowledgment that the huge masses of Muslims they have killed is an enormous PR problem within the audience they are trying to reach," said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization. "This is a problem they had documented and noticed going back to at least Iraq. And now we see al-Qaida groups are really taking efforts to address it."
The evolution of al-Shabab is reflected in a set of three documents believed to be written by the terrorist group, and found by the AP in northern Mali earlier this year. They include the minutes of a conference of 85 Islamic scholars, held in December 2011 in Somalia, as well as a summary of fatwas they issued last year after acceptance into the al-Qaida fold.
Baptized with the name al-Shabab, meaning The Youth, in 2006, the group began as an extremist militia, fighting the government of Somalia. As early as 2009, it began courting al-Qaida, issuing recordings with titles like, "At Your Service Osama."
Until the Westgate attack, the group made no effort to spare Muslim civilians, hitting packed restaurants, bus stations and a government building where hundreds of students were awaiting test results. And until his death in 2011, Osama bin Laden refused to allow Shabab into the al-Qaida network, according to letters retrieved from his safehouse in Pakistan. The letters show that the terror leader was increasingly troubled by regional jihadi operations killing Muslim civilians.
In a letter to Shabab in 2010, bin Laden politely advised the Somali-based fighters to review their operations "in order to minimize the toll to Muslims." Shabab did not get the green light to join al-Qaida until February 2012, almost a year after bin Laden's death.
In an email exchange this week with The Associated Press, it made its intentions clear: "The Mujahideen carried out a meticulous vetting process at the mall and have taken every possible precaution to separate the Muslims from the Kuffar before carrying out their attack." However, even at Westgate, al-Shabab still killed Muslims, who were among the more than 60 civilians gunned down inside.
Their attack was timed to coincide with the highest traffic at the upscale mall after 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 21, a Saturday. More than 1,000 people, including diplomats, pregnant women with strollers and foreign couples, were inside when the fighters armed with grenades and AK-47s burst in and opened fire. At first the attack had the indiscriminate character of all of Shabab's previous assaults.
Rutvik Patel, 14, was in the aisles at Nakumatt, the mall's supermarket which sells everything from plasma TVs to imported kiwis, when he heard the first explosion. "They started shooting continuously, and whoever died, died," he said. "Then it became calm and they came up to people and began asking them some questions. If you knew the answer, they let you go," he said. "They asked the name of the Prophet's mom. They asked them to sing a religious verse."

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Just across from the Nakumatt supermarket, a 31-year-old Jewish businessman was cashing a check inside the local Barclays branch when he, too, heard the shooting. The people there ran to the back and shut themselves in the room with the safe, switching off the lights. They learned, via text messages, that the extremists were asking people to recite an Arabic prayer called the Shahada.
"One of the women who was with us got a text from her husband saying, they're asking people to say the Islamic oath, and if you don't know it, they kill you," said the businessman, who insisted on anonymity out of fear for his safety.
He threw away his passport. Then he downloaded the Arabic prayer and wrote it on his palm.
Al-Shabab's attempts to identify Muslims are clear in the 16-page transcript from the conference of Islamic scholars held in the Somali town of Baidoa, an area known to be under Shabab control in 2011, according to Somalia specialist Kenneth Menkhaus, a political science professor at Davidson College in North Carolina. The scholars issued several fatwas defining exactly who was a Muslim and who was an apostate.
The document states it is halal, or lawful, to kill and rob those who commit crimes against Islam: "The French and the English are to be treated equally: Their blood and their money are halal wherever they may be. No Muslim in any part of the world may cooperate with them in any way. ... It leads to apostasy and expulsion from Islam," it says. Further on it adds: "Accordingly, Ethiopians, Kenyans, Ugandans and Burundians are just like the English and the French because they have invaded the Islamic country of Somalia."
Former FBI supervisory special agent Ali Soufan, who investigated the bombing of the United States embassies in East Africa as well as the attack on the USS Cole, said that the gathering of dozens of religious scholars in an area under Shabab control harkens back to an al-Qaida conference in Afghanistan around 1997. That conference defined America as a target, Soufan said, leading to the bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
"You see something very similar here," said Soufan. "It's the same playbook."
In a second document dated Feb. 29, 2012 — just two weeks after al-Shabab joins al-Qaida — the organization warns Muslims to stay away from buildings occupied by non-Muslims, chillingly predicting and justifying the death of Muslims at Westgate.
"And so all Muslims must stay far away from the enemy and their installations so as not to become human shields for them, and so as not to be hurt by the blows of the mujahedeen directed at the Crusader enemies," it says. "There is no excuse for those who live or mingle with the enemies in their locations."
Yet at the same time it says: "The mujahideen are sincere in wanting to spare the blood of their brother Muslims, and they don't want a Muslim to die from the bullets directed at the enemies of God."
This is a concession for an organization that since its inception had killed people constantly, said Rudolph Atallah, who tracked Shabab as Africa counterterrorism director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2003 to 2007.

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"They would just go and mow people down," Atallah said. "They are now sending a clear message that, 'Look, we're different ... We're no longer indiscriminately killing. We're protecting innocent Muslims and we are trying to kill quote-unquote 'infidels,' nonbelievers."
A similar tactic paid off in January after al-Qaida-linked terrorist Moktar Belmoktar attacked a gas installation in Algeria, Atallah said. When his fighters freed hundreds of Muslim employees, a Facebook page dedicated to him exploded with "Likes."
Several hours after the gunshots at Westgate Mall, the people cowering inside the Barclays bank heard a commotion. As the attackers approached, the Jewish businessman spit on his hand to erase the words he had by then committed to memory.
The door opened.
He exhaled. It was the police.
Several floors above, 14-year-old Patel looked for a place to hide on the roof. When the jihadists came up the stairs and threw a grenade, he didn't hesitate. He jumped, crushing his ankle on the pavement below.
He said he would not have known how to answer their questions.
Kwame 12 years ago

Jingo Bell it is a fact that the leaders of Christian countries that laid the egg of the Mujahideen and hatched it in the mountains of Pakistan and the Saudi Arabian desert are still supporting them in all ways in Syria. They ...
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Jingo Bell it is a fact that the leaders of Christian countries that laid the egg of the Mujahideen and hatched it in the mountains of Pakistan and the Saudi Arabian desert are still supporting them in all ways in Syria. They did it in Libya and Khadafi is not a Christian or a member of traditional African religion. The fact remains that Muslims are killing each other in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Mali, Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.
The blood of a single person who dies anywhere in the world from Islamic terrorist lies on the hand and head of NATO members and their citizens. Who laid the egg of Mujahideen in the Tarabora caves in Pakistan? NATO takes the blame for all this carnage.
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

If I understood your argument, you were trying to say it was NATO which told Al Shaba to kill those innocent Kenyans, right?

Why Al Shaba did not blow themselves up? For it is common among Muslims to blow themselves up. My ...
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If I understood your argument, you were trying to say it was NATO which told Al Shaba to kill those innocent Kenyans, right?

Why Al Shaba did not blow themselves up? For it is common among Muslims to blow themselves up. My friend, you think like you are one of those terrorists. Why did Al Shaba spare Muslims before they sprayed bullets on Christians, Jews and others?

It is not NATO. The problem is the teaching of Islam. Islamic Quran is full of hate.The western countries you are talking about have opened their boarders for these Muslims to come. In the crisis they are having in Middle East, these Muslims prefer to go to Christian civilization to Islamic countries. Western Countries don't treat Muslims bad. The Muslims, when they come to your country, they want to establish their deadly religion and wants all people to join. They believe Islam is the only true religion. Do you know Mosques ans Islamic centers that are been built in America every year? Do Christians have such privilege to build churches in Muslims countries? No !

The problem isn't NATO. It is Islam and the perception of Muslims in this world. Let the Western countries cut off all relationship with Muslims countries, and there will still be Islamic terrorism. Quran teaches that Islam will conquer and rule the whole world.These Islamic fanatics think they have to initiate this satanic idea. So, my friend, the motive behind these 'mujahidens' to fight and take over the world. It is not NATO nor anybody's doing that these Islamic terrorists are killing innocent civilians.
Awura Ama 12 years ago

Only a trokosi will write this to attack all muslims because of the death of a trokosi hero.It is so sad these people didn't find nothing wrong by killing Ghanaians they envy in the name of a senseless revolution but one sa ...
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Only a trokosi will write this to attack all muslims because of the death of a trokosi hero.It is so sad these people didn't find nothing wrong by killing Ghanaians they envy in the name of a senseless revolution but one saying is what goes around come's around.Some hard working Ghanaians were killed about 32-35 years ago but eventually one of the achitects of that senseless killings had one day as his bad day and his people are talking forgetting that the evil that men do live's after them.Leave the muslims alone.
Sayse 12 years ago

The dangers of militant Islam is a grave concern to the world that many folks are aware of and planning on what to do though no one will talk about it openly.

You and your family could be next. They dont care who you are ...
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The dangers of militant Islam is a grave concern to the world that many folks are aware of and planning on what to do though no one will talk about it openly.

You and your family could be next. They dont care who you are as long as they think you oppose their views you are a fair target. They just murdered over 60 defenseless students last week in Nigeria while bombing a church killing 100s the same day Kenya was attacked.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

OK, Awura Ama, thanks for your views. Can we accept that deranged Muslims had killed one more person too much and they are now under counter-offensive from his tribe's member, since tribe is what you view everything? Happy n ...
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OK, Awura Ama, thanks for your views. Can we accept that deranged Muslims had killed one more person too much and they are now under counter-offensive from his tribe's member, since tribe is what you view everything? Happy now? Then clap for yourself!

Just as they also don't take prisoners and don't fear death, I also intend to take no prisoners and don't fear their murderous ways in the name of their religion. Just leave me alone else you become collateral damage! Some of you are something else!

Andy-K
Esi Kitson 12 years ago

You and your Ewe team are making Akadu an angel and proving his point of Ewe tribalism as many have done. I am surprised that none of you has critiqued the name-calling of Akans as baboons, monkeys, etc.

You and your Ewe team are making Akadu an angel and proving his point of Ewe tribalism as many have done. I am surprised that none of you has critiqued the name-calling of Akans as baboons, monkeys, etc.
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

Illiterate Sarpong keeps hiding under Pseudonym because it is hard for him to write none of you have as he wrote ;

'None of you has'.....hahahahahahaha

Illiterate Sarpong Texas Fertilizer Factory Watchman, what are you ...
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Illiterate Sarpong keeps hiding under Pseudonym because it is hard for him to write none of you have as he wrote ;

'None of you has'.....hahahahahahaha

Illiterate Sarpong Texas Fertilizer Factory Watchman, what are you afraid of?
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Get off my back. Don't you know violence begets violence, and peace begets peace? Where were you when the bloody Okoampa Ahoofe and the stupid Ken Agyapong called for annihilation of Ewes? Just mind yourself there.

Get off my back. Don't you know violence begets violence, and peace begets peace? Where were you when the bloody Okoampa Ahoofe and the stupid Ken Agyapong called for annihilation of Ewes? Just mind yourself there.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Fool. What good comes from Islam? If you had not attended Christian-established schools, where do you think you'd be by now? Fool for the second time.

Fool. What good comes from Islam? If you had not attended Christian-established schools, where do you think you'd be by now? Fool for the second time.
Bernard 12 years ago

Dear Awura Ama, did you bother to ask your dad why he left your mum for a trokosi woman? Well, it's because she stinks from her under. No doubt, you have body odour that drives even flies away. Hahahaaaa.

Dear Awura Ama, did you bother to ask your dad why he left your mum for a trokosi woman? Well, it's because she stinks from her under. No doubt, you have body odour that drives even flies away. Hahahaaaa.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Liar! When, where and how did I defend trokosi? I am not even a cultural relativist and so don't defend so-called African cultures as pristine.

Not a single person was up to scratch against me on Okyeame. Not even Dr Geor ...
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Liar! When, where and how did I defend trokosi? I am not even a cultural relativist and so don't defend so-called African cultures as pristine.

Not a single person was up to scratch against me on Okyeame. Not even Dr George Ayittey nor Dr Kofi Ellison. I have stored on floppies every single one of those exchanges.

No, I support my positions with independent sources and hard empirical evidence and allow them to speak for me. After all, I wasn't there when those things happened! Doesn't mean I don't express my own opinions or interpretations. I do so in very unique ways.

You asked for my opinion on my quote of Dennis Austin which exposed how Busia and the PP depicted Ewes during the 1969 Gen. elections. I had given that before in my lengthy response to Prof. Ayittey, just hinting at what I know and has been reserving for my book. So here is a bit again on one item in that quote I mentioned before. "I ironed the shirt for my father that day as usual for him to appear before the Committee of Enquiry sitting in camera who removed Gen Ankrah as Head of State. All the charges were correct and proven, so it wasn't an "Ewe plot," as summed up by Austin was the popular opinion.

Anyway, this posting is on Islamic slavery and violence.

BTW, who do I feel inferior too? You? Ha! ha! ha! From Mamprobi to Kaneshie Orbit Cinema in 1960, only two people had Mercedes car and my father was one and I should grow up with an inferiority complex??? Ha! ba! Me grandson of NC, feared head of the Native Police? I am a Kwawukume, don't you know? One of them was in the LegCo from 1916-42 when he resigned out of old age and failing health. He spoke not only English but also German and French and a number of W. African languages and so was no "illiterate chief"! Because we don't boast doesn't mean that we aren't secured and proud of what we are!

Get off my back, you pathetic wannabe! OK. Call me a bigot for looking down on a plebeien like you who doesn't know his place!

Andy-K
Kwame 12 years ago

Andy-K, Etroxovi and Etrokoshi are religions just like the Abram religions, however the adherents of Etroxovi and Etrokoshi are not going round the world cutting off peoples head as the Abram religions do. The fact remains th ...
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Andy-K, Etroxovi and Etrokoshi are religions just like the Abram religions, however the adherents of Etroxovi and Etrokoshi are not going round the world cutting off peoples head as the Abram religions do. The fact remains that in our native Anlo the Etroxovis are the best educated name the Atsis, Atsiwogbes and even the Amegashis.
OMPITA [UK] 12 years ago

You say that you knew Fusilier Lee Rigby personally as a customer.

It makes you sound as if you are a shop keeper in London.

Can you explain further what you mean by this?

You say that you knew Fusilier Lee Rigby personally as a customer.

It makes you sound as if you are a shop keeper in London.

Can you explain further what you mean by this?
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Yes, I took over a call centre and turned it into a business centre in order to be earning some extra income in addition to my day job and hopefully go back to school to re-start a PhD programme when I stopped my day job. Did ...
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Yes, I took over a call centre and turned it into a business centre in order to be earning some extra income in addition to my day job and hopefully go back to school to re-start a PhD programme when I stopped my day job. Didn't work out as planned 'cos some Nigerian hoodlums took over the shop in my absence and turned it into a 419 centre, etc. It's been one long nightmare, as the Police have refused to do something serious about the situation, since they need crime too to justify their existence and stop the budget cuts.

OK. Why are you interested in my biz affairs?

Andy-K
AHOOFE,the hopeless man 12 years ago

you shoudn't have mind that swine...

you shoudn't have mind that swine...
Bea (UK) 12 years ago

I know you very well! You brag a lot, but nothing to show to show for it. How long have you been living in the UK, about 25 years now, and you now wish to do a PhD! You are here insulting PhDs and now you want to go for one! ...
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I know you very well! You brag a lot, but nothing to show to show for it. How long have you been living in the UK, about 25 years now, and you now wish to do a PhD! You are here insulting PhDs and now you want to go for one! Cut slack. Your writing is more than a terrorist!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

What do I brag about? Money and houses? I have none! I don't even use a car here in London, not that I can't afford one; at least on credit.

My Nigerian associates had told me a long time ago that I wouldn't get rich the ...
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What do I brag about? Money and houses? I have none! I don't even use a car here in London, not that I can't afford one; at least on credit.

My Nigerian associates had told me a long time ago that I wouldn't get rich the way I am. I refused to help them move dodgy monies or defraud credit card companies through my business for a cut. I like it that way: I sleep soundly!

You know what? I can return to Ghana empty handed and won't starve nor sleep in the open. If it comes to the worst, I can go to Anloga and retrieve our grandpa's shallot beds and go into cultivation of vegetables and potatoes for the hostel industry! Earlier last year, I asked my mum what she was doing about her farm beds some relatives were farming without making any "akonta". She retorted? "Do you want to come and farm them? What are you people doing about your grandfather's beds?" I laughed and she laughed and we both agreed that those farming them also need to eat and we can eat and clothe ourselves without asking them to make akonta to us. After all, our children won't even need them in the future!

Material things you blokes call "achievements" don't matter to some of us.

I wrote an article on a serious issue afflicting we Africans and some of you can only come to attack m eon personal things, including some claiming to have PhDs! Bah! Uncivilised nonentities! That's why Torgbui [Sri II] told Gbedemah and Nkrumah that they should leave one white man for him when they came for support to get independence for the Gold Coast.

Andy-K
KB 12 years ago

Akadu Mensema is so clearly obsessed with hatred for Ewes she hallucinatorily
interprets any meaningful discourse that makes the least reference to an Ewe as implying a defence of them.See her here attempting to rationalise ...
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Akadu Mensema is so clearly obsessed with hatred for Ewes she hallucinatorily
interprets any meaningful discourse that makes the least reference to an Ewe as implying a defence of them.See her here attempting to rationalise slavery in the name of Islam just because those who murdered Kofi Awoonor did so in the name of Islam.Hear her denigrating someone as having an inferiority complex when obviously she is the one exhibiting it with her bogus attempt to impress us as having read about slavery in the name of Islam.Kwasiani like that.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

You are fuuuuny!

Anyone who questions Rawlings' atrocities is anti Ewe!

Anyone who questions NDC policies is anti-Ewe!

Anyone who comments on posting by Ewes is anti-Ewe.

Anyone who writes anything about Ewe publ ...
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You are fuuuuny!

Anyone who questions Rawlings' atrocities is anti Ewe!

Anyone who questions NDC policies is anti-Ewe!

Anyone who comments on posting by Ewes is anti-Ewe.

Anyone who writes anything about Ewe public figures is anti-Eww!

Anyone who is proud of his/her own ethnic values is anti-Ewe!

Folks, you should feel comfortable in your own skin! Don't allow other people's opinion to shake your core values.

What are you look for? Anyone who does not eat akpele and Keta school boys is also anti-Ewe!

Folks grow up and speak to the anti-Akan nonsense that goes on here!
AKADU "THE SOCIAL OUTCAST 12 years ago

AKADU,just scan your brain before upgrading it,it lack 'the power of love for yourself and your imaginary enermies THE EWES.

AKADU,just scan your brain before upgrading it,it lack 'the power of love for yourself and your imaginary enermies THE EWES.
AKADU "THE SOCIAL OUTCAST 12 years ago

the best way to scan your brain/minds is to read God's words daily and hear his voice...and to hear his voice,you have to tune down or switch off the volume of your bitterness/meaningless hatred for your imaginary enemies THE ...
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the best way to scan your brain/minds is to read God's words daily and hear his voice...and to hear his voice,you have to tune down or switch off the volume of your bitterness/meaningless hatred for your imaginary enemies THE EWES,for GOD IS LOVE!...
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Shut up. Who brought this ethnic scuffle to this site? Was it Ewes? Ask that your mentally sick cousin, Ahoofe, why he is always after the neck of Ewes because of Rawlings? Your memory must have limited storage to forget that ...
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Shut up. Who brought this ethnic scuffle to this site? Was it Ewes? Ask that your mentally sick cousin, Ahoofe, why he is always after the neck of Ewes because of Rawlings? Your memory must have limited storage to forget that Ewes also bore the brunt of the Rawlings regime and not the Akans alone.

Nobody forces you to eat akple and Keta school boys.
AHOOFE,the hopeless man 12 years ago

don't waste you time on those BATS who sleeps with their senseless head downword

don't waste you time on those BATS who sleeps with their senseless head downword
Kojo! 12 years ago

pay her/him no mind.She's a very ugly man-woman

pay her/him no mind.She's a very ugly man-woman
KK 12 years ago

I don't think Ewes think they are above reproach. No ethnic group is. Rawlings is an individual who happens to be Ewe. He can be criticised without involving all Ewes even if many Ewes voted for him. Ewe public figures can be ...
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I don't think Ewes think they are above reproach. No ethnic group is. Rawlings is an individual who happens to be Ewe. He can be criticised without involving all Ewes even if many Ewes voted for him. Ewe public figures can be written about and criticized like one would do about any public figure who does wrong. It is unfair to criticize them BECAUSE they are Ewes. The wrongs our politicians are doing to us cannot be denominated in ethnic terms. An academic like you should not come down to the petty words used to describe ethnic groups by non-academics on this forum. We expect something better from you. An Ewe public figure who does wrong should be criticized because of the wrong he or she has done, not because someone else also insults Akans. What has Keta school boys and akple got to do with the important discussion of the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian? It is in the same way as what Asantes eat has nothing to do with that subject. Educated ones like you should raise the level of the discussion above petty name calling.

Some of the issues touched on by Andy in this article are dear to your own heart. And he has made some points worthy of taking up. But because the man is in your bad books (as Awoonor is) you don't seem to see that.

And your academic training should enable you to see that if Ewes, generally, are not as boastful as Akans or flaunt the wealth they have the way Asantes, in particular, do, that is not a sign of their lack of self-confidence. These guys simply have different values!!! And you know better than to say that someone's values are better than another person's. Are you not a sociologist?
Esi Kitson 12 years ago

Akadu isa right! You just can't tolerate her views!

Akadu isa right! You just can't tolerate her views!
Richard Acquah 12 years ago

It is errorneous for anybody to assume that one of the factors, which breeds this devilish behaviour is poverty. I would like to point out that majority of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudis, and they are one of the richest oil p ...
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It is errorneous for anybody to assume that one of the factors, which breeds this devilish behaviour is poverty. I would like to point out that majority of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudis, and they are one of the richest oil producing countries in the world. The problem is the faith. There are a lot of seriously poor people in the world yet they don't commit these evil acts. So Andy I beg to differ on your assersion of socio-economic dimension. No matter how rich they become their agenda is to dominate the rest of the world with their primitive religion.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Richard,

You are indeed right about the religion being the problem. That's my own position. It is for the leaders of those atrocities an ideological issue, which they believe in, which makes them even the more dangerous. N ...
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Richard,

You are indeed right about the religion being the problem. That's my own position. It is for the leaders of those atrocities an ideological issue, which they believe in, which makes them even the more dangerous. No one can say Osama Bin Laden was a poor man. Neither were the 9/11 culprits. You can't win any arguments with those types and/or change their minds.

These rich, upper and middle class men take advantage of the frustrations of poor people, uninformed vulnerable and discontented young men, some of whom even come from middle class homes. As is the case with religion, even rich people can fall prey to the religious cults, charlatans and conmen. Certain factors predispose them to that. Those are the factors covered by the "socio-economic" conditions, and the poor and uninformed are the ones most at risk. They form the recruits for the bigger problem.

Andy-K
C. K. MAN 12 years ago

The only problem is you are an EWE fool as usual with EWES. Trokosi IDIOT!

The only problem is you are an EWE fool as usual with EWES. Trokosi IDIOT!
Esi Kitson 12 years ago

You are pathetic bigot!

You are pathetic bigot!
Kwame 12 years ago

NATO terrorist presidents and prime ministers also claim to be civilized and rich, thus the problem is with the Abram religions, that religion breeds terror.

NATO terrorist presidents and prime ministers also claim to be civilized and rich, thus the problem is with the Abram religions, that religion breeds terror.
ZAK 12 years ago

ur lacking knowlledge as to the couse of 9/11, it was political and more inside job, infact it was inside job done by Americans themselves, infact it was political, any one who try to read religiouse meaning to it is mearly i ...
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ur lacking knowlledge as to the couse of 9/11, it was political and more inside job, infact it was inside job done by Americans themselves, infact it was political, any one who try to read religiouse meaning to it is mearly ignorant and does not know what Americans are up to.
KABIYESI 12 years ago

Great piece! Mental slavery in the name of religion is destroying Africa's progress.

Great piece! Mental slavery in the name of religion is destroying Africa's progress.
kofi wayo 12 years ago

I agree with u on ur methods of how to confront this extremist.But disagree with u on the strong words of description which may obstrcuct your own strategy. I think ots better to call people to reason with words of wisdom and ...
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I agree with u on ur methods of how to confront this extremist.But disagree with u on the strong words of description which may obstrcuct your own strategy. I think ots better to call people to reason with words of wisdom and understanding. That way we can make a head way no matter how long
Pinkus 12 years ago

Your article is a bundle of mabojumbo. Your arguments are as confused as the religious bigotry and hatred you are trying to sow. Could you direct your energy to a more productive endeavour?

Your article is a bundle of mabojumbo. Your arguments are as confused as the religious bigotry and hatred you are trying to sow. Could you direct your energy to a more productive endeavour?
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

Dear Brother,

I have been following the comments on your article. Brilliant one there.

I am appalled at what I read: Can't we once deal with real isssues affecting us as a people without "tribalizing" them?

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Dear Brother,

I have been following the comments on your article. Brilliant one there.

I am appalled at what I read: Can't we once deal with real isssues affecting us as a people without "tribalizing" them?

Do we think Al-Shabab and terrorists in general can tell the Ewe from the Asante?

Our people must learn to separate "tribal" fantacies from potential issues capable of destroying. We need to do something serious about our educational system. It's a shame.

Anyway, bravo to you, Andy, for another brilliant piece. Let's learn to pay attention to real the issues.

Thank you
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

My Brother,

Thanks for the encouragement. The Ghanaweb Administrator messed up the post by posting without the clear paragraphs to separate the many distinct issues I commented on under the general rubric of slavery, etc. ...
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My Brother,

Thanks for the encouragement. The Ghanaweb Administrator messed up the post by posting without the clear paragraphs to separate the many distinct issues I commented on under the general rubric of slavery, etc.

Dovetailing them like that certainly is confusing for those who are not familiar with the subject and the associated discourse.

Part 2 is direct to the point and so actually answered directly to the heading, as you'd see. That's where the meat is, not the introduction which covers a wide ranging number of issues in anticipation of the usual responses and objections. I can see some already but I had tackled them in Part 2.

As for Akadu and Co., there is hardly anything we can do to help them. As more and more people get informed, they lose those who cheer them on. In fact, some of those expected followers will even turn on them, as happened on Okyeame years back in the 1990s. Unfortunately, Ghanaweb's anonymity has allowed many to hide under monikers to continue their nonsense. I shall soon serve them some hot dishes to digest.

Andy-K
Bea (UK) 12 years ago

Given the ongoings here by Andy-K and his team, Akadu looks like a prophet!

Given the ongoings here by Andy-K and his team, Akadu looks like a prophet!
A.RAZAK 12 years ago

It clearlly shows ur deficite of knowwlledge of Islam and Arrabs,it does not mean every Arab is a muslim or every Muslim is an Arab,just like christianity Jesus emerged from jews does not mean that evry christian is a jew,Inf ...
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It clearlly shows ur deficite of knowwlledge of Islam and Arrabs,it does not mean every Arab is a muslim or every Muslim is an Arab,just like christianity Jesus emerged from jews does not mean that evry christian is a jew,Infact Islam came for the whole of humanity(the whole world)unlike christianity where Jesus was sent for only the jews, Infact in the sight of God we are all one as Quran rightly said "I created u in to different:colors, tribes, countries,so that u may identify each other and not to despite one other" Plse, a good religiouse person should open up his/her mind to learn scriptures of other faith. ISLAM IS PERFECT BUT AM NOT U CAN'T JUDGE ISLAM BASE ON MY ACTIONS, READ THE HOLLY QURAN UR SELF.

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