Bawumia's call for a muslim representation at the Flagstaff House

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Obuamah 9 years ago

I am sorry to have to comment on this idiocy. The writer appears to me to be an educated illiterate whose mind has no capacity for factual memories which should serve as guides into the present and future. I will not waste my ...
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I am sorry to have to comment on this idiocy. The writer appears to me to be an educated illiterate whose mind has no capacity for factual memories which should serve as guides into the present and future. I will not waste my time reminding this idiot of the treatment meted to Aliu Mahama, the issues about the haj, issues relating to the passing in Parliament the act on mosley holidays, introduction of the Islamic education unit of the GES, recognition of the office of the National Chief Imam, and many more. By the way, is Bawumia a devout Moslem? He appears to me a nominal one who only found it convenient to to perform the haj in order to boost his political standing within the moslem/Zongo community. Shame on you and all those who reason and think like you. Islamic jurisprudence is beyond your infantile minds, so we moslems will not allow you to bring our faith to your pathetic level. Wassallam!!!!!
Angel 9 years ago

Nowhere in the constitution is religious balance mentioned as a requirement for executive or public appointments. The only criteria are regional and gender balance, though the Directive Principles of State Policy in Chapter S ...
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Nowhere in the constitution is religious balance mentioned as a requirement for executive or public appointments. The only criteria are regional and gender balance, though the Directive Principles of State Policy in Chapter Six talks about integration and non-discrimination.
I have problems with Bawumia:
The question is, on what basis will Dr Bawumia ensure that the staff of the presidency or the executive arm of government is representative of Christians and Muslims? How is the religious balance to be achieved, proportionally based on total population or what? Would appointments be made on the basis of one’s religion and not competence? How would an Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration appoint two-thirds of ministers from the legislature as proportionate representatives of Christians and Muslims? What about the other minority faith as well as those without any religious belief? Is Bawumia suggesting that by merely having a Vice-President as a Muslim his so-called religious balance would be achieved? What did the last NPP Christian-Muslim led administration do for Muslims in Ghana?

To say that Dr Bawumia is a disappointment is an understatement, especially for him to make such dangerous statement against the background of the rise in global Islamic fundamentalism and the recent demands by some misguided Muslim students in Christian schools not say Christian prayers at morning assemblies. This is not what is expected of a future Vice-President
Abodiee 9 years ago

Oyii wa! Extremism in the offing. I rest my case.

Oyii wa! Extremism in the offing. I rest my case.
#truth 9 years ago

#truth

#truth
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago

If you don't see anything wrong with Bawumia's poisonous Islamic campaign and the religious sensitivity of his call in his attempt to appeal to Muslim voters, then it appears very soon you people will be shouting 'Allahu Akba ...
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If you don't see anything wrong with Bawumia's poisonous Islamic campaign and the religious sensitivity of his call in his attempt to appeal to Muslim voters, then it appears very soon you people will be shouting 'Allahu Akbar' here in Ghana.
JJ 9 years ago

Ignorant idiot. We heard what Bawumia said at your sissala east. You can't defend nothing. By the way if a muslim can't refer to another as a khafir why do Muslims massacre Muslims ala boko haram?

Ignorant idiot. We heard what Bawumia said at your sissala east. You can't defend nothing. By the way if a muslim can't refer to another as a khafir why do Muslims massacre Muslims ala boko haram?
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

If you think so, then you must be an idiot!

We all read what Bawumia said and your attempt to justify it falls flat on its face.

Ghana is constitutionally a secular state and so Bawumia has no right whatsoever bringin ...
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If you think so, then you must be an idiot!

We all read what Bawumia said and your attempt to justify it falls flat on its face.

Ghana is constitutionally a secular state and so Bawumia has no right whatsoever bringing religion of any kind into the Flagstaff House beyond the ceremonial role that it plays.

Those of us whose cosmogony has evolved to the state of the civilised people find objectionable the way even Mills and Mahama carry their backward superstitious into the seat of govt.

Andy-K
Agyekum 9 years ago

This writer is clueless just like his master Bawumia

This writer is clueless just like his master Bawumia
V. Populi 9 years ago

Mr. Man, if it is balance you want, don't forget that that Muslims only make about 15 or 16 percent of the total population of Ghana and should therefore by your assessment be entitled to 15 or 16 percent of whatever is on of ...
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Mr. Man, if it is balance you want, don't forget that that Muslims only make about 15 or 16 percent of the total population of Ghana and should therefore by your assessment be entitled to 15 or 16 percent of whatever is on offer. In contrast, women make up about 52 or 53 percent of the population. Should they also not agitate for balance and claim that a woman should always be president and a man should always be the vice president? How would you like that?
arz kyesuo 9 years ago

Hmmmmmm!!!! I thought the writer was going to objective in his write up at de beginning but going further he toned to a different direction. U can't blame one side for issues of this nature but is high time we condemned issue ...
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Hmmmmmm!!!! I thought the writer was going to objective in his write up at de beginning but going further he toned to a different direction. U can't blame one side for issues of this nature but is high time we condemned issues if this nature and stop the comparing of others doing or saying such ,is bad n must be condemned.

Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

Are you aware there are Muslims in the NDC or do you believe and can prove with facts there are no Muslims in the NDC? My advice for you is not look to politics to be inclusive if society is not inclusive; representatives in ...
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Are you aware there are Muslims in the NDC or do you believe and can prove with facts there are no Muslims in the NDC? My advice for you is not look to politics to be inclusive if society is not inclusive; representatives in government are drawn from community and societal makeup. Should we not pass a law that lists quotas for every government funded program and institution? Tell me; should we not have Christian pastors go into mosques and preach even as Alhajis go into Christian churches to preach as well?

You also show your ignorance by equating what the BA minister said with what Dr. Bawumia espouses. Saying Muslims in Ghana are not true Muslims can be a fact and you know it. After all the wars that have claimed million Muslim lives over the years between Shia and Sunni factions of the Muslim religion is about which of the two is believed to be the true Muslim practices and adheres to Prophet Mohammed’s rules. Is the BA minister to saying what is at the root of the intra-Muslim sect wars? What Dr. Bawumia is advocating in his speech is a political quota system that must not stand in Ghana else we will have to include sex, sexual orientation, tribe, demography in every government makeup including the educated and uneducated Fuseni Abdul-Fatawu
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Now you have the dunderhead Bawumia claiming the right to represent Muslims in Flagstaff House. This is the consequence of the reckless and fatuous decision of our political parties ...
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Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Now you have the dunderhead Bawumia claiming the right to represent Muslims in Flagstaff House. This is the consequence of the reckless and fatuous decision of our political parties going to the north to choose vice presidential candidates. How could the fathead John Mahama, a clueless northerner, and corrupt to the core get close to the seat of government, let alone become President? It is stupid affirmative action for northerners that allowed this bloke, Mahama to be President.

Our stupid leaders of political parties lose sight of the fact that choosing a vice presidential candidate is the same as choosing a substantive President. This inane and reckless policy has allowed northerners to get near the seat of government through the backdoor. Now they feel it is their right to be in Flagstaff House, this is what happens when a nation is bereft of common sense.

As I have said so many times, what keeps me awake at night is the prospect of Bawumia becoming President when Akuffo Addo dies during his term of office. This is no joke, Akuffo Addo is 72 and in poor health. He has been sneaking to South Africa and UK for treatment, and it is not whimsical by any stretch of the imagination to suggest that he may not complete his term in office. Then what? Bawumia!!! A guy who couldn't find a job on his own merit. The two jobs he has held since graduating from Simon Fraser University in Canada has either been through the influence of his famous father, Mumuni Bawumia, or through JA Kufuor. This is the person who now speaks as having all the panacea to our country's economic problems.

Our stupidity always precedes us.
simple truth 9 years ago

BAWUMIA was highlighting the IMPONTANCE of bringing the TWO SOULS OF GHANA together. THIS IS COMMON SENSE.WHILES most votes for NDC come from the MUSLIM communities,the TRUE INTEREST of the MUSLIMS in the PRESIDENTIAL and VIC ...
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BAWUMIA was highlighting the IMPONTANCE of bringing the TWO SOULS OF GHANA together. THIS IS COMMON SENSE.WHILES most votes for NDC come from the MUSLIM communities,the TRUE INTEREST of the MUSLIMS in the PRESIDENTIAL and VICE- PRESIDENTIAL CHAMBERS HAD NEVER EXISTED in the NDC and for NATIONAL STABILITY IT'S DANGEROUS.THIS is a COMMON SENSE MESSAGE which BAWUMIA brought-up.
kweku trouble 9 years ago

What is this stupid obsession with "common sense"? You talk about common sense as if you know what that means. Don't use phrases because you heard people use them. What do you mean by "TWO SOULS OF GHANA"? What about Traditi ...
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What is this stupid obsession with "common sense"? You talk about common sense as if you know what that means. Don't use phrases because you heard people use them. What do you mean by "TWO SOULS OF GHANA"? What about Traditionalists? what souls are you talking about? Any time religion is mixed with politics, we know the outcome. Stop your idiocy!
Esi 9 years ago

I have always said that ' if you have to come back to explain what you meant after you have spoken, then you did not communicate well.
Ghanaians are fully awake now and whatever I'd spoken is properly analysed and scrutinize ...
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I have always said that ' if you have to come back to explain what you meant after you have spoken, then you did not communicate well.
Ghanaians are fully awake now and whatever I'd spoken is properly analysed and scrutinized.
Tell BAWUMIA it's too late to correct what he said. He should simply apologies and move on.
And you Fatau please stop defending the indefensible.
DAVID, TEMA 9 years ago

Bawumia continues his stupidity on a daily basis. I also want the fetish priest at antoa nyame to be represented.

Bawumia continues his stupidity on a daily basis. I also want the fetish priest at antoa nyame to be represented.
K Fosu 9 years ago

Fatau, do us one big favour, cast you mind around all the predominantly moslem countries in the world...ie Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Algeria, Bangladesh, and Indonesia and tell us one single Christian or Zorastrian ...
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Fatau, do us one big favour, cast you mind around all the predominantly moslem countries in the world...ie Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Algeria, Bangladesh, and Indonesia and tell us one single Christian or Zorastrian in their Parliaments? None.

Even Eygpt where the native Coptic Christians existed before the mercenaries of the "bogus" Arab Prophet invaded 7 years after his death cannot build a church without moslem officials harassing them. As for Morocco,Algeria,and Tunisia, Christianity was wiped out completely.

Ask your "Foolish Self" What sort of infrastructure...in terms of schools, railways,housing,hospitals etc did the Arab invaders bequeath to you guys in the north apart form their "nonsensical" fable book?

Now Read the following as to how these treacherous and barbaric "Sand Nigger" came to Africa and never went back.

‘Amr ibn al-‘As (Arabic: ???? ?? ??????; c.?585 – January 6, 664) was an Arab military commander who is most noted for leading the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640. A contemporary of Muhammad, and one of the Sahaba ("Companions"), who rose quickly through the Muslim hierarchy following his conversion to Islam in the year 8 AH (629). He founded the Egyptian capital of Fustat and built the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As at its center.
Amr belonged to the Banu Sahm[1] clan of the Quraysh. Assuming he was over eighty years old when he died, he was born before 592. 'Amr ibn al-'As was born in Arabia in the city of Mecca and died in Egypt.
al-'As ibn Wa'il (Arabic: ????? ?? ????) was the father of 'Amr ibn al-'As and Hisham ibn al-A'as. He was a part of Hilf al-Fudul[1]. Before his military career, ?Amr was a trader, who had accompanied caravans along the commercial trading routes through Asia and the Middle East, including Egypt.
'Amr was a shrewd, highly intelligent man who belonged to the nobility of the Quraysh. He fought with the Quraysh against Islam in several battles. As he went to fight the Muslims, he saw them praying, got highly interested and tried to find out more about Islam. He was determinedly hostile to Islam. In fact he was Quraysh’s envoy to the Negus, the ruler of Abyssinia. Once he converted to Islam with Khalid ibn al-Walid, he became a great commander fighting for the Islamic cause. The first mosque to be built in Africa was erected under his patronage and is still known as The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As. He came to Egypt as the commander in chief of the Muslim Arab troops in 640 AD.
Like the other Quraysh chiefs, he opposed Islam in the early days.
?Amr headed the delegation that the Quraysh sent to Abyssinia to prevail upon the ruler, A??ama ibn Abjar (possibly Armah), to turn away the Muslims from his country. The mission failed and the ruler of Abyssinia refused to oblige the Quraysh.
After the migration of Muhammad to Medina ?Amr took part in all the battles that the Quraysh fought against the Muslims.
He commanded a Quraish contingent at the battle of Uhud. He took with him his wife, Rayta bint Munabbih ibn al-Hajjaj, who was the mother of his son Abdullah.
?Amr ibn al-??s was married to Umm Kulthum bint Uqba but he divorced her when she embraced Islam.
In the company of Khalid ibn al-Walid, he rode from Mecca to Medina where both of them converted to Islam in 629-30. Abu Bakr, Umar and Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah served under ?Amr ibn al-??s in the campaign of Dhat as-Salasil and had offered their prayers behind him for many weeks. At that time, ?Amr ibn al-??s was their chief not only in the army but also as a leader in religious services.

Amr was sent by the Caliph Abu Bakr with the Muslim Arab armies into Palestine following Muhammad's death. It is believed that he played an important role in the Arab conquest of that region, and he is known to have been at the battles of Ajnadayn and Yarmouk as well as the siege of Damascus.

The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in modern-day Cairo
Following the success over the Byzantines in Syria, Amr suggested to Umar that he march on Egypt, to which Umar agreed.
The actual invasion began towards the end of 639, as Amr crossed the Sinai Peninsula with 3,500-4,000 men. He is reported to have celebrated the feast of pilgrimaga in Arish on 10th Dhul Hij A. H 18 or 12 December 640. After taking the small fortified towns of Pelusium (Arabic: Al-Farama) and beating back a Byzantine surprise attack near Bilbeis, Amr headed towards the Babylon Fortress (in the region of modern-day Coptic Cairo). After some skirmishes south of the area, Amr marched north towards Heliopolis, with 12,000 men reinforcements who had arrived on 6 June 640 reaching him from Syria, against the Byzantine forces in Egypt, under general Theodorus. The resulting Muslim victory at the Battle of Heliopolis brought about the fall of much of the country. The Heliopolis battle resolved fairly quickly, though the Babylon Fortress withstood a siege of several months, and the Byzantine capital of Alexandria, which had been the capital of Egypt for a thousand years, surrendered a few months after that. A peace treaty was signed in late 641, in the ruins of a palace in Memphis. Despite a brief re-conquest by Byzantine forces in 645, after the Muslim victory at the Battle of Nikiou the country remained firmly in Muslim Arab hands.
Needing a new capital, Amr suggested that they set up an administration in the large and well-equipped city of Alexandria, at the western edge of the Nile Delta. However, Caliph Umar refused, saying that he did not want the capital to be separated from him by a body of water. So in 641 Amr founded a new city on the eastern side of the Nile, centered on his own tent which was near the Babylon Fortress. Amr also founded a mosque at the center of his new city—it was the first mosque in Egypt, which also made it the first mosque on the continent of Africa. The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As still exists today in Old Cairo, though it has been extensively rebuilt over the centuries, and nothing remains of the original structure. One corner of the mosque contains the tomb of his son, 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As.
Although some Egyptians did not support the Byzantine forces during the Arab conquest, some villages started to organise against the new invaders. After the Battle of Nikiou on 13 May 641, Arab troops, having defeated the Byzantine forces, destroyed many Egyptian villages on their march to Alexandria as the Delta rebelled against the new invaders. The Egyptian resistance seems to have been village by village without a unified command and therefore failed.
After founding Fustat, Amr was then recalled to the capital (which had, by then, moved from Medina to Damascus) where he became Mu'awiyah's close advisor.
Muhammad had told Amr "that when you conquer Egypt be kind to its people because they are your protégée kith and kin".
Muhammad's wife, Mariyyah al-Qibtiyyah (Maria the Copt) was an Egyptian. After Amr ibn al-Aas conquered Egypt, he informed Mikakaus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, who retorted that "Only a prophet could invoke such a relationship!", referring to Abraham's marriage to Hagar.
Later life
After his military conquests, Amr was an important player in internal conflicts within the Islamic empire during the First Fitna.He played a role in the rise of Mu'awiyah, who reappointed him governor of Egypt. Amr died in Egypt in 664 during Mu'awiyah's reign.
Amr as Mu'awiyah's arbiter at the Battle of Siffin
Main article: Battle of Siffin
Late in Amr’s life, he was sent out on a mission from Mu'awiyah's camp to negotiate a deal after the battle of Siffin fought between Mu'awiyah and Ali. A first meeting was agreed upon by both parties, but no conclusion was reached. When Mu'awiyah was close to losing he stirred up political trouble for Ali and pushed him to agree to another meeting. Amr, taking this chance, made a pledge to Mu’awiyah that if he could defeat Ali then he should be appointed governor of Egypt. Mu’awiyah agreed and sent Amr as his representative In the framework of these negotiations both Mu’awiyah and Ali agreed to accept the Qur'an as the base for the final judgment and appoint Abd Allah b. Qays Abu Musa al-Ash’ari as the arbiter for the Ali camp and Amr as the arbiter for the Mu’awiyah camp. If they did not find what they were looking for in the Qur'an, they would use the example or Sunnah of the Prophet, consisting of the recorded actions from his life. Lastly, they decided that both Ali and Mu’awiyah would follow through with whatever verdict came out of the negotiations.
This led Amr to attempt to buy out Abu Musa, saying that if he sided with Mu’awiyah he would give him governance over any province he wanted. Abu Musa rejected this offer. So Amr advised Mu’awiyah to continue blaming Ali for the death of Uthman. Amr argued that Mu’awiyah had a blood revenge for his tribe – this being the reason for the violence and distrust of Ali. Both arbiters eventually agreed that neither Mu’awiyah nor Ali were worth of the role of caliph. This agreement was made in private between these two alone. As their choice was announced, people came together to hear the verdict. Amr let Abu Musa speak first:
“O people, surely the best of men is he who is good to himself and the most wicked is he who is evil towards himself. You know full well that these wars have spared neither the righteous and the God-fearing, nor the one in the right, nor the one in the wrong. I have, therefore, after careful consideration, decided that we should depose both Ali and Mu’awiya and appoint for this affair Abdullah b. Umar b. al-Khattab, for he has neither stretched a hand nor drawn a tongue in a these wars. Behold, I shall remove Ali from caliphate as I now remove my ring from my finger.”
Then it was Amr’s turn to speak:
“Behold, this is Abd Allah b. Qays Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari , the deputy of the people of Yaman to the Messenger and representative of Umar b. al-Khattab and the arbiter of the people of Iraq; he has removed his companion Ali from the caliphate. As for me, I confirm Mu’awiyah in the caliphate as firmly as this ring sits around my finger.”
This statement by Amr made Abu Musa upset because he said in secret that he would reject both of them as leader. This led to the fall of Ali’s power and the rise of Mu’awiyah as the leader of the Muslim empire, which would change the course of the Empire. Because of Amr’s support of Mu’awiyah, he was made the governor of Egypt.
Amr in Egypt.

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