The Historical Roots And Legacy of Religious Terrorism - Part 2

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Lafih 12 years ago

Interesting piece. it is unfortunate, though, that the high-tech powered media of America and Europe never have interest in this kind of history...the game of the day is to help set-up moslems and blame them for everything th ...
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Interesting piece. it is unfortunate, though, that the high-tech powered media of America and Europe never have interest in this kind of history...the game of the day is to help set-up moslems and blame them for everything there after. Just to add up. Prof. Dr. Frances kan of religion and the changing world wrote "As a God loving christian who must always say the truth, i stand to say that more innocent souls were humiliated and murdered by people of the christian faith (Christians) than any person or group of person of any religious denomination,....even in the 21st century"
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

Dear Andy,

Please forgive me. I chose to spend a lot of resources on Chriatianity and its role in the enslavement of Africans because you did a good job on the Arab Traans-Saharan Slave Trade and, therefore, I decided to c ...
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Dear Andy,

Please forgive me. I chose to spend a lot of resources on Chriatianity and its role in the enslavement of Africans because you did a good job on the Arab Traans-Saharan Slave Trade and, therefore, I decided to consider Christian Trans-Atlantantic Slave Trade.

Let's see waht we come up with in the subsequent installments.

Anyway, Prof. Salahuddin's disingenous. This was why I didn't want to interpret his kind of reasoning for readers.

We shall explore his faulty reasoning in more appreciable detail from other angles.

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

Hi Francis,

I wrote my short rejoinder in a hurry, hence many typos which one must decipher to understand what I wrote! Phew!

Couldn't find the post again later when I was less busy, only to re-appear today.

Now, in ...
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Hi Francis,

I wrote my short rejoinder in a hurry, hence many typos which one must decipher to understand what I wrote! Phew!

Couldn't find the post again later when I was less busy, only to re-appear today.

Now, interestingly, you raised the issue of armaments in the Arab world. Of course, arms are what are used for perpetrating violence and must therefore be part of the debate. I commented on that in my original piece of 1995 but deleted that portion in the recent series. Here's what I wrote about the arms supplies to the Arab world from the Western World, etc., and it is applicable today as 1995, whether Akadu likes it or not!

"Mandela and his arms trade must be exposed in order to stop more massacres in Africa with "cheap" S.Africa arms. What goes round, comes round. Even selling to Saudi Arabia is bad. They simply re-ship it into Africa to cause more mayhem. And note, Loay, this is my first mention of Saudi Arabia."

Hmm! You can notice that my first salvo was directed at Mandela of all people, for supplying arms to the Hutu regime that orchestrated the Rwandan genocide of April 1994. The "enemy" within Africa must also be dealt with!

We must not lose focus who the real enemy is though. I recollect an incidence when we radical African-Caribbeans were organising and participating in the marches against the intended attack on Iraq by the Western powers. There was this Sudanese from Darfur who was happy that Iraq was about to be attacked cos he claimed Saddam Hussein supplied arms to the repressive Sudanese regime. He would rather prefer to march in support of the attack. No amount of argument would persuade him that his position was ideologically flawed. It soon turned into who suffered most from enslavement b/n the guy and one Caribbean academic/intellectual/activist. I think that debate must be decisively concluded.

Let's see what you have up your sleeves.

Andy-K
MUHAMMAD-KAAMIL. 12 years ago

BOMBS AND GUNS WAS INVENTED BY THE TERRORIST IMPERIALISTS.Arabs are tribes not a skin color,there are Arabs who are darker than so-called blacks,these article is more than garbage is based on philosophical rhetoric.in every ...
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BOMBS AND GUNS WAS INVENTED BY THE TERRORIST IMPERIALISTS.Arabs are tribes not a skin color,there are Arabs who are darker than so-called blacks,these article is more than garbage is based on philosophical rhetoric.in every society we have criminals wicked evildoers no doubt.the articles should be on facts and clear evidence like IMF terrorist WORLD BANK terrorists,we need bombs and guns free world so that we can leave in peace.entertainment industry is menace to society etc.because we good Muslims don't no the word terrorism.what we knew in Islaam is the word KHAWAARIJ the dogs of HELL-FIRE,as prophet Muhammad Narrated peace be upon him and his family and those who follow them in righteousness.not he said and she said sentiments.
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Modin Sane, Nima 12 years ago

THE KORAN ASKS MUSLIMS TO BE KIND AND ACCEPTING OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. NOT TO THOSE WHO PRACTISED TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS LIKE AFRICANS. AFRICANS WERE CONSIDERED AS KAFFIRS.

ARABS STILL DO NOT CONSIDER BLACK AFRICANS AS HUM ...
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THE KORAN ASKS MUSLIMS TO BE KIND AND ACCEPTING OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. NOT TO THOSE WHO PRACTISED TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS LIKE AFRICANS. AFRICANS WERE CONSIDERED AS KAFFIRS.

ARABS STILL DO NOT CONSIDER BLACK AFRICANS AS HUMANS. JUST TALK TO ANY AFRICANS WHO HAS LIVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. IT IS IN THE DNA OF ARABS TO SEE BLACKS AS SUB-HUMAN.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIVE IN AMERICA ND EUROPE TODAY, YOU DONT KNOW RACISM UNTIL YOU HAVE LIVED AMONG ARABS AS A BLACK PERSON.
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francis kwarteng 12 years ago

Those interested in this controversy can see Tony Martin’s “The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.” You can also see “the Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” Vols. l &ll” and � ...
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Those interested in this controversy can see Tony Martin’s “The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.” You can also see “the Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” Vols. l &ll” and “Jews Selling Blacks.”

You should also see Lenni Brenner’s (Brenner is a White American Jewish academic whose articles on this controversy appeared in “The Amsterdam News”; he tells you about the Jewish role in slavery). These books have useful historical information to help you appreciate the nature of the controversy!

Most of the scholars Prof. Salahuddin quoted from were/are neither Muslims nor Christians: Molefi Kete Asante, Walter Rodney, JA Rogers, WEB Du Bois, Ivan Van Sertima, John Jackson (atheist), Cheikh Anta Diop (came from a strong Muslim family; he never explicitly said what his religion was. I have read all his books to know this; Diop is the most influential African scholar to date!).

And they are renowned (international) scholars. Some, like Ivan Van Sertima, advised the Nobel Committee on subjects related to literature; his scholarship changed pre-Columbian historiography and how the West viewed ancient Africa). Asante created the first doctoral program in African/African American Studies in the world; Asante, like Diop, is one of the most influential scholars in the world today. He has written 74 books on Africa and I have read most of them; Diop is the reason human civilization’s attributed to ancient Africa (ancient Black Egypt), not to Greece or Mesopotamia (See “The Peopling of Ancient Egypt & the Deciphering of the Meroitic Scrip,” which covers a 1974 UNESCO-organized international symposium where he single-handedly (with the world-renowned Central African Egyptologist Theophile Obenga) defeated the rest of the world; Du Bois was America’s first Urban Sociologist (and we can’t even begin to address the global impact of his scholarship). There are additional sources I excluded for the sake of analytic brevity.

The doctoral dissertation “The Ebb and Flow of Conflict: A History of Black-Jewish Relations Through 1900,” cited by the Moslem writer Demetric Muhammad, was written by a White American Jew, Dr. Harold Blackman.
Finally, we don’t have to blame Prof. Salahuddin (though I don’t necessarily agree with his analysis outside the scholars whose work he quoted from) because the quotes he attributed to Cheikh Anta Diop, Edward Wilmot Blyden, WEB Bu Bois, Ivan Van Sertima, and JA Rogers are all correct. I had read these scholars years ago before encountering Prof. Salahuddin’s provocative essay, which I did recently.

Dr. Degruy-Leary, Rev. Dr. William Jones, the Catholic Church, the 18th century Ghanaian Jacobus Capitein, and Frederick Douglas are Christians! Please let’s learn to put aside our religious sentiments and deal with the facts (which maybe discomforting given one’s religious affinity).

Please don’t rely on Prof.
Salahuddin’s bibliography. Get the bibliographies and look at the evidence he cites yourselves.
Who knows whether I am a Christian or Moslem!

I look at the bare facts. Understand that I never attempted to interpret them. I gave them to you as I saw them.
KB 12 years ago

Where in the bible does the christian god forbid slavery? You'd think Jesus, knowing fully well that his followers would be turn out to be murderous slave-owners, would have warned them about it.

Where in the bible does the christian god forbid slavery? You'd think Jesus, knowing fully well that his followers would be turn out to be murderous slave-owners, would have warned them about it.
RASH 12 years ago

HI GIDEON , MAY THE PEACE PROTECTIONS AND GUIDANCE OF ALLAH BE ON YOU . IF YOU QUOTING FROM THE QURAN OR THE HADITHS, YOU MUST BE SPECIFIC AND ACCEPT THE FACTS AS THERE ARE , DON'T GO ABOUT MISLEADING THE PUBLIC OF WHAT YOU D ...
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HI GIDEON , MAY THE PEACE PROTECTIONS AND GUIDANCE OF ALLAH BE ON YOU . IF YOU QUOTING FROM THE QURAN OR THE HADITHS, YOU MUST BE SPECIFIC AND ACCEPT THE FACTS AS THERE ARE , DON'T GO ABOUT MISLEADING THE PUBLIC OF WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW OF

Oyibaba 12 years ago

I beg to differ with the author's position in this controversial topic.

It is a moot point to consider someone who lives in the west, or considers himself a Christian, as a Christian when he is not living the life of a Chr ...
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I beg to differ with the author's position in this controversial topic.

It is a moot point to consider someone who lives in the west, or considers himself a Christian, as a Christian when he is not living the life of a Christian. In the same vein, a person cannot necessary be a Muslim by choosing to live among Muslims and label himself a Muslim.

"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit" (Matthew 7:18).

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7:20).

Christlikeness is the character of choice for the Christian. In thought, word, or deed he emulates Christ. As a servant or slave (doulos-Gk)of Christ,
his will belongs to him, and he lives to please his Lord.

A true Christian will not treat another person inhumanely. His treatment of a neighbor is governed by God's Law.

It is the total disregard of God's law that cupidity has became a default in a world which knows no God. Satan still uses pawns from every nation, race, tribe and religion.

Christlikeness is God's solution for for our world.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved"
(John 3:16-17).
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

It is true slavery had existed in the medieval empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, but but these "Slaves" had rights and were treated fairly. After a certain period of serving, the slaves were taken into the family where the ...
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It is true slavery had existed in the medieval empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, but but these "Slaves" had rights and were treated fairly. After a certain period of serving, the slaves were taken into the family where they lived as a free person.They respected the culture and linage of those that were enslaved. Slaves were also part of the family and often the line between slave and non-slave was blurred.Any person who abused a slave was held in high contempt by society.When Columbus explored the Americas the boom came for Black Ivory as Slaves were called. To work the Sugar Cane and Cotton fields many hands were needed and it was soon determined that the native Americans were too fragile for the job so one needed replacements.

First of all the Asantes had been very rich, long before the arrival of the first Europeans. Why do you think they came? Why do you think they fought us seven times? The Europeans introduced slavery. The Asantes did never work together with the colonialists, except for the Dutch!The Dutch were the only foreign allies of Asantes, supplying them with arms and ammunition during the Anglo-Asante Wars.

Asanteman was not created on basis of a master servant relationship. Many joined us voluntarily and conquered states were not called defeated states.Although they recognised the Asantehene as their overlord, they retained their sovereignty.Once their loyalties were ensured, member states of the Asante Union retained their independent existence. Their people were not seen as servants, but as brothers and sisters with their chief being given an important position in the kingdom. An Asante law created by Osei Tutu I, was the naturalization of the conquered states with all due rights as citizen. Whoever dared to tell his son, these people were from this and that place, conquered etc. had to pay with his life. They had to be fully be respected as real citizen.

Guess why Osei Tutu had to send his army to fight and conquer Denkyira again, just a year after the first war? It is because, he gave too much freedom to the conquered states and allowed their chiefs to rule over the subjects.When we conquered the other states, including Denkyira, we could have imposed people on them, but we didn't. We allowed them to rule themselves, only asking that they should have a linkage to the centre. We allowed them to administer their own affairs, to manage their own resources instead of taking them here, which would have been the case in a master-servant relationship.

Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we try everything to destroy it.

They are trying to deny the african holocaust. By holocaust I mean an act of genocide that is not only against the people himself, but also a crime against humanity. It expresses itself in three basic ways. First the modern masses destrucation of human life, that is why we cannot call it slave trade.They always try to deny what they did and try to make people believe they are responsible for their own oppression. The Europeans have oppressed the world and they want the world to believe that they somehow are saving us. They did it with the Native-Americans, they did it with the Africans, they did it with the Latinos, they did it with the Asians, they even do it to some of their own people. The ruling race class will always try to deny and refuse to take responsibility for the holocaust. They do that first by trying to call it other names like trade. Now, if the holocaust or enslavement is only trade, then it is business gone bad with collateral damage. If however it is what I said the modern masses destrucation of human life, that results in genocide, both as a cultural and pyhsical oppression, then this require reparations. The other thing they are trying to do is make us responsible for our slavery. Here they collapse three kind of people, perpetrators, collaborators and victims. The perpetrators are clearly the Europeans, the collaborators well in every society you get traitors like that. Some people even supported the British at the time King Prempeh I was being exiled, because they wanted to accede to some stools. The same kind of traitors shopped Yaa Asantewaa out to the British. It is like going to the Jews and tell them some of you collaborated, there were jews in the german Nazi army, they actually selected people to be killed. Imagine people looking for their families and you tell them you all need to apologize? The Jews are never called responsible for their holocaust, only Africans are. We don`t say the Jews are responsible, because we know it were the Nazis who killed them just like we know its the whites who killed us.
AFRIKABI 12 years ago

YES, SLAVES WERE KILLED TO ACCOMPANY YOUR DEAD NANA. THE ABRAFO DID THE JOB WELL. THIS IS WELL-DOCUMENTED FACT AND YOU KNOW IT.

NO CULTURE IS PERFECT. STOP PAINTING A ONE-SIDED PICTURE OF YOUR PERFECT PEOPLE. IT IS FALSEHO ...
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YES, SLAVES WERE KILLED TO ACCOMPANY YOUR DEAD NANA. THE ABRAFO DID THE JOB WELL. THIS IS WELL-DOCUMENTED FACT AND YOU KNOW IT.

NO CULTURE IS PERFECT. STOP PAINTING A ONE-SIDED PICTURE OF YOUR PERFECT PEOPLE. IT IS FALSEHOOD, IT IS UNTRUTH, IT IS IMMATURE. YOUR SLAVES WERE NOT TREATED THE SAME AS THE ROYALS OR REGULAR CITIZENS. THEY WERE PROPERTY, FOT GOD'S SAKE!

YOU MIGHT, IN YOUR BLIND OSTRICH STATE, BELIEVE THAT YOU TREAT YOUR FARM HANDS FAIRLY. IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO SAY. ASK THE FARM HANDS. ASK THE ONES YOU CALL PEPEFUOR IF THEY FEEL THE LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD YOU SO PROUDLY CLAIM.

OF COURSE, IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH OF USA, THE WHITES BELIEVED THEY TREATED THE AFRICAN SLAVES WELL. THIS IS ALWAYS THE STORY EVERYWHERE. THE SLAVER SINGS ABOUT THEIR LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR THE SLAVE. BAWUAH, ASK THE SLAVE. LET THE SLAVE TELL HIS STORY, LET THE ABAWA TELL HER STORY, LET THE DAGARTI FARM LABORER TELL HIS STORY.

PLEASE, SHUT YOUR LOUD MOUTH, AND LET THE VICTIMS SPEAK.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Nana,

I read both your posts. I like your zest you really need to be straighten up tremendously!

I'll see what I can do, by and by. Watch this space.

Andy-K

Nana,

I read both your posts. I like your zest you really need to be straighten up tremendously!

I'll see what I can do, by and by. Watch this space.

Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Folks,

This is something I wrote way back in Sep. 1997 during a debate generated on an African-American created forum about the genealogy or descent of black people, the complexion of Jesus, some blacks (African-Americans ...
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Folks,

This is something I wrote way back in Sep. 1997 during a debate generated on an African-American created forum about the genealogy or descent of black people, the complexion of Jesus, some blacks (African-Americans and the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia, and now some black Africans) claiming to be Jews/Israelites/Hebrews, or whatever. I was reviewing it to add some more meat and send it as a full article but in response to Nana, I'd like to present this for now.

Even though I could have written something else, I just posed some questions here, pointed a finger here and there to mark some paths for clearing up later. This may therefore appear as another muddle to some people, especially those I believe are victims of crooked thinking.

As you all know by now, according to Christian mythology, God destroyed all living creatures on earth with the exception of those saved by Noah and his family on the Ark.

Of course, the fishes and creatures living in water could be said to be exceptions too, since the flood waters could not be said to have drown them! The earth, the story goes on, was then re-populated by the humans and the flora and fauna from the Ark. It therefore follows that we Africans are also descendants of the sons and the wives of the three children of Noah - Shem, Ham and Japheth - assuming intermarriages between the off-springs of the children of these three brothers, instead of sister/brother conjugal relations and incest proper, both not uncommon in those days.

For a long time, Christians had held that we black Africans (not only the ancient Egyptians, Berbers and others identified as Hamites) are descendants of Canaan, the 4th and youngest son of Ham. Canaan was reportedly cursed by Noah, when he awoke from his drunken stupor, got to know that Ham had come to see him lying naked and told his brothers, who went backwards into his tent and covered his nakedness. This curse put on Canaan for some unexplainable reason, because he was not the one who saw Noah naked, was that he would become a slave to his brothers, serving them, drawers of water and hewers of rocks, as recorded in the Bible. Poor Canaan! That was before the rule about sons not bearing the sins of their fathers was invented, I suppose. Then, this "trokosi" logic could be said to make sense! (trokosi - vestal virgin- is a system of enslavement of innocent girls by some fetish houses for offences caused by relations, found up to today at parts of Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic).

Hmmm! Anyway, things might have been mightily bad in those riotous days before the deluge, with a dangerous and cursing, drunken-bolt (an alcoholic) like Noah being the only person to find favour with the Good Lord. Not quite a pleasing role model for our children in these trying times of alcoholism and use of drugs. It is bad enough to curse people even if curses don't work. That shall be the high moral value to be adhered to by all, if you are in my Moral Brigade. It can be broken at your own peril, of course.:-)

Now, having digressed a bit, the fact that Cush, the eldest son of Ham, was the one who allegedly settled in the area of upper Egypt and spreading to east and north Africa and, should be regarded as the father of the Hamites was smugly ignored in the bid to find a religious justification and moralization for the enslavement of Africans.

Perhaps, it can be argued that black Africans are not Cushite. Granted! But they are not descendants of Canaan either, by biblical accounts. Ancient Canaanites were Semitic (not negroid) and their home region is exactly the land of Canaan allegedly promised to the Israelites by their vengeance seeking god, Yahweh. We all know where that region is, don't we? It is today's Palestine from which Israel was carved out after WWII, some say in another fulfilment of biblical prophecy and promise. The Canaanites were conquered and largely absorbed by the invading and marauding Jews. Do people want us to believe that some ran away by magically changing their complexion and turned up in Africa as black Africans?

This internal examination of the Bible leaves one wondering where we black Africans descended from? From whom in the Bible, if neither Cush nor Canaan? Dear reader, the truth is that we Africans are not the descendants of any of Noah's children, simply because the flood story is a myth! No God ever destroyed living things on the earth with a flood. I have already posted an article tracing the origins of the myth already.

I intend to, if time permits, further deepen that with an examination of the two contradictory flood stories in Genesis mentioned in the article. But it may be necessary to trace the origin of the story of the family tree of man too later - anything from next week to many years from today. This is to show how the Jews simply took over what the ancient Egyptians (Kemetites) had formulated as the history of the world, with names like Kush (Cush) for the people of upper Egypt down to across the border with the Sudan, otherwise known as Nubia, long, long before it entered into Jewish mythology. The Jews simply stood history up-side down, placing themselves on top.

Some of us have been made aware that the Jews did not even have a word for "history" and borrowed the word "historia" from the Greeks. The Greeks, of course, got the Egyptian priest Manetho, (and certainly other priests of the areas they conquered in the Middle East, see The Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. 2:150-3), to write for them the history of the known world, (and much of the knowledge of the world to be attributed to the Greeks later, see Martin Bernal's Black Athena Vol. 1 and 2). These histories were put in the great library of Alexandria. And now, must we Africans accept the Jewish accounts based on these original sources, a distortion of what was written, as that of our own history? Accounts no longer
accepted as totally true by practically all of the foremost scholars of Euro-America in their higher institutions of learning?

To what level of backwardness do some Africans want us to descend, simply because they are yet to or unable to shed the abject superstition of their pagan, unlettered, uneducated, semi-educated, christo-paganist or miseducated parents? (Choose the category which fits you.). Of course, there are the educated ones with all sorts of higher degrees who are also caught in the snare. We must set ourselves free from the things used to enslave our minds.

Andy-K
Bergen, Norway
Now resident in London. UK
11 Oct. 2013
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

Ham=Kam (was the second son of Noah (Nowah) and belong to those who survived the flood. As the creator led them so that they populated the whole mainland, the interior land and the cost. Some of them also sailed to the Island ...
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Ham=Kam (was the second son of Noah (Nowah) and belong to those who survived the flood. As the creator led them so that they populated the whole mainland, the interior land and the cost. Some of them also sailed to the Islands. Besides the people kept partly the name of their founder, partly they changed the name and partly they also accepted such anmes, which were more common to their neighbours. The changing of names of their origin was especially practiced by the Greeks after attaining power, aspiring how they were, our fore-parents were forced to take over Greek names and abide by their state constitutions. Some common examples were the land Ethiopia which was changed to Kush and the name Kyetima=Kittim (chetima) changed into Cyprus. Ham was the father of Kush (Ethiopia or Nubia), Msram (Egypt, Put (Libya and Kanaan (Israel). And truly the land Egypt was described as the "Tent of Ham" or "the land of Ham". Ham was told by their father Notah to be the "care taker" of his other two brothers whose names were Sem and Yefet. Se Huru , the biblical Seir the Horite was the father of Ezer, the father of Akan and we the Gyaakan=Akan=Kna are the descendants of Akan, the founder of the ancient Hebrew-Aramaic religious culture, we are Agya HamMa(descends of Ham the father). For just our Kradin (soul name) cult and called amah=AmMah==AmMa (Amma;2ndSam,chap2,vrs24-30) and our Akan/Guan masculine name Hammah alone gives us through evidence of our HaMa (Hamatic) origin, without mentioning anything about our Mma and Maa cult. Any culture which ensued the name of HoRi=HoRu (Hor;Horite;Horus)=HuRi=HuRu=HuRRu) was esbablished by the descendants of Se HuRu to identify their origin, HuRu was the land the origin of the first known Akan. On the other hand, any culture that ensured the name of AmuRu was established by the descendants of Kanaan to identify their origin. All the above mentioned groups were descendants of "Ham, the Godfather", and the fore-fathers of the Akan and Guan jewish folk. The Akan you see is the grandson of Se HuRu and that Guan you see is the grandson of Kanaan.

If you go to the Manhyia Palace Museum, you will see, that Effigy of Egyptian Mother-Goddess Hathor, is reproduced on the gun of the first Asantehene, Nana Osei Tutu Opemsuo as well as on some of the soldiers (Abrafo?) that guard the Asantehene.Ancient traditions make it clear that the falcon clan people (Adako/Oyoko clan, which is the ruling clan in Asante) who worshipped the great Mother-goddess Hathor and her son Horus entered Egypt... in groups independent of each other.... Horus the Elder, son of Hathor, whose people originated from Punt (Punt I was situated in southern Arabia, Punt II in Nubia)..... There can be little doubt that these groups were segments of a matrilineal clan, for succession in its royal lineage was in the female line and Hathor and Horus are typical representatives of matrilineal deities.

The Akan Enchi, which is the same as the Babylonian Enki, is a name of a town located in western region of Ghana, it is found south of Wiawso, near the borders of Ivory Coast. Enchi and Enki is like Mamfe in Akuapem, which the Europeans called Memphis in ancient Egypt. Just to mention two out of many examples.

look at the culture, language, customs, symbols, names etc. of the Akan and judge for yourself.
AFRIKABI 12 years ago

THERE WAS NO NOAH. THE STORY OF NOAH WAS BORROWED FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO LIVED LONG BEFORE THE JEWS. I BELIEVE U HAVE READ OTHER EPICS OF THE FLOOD THAT THE JEWS COPIED. NOAH AND THE FLOOD IS NOTHING BUT THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIE ...
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THERE WAS NO NOAH. THE STORY OF NOAH WAS BORROWED FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO LIVED LONG BEFORE THE JEWS. I BELIEVE U HAVE READ OTHER EPICS OF THE FLOOD THAT THE JEWS COPIED. NOAH AND THE FLOOD IS NOTHING BUT THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT PEOPLES. THE ARK OF NOAH IS AN IMPOSSIBLE ARCHITECTURAL AND LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE IN HIS DAYS. THE STAGGERING NUMBER OF SPECIES OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS IN THE WORLD COULD NEVER FIT IN NOAH'S ARK.

IT IS ALL MYTHOLOGY, LIKE THE GREEKS HAVE HERCULES AND APOLLO AND ALL THE OTHERS. TAKE IT AS AN ENTERTAINING WORK OF LITERATURE THAT HAS NO BASIS IN FACT.
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

JEWSIH TRADITIONS COPIED THE FLOOD FROM "EPIC OF THE GILGAMESH"

JEWSIH TRADITIONS COPIED THE FLOOD FROM "EPIC OF THE GILGAMESH"
KB 12 years ago

"It is the total disregard of God's law that cupidity has became a default in a world which knows no God. Satan still uses pawns from every nation, race, tribe and religion."

That is pure, distilled, undiluted stupidity. I ...
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"It is the total disregard of God's law that cupidity has became a default in a world which knows no God. Satan still uses pawns from every nation, race, tribe and religion."

That is pure, distilled, undiluted stupidity. In a world where the vast majority of people are religious, you claim it "knows no god?" Foolishness. Maybe if there were less religious idiots lopping off others heads and condemning others to eternal torture in the name of their make-believe gods, the world would not be the cesspit it is now.
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

I agree with you!

Arab racism toward blackness can be ferocious.

But you must be careful when you compare it with racism in the West (America and Europe). We must know the history of America and Europe to draw this con ...
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I agree with you!

Arab racism toward blackness can be ferocious.

But you must be careful when you compare it with racism in the West (America and Europe). We must know the history of America and Europe to draw this controversial conclusion. The question is a tricky one.

Remember that most contemporary problems on racism related to America and Europe are carried out outside the geographies of America and Europe.

Most of the wars going in the world today have their historical (and even contemporary) roots in the racist legacies of European and American policies toward non-White peoples!

Please read Mark Mazower’s good book "Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century” to understand European racism (and atrocities).

See also CLR James’ “The Black Jacobins” and Harriet Washington’s “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.” These books scratch the surface (of American and European racism toward blackness).

babs 12 years ago

christians are trained to hate and insult in their churches.u hardly see a christian who accept the reality.

christians are trained to hate and insult in their churches.u hardly see a christian who accept the reality.
babs 12 years ago

so with with gideons comment,if he should be dealt with by muslims,then they are violence.i believe christians will do the world good if they stop using posting stupid comments.

so with with gideons comment,if he should be dealt with by muslims,then they are violence.i believe christians will do the world good if they stop using posting stupid comments.
KB 12 years ago

The sooner we leave these silly myths behind, the better. Even if you want to cling to superstition at all costs, why not stick to your own traditional religions, which are clearly more suited for this environment? These Jesu ...
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The sooner we leave these silly myths behind, the better. Even if you want to cling to superstition at all costs, why not stick to your own traditional religions, which are clearly more suited for this environment? These Jesus-and-Mohammed religions are madness, plain and simple.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

My goodness! Disgusting to see people complaining about things that happened 200 years ago? Where did you get that one from? Here we are trying to put the records straight and understand why there is a continuum of Euro-Ameri ...
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My goodness! Disgusting to see people complaining about things that happened 200 years ago? Where did you get that one from? Here we are trying to put the records straight and understand why there is a continuum of Euro-American and Arab atrocities and exploitation of we black Africans and you call that complaining???

The last slave ship to have left Africa, from around Whyddah, the port reserved for the continuation of the slave trade after its "abolition", was in 1877.

So they helped to "abolish" slave trade and slavery in the Americas but Jim Crow Laws made life worse for the "freed" slaves and their colonisation and transposition of their hegemony to Africa was even worst for wear on Africa! Yes, we complained that 20 million slaves were taken to the Americas and in the process a 100 million lost their lives in African and enroute but within the short span of King Leopold's grip on the Congo, 20 million Africans were killed! 20 million compared to the 20 million taken to the Americas over 400 years! The legacy of that brutality, the hatred sown, is still unfolding in the Congo, with over 5 million killed since 1974!

Ha! So the stalker armed with a gun killed the person he was stalking and started harassing in self-defense? It is amazing that it doesn't occur to even the lawyers of Trayvon that he was rather fighting for his life, his life that was threatened by a loose canon loonie with a record?

BTW, stick to the subject. This is a follow-up to the debate on terrorism, etc. I posted a 2-part series on the Arabs/Muslims just a while ago. It certainly challenged the position taken by Prof. Salahuddin, which I believe this present writer is also opposed to. Wait for his Part 3. when he explores the position of Dr Molefi Asante, et al.

Andy-K
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

Even if you want to ignore the holocaust, which was committed on the native people of Africa, South America and many other places. What about the Catholic extermination camps,Catholic terror in Vietnam,Rwanda Massacres (where ...
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Even if you want to ignore the holocaust, which was committed on the native people of Africa, South America and many other places. What about the Catholic extermination camps,Catholic terror in Vietnam,Rwanda Massacres (where the catholic church had been actively involved), active support of Catholic Church of the Nazi regime in Germany and killing of million of Jews? Christianity is not one inch better than Christianity. Always claiming hegemony over any other religion by any means necessary until today.
Francis Kwarteng 12 years ago

Andy,

I am so happy with your intellectual exercise in setting the historical record straight.

My main ineterest is how you address this Jerry Sodeman.

I am too sure if he leaves in space. My heart beats with sadne ...
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Andy,

I am so happy with your intellectual exercise in setting the historical record straight.

My main ineterest is how you address this Jerry Sodeman.

I am too sure if he leaves in space. My heart beats with sadness when I hear people like him making comments such as the ones he/she made here.

How sad.

Thanks for doing a good intellectual job.

I am truly grateful. You have more to teach us than many who appear on Ghanaweb to instult without giving us anything of value to share with friends and families.

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

Sodeman,
You don’t know what you’re talking about!

Please read Kenneth Chang’s article “Black Scientists Less Likely to Win Federal Research Grants, Study Reports” (The New York Times,” August 18, 2011). Pleas ...
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Sodeman,
You don’t know what you’re talking about!

Please read Kenneth Chang’s article “Black Scientists Less Likely to Win Federal Research Grants, Study Reports” (The New York Times,” August 18, 2011). Please also read Kirsten West Savali’s article “Divided States of America: 26 States Petition to Secede After Re-Election of President Obama.”“

Nothing I said in the essay is anti-American or anti-West (they are taught in many American institutions).

Abolition did not begin in the West (Europe and America) as you think. It started in Africa. There were nearly 300 wars fought by Africans to end slavery in various places in Africa but are not mentioned in the histories of White Abolitionists (read the works of the British historian Basil Davidson, he’ll tell you more about this; this is neither taught in the West nor mentioned in Abolition history in the West; we don’t even teach African Abolition in our schools either). So don’t give the wrong impression White Abolitions did all the fighting. And who cares if any White Abolitionist died? Don’t you know some of these Abolitionists owned slaves themselves and many of their closest family members did as well?

Unfortunately, your comments are similar to those made by White American racists!

Let me first tell you that Dr. Butler is an American. Her forbear fought for America’s independence and also built America. I don’t know about your nationality (whether you are natural born citizen of America) and, therefore, she has every right to say anything she wants to say about her country (more than you and I—if you are not American). Besides, Dr. Butler can decide to live wherever she desires to live. That is her right, not yours. Finally, as American and pubic intellectual she has every right to contribute to discussions affecting Americans. I have that right to do the same thing in Ghana.

Let me remind you what Eric Holder, America’s first black attorney general, said recently:

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.” How’s this different from Dr. Butler’s?

Sodeman, have you read Washington’s “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”? Have you read or do you know about the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and how this and other such experiments conducted on African Americans have affected the health psychology of African Americans today? This is what ex-President Bill Clinton said:

“The eight men who are survivors of the syphilis study at Tuskegee are a living link to a time not so very long ago that many Americans would prefer not to remember, but we dare not forget. It was a time that our nation failed to live up to its ideals, when our nation broke the trust with our person that is the very foundation of our democracy. It’s not only in remembering that shameful past that we can make amends and repair our nation, but it is in remembering that past that we can build a better present and a better future. And without remembering it, we cannot make amends and we cannot go forward.”

Let’s listen to President Obama on Zimmerman acquittal:

“Delving directly and personally into the national debate over race and ethnicity in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of killing Martin, Obama said the country needs to look for ways to bolster Africa-American boys and examine state laws to see if they encourage confrontations like the one in Florida…it’s time for all of us to do some soul searching…Obama questioned whether a law that sends the message that someone who’s armed “has the right to use those firearms even if there is a way for them to exit a situation” really promotes the peace and security that people want…”

White Christian Americans like Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Patrick Buchannan, Don Imus, etc., have said horrible things than anything publicly attributed to Dr. Butler in her entire life. Most White American intellectuals know Dr. Butler is right. “Conservative political pundit Pat Buchannan stoked controversy today by claiming that Barack Obama’s re-election has ‘killed White America,’” writes The Daily Currant (See the article “Buchanan: ‘White America’ Died Last Night)

Tell Jews to stop talking about what happened to them in the past 5 thousand years. It’s only Africans who’d say we should stop taking about matters that happened 200 years but whose impact we still continue to feel in Sudan and all over Africa today.

Please read:
1)Norman Finkelstein’s “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering”

2)Michelle Alexander “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”

3)Douglass Blackmon’s “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War 11”

Let’s end with one of President Obama’s remarks:

“But I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling. You know, when Taryvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Taryvon Martin should have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African-America community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that---that doesn’t go away.”

We are not far away from 200 years. 200 years was just yesterday. Read Thomas Jefferson and you’ll understand that he predicted what we are currently talking about today. In fact, the legacy of slavery was one of his greatest fears. He made these observations nearly 200 years ago.
Please do some serious reading before commenting on sensitive issues. I wish I could say more.
AFRIKABI 12 years ago

ALMOST EVERY 5 YRS THERE IS A MOVIE OR A BOOK ON THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST. JEWS STILL CELEBRATE OR REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM 5000 YRS AGO. IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO TELL THE VICTIM HOW LONG HE CAN MOURN. THE GERMANS CANNOT TELL T ...
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ALMOST EVERY 5 YRS THERE IS A MOVIE OR A BOOK ON THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST. JEWS STILL CELEBRATE OR REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM 5000 YRS AGO. IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO TELL THE VICTIM HOW LONG HE CAN MOURN. THE GERMANS CANNOT TELL THE JEWS HOW LONG THEY CAN MOURN.
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

AFRIKABI,

Your observation is part of my long response to Jerry Sodeman. Good observation though.

Please you can see it

AFRIKABI,

Your observation is part of my long response to Jerry Sodeman. Good observation though.

Please you can see it
Kofi Virginia 12 years ago

The problem with history is that people can use it selectively by highlighting those events that give them the best arguments. Arab slavers (in the Western Sudan and East African) and the various jihads on the continent (esp ...
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The problem with history is that people can use it selectively by highlighting those events that give them the best arguments. Arab slavers (in the Western Sudan and East African) and the various jihads on the continent (especially in Sudan)are part of that history but should be mentioned and explained it its context. What is most important is how we strive to make the best of the current situation in other to create a better future as opposed to just making a list.

GREAT NANA ANTWI 12 years ago

ARE YOU IN NEED OF A FAST POWERFULL SPIRITUALIST see www.greatnanapowerfullspiritualist.blogspot.com

ARE YOU IN NEED OF A FAST POWERFULL SPIRITUALIST see www.greatnanapowerfullspiritualist.blogspot.com
hawwa 12 years ago

nana,
since you are great why dont you use your power to creat more jobs in ghana for the poor who dont have work to do, or even use your powers to get some trillions of pounds for the poor ghanians who dont have some place ...
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nana,
since you are great why dont you use your power to creat more jobs in ghana for the poor who dont have work to do, or even use your powers to get some trillions of pounds for the poor ghanians who dont have some place to sleep, and if your power is great as you said, you dont have to advertised yourself, make yourself some gud and stop posting shit on your blog.
Ferguson 12 years ago

Why would you want to defend these two evil, babaric, racist and slave minded religions at the expense of your God given life? Can't you see where these two religions pop out from? Can't you draw the lines? It is hard time, f ...
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Why would you want to defend these two evil, babaric, racist and slave minded religions at the expense of your God given life? Can't you see where these two religions pop out from? Can't you draw the lines? It is hard time, folks!!!
john Mason aka Buffalo Soilder 12 years ago

amy people that goes to another people house after bein welcome repesent the seed of an larger invasion.@the ancient egyptians wire spiritual thousand of years before anyone called thier understsnding pagan.The invaders were ...
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amy people that goes to another people house after bein welcome repesent the seed of an larger invasion.@the ancient egyptians wire spiritual thousand of years before anyone called thier understsnding pagan.The invaders were wrong than and they are wrong today.No one arabs or albinos came to africa for the good of the africian people.educated africa should form a bill of rights for the good of africans and send the invaders back to their evil sesiest racist land that they came from ,and reclaim the wealth of the land for th good of Africans first
francis kwarteng 12 years ago

Buffalo Soldier,

Your observation is one of the many reasons I wrote this piece.

But our people are difficult to convince of the dangers these foreign presence and ideas are doing to our very survival.

It's part of ...
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Buffalo Soldier,

Your observation is one of the many reasons I wrote this piece.

But our people are difficult to convince of the dangers these foreign presence and ideas are doing to our very survival.

It's part of the reason why everyone else is "developing" and we are still behind.

Please preach your progressive philosophy to all.

Thanks.
john Mason aka Buffalo Soilder 12 years ago

There is no excuse for small slavery or big slavery everyone that came to the motherland came to brought their false belief to Africa.Educated Africans today should create for the benefit of AFRICA A bill of rights FOR THE A ...
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There is no excuse for small slavery or big slavery everyone that came to the motherland came to brought their false belief to Africa.Educated Africans today should create for the benefit of AFRICA A bill of rights FOR THE AFRICAN PEOPLE TODAY TOMORROW MAY BE TO LATE.RECLAIM THE WEALTH OF THE LAND AND RECLAIM OUR SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION.NOW
Osei Yao 12 years ago

You wrote this thrash for doctorate degree? What a waste of time!

You wrote this thrash for doctorate degree? What a waste of time!
minka 12 years ago

Osei Yao,

What is your level of education?

You certainly don't write a one-page essay, post it on Ghanaweb and expect to get a degree for it.

Ghanaweb is not an academic journal.

Why are some Ghanaians so dumb a ...
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Osei Yao,

What is your level of education?

You certainly don't write a one-page essay, post it on Ghanaweb and expect to get a degree for it.

Ghanaweb is not an academic journal.

Why are some Ghanaians so dumb and stupid?

You sound like George Zimmerman
Lucy McCalmont 12 years ago

Who knows why you just had to make that lean,
who knows why you became part of the gangsta scene,
who knows who sold you all them blunts,
who understood your whistles and your grunts,
who made you assault the neighbor ...
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Who knows why you just had to make that lean,
who knows why you became part of the gangsta scene,
who knows who sold you all them blunts,
who understood your whistles and your grunts,
who made you assault the neighborhood watch,
whose jewelry was that you were caught w/at school
who made you act the ghetto fool?

Why didn’t your Crip daddy stick around,
whose head on the pavement did you pound,
who had to make a decision that fateful night,
when you left him no escape and picked a fight,
who made the choice to mock and sass,
an armed watchman (you called “creepy @$$”),
who could’ve gone home but didn’t there go,
instead walked towards a six foot deep hole.
george zimmerman 12 years ago

Dear McCalmont,

You sound like those drug-using and thieving Hispanic/Latino fools who are always begging for money and food on the 4 train in New York.

Clean up and get some real job.

Stop begging and using drugs.

Dear McCalmont,

You sound like those drug-using and thieving Hispanic/Latino fools who are always begging for money and food on the 4 train in New York.

Clean up and get some real job.

Stop begging and using drugs.

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