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Reject Boko Haram - Muslim clerics tell Ghanaians

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  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    The head of the Ambariya Sunni Community, Sheikh Sa-eed Zakariah and the Chief Imam of Tamale Central Mosque, Sheikh Abdul Salaam Adam, in separate interviews noted that the activities of Boko Haram contradicts the teachings ...
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  • Citizen. 10 years ago

    It`s already too late for them to come out to speak against boko haram.

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    While can't these wicked, hypocrites and stupid Ghanaians shut up their dirty 'all die be die' mouths and let Nigeria fight all these evil being perpetrated against it by some of our neighbors in West Africa, including Camero ...
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  • Golgata 10 years ago

    all zongo mosquitoes, mosques and all moslems in ghana MUST be registered with the police and ghana army and must be issued with special terrorists id cards so that wherever they go they can easily be monitored

  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    Please take some time and read these verses in the Bible and come back with the same view you just expressed. Luke 19:27, Matt 10:34-39, Luke 12:49-51. See you in a bit.

  • Tchweaaah Kai Kai 10 years ago

    Kindly go here to improve your understanding of biblical text. Thanks and peace be unto you!

  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    At least you and your colleague extreme Christian believers have now found the need to be moderate and call for sound intellectual discourse through the website you advertised. Otwea!

  • oyibaba 10 years ago

    Azindoo, the persevering opposers in the parable (an earthly story with a biblical truth) are the wicked whom Christ will destroy by the Hell Fire during the executive judgment of the wicked.

  • Rebecca 10 years ago

    May Allah bless Sheikh Zakariah and Sheikh Adam.I am a christian but i like listerning to the moslem preaches.It makes mean understand religion better.If the whole world can ubderstand religion like Ghanaians do,we will have. ...
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  • BIG NAME 10 years ago

    Long time no hear you. NEMESIS RADAR. How is your facial surgery. No more Bob 7,7?
    I am glad for you that you have removed all the strips on your face. Send me a picture for confirmation.

  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    THE FACIAL SURGERY DID NOT GO WELL FOR NEMESIS RADAR.HE IS STIL TREATING THE INFECTED FACE.I REALLY DON'T THINK U WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIS PICTURE COS THE FACE IS REALLY FUCKED UP BIG TIME UGLY LIKE SHIT.

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    What else can I say than to confirm the fact that your 'kapwepwe' pygmy Gorilla Bush rat poop eating father and Chimpanzee mother wasted their energies in vain to sere an imbecile like you ROMANO. Your brain is so demented t ...
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  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    LOL ... U ARE A CONFUSED IMBECILE,YOUR MOTHER SHOULD HAVE ABORTED YOU LONG TIME AGO.AGAIN WHAT DO U DO FOR A LIVING? NO INSULTS JUST ASKING....BOKO HARAM THIEFMAN.

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    WHO LET THIS KAPWEPWE MOTHERFUCKER ANIMAL DOG ROMANO OUT OF THE DOG CAGE? WHO BORN DOG? APOLOGY TO JJ RAWLINGS. OH YES, WHO BORN THIS KAPWEPWE ROMANO DOG? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    I AM YOUR NEMESIS 4EVER!

  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    IS IT TRUE THAT YOUR MOTHER IS A DOG? I'M INCLINED TO BELIVE IT COS OF THE WAY YOU BARK ON GHANAWEB.

  • Rebecca 10 years ago

    nigerians eat monkeys and rat eaters than any other person,even human meat.Nigeria shuts down restaurant serving human meat - Times ...
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    17.02.2014 - Nigerian police have ...
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  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AN ASSHOLE.NOW KEEP BLAMING GHANAIANS FOR ALL YOUR NIGERIA'S BOKO HARAM SHIT.EVERY EVIL THING THAT GOES ON IN AFRICA MUST GO THRU NIGERIA.IT'S RATHER UNFORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE FAILED TO REALIZE THAT ALL EVI ...
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  • CONTEMNOR 10 years ago

    WONDERS SHALL NEVER END, I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN THE CHIBOK FOREST NOW OR IN BORNO STATE ABDUCTING GIRLS? HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH, WHAT RANSOM DO U WANT BOKO HARAM SECRETARY NEMESIS, U JUST VANISHED ALL OF A SUDDEN, WERE ...
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  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    THIS BOKO HARAM NIGERIA DOG WAS RELEASED FROM ANKAFUL MENTAL HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT

  • EFO KOKU 10 years ago

    This is the first time I'm hearing a Muslim cleric denouncing these sycophants. I'm really proud to be a Ghanaian. It tells how mature religion is in Ghana. I love these clerics. God bless you. I hope other clerics from other ...
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  • is 10 years ago

    has happened not out of free will, but because of pressure has been put on them in Ghana.

  • ALHASSAN 10 years ago

    Pls brother, are they christians in saudi arabia or not. Christians are there and they are not harm. Every religion has black sheeps,so take it cool.

  • CINNAKA 10 years ago

    IF BOKO HARAM IS COMING TO GHANA, IT WILL START FROM POVERTY-RIDDEN NIMA-MAMOBI AREA, A CONCENTRATION OF REGULAR ISLAMIC AND TRADING VISITORS FROM KATSINA, SOKOTO, KANO AND MAIDUGURI. LET'S WATCH OUR UNEMPLOYED AND RIOTOUS ZO ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    LET THEM TRY IT AND SEE WHETHER GHANA IS NIGERIA OR GHANA IS GHANA.

    IN FACT GHANA SHOULD FOLLOW THE PATH OF MOZAMBIQUE BY PROSCRIBING ISLAM.

  • ISLAM 10 years ago

    I THINK YOU SHOULD STEP OUT AND PASS THE LAW IN PARLIAMENT TO BAN ISLAM IN GHANA, YOU ARE NOTHING BY USELESS AND IDIOTIC, GO TO HELL ISLAM IS THE BEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD, AS THE MORE YOU PEOPLE SINGLE ISLAM OUT, SAME WAY Y ...
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  • Jack Brown 10 years ago

    Those Ghanaian Muslim leaders must tell this to their Muslim communities. From the various posts I have read since Boko Haram abduction of Nigerian school girls, I have not read a single post from a Muslim that is against wha ...
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  • Ali Baba 10 years ago

    Muslims minds are seared and they can not think properly. No matter what sense you tell Muslims, they will still kill. Muslims have been molded by their satanic Quran. They will continue to do evil all the time.

  • Imam Faisal 10 years ago

    My borther/sister; despite that this comment of yours is not worth reading or commenting on, I presume you are christian and preharps "educated" and hence you know what nonsense is. for lack of knowledge people perish. Due to ...
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  • Campus Ministry Report 10 years ago

    "Due to the efforts of Muhammad(SAW) 1.6billion people in the world must belief in jesus christ!"

    I disagree with you on the above; presenting the person of Christ other than what is in the Bible is like not presenting any ...
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  • ALHASSAN 10 years ago

    The God that we all pray to does not used blood to forgive sins. God is not gods. God is samad the independent God.The wahid, the indivisible God. The God of Adam to Mohammed is one. God created death, jesus, the spirit, if t ...
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  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    Please take some time and read these verses in the Bible and come back with the same Christian extremist view you just expressed. Luke 19:27, Matt 10:34-39, Luke 12:49-51. See you in a bit.

  • BIG NAME 10 years ago

    Who told you that Vodoo Xebieso is a Christian? Anyone who says anything against Islam is a Christian, right? See how you exhibit your hatred towards Christians.

    Ask Vodoo Xebieso whether he is a Christian before you write ...
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  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    Say the truth, it shall set you free.

  • Jack Brown 10 years ago

    You are ignorant. Are Christians doing the destruction of humans you Muslims are doing throughout the world? You don't even understand your satanic Quran. How can you understand Bible, where you need the Holy Spirit for under ...
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  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    Christians are murdering Christians in South Sudan. They have even seized the weapons of 120 Ghanaian soldiers (peacekeepers). Check your facts and latest information on current happenings around the word. I challenge you to ...
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  • Prophet Mohammed 10 years ago

    Islam is useless and irrelevant satanic religion. It has never promote welfare of humanity. it is a violent religion and instill terror in human society.

    Mozambique has done right thing of banning Islam, this satanic relig ...
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  • CHE ANDREW 10 years ago

    I have being warning the security services of the suspicious activities of some Muslim youth in northern Ghana but no one takes me serious. These guys come from either Burkina, Mali, or Chad and live in mosques. These Muslim ...
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  • FA 10 years ago

    NDC HAS BEEN IMPORTING THE FULANIS,BURKINAS,MALIANS ,NIGERIANS ETC TO SETTLE IN GHANA BUT WE GONNA REGRET ONE DAY .

  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    Please take some time and read these verses in the Bible and stop pontificating. Luke 19:27, Matt 10:34-39, Luke 12:49-51. See you in a bit.

  • DR. ASHANTI DO GOOD 10 years ago

    YOU TRY TO GET QURÁN IN ENGLISH OPOKU I SWEAR YOU YOU WILL BE SURPRISE TO SEE A MUSLIM KILLING AN INNOCENT SOUL. BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN THE KORAN. THESE PEOPLE ARE PAGANS AND NOT MUSLIMS. THANKS FOR YOUR GOOD COMMENT BUT PLEAS ...
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  • DR. ASHANTI DO GOOD 10 years ago

    SORRY I CALLED U OPOKU

  • ---------- 10 years ago

    I have English Quran. Nothing good in it. You will be sad to see prophet Mohammed who killed a pregnant woman for committing adultery. Her partner was not killed.

    You will see kill the Jews if they won't submit to Allah an ...
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  • DR. ASHANTI DO GOOD 10 years ago

    YOU ARE NOT A QUALIFIED TO READ AND UNDERSTAND. WHAT U HAVE AS KORAN, IS FROM YOUR HATRED CHRISTIAN EXTREMISTS AND NOT THE REAL CHRISTIANS.

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    OUR POLITICIANS' THIEVERY EASILY CREATES POVERTY WHICH EASILY FEEDS INTO REBELLIOUS ACTIVITIES IN COUNTRIES...DUBIOUS PAYMENTS OF FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS UNDER NDC LEADING TO A LOSS OF ABOUT ONE BILLION DOLLARS TO GHANA, GYEEDA, ...
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  • ahmed sulley 10 years ago

    seeing has defeated hearing. when the late mohammed Yusuf founded book haram in 2002 he was a spiritual leader just like these sheiks. He was a sunni just like them , and he was a member of Ahli sunna just like them, preach ...
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  • Dickson 10 years ago

    Well said Mr.Babs.

  • BIG NAME 10 years ago

    How many Muslims like you do we have in this corrupt Muslim world? I hope, we have many like you. Be bold and speak.

  • Owen,New York. 10 years ago

    Common sense tells us that education,is the right tool for good living.Respect for human life brings peaceful co-exitance in every society. Boko Haram is occult,evil and the devil tool to bring pain to human beings. I'm happy ...
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  • this is not new 10 years ago

    What I want to aske is why is that all over the world that name Muslims his the one bring problems and then keep say muslim is peace and you keep killing please be truth to yourself

  • Mustapha 10 years ago

    but they are hardened criminals

  • OSMAN 10 years ago

    ALHAMDULILAH,THE RELIGION OF ALLAH WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL, AND THE SO CALL ISLAMIC MILITANT WHO ARE TARNISHING THE MUSLIMS NAME WILL BE PUT TO SHAME.MAY ALLAH GUIDE AS ALL.

  • The truth 10 years ago

    Ghana simply have the smartest Muslim population so far in this world

  • Ghansah Eric Kwasi 10 years ago

    Its becouse there is know job for the youth that is why some of them join this creminal activities.

  • WENTON 10 years ago

    Ghansah, I just gross over a lot of spellings and grammatical mistakes on this forum, but using the word 'know' for 'no' is just grievious.

  • Agalga 10 years ago

    Wenton.please let those who know better do the corrections. if it is even needed at all.What do you mean by 'gross over'.Did you want say gloss over? Be reminded that this forum is not a English class

  • BOKO HALAL 10 years ago

    Boko Haram are criminal gang star like Taliban and Al-Khaida.

  • kofi 10 years ago

    I think what these clerics have said should be widely published in international news

  • blass 10 years ago

    Is he the first to say it or are just hearing it for the first time that will not stop them that is what the Muslim are like look around the world and tall me if you have seen Christian behaviour like this

  • GIDEON ATONGO 10 years ago

    The boko haram issue cannot just be dismissed as purely criminal with nothing to do with Islam. Their prophet Mohammed first lived in Mecca for the first 13yrs of his prophethood during which time he was able to convince only ...
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  • Nima Boy 10 years ago

    14TH century Christian crusade has nothing to do with the teachings of Christianity? Nice try in rewriting the history of that event. HYPOCRITE.

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    Why don't you come out and defend or refute my comment above about your evil Boko Haram affiliation? Your evil days are numbered. Mark my words evil and satanic Islamic Nima Boys. You shall die a very horrible deaths as you ...
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  • Dee 10 years ago

    You are deaf, blind, and dumb and cannot regain your senses.

  • CINNAKA 10 years ago

    MR ATONGO MUST CERTAINLY BE A CHURCH HISTORIAN, INDOCTRINATED BY HISTORY THAT IS NOT FACTUAL. HE SHOULD INSTEAD READ ISLAMIC HISTORY WRITTEN BY MUSLIMS INSTEAD OF THE ARABIC SECTION OF THE VATICAN. THEN HE WILL KNOW THE TRUE ...
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  • CHE ANDREW 10 years ago

    Where is the "ARABIC SECTION OF THE VATICAN." located?

  • Dc 10 years ago

    The are now coming out. Why dint they come out to condemn this for long time?

    Muslim is not peaceful religion

  • TRUELY TRUELY 10 years ago

    THIS MESSAGE IS PURELY BEAUTIFUL IN COPERATIVE SOCIETY LIKE GHANA.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    I am of the view that it is too late for Muslims in Ghana to condemn Boko Haram. It look like these Christians and Muslims can not reason if they are not animated by any other person. The criminal acts of Boko Haram have been ...
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  • MAHAMA MUST BE JAILED BY ALL MEANS 10 years ago

    GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAMA AND HIS CABINET ON TRIAL. GHANA'S HOPELESS ECONOMIC SITUATION, TODAY, IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTA ...
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  • appiah 10 years ago

    Way to go. These Imams from Tamale have shown courage in leadership and I challenge all Islamic leaders in Africa to condemn such criminal acts and violence.

  • Atul 10 years ago

    Good ideas

  • awal 10 years ago

    The truth is all sunnid are boko haram. Stop being coward. Sunnis are the cust of all insurgent in this world. Am a Muslim n am from the tijaniyya path. N am proud of tijaniyya n shall die tijaniyya

  • ISLAM 10 years ago

    AWAL OR WHAT EVER YOU CALL YOUR SELF, YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN USELESS AND NOTHING IN YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR RELIGION, THIS IS ABOUT ISLAM, BUT DONT SIT THERE AND SINGLE YOUR SELF YOU RE TIJANIYA, YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR SHEIK MOR ...
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  • Awal Tijani 10 years ago

    Daz it sound good manner. as good Muslim do u have to insult your fellow Muslim useless for nothing? By d way do u know whi u talking to? May god leds u to siratul-mustakem

  • ISLAM 10 years ago

    I WILL INSULT YOU MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY, WHY DID YOU CALL SUNNIS THAT THEY RE BOKO HARAM, YOU BELIEVE YOUR SHEIKS CONTINUE FELLOW YOUR SHEIK, BUT WE SUNNIS FELLOW THE FOOT STEPS OF OUR BELOVE PROPHET MOHAMMED PBUH, SO DONT S ...
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  • DR. ASHANTI DO GOOD 10 years ago

    SON OF A BITCH WHO CARES TIJANIYA OR WHATEVER.

  • abdul samed 10 years ago

    islam is not a forcely religion is peace for all , so am apealing to some of non muslem that they should not used the useless act of boko haram as islam is a force religion.

  • wogbe 10 years ago

    though iam chriastian but i like the opinion of these two imam

  • Zip-Up 10 years ago

    Please What Is It About All These Foreign Religions That We African Are So Daring For, If God Created Us Just Let Him Take Care Of His Creation,But Not We The Objects That He Created Intend To Fighting And Struggling For Him, ...
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  • ISLAM 10 years ago

    TO ALL CHRISTIANS WHO COMMENT IDIOTIC AND STUPIDITY, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS, ISLAM IS THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION IN THE WORLD, WITH ALL THIS ACCUSATION AND PROPAGANDA ON MEDIA ISLAM IS STILL GROWING, THIS SO CALL B ...
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  • kojo 10 years ago

    might be because muslims have a high/higher birth rate with polygamy and all...

  • KOFI 10 years ago

    I think Islam means war and not peace as they are claiming, it is only muslems who can do what Boko Haram is doing.

  • Azindoo 10 years ago

    Christians are murdering Christians in South Sudan. Please take some time and read these verses in the Bible and come back with the same view you just expressed. Luke 19:27, Matt 10:34-39, Luke 12:49-51. See you in a bit.

  • Nana Asamoa 10 years ago

    let all Ghana muslim and christian show love to the world that we ghanian we are different amont other country.muslim and christians we are all the same in Ghana.we love eache other.thanks

  • NHYIRABA 10 years ago

    I KNOW IN GHANA CHRISTANS AND MUSLIMS USED TOSHARE THE SAME PEACE THAT NEEDED.SO WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS AIMLESS GROUP BOKO HARAM WANT TO SEPERATE US.THE GOVERNMENT IS TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE HOW TO BE VIGILANT AND NOT TO TOLE ...
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  • Janet - Accra 10 years ago

    Indeed Ghanaians must reject the atrocities of Boko Haram. Infact this is not what Islam teaches. Islam means peace and total submission the Holy Prophet Mohammed. Islam is not aggressive, Islam is not barbaric,Islam is not ...
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  • Sir JoHn 10 years ago

    We in Ghana are very matured. God will forever bless us. We are one people and one destiny. All should say NO to Boko Haram. They are not muslims. They are just criminals.

  • tomtom 10 years ago

    What is going on has nothing to do with the maturity of a nation, it is a question of poverty and how people adopt a phyilosophy. If you stay on the hard-liner of an idea and are ready to die for it, it could result into what ...
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  • USMAN. 10 years ago

    slamic scholars always resort to cherry-picking agenda to defend violence in Islam.These scholars quote the positive portions of the Qur'an and Hadiths to deceive the world. They always close their eyes on the Satanic Verses ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    USMAN? Incredible stuff from a clearly misguided person. Please do not misquote the sayings of the Holy Quran. Those sayings were within a particular context and I urge you to read the reasons behind the revelation of those ...
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  • BBBBBBB 10 years ago

    ISLAM is not from God Almighty. Islam is a military wing for the Devil's Kingdom.Islam as a military wing of Devil's kingdom ,is working very hard for Satan and his kingdom.

    Do you hear any good thing about Islam apart fro ...
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  • Imam Faisal 10 years ago

    My brother this is not your first time of displaying your level of ignorance about Islam. I will advice that you seek proper interpretation of the verses you are quoting out of context, and I believe your position about Islam ...
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  • Sergio Goodman 10 years ago

    Now they are talking. BUT its too little too late.

  • tomtom 10 years ago

    It is a good idea that the Ghanaian muslim leaders have started talking to their members. It can happen in Ghana too, this idea is very infectious, poverty breeds all kinds of fundamentalism and fundermentalism compounds pove ...
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  • SEMANKOKA! 10 years ago

    THE LEADERS OF AU,ECOWAS,NIGERIA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD HAVE ONLY TWO OPTIONS.EITHER THEY GO THE SOUTH AFRICA APARTHIED STYLE OR THE ISREAL-PALESTINIAN STYLE.DIALOGUE VERSUS BRUTE FORCE.IF YOU ARE WISE WHICH ONE WOULD YOU ...
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  • ALI 10 years ago

    AGAINST CRIMINAL BOKO HARAM, AND CONDEM THEIR EVIL CRIMES ONLY THEN GHANA FALKS WILL TRUST MUSLIMS IN GHANA IT IS TIME TO TAKE A STRONG STAND AGAINST BOKO HARAM
    "HE WHO LOOK AWAY AT EVIL IS QUILTY THE SAME AS THE EVIL DOERS" ...
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  • Osman Mohammed 10 years ago

    it is no doubt that Boko Haram is a terrorist organization that stands condemned in no uncertain terms.
    All Muslims should criminalize the activities of such a terrorist group and promote the respect for fundamental human ri ...
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