RE: KILLING IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL

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Hello Shuaib, Asalam Alaekun Waramotullahi Wabarakathu, May the peace and blessing of almighty Allah be upon d noblest Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) His household and those that followed Him till the day of reckoning. Ameen. The theme of my written is just to say hello to you and to tell u that I appreciate your piece on the above. Keep it up though I have stay in Maiduguri for many years and nothing like that ever happened. So I pray may almighty Allah guide each and every one of us Ameen. Ma Salam.

Saidat lawal

lawalsaidat@yahoo.com

“SOCIETAL DEVIL ho” Is this "societal devil" only found in the North?. I must confess that I did not finish reading your write-up, because once you compared the atrocities meted our to my people -Igbo- in Maiduguri with what happened at Onitsha, you lost me and whatever else you said is of no importance. P/s we are not emotional about the killing of our people, we are dead serious. My people should arm themselves with automatic weapons and hand grenades and be prepared to meet force with deadly forces anywhere any time to defend themselves without a second thought. Failing to do so, they may as well return back to Igbo land to avoid this wanton destruction of young lives.

Dr. Davidson Iloani davidson iloani

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I consider it necessary to register my sincere appreciation of your write-up "Kiling in the Name of the Devil". It is heart warming to note that we still have good and objective Muslims like you in Nigeria. I am now, more than ever before, convinced that my dream and quest for peace amongst people of various religious callings shall come to pass. I salute your courage. Please keep up the sensitization drive. MA'A SALAM.

IBRAHIM RAJI

ibroraj@yahoo.com

After reading your piece on the above subject matter,I was very relieved that we still have very educated and with a clear spirit Muslims in the country today. I strongly recommend that this piece should be in all Nigeria papers. Thanks for writing this piece. Remain blessed.

kenneth Chilaka

kennethchilaka@yahoo.com

Hi. I really don’t know what your name is but I will call you Shuaibu. Actually I was impressed by what you wrote on Killing by the devil about the riots in the country. But let look at it this way: the North hate Ibos. It is not good pretending whenever there is violence; it is the Ibos that are targeted. I don’t see any point in our talking about one Nigeria. How many times do you see the Yorubas and Ibos killing themselves? I feel it is a matter of inferiority complex that is why the Northerners are so uncomfortable with the Ibos.

Alex Alexander

alecksngy@yahoo.com

Hello Shuaib, I love your write up. I'm happy to see someone who has come out with the truth about these whole killings in the name of religion which is obviously not true. If you ask me i will say it is all due to joblessness and ignorance. Will you, i or any serious minded person agree for whatever reason to be used as a tool of societal destruction? Of course a Capital NO!!!. It's a pity that Nigeria out beloved country is know God is on our side. Nigeria must shine out bright soon. Do have a great day. Your partner in making Nigeria great!

HY Wokili.

hauwawokili@yahoo.com

Very well written Yushau, but even as you write with the clear evidence of erudition, it MUST be apparent to you, that this scenario seems to repeat its self time and time again. From as far back as 1966, Unruly mob in the Far North are forever quick to descend brutally and viciously on Southerners at any perceived slight. It is painful as you well imagine to see Nigerians turn on each other with such malevolence. It is particularly galling, that this bloodbath was instigated by events as far removed from Nigeria. Indeed, like you rightly pointed out, the revenge attacks in Onitsha seems to have had a higher (dead) body count than the initial attacks in Maiduguri, and that I attribute to Southerners being tired of being made scapegoats in the most heinous manner.

    You are quick to point out, that the perpetrators of these dastardly blood-letting are the dregs of society,(the so called...Yan Daba) who are so malleable that they are dense than sheep....that may be so, But what about the so called Northern elite? a bunch of people so devious, so spiritually corrupt (it is a wonder that Allah doesn’t strike them where they sit), so bloody-minded? It is my honest opinion that the Northern elite are directly responsible for holding Nigeria back, it is my firm belief that they have no love for the entity Nigeria, that they are seemingly preoccupied with being Saudis first, or allying themselves with the Arabs and the Arab world, By all means , you may differ. Yes, you are also quite right, that the reprisal attacks also show that no one group has a monopoly on violence. In fact, it is imperative that, that should be the case, otherwise, we would have another Rwanda on our hands.

    Christians and/or Southerners have always shown more understanding, more empathy, and more restraint on issues that may affect Northerners and Moslems in this Country. However, the Northern elite seem to see such actions as acquiescence.....not any more, not any more! I ask you to forgive my profanity, but in the words of the late Afro beat King Fela Kuti.....you give me shit.....I give you PLENTY!! We HAVE to LEARN to LIVE TOGETHER or we will go our way. Many Thanks.

Frankie Belleh

Fa11b60@aol.com

Yushau Shuaib, I must appreciate your sincere testimony about the hospitable nature of the Asaba people. And I must not hesitate to add that Asaba is just a sample of the over all character of the entire people of the South. From South-east to South-south to South-west, the story remains the same. We are very kind and hospitable to foreigners. That the Igbos were constrained to give in to reprisal of recent, that speaks how badly they have been pushed to the wall. They are only telling your people that no one has the monopoly of violence.

    Violence, they say, is a kind of effect of a fundamental cause. And you cannot deal with the effect to cure the cause, you deal with the cause in order to cure the effect. Your people, for reasons I cannot explain, have formed the chronic habit of beheading the Igbos and burning down the Churches and destroying properties belonging to the southerners in your region. Yet we all deceive ourselves to believe that we are people of the same country. How? It really beggars belief.

    You call it the work of the devil? No. Don't blame the devil. For the first time, the devil is innocent in this case. That was a coordinated heinous action, carefully designed by your people to kill the southerners and destroy their properties for their whims and caprices. How can the devil push me to kill a human being since I'm not a murderer? God forbid it. In fact your people are not yet done. Take a look at a story that was published by Nigeria Today Online: Christian missionaries flee Northern Nigeria: "When a faction of Muslim rioters in northern Nigeria posted leaflets warning Christians to leave or be killed, four missionaries with Christian Reformed World Missions left the area along with 15 Nigerian Christian families…”

    Now, Yushau, what do you make out of this report? Is it when they kill any Christian or Southerner in accordance with their threat, you come back tomorrow to blame it on the devil? Balderdash! Or when there is a reprisal you want me to blame the effect? Inasmuch as I abhor taking of human life for whatever reasons, I would want us to roundly condemn the cause of this senseless killing. And this cause is your people -Hausa/Fulani. I still find it difficult to blend the relationship between the cartoon drawn by a Dane in far away Denmark and the senseless killing of Southerners in Hausa/Fulani land. Yet you say your religion is peaceful. I hope so.

    Yushau, to cut the long story short, you must admit that your people are hostile to fellow Nigerians of the South. And if they feel that they cannot afford to co-exist with their fellow human beings of different faith but of the same country, why not leave the union? It's hard to say, but it has to be said.

Emeka Reuben Okala

reukal@yahoo.co.uk

London, UK

Are lives and properties safe in the East where presumably Emeka comes from?. Tell me the place that is safe in Nigeria! Aso rock?

Sule Labbo

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