Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CONSUL-GENERAL OF NIGERIA: "I'M A MUSLIM, I CAN NEVER ENTER A CHURCH"

hi abdul
i didn't send the posting on nigeria breaking up; the thought never really crossed my mind. i share your hopes for its future to be a positive one, which it will certainly be one day
ken

On 8/14/12 5:48 PM, Abdul Karim Bangura wrote:

Most Respected Mwalimu Kenneth Harrow, Nigeria, a country I love sooooooooo much, will go down in infamy when it allows a relatively small percentage of its citizens to lead it to break up. I have no doubt that with good leadership that puts the problem at the very top of its agenda and employs a three-pronged cultural-economic-political strategy to deal with it seriously in its totality, a lasting resolution will be achieved. The leadership should realize that no amount of the nation's resources is too much to deal with the problem in its totality once and for all.

It is time that Nigeria taps its Policy Scientists and those from other Afrikan nations on the Motherland and in the Diaspora and work with all sides to the conflict to help it craft and implement a lasting peace plan.

May Allah/God (SWT) Bless a United Nigeria! 

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I increasingly suspect  that a separation of Northern and Southern Nigeria is the best way to go.

These kinds of brazen and bizarre comments, disdainful to Nigeria, from a  significant number of Nigerian Muslims  have been emerging with some consistency, from Atiku Abubakar's threat of violent change since a Northerner did not become President to the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram demanding that the Nigerian President resign or become a Muslim, to Sheikh Gumi alleging that the Nigerian government is waging a campaign against Muslims in its fight against Boko Haram and that Muslims in the North are safe from the group, being fellow Muslims and so the military presence is not required.

The values consistenly demonstrated by the loudest voices from Northern Nigerian Muslims suggests that their values will never be conducive to the integration of the North into Nigeria.

Thanks

Toyin

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Chika Onyeani <afrstime@aol.com> wrote:

Consul-General of Nigeria: "I'm a Muslim, I Can Never Enter a Church"

August 13, 2012 By conyeani Leave a Comment

"I'm a Muslim, I can never enter a Church," so said the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Mr. Habib Abba Habu, responding to complaints from Nigerians that the Consulate never responded to the deaths of five Nigerians in a tragic and ghastly accident on the 21st of July, 2012.  The accident had rocked the consciousness of Americans throughout the country by its sheer ghastliness and tragedy that claimed the lives of three women and two children in New York.

When we started getting complaints that the Nigerian Consulate-General in New York did not once react to this tragedy, did not visit the surviving accident victims at the hospital, never replied to a letter from the President of the Arondizuogu Patriotic Union National Congress of North America (An Umbrella union of all Arondizuogu people  – an Igbo ethnic group) resident in the North America, nor did they send anybody to the wake-keeping on Friday, July 10, in the Bronx, New York, I decided to get the Nigerian Consul-General, Mr. Habib Abba Habu, to respond to the allegations. (Read more) --
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--   kenneth w. harrow   distinguished professor of english  michigan state university  department of english  east lansing, mi 48824-1036  ph. 517 803 8839  harrow@msu.edu