The loudest voices from Northern Nigerian Muslims, or the ones that pre-existing opinions allow one to hear? Or - forget Sheikh Gumi - the just the ones who have not been killed by Boko Haram because they don't preach or say what Boko Haram approves? And by the way, what happens to Christians in the north?
The Consul-General is a disgrace and should be recalled, because he needs to explain why the hospital, or families of the victims were also not places to be visited, and was just looking for a divisive excuse to hang his disgraceful neglect of duty on (so that he can plead religious discrimination when the time comes) but that does not warrant such generalisation.
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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.ThanksToyin--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"
"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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