Chidi,
I like the positive "kill" there; in fact we can be sure that there are a couple of postings that have not and will never see the light of day in this forum. Imagine some bigoted, Igbophobic so-and-so (God forbid) writing "Death to the Igbos!" or "We are going to wipe out the Igbos!": Do you think that Oga Falola would ever give his blessings to such hate mail? Or would ever concede to revealing the name of the poster and the contents of such a posting if you ardently requested him to do so? The answer is no, considering all the havoc, the inter-personal vendettas and reprisals such a revelation would be like to entail. I am confident that he would not want to promote that kind of conflict in this forum and not over there in Nigeria, either. So, I imagine that - with all his writings on such issues and his comprehensive grasp on all such matters, it should be sufficient and we should take his word for it if he ever said that with good reason he had rejected certain "negative" comments about the Igbos.
In Sweden, the late Joseph Tarawally was one of my Temne friends from SIerra Leone. He was a neighbour of Mr. Idriss Ibrahim (a very decorous Hausa-man from Kano) . We (Joseph and I) lastly travelled together to unforgettable Tampere in Finland and what I remember best is getting back to Stockholm and out of the boat in my pyjamas. The thing about dear Joseph is that every time we met he would tell me, with a big smile on his face " We get for finish all di Krioman dem" i,e, " We're going to wipe out all the Creoles" - i.e genocide the Creoles, not exactly funny since the Temnes wiped out the Creoles a couple of times in the past, in the early history of Sierra Leone. The land purchased by the British Crown -ie, the Western Peninsula of Sierra Leone which became the colony ( the rest of the country was a protectorate) used to be the Temne-man's land; the friction was further exacerbated by the returnees, ie. the Poor Black from Britain, the Black Nova Scotians, the Jamaicans etc in particular perceived to be putting on airs and already lording it over the Temnes who, naturally resented these detribalised returnees, resented them deeply, perceived them to be acting like Oyinbo overlords. Some of them still resent the Creoles, deeply…. In the same way that some tribes in Nigeria resent the Igbos, deeply. Sometimes the complex (superiority/ inferiority the other side of the same coin) is so deep that even acquiring a thousand Phds will not cure it - is incapable of curing deep down, deep within...
As far as know it's unlikely that the negative comments made about the passing away of Oga Bola Tinubu's son - May he rest in peace - could have been made by members of his own ethnic group posting in this forum. All the more reason for our moderator to be firm, so that we don't degenerate into an inter-tribal war in cyberspace...
I'll now finish off my as yet polite but perhaps inchoate argument with my Baba Kadiri who ( in as far as I know him and I was in his company for the better half of an hour at home yesterday - during which he spent the better half of a half hour with my Better Half, talking shop and discussing Swedish politics - I left them to it whilst I checked the latest news on my computer and I'll tell you this - since my Better Half ( a real Language Buff) read some of the altercations between Kadiri, Kperogi and Harrow when we were in Morocco last year , whereby Baba grew in her estimation , otherwise my private introduction of Baba when he was not around was; " He is all for fiscal transparency and he hates corruption with all his heart" and as far as I know the Baba, he is not yet about to hang or retire his pen on this issue and we haven't heard the last of this matter yet I'm sure that right now, a storm is brewing in his pen /and he is hammering something out on his keyboard. As for me I'm done with the matter through the following words:
To cut the argument short : An extreme example: Especially because some people ( not all) believe that it is one of the pillars of their own religion to vilify the prophet of Islam and the great religion known as Islam. So, who in his right senses as moderator of this forum would allow any crude "negative" comments to be made about the passing away of Rasulullah -sallallahu alaihi wa salam ?
Should someone/ anyone be allowed to make - to use the euphemistic once again , "negative" comments about the Prophet of Islam, thereby hurting the feelings of all Muslims and all decent human beings and thereby threatening the peace and stability of this forum and maybe even the peace and stability of the country ( Nigeria)?
You remember what happened in Nigeria in 2002 when the Miss World Pageant was supposed to be held there and the journalist who sparked it off had thought that she was being " positive"? It has gone down in history as The Miss World Riots
Nigeria 2002 : the cause of the Miss World Riots : ( a snippet from Wikiislam)
"Female journalist Isioma Daniel, writing in the Nigerian newspaper "ThisDay", stated, "The Muslims thought it was immoral to bring 92 women to Nigeria and ask them to revel in vanity. What would Muhammad think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from one of them. The irony is that Algeria, an Islamic country, is one of the countries participating in the contest."
This comment was not only regarded as insulting by Muslims, but blasphemous and deserving death. It also earned Isioma Daniel a fatwa calling for her beheading. The Zamfara state Deputy Governor Mamuda Aliyu Dallatun Shinkafi stated "Like Salman Rushdie, the blood of the ThisDay writer can be shed."[1]
So Chidi once again it's The Golden Rule that applies : Do Right to me baby
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 13:13:11 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
Mazi Cornelius,
If I were the moderator, I would simply "kill", pernicious posts, the way editors "kill" stories like that. I won't "kill" and tell.
CAO.
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