Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Mubarak Bala arrested for blasphemy!

Really? In Nigeria - not in Iran, not in Russia, not in any of those "other"  places? Come on, Cornelius, you couldn't mean this! We  need to speak out against this or start reciting the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Poem:

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First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

 

MOA

On Thursday, April 30, 2020, 1:07:34 PM MDT, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:

Cornelius, 

One person's blasphemy is another's eulogy.

 Freedom of expression is vital for all and that is why we love your commentary on such a wide range of ideas, from Judaism to Islam and beyond. 

So if I say that I don't believe in Judaism, Christianity or Islam,

will you, Cornelius the Wise, burn me at the stakes? Wherein lie the wisdom

and humanism?

Today  it is Bala, but  tomorrow it may be you  - burnt by The Taliban, for expressing affiliation to Judaism.


gloriaemeagwali.com

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On Apr 30, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:



I am so happy:

Mubarak Bala arrested for blasphemy!

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