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Ghana’s Muslims and the rest of them

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  • Papa mualimm 9 years ago

    My brother Kofi has written a well planned article and I say bravo. This is a Ghanaian who is patriotic, matured and well versed in what he is talking about. Islam is not arabic but the prophet's language was used since no on ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago

    Congrats!
    But the problem is with the writer listing tribes as sects of Islam:Shia, Sufi, Alawiya, the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, the Drudes, Kharijite Islam, Nation of Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Mawdahvism, Zikri, and a host ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    Idris, thanks for joining the discussion.

    For my mixing Islamic organisations with strands of Islam, see Kofi Amponsah's interesting and detailed contribution bellow and my response to him.

    Your second argument is one t ...
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  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    Kofi you are right on these issues and especially with the last paragraph. Growing up in Ghana, one dared not hand a Quran to a non-Muslim friend. Luckily, that is being addressed today. You see the Quran in various major lan ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago

    Ever since its compilation, The Quran like the Bible is a book. It is sold in shops. How can an author force somebody (reader) to handle a book s/he buys from a shop?

    The need to spiritually purity oneself before touching ...
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  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    No Idris, I'm not saying anything different. What I meant was that in the past, it was difficult to hand over a copy of the Quran to a non-Muslim due to misunderstandings. I don't know your age and generation but in the days ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago

    The tribal wars fought between Asantes and Fantes are similar to those fought and/or still being fought in the Gulf. I maintain that little link exists between those wars and Islam. You tagging it as Muslims against Muslims i ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    Note that the point I was trying to make about these wars of Muslim against Muslim is to say that they are just like the Christian wars of Christian against Christian. The point of your contention, I took it, was whether they ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Kofi,

    First of all, let me commend you for your usual erudite write up. Classy, I'd say.

    Secondly, I like your succinct rebuttal of Idris esp. that on the wars they fought in the past to spread Islam, acquire territory, ...
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  • Mozato 9 years ago

    Even at this very period of the holy Ramadan the "Boko Harams" in Lebanon are dropping bombs in Isreal. The truth must be told at all times, muslims are pretenders who profess to love God but they are not, in real sense. The ...
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  • Peace and love 9 years ago

    Kofi,Iam so please with your article it is always my prayer that the Ghanaian Muslims will should stay away from the so call jihads.We have come a long way and this is the time people like you to involve the Ghanaian Muslims ...
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  • Christian 9 years ago

    A good, peaceful writing. Unpresumptuous.

  • Mahmoud 9 years ago

    While some deists accepted revelation, most argued that revelation's restriction to small groups or even a single person limited its explanatory power. Moreover, many found the Christian revelations in particular to be contra ...
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  • Atom Ant 9 years ago

    Very interesting and informative article from a Spock-like commentator. "Peace and long life"

  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    V

    Live long and prosper!

  • Osei-cph 9 years ago

    Kofi, thanx for your great article.
    Anyway, I expected nothing less because you are such a gifted writer on Ghanaian life.

    The veil is actually called mayafi and not mayasi.

    Fasting in the European summer requires a lo ...
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  • Kwesi 9 years ago

    Thanks for the correction, Osei. It is, indeed, mayafi.

    I flunked that. Na my fault. My friend Ibrahim here could readily have edited the work for me and corrected that and the other errors but I was in a hurry and sent i ...
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  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    I admire your quick acceptance of corrections, a mark of a person in a learned society. My worry now is, you were Kofi in the original piece, now you are Kwesi - just a typo? looool

  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    Sorry for the distortion. It was just typo...

  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    A very interesting piece by author who comes across as someone that has grown up amongst Muslims and gained some fundamentals of the Muslim faith. Consequently, the article is mainly observational with opinions shrouded as fa ...
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  • Bono 9 years ago

    Kofi, your rejoinder is superb. Kudos!! By the way, I had a very sharp tongue during the mid-70's and we are blessed with four matured off-springs. I'm still in good terms with my Muslim in-laws

  • Dantankwa 9 years ago

    Kofi, much as I enjoyed reading Amanyo's informative piece, I must say I like your input even more. Amanyo has written a very good article, but the issues you spent some time to clarify is quite instructive.

  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    Thanks for your "corrections". They are very well made and straight to the point in the tabulated form. I am sure other readers will also learn from it as I have.

    A few comments and questions:

    1. Good for the info abou ...
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  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    I by no means thought you would come again to either say ‘thanks for your input’ or to debate further; which, in fact, is the beauty of intellectual debate. No one arrogates himself knowledge, so thanks.
    1. Kofi, other s ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    There was no way I wasn't going to come back when you made such relevant and interesting points.

    Thanks for the explanation about the strands of Islam in Ghana now. Interesting that there is a Shia mosque in Ghana.

    On ...
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  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    Ahmadiya Muslims observe Hajj. As I said in my previous piece, I believe the only country where they phased persecution and fled was Pakistan. The late Emir of the Ahmadis, Maulvi Wahab Adam was an Alhaji. Remember that pilgr ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago

    Great work!

  • babs bkk 9 years ago

    I HOPE OTHER COUNTRIES CAN LEARN FROM GHANA HOW TO COEXIST WITH EACH OTHER. GHANA IS A PEACEFUL NATION

  • mohammed 9 years ago

    Thanks kofi, I must say ive enjoyed reading your article and I think its always good one travels outside his or her domain to really know what is happening else where, you gave a lot of instances which I think its the reality ...
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  • Kwesi 9 years ago

    Mohammed,

    It is really not true that the Holy Quran has remained as it was revealed to the Prophet.

    Remember that in the beginning, the Quran was not in one book form as we have it now. It was supposed to be memorised ...
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  • RAZAK 9 years ago

    The only religious scripture that has remained in it original form since it was revealed is HOLLY Quran. This has bee attested to by top christian leaders nad scholars worldwide.

  • mariam 8 years ago

    The Holly book Qu'ran is never change even though we three to four type of islam but still we worship the same way pray together and memorize the same book.... we dont have new and old

  • Arthur Mark 9 years ago

    This is a very good piece for all to read, especially our muslim brothers. Efo Kofi has said it all. Honsetly speaking, it is here in Europe that I got to know that there are many types of Islam. As a Marine Engineer workin ...
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  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    Arthur Mark
    Are you talking about the principles of the religion or the behaviours of its subscribers? There are bad nuts everywhere. Just as in Islam, there are christians that cheat, lie, commit adultery, kill, etc althoug ...
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  • Peace and love 9 years ago

    Well says Mark. I asked a few Muslim friends here in eroupe why they don't eat pork and they all gave me different answers and some don't have aclue.

  • Blaa Atta 9 years ago

    Kofi Amenyo. you should know that there is only one Christianity, the same way there is one Islam. All Christians follow Christ. The fact that there are many denominations does not mean there are many Christianities as you wa ...
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  • mighty man 9 years ago

    iSLAM CONTINUES TO CONDONE TERRORISM. iT IS ONLY IN THIS RELIGION THAT ONE PRAYS WITH A PISTOL OR MACHETTI IN A SHEATH AROUND HIS WAIST. oYAA SURO OYAA.

  • Kofi Amponsah 9 years ago

    Mighty Man
    Won't it be great if you concentrate on the discussing the issues as raised (challenges of the Ghanaian Muslim in the West). Terrorism is a whole new issue and depending on your viewpoint and your understanding of ...
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  • Mozato 9 years ago

    You guys should stop pampering those pretenders who are intolerant to dissenting opinions. The WTC was razed down by the Al Quaida, a sister grouping of the Boko Harams in the middle East, and all moslems, both young and old ...
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  • Asiwome 9 years ago

    Afetor Amenyo, I wish that you would take time to study "ancestral worship", it is not animism.

  • Kofi Amenyo 9 years ago

    Oh, you prefer "ancestral worship". Well, not all of it is the worship of ancestors. But call it whatever you want to ... mele asiwome!

  • Rafiq A. Tschannen 9 years ago

    The rest of the world (Muslim and other) could learn from Ghana a sense of tolerance to all forms of religion. May Allah bless Ghana!

  • Mamadou Diallo 9 years ago

    Hello Koffi nice to read in your article about Ghanian Muslims I liked it , but in Africa from Senegal to Somalia Muslims are majority and thats clear Your estimate is like the Ethiopian goverment who said Muslims in Ethiopia ...
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  • Susie 9 years ago

    Why is only ISLAM breeding followers who kill those who do not believe as they do?, burn other people's religious buildings? IN Syria and Iraq now ISIS are raping of Christian women,shooting some without hijabs, and placing h ...
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  • mariam 8 years ago

    Please brothers and sister in islam dont argue with non muslim because of religion... we have only three type of islam and that is sunni, shia and ahmadiya the others he include are all tribes but how many type of christianit ...
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  • AMA 8 years ago

    Mariam, who wants to be a muslim anyway??????????? Your women all they is to ti cover they head and sleeping with men,they full of Aids. Dirty ppl!

  • Kareem Ismaheel 7 years ago

    muslims we are one, we perform our prayer 5time daily all over the world.we have 5 pillar while al muslim is fellow