Arabs ,Islam is tool to propagate their civilisation,now terrorism is their new tool to propagate their umma or Islamic state in Africa and the rest of the world.
Arabs ,Islam is tool to propagate their civilisation,now terrorism is their new tool to propagate their umma or Islamic state in Africa and the rest of the world.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
I would not blame Arabs or Islam. I will blame our greedy bastards!
I would not blame Arabs or Islam. I will blame our greedy bastards!
J. J. LAWRENCE 10 years ago
Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, YOU STUPID TROKOSI EWE BASTARD, WHAT DOES YOUR FOLLOWING NONSENSE MEANS?
On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Andy-K wrote:
> That most (Arabs) Muslims today are ignorant of the atrocities committed in the name of ... read full comment
Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, YOU STUPID TROKOSI EWE BASTARD, WHAT DOES YOUR FOLLOWING NONSENSE MEANS?
On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Andy-K wrote:
> That most (Arabs) Muslims today are ignorant of the atrocities committed in the name of that religion in Africa, I'm certain of. I see it and hear it in my daily interaction with them, especially those from the North African region. There the schools teach them that it was the Americans who came to take black Africans, and even some of them, as slaves!!! Of course, Islam is against slavery, they'd quickly add.
> Comment from I-man:
> Hey, Andy, I'm not a Moslem nor do I intend to defend slavery of any kind. Mine is just a search for clarity.
> I'm aware of Christians who explicitly used the Bible to sanction slavery, for example, by invoking God's blessing for the slave ships, etc. However, I'm not aware of any Arabs using the Koran to justify slavery.
> Do you here use Arabs synonymously with Muslims? Were the Arab slave merchants all Muslims, and did they use their religion--as did the Europeans--to justify enslavement? I would accept *any* source
Kojo 10 years ago
Andy stop you bullshit, you don't make sense.
Andy stop you bullshit, you don't make sense.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
I have said time and again that Andky-K just recycle same old stuff that appeared on Okyeame!
I have said time and again that Andky-K just recycle same old stuff that appeared on Okyeame!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
It is really disheartening that someone who claims to have a PhD can only respond to serious issues like the one under discussion with attempts to denigrate the author and inane comments of no relevancy.
The facts of the m ... read full comment
It is really disheartening that someone who claims to have a PhD can only respond to serious issues like the one under discussion with attempts to denigrate the author and inane comments of no relevancy.
The facts of the matter written about started happening over 1000 of years ago. So, if I quoted books written on the subject up to the 1990s and used an edited article written in 1995, now that it is 2013, what I expect a scholar to do is to quote recent publications to negate what I wrote, if indeed, there are new literature negating those claims. Of course, no new version of the Qur'an has been written since the illiterate Mohammed allegedly dictated one to the Ethiopian who actually
indoctrinated him!
As for you low lifers hiding behind monikers attempting to insult me, you are not up to my pedigree in any yardstick! Your insults don't even prick my skin. I know whom I am and who born me! I know what percentile ranking I belong to thru'out my education, from Ghana to Europe, so I am never intimidated by anyone claiming to be educated with a PhD. I was at one time reading PhD dissertations and making comments before defence. One lady who stopped giving me the scripts to read through made a grievous historical error in her dissertation which her Norwegian supervisors couldn't dictate. And I was reading through papers for Profs, who were always grateful for my insightful comments. One of them, with two PhDs, one in Archeology and the other in Law, even acknowl. me in his article which I found on the Internet! Akadu, who has acknowledged?
I can trace my descent to several centuries back to kings who ruled over all Ewes from Nigeria to Ghana before they broke up into their distinctive states today!
Not only that. My ancestors were at the table when modern Ghana was taking shape in the C19th! Where were your ancestors? Which dogs born born you? My Royal Adzorvia Clan produced some of the giants of Gold Coast scholarship, as we supervised the expansion of education of education in the whole of Eweland, making Ewes foremost in many fields of learning today in Ghana and beyond. When Torgbui Sri II (private name, Cornelius Kofi Kwawukume) died in 1956 at a very ripe age, he was celebrated in Lome, Togo, the centre of The Gen-nyi state, former enemies of the Anlos, just as much as in Anloga! That's the ancestry, pedigree and tradition from which I came.
Now, the issue of this topic is clear. If I had written anything foolish and wrong, prove me wrong! After all, one person doesn't have the prerogative of knowing everything there is to know. I relied on serious scholars and quoted them to back my claims, which are their claims too.
And for those of you who are skeptical of European authors. just produce what your great and illustrious ancestors recorded for posterity! Barely educated people that you are, you never heard of verification and refutation in academia.
Tweah! Uncivilised backward people! That's why the Arabs, the Europeans and now the Chinese, shall continue to rape and exploit us and treat us like dirt in even our own countries in Africa!
I shall soon recount how some Ghanaians also engaged in the slave trade, so prepare yourselves for it! The few people killed since independence by various govts paled into insignificance compared to the 1000s some of your ancestors used to kill in a day! Ignorant dzimakplaviwo!
Andy-K
Symbiosis 10 years ago
Andy the Euro-Christian anti Moslem crusader, is Akadu not right with what he said?
And as far as my comprehension of the English language goes, I did not detect a word of denigration against you and neither did I note an ... read full comment
Andy the Euro-Christian anti Moslem crusader, is Akadu not right with what he said?
And as far as my comprehension of the English language goes, I did not detect a word of denigration against you and neither did I note any inane opinions.
It is rather you who should apologize to the guy for falsely accusing him - just like most of the false details of your write-up. It must be your habit to spew out false inverted information.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
What are you yapping about? I really don't think you have a clue what's this about!
Andy-K
What are you yapping about? I really don't think you have a clue what's this about!
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
I am so tired of these low-life and cowardly jerks on Ghanaweb who hide behind monikers and spew insults at people, instead of respond to issues on the line, that I have resolved to spit fire with fire with them. When you ins ... read full comment
I am so tired of these low-life and cowardly jerks on Ghanaweb who hide behind monikers and spew insults at people, instead of respond to issues on the line, that I have resolved to spit fire with fire with them. When you insult me, I shall insult you too basabasa.
I've put my august family name on the line publicly, ready to defend whatever I write anywhere on earth! If I can write this of murderous Muslims, what do you think I am capable of writing about the mentally warped forefathers of people like you who just respond to issues based on your jaundiced, ethnocentric perceptions? I shall therefore not allow myself to be tormented by faceless, cowardly, cretins and yobos of no moral persuasion to speak of.
I know whom I am more than anybody else. Your definition of me doesn't make me what I am. I've already made myself.
Jerks!
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Come off your high diseased horse! You are the worst lowlife here! You prattle this nonsense that you cobbled together almost 20 years ago and want to be seen as an intellectual and opinion leader.
Come off your high diseased horse! You are the worst lowlife here! You prattle this nonsense that you cobbled together almost 20 years ago and want to be seen as an intellectual and opinion leader.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Yes, includes those Ewes who come to insult all Akans ad nauseam, Asantes in particular! I had rebuked such persons in the past even though I am very much aware that they were just responding in anger to the insults hurled at ... read full comment
Yes, includes those Ewes who come to insult all Akans ad nauseam, Asantes in particular! I had rebuked such persons in the past even though I am very much aware that they were just responding in anger to the insults hurled at Ewes on a daily basis here by some Akan degenerates like you. I've always asked them to keep it clean! Insult the individual, his/her parents and his/her whole lineage if you want to but DON'T extend it to all Akans. Some just even assume that the culprits are Asantes and start insulting Asantes. That is very wrong! Haven't I raised ,y fingers at you too for writing nasty about Asantes but you said someone was impersonating your moniker?
Always reminds me of a market woman who thought she was insulting a taxi driver cheating all of us in the tough times of early 1983 by shouting at him "Hooo! Kwahu, Kwahu! One quarter way thru the journey when we who could afford his exorbitant charge had regained our breath from scrambling to enter the taxi, one passenger asked the driver if the woman knew him? "No, I don't know her o!" "Why did she call you Kwahu then?" "Ah! Masser, as for me, I don't know o! I no bi even Kwahu." At this point, a smallish gent who was silent throughout the journey said with a wry smile, "And I am Kwahu". We all chirped in and said he shouldn't pay the driver the increased fare but he did and left quietly when we reached Children's Hospital, the last stop.
That's what ethnic stereotyping does.
Andy-K
HASSAN 10 years ago
Today, despite of all the hatred spread against islam, the number of followers of islam is increasing day by day because people when try to find terrorism from Quran and sunnah, they find nothing but peace and humanity.
Today, despite of all the hatred spread against islam, the number of followers of islam is increasing day by day because people when try to find terrorism from Quran and sunnah, they find nothing but peace and humanity.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
You defend Ghanaians who killed and brutalized follow Ghanaians simply because they are/were Ewes, but blame Arabs for unleashing atrocities against Africans! Blame your African fore-parents as much as future generations will ... read full comment
You defend Ghanaians who killed and brutalized follow Ghanaians simply because they are/were Ewes, but blame Arabs for unleashing atrocities against Africans! Blame your African fore-parents as much as future generations will blame you for defending the indefensible such JJ's atrocities, Awonoor's bigotry, and your provincial gendering and feminization of poverty, what you fondly call trokosi!
PP 10 years ago
The Ashantis were involved in the slave trade. Their chief is wanted at the Hague.
The Ashantis were involved in the slave trade. Their chief is wanted at the Hague.
KWADWO 10 years ago
PP PROGRESSIVE PIG! IN PERPETUAL IGNORANCE.
PP PROGRESSIVE PIG! IN PERPETUAL IGNORANCE.
PROF 10 years ago
BLAME OUR AFRICAN ANCESTORS FOR ARAB SLAVERY. THESE GUYS WERE PUSHING THEIR RELIGION ON EVERYONE. YOU ACCEPT IT U LIVE, U REJECT IT U DIE OR BECOME A SLAVE. BLAME THE ANCESTORS WHO REJECTED ISLAM AND WERE ENSLAVED?
BLAME OUR AFRICAN ANCESTORS FOR ARAB SLAVERY. THESE GUYS WERE PUSHING THEIR RELIGION ON EVERYONE. YOU ACCEPT IT U LIVE, U REJECT IT U DIE OR BECOME A SLAVE. BLAME THE ANCESTORS WHO REJECTED ISLAM AND WERE ENSLAVED?
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
PP,
Leave the Asantes, former allies of many Ewe states, btw, out of this one. This is about Arabs and Muslims. When it comes to Africans, then we can ask wo and who should pay reparations and in what form.
Andy-K
PP,
Leave the Asantes, former allies of many Ewe states, btw, out of this one. This is about Arabs and Muslims. When it comes to Africans, then we can ask wo and who should pay reparations and in what form.
Andy-K
Ghana-Before-Self! 10 years ago
It is sad that, like the author of the article, you have bought into the fraudulent, reductionist narrative of Euro-American revisionists and anti-reparations forces, blaming Continental Africans themselves for the slave trad ... read full comment
It is sad that, like the author of the article, you have bought into the fraudulent, reductionist narrative of Euro-American revisionists and anti-reparations forces, blaming Continental Africans themselves for the slave trade. Even though anti-colonialist heroine, Yaa Asantewaa, was born (circa 1840) after the enactment of the (British) Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833, she represents continuum of determined, conscious and militant Asante resistance to the European invaders and debunks the false generalization that the Asante Empire was a partner in the Transatlantic slave trade. Indeed, there appears in the New World itself militant women and men of Asante origin (some royal) who revolted against slavery in long-drawn wars of liberation. Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons (said to be actually named "Nana Champong") is one example. Harriet Tubman of the USA is another, a slave of Asante descent who not only freed herself but her entire family and many other enslaved men and women.
The point I wish to make - and from the evidence - is that one cannot generalize and accuse the victims of slavery of collaboration in one one sweeping whoop. Yes, there were some chiefs and merchants who did engage in the evil trade out of the capitalist impulse. But that cannot be generalized to mean ALL chiefs and merchants etc participated. And above all the general populace, the powerless masses, if you will, did not plead to be sold into slavery. The evidence points also to other Chiefs and ordinary people who fought against the European slavers. King Ackaah of the Nzimas was notorious for his cunning, deceit and cruelty to the European slavers. We have even in recent times been made aware of King Bonsu who despised the European slavers so much he decapitated a senior Dutch official sent as an emissary to deliver a message and paid for his action literally with his own head also.
While the Asante Empire practised internal slavery over war captives (and this can be viewed dialectically in terms of the feudal structure of that society), when it came to the Transatlantic slave trade, their participation was limited and tactical. The Asantes would sell war captives sometimes to one European country to obtain arms in order to fight a more potent and dangerous European power. For example, they sold slaves to the Dutch in order to gain munitions to fight the British. Indeed, Professor Akosua Perbi of Legon, has written that the incidence of slavery rose whenever there were more guns and gun powder being sold by the Europeans, and similarly declined when there was a shortage of guns and gunpowder!
By no means, do I - a non-Asante, by the way - condone any form of slavery. But the Western revisionist attempt to place responsibility for slavery squarely at the foot of Continental Africans must be exposed and shattered dialectically and not pathetically accepted by those who are blinded by their own tribal primacy consciousness and have degenerated into ethno-neurotic ramblings.
Long Live Nkrumah's Ghana! Ghana before tribe! Ghana before self! One Continent, One People, One Destiny!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Your are veritable idiot! You have no credibility at all. When and where did I defend any Ghanaian who brutalised and killed "follow Ghanaians"?
Yes, a lot of atrocities have been committed against some Ghanaians under th ... read full comment
Your are veritable idiot! You have no credibility at all. When and where did I defend any Ghanaian who brutalised and killed "follow Ghanaians"?
Yes, a lot of atrocities have been committed against some Ghanaians under the PNDC of JJ Rawlings. Many of those atrocities actually started in the VR and many people were touched, including even our late Awoamefia Torgbui Adeladza II who was manhandled, slapped and nearly killed by the Amedeka Gang!
Mawuli Goka was not only my mate in Mawuli School, but we are related somehow. My snr. sister should how since she was the one on nickname terms with the father. Admiral Joy Amedume was a fellow Adzorvia clan member and the father's house is just separated from that of Torgbui Sri II by a road, whereas another family house is actually attached to theirs.
I've never supported the PNDC and stayed in Nigeria and been outside Ghana since Sept 1981. I don't even support NDC, which everyone who knows me is aware of.
What abhor about you real ethnocentric and mentally jaded opponents of the P/NDC is to equate the actions of the P/NDC to the actions of Ewes, and then start insulting Ewes ad nauseam!
As for Awoonor, he was no bigot and posterity shall prove him right. He simply wrote against the targeting of Ewes by Akans and some Asantes of the Matemeho tradition. Apparently, he did it so well his enemies are still reeling from the mortal wounds he inflicted upon them. A pity, they will die a long, painful death!
Intellectual bankrupt, learn to stick to the topic!
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Calling me names is insignificant! Find time to revise your 1995 write-ups! You see scholarship grows! You said recently that you hope to do a phd. Good for you. You sorely need it!
Calling me names is insignificant! Find time to revise your 1995 write-ups! You see scholarship grows! You said recently that you hope to do a phd. Good for you. You sorely need it!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Akadu, I changed my mind about returning to Ghana. The place is teeming with very uncivilised people! One such PhD is currently performing exorcism rites to chase away ghosts! Phew!
It is 'cos of stupid persons like you th ... read full comment
Akadu, I changed my mind about returning to Ghana. The place is teeming with very uncivilised people! One such PhD is currently performing exorcism rites to chase away ghosts! Phew!
It is 'cos of stupid persons like you that a friend and a relation, an Adjunct Professor in Norway, insisted that we should do PhD if we intended to return to Ghana one day and work there. He used to read Okyeame postings and lament about what some with PhDs post. You are very typical of such narrow-minded and ignorant people who can't even spell their names correctly claiming to have a PhD! He'd say, such people would be put over you if you return home without a PhD! That's the only reason why I wanted a Phd again, having scored negative on all the 5 qs in the book, How to Get a PhD or not Get One, [hope I got it right] and abandoned the quest long ago.
My snr brother just saw them for what they are at close range: hollow! I won't mention names but some have been advising govt since 19 krebetihoho! They'd read his book critising the oil agreement sell-out unleashed upon us, and cop out by claiming that was not their area of specialisation and so couldn't make an informed opinion. We have been done for! I had to calm him down as he was dismayed, telling him that a PhD only give you the chance to specialise in a narrow field of your subject of study, say Econs. A sophomore studying Petroleum Law can therefor know more than a PhD in Econs. But there is Internet these days they can check on some of those things, he retorted? Bah! He didn't know that he was dealing with developing people, not civilised people like him and myself!
You see, I already knew about that problem of our so-called educated people by speaking to some uncles now dead, etc., about the failure of the Ghanaian elite to bring positive change about since indep. One who was with the Stats Service said that he had just completed his 1st degree when Ghana got indep. and he returned to serve out of patriotism in spite of the pleadings by his supervisors to do his Masters at least, since he was very brilliant. He claimed he had traveled the world and presented papers and been offered posts abroad but when people found out that he didn't have a PhD., they'd balked. Upon his retirement, he picked up one with the Univ. of Columbia, which he proudly showed me, and advised me not to return to Ghana. "Had your father and ourselves not sacrificed enough for Ghana?", he queried. "You come from an educated home and background, that's why you are thinking like that!"
Akadu, you claimed that Christians committed worse when Part 1 was posted. I've presented my refs. to support my position. Show me the latest researches which disprove the figures given. Ok. Get the help of Akurang-Parry since if you were him, you couldn't be writing such idiotic nonsense! When I was participating in the great Black Athena debate arranged by HarperCollins in the mid-90s, Profs were quoting their own books written 30 years earlier! Go away with your nonsense, you scion of an unlettered peasant!
Go and write one of your silly, ethnocentric, watery diatribes you call poems!
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Changed your mind about what - a Phd? Returning to Ghana? What can you do for and in Ghana at this stage in your lowly life! To join the NDC as an Aide? Sadly, the Dr involved in exorcism is from your village. You allow frien ... read full comment
Changed your mind about what - a Phd? Returning to Ghana? What can you do for and in Ghana at this stage in your lowly life! To join the NDC as an Aide? Sadly, the Dr involved in exorcism is from your village. You allow friends to define your life for you as much you allow opinion pieces to define your identity and core values. You are too shallow, yet boastful. You see some of us just come here to toy with people like you who have no core values that define them. At your age, you retail such oolish stories to make you feel good or bad about yourself!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Brothers and Sisters,
I think it's time we learn to get along with each other.
Let's concentrate on making ourselves and our nation better (prepared) for any terrorist eventuality.
I love you all, brothers and siste ... read full comment
Brothers and Sisters,
I think it's time we learn to get along with each other.
Let's concentrate on making ourselves and our nation better (prepared) for any terrorist eventuality.
I love you all, brothers and sisters.
PP 10 years ago
Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister once said that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Is like a scar on the conscience of Europe. Some outstanding Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora have rejected some fo ... read full comment
Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister once said that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Is like a scar on the conscience of Europe. Some outstanding Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora have rejected some form of compensation to Black people for the injustice metered out to our people . The crime has already been committed. What do we do? we better go for the compensation and carry on. THE JEWS WERE COMPENSATED, THE SLAVE OWNERS WERE COMPENSATED BUT NOT THE SLAVES. The Arabs must compensate the Africans.
sammy 10 years ago
I honestly doubt your intellectual prowess and integrity. You are quoting
Maxime Robinson, a European, about Arabs and slavery. How can you compare the magnitude of the devastation, severity, brutality of unparalled proporti ... read full comment
I honestly doubt your intellectual prowess and integrity. You are quoting
Maxime Robinson, a European, about Arabs and slavery. How can you compare the magnitude of the devastation, severity, brutality of unparalled proportion of European slavery to that of Arab one? Which part of Ghana did arabs catche slaves? The Europeans will want to deflect the guilt on their conscience. Don't rewrite history. We do not know of any arab slavery of significance. You seen like a fool to me.
GHANABA 10 years ago
SAMMY, IF YOU ARE IGNORANT ABOUT ARAB SLAVERY PLS GO AND FIND OUT.THE WRITER DID NOT COLLATE HIS FACTS WELL.ARABS DID FAR WORSE THAN THE EUROPEANS.IT WAS A SWEDISH GUY WHO EXPOSED THE HORRORS OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA TO THE ... read full comment
SAMMY, IF YOU ARE IGNORANT ABOUT ARAB SLAVERY PLS GO AND FIND OUT.THE WRITER DID NOT COLLATE HIS FACTS WELL.ARABS DID FAR WORSE THAN THE EUROPEANS.IT WAS A SWEDISH GUY WHO EXPOSED THE HORRORS OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.SO THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN QUOTING FROM AN EUROPEAN WRITER.SURELY. OSEI TUTU, BOA AMPOSEM,NTIM GYAKARI ETC DID NOT LEAVE ANYTHING IN WRITING IN TWI OR FANTE.
PROF 10 years ago
CHECK THE FACTS NOT THE NATIONALITY OF THE MESSENGER.
CHECK THE FACTS NOT THE NATIONALITY OF THE MESSENGER.
Symbiosis 10 years ago
Good one Sammy. This Andy C Y is just another house-nigger trying to distort history at his slave-masters bidding. He needs cultural and political salvation.
Who in his right mind would read and believe any book written by ... read full comment
Good one Sammy. This Andy C Y is just another house-nigger trying to distort history at his slave-masters bidding. He needs cultural and political salvation.
Who in his right mind would read and believe any book written by unqualified European oppressors about Arabs and Moslems - and worse-still about slavery?
Again, what manner of African in his right mind, would proceed to read and then gullibly believe and quote statistics from any such historically twisted document about the Trans-Atlantic Slave 'Trade' from those evil liars who still shamelessly maintain that Europeans discovered Africa?
Worse of all is the culturally tethered and psychologically mutilated 'African' who gives himself away with a 'Christian' name like Andy, and is therefore not qualified to write anything on this subject. His level of stupidity goes beyond the dictionary meaning and such a word is not strong enough to slap on such dimwits.
Perhaps, one day when our poor old Andy CY and people like him have with the help of God - the more respectable African concept of God, managed to rid themselves of the yoke of European imperialist mind-control, perhaps he will be able to avail himself of relatively recent books put together by qualified Black researchers. These books, many of which point to the fact that well over 200 million Africans were shipped like cattle and timber in the vomit and excrement-filled dank and putrid holds of slave ships to the Americas.
Some of these crimes against humanity discreetly continued as recently as the 19th century by so-called Christians who claim(ed) they are acting in the name of God to evangelize Africans. They in addition continued to colonize Africans, loot our resources for several centuries and hold us in economic bondage with the economic advantages which they gained from slavery and colonialism.
I cannot forgive the slavery and colonization of Africans at any time in the history of the world by anyone or group of people. But those who misused the name of God to commit such unparalleled and atrocious crimes against humanity as recently as the 17th to 19th century, cannot be trusted especially when they rather continue to oppress and lambaste Africans as being primitive and backward.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
I don't know which dog born you too but don't address me in such tones again, ok? Did even your father go to school at all, so that I can ask you which books he had left behind written by him?
Let me inform you that you w ... read full comment
I don't know which dog born you too but don't address me in such tones again, ok? Did even your father go to school at all, so that I can ask you which books he had left behind written by him?
Let me inform you that you were addressing a person who doesn't even believe that any god exist and hence even created this universe and he was bold to be saying this to the whole world to know since the 1990s! Ok!
I don't even believe in any African god or gods or the MAAT!
In today's academic world, any claims can be verified. heard of verifications and refutations as part of the scientific methodology? You spewed such uneducated trash!
I am glad you can't forgive the slavery and colonisation of Africa. Keep your focus on the target. I am not the enemy, just the messenger bringing one side of the hidden bad story.
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
What intellectual prowess! He is just a noise-maker!
What intellectual prowess! He is just a noise-maker!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
You idiot! Your time is up! A moron doesn't get distinction at the O's.
It is me, Lord of the Manor,
Andy-K
You idiot! Your time is up! A moron doesn't get distinction at the O's.
It is me, Lord of the Manor,
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
You are not funny anymore! You got a distinction at the O-level and what have you done with your life? Buying and selling aka retailing in the UK and still harbored in a Council Flat!It is silly to be telling us about your O- ... read full comment
You are not funny anymore! You got a distinction at the O-level and what have you done with your life? Buying and selling aka retailing in the UK and still harbored in a Council Flat!It is silly to be telling us about your O-level! You got a distinction at the O-level, and got a third class at Legon. Rattled, he will come to tell us that he received a first-class honors in political science! You are so easily rattled: inferioriry complex is your
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
You see, the only denominator we can all measure each other here is the O'L. So measure yourself against my record at the O'L when it comes to intelligence.
As for the 1st Class I didn't get one because I didn't work hard ... read full comment
You see, the only denominator we can all measure each other here is the O'L. So measure yourself against my record at the O'L when it comes to intelligence.
As for the 1st Class I didn't get one because I didn't work hard for it at all! A friend and a 6th form mate got one and when I went to congratulate him, he upbraided me by saying, "Andy, you could've got one". Missed all that "enjoyment" and quaffing at the Cafetaria for that??? He "chewed" on all thruout the 3 yrs. Even at the O's, I wasn't serious enough, according to some of my teachers. As for my mates, they all thought Andy was a fun-filled fella and was surprised when I was picked as one of the 2 best students at our graduation before our results even came out! I don't "ghost", and weekends I am likely in town without exeat! Yeah! That was me then!
Akadu, I did Marketing too in Norway and I was best student in the class! I became head of the Commerce Dept in the school I taught in Nigeria, as I did commercial subjects, including RSA with my WAEC. I wanted to become an accountant like my father and brothers, and my grandfather but during my studies, I found out that the real money is in marketing and accounting is shit. Were it not due to the fact that the telecom sector was not deregularised early enough when I had the opportunity in the 1990s, I'd be a proud owner of a telecom coy by now.
What's important is that I work for myself, pay wages here in the UK and as far as in Nigeria! Had I accepted certain offers, ... hmm, I won't say it!
Why on earth must someone like me feel inferior to the likes of you???? You aren't getting it, eh? What have you got which I haven't got? Have you been to Anloga before? It is just a sleepy shallot growing town but as I told your ilk in the 1990s, the houses in white Anloga shallot farmers store their shallots are far better than many of the dwelling houses I saw in my data collection trips in the Akan areas, including the cocoa growing areas!
Or, are you more handsome than me?
I am an Ewe, supposed to have all the juicy posts in the public sector, scholarships, blah! blah! blah! according to you and your ilk. So what can I feel inferior about?
Why are we Ewes afflicted by such monstrous Akans like you? I shall devote the next couple of weeks to unraveling that canker! This posting is on the serious issue Islamic slavery and violence and you who claimed to have a PhD can only contribute trivia and ad hominem attacks on the writer cos he is an Ewe! You are a fucking jerk!
Ok! I've declared WAR on you all fucking Akans of your ilk! Just bring it on! I am waiting! The kids gloves are out! Maybe I should quote one Islamic Sura to support my war on you jerks.:-) Their Qur'an is full of the appropriate Suras to support any war on Infidels like you envious ingrates and uncircumcised Philistines!
Andy-K
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago
NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, HOW MUCH I LONG THAT ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD SHALL UNDERSTAND THAT- THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE- IS AT STAKE IN THIS PRESENT GL ... read full comment
NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, HOW MUCH I LONG THAT ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD SHALL UNDERSTAND THAT- THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE- IS AT STAKE IN THIS PRESENT GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE" AND NOT JUST A PARTICULAR PEOPLE OF ANY -RELIGION- LANGUAGE, NATIONALITY OR RACE.PULSE. NOW, -LET MY PEOPLE THINK. FOR WHO SAYS THE CURRENT PREDICAMENTS, TRIAL AND PERSUCUTION OF PEOPLE OF THE -ISLAMIC RELIGION- AFFECTS ONLY PEOPLE OF ISLAM? WHO SAYS, THE ONGOING POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN ARAB STATES FROM IRAQ TO SYRIA AFFECTS ONLY ARAB NATIONS AND NOT EVERY SINGLE NATION ON EARTH? IF INDEED THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COLLAPSE OF THE UNITED STATES IN 2008 AFFECTED ONLY AMERICA AND NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH, THE WORLD WILL NOT STILL BE IN THIS GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE". PULSE. A TIME TO THINK. FOR ALL I HAVE ESTABLISHED IS- JUST AS NO NATION IS INDEPENDENT OF THE REST OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, SO ARE THE CHALLENGES OF PEOPLE OF VARIOUS THE RELIGIONS: ISLAM, CHRITIAN FAITH, JUDAISM, BUDISM, TRADITINALISM, AND ALL WITHOUT FAITH OR RELIGION, AND THOSE OF EVERY OTHER RELIGION AFFECT ALL OF HUMANITY IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. ONE MORE TIME, PRECIOUS FELLOW HUMAN, PULSE. A TIME TO THINK.
DIGNIFIED ONES, RELIGION IS -NOT- THE PROBLEM BUT THE -IMPOSITION- OF RELIGION BY -FELLOW MEN- ON THEIR -FELLOW MEN- IS THE PROBLEM!!! NO, SOMEBODY, DID NOT GET THIS. I AM SAYING,-RELIGION- IS NOT THE PROBLEM BUT THE -HUMAN INTOLERANCE- FOR THEIR FELLOW HUMANS IS WHAT ALMOST ALWAYS BREEDS THE BLOODSHED. IF CHRIST -KILLED NONE- TO SHOW HIS LOVE TOWARS MEN, WHO AM I TO SEEK TO IMPOSE MY FAITH AS A CHRISTIAN ON THE FELLOW HUMAN LET ALONE, GO TO THE EXTENT OF SHEDING INNOCENT BLOOD IN THE NAME OF -CHRIST. SELAH. IF MEN -KILL- IN THE NAME OF -RELIGION- THEY SO DO FOR THEMSELVES AND NOT FOR GOD. PULSE. NOW, LET MY PEOPLE THINK. FOR "IT IS FINISHED" THEREFORE, "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" SHOWING -TOLERANCE-FOR ALL MEN, AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AND BLOOD. GOD BLESS INNOCENT FELLOW HUMANS OF ISLAMIC STATES ENDURING TRIBULATION. GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF VARIOUS RELIGION GOING THROUGH ONE FORM OF PERSICUTION OR THE OTHER IN VARIOUS NATIONS OF THE WORLD. AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
THE LORD BLESS THEE, AND KEEP THEE; THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON THEE, AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO THEE; THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON THEE, AND GIVE THEE PEACE.
NOTE
MUCH THANKS TO GHANAWEB. AND TO MIGHTY GOD RADIO.
Kwobia,Toronto 10 years ago
This article brings up the Israeli/Palestinian issue,and as to why Sub-Saharan Africans have allowed themselves to be robed in.This is not their war.The Jews and Arabs have never gotten along.Sub-Saharan Africans must wake up ... read full comment
This article brings up the Israeli/Palestinian issue,and as to why Sub-Saharan Africans have allowed themselves to be robed in.This is not their war.The Jews and Arabs have never gotten along.Sub-Saharan Africans must wake up.
PASQUIN 10 years ago
if I am not mistaken, this quotation is the punishment for unbelievers on JUDGEMENT DAY. The book of REVELATIONS IN THE BIBLE is replete with such imagery of PUNISHMENT.
if I am not mistaken, this quotation is the punishment for unbelievers on JUDGEMENT DAY. The book of REVELATIONS IN THE BIBLE is replete with such imagery of PUNISHMENT.
Atta Kenkey 10 years ago
Taking quotations from the Koran out of context to justify your narrow prejudices is the style of the fool masquerading as a scholar.
Taking quotations from the Koran out of context to justify your narrow prejudices is the style of the fool masquerading as a scholar.
Joe Nana 10 years ago
You idiot.The only thing islam has brought to the world is hell even before death.What kind of religion is this?islam preches vitues but practice vices.My dog will not join it.VERY SIMPLE.
You idiot.The only thing islam has brought to the world is hell even before death.What kind of religion is this?islam preches vitues but practice vices.My dog will not join it.VERY SIMPLE.
SULTAN 10 years ago
NANA,YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.ISLAM IS NOT BUT ARAB CULTURAL VANITY.IT SADDENS ME TO SEE POOR GHANAIANS WALLOWING IN IT.DO YOU THINK SAUDI ARABIA WILL INVEST IN SOMALIA.ETHIOPIA.BANGLADESH ETC TO UPLIFT THEM FOM EXTREME POVER ... read full comment
NANA,YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.ISLAM IS NOT BUT ARAB CULTURAL VANITY.IT SADDENS ME TO SEE POOR GHANAIANS WALLOWING IN IT.DO YOU THINK SAUDI ARABIA WILL INVEST IN SOMALIA.ETHIOPIA.BANGLADESH ETC TO UPLIFT THEM FOM EXTREME POVERTY ,NO, NO,THEY ONLY GIVE THEM NONSENICAL ARAB BOOK CALLED KORAN.
Agyeman 10 years ago
Never,never ever trust an Arab.They think an african is beneath them and their slave trading past speaks volumes about them since the africans they took can never be accounted for unlike the western world where there are remn ... read full comment
Never,never ever trust an Arab.They think an african is beneath them and their slave trading past speaks volumes about them since the africans they took can never be accounted for unlike the western world where there are remnants of a slaving past.
Kayaa 10 years ago
As a social commentator u r at liberty to be bias in selecting your material especially to suit your agenda: propaganda and hatred for the one and true faith, Islam. As an African, I can't relate to many of the things u r all ... read full comment
As a social commentator u r at liberty to be bias in selecting your material especially to suit your agenda: propaganda and hatred for the one and true faith, Islam. As an African, I can't relate to many of the things u r alleging. However, u may b right considering humanity at large. But let me point to you atrocities that were and are still perpetuated by Christians to humanity. Christians after invading the Granada city, Christianised it's Muslims and Jewish inhabitants by force, using the tribunals they named the inquisition as a means of oppression. Even those who would change their faith were hurled into fires and burnt alive. If this writer read about the savageries and cruelties recounted in the historical chronologies about Andalusians and the inquisition, which were written by ecclesiastical historians, he would not have the daring to invent the false story that Christians perpetuated less crimes on humanity. I shall b back to rebut some of these baseless but sheer hatred for Islam.
SULTAN 10 years ago
WHAT IS YOUR POINT? YOU THINK THE ARAB WHO CAME TO GRANADA AND ANDALUCIA DID NOT KILL AND PILLAGE.ASK YOUR FERTILE MIND WHAT WERE THEY "ARABS" DOING IN EGYPT,TUNISIA,LIBYA GRANADA ETC 7YRS AFTER THE DEATH OF MOHAMMED?EVEN TOD ... read full comment
WHAT IS YOUR POINT? YOU THINK THE ARAB WHO CAME TO GRANADA AND ANDALUCIA DID NOT KILL AND PILLAGE.ASK YOUR FERTILE MIND WHAT WERE THEY "ARABS" DOING IN EGYPT,TUNISIA,LIBYA GRANADA ETC 7YRS AFTER THE DEATH OF MOHAMMED?EVEN TODAY COPTIC CHRISTIAN ARE BEING KILLED,AND THEIR CHURCHES BURNT.NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT,THEY HAD RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN EGYPT LONG BEFORE MOHAMMED WAS BORN,PLS DO NOT TELL ME THE USUAL MUSLIM NONSENSE THAT,"THEY ARE NOT TRUE MUSLIMS".
Pelicles 10 years ago
History has it that Islam spread through intense fighting and forcing people to accept the religion or face total annihilation. Look at the fate of Coptic Christians in Egypt. They were there before Islam and now, they are be ... read full comment
History has it that Islam spread through intense fighting and forcing people to accept the religion or face total annihilation. Look at the fate of Coptic Christians in Egypt. They were there before Islam and now, they are being forced to flee to an unknown land.
Nobody is disputing the fact that Christianity had had its sordid past but the fact is Christians are not chasing Muslims out of their homes anywhere on this planet. Look at what is going on in Nigeria, Iraq, Egypt, The Philippines, Pakistan, India etc. Non Muslims living in these countries are constantly on the edge of annihilation and the question is why? Why can't Muslims live along side others who do not practice their faith?
If Muslims are the majority in Ghana, we will be facing the same senseless bombings and useless threats of Sharia Law.
How many perished under the sword of Muhammad himself? If Allah was that powerful, why did he order Muhammad to slaughter thousands who refuse to accept that faith? When Salman Rushdie published his "Satanic Verses" Ayatollah Khomeini placed a bounty on his head but in reality, all that he said in his book about Islam was accurate and it exposes how evil that religion that preaches peace rather is.
Name one nation on this planet where Christians are persecuting Muslims?
dani 10 years ago
Christians supported the occupation of Palestine by jews, you idiot! You seen not to know that Hitler, the epitome of evil, was a Christian.
Christians supported the occupation of Palestine by jews, you idiot! You seen not to know that Hitler, the epitome of evil, was a Christian.
bin laden 10 years ago
My dog will not be a muslim.
My dog will not be a muslim.
HITLER, THE MOST EVIL, WAS A CHRISTIA 10 years ago
It is the fastest growing religion in the world, with thousands of converts in the UK every week! X'nity is a fake, a business venture dominated by gays. WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA AGAINST ISLAM BY CHRISTIANITY, WHY IS ... read full comment
It is the fastest growing religion in the world, with thousands of converts in the UK every week! X'nity is a fake, a business venture dominated by gays. WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA AGAINST ISLAM BY CHRISTIANITY, WHY IS CHRISTINTY SHRINKING AND ISLAM EXPLODING? BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH. IT IS A FACT THAT GOD HAS BLESSED THE ARABS AND MUSLIMS.
Nii - Accra 10 years ago
Andy. Thanks for digging up this past exchange. Incidentally, I was riding with Muslim taxi driver in Monrovia yesterday and our conversation turned to violence committed in the name of Islam. He reminded me that like Christi ... read full comment
Andy. Thanks for digging up this past exchange. Incidentally, I was riding with Muslim taxi driver in Monrovia yesterday and our conversation turned to violence committed in the name of Islam. He reminded me that like Christianity, Islam also has many strands - some violent, others not. In fact, he said that distinctions like Shia and Sunny are more cultural and geographic than religious. Yours seems to portray a monolithic Islam, with no nuances whatever.
I have also read articles that argue that violence in the name of Islam is more cultural, initiated by Arabs, dating back to the days of Mohammed and the fight over successorship that followed his death. This argument, on the surface, at least, seems to make sense. Islam in places like Indonesia and Nigerian have been generally of the peaceful type until the rise of the Arab jihadist. In fact, in places like Sierra Leone, Muslims have no problem celebrating Xmas, for instance. Nobody forces them to. They do so willingly. And they get along well with their Christian compatriots. At public functions, provision is mad for prayer from either side.
As for the who-is-who of slavery, I think the list is long enough to circle the entire globe. Some of the richest men in those parts of Africa where slavery took place were sometimes even of the same tribe as the slaves!
Today, we have a different kind of slavery, of poverty and venality.
Our road is long. Very long, indeed.
SULTAN 10 years ago
SOLID POINT,BUT DO YOU THINK THE BILLIONAIRES IN SAUDI ARABIA,KUWAIT ET AL GIVE A FIG ABOUT THE POOR IN NIGERIA OR SIERRA LEONE? IT TOOK THE MORAL COURAGE OF TONY BLAIR TO RESTORE THAT PEACEFUL EXISTENCE YOU ARE TALKING ABOU ... read full comment
SOLID POINT,BUT DO YOU THINK THE BILLIONAIRES IN SAUDI ARABIA,KUWAIT ET AL GIVE A FIG ABOUT THE POOR IN NIGERIA OR SIERRA LEONE? IT TOOK THE MORAL COURAGE OF TONY BLAIR TO RESTORE THAT PEACEFUL EXISTENCE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.THE TROUBLE IS,THE CUSTODIANS OF THAT RELIGION DO NOT LEAD BY GOOD EXAMPLE.BILL GATES,USES HIS OWN PERSONAL WEALTH TO HELP VACCINATE KIDS IN GHANA,SIERRA LEONE ETC,NOT SO OF THE WEALTH MUSLIM SHEIKS.THEY HELP BUILD MOSQUES ONLY TO BREED FANATICS.THE IDEAL PLACE FOR BOKO HARAM IS TO GO AND BOMB IN THE HEART OF JEDDAH,AND COMPLAIN ABOUT POVERTY,AFTER ALL MUSLIMS MUST HELP EACH OTHER.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Nii,
Thanks for your comments.
You see, whether Sunni or Shi'ite, it was the same in Africa. African Muslims, btw, are predominantly Sunni, seen as the more conservative Islamic strand. The Sunnis tended to rule over t ... read full comment
Nii,
Thanks for your comments.
You see, whether Sunni or Shi'ite, it was the same in Africa. African Muslims, btw, are predominantly Sunni, seen as the more conservative Islamic strand. The Sunnis tended to rule over the Shi'ites, even where the latter were in the majority.
Indeed, our road is a very long one! Some of us are just trying to weed the path Kwame N. has beaten or point to the sketches of the road map for Africa he left Behind.
Andy-K
Dantankwa 10 years ago
One of the marks of true scholars is that they manage their biases and approach issues objectively and dispassionately. In all.,your piece lacks intellectual locus and direction. That is not what I seek to demonstrated here t ... read full comment
One of the marks of true scholars is that they manage their biases and approach issues objectively and dispassionately. In all.,your piece lacks intellectual locus and direction. That is not what I seek to demonstrated here though. I checked the few verses you cited from Qurans and I can certainly say for a fact that you must have copied and pasted them from authors who bored hatred towards Islam. Your delebrately or ignorantly quoted the verses of the Quran out of context. The quote from 47:4 was a command to Muslim army pertaining to the wars they fought with the Meccan infidel during the early days of Islam. The translation you opted for has been deliberately distorted to incite antigonism towards Islam. Compare that to this one: "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates." Also chapter 22 verses 19-21 is supposedly an instruction to angel regarding how the non-believers should be punished on the day of Judgement. My advice to you is that when you are right about such sensitive topic, you must not let your biases cloud your sense of judgement and objectivity.
Kojo 10 years ago
Arab slavery existed long before the trans Atlantic slave trade started. In the ninth century (869-883AD) an African group of rebellious slaves from the salt mines took over a swathe of the valley of the Euphrates and set up ... read full comment
Arab slavery existed long before the trans Atlantic slave trade started. In the ninth century (869-883AD) an African group of rebellious slaves from the salt mines took over a swathe of the valley of the Euphrates and set up an independent territory and resisted all efforts at reconquest for over 15 years. The remnants of these people today exist in the Basra area of Iraq as a distinct Afro-Iraq minority. They were known as the Zanj.
Arab slavery was much more brutal and extensive than slavery in North America. The only reason a lot of black people are not found in their numbers in Arabia now is because most Arab slave owners castrated their male slaves. ( kindly google Zanj African slaves in Arabia). Time for Africans to wake up and put an end to the BIG LIE.
aj-usa 10 years ago
kojo,u are our black African hero of the day.thank u personaly for ur great reseach which has nathing to do with phd,Dr,prof, masters and so on,they are all rubbish to deceive the black man.u proved urself...kudos
kojo,u are our black African hero of the day.thank u personaly for ur great reseach which has nathing to do with phd,Dr,prof, masters and so on,they are all rubbish to deceive the black man.u proved urself...kudos
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Are u the same Kojo who was insulting me up there, 4th posting?
Anyway, I know all about the revolt you mentioned. Obviously, as I stated in my opening, most Africans are clueless about what hit their ancestors! And what' ... read full comment
Are u the same Kojo who was insulting me up there, 4th posting?
Anyway, I know all about the revolt you mentioned. Obviously, as I stated in my opening, most Africans are clueless about what hit their ancestors! And what's hitting them now is a mystery to them! A real pity!
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
I think you are blaming the wrong person! I simply referred to some of the texts that Arabs/Muslims used to justify the enslavement, pogroms and other atrocities they committed on others, black Africans inclusive. And the tra ... read full comment
I think you are blaming the wrong person! I simply referred to some of the texts that Arabs/Muslims used to justify the enslavement, pogroms and other atrocities they committed on others, black Africans inclusive. And the translation I gave represent in fact the original words from Arabic which have been sanitised by newer versions. I have seen one version of the Qur'an done by an Indian cleric with comments which acknowledged that, claiming the need for sensitivity in a largely Hindu society necessitated doing that.
The fact that Arabs/Muslims turned themselves into Allah's avenging angels and created hell for some on earth and thereby misused or misinterpreted the Qur'an is besides the point. I've provided the refs to support the established scholarship that they indeed used and/or misused the Qur'an and those verses and others to justify those heinous actions, just as Christians also did.
Now, just as the Christians also required the Pope to sanction that black Africans were not human beings but rather animals and so not covered by the biblical injunction that slaves should be set free after 7 years of serving their master and so couldn't be kept as slaves into perpetuity, the Islamic clerics also issued their fatwas to support their actions. At least, the Arabic teacher who posted an article, "Killing in the Name of Islam" a few days ago was honest enough to admit that.
I've just broached the topic and there are tons of material to defend my position, and that of the scholars before me.
Andy-K
Dantankwa 10 years ago
Far from blames, I was simply drawing your attention to what is required of you as a scholar. Indeed, you cited the verses to support your claim that "Muslims are enjoined to kill all unbelievers and “kaffirs” or “kuffa ... read full comment
Far from blames, I was simply drawing your attention to what is required of you as a scholar. Indeed, you cited the verses to support your claim that "Muslims are enjoined to kill all unbelievers and “kaffirs” or “kuffaars,”...That was why I drew your attention to the context of the verses which I am very sure you know quite well but comfortably overlooked. You claim the translations you rendered reflect the original Arabic. This is far from the truth. How can you be that assertive when you are not an Arabic scholar. This only confirms that you are an objective writer. The Arabic rendition defines the context vividly,and it reads in part:(??? ??? ????? ???????)which means 'until the war lay down its burden'. This is completely missing in the translation you quoted which is mostly repeate in anti-Islmic webites. So I am still putting to you do you quoted this verse as well as that of 22:19-21 out of context. You may have done this out of sheer ignorance or pure malice in order to propagate anti-religious or atheist agenda.
Dantankwa 10 years ago
'ataa tada'a al-harbu awzaarahaa
'ataa tada'a al-harbu awzaarahaa
Dantankwa 10 years ago
I mean you are not an objective writer
I mean you are not an objective writer
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Dantankwa,
What was required of me was clearly spelt out by the questions put to me, not what you determine I should have done. If you disagree with what I have done, then it is up to you to prove to all and sundry that th ... read full comment
Dantankwa,
What was required of me was clearly spelt out by the questions put to me, not what you determine I should have done. If you disagree with what I have done, then it is up to you to prove to all and sundry that those verses were not USED by Arabs and Muslims to justify their pogroms committed on the kaffirs and their enslavement! While at it, you can provide us with the appropriate justifications that your religious leaders of the past used to justify the enslavement of the Infidels who are not part of the Islamic dar es salaam. You know hat I mean darn well.
It seems you don't get it that it is not my concern that the Qur'an might've have been misinterpreted and used as such to justify enslavement, ransoming and killing of others. So long as the fact remains that, indeed, verses from the Qur'an were used to justify the atrocities committed on the Black Race too, then my quest is satisfied. So what you are drawing my attention doesn't count! I can tell you how the Bible was also misinterpreted to justify the enslavement of black people but does that annul the culpability of the Bible in being used by Christians to justify their slave trade in black Africans? Yes, in the beginning, they followed the biblical injunctions and all the early slaves acquired were set free after 7 years, but they soon got the equivalent of fatwa from the Pope to stop doing that. Who doesn't know that?
Besides, it is not even clear that the Sura XXII.19-21 quoted was referring to punishment in hell. Surah XXII.17 talked of judgement by God of Sabians, Christians and Magians and Polytheists on the Day of Judgement. Verse 18 that follows seems to have introduced a different them all together. By the time we reach 19, it appears we're in this world again, not in the Other world before a judging God. It is therefore very easy for some to misinterpret those verses to use them as they did!
As for their interpretation, you know darn well interpreting the religious verses is centuries old dispute!
I don't want to get involve in such a futile exx. All I am interested in is whether they were once interpreted to justify Islamic slavery and violence upon others? My answer is yes! Prove me wrong!
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Bro, don't worry yourself. He is not a scholar!
Bro, don't worry yourself. He is not a scholar!
length... 10 years ago
hi,uv rytin a long story bt laks wel quoted suras n reference. .let me remind u dat no one entered islam through d sword,if pple entered islam through d sword y r they non muslims in arab countries? ...and Allah neva command ... read full comment
hi,uv rytin a long story bt laks wel quoted suras n reference. .let me remind u dat no one entered islam through d sword,if pple entered islam through d sword y r they non muslims in arab countries? ...and Allah neva commanded any muslim 2 kil a non muslim...y didnt u quote d ayats full..u only went 2 d middle of d ayat...God instructed we muslims 2 decapitate non muslims in battle n we no battle is battle...if u i talking about al-shabab lets talk abt d lord resistant army or d atrocities committed against muslims in palestin by israel n d wat happen in rewanda...lack of knowledge is a disease...i dnt blame u bcuz ur sources r from pple who shd hav bin prosecuted 4 war crimes in iraq n afghanistan...
Pelicles 10 years ago
A couple of days ago, a Ghanaian in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, came on Adom FM and complain bitterly that Ghanaian women in those nation are under slavery including the men. He stated that upon landing, their travel documents we ... read full comment
A couple of days ago, a Ghanaian in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, came on Adom FM and complain bitterly that Ghanaian women in those nation are under slavery including the men. He stated that upon landing, their travel documents were taken from them and they were sent to some places blindfolded and that was the beginning of their ordeal. The guy said that they work from dusk to dawn and non of them is permitted to speak with one another. He told Adom FM to help them get in touch with the Ghana Embassy to help them go back home.
There are reports of modern day slavery in nations like Mauritania and most of the Middle Eastern nations. The funny thing is a black African who practice that religion is most often spit on by their Arab counterpart. They see blacks as sub-humans who should not even have a place on this planet. Most of the atrocities that went on in Darfur in Sudan, were done under the watchful eyes of Sudanese authorities. They gave orders to the Arab Janjaweed to rape the Black women so that they can produce Arab looking children and what was the message behind that?
Kwame 10 years ago
It is a fact that racism, Negro slavery, colonialism, racial segregation, apartheid, zionism and fascism have religious origins or were advocated by persons from among the Caucasian or Semitic race.
Members of the Afa or Ti ... read full comment
It is a fact that racism, Negro slavery, colonialism, racial segregation, apartheid, zionism and fascism have religious origins or were advocated by persons from among the Caucasian or Semitic race.
Members of the Afa or Tingari sect will not abandon their shrine just because a Mongolian, Caucasian or a Semitic race goes there to worship with them.
I wrote on this forum how a Ghanaian Presbyterian woman denounced Christianity because a Presbyterian priest in Breman to her that her fellowship with her Caucasian brothers and sister has led to the later abandoning the church. She was left with no choice, but to denounce Christianity and leave Germany. An Alhaji how was studying in Riyadh was called a demon and stoned by Arab children. When he lodged a complaint with the school authorities they told him that there was nothing they could do about it. The man denounced Islam returned to Ghana, entered the law school and is now a lawyer with an Islamic name but a Christian.
The question to ask those who say that racism is not an Arab or Asian culture. May I ask how many Arab, Indian and Pakistani woman are married to Ghanaian men? Is it an issue of Ghanaian men so poor that they can not cater for Arab and Indian woman and does it also mean that there are no poor men in Asia?
I heard a Ghanaian female lawyer gloat that she took a Ghanaian Russian wife and daughter from him and gave them to an Arab. A Saudi Arabian or Moroccan lawyer can not beat his chest and gloat that he took his country man's wife from him and gave him to a Negro even, when the Negro happen to be their national.
How many Semitic or Caucasians are beaten or killed on the streets of Africa by African because of their biological definiteness? But as I am writing now the body of a Negro is being lifted from the ground somewhere in in North Africa, Arabian Gulf or Europe his crime being that he is a Negro.
Akadu Mensema and other dolls of the west you want us to believe that it was the sins of the fathers that were visited on Jews by Hitler, Negroes by western countries even when they abolished slavery in 1863 but institutes racial segregation against Negroes when there is a clear evidence that it was not only Negroes who sold their people into slavery, but that Caucasians also traded their race among themselves.
The fact of the transatlantic slave trade is that because other races could not withstand the severe conditions the Negro was found out to be suited for all those condition, hence people prefer to have Negroes on their farms.
I experienced racial assault on my person in Europe two times and investigations led to the fact that the parents of the assailants were Christians.
I work in a Syrian establishment in Ghana and because of my relations with people from all over the world during my school days I am not a racist. My colleague worker who is a Syrian Christian told me that Negroes are cursed. I told him that his wife who bore him five children is a a Negro. He told me that since the woman married him an Arab her sins are cleaned. I ask him what about his children who are half Bantu and Caucasian he told me since their father is an Arab it means that their curse has been removed.
I do not think that it is wishful thinking when in the face of Al Qaeda in the Margreb, Boko Haram and Al Shabab all being supported financially, materially and ideologically by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and some Islamic governments in North Africa, yet our presidents are so much in love with those people and even assisted them to murder Murmur Ghadaffi and some Negro in Libya.
The issue here is that Fascism was a German phenomenon, racial segregation was a Western European and U.S. phenomenon, apartheid was a Dutch South African phenomenon and Zionism is a Jewish and Israeli phenomenon and with can not mention those inhuman regimes without mentioning the states and people who commit them. Thus we can not separate Islamic hate for the Negro and Negro nations, the genocide against the Negro from Islam and the countries that practice it. Thus the issue lies in the lap of the Islamic clergy and their kings who as a matter of fact must purge themselves off it.
NATO has seen that religion was an effective weapon to enslave people. Christianity is not ready to take up arms again to enslave the people of Africa hence NATO has found a willing allay which is Islam. Its seeds were planted in Somalia by the west in the late 1970s and is being financed and armed by them and their Gulf allies.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
I just finished reading your piece. I love it.
My only problem are the insults. You make a very strong historical case yet readers (some) fail to see the intellectual value in your arguments. That's sad.
Here is ... read full comment
I just finished reading your piece. I love it.
My only problem are the insults. You make a very strong historical case yet readers (some) fail to see the intellectual value in your arguments. That's sad.
Here is my point: Whether your article was written in 1905 or 1995, it doesn't really matter.
I believe there are many readers commenting on it now who probably didn't read it when you first published in 1995.
I didn't read it then. And the nature and volume of evidence you marshalled still matters today to the discussion, understanding, and containment of Islamic terrorism. Neither has the aim nor ideological/political/military strategies of Islamic terrorism fundamentally changed (in a thousand years).
Anyway, keep writing. People like us learn from your articles and take you seriously. That is what matters.
We shall see what our ethnicities'll do for us when the terrorists finally strike us (I pray this doesn't happen; I love to see terrorism come to an end).
The Isamic terrorist from Yemen or Somalia may not look different from an Asante (Akan) or Ewe. There black Yemenis (black people all over the Middle East).
Arabs ,Islam is tool to propagate their civilisation,now terrorism is their new tool to propagate their umma or Islamic state in Africa and the rest of the world.
I would not blame Arabs or Islam. I will blame our greedy bastards!
Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, YOU STUPID TROKOSI EWE BASTARD, WHAT DOES YOUR FOLLOWING NONSENSE MEANS?
On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Andy-K wrote:
> That most (Arabs) Muslims today are ignorant of the atrocities committed in the name of ...
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Andy stop you bullshit, you don't make sense.
I have said time and again that Andky-K just recycle same old stuff that appeared on Okyeame!
It is really disheartening that someone who claims to have a PhD can only respond to serious issues like the one under discussion with attempts to denigrate the author and inane comments of no relevancy.
The facts of the m ...
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Andy the Euro-Christian anti Moslem crusader, is Akadu not right with what he said?
And as far as my comprehension of the English language goes, I did not detect a word of denigration against you and neither did I note an ...
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What are you yapping about? I really don't think you have a clue what's this about!
Andy-K
I am so tired of these low-life and cowardly jerks on Ghanaweb who hide behind monikers and spew insults at people, instead of respond to issues on the line, that I have resolved to spit fire with fire with them. When you ins ...
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Come off your high diseased horse! You are the worst lowlife here! You prattle this nonsense that you cobbled together almost 20 years ago and want to be seen as an intellectual and opinion leader.
Yes, includes those Ewes who come to insult all Akans ad nauseam, Asantes in particular! I had rebuked such persons in the past even though I am very much aware that they were just responding in anger to the insults hurled at ...
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Today, despite of all the hatred spread against islam, the number of followers of islam is increasing day by day because people when try to find terrorism from Quran and sunnah, they find nothing but peace and humanity.
You defend Ghanaians who killed and brutalized follow Ghanaians simply because they are/were Ewes, but blame Arabs for unleashing atrocities against Africans! Blame your African fore-parents as much as future generations will ...
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The Ashantis were involved in the slave trade. Their chief is wanted at the Hague.
PP PROGRESSIVE PIG! IN PERPETUAL IGNORANCE.
BLAME OUR AFRICAN ANCESTORS FOR ARAB SLAVERY. THESE GUYS WERE PUSHING THEIR RELIGION ON EVERYONE. YOU ACCEPT IT U LIVE, U REJECT IT U DIE OR BECOME A SLAVE. BLAME THE ANCESTORS WHO REJECTED ISLAM AND WERE ENSLAVED?
PP,
Leave the Asantes, former allies of many Ewe states, btw, out of this one. This is about Arabs and Muslims. When it comes to Africans, then we can ask wo and who should pay reparations and in what form.
Andy-K
It is sad that, like the author of the article, you have bought into the fraudulent, reductionist narrative of Euro-American revisionists and anti-reparations forces, blaming Continental Africans themselves for the slave trad ...
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Your are veritable idiot! You have no credibility at all. When and where did I defend any Ghanaian who brutalised and killed "follow Ghanaians"?
Yes, a lot of atrocities have been committed against some Ghanaians under th ...
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Calling me names is insignificant! Find time to revise your 1995 write-ups! You see scholarship grows! You said recently that you hope to do a phd. Good for you. You sorely need it!
Akadu, I changed my mind about returning to Ghana. The place is teeming with very uncivilised people! One such PhD is currently performing exorcism rites to chase away ghosts! Phew!
It is 'cos of stupid persons like you th ...
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Changed your mind about what - a Phd? Returning to Ghana? What can you do for and in Ghana at this stage in your lowly life! To join the NDC as an Aide? Sadly, the Dr involved in exorcism is from your village. You allow frien ...
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Brothers and Sisters,
I think it's time we learn to get along with each other.
Let's concentrate on making ourselves and our nation better (prepared) for any terrorist eventuality.
I love you all, brothers and siste ...
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Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister once said that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Is like a scar on the conscience of Europe. Some outstanding Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora have rejected some fo ...
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I honestly doubt your intellectual prowess and integrity. You are quoting
Maxime Robinson, a European, about Arabs and slavery. How can you compare the magnitude of the devastation, severity, brutality of unparalled proporti ...
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SAMMY, IF YOU ARE IGNORANT ABOUT ARAB SLAVERY PLS GO AND FIND OUT.THE WRITER DID NOT COLLATE HIS FACTS WELL.ARABS DID FAR WORSE THAN THE EUROPEANS.IT WAS A SWEDISH GUY WHO EXPOSED THE HORRORS OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA TO THE ...
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CHECK THE FACTS NOT THE NATIONALITY OF THE MESSENGER.
Good one Sammy. This Andy C Y is just another house-nigger trying to distort history at his slave-masters bidding. He needs cultural and political salvation.
Who in his right mind would read and believe any book written by ...
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I don't know which dog born you too but don't address me in such tones again, ok? Did even your father go to school at all, so that I can ask you which books he had left behind written by him?
Let me inform you that you w ...
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What intellectual prowess! He is just a noise-maker!
You idiot! Your time is up! A moron doesn't get distinction at the O's.
It is me, Lord of the Manor,
Andy-K
You are not funny anymore! You got a distinction at the O-level and what have you done with your life? Buying and selling aka retailing in the UK and still harbored in a Council Flat!It is silly to be telling us about your O- ...
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You see, the only denominator we can all measure each other here is the O'L. So measure yourself against my record at the O'L when it comes to intelligence.
As for the 1st Class I didn't get one because I didn't work hard ...
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NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, HOW MUCH I LONG THAT ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD SHALL UNDERSTAND THAT- THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE- IS AT STAKE IN THIS PRESENT GL ...
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This article brings up the Israeli/Palestinian issue,and as to why Sub-Saharan Africans have allowed themselves to be robed in.This is not their war.The Jews and Arabs have never gotten along.Sub-Saharan Africans must wake up ...
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if I am not mistaken, this quotation is the punishment for unbelievers on JUDGEMENT DAY. The book of REVELATIONS IN THE BIBLE is replete with such imagery of PUNISHMENT.
Taking quotations from the Koran out of context to justify your narrow prejudices is the style of the fool masquerading as a scholar.
You idiot.The only thing islam has brought to the world is hell even before death.What kind of religion is this?islam preches vitues but practice vices.My dog will not join it.VERY SIMPLE.
NANA,YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.ISLAM IS NOT BUT ARAB CULTURAL VANITY.IT SADDENS ME TO SEE POOR GHANAIANS WALLOWING IN IT.DO YOU THINK SAUDI ARABIA WILL INVEST IN SOMALIA.ETHIOPIA.BANGLADESH ETC TO UPLIFT THEM FOM EXTREME POVER ...
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Never,never ever trust an Arab.They think an african is beneath them and their slave trading past speaks volumes about them since the africans they took can never be accounted for unlike the western world where there are remn ...
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As a social commentator u r at liberty to be bias in selecting your material especially to suit your agenda: propaganda and hatred for the one and true faith, Islam. As an African, I can't relate to many of the things u r all ...
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WHAT IS YOUR POINT? YOU THINK THE ARAB WHO CAME TO GRANADA AND ANDALUCIA DID NOT KILL AND PILLAGE.ASK YOUR FERTILE MIND WHAT WERE THEY "ARABS" DOING IN EGYPT,TUNISIA,LIBYA GRANADA ETC 7YRS AFTER THE DEATH OF MOHAMMED?EVEN TOD ...
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History has it that Islam spread through intense fighting and forcing people to accept the religion or face total annihilation. Look at the fate of Coptic Christians in Egypt. They were there before Islam and now, they are be ...
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Christians supported the occupation of Palestine by jews, you idiot! You seen not to know that Hitler, the epitome of evil, was a Christian.
My dog will not be a muslim.
It is the fastest growing religion in the world, with thousands of converts in the UK every week! X'nity is a fake, a business venture dominated by gays. WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA AGAINST ISLAM BY CHRISTIANITY, WHY IS ...
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Andy. Thanks for digging up this past exchange. Incidentally, I was riding with Muslim taxi driver in Monrovia yesterday and our conversation turned to violence committed in the name of Islam. He reminded me that like Christi ...
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SOLID POINT,BUT DO YOU THINK THE BILLIONAIRES IN SAUDI ARABIA,KUWAIT ET AL GIVE A FIG ABOUT THE POOR IN NIGERIA OR SIERRA LEONE? IT TOOK THE MORAL COURAGE OF TONY BLAIR TO RESTORE THAT PEACEFUL EXISTENCE YOU ARE TALKING ABOU ...
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Nii,
Thanks for your comments.
You see, whether Sunni or Shi'ite, it was the same in Africa. African Muslims, btw, are predominantly Sunni, seen as the more conservative Islamic strand. The Sunnis tended to rule over t ...
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One of the marks of true scholars is that they manage their biases and approach issues objectively and dispassionately. In all.,your piece lacks intellectual locus and direction. That is not what I seek to demonstrated here t ...
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Arab slavery existed long before the trans Atlantic slave trade started. In the ninth century (869-883AD) an African group of rebellious slaves from the salt mines took over a swathe of the valley of the Euphrates and set up ...
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kojo,u are our black African hero of the day.thank u personaly for ur great reseach which has nathing to do with phd,Dr,prof, masters and so on,they are all rubbish to deceive the black man.u proved urself...kudos
Are u the same Kojo who was insulting me up there, 4th posting?
Anyway, I know all about the revolt you mentioned. Obviously, as I stated in my opening, most Africans are clueless about what hit their ancestors! And what' ...
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I think you are blaming the wrong person! I simply referred to some of the texts that Arabs/Muslims used to justify the enslavement, pogroms and other atrocities they committed on others, black Africans inclusive. And the tra ...
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Far from blames, I was simply drawing your attention to what is required of you as a scholar. Indeed, you cited the verses to support your claim that "Muslims are enjoined to kill all unbelievers and “kaffirs” or “kuffa ...
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'ataa tada'a al-harbu awzaarahaa
I mean you are not an objective writer
Dantankwa,
What was required of me was clearly spelt out by the questions put to me, not what you determine I should have done. If you disagree with what I have done, then it is up to you to prove to all and sundry that th ...
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Bro, don't worry yourself. He is not a scholar!
hi,uv rytin a long story bt laks wel quoted suras n reference. .let me remind u dat no one entered islam through d sword,if pple entered islam through d sword y r they non muslims in arab countries? ...and Allah neva command ...
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A couple of days ago, a Ghanaian in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, came on Adom FM and complain bitterly that Ghanaian women in those nation are under slavery including the men. He stated that upon landing, their travel documents we ...
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It is a fact that racism, Negro slavery, colonialism, racial segregation, apartheid, zionism and fascism have religious origins or were advocated by persons from among the Caucasian or Semitic race.
Members of the Afa or Ti ...
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I just finished reading your piece. I love it.
My only problem are the insults. You make a very strong historical case yet readers (some) fail to see the intellectual value in your arguments. That's sad.
Here is ...
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