r Okoampa, are you really sure it is the Muslims creating the tension? I am a Catholic but let's be real. The Muslims are not asking for too much.
They don't want to attend morning devotions peppered with Christianity wor ... read full comment
r Okoampa, are you really sure it is the Muslims creating the tension? I am a Catholic but let's be real. The Muslims are not asking for too much.
They don't want to attend morning devotions peppered with Christianity worship and I think they are right. I don't want to be forced to attend a Muslim call to worship if I find myself in such a situation.
SARPONG 11 years ago
Dr. Okoampa, are you really sure it is the Muslims creating the tension? I am a Catholic but let's be real. The Muslims are not asking for too much.
They don't want to attend morning devotions peppered with Christianity w ... read full comment
Dr. Okoampa, are you really sure it is the Muslims creating the tension? I am a Catholic but let's be real. The Muslims are not asking for too much.
They don't want to attend morning devotions peppered with Christianity worship and I think they are right. I don't want to be forced to attend a Muslim call to worship if I find myself in such a situation.
INXS 11 years ago
Sarpong, it seems you only read the title of this article. Read the article itself again and you will see the title is misplaced.
The article itself says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It doesn't identify the causes of any problems, ... read full comment
Sarpong, it seems you only read the title of this article. Read the article itself again and you will see the title is misplaced.
The article itself says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It doesn't identify the causes of any problems, it doesn't apportion any blames, it doesn't even make any recommendations and certainly doesn't reveal any new information (he is not even exactly sure of what he read in an article that he makes reference to).
You will think the last paragraph will leave you with some thoughts as you raise your eyes off the reading. It does nothing like that.
I don't see the purpose of the article at all. This further confirms by belief that Okoampa often writes for the sake of writing.
SARPONG 11 years ago
He doesn't have to say anything else, the title shows what he believes.
He doesn't have to say anything else, the title shows what he believes.
Pelicles 11 years ago
Look, Sarp, there are tension between the Sunnis and the Shia Muslims which at times, end in blood shed so, if Muslims cannot get along with Christians in Ghana, I don't see any problem with that. Morning devotion is not a ... read full comment
Look, Sarp, there are tension between the Sunnis and the Shia Muslims which at times, end in blood shed so, if Muslims cannot get along with Christians in Ghana, I don't see any problem with that. Morning devotion is not a recipe for conversion into Christianity. How many Muslims have converted since they started attending Mission schools in Ghana? Do you have any figure? Don't forget that maybe there is some foreign influence behind this brouhaha and the finger points to Turkey. Mahama is getting to close to them for some unknown reasons and who knows what they are expecting him concerning the Muslims in Ghana. Yes, it is understandable that the government has taken full control of the mission school but what did was done to the rules and regulations that was instituted by the mission before the take-over? Merely paying teacher etc, is not enough to side-step the principles that had been a light of these school since its inception.
Why is the European Community dragging her feet to grant full membership to Turkey? It is due to her large Muslims population. I will not rule out foreign interference about what is going on in Ghana.
GOLD COAST 11 years ago
Man,cut out this anti Muslim nonsense.Ghana is not Turkey nor is there an intra Muslim conflict(Sunnis vs. Shiites )in this country.It's benighted troublemakers like you who destroy societies.
Remember,change is the essen ... read full comment
Man,cut out this anti Muslim nonsense.Ghana is not Turkey nor is there an intra Muslim conflict(Sunnis vs. Shiites )in this country.It's benighted troublemakers like you who destroy societies.
Remember,change is the essence of life,and we(Africans) are backward because we resent change and refuse to be accommodative.
Finally,be real;this is the 21st Century,so live and let live - and stop being supercilious and bigoted.
PEACE
SARPONG 11 years ago
Pelicles, why do you think Moslems should attend morning devotions conducted under Christianity banner?
If you find yourself in a country with a Moslem majority and they force you to join their moslem prayers, how will you ... read full comment
Pelicles, why do you think Moslems should attend morning devotions conducted under Christianity banner?
If you find yourself in a country with a Moslem majority and they force you to join their moslem prayers, how will you feel? Sometimes in order to make correct decisions, we have to put ourselves in the other person's shoes.
The Moslems have shia and sunni conflict is not a reason to force them to join Christian worship.
To answer your question as how many Moslems have changed religion after attending morning devotions, that is not the point here. The point is that they are not Christians and should not be forced to participate in a religious festivities they don't believe in.
I wouldn't like it if I am forced to attend Moslem devotions and they should not be forced either.
Soul;jah Man 11 years ago
Sarpong I salute you for your objectivity on this sensitive issue, there is absolutely no need to force muslim students to attend christian morning devotions. Allah richly bless you
Sarpong I salute you for your objectivity on this sensitive issue, there is absolutely no need to force muslim students to attend christian morning devotions. Allah richly bless you
Kwame Sekyere 11 years ago
You are a true liberal thinker. Ghana needs more of your kind.
You are a true liberal thinker. Ghana needs more of your kind.
Ama 11 years ago
It's not a matter of getting along with Christians in Ghana. Moslems and Christians have coexisted fine in Ghana. They don't want to be part of Christian worship and they are right because they are not Christians.
It's not a matter of getting along with Christians in Ghana. Moslems and Christians have coexisted fine in Ghana. They don't want to be part of Christian worship and they are right because they are not Christians.
Goldcoaster 11 years ago
It is NOT "morning devotion", it is morning assembly! There's nothing, absolutely nothing devotional of a 10 - 15 minutes morning class-preparedness (warm-up) program dedicated for the most part, for announcements.
It is NOT "morning devotion", it is morning assembly! There's nothing, absolutely nothing devotional of a 10 - 15 minutes morning class-preparedness (warm-up) program dedicated for the most part, for announcements.
SARPONG 11 years ago
You can call it whatever you want, I attended the morning assembly or morning devotion for seven years in secondary school in late 70's to early 80's and it was some Seniors who conducted these devotions where Christian songs ... read full comment
You can call it whatever you want, I attended the morning assembly or morning devotion for seven years in secondary school in late 70's to early 80's and it was some Seniors who conducted these devotions where Christian songs and Bible was read.
Please, some of us had a first hand experience of this morning assembly and I even presided a few times when I usually choose the song, "Rock of ages pray for me"
Mike Olongo, USA 11 years ago
Pelicles, I bet there's something definitely wrong with forcing a Muslim to take part in a christian religious activity; and vice versa. Morning devotion in a Mission school is christian in character and very much at variance ... read full comment
Pelicles, I bet there's something definitely wrong with forcing a Muslim to take part in a christian religious activity; and vice versa. Morning devotion in a Mission school is christian in character and very much at variance with practices in the Muslim faith; Hence forcing a Muslim to worship the christian way which may even be viewed within his faith as an anathema would definitely amount to trampling on his religious rights. During my days as a student in a very famous Mission school in Ghana Muslims were never forced to attend any Christan devotional services be it in the morning, evening or on Sundays. School policy, however, made it imperative for Muslim students to always be in the vicinity of Morning devotion so that they could readily mingle with the rest of the student body soon after the service to hear the day's announcements. This worked out just fine and there were no hard feelings.
Eko 11 years ago
Ghana has a good history of peace amongst religious groups. Hope this is not ruined by religious vanity and over-preciousness all round.
People these days are getting very over-sensitive about their own selves and what they ... read full comment
Ghana has a good history of peace amongst religious groups. Hope this is not ruined by religious vanity and over-preciousness all round.
People these days are getting very over-sensitive about their own selves and what they cling to, without being sympathetic enough to others.
Ghana is a country of peace, let us keep it that way. Want discord, strife and discontent? We have plenty of neighbours who can offer that for you, please go there instead.
Adam 11 years ago
To be frank with you, I am a Muslim from northern Ghana, the greatest accomplishment created by our first President, Dr. Kwame Nk. was fostering and building an exceptional relationship between Muslims and Christians across a ... read full comment
To be frank with you, I am a Muslim from northern Ghana, the greatest accomplishment created by our first President, Dr. Kwame Nk. was fostering and building an exceptional relationship between Muslims and Christians across all the ethnic divide. My best friends are Christians both from Ghana and Nigeria. Even though as a Muslim, I don't believe in our young women wearing hijabs and my children don't wear hijabs but I don't agree school authorities have the right to prevent or exclude young Muslim women from registering for an examination on the pretext they have to remove their hijabs. That is stupid. You are a smart man and I believe you can work towards piece and co-existence between Muslims and Christian by advising authorities to back off interfering with others religious practices. We don't need that in Ghana.
To a great extent, the Muslim community has contributed a lot towards peace in Ghana. I remembered while a young Muslim from primary school to college, I had to recite the Christian scriptures without any complain, can you tell me where in the world this be tolerated? But for fostering peace and harmony, the Ghanaian Muslim never complained; but if for the first time, these type of complains are emerging, may be, it will do everyone a great deal to listen to these complains and be respectful to other peoples’ religion. Once again and I can guarantee you, no matter outside influences, the Ghanaian Muslim and Christian will co-exist in peace and harmony. Ghanaians are smart people and we all understand what is going on in Nigeria, Central Africa Republic and to some extend, Ivory Coast.
Peace
kutsii. 11 years ago
Okoampa, grow ooo grow. U have grey hair on ur head and in your anus so grow ooo grow. Please Okoampa send some money home for ur family oooo tom. Ur family will reject ur dead body oooo. So Okoampa, grow oooo grow. Nonsense
Okoampa, grow ooo grow. U have grey hair on ur head and in your anus so grow ooo grow. Please Okoampa send some money home for ur family oooo tom. Ur family will reject ur dead body oooo. So Okoampa, grow oooo grow. Nonsense
Yamoah Baah 11 years ago
Okoampa-Ahoofe asserts that Muslims are unnecessarily creating tension with Christians. Is it true or false? Okoampa has given examples to support his assertion. Perhaps, he forgot to add the latest development at Atebubu in ... read full comment
Okoampa-Ahoofe asserts that Muslims are unnecessarily creating tension with Christians. Is it true or false? Okoampa has given examples to support his assertion. Perhaps, he forgot to add the latest development at Atebubu in the Brong Ahafo Region where Muslim some youth took the law into their hands to demolish the residence of the SDA Pastor and other structures. In fact, reports indicated that they (Muslim youth) used guns to confront the police in the chaos. Incidentally, this occurred around the period that Muslims in the western region went on demonstration against the so-called discrimination by Christian institution, which received presidential endorsement from President Mahama in SONA. Interestingly, the President never saw anything wrong with the rampage of the Muslim youth in Atebubu!!!!
Nima Boy 11 years ago
Okoampa with his deep-seated hatred for Ghanaians outside his tribe , would have wish we are still sharing blood with our ewe brothers and sisters. You see how evil this old devil is by skillfully digging old wounds.
Thi ... read full comment
Okoampa with his deep-seated hatred for Ghanaians outside his tribe , would have wish we are still sharing blood with our ewe brothers and sisters. You see how evil this old devil is by skillfully digging old wounds.
This rat has no iota of respect for the chief Imam. How can you say you have a respect for a man and make a 360 doubting him. This two face Idiot
Yaa 11 years ago
This writer is more than a fool.If you are a good writer and want a particularly group to co-ooperated you must not write to support one idea rather the bothsides.listen to your paragraphs you mentioned that some christian au ... read full comment
This writer is more than a fool.If you are a good writer and want a particularly group to co-ooperated you must not write to support one idea rather the bothsides.listen to your paragraphs you mentioned that some christian authorities does not allow Muslims to pratices their faith in Schools why so?if you travelled to Europe Muslims and Christians School together without any problems.why in Ghana?
Yaa 11 years ago
No Muslims should married christians in Ghana. and no christians should also married Muslims simplicity is that.But these writers should stop writing these gabbages here or they will create war between Muslims and his christi ... read full comment
No Muslims should married christians in Ghana. and no christians should also married Muslims simplicity is that.But these writers should stop writing these gabbages here or they will create war between Muslims and his christians stupid writer with racist mentality.Do not write to mentioned our Imam name hers or else we know you verg well mark it for real
BB 11 years ago
Sarpong tell us u r a muslim. Y r u hiding ur identity?
Sarpong tell us u r a muslim. Y r u hiding ur identity?
Asass, Ksi 11 years ago
I dont think it is compulsory for a muslim to attend a christian school.The same applies to christians.So what is the problem?.Whoever is behind this nasty game should stop it.I am Dan and my goox friend is called Nurudeen.Nu ... read full comment
I dont think it is compulsory for a muslim to attend a christian school.The same applies to christians.So what is the problem?.Whoever is behind this nasty game should stop it.I am Dan and my goox friend is called Nurudeen.Nuru i love you.
r Okoampa, are you really sure it is the Muslims creating the tension? I am a Catholic but let's be real. The Muslims are not asking for too much.
They don't want to attend morning devotions peppered with Christianity wor ...
read full comment
Dr. Okoampa, are you really sure it is the Muslims creating the tension? I am a Catholic but let's be real. The Muslims are not asking for too much.
They don't want to attend morning devotions peppered with Christianity w ...
read full comment
Sarpong, it seems you only read the title of this article. Read the article itself again and you will see the title is misplaced.
The article itself says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It doesn't identify the causes of any problems, ...
read full comment
He doesn't have to say anything else, the title shows what he believes.
Look, Sarp, there are tension between the Sunnis and the Shia Muslims which at times, end in blood shed so, if Muslims cannot get along with Christians in Ghana, I don't see any problem with that. Morning devotion is not a ...
read full comment
Man,cut out this anti Muslim nonsense.Ghana is not Turkey nor is there an intra Muslim conflict(Sunnis vs. Shiites )in this country.It's benighted troublemakers like you who destroy societies.
Remember,change is the essen ...
read full comment
Pelicles, why do you think Moslems should attend morning devotions conducted under Christianity banner?
If you find yourself in a country with a Moslem majority and they force you to join their moslem prayers, how will you ...
read full comment
Sarpong I salute you for your objectivity on this sensitive issue, there is absolutely no need to force muslim students to attend christian morning devotions. Allah richly bless you
You are a true liberal thinker. Ghana needs more of your kind.
It's not a matter of getting along with Christians in Ghana. Moslems and Christians have coexisted fine in Ghana. They don't want to be part of Christian worship and they are right because they are not Christians.
It is NOT "morning devotion", it is morning assembly! There's nothing, absolutely nothing devotional of a 10 - 15 minutes morning class-preparedness (warm-up) program dedicated for the most part, for announcements.
You can call it whatever you want, I attended the morning assembly or morning devotion for seven years in secondary school in late 70's to early 80's and it was some Seniors who conducted these devotions where Christian songs ...
read full comment
Pelicles, I bet there's something definitely wrong with forcing a Muslim to take part in a christian religious activity; and vice versa. Morning devotion in a Mission school is christian in character and very much at variance ...
read full comment
Ghana has a good history of peace amongst religious groups. Hope this is not ruined by religious vanity and over-preciousness all round.
People these days are getting very over-sensitive about their own selves and what they ...
read full comment
To be frank with you, I am a Muslim from northern Ghana, the greatest accomplishment created by our first President, Dr. Kwame Nk. was fostering and building an exceptional relationship between Muslims and Christians across a ...
read full comment
Okoampa, grow ooo grow. U have grey hair on ur head and in your anus so grow ooo grow. Please Okoampa send some money home for ur family oooo tom. Ur family will reject ur dead body oooo. So Okoampa, grow oooo grow. Nonsense
Okoampa-Ahoofe asserts that Muslims are unnecessarily creating tension with Christians. Is it true or false? Okoampa has given examples to support his assertion. Perhaps, he forgot to add the latest development at Atebubu in ...
read full comment
Okoampa with his deep-seated hatred for Ghanaians outside his tribe , would have wish we are still sharing blood with our ewe brothers and sisters. You see how evil this old devil is by skillfully digging old wounds.
Thi ...
read full comment
This writer is more than a fool.If you are a good writer and want a particularly group to co-ooperated you must not write to support one idea rather the bothsides.listen to your paragraphs you mentioned that some christian au ...
read full comment
No Muslims should married christians in Ghana. and no christians should also married Muslims simplicity is that.But these writers should stop writing these gabbages here or they will create war between Muslims and his christi ...
read full comment
Sarpong tell us u r a muslim. Y r u hiding ur identity?
I dont think it is compulsory for a muslim to attend a christian school.The same applies to christians.So what is the problem?.Whoever is behind this nasty game should stop it.I am Dan and my goox friend is called Nurudeen.Nu ...
read full comment
that man is a fool