Killing in the name of islam

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  • SERVANT OF GOD 12 years ago

    it is time the world declare war and annihilate all moslems

    YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN. YOU THINK YOU ARE . THE STATEMENT YOU MADE CANNOT COME FROM A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. I AM A CHRISTIAN AND WOULD NEVER SAY MUSLIMS SHOULD BE ...
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  • PROF 12 years ago

    BRO SALISU, IN THE SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA, ARE XTRIAN STUDENTS PROVIDED WITH CHURCHES TO WORSHIP?
    IN MOST MUSLIM NATIONS, IT IS UNTHINKABLE. IS THIS AN EXCUSE FOR XTRIANS TO START KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE?

  • GHANABA 12 years ago

    MR SALISU,LEGON WAS BUILT BY A CHRISTIAN BRIT OVER 6O YRS AGO.NOW YOUR LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON IT.GIVE ME ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE MUSLIMS DID FOR YOU FROM YEJI TO PAGA,FROM TAMALE TO WA WHICH IS WORTHY OF MENTIONING APART FROM ...
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  • Zams 12 years ago

    Forget Quran and Reason-Muslims did not come to Ghana to steal their gold and all other natural resources that we had. Building a University is nothing is nothing as compred to what was stolen from our country by the Brithsh.

  • Macho Man 12 years ago

    I wonder how a school built with Kuwaiti money could be called Presbyterian school? I really doubt this assertion of yours.

  • O. T 12 years ago

    And I even wonder where Kuwait was in 1938 in the WWII, or whether Rev. Engmann is a kuwaiti citizen or the Presby missionaries had their HQ IN kuwait. Sheer NONSENSE

  • O. T 12 years ago

    This comment smacks of pettiness and desperation which cannot justify an ILLOGICAL claim. how come Presbyterians build a school with funds from Kuwait??

  • Malik 12 years ago

    The Mystery of Salvation?

    Jesus said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Matthew 5:17

    Paul said “For he {JESUS} himself is our peace ...
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  • Naija Man 12 years ago

    Is Osama Bin laden a Christian, whata bout Bokor Haram. Insane creature

  • Nab 12 years ago

    A religion that has no feel or mercy for mankind but always throwing dust into the eyes of the people ,that allah is merciful but their so call alla is not.alla instructing his worshippers to kill those who do not share thei ...
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  • Muba 12 years ago

    Such animals are not fit to leave in this earth, a comment which is highly sacrilegious brings about endless wars. for once try to be religeous and stop wallowing in sea of ignorance.

  • aj-usa 12 years ago

    malik ur quran teaches how to kill jews and christians.and also stop taking out the bible out of context.be`cos in the quran and the hadiths it is states that if u see black woman in ur dream it`s mean sickness.and it´s disc ...
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  • MOHAMMED MUNIRU MUTALA 12 years ago

    shame on u for commenting in the manner that totally reveal ur ignorance. u can only erase what Allah erases but nothing can u do which is not decided by HIM. Are u aware of this?

  • ZAK 12 years ago

    MAY GOD FORGIVE U FOR UR UNFORTUNATE COMMENT, GOD HAS GIVEN U BRAINS TO THING PROPER, TALK BETER AND REASON BETTER,A GOOD CHRISTIAN WILL TALK LIKE U ARE

  • concern 12 years ago

    @ lafia, why dont you take de lead n do that yourself. no wonder your are a human pig.

  • Maame Efua 12 years ago

    How can you preach peace and kill at the same time. Double face religion. Please muslim clerics of today. Discard your fatwas and teach the followers to live a purposefully life.

  • Atugabiig 12 years ago

    Another lame attempt by an intellectual Muslim using semantics to defend the indefensible.
    Why aren't Christian students in Indonesia, Malaysia, etc killing and maiming innocent civilians even though they face similar situa ...
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  • Malik 12 years ago

    THE NO.1 PROPAGANDIST IS PAUL(THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY)
    Here is the Proof from the bible:

    THE SHOCKING TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY'S FOUNDER

    If by today’s Christianity we understand faith in Christ as:

    The heavenly S ...
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  • RAZAK 12 years ago

    I hope that some Christians would ponder over the topic without any prejudices.And I couldn't agree more with quotation that'
    “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. ...
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  • Malik 12 years ago

    The Mysterious Prophecy of Paul

    God said “If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken." Deuteronomy 18:22”

    Paul said “We believe ...
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  • Silent Majority Rep 12 years ago

    I am not surprised about the shallowness of your understanding. The Bible is a difficult book unto those that are not called.

    Believe me, I'll pray that you embrace this Gospel and your life will never be the same again.
    ...
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  • Abdul Razak Boateng 12 years ago

    Christianity is the invention of Paul, and was not followed by Jesus or his companions.

    Let us look at Paul’s agenda and then determine from the teachings of the OT and Jesus himself whether Paul had the authority to rep ...
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  • Malik 12 years ago

    EXTORTION IN CHURCHES


    Who taught making a living from preaching?

    Paul quoted Jesus by saying: “The Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.” 1 Corinthians 9: ...
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  • Big Name 12 years ago

    I am sorry for you Muslims. Paul invented Christianity? What bible did you read from? I am not surprised to hear this. Even you Muslims have different Jesus Christ who is not Jesus Christ in the Bible. Keeping on believing yo ...
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  • Malik 12 years ago

    Amazingly when a man asked Jesus: "what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" (Jesus answered)... keep the commandments." Matthew 19:17

    Yet Paul said “All who rely on observing the law are under a curse. 13 Christ ...
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  • HASSAN 12 years ago

    In fact in the Gospel of John, the first chapter verse 1-38 are the words of the Gospel scribes (writers) which is very different from Jesus' words for when Jesus said: “None has been lost except the one doomed to destructi ...
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  • Jingo Bell 12 years ago

    Don't you have brains not to play their game? Can western countries tell Arabs to kill each other? I doubt it.

  • SHEIKH ABDUL NASIR BIN ABDULLAH 12 years ago

    ALLAAHU AKBAR

  • Jingo Bell 12 years ago

    Yes ! Allah is great, for Allah allows you to kill infidels, right?

  • Spy 12 years ago

    It is sad to hear you saying all this is happening as a result of discreminating , illegal church services in schools and muslims not allow to observe thier faith.this is twisted fact and hypocracy.your interpretation of the ...
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  • MUMUNI MUSAH (PARAHINDO) UDS WA-CAMPU 12 years ago

    U Are very ignorance, by the way let me allow u bcos u are entitle to ur views.

  • Maame Efua 12 years ago

    Religion of intolerance. They should find a better way of dealing with people who do not share their visions and aspirations.

  • BIG NAME 12 years ago

    How many Kenya;s domestic help women in Saudi Arabia are raped by these Saudis every year? Find out and you will know how domestic helpers are treated in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia treats them slaves and they are second wives ...
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  • MUMUNI MUSAH (PARAHINDO) UDS WA-CAMPU 12 years ago

    Mr Salisu u have made my day.ur article deserve national award, the hiding truth has finally come out from the mouth of courageous and well learning person. am really proud of u. U have said it all, compulsory church service ...
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  • Maame Efua 12 years ago

    Well said. We choose the schools that we want our children to go. So that if you are a mulsim and you want to go to St Roses or St. Peters then be prepared to abide by the rules. When you go to Roman you do as the Romans d ...
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  • Maame Efua 12 years ago

    Why didnt you go to TI amadiya or any other moslem school. Build schools for yourselves and stop talking about you been forced to church. What did your missionaries bring to african. War. The christian missionaries brough ...
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  • Macho Man 12 years ago

    The school as the name portrayed was built by Christian missionaries and thus must be run as such. Can any non Muslim go to any Muslim nation such as Saudi, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Indonesia, Somalia or any around the w ...
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  • Salis Abdul 12 years ago

    Bravo for educating us, but dont forget that these killer groups are not only muslim.

  • HOLY MOSES 12 years ago

    GOD BLESS THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE. I AM A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN ALL I WILL SAY IS MAY GOD WHO SITS ENTHRONED ABOVE THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH BLESS U WITH HEAVENLY WISDOM TO WRITE MORE OF SUCH INSIGHTFUL ARTICLES IN JESUS NAME ...
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  • USMAN 12 years ago

    What the wrter of this article wrote about the origin of Boko Haram is untrue and I would want the whole world to know how deceptive some Muslims could be. In 1979, General Obasanjo, under military rule nationalized all miss ...
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  • USMAN 12 years ago

    What the wrter of this article wrote about the origin of Boko Haram is untrue and I would want the whole world to know how deceptive some Muslims could be. In 1979, General Obasanjo, under military rule nationalized all missi ...
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  • Maame Efua 12 years ago

    So you see a religion that dwells on violence is no religion and the earlier you educate your people the better. Christians know who we are in Christ and therefore we do not feel humiliated or shamed of who we are. The Musl ...
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  • shashi 12 years ago

    can some one give me a place where JESUS said to his diciples to kill innocent people?why a person who said,he is seeking souls for the lord almighty forms armies or militry group to fight and kill some one who rejects his wo ...
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  • aj-usa 12 years ago

    Ali,u see men having sex with men have nathing to do with christianity.we are talking abt the leaders of these two religions how they commanded their followers to do.christianity is base on ur deeds as person.the question he ...
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  • Hypocrixy in christianity 12 years ago

    Many Christians claim the bible is the ultimate moral authority. Is this really the case? I mean, the bible does say “thou shalt not kill”, doesn't it? Well, what else does it say?

    Here is my list of people the Bible ...
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  • Lafia 12 years ago

    tell me where the 10th commandments are written? tell me the commandments in which "thou shall not kill" is read about the TORA and book in which all are documented.

  • Hypocrixy in christianity 12 years ago

    Here is my top ten list of people the Bible says to kill.

    10) Anyone who doesn't believe a priest

    “Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be pu ...
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  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    THE BIBLE COMPRISES 66 BOOKS. ALL POINTING TO CHRIST

    MOST PEOPLE WILL ARGUE THAT READING ONE BOOK IS NOT ENOUGH

  • Hypocrixy in christianity 12 years ago

    THE SHOCKING TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY'S FOUNDER

    If by today’s Christianity we understand faith in Christ as:

    The heavenly Son of God or one in a trinity, who did not belong to earthly humanity, but who lived in the divin ...
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  • Panin 12 years ago

    The old testament is full of laws and hence the coming of Christ and his crucifixion atones for our sins. We CHRISTIANS no longer live under laws but under grace. In case you forget Christ said NO ONE COMETH TO THE FARTHER ex ...
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  • Chintu B 12 years ago

    This article itself is an example of Al Taqqiya. The convoluted logic is exemplified at "Although “unbelievers” is used by the Qur’an to refer to only polytheists ... This does not also mean the Qur’an justifies killi ...
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  • concern ghanian 12 years ago

    EVEN THOUGH SOME OF YOUR SAYING ARE RIGHT, LIKE GIVEN EQUEL RIGHT TO WORSHIP. WHAT OF PAKISTAN, EGYPT, IRAN THAT THE MUSLIMS HAS ALL THE RIGHT AND THEY`RE STILL KILLING CHRISTIANS? AND WHAT OF SO MANY MUSLIMS COUNTRIES CHRIS ...
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  • Shaibu 12 years ago

    Thank you for u comment.

  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    IN COMMUNISM THEY WORE THE SAME CLOTHES, DRESSD THE SAME, LOOKED THE SAME AND BEHAVED THE SAME UNTIL THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE MEANING OF FREEDOM. THE GULAG WAS A PLACE FOR THOSE WHO DISAGREED.
    THERE ARE CLEAR SIMILARITIES

  • mr Tina 12 years ago

    Lafia or what you call yourself, ask yourself, has the world able to destroy a small group called alqaeda, teliban or boko haram. I think you where not educated at home because charity begins at home.

  • HASSAN 12 years ago

    Jesus:Heavenly Or Earthly?

    At the time of Jesus some of The Children of Israels' envisioned a Christ who will destroy the Romans and set them free. In fact, they had a history of accepting prophets who gave them material a ...
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  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    NAME ONE SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC INVENTION OR DISCOVERY BY A MUSLIM WOMAN OR A NOBEL PEACE PRICE

  • HASSAN 12 years ago

    MUSLIMS NOBEL WINNERS

    Here are the Muslim Nobel Laureates:

    Physics
    1979 - Abdus Salam

    Literature
    1957 - Albert Camus
    1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
    2006 - Orhan Pamuk


    Peace
    1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
    1994 - ...
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  • HASSAN 12 years ago

    Thanks for comments.May Allah bless you brother.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ? Martin Luther King Jr.

  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    MOST LIKELY WITH ANCESTRY FROM THE GOLD COAST

  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    NAME ONE FEMALE - SIMPLE

    ( I AM A FRIEND OF GOD AND NOT A SERVANT)

  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    THE QUESTION WAS ABOUT WOMEN ??
    NOT MEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS.
    IF YOU CAN FIND ONE I WILL CONSIDER YOU AS BEEN SERIOUS.
    ALSO INCLUDE SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 1.6BILLION say 50% MALE and 50% FEMALE AND NO SIGNIFICANT ...
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  • HASSAN 12 years ago

    There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are th ...
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  • kofi 12 years ago

    Name any Nobel prize winner in Ghana apart from Kofi Annan?

  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    AN AKAN - A MAN OF PEACE.
    HE DID HIS BEST TO STOP THE IRAQI WAR

  • Ghana 12 years ago

    Non from Ghana only Kofi. Ghana can’t even manage an airline.

  • Priority 12 years ago

    Al- khwarizmi,
    Al kitab elJabr - Algebra,
    Al-Hassan - Optics and refraction of light
    The quadrants ie the sine quadrant in trigonometry.
    The works in astronomy, discovery of the moon as an entity and that the earth is n ...
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  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    Name one woman/lady of this religion who has won a nobel peace prize.
    Simple question

  • Alfred Nobel Inventor of Gun Powder? 12 years ago

    What a toke?
    Alfred Nobel is not a standard of measure of peace. According to your Western masters, he "invented" gun powder, although, infact the Chinese did. By your standards there was peace until Nobel came around to ins ...
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  • GOD BLESS ISRAEL 12 years ago

    DO NOT DEVIATE

  • JMK 12 years ago

    Why should Muslims aks for RIGHTS respect etc while they do not tolerate anything of that sort in their acclaimed terrotories? Who knows? You might be a lecturer with EXTREMIST n fundamentalist ideologies! I disagree with thi ...
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  • Eddy Sakpo 12 years ago

    Religion on its own is a control tool. I wish most people and especially africans could have access to books such as "God Is Not Enough, Messiah Needed"

  • MAJEED 12 years ago

    Brother, is that the only terrorism acts you know in history? Don't let's be hypocritical on this.

    Can you explain which nations were engaged in first and second world war and dropped and atom bomb over japan resulting in ...
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  • concern 12 years ago

    @andah, another foolish goat; muslims pray five times a day.the are trying to serve from de hell.

  • KOFI 12 years ago

    14 Bible Verses That Indicate Jesus Is Not God The Creator, but a Messenger

    1. Matthew 24:36
    No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the Father only.
    Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he know ...
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  • mc 12 years ago

    you ignorant dude. seek wisdom and knowledge and don't be deceived. you don't even know what you are talking about

  • KOFI 12 years ago

    .Forget ego issues and embrace the truth,and I think counter ideas should be directed to the points that I made,and this is supposed to be a platform where truth battles it out with truth,the only difference is what the vari ...
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  • JOE Boady 12 years ago

    it takes a lot of wisdom to understand the bible. Read Phillipians 2:5-11

  • aj-usa 12 years ago

    hahahahaha,there u go.dude wake up.dont give any gratitude to arabs interms of invensions.all those u mension were eygtians not arabs.even the word arab means black...there are many books out there u can read,go to google and ...
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  • jonny 12 years ago

    where ever Muslims dominate there is no peace. How can they claim to be a religion of peace?

  • babs 12 years ago

    and how many people have christians killed in the name of democracy/christianity.

  • babs 12 years ago

    but those mine enemies who would not that i reign over them bring them and slay them before me.luke 19:27.

  • Bowsha' 12 years ago

    Lafia , please I will like you to call me on this cell phone number, i want us both to start parading against Moslems. Please , am realy touched by your statement and I think its a great Idea. 0246840163. I live at Alajo

  • Big Joe 12 years ago

    If you think you have an issue go seek counsel and stop dragging Christianity into your mess.
    Christianity existed over 570 years before Mohammed was born. He grew up knowing fragments of Bible stories which were already in ...
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  • ofori 12 years ago

    Thanks for your comment. But, tell me something, why do you discriminate so much between Jesus, may peace be on him and the Holy Ghost.

    Must Christians seem to obsess over Jesus and ignore the Holy Ghost, why is that? Oh o ...
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  • Big Joe 12 years ago

    Please, Ofori, pardon me but are you Christian? We need a very good atmosphere to discuss the doctrine of the Trinity. The essence, work and ministry of the God head etc. I wish we had a different plat form for this discussio ...
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  • SHEIKH DOLLARS 12 years ago

    FOR JESUS IS NOT GOD BUT A MESSENGER OF GOD ....... FOR GOD CANNOT BE CLASSIFIED INTO THREE ... THE FATHER . THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT .

  • ofori 12 years ago

    For your information,Christianity is the invention of Paul, and was not followed by Jesus or his companions.

    The entire drama of Christianity is taken form the pagan mystery religions of Egypt, Rome and Greece. Here are si ...
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  • Big Joe 12 years ago

    Am sorry but when you do cut and past from the theory of an Atheist, you do disservice to yourself and all those who lack the understanding the God of Israel. Answer me these few questions Ofori, 1 Is Abraham, Isaac, Jacob a ...
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  • Big Joe 12 years ago

    Hello King, pls hold the rhetorics and quote a Quranic or The Holy Bible verse to prove your assertion. Don't speak your sentiments/ fantacies quote. Period!

  • ofori 12 years ago

    The answer is big NO,there is certainly a lot positive in the Bible and of course, portions of the Bible are word of God and I often quote the Bible in a positive sense as well.

    PAUL SAID, “God is not the author of confu ...
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  • Big Joe 12 years ago

    Well said, Ofori, am glad you agree Jesus is not a Myth but tell me this: 1. Do all Doctors agree on the cure HIV? 2. Do all scientists agree on the age of the Universe? 3. Do all economist agree how to fix the world's hunger ...
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  • Dr Kofi Manu 12 years ago

    I think the writer is trying to indirectly say that if violence of Moslems seen elsewhere in the world breaks out in Ghana, its justified. Your concluding paragraph is more or less trying to justify such diabolic acts. They a ...
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  • Big Joe 12 years ago

    Thank you Dr. Kofi Many, you couldn't have stated it better. Shame on him and all who think like Salisu.

  • Ali 12 years ago

    Ist is very unfortune that posting of comments here is not restricted to foolish,useless,stupid and people who are been written that they will go to hell before they die. So anybody just post any comments they want here even ...
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  • alsco 12 years ago

    What I would like to tell Lafia is you are mad,you are not human being ,may God curs you and your family for your stupid comment.

  • nana 12 years ago

    Jews killed jesus

  • KOFI 12 years ago

    Amazingly when a man asked Jesus: "what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" (Jesus answered)... keep the commandments." Matthew 19:17

    Yet Paul said “All who rely on observing the law are under a curse. 13 Christ ...
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  • Ibrahim 12 years ago

    What is interesting that our brother Ghanaian christians don't get from this piece of information from Salifu is simply this: The so-called wicked and greedy christians have formed groups in the name of religion to "loot" and ...
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  • KOFI 12 years ago

    Christianity is the invention of Paul, and was not followed by Jesus or his companions.

    Who taught making a living from preaching?

    Paul quoted Jesus by saying: “The Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel ...
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  • ALLAHUL AKBAR 12 years ago

    The UK’s official religion is dwindling at a record speed, with the decline of the Church “approaching rock bottom,” experts warn. While Christian congregations age, most British mosques are bringing more and more young ...
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  • Anali 12 years ago

    What contributions are Moslems doing in the UK ?

  • OBTT 12 years ago

    IT IS SAD THAT A GREAT NATION LIKE BRITAIN SHOULD ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. GOVERNMENTS SHOULD RESTRICT THE SPREAD OF THIS RELIGION TO SAVE THE NATION FROM FUTURE HAVOC. THIS IS A WICKED RELIGION. I HATE THIS RELIGION. A RELIGION ...
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  • babs 12 years ago

    really,then u r the problem bcos level minded christians enjoy the presence of muslims than their wicked,selfish fellow christians.

  • Fawaz 12 years ago

    hmmmm there are some few though but majority are just bloody extremists.

  • UJIMI 12 years ago

    Ist is very unfortune that posting of comments here is not restricted to foolish,useless,stupid and people who are been written that they will go to hell before they die. So anybody just post any comments they want here even ...
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  • Fawaz 12 years ago

    salisu u left out the soo called promised virgins by the quran for jihadist

  • Fawaz 12 years ago

    these extremists are motivated by the promise in the quran that if u die as a martyr u attain paradise and a substantial number of virgins wil be at your beck and call in heaven

  • Fawaz 12 years ago

    virgins in heaven indeed