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• Mallam Rashid 10 years ago

  WE, GHANA, are not europeans, Americans or Arabs. We are black Africans comprising of different religions and freedom to worship what you believe in.
  Thank you Pres. Mahama for your fairness in leadership.
  
  Allah help you ...
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  WE, GHANA, are not europeans, Americans or Arabs. We are black Africans comprising of different religions and freedom to worship what you believe in.
  Thank you Pres. Mahama for your fairness in leadership.
  
  Allah help you win power again and again.

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• KOKROKO 10 years ago

  ‘JIHADI JOHN': ISLAMIC STATE KILLER IS IDENTIFIED AS LONDONER MOHAMMED EMWAZI.
  
  
  
  By Souad Mekhennet and Adam Goldman February 26 at 9:45 AM
  How The Post identified 'Jihadi John'(2:07)
  Foreign policy reporter Adam ...
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  ‘JIHADI JOHN': ISLAMIC STATE KILLER IS IDENTIFIED AS LONDONER MOHAMMED EMWAZI.
  
  
  
  By Souad Mekhennet and Adam Goldman February 26 at 9:45 AM
  How The Post identified 'Jihadi John'(2:07)
  Foreign policy reporter Adam Goldman explains who Mohammed Emwazi is and how The Washington Post discovered his identity. (Gillian Brockell and Alice Li/The Washington Post)
  LONDON — The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos circulated widely online.
  
  But his real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. He is believed to have traveled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined the Islamic State, the group whose barbarity he has come to symbolize.
  
  [View: The atrocities of the Islamic State]
  
  “I have no doubt that Mohammed is Jihadi John,” said one of Emwazi’s close friends who identified him in an interview with The Washington Post. “He was like a brother to me. .?.?. I am sure it is him.”
  
  A representative of a British human rights group who had been in contact with Emwazi before he left for Syria also said he believed Emwazi was Jihadi John, a moniker given to him by some of the hostages he once held.
  
  “There was an extremely strong resemblance,” Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group, CAGE, said when shown one of the videos and asked to confirm whether Emwazi could be “Jihadi John.”
  
  Scores of hostages, including Westerners, have been killed by the Islamic State since 2014. Here are some of the major incidents where the Islamic State killed the hostages. VIEW GRAPHIC
  “This is making me feel fairly certain that this is the same person,” Qureshi added.
  
  Authorities have used a variety of investigative techniques, including voice analysis and interviews with former hostages, to try to identify Jihadi John. James B. Comey, the director of the FBI, said in September — only a month after the Briton was seen in a video killing American journalist James Foley — that officials believed they had succeeded.
  
  Nevertheless, the identity of Jihadi John has remained shrouded in secrecy. Since Foley’s killing, he has appeared in a series of videos documenting the gruesome killings of other hostages, including four other Westerners, some of whom he personally beheaded.
  
  [Read: The Islamic State is failing at being a state]
  
  Map: Flow of foreign fighters to Syria VIEW GRAPHIC
  In each, he is dressed in all black, a balaclava covering all but his eyes and the ridge of his nose. He wears a holster under his left arm.
  
  A spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Washington said: “Our prime minister has been clear that we want all those who have committed murder on behalf of ISIL to face justice for the appalling acts carried out. There is an ongoing police investigation into the murder of hostages by ISIL in Syria. It is not appropriate for the government to comment on any part of it while this continues.” ISIL is another name for the Islamic State.
  
  
  U.S. officials declined to comment for this report. Emwazi’s family declined a request for an interview, citing legal advice.
  
  The Kuwaiti-born Emwazi, in his mid-20s, appears to have left little trail on social media or elsewhere online. Those who knew him say he was polite and had a penchant for wearing stylish clothes while adhering to the tenets of his Islamic faith. He had a beard and was mindful of making eye contact with women, friends said.
  
  Mohammed Emwazi identified as ‘Jihadi John’(1:16)
  The identity of the masked man whose video appearances have come to symbolize the barbarity of the Islamic State has been made public. (The Washington Post)
  [Archives: The tactics of Islamic State beheadings]
  
  He was raised in a middle-class neighborhood in London and on occasion prayed at a mosque in Greenwich.
  
  The friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation, believe that Emwazi started to radicalize after a planned safari in Tanzania following his graduation from the University of Westminster.
  
  Emwazi and two friends — a German convert to Islam named Omar and another man, Abu Talib — never made it on the trip. Once they landed in Dar es Salaam, in May 2009, they were detained by police and held overnight. It’s unclear whether the reason for the detention was made clear to the three, but they were eventually deported.
  
  Emwazi flew to Amsterdam, where he claimed that an officer from MI5, Britain’s domestic security agency, accused him of trying to reach Somalia, where the militant group al-Shabab operates in the southern part of the country, according to e-mails that he sent to Qureshi and that were provided to The Post.
  
  [Read: Reaction to an identity revealed]
  
  Emwazi denied the accusation and claimed that MI5 representatives had tried to recruit him. But a former hostage said Jihadi John was obsessed with Somalia and made his captives watch videos about al-Shabab, which is allied with al-Qaeda.

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• makamakm 10 years ago

  These muslims cannot impose themselves on Ghanains-since when did this start? They must not go to Christian missionary school period.

  These muslims cannot impose themselves on Ghanains-since when did this start? They must not go to Christian missionary school period.

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• kringa 10 years ago

  Ghana for all of ours, Muslims, christian what ever. If Christians don't want Muslims to attend mission schools, then their send their schools out of the country. The land is for all Ghanaian period!!.

  Ghana for all of ours, Muslims, christian what ever. If Christians don't want Muslims to attend mission schools, then their send their schools out of the country. The land is for all Ghanaian period!!.

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• makamakm 10 years ago

  Here toothy want to use the schools chapel for their Friday bullcrap.The school was founded by Methodist Missionaries. Glad Americans stood up to them.....see all these bullcrap started with the nonsense Ecowas.They come f ...
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  Here toothy want to use the schools chapel for their Friday bullcrap.The school was founded by Methodist Missionaries. Glad Americans stood up to them.....see all these bullcrap started with the nonsense Ecowas.They come from Northern Nigeria to settle in Ghana then infilterate our schools. OK WE MUST TAKE BACK THE ZONGOS BEFORE THER TOO THEY START IMPOSING THEIR FOOLISH LWAS ON US.......GHANA BE CAREFUL

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• GHANA IS WARNED 10 years ago

  Ghana is warned forcaving in for these Islamic brutes. Look at their faces. They don't have Ghanaian faces .Ghana is digging its own grave for romamcing with these Islamic killers.
  
  Have you seen that picture that Boko Hara ...
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  Ghana is warned forcaving in for these Islamic brutes. Look at their faces. They don't have Ghanaian faces .Ghana is digging its own grave for romamcing with these Islamic killers.
  
  Have you seen that picture that Boko Haram have burnt 375 Christians? Boko Haram has been burning Christians and their churches, and these muslims in Ghana pretend as if it is not true.
  
  Don't trust Muslims. They don't respect Christians. They have tactics when they are minority in a particular country. Don't trust these killers.

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• Obrefo 10 years ago

  It means no religious affiliation with any religious body where government funding is involved. No church or muslim services in any of government schools. And the government can't sponsor any muslim to Mecca either. Zero invo ...
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  It means no religious affiliation with any religious body where government funding is involved. No church or muslim services in any of government schools. And the government can't sponsor any muslim to Mecca either. Zero involvement in any religion. It will be better for the nation.

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• Mary 10 years ago

  Separate religion and education will do it.

  Separate religion and education will do it.

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• OBIBA JS 10 years ago

  It is this vote catching stands that will bring "boko haram" to Ghana.Educational instituitions have always had their traditions(uniforms,hair grooming and others)Why would the Govt want to interfere with these old standards. ...
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  It is this vote catching stands that will bring "boko haram" to Ghana.Educational instituitions have always had their traditions(uniforms,hair grooming and others)Why would the Govt want to interfere with these old standards.Why should the Govt sponsor Hadj trips for instance?All these are measures instituted to catch votes but I can assure all, very soon we will get what we are asking for ,a BOKO HARAM SET!!!

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• Issaku Abdul -Hafiz 10 years ago

  infact may Allah bless you very very much for this offer

  infact may Allah bless you very very much for this offer

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• Boss 10 years ago

  We did not have this kind of nonsense when Mahama was not the president. Muslim and Christians in Ghana have been attending the same school without this any pain.

  We did not have this kind of nonsense when Mahama was not the president. Muslim and Christians in Ghana have been attending the same school without this any pain.

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• Boss 10 years ago

  And the reporter ought to be careful because these girls are not Ghanaians please. We know our Muslim brothers and sister and so do not throw dust into our eye or begin to saw any seed of turmoil in our peaceful country.

  And the reporter ought to be careful because these girls are not Ghanaians please. We know our Muslim brothers and sister and so do not throw dust into our eye or begin to saw any seed of turmoil in our peaceful country.

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• Atul 10 years ago

  As3m b3 ba

  As3m b3 ba

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• Diaul-Hack 10 years ago

  Alhamdudilah Rabil'alamin.Thanks and praises to Mr president and the honourable minister for issueing this strong warning.

  Alhamdudilah Rabil'alamin.Thanks and praises to Mr president and the honourable minister for issueing this strong warning.

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• J.A.HOLISNN 10 years ago

  SHOULD WE THEN ALSO ALLOW TRADITIONAL BELIEVERS TO COME TO CLASSES AND SCHOOL WITH TILISMA AND AMULETS?

  SHOULD WE THEN ALSO ALLOW TRADITIONAL BELIEVERS TO COME TO CLASSES AND SCHOOL WITH TILISMA AND AMULETS?

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