Religious fanatism is the worst potential of anarchy in Africa today.
With my limited knowledge in islam i have observed for centuries Africans
willingness to shed off their million year old cultural traditions in the
promise of either western or Arabic religions.
I often wonder if God has created africans in an inferior light that we have
to look so low on our own beautiful culture and tradition in exchange for
the foreign.I believe, and i do not mean to offend anyones
supremecy,God is in us as he is in any group of humanbeings. Our culure is
beautiful it is deep it is admirable but to our well-learned brothers and
sisters its of satan. Why are Africans programmed again and again to look so
low on themselves and their way of life.

Africans it seems cannot wait to serve either the Arab or Toubab.
I attest to you if we uphold our cultural and traditional values even a
little bit higher we will treat each other like humans that we are.

Why cant we believe in the fact that Allah made us too. He created us too;
our ways of social interactions must not be extinct just because a new books
of conduct has been revealed!

Our very 'socialcollective esteem' is very badly impaired by our leaders and
intelectuals who insinuate that other cultures are purer than African
culture and tradition.Little do they know what these masters of other
cultures engage in behind closed doors.

If only we know the richness of our culture, African culture will not be
allowed to die in this crucial times.
Its important to note that it is this creed and doing things that brought us
has a people this far. To call African tradition Satanic is
insulting and demeaning to say the very least.


>From: Amadu Kabir Njie <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Fw: Daily Observer: Faji Kunda Imam vows to boycott music laden
>           occasions
>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:02:50 +0100
>
>Faji Kunda Imam vows to boycott music laden occasions
>
>The Imam of Faji Kunda Central Mosque, Alhagie Ebrima Jaiteh has vowed to
>boycott Muslims who mix Allah and Satan in their social functions. "With
>effect from today, we will not attend, let alone recite the Holy Quran at
>any ceremony that would later be graced with music.
>
>How can you invite Muslims to God but at the same time pay great attention
>to satan?" he asked. Imam Jaiteh made the above remarks in a sermon he
>delivered at a naming ceremony at Faji Kunda on Sunday. He wondered why
>Muslims nowadays fail to honour the principles of Allah and follow Prophet
>Muhammed's footsteps.
>
>"Naming ceremony is a mere sunnah of Prophet Muhammed which does not
>require all the things people have added to it." Imam Jaiteh explained that
>the essence of naming ceremony is to chose proper name for the child as
>well as slaughter ram for him/her, stressing that music has nothing to do
>with it.
>
>Another Islamic scholar, Alhagie Janko, advised youths to be mindful of
>music which is an exploitative device against Muslims. Alhagie Yaya Kalley
>expressed similar sentiments and urged Muslims to respect the teachings of
>their Imams.
>
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