Mr. Sidibeh,

I will add to your rationale not to endorse it but express my natural
appetite for a reasonable discussion- a dialogue that controls the
passions in order to allow the truth to flourish.  I just cannot
understand how someone with a computer keyboard can think that he or
she has all the powers in the universe to intimidate, taunt, rebuke,
insult, prosecute, judge and convict?  Modesty dictates that one
should suspend judgement until all necessary evidence are
established.
Your friends are dying to put me behind bars, yet they want me to
"explain" to the "Gambian people".  I thought the rule of law
sanctions that one is innocent until proven guilty, right?  So tell
me with all sincerity who has the burden of proof here?  You know we
can all discuss like rational adults without evoking any demagoguery.
 I have the right to apologize to anybody I feel I have done
considerable harm-that is nobody's business.  I know it is a
perennial custom in the Gambian tradition to exchange apologies
during Ramadan- a moral ethos to purge the human passions of hatred
that clouds the spirit from seeing the Eternal Truth.  I have done my
part as a good Muslim, now the ball is in your courts to prove to the
entire world whether the insults and malicious gripes are done out of
good faith and reason or based on ignorance, hatred and caprice.
I will gurauntee you that I will be a gentleman enough never to be
affronted by these angry diatribes.  I believe insults are the last
refuge of the desperado, the ingonaramus and the supine nonentity. I
have resolved  never to get that low.

On a personal note Mr. Sidibeh, your theories about my apology are
quite conjectural, and I am not looking forward to going to Gambia
anytime soon.  I am very happy with myself and thank Allah, I have no
ill feelings towards any one.

Let me tell you a little bit. President Jammeh and I had some
misunderstandings, yes I did say something in the past, and I
apologize sincerely.  Ebou Jallow has the noble intention to open a
new chapter with the elected President Jammeh.  There is no need for
those who have never casted a vote, never served their country, never
represented a Gambian,  to bitch, moan and groan about my "failure"
to apologize to the Gambian people.  Quell Dommage!  Which Gambians
are they speaking for?  What authority do they have to ask me any
sort of questions, and expect an answer?  In fact they are very lucky
that I am spending my leisure time writing on this forum.

Tell you friends that I am neither their enemy, nor do I have
emotional energy to subscribe to an anger contest.  If you do not
like President Dr. Colonel(rtd) Alhagie Yaya Abdul Aziz Karim ul Lah
Jammeh or his brother Ebou Jallow, well go to Hades and join the
haters.  I know between me and him I have done him wrong, and I will
make sure that I do everything to compensate him...that is what Islam
teaches.

Happy Thanksgiving






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Ebou Jallow
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

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