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Momodou Buharry Gassama <[log in to unmask]>
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Momodou Buharry Gassama <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 30 May 2007 19:15:43 +0200
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Cornelius,
              I am done with this discussion. Go in peace. May Allah 
grant you peace to be in peace with yourself. May Allah grant your 
peace and the wisdom to fight for justice for all of His creation. 
May 
Allah grant peace and prosperity to you, me, your family, my family, 
all those subscribed to the lists and all His creation. May Allah 
bring 
peace and prosperity to all troubled spots on earth. May Allah soften 
the hearts of oppressors and bring peace to Palestine. May Allah 
bring 
enough peace to your heart to make you realise that people can 
criticise racist and oppressive policies be they those perpetrated by 
Israel, Zionists, Arabs, Africans, Americans, Europeans or Asians. Go 
in peace and note that at least one Muslim has prayed for peace.
                                                                                                                  
Buharry.

----Original Message----
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: May 30, 2007 6:26:28 PM
To: Momodou Buharry Gassama <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
ICORS.ORG
Subj: Re: Re: Zionism

You want to put up a show? For? ME?’
You want to rap?

Of course, I am an academic and - naturally an intellectual.
As AbdalQadir once said, “By definition, a Muslim is an intellectual” 
If I am not then it doesn’t bother me.

http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/index.html

There are quite a few in my family, you know, I am not the only one. 
My better half , my daughters are too – both are distinguished  - one 
is a gold Medallist First /First in Law University of London , 
another 
with a Masters  is a well placed Civil Servant in the United Kingdom.

Here's one:
http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~dhamelbe/resume-web.pdf

But that’s not the only company I keep.

When my son was thirteen, he was more advanced than I was at 
seventeen 
and when I was seventeen, I was at the top of what I liked – and that 
includes any school in Gambia. 
I’m just chatting man. I can rap too – even on my guitar.

Look I’m not an interesting person to discuss with. You want to make 
a 
name for yourself, don’t engage me. 

I was only telling you (the examiner) that I intend to start with 
question 12 -
and I was going to tell you about the Dhimmi status of Jews in 
Islamic 
lands, and the  occasional massacres, pogroms, but on the whole the 
Arabs , and Muslims treated the Jewish people much better than the 
Christians have done in Europe, starting with Merry England , 
Spain,………
..

My mother tells me that I spoke Krio English and Fullah (with my 
girlfriend BONGOR, a neighbour’s child.)  when I was little. 
From the age of six, when I arrived in England, I lost Krio and 
English, although I do not remember any gradual disappearance. It was 
as if it was an instantaneous disappearance since there was no one 
that 
I could speak Fullah or Krio with.

Let’s not talk about mother tongues. There are many. Interest in 
India 
can take you to Sanskrit, just as I expect you to be polishing off 
your 
Arabic, the language of the Koran…


> 
> From: Momodou Buharry Gassama <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/05/30 on PM 05:52:08 CEST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Re: Zionism
> 
> Cornelius,
>                DOUBLETHINK! DOUBLETHINK! DOUBLETHINK! You wrote:
> 
> "Which first so called answer? I am not aware of having answered 
any 
> of the twenty questions yet, and now, I no longer intend to do so."
> 
> You wrote earlier: 
> 
> "If it’s Ok with you, I intend to answer all the questions, but 
would 
> like to start with question 12,  because I’ve got the answer to the 
> first part of that question based on a lecture that I attended on 
30th 
> October 2005,  by Professor Mark Cohen ( Princeton) who is an 
authority 
> on  that question."
> 
> Do you believe yourself? If you want to bow out because you have 
been 
> caught, do so with grace. (It would be sad though because now that 
you 
> have informed us that you are an academic and intellectual, I would 
> have loved to see your stuff) 
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> "You telling an intellectual and academic that he can’t talk. 
Think? 
I 
> have answered most of my own questions and suggest that you learn 
to 
do 
> the same – if you can, knowing as you do, and that I am not your 
> fountain of truth.
> 
>  Last book read was “For What Tomorrow” 
> 
> English is my mother tongue. "
> 
> 
> Wollof, Fula and Jahanka are my mother tongues. Then I studied 
> English. Even with English being so far down the line of learned 
> languages, I can still see the contradiction in your position. 
Simply 
> put, DOUBLETHINK! DOUBLETHINK! DOUBLETHINK!
>                                                                                                                                                            
> Buharry.
> 
> 
> ----Original Message----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Date: May 30, 2007 5:04:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subj: Re: Zionism
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Which first so called answer?
> 
> I am not aware of having answered any of the twenty questions yet, 
and 
> now, I no longer intend to do so. I may change my mind , but you 
too 
> must have a basic level of competence in understanding simple 
things. 
> 
> 
> You telling an intellectual and academic that he can’t talk. Think? 
I 
> have answered most of my own questions and suggest that you learn 
to 
do 
> the same – if you can, knowing as you do, and that I am not your 
> fountain of truth.
> 
>  Last book read was “For What Tomorrow” 
> 
> English is my mother tongue. I did study English, philosophy and 
that 
> more than anything else gave me a foundation to pursue such 
interests.
> 
> I just looked at this interesting item, which I’m sure will 
interest 
> you too.
> 
> http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=4853#comments
> 
> About whatever question bothers you had better look for your own 
> answers. Ask you religious leader(s), the one(s) that you follow. I 
> have grappled with problems that are much more complicated than 
> whatever it is you are trying to say. I have a pile of books, still 
> unopened, so now let me retire with this introduction by Dan Cohn-
> Sherbok that’s been on my shelf some three years now, I’ve read a 
> couple of his other books:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Key-Jewish-Thinkers-Cohn-
> Sherbok/dp/0415126282
> 
> I have now decided that I will not waste my time being nice.
> 
> I do not have a problem with either Islam or the Jewish people and 
I 
> am probably not intelligent enough to make you or anyone else 
> understand anything. I wish that I could have got across and hope 
that 
> you will get the answers that you seek from people much better 
> qualified to provide the answers that may satisfy you, the way that 
Abu 
> Wafa al-Taftanzani satisfied me in Cairo, and dispelled the last 
little 
> cloud that obscured my understanding. There was no beating about 
the 
> bush.
> 
> I don’t have any questions for Lamin Sanneh either.
> 
> So please, some people’s rigorous demands are more difficult to 
meet 
> than others, and here let me admit defeat, ok?
> 
> Merci.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: 2007/05/30 on PM 03:19:54 CEST
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Ämne: Re: Zionism
> > 
> > Your first so-called answer to the questions is another link of 
> someone else's opinion. Still waiting for the answers.
> > 
> > Stop regurgitating the stuff you are fed and answer the questions 
> using your own opinions if you can.
> > J.Joh
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cornelius Edward Hamelberg <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Wed, 30 May 2007 3:26 am
> > Subject: Re: Zionism
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > As Habib wrote, ? i wish we all simply practice what we are 
thaught 
> , love for 
> > ach other respect for each other and recognizing that we will all 
> die one day.?
> > What?s all this about me not having ?own opinions ? /?only able 
to 
> regurgitate 
> > hat your Zionist handlers feed you and what you can google on the 
> net? Answer 
> > he questions and stop beating about the bush and spewing out 
> irrelevant 
> > ubbledeguck.?  Is that called for? What are you angry about? 
> >  ?the list of question brother Buhari sent to you for your 
masters 
> to answer? 
> > please relay to your bosses? etc Well, your darling Muhammad is 
not 
> my boss and 
> >  only have ONE BOSS  , and HE is the King of Kings of Kings.
> > I was not beaten or bullied as a child, so please don?t think 
that 
> you or anyone 
> > lse is about to succeed in doing that.  I was taught the very 
best 
> manners. I 
> > as born in Freetown, and I respect and value freedom.
> > I try to answer your questions as a courtesy, it?s part of good 
> adab. Humility 
> > oes not need a disguise ? nor does false pride, that?s why you 
haven?
> t read any 
> > oetry from me ? compared to what?
> > I cannot remember how I felt, what I thought, what was going on 
in 
> my mind, when 
> >  was tying Hazrat Agha?s shoelaces, except that  I was very happy 
> and it was a 
> > ery important job, so I did it as best I could. Tying a knot on 
the 
> Sabbath 
> > omes under the classification of melakhah.
> > I may  - by all standards be less educated , less vocal , and 
less 
> opinionated 
> > han you, and less competent  or able to think , judge, 
appreciate,  
> decide for 
> > yself and express myself  to others verbally or otherwise, but 
that?
> s not up to 
> > e to judge and no professor has ever told me that I was average. 
At 
> Dr. 
> > urbaksh Terry Graham told me that one has to be quick, to catch 
it 
> fast. Lenny 
> > hought that mosque visits were making me aggressive, because of a 
> letter I 
> > rote in Tehran Times.
> > Since I cannot share my library with you ? or the Synagogue 
library, 
> or any of 
> > he periodicals or Newspapers, I send you links.
> >  don?t have to, but they do contain valuable information, and as 
> for 
> > ropaganda, even the Encyclopaedia Britannica is not exempt.
> > When Amos Oz launched his autobiographical work, he was asked 
about 
> the 
> > esources of the Hebrew language and he more or less said that 
some 
> things can 
> > nly be expressed in that language. Some other Sufi-type things 
> cannot be 
> > xpressed in any language at all, at least not by me.
> > ???????????.
> > This popped up on my regular Leonenet Forum, last night and I?d 
like 
> to share 
> > hat too.
> > ot that I don?t have an opinion about it, I do, I have an opinion 
> (my own) 
> > bout everything. And know some guys in Ghana and Nigeria, who are 
> bigger and 
> > uch more opinionated than your Yaya.
> > hat too was an opinion:
> > From our Sierra Leone Forum (I?ve taken the liberty to share or 
> would you prefer 
> > hat I whisper it in your ear? I?m sharing it here, because 
yesterday 
> my two 
> > ast postings were rejected.  I only posted seven items yesterday, 
> and I think 
> > hat?s the maximum allowed in one day. SO I have to be economical 
and 
> that?s why 
> > t?s here (so that those who were foaming in the mouth about Paul 
> Wolfowitz can 
> > oam some more about even this:
> > ? Released for the 50th anniversary of Ghana ?s independence from 
> British 
> > olonial rule, the film, Damned by Debt Relief, puts real freedom, 
> independence 
> > nd serious development on the map. 
> > Shot in Ghana, the film is a stark reminder of the devastating 
> conditions 
> > ttached to debt relief following the G8 Gleneagles deal in 2005, 
not 
> least the 
> > enial of autonomy, degradation of democracy and low horizons 
> enshrined in so 
> > alled "poverty reduction" strategies.?
> > The video:
> > 
> > www.worldwrite. org.uk/damned 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> >  From: [log in to unmask]
> >  Date: 2007/05/30 on AM 04:22:27 CEST
> >  To: [log in to unmask]
> >  Ämne: Re: Zionism as a Racist Ideology/ what's the matter 
> Cornelius?
> >  
> >    What's the matter Corneluis, you do not have your own 
opinions? 
> Are you only 
> > ble to regurgitate what your Zionist handlers feed you and what 
you 
> can google 
> > n the net?
> >   Answer the questions and stop beating about the bush and 
spewing 
> out 
> > rrelevant gubbledeguck.
> >   J.Joh
> >   
> >      
> > 
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