Saul,

Thanks for your concern. It's been indeed a while since I took part in
discussions on the L and that is due to varied reasons. When I peeped the
other day I saw your mail and Brother Omar's response to it. I'm fine
indeed, enduring the winter that has refused to let so far; the zombies back
home have not laid a hand on me.

I have been mute lately mostly because I have lost connectivity at home,
having access just at work where things have been rather hectic lately. My
heart is with all of you worthy sons and daughters of our country though who
have resolved never to rest until our once rather harmonious society has
been restored to normalcy.

As I intimated to you and our prolific and indefatigable Brother, KB, in our
private exchanges sometime last year, there was a somewhat stormy  period in
my private life sometime ago but which has turned out to have been a
blessing in disguise. I'll get back to the two of you in private for more on
that issue. For now, however, I would like to take up an issue quite similar
to one you raised here sometime ago.

Some vermin (to borrow from KB), and permanent peeper on the L resident here
in Oslo has been trying to sow seeds of discord between myself and my family
back home because of my contributions on the L and other coined with other
most pernicious of lies.

This is a man to whom I had previously accorded some respect before I came
to realise what a stinking hypocrite he really is. Never having acknowledge
to me that he is an ardent supporter of the criminal regime back home, which
I learnt later was the case, he always feigned total agreement with my
position whenever the situation at home became a subject of discussion
between the two of us. In restrospect, I feel I should have known better!

For this is a hypocrite as any you've ever laid eyes on or heard about, and
a "religious" one at that too! A so-called self-appointed "elder" with a
propensity to stick his filthy nose in other people's business, always with
the intention to taint and smear - that is in between his five daily
prayers!

And this is a man who went behind a trusting friend's back and literally
"stole" his wife but is never tired of pretensious moralisation! As you may
recall, I had taken up the issue of religious hypocrisy here before and I
have had time to reflect further on the issue lately. I think the decay in
the moral fabric in our society is something that all honest and God-fearing
Gambians should be concerned about. For with such people all over the place,
the battle for a just society will be an ever increasing uphill one; for any
society is the sum of the individuals that constitute it.

Some people just can't get the simple fact that being older than someone
else, when stripped bare of all the the trappings that our society accords
it, merely means being born before someone. Period! Being an elder or
"religious leader", for that matter, comes with responsibilities and duties.
One is expected to abide by all times by the truth, tell the truth, come
rain or storm.

I believe only a shameless "elder" or "religious leader" would butch in the
face of a mere mortal. If such people can go to bed at night and get some
sound sleep in the face of what is going on in our society today, then we
are faced with a very bleak future indeed.

These were the same people who removed our petition letter from the April
massacre from the notice board of the Mosque but who went to town with:
"Have you seen Clinton's letter?" and gladly distributed it and even kept
copies for themselves. They never stopped to think that it was the
dedication of brothers and sisters in the US who did exactly what we others
were trying to do here that gave birth to "Clinton's letter". For them the
word CONSCIENCE does not belong to their reactioanry vocabulary!


Growing up, there was no end to the stories I heard told about my
gradfather, a midget man and a Quranic teacher who never hesitated to tell a
giant a piece of his mind whenever the need arose. I guess I grew up with
the believe that one cannot be a genuine "elder" or "religious leader" and
not do like the Prophets before us who were vocal in condemning all forms of
injustice perpetrated against their followers.

A true believer in God cannot be mute in the face of gross injustice
perpetrated against a defenceless people. But it seems to me that Muslim
"religious leaders" have abandoned that aspect of believe to Church leaders,
for these are those whose voices  have been heard loud and clear lately
above all  in Africa and elsewhere where butchers have high-jacked power and
unleashed terror on their own people. I have NO respect at all for "elders"
and "religious leaders" who crunch or whisper in such situations for they
don't deserve it! Not to talk of those who not only fail to make their
voices heard in such situations, but on the contrary "work hard" to
discourage or counter those youger people of conscience who would not keep
quiet under such circumstances, especially when they resort to lies and
rumour-mongering spice to their filth.

I am not sure if such behaviour is due to guilty conscience, cowardice or
merely ignorance. What I do know is that The Day of Judgement will be one
full of interesting surprises! For if one believes that performing the five
daily prayers is the only thing that will endear one to God and not what
transpires in between, then we have "a nigger that's out of mind" as Brother
Malcolm used to say.

Any way, that said, I have explained my position to my folks back home that
speaking my mind on matters that affect my country, especially under the
current circumstances is an intrinsic part of my believe in God and that I
am not about to give it up. I have never comtemplated seeking political
office and do not intend so in the future but I believe that does not
absolve me either from my civic and moral duties towards the country.

We cannot continue bequeth to the yet unborn duties that we should be taking
care of now. I would consider myself an accomplished man when during old
age, I can look back and say that I have contributed my little quota to God
and the country whose citizen my offspring and their offspring will be. I
have explained what I think and feel of filth and and politically numb and
cowardly hypocrites like the one I mentioned above and advised them not to
listen to the garbage he churns.

My message to my folks was: if this man (I really believe he should take to
wearing "becho", no offence to the sisters) comes back with more lies, they
should either tell him to go mind his own business or not tell me about it.
For if  I should get one more
hint of his shameless manouverings there will be a very nasty showdown
between us. I guess then when this creature, with his behaviour which to me
is no less than homosexual, will know the real me. For if he believes that
he can churn filth, I'm well prepared to demonstrate to him that he's not
even good at such lowly enterprise either. I better quit talking such vermin
before I puke on my keyboard for the mere thought of them gives me nausea!

Meanwhile, until I am up and about again with constant access to the net, I
am with you all in this noble and worthy and Godly quest, especially those
of you who constantly call a spade by its proper name. May he continue to
bless you!

Regards,

Kabir.

PS: Ndey, I've received your mail. We'll see what we can do from this end.


"saul khan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Have the Jammeh people kidnapped Mr. A.K. Njie or what? Anybody seen the
> brother?
>

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