Mabs,
Well said and a familiar conversation we had before. I
completely agree with you. Religion nowadays is being
commercialize everywhere, and it hurts me to see the
hypocrisy that is used by both muslim and christian
leaders all over the world. This is a problem not only
in the Gambia, but all over the world. You said it
like, it is only muslim leaders that do it. Christians
and pastors are doing it everyday. Building Churches
for their own financial interest. campaign finances
supported by christian leaders and so forth.....did
you notice that too?
Mabs, Gambia is a predominantly Muslim country....over
90% of the population are Muslims. It shouldn't hurt
you to see the dominance of the practice of Islam in
the state house. America is predominantly Christian,
and when prayers are being made in congress, do they
pray in the name of Jesus or prophet Mohamed (Pbuh)?
Jesus off course, and why is that? Because
Christianity dominates the US population.
Also where did you get this conversation about a
mosque in the State house. If this is true, I
completely disagree with the idea, because the state
house is home for the people ( christians and Muslim
citizens) of the Gambia. I think if a mosque is placed
in the state house, there should also be a Church
placed there as well.But squash all of that. Religious
houses should be out of the state house, but any
religion should be allowed to persevere in the state
house.
Mabs, the president and the majority of the cabinet in
this country are muslims. Automatically islamic
practice is going to dominate in the state
house....sorry if that hurts you, but you are going to
live with it.
Also, you know that we've been friends since Nursery
school till the day we came to the USA. I've always
known you as a Muslim and you have practiced Islam
with me throughout our lives leaving in the Gambia.
Your brother is a dedicated Muslim. WHEN IN THIS WORLD
DID YOU OFFICIALLY CHANGE RELIGION?
Gibby...
--- Matarr Sajaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yus et al
> Thank you for shedding some light on this debate.
> If we allow these fundamentalist to entice the
> Jammeh regime
> with the use of religion as a basis of governance; A
> new Gambia
> will emerge.
>
> I cannot help but Buzz in after browsing thru the
> dozen of rhetoric levied
> on this forum from these self appointed religious
> experts i.e. Jaboh et al. I
> hail the studies that Drs. Sanneh and Nyang have
> undertaking on the subject.
> But Man, It is rather troublesome to hear that my
> fellow Gambians are being
> programmed to hate the very people that they lived
> next to for decades. Is
> this a sign of religious bigotry? or A new form of
> intolerance for diversity
> in religion.
>
> BTW I am not a deeply religious person but I am not
> a fanatic. The reason why
> we had to pay millions of dollars in taxes to defend
> The Afghan People from
> tyranny is because her people allowed religious
> dogma to prevail. We are a
> secular state and our leaders must not condone the
> use of religion as a basis
> of governance. It is wrong to build a mosque in the
> state house.
>
> The Gambia is not an Islamic State. The Gambia
> belongs to her people. It's
> scares me to death that we are increasingly becoming
> threatened by each
> other's existentialism. Christians and Muslims have
> lived happily with each
> other without incident for a long time. Lets not
> become the next Taliban. We
> are a community of peace and love, not of hatred and
> intolerance.
>
> MHO is that we cut the crap of peddling Islam on
> this forum and focus on a
> more pertinent issue. The fact is that Sariah will
> never become the rule of
> law in the Gambia and Religion is ones choice. If I
> chose to practice
> paganism, I should be free to practice my religion
> as long as it does not
> interfere with another's right to be Christian.
> These volume of rhetoric
> about religion should be redirected to people who
> really have time to reason
> with this stuff. I can truthfully say that all is
> alien to the Continent and
> we are seeing daily the Kinds of lives the people in
> those region live.
>
> I want to conclude by adding that we need to address
> issues tactfully. Most
> of my friends are Moslems and so is my Dad. I am
> not. this is for the record.
> I have never been chastised by my Family because
> they fully understand the
> choices I made as a person. It is the person out in
> the street that feels
> they will not go to heaven unless they torment a non
> believer to extend of
> verbal abuse. Do we really know if there is Judgment
> Day? Do we really Know
> if there is a GOD? Pope John Paul once said that
> "Science purifies religion
> and Region purifies false absolutes" Let's be
> careful in making assertions of
> the truth without knowing the entire truth.
>
> We are not a nation of Bigots. If Imam Fatty thinks
> he is a Demigod, he is
> only living a fallacy. The days are gone when
> Christians will layoff their
> guards and watch Muslims trample them with might
> because they form the
> majority and because they do they can impose their
> will onto them. If Imam
> Fatty was born a Christian will he be a Muslim? I
> guess we all know what the
> true answer is. Most of us are what we are because
> of paternity. We are the
> minimis of our society and cultures. In that same
> token, all other religions
> have the same paternal rights to exist. Let us not
> theorize a basic
> phenomena. We are what we are because we are born
> into it. We little of it is
> by choice it is by intuition.
>
> Thank you to all who read my whining and if I offend
> anyone it wasn't
> intentional but coincidental.
>
> Matarr Sajaw.
>
>
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