i am new subscriber but i cannot wait to enter in to your interesting but very sensitive discussion . it is very sad that after all those years of suffering for africans , it seems we will never learns lessons . after being so much divided by colonialism , politics and to some extend religion. it is now time for africans and gambians in particular to be involved in healing the wounds left by colonialism and slave trade rather indulging in what i will discribe as northing more than religious bigotry . we cannot tolerate religious bigots and from my observation that what Imam Fatty is . I am a debout sunni muslim but i do not care what my next of kin belief in so long he does not try to impose his belief on me . Allah had clearly stipulated in the holy Quran that there is no force in religion and he gives us the intelligence to decide which faith to choose . On that note i see no reason why we should allow ourselves to be divided by difference in faith . If Imam Fatty ran out issues to talk about why not he remind the people he leads every day ; that it is also good religious practice to to address the people you govern with respect . Finally to all the subsribers lets all try to be objective in whatever topics that may arise in future . From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Re: Imam Fatty Condemns Fankanta] > In a message dated 8/23/99 7:19:25 AM Central Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << If there were a country, let's say like Pakistan or Saudi, only that this > country was interested in having the Mourides kicked out of Senegal for a > sum which Abdou Joof decides to take and then the campaign begins to expel > the Mourides using the Imam of State House - what am I talking about? The > Mourides are Senegalese, not foreign. There is no country willing to pay > for their expulsion! I hope the manifested religious hypocrisy in the Gambia > is not in Senegal. Why is the Imam not going after my Christian relatives > who do not even believe in the Prophet of Islam (SAW)? Practice and let > Practice. Only GOD knows! > > Soffie > >> > ***************** > Soffie, > > If there is a sum paid ti Imam Fatty to get the Ahmadiyya kicked out of > Gambia, then l am not aware of it, nor would l support it. My support is > merely for his statements that warn about a deviance in our religion. if > infact there is evidence or information to show that this is why Fatty is > after the Ahmadiyya, then why is this information not put forward by those > opposing Fatty's stance on this issue? Rather, all l have read are statements > regarding the public service that the Ahmadiyya have done in Gambia. Now if > that information were to be brought forward and substanciated, then l would > look at his position regarding this issue as being motivated by a personal > agenda. Does anyone have some concrete evidence regarding this? > > Jabou > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L > Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------