Re: On Swedish TV last night : Nigeria : Foreign Office : Save the Christians
Cornelius Hamelberg
Hopefully, His Excellency Ambassador BB Hamman, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Sweden will surely dispel any lingering doubts that there is no Genocide of Christians in Nigeria…
US President Donald Trump threatens to enter Nigeria with "guns drawn" and claims that a genocide of Christians is taking place there, after the country has been rocked by a series of attacks and mass kidnappings. And he receives unexpected support from rapper Nicki Minaj. Why is Trump doing this? And what is actually true? In the studio: SVT's incoming US correspondent Sofia Yohannes, Joel Halldorf, professor of church history and Görrel Espelund, editor at the Swedish Institute of Foreign Affairs. Host: Rebecca Randhawa.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
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Cornelius Hamelberg
What says Dr Oohay you about this :
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Re -” Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it…”
Putting it as bluntly as I can, I have never heard or read such arrant nonsense in my life. This turns the whole concept and praxis of ”Might is right” on its head - and you may sit tight comfortably over there and exclaim Heil Hitler because we have Donald John Trump over there, giddy with being USA’s prissy pressy and although he does not drink al-cohol he is visibly drunk not with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues as the apostles were thought to have been on the Day of Pentecost; in Trump’s case he is indeed visibly drunk, intoxicated with the power of chaos, of course, being such an egomaniac, others says such a narcissist, he’s drunk with power alright and wants more - What we Say Goes! - wannabe wants to be executive emperor and strongman of the world’s greatest super military power and not USA’s freewheeling super executive clown that struts and frets his hour upon the stage -the world stage
As Pope advised ( An Essay on Criticism)
Senor Trump is still drinking deep and still not sober yet; he intends to “drink life to the lees”. He does not want to be impeached. Certainly not. Perfidy Treason and Blasphemy - an unholy three, and, as a Christian, he prays “and deliver us from evil” - he would see his own impeachment as indeed very evil, even treason, and every day he prays for the eternal life that he hopes comes after his death and resurrection, but whilst still surviving six feet above sheol he also prays for everlasting presidential immunity and immunity from any future prosecution for crimes against humanity to be etched non-violently as one of his many desirable executive privileges enshrined in the amended US Constitution.
The powers that be in Sierra Leone happily testify that “ Power Sweet” - exactly what Trump also thinks, and his buddy, not Epstein, but Bobby Dylan it was that once either crowed or lamented in Union Sundown
“Democracy don’t rule the world
You’d better get that in your head
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that’s better left unsaid”
Take a closer look at the content of those lyrics ( of Union Sundown) and you’ll see how they have impacted Trump’s thinking most profoundly.
Not so long ago it was a beam of revolutionary hope in the person of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who resonated with people of the so called third world, people that Trump does not want emigrating to “his” county - Trump himself a descendant of immigrants whose violence exterminated most of the original Native American people, placing their survivors not in concentration camps but in so called “reservations” and thereby creating what they refer to as their success story, the United States of America. Naturally, with such a background with that kind of colonial mentality Trump sees himself as a champion of colonial history, of settler colonisation and of course of his slowly evolving policy of White Supremacy of the type that he and Hitler also visibly embraced - it's therefore no wonder that Trump would like to build a few Trump Towers, Towers of Babylon, Riviera Hotels, Nightclubs and Gambling Casinos according to his visions of his New Nevada to replace the lives and the ruins of what he believes was once known as Gaza…
I have it on the authority of nearly all the Iraqi Christians that I have met here in Sweden, including some Armenian Christians who were living in Iraq at the time, that Iraq’s Christians loved Saddam Hussein
What’s the current situation of Syria's Christians, in Syria ? Does Trump care?
Re - “The claim of genocide against Christians in Naija may or may not be true”
I’d say, very confidently that on a Federal level, the claim of genocide of Christians is absolutely false. The killings and church arson have been concentrated in a few areas of conflict and internecine ethnic, economic and social relations between Christians and Muslims, Muslims and Christians, and others, mostly in Nigeria’s North and Middle Belt.
Once upon a time in Nigeria, there were the pogroms against the Igbos, in the aftermath of the January 15, 1966 coup. Since then , and particularly not now, there has not been and there cannot be said to be an ongoing systematic, and exclusive targeting of those known to be Christians with the express purpose of exterminating them because of their religious identity…
Just ask any Sierra Leonean: In Sierra Leone, there is no religion problem and I’m sure that on the whole it’s harmonious peace and love relations within the Yoruba family in which half the Yoruba people are Christians ,the other half are Muslims and not so long ago all the Yoruba people adhered strongly to their deep traditional religious roots, the essence, and inseparable from the wrap and woof of Yoruba culture
The much needed Christian -Muslim rapprochement could be greatly enhanced if only we could foster some knowledge of what Islam says about Christianity -that Islam is not an enemy of Christianity, and that in fact the essential difference can be summarised in Surah Ikhlas ( Sincerity/ The Unity ) Chapter 112 of the Quran -
dogmatically, strictly monotheistic and that God does not beget children does not incarnate and did not incarnate as Jesus or anyone else
Quran (Pickthall translation)