tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25105720905034704072024-03-17T20:03:20.419-07:00YEMMYnistingProudly Feminist, Proudly Bisexual, Proudly Atheist!Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-59072644489220772262013-05-02T17:51:00.000-07:002013-05-02T17:52:43.254-07:00This blog has moved to the Freethought blogs network, do join me there! <span class="userContent"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;">IMPORTANT NOTICE</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I
often receive some very ignorant comments from believers, mostly Nigerian Christians
who pompously inform me that I am going to burn in hell for not accepting Jesus Christ as my
personal savior. They claim if I do not stop campaigning for equal rights for
all, which basically mean, I should stop the ‘gay agenda’ of promoting lesbians,
gays , bisexuals and transsexuals as PERSONS entitled to human rights, <span> </span>I will feel the wrath of their <span> </span>all merciful, all loving but obviously vengeful
and insecure in his sexuality God. Oh, how they love calling me a fool because their
precious bible claim anyone one who says there is no God is a fool. But I must
say, this comment on my fb wall by a deluded Christian is a prime example of
just how stupid many Nigerian Christians are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“<span style="color: red;">Yemisi
Ilesanmi the anti Christ. I am sure that you are a vessel of the devil in this
end time but we are specially annoited and commissioned to frustrate and fail
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Ok,
let’s forget that he got the spelling of ‘anointed’ wrong, although that is quite
funny because that word is always on the lips of Nigerian Christians, e.g. “I am
anointed” , “anointing fall on me” and the very popular “You don buy your anointing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“<span style="color: red;">Yemisi
Ilesanmi the anti Christ.</span>”- </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Who
in their right <span style="font-size: large;">mind</span> still call people ‘Antichrist’? If<span>, </span>not accepting your blue eyed, blonde, sexy Jew, hang<span style="font-size: large;">ing</span> half naked on a cross on your neck, makes me an Anti Christ, are the over 5 billion human inhabitants of this planet earth who are not Christians also
Anti Christ? <span> </span>Are we all going to burn in
hell for not worshiping your God? You cannot use the word anti Christ and
expect any intelligent person to take you seriously. You really come across as
the epitome of stupid when you accuse someone of being an ‘anti Christ’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span> </span>“<span style="color: red;">I am sure that you are a vessel of the devil in
this end time</span>”- Really, Vessel of the devil? <span> </span>Na locomotive, manual or electronically
operated Vessel? Leave it to Nigerian Christians who are yet to free themselves
from mental slavery to use such description. <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">And
this “end times” scary business, has it not always been end times? <span> </span>If you truly believe you are living in end
times wouldn’t you move into a monastery or church to avoid <span> </span>temptations and wait for the rapture? Or don’t
you want to ascend into heaven with your darling lover, the sexy Jesus Christ? <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">You
scream it is end times because some people say your God is only a figment of
your deluded and colonized imagination. You think because gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and transsexuals are demanding the same right you enjoy as a citizen,
it must be end times. You believe legalizing same sex marriage is a sign of the
end times. Funny, but did you not know that Jesus had two daddies? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Yes
Jesus daddies were your precious God and the poor carpenter, Joseph, who had his fiancé
raped and impregnated by Holy Ghost. Well, Jesus turned out fine except for
that period when he thought he was, you know, the son of the creator of the universe,
although, in all fairness, he was quite confused. One minute he said he was the
son, then the next he said he was both the son and the father, you know, that
holy trinity shitty business, where your precious Jesus is his own father, impregnated
his own mother to give birth to himself, so that he could save your unborn ass
from the sins he claimed your white ancestors committed in a garden of Eden
where snakes used to talk.<span> </span>What a story!
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">You
do not think teaching such fables as facts in our public schools is the sign of
‘end <span> </span>times’, but telling you that this
story was the frenzied imagination of some dessert dwelling men and the people
who colonized you is? Really, how much more stupid can you be?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<span style="color: red;">but we are specially annoited and commissioned to frustrate
and fail you</span>” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Now,
this is the epitome of the stupidity of your average Nigerian Christian. Of all
the imaginary anointing possible, this one is proud to be "anointed and commissioned to frustrate
and fail” Yemisi Ilesanmi, and he is so proud of it too! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">He
was not anointed to heal the world, to find a cure for cancer, to end poverty,
he was not even anointed to fight Boko Haram <span>that are </span>slaughtering his fellow Christians but he is
proud to proclaim that his special anointing is to “frustrate and fail” Yemisi
Ilesanmi the “anti Christ”. Even your God must think you are a moron if, of all
the responsibilities in the world, that is the anointing he chose to give you! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">What
is so pathetic is that, this is the type of mindset that allows a rich country
like Nigeria to spiral downhill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">While
the fanatic islamist Boko Haram go on the streets to slaughter Christians and
innocent people to earn 72 virgins in heaven and <span style="font-size: large;">score</span> a point in the name of
their pedophile prophet, the average Nigerian Christian is content to bask in
the delusion of a special anointing. They are content to buy anointing oil from
their pastors vineyard, pay their pastors to turn the oil into some magic portion,<span> </span>dab it on their forehead and pronto, that is
their armour against bullets, accidents, corrupt government, rising
unemployment, poverty and their evil step mother. <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Even
the foreign missionaries that brought Christianity to Africa knew that they had
to invade with weapons and devise ways to hijack the land and cart off many
able-bodied Africans into slavery. They did not just rely on anointing oil;
they created their anointing oil in the form of superior physical weaponry, not
some imaginary floating skydaddy. Lazy Nigerian Christians still do not
understand how the game is played. They are content to sit in their corner of
the world and sigh “God is in control”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Nigerian
Christians bask in the euphoria of a special anointing, with a big ego that
makes them feel they are special because they have Jesus. They brandish the
bible like some sort of talisman to ward off so called ‘evil spirits’. <span> </span>Don’t they even know that the bible says they
are inferior beings and the very blackness of their skin, a curse? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">And
for the women who sing their heart out in church and dance like their life
depends on it, did they ever read the part that says they are subhuman, not equal
to a man and must not speak in public? Really, how stupid do you look preaching
and praising a book that claim you are less than equal to another human being?</span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Now,
to go back to this anointing business, if a Boko Haram member left a message on
the wall of a Christian that he is specially anointed and <span style="font-size: large;">commissioned</span> to frustrate and fail the
Christian, won’t it be seen as a terrorist act? Won’t other Christians cry out
and demand that the state protect them from this fanatic Islamist? Why then is
it acceptable for Christians to send such ‘threatening’ messages to atheists? <span> </span>Double standards? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Wait
a minute, could it be that everyone suspects that the average Nigerian
Christian is just as useless as they come.<span>
</span>Maybe even deep down the Christian knows there is nothing like a ‘special
anointing’. This special anointing business is just a cover for their
helplessness, a fear they are not willing to face, since the thought of a
superman or skydaddy figure watching over them from the clouds, shields them
from facing the harsh realities of the world they live in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">But
the tragedy is, even if the special anointing of this religitard Christian is a figment
of the imagination. Although, for now, he is not actively throwing stones and bombs at 'antichrists',
there are many other ways these Christians harm non believers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Take
for instance; what if I happened to be at the mercy of this guy who thinks his special
anointing is to frustrate and fail me. What if this guy is my boss, would my
employment still be secured? What if I had a job interview and this guy seats
at the other end, do you honestly think he would recommend me for the job even
if I met all the criteria? What if I was homeless, hungry and dying, do you
think this guy who claims his special anointing is to frustrate and fail me
would offer a hand of help?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span> </span>If he did offer help, you can be sure that it
would come with a condition attached, and of course that condition would be
that I first accept Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior. <span> </span>Of course, you can be sure that he would give me
a lecture on how all my travails are a backlash from my mocking Jesus and
saying there is no <span style="font-size: large;">G</span>od. He would be so pleased to tell me that all my
calamities are God’s ways of showing me his supremacy as he is ‘Papa God’, the
lord of the universe, he who must not be mocked. Really, what person of ethics,
with an iota of morality rejoices at the misfortunes of others and claims it is
God’s way of showing his superiority. It takes a special brand of stupid to
find joy in such dastardly acts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Now,
the point is, even though the average Nigerian Christian does not have the
conviction of his religion to go out there and throw stones and bombs at the
antichrists, there are many other ways your average Nigerian christian terrorizes
those who do not share their faith. They economically disempower, politically
castrate and socially estrange atheists. These are all acts of terrorism. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Nigerian Christian terrorism is when
thousands of church goers watch and applaud their pastor as he <a href="http://youtu.be/sfoIfbZF4JA" target="_blank">publicly slaps a defenseless young girl</a> whom he accuses of witchcraft. Christian terrorism is
when Catholic Popes and priests cover up the rape of altar boys. Terrorism is when you send
atheists threatening messages or refuse to employ an atheist even when they are
qualified for the job. Religion terrorism is when you oppose public
appointments of atheists because they do not share your faith.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">The
average Nigerian religious retard would definitely not vote for an atheist even
if the atheist would help grow the economy, fight poverty, ensure stable power
supply, improve national security and provide employment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he many stupid
Nigerian Christians are more concerned about their special anointing to frustrate
and fail the anti Christ who demand for equal rights for gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and transsexuals. They are not concerned about devising practical
means to change their oppressive government whose policies are responsible for
the hardships that is frustrating this one life they have. While everything
around them falls apart, they are content to dream of a better world somewhere
in the clouds even though none of them want to die, heck, none of them even want
the rapture to happen. <span> </span>Really, why are
so many Nigerian Christians so stupid? <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiia4gIG2aUdsqADYfKvimEhZm_KIdOfzs3hhg4IGRW9RjRRAhKq6P9rDDSVAdokl0f4xI3J5pjRZ_J3CYZsfYri_JKg-hfKF_sY4rIYLmoy9O3hUE9Ft0f4h3UqIQKBgGKxZLdX52sM/s1600/SDC14317.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiia4gIG2aUdsqADYfKvimEhZm_KIdOfzs3hhg4IGRW9RjRRAhKq6P9rDDSVAdokl0f4xI3J5pjRZ_J3CYZsfYri_JKg-hfKF_sY4rIYLmoy9O3hUE9Ft0f4h3UqIQKBgGKxZLdX52sM/s400/SDC14317.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A
woman’s body seems to be the one thing everyone wants to control. Country, religion
or even gender is not a barrier, everyone wants to tell a woman what to do with
her body and that include her fellow women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No surprise there, even ‘gods’ seems obsessed with women, but really
what is this growing trend about women who should know better, telling other
women what to do with their hair and/or skin? Why are many black women focused
on controlling other sisters’ body, hair and skin? What is all this talk about black
African women accusing other black sisters of not being African enough because
of their choice of hair style or body cream? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Since
the craze for Brazilian weaves, Chinese weaves and even human hair amongst
black African women, with a large demand from Nigerian women, many African men
and some women have come out to condemn this as a sign of inferiority complex. It
is becoming mundane to come across yet another post from fellow women and some
self-styled ‘Real Africans’, questioning the choice of black women who use
chemicals on their hair or skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Recently,
there was a furore when a respected, award winning female novelist of Nigerian
origin was ‘mis’ quoted as saying. <i>“</i><span class="usercontent"><i>African women
wearing artificial hair attachments have low self esteem and inferiority complex”.</i>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am glad that she didn’t use the words
attributed to her but even the words she used are not totally free from
the <i>“If you do not do it this way, you have some underlying issues and therefore
not a real African woman”</i> tone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To quote
her: “<i>For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is
unbearable”</i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sentiments like these are unfortunately gaining grounds
amongst black women. It is no longer surprising to read such comments from
female friends on facebook newsfeeds and even amongst a few male atheists, some
of whom confuse non belief in God with a condemnation of colonialism, rejection
of its Abrahamic God and so called ‘western values’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Of
course some of us find the idea of wearing our hair the natural way
‘unbearable’. No, this has nothing to do with inferiority complex or self esteem,
it is just that for some African women, leaving our hair the natural way causes
headache. If only I had a penny for the number of times women have said that
when they start having headaches, they know it is time to bring out the relaxer
and retouch their natural hair underneath their weave on! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Also,
some of us do not have fond memories of plaiting our hair. As a young school
girl, I used to dread going to the local hairdresser, which btw is not a fancy
hair salon, but just a woman down the street with a stool, and a queue of young
school girls waiting to braid their hair in the style chosen for the week by
their schools. Flashbacks of being squeezed between the laps of the hair stylist
and my head forced under the sometimes smelly thighs of the ‘onidiri’ do not
invoke good memories. I also remember tears falling down my face because plaiting natural hair could be painful. As
soon as I had a choice, I decided to do away with plaiting my hair and
immediately settled for ‘punky’ low cuts in high school. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Yes, some of us find plaiting our natural hair
“unbearable”, not because we hate it or its ‘Africaness’, but because the hard
texture often makes plaiting our hair physically unbearable. Of course,
strengthening it with chemicals makes it less painful to plait. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even now, I wouldn’t dream of braiding my hair
without first applying relaxer to the hair undergrowth, to not do that would be
pure torture! Men who really don’t know a shit about women’s hair should shut
the fuck up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Women
who are advocates of natural hair should stress the importance of choice. Natural
hair might be your pet project, do not present it as anything more than that,
it is a matter of individual choice. You would be bigoted to present it as a
right or wrong thing; opinions are a dime a many, stop forcing your opinions
down the throat of others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
must confess that I am not a fan of weaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All that weaving and plaiting gives me headache. Also, I like to run my
fingers through my hair and be able to feel my scalp; this wouldn’t be possible
if I had weave on, as the tight cornrows, plaits and added weave covers the
scalps. I am a ‘braid’ person, I find that long braids satisfies me in more ways than one. OK, I have a fetish
for sensuous long dreadlocks in men and women! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However,
I find it hypocritical that some black women condemn other black women for
wearing weaves. You claim any African woman who wears weaves is suffering from
low self esteem and not a real African, yet you make this claim while batting
your false eye lashes, clawing with your fake nails, standing menacingly
in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your high heels, your pouting lips
covered in red lipstick and your heaving boobs heavily supported by a Victoria
secret bra. In what universe are these accessories African? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
hypocrisy surrounding the condemnation of skin lightening.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">While
some black women vociferously defend the use of weaves, they however have no
qualms about condemning black women who tones, lightens or bleach their skin.
They gleefully accuse such women of suffering from inferiority complex. They
claim that black women who use lightening creams hate being African. Basically,
they throw the same words used against the use of weaves to condemn the use of
skin lightening creams. Even though they reject and speak against using such
condemnations to refer to women who use weaves, they have no qualms about throwing
same words at black women who use lightening creams. Sounds like double
standards to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those claims are in
most cases absurd and definitely constitute a fallacy of generalization. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about white people who tan their skin or
use tanning lotions to have a darker skin tone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are they suffering from inferiority complex from nonexistent black
colonialists? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Very
high percentage of African women uses lightening creams. The use varies from mild
toning to heavy ‘bleaching’ which I’d rather refer to as ‘skin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lightening’ due to the derogatory and
offensive meaning the word “bleaching’ has acquired within the black community.
We must understand that people have a right over their body; they have the
autonomy to choose how they want to treat their body. We might not like their
choice, but it is their body. Yes, using lightening creams have side effects;
it isn’t the healthiest choice out there. But then, so do smoking, drinking
alcohol, constant consumption of fatty foods, fizzy drinks, wearing high heels
and having consensual unprotected sexual intercourse. When adults make choices
that do not harm others, we really should learn to keep our opinion to
ourselves unless asked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Many
who condemn women who use lightening creams have little or no regard for the
women’s health; they are just interested in forcing their unsolicited and
unprofessional opinion down the throat of others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are more concerned about expressing their
half baked, psychoanalysis of the reasons they think the stranger they do not
know is using skin lightening creams or wearing weaves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">There
are cases where black men use skin lightening creams and those men do not have
it easier. Recently, a colleague mentioned how he threatened to throw out a male friend who suddenly started lightening
his skin. He speculated that the friend must have started using lightening cream
because he was new in UK, had a white male lover whose family was not accepting
of him and therefore must have felt he needed to lighten his skin so he can be
accepted by his white lover’s family. I wondered if he actually asked the friend
why he chose to use lightening skin before coming to his personal conclusions.
Even if the friend made his choice to lighten his skin for whatever reason(s),
why threaten to throw him out for a choice he made? As a fellow lgbt rights
advocate, I had to remind him about the right to choose, tolerance and
acceptance. Imposing your views on another especially when their choice does
not harm anyone is indeed another form of oppression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is sad that people who know what it is like
to be oppressed do not check their own privilege meter when they oppress
others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: red;">Who
is a Real African?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This
obsession with who is a real African woman seems to know no bounds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where exactly do we draw the line? Who defines
who is a real African? At what point do we draw the boundary? When do we admit
that adult human beings have a choice to do whatever they like with their body
whether or not we agree with their choice? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">African
men who claim African women should not wear weaves-on should ask themselves why
they wear three piece suits and don ties in tropical weathers
especially in hot climes like Nigeria. You sweat like a Christmas goat under
your suits, yet you had the audacity to say an African woman who wears weaves or
lightens her skin suffers from colonial induced inferiority complex. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When next you want to condemn a woman for
wearing weaves or lightening her skin, think of how you smoke your cigarettes
nonstop even though you’ve been shown the damage smoking does to your
lung. Ask yourself how you would feel if someone accused you of smoking because
you have inferiority complex and only wants to be like the Europeans who
brought cigarettes to your colonized land. Does smoking cigarettes mean you suffer
from inferiority complex?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does it mean
you are not a real African man? After all, your forefathers didn’t smoke
cigarettes; they snuffed ‘tabba’, why not go back to snuffing ‘tabba’, just to
show you are a real African man. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You
drink beer and boast about your champagne collections, but you steer clear of
your forefathers palm wine and ‘burukutu’ yet you stand there with your glass
of foreign wine in hand, accusing women who wear weaves or lighten their skin,
of wanting to be like Europeans. Is your beer, wine and champagne an African
thing? You should know that your alcohol is not just only dangerous to your
health but also likely to harm others when you are in an alcohol induced state,
this is far worse than any harm weaves or skin lightening could cause. Whatever
makes you think you can stand in judgment of the non harmful choice of others?<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">You worship foreign Gods and have pictures of a blue eyed, blonde
white man hanging on your wall, neck while you firmly clutch the image of a
pale ‘Holy Mary’ as if your very life depends on it, yet you accuse black women
who wear weaves and use lightening creams of not behaving like real Africans
and of wanting to be like Europeans. Why don't you first remove the log in your
eyes before you attempt to remove the speck in the eyes of another?</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">There
are white women who wear their hairs in braids and cornrows; do they also
suffer from low self-esteem and inferiority complex? Many <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>women regardless of skin colour, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wear hair attachments. Even to make the many
African braids styles, you need hair attachments. Some African women also wear
very short weaves, it is not about wanting long flowing Brazilian or Chinese
hair. It is about convenience and what suits one at a particular time or for
all time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">My
hair is not your political statement <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I once dated a much older gentleman who was an ardent pan-Africanist, he wanted me to change my hairstyle to ‘Shuku’, a popular hairstyle amongst Nigerian
women and Yoruba goddesses. I made it clear that unless I was contesting for
Miss Osun state or the ‘Arogba’ of Osun river (which wouldn’t happen even if there
was a hell that could freeze over), I wouldn’t plait my hair in shuku! Looking
at his pleading eyes, I realized it was his way of projecting his sexual
fantasy on me. He was just another male who wanted to use a woman to fulfill
his sexual fantasy. As a pan Africanist, his sexual fantasy most probably does not
evolve around Barbie dolls but around a curvy, African woman who looks and
dresses like an African female deity! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But
the thing is, it does not matter whether the man or woman directly or
indirectly coercing me to conform to their peculiar sexual fantasy is African, European,
or Asian, coercion is coercion, regardless of the gender or colour of the
perpetrator. Nobody should be made to live as an object to fulfill the sexual
desires or sense of righteousness of others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Black
woman hair is unfortunately seen most often as a political statement. Anyone,
be it black or white, can make a statement with their hair. Some lgbt advocates
dye their hair the rainbow colour to make a political statement, “we are lgbt and
proud”. But sometimes, it is just about having fun. I used to think dreadlocks
was about making a political statement, a symbol against oppression because I
was influenced by great stars who had luscious dreadlocks like the legendary
Bob Marley and super talented, beautiful musician, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tracy Chapman. When I started braiding my hair
in dreadlocks style, I’d say every strand of my hair stands for struggle against
oppression. But then, I broadened my horizon, and met people with dreadlocks
that never cared for political ideology. Dreadlocks to them, was not a political thing
but something they were born with or just the latest craze in town. Not every
hairstyle of a black person is a political statement. We have the right to have
fun with our hair without any political or spiritual undertone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do not berate other women for their lifestyle
choice. We should learn to respect the right of adults to make decisions about
their own bodies. Before you make that snide remark about a black woman’s hair
or skin, check your bigotry, ignorance and definitely check your privilege.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Always
remember: My Body, My Choice, My Right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Premium Times headline of March 18, 2013, <a href="http://premiumtimesng.com/news/125432-jonathan-pardons-homosexual-rapist-triggering-fresh-controversy.html">“</a><a href="http://premiumtimesng.com/news/125432-jonathan-pardons-homosexual-rapist-triggering-fresh-controversy.html">Jonathan pardons homosexual rapist, triggering fresh controversy”</a> smirks of ignorance and irresponsible journalism. President Goodluck Jonathan did not pardon a homosexual; he pardoned a RAPIST who is also a PEDOPHILE. Why do people keep confusing homosexuality with rape and pedophilia?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Homosexuality is CONSENSUAL ADULT same-sex relationship, what has that got to do with sex under duress with under aged, which the facts of Bello Magaji case showed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Magaji, a former military police officer attached to the Lagos Garrison Command, was convicted for serial homosexual intercourse with four students of the Army Cantonment Boys Secondary School in Ojo Cantonment in Lagos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rape is the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. There is nothing known as HOMOSEXUAL RAPE, Rape is rape, the gender of the perpetrator or victim has nothing to do with it. Gender or sexual orientation is not the factor that determines if you had been sexually harassed or molested; lack of consent is the decisive factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sexual Orientation i.e. Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Pansexuality or Heterosexuality has nothing to do with sexual harassment. If anyone grabs your ass in public or even in private without your consent, it does not matter whether the person is heterosexual or homosexual; it is sexual harassment and assault. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pedophilia is the act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children. What connection (if at all) do consenting same-sex adults who want to live their lives together have with a pedophile? None whatsoever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The facts of the case spoke of how Mr. Magaji intoxicated the young men, all from poor background, with alcohol, making them dizzy and then forcing them to have homosexual intercourse. He would then offer them token financial inducement to meet family obligations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he Supreme Court report narrated<span style="font-size: large;">,<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span><i>"The common evidence of Emmanuel and Joseph is that they were asked to drink a bottle each of small stout which intoxicated them; it was in their state of intoxication that the appellant performed the dirty act of sodomy on Emmanuel, and others</i>"<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>The Court report offers, in many of its lines, chilling narratives of Mr. Magaji as a sex pervert.”<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is no heterosexual rape, homosexual rape or Bisexual rape, rape is rape. Why on earth would this be referred to as homosexual rape? <span style="font-size: large;"></span>Please let Nigerians educate themselves, in my book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1481864815">‘Freedom To Love ForALL: Homosexuality is Not Un-African</a>' (available on Amazon), I explained the difference between homosexuality, rape, pedophilia and bestiality. I’d recommend the book to every Nigerian.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, Nigeria judiciary should wake up from its Stone Age approach to issues of sexual orientation. In 2008, the Supreme Court in their appeal ruling in the case of Mr Mogaji, characterized homosexuality as a “beastly, barbaric and bizarre offence.” A panel of five Justices lead by Justice Niki Tobi subsequently threw out the appeal of the former military police major and affirmed his five-year jail term. The Supreme Court justices should have made it clear the case was not that of homosexuality but of rape and pedophilia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Justice Niki Tobi , in his judgement said “Carnal knowledge with the male sex is against the order of nature and here, nature should mean God and not just the generic universe that exists independently of mankind or people.” The order of nature is “carnal knowledge with the female sex” he argued in the judgement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nigerian judges and lawmakers need to take their religion and God(s) out of our courtrooms and chambers. There should be total separation of state and religion, quoting from your holy books when delivering judgments or making laws, belongs to the dark ages. Your religion is not my law. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This tacit support of Sodomy law is indeed what is bizarre. They need to take a lesson from their counterparts in South Africa!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Justice Albie Sachs of South Africa said in ‘National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another v Minister of Justice and Others’ – </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The invalidation of anti-sodomy laws will mark an important moment in the maturing of an open democracy based on dignity, freedom and equality. As I have said, our future as a nation depends in large measure on how we manage difference. In the past difference has been experienced as a curse, today it can be seen as a source of interactive vitality. The Constitution acknowledges the variability of human beings (genetic and socio-cultural), affirms the right to be different, and celebrates the diversity of the nation.</i>" (CCT11/98) [1998] ZACC 15; 1999 (1) SA 6; 1998 (12) BCLR 1517 (9 October 1998)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">It is indeed sad that most
Nigerians are more horrified about the thought of two adult guys having
consensual sex than the thought of an adult person intoxicating, raping and
taking advantage of a child.</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>In this horrifying case of gross
child abuse, all they see is homosexuality. They are not even bothered about
the rape<span style="font-size: large;"> or child abuse, </span>just the thought of same-sex persons having<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>sexual intercourse<span style="font-size: large;">, be it</span> consensual or non
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I hope Nigerians and the international community see this for what it really is; a presidential pardon of a rapist and pedophile, homosexuality has no business in that headline. Sensational journalism, especially at the expense of a vulnerable group of people should be condemned. </span></div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-40437150885588399362013-03-17T18:41:00.001-07:002013-03-17T18:50:39.221-07:00In defense of “My Oga At The Top”<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>or
goodness sake what is all this hullaballoo about the ‘My Oga at the top’
interview? I have read the many reports and jokes on it, and for the life of
me, I still don’t get what is so funny about it that they have to make a
national mockery of the man.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Why
are Nigerians whipping themselves into a viral frenzy because a senior public
official did not know the web address of his organization when asked during an
interview?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I mean, T-Shirts, viral
videos, music remixes to mock the man and endlessly harassing his family
members online just because he did not instantly provide the web address of his
organization? It wasn’t even as if he did not know it at all, at least he mentioned
half of it, which actually is the most significant part i.e. www.nscdc. Anyone who seriously needs to check out
the website knows Nigerian government official websites usually end in .gov.ng.
It is not even as if there is constant electricity to enable one visit websites
in Naija. Last time I was in Nigeria, I
couldn’t even make a single blogpost because it took forever for my blog to
load!</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I
think this bullying of this unfortunate man is just hypocrisy on the part of
many Nigerians. Some claimed it is not just about him not knowing the web
address of his organization, but about him calling his boss “My Oga at the top”?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">But
really, what is so shocking about a Nigerian calling his ‘oga’ erm… sorry,
boss, ‘<span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y <span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ga at the top’?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Truly,
I am baffled by all this melodrama, it seems to me like Nigerians would seize
at any opportunity to try and forget the hardships in their life by focusing on
inconsequential things. And most times, Nigerians <span style="font-size: large;">pounce</span> on vulnerable preys to
make a meal of<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> just to forget their own miserable existence. The famous ‘suffering and smiling’ song of late
abami eda, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, comes to mind here.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Ok,
let’s look at this again. The man said “My Oga at the top” during a TV
interview conducted in Nigeria by Nigerian journalists, for a Nigerian audience.
Since when is ‘my oga at the top’ an alien language Naijas do not understand?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Speaking
from personal experience, for a decade, I was an Assistant Secretary of the
then progressive, respected labour organisation, Nigerian Labour congress. And
for about 6 years out of these 10 years, I was Executive Assistant to the then
Nigeria Labor Congress president, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who is presently a
second term governor of Edo state. Staff members usually call him Pressi or Oga.
My late comrade, Olaitan oyerinde, who was his Special Assistant alongside his
duty post as International officer of the congress, also used to call him “oga”.
Whenever we were discussing him or making his itinerary, we would say things
like ‘You know pressi no go like that”, or “Oga dey office?’ Even long after he
was elected governor, I still called him Pressi<span style="font-size: large;">. </span>More than 90% of the staff refers to him as Oga, and that tradition
still extends to the present president. Would it really be so shocking if one
of the senior staff members in a relaxed interview referred to him as “My Oga”?
Would that necessitate a viral online attack and a <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">call that the person be</span></span> relieved of dut<span style="font-size: large;">ies</span>?
Would that necessitate being suspended or sacked from duty? Truly Nigerians, I
am struggling to understand the rationale behind the attack!</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Why
is a Nigerian official referring to his boss as “My Oga at the top” now a case
of bully and harassment? I recollect that even comrade Adams Oshiomhole used to
joke and refer to me as “My Oga” whenever we attend International Trade Union
Congress meetings because I was the Chairperson of the ITUC Youth committee and
also a Vice president of ITUC. At the international arena, I was his “Oga” and
he would say that even during NEC meetings. So what really is the big deal
about someone saying “My Oga at the top” on a Nigerian TV interview?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Is
it really a case of inefficiency as so many are now touting it to be? Just a
few days ago in London, I attended an event where three diplomats from Nigeria,
Kenya and Ghana were the plenary speakers. While the representatives of Ghanaian
and Kenyan ambassadors answered their questions without much palaver, the Nigerian
ambassador representative was busy praising his ‘Oga at the top’ although the
question he was asked had nothing to do with praise singing. When he was called out on his asslicking hypocrisy,
he turned very aggressive, which of course is typical Naija behavior to cover
ignorance. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Anyway, that man is still our representative at the Nigerian embassy
in London, he was a total disgrace at the event and there are many more like
him in power. They are political appointees benefiting from the decaying nature
of our rotten democracy. At least if we
wanted to make a case sample of inefficiency by making someone a scapegoat,
there are many that would fit the bill. Why go after a man who really has not
committed any serious blunder in this particular case?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Also,
many Nigerian women refer to their husbands as “My Oga” which is basically an
endearing term. I never liked the term “Oga” when used to refer to a partner. I
understand the power of language and how subconsciously we start believing and
internalizing words which we normalize through everyday use. I have no problem
using “Oga” to describe my immediate boss because after all, ‘oga’ in Naija
parlance means ‘boss’ in English language.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Also,
when Naija men want to take style find out whether you don marry or still dey
single, they would say stupid things like “Your Oga dey try o, see as you dey
shine” or “How your oga?” Most often than not, I give such people an icy stare
that says “How much more stupid can you get”? Trust Naija guys to make retorts
like “Rude girl, no wonder you never marry” and /or “who wan marry you sef, you
think say I wan toast you?” Lol!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Anyway,
not to digress too much, abeg, why una dey hang this man because him no know
the full name of his organization’s website and for calling his boss “My Oga”? The<span style="font-size: large;"> irony</span> is that many of those laughing at him can<span style="font-size: large;">'t even</span> construct a flawless
sentence in English language, just check out their nefarious comments on
facebook, twitter and naija gossip blogs.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Seriously
I would be surprised if 85% of senior officials in Nigeria know their
organizations’ website <span style="font-size: large;">address</span>. Abeg, ask the Nigerian ambassador to UK what is
the High commissions’ web address, I’d
really be surprised if he got it right. This is not just about public
officials, even within the private sectors in Nigeria, the ‘Ogas’ do not bother
with the IT section of their organizations, that is why they hire IT personnel mostly
young guys (ladies hardly get IT jobs in Nigeria) to design the website and
tweet to the world about their services. The real ‘Ogas’ have no time to seat
on the internet facebooking, tweeting and posting on websites, they are too
busy negotiating contracts and bringing in money to pay salaries. In most cases
the first and last time most of them saw their official website was when the
smart guy who suggested the website idea to ‘Oga at the top’ got the fat
contract to develop the site (but commissioned an IT geek whom he paid a meager
sum to do the job) finally showed the oga the finished product, with special
focus on ‘Oga’s’ picture in his flowing Agbada and owambe cap, occupying half
of the website page.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> Abeg Nigerians, stop your hypocrisy, websites
is not that big a deal in Nigeria, especially with the older generation and organizations.
The older generation is not obsessed with online usage as the younger
generation. This is one reason why most offices have young people managing
their IT departments. This does not mean the geeks get to be Head of Public Relations
overnight; you leave that to the old guys/gals who have paid their dues and earned their <span style="font-size: large;">promotions</span>. Of course I know in Niaja, it is the case of ‘who
you sabi’, which is unfortunate, but truly, you do not just come out of school
to be H.O.D of a public or even private organization, you’ve got to work
through the ranks and garner the necessary experience, and in some cases, kiss
some ass. The older generations who have worked and served their way to the top
are struggling to fit into this internet age. It does not mean because they do
not speak the ‘dot.com’ language or tweet like a bird, they are useless to their
motherland.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I
know that there are groups whose members do not know their
organizations websites name by heart. There are organizations websites that I
actually designed myself but whenever I want to send the name out for
reference, I <span style="font-size: large;">counter-check</span> to make sure I have not made any mistake in the name
I typed out. So really Nigerians, why are you getting all twisted over this non-issue
and making a big deal out of it? Are you so short of fun and laughter in your life
that you had to pick on a man to collectively bully and make fun of?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Bullies
are basically emotional cowards and one thing I know for sure is that many
Nigerians are not just hypocrites they are also emotional cowards. Stop being a
bully, just grow up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"> Sexuality rights remain a
controversial issue in many parts of Africa; it is not just a controversial
issue but also a taboo subject.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>any countries in Africa still criminalize homosexuality. Sodomy laws remain part of the criminal laws thereby making it
legally possible to persecute sexual minorities. For example Zimbabwe, Kenya,
Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana all have laws under which homosexuality can
be prosecuted. In South Africa, where the constitution recognizes same-sex
relationships, gays and lesbians are often attacked, molested and persecuted
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Many African societies do not provide enabling environments to discuss sexual
orientation issues. Homosexuality has been condemned by many African leaders as
Immoral, Un-African and a 'White man's disease'. </span></span></div>
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In Nigeria, lawmakers are resurrecting a version of a widely condemned
anti-homosexuality bill. Nigerian Lawmakers in a bid to rally popular support
needed a scapegoat and the LGBT community provides an easy target. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">Poverty,
corruption, unemployment, lack of security and the growing menace of Boko Haram
are some of the many problems bedeviling Nigeria as a nation. Rather than focus
on these urgent problems, Nigerian lawmakers decided once again to come in a
'straight' mass orgy of corruption to bully the gay minority; a cause always
guaranteed to provide the otherwise unpopular lawmakers with cheap, majority
support. When will they stop discussing who is sleeping with whom and start
making laws to move this underdeveloped, oil rich nation forward?</span></span></div>
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In the book FREEDOM TO LOVE FOR ALL: Homosexuality is not Un-African, Yemisi
Ilesanmi takes a critical look at Nigeria's 'Jail the Gays' bill. In this
interesting collection of her articles on Nigeria's Same Sex Marriage
Prohibition bill, she makes a brilliant case for LGBT Rights as Human Rights
and effectively debunks the myths surrounding homosexuality in Africa.</span></span></div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmi also raises concern on what she termed 'The deafening silence
of Nigerian Human rights activists on the homophobic bill'. She sheds light on
homophobia in Nigeria and the forces driving the 'Jail the Gays' bill in
Africa.</span></span></div>
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She wrote: "I wonder why it is not considered politically incorrect to ask
if Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals or Transsexuals have equal rights as
heterosexuals. If we are agreed that no one should be discriminated against,
why are we still debating if Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals are
entitled to Human Rights? Last time I checked LGBTs are people too! Well,
debate is good because in some countries like Nigeria, many are yet to be
convinced that Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals are actually human
beings."</span></span></div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmi is an experienced advocate, trade unionist, human rights
activist and a passionate poet. She holds a Masters of Law degree in Gender,
Sexuality and Human Rights.</span></span></div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmi writes and speaks on a range of issues including workers rights,
gender and sexuality issues. She is a passionate campaigner for equal rights,
social justice and poverty alleviation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Since being forced into the unemployment market, I have noticed an increase in people telling me to be thankful to God
that I am still better off than others. Of course they know I am an atheist,
but believers eagerly pounce on any opportunity to tell atheists that 'God' is
great. I have even been told that the rough patch I am going through is God’s
way of showing me he is the Almighty God, and he wants me to recognize it , go
on my knees and accept him as God and only then would he make my path smooth
again. LOL! OK, I won’t even go into the childishness of such a God, the
morality of anyone who thinks such a God deserves to be praised or why God takes on the personality of his believers/creators. That is a
story for another day. Now, let us not divert too much, the topic for today’s
discussion is ‘Why “<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hank God I am still
better off than some” is a selfish prayer and attitude. Here is an analogy to
get us started. </span></span></div>
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a village,<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>lives an all powerful king who has the powers to make all things
happen. He is famed as omnipotent, omniscien<span style="font-size: large;">t</span> and omnipresent, he could grant
every heart desire if he so wished. Villagers often gather in his golden palace
to praise him, pray and give thanks to him.</span></span></div>
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king’s golden palace has many pews; villagers are seated according to their
ranks, with the most favored seating in the first row. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Those
seated in the front pew thank him for the opportunity to cruise in private jets
with him. Since they believe the more you thank him for favours you enjoy, the
more favours you get in return, they also make it a duty to thank him for making them
better off than those in the lower pews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Those
seated in the second pew thank him for the opportunity to go on rides with him
in fancy cars like limousines. They pray that he elevates them to the front pew
so they could cruise with him in private jets. They also thank him for making
them better off than some other villagers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Some
seat on the third row and thank him for the opportunity to walk with him. They
pray that he grants them the chance to ride with him in fancy cars or even fly
with him in private jets. They also thank him for making them better off than
others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Some
seat way behind and thank him for allowing them to have a seat in his presence. They pray that they get to walk with him,
ride with him and fly with him. They also thank him for making them better off
than other villagers behind them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Some
stand with no place to seat. They hustle to catch a glimpse of the great king.
They thank him for at least giving them good pairs of legs to stand in his
magnificent presence. They pray to him to elevate their rank to seat, ride and
fly with him. They also thank him for making them better off than those behind
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Some
crawl to see the all powerful king in his golden palace. They thank him for blessing
them with good eye sight to behold his magnificence. They pray to him to
elevate their rank so they could stand with him, ride with him and fly with him.
They thank him for not making them blind and for being better off than some
others behind them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">And
down and down the rows it goes, with everyone having one thing or the other to <span style="font-size: large;">pray and h<span style="font-size: large;">ope </span>for but</span> never forgetting to thank the all powerful king for making
them better off than someone else down the line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">One
day, there was an accident that involved many of the villagers. Many of them
were affected, some fatally, some very gruesome, some not as gruesome as the
others. The accident had varying effects on the villagers. Someone who was in
the front row was demoted to the fourth row, he could no longer fly with the
all powerful king, he couldn’t ride with him, he couldn’t seat with him but at
least he could still stand and see him, some other person involved in the
accident was not that lucky, he lost his leg, so he could no longer stand on
his feet to see the powerful king. Another one lost his sight, so he could no
longer behold the powerful king, and with the tragedy came demotions to the
back rows. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Suddenly
a villager thought about all the changes and lost opportunities and asked why
they couldn’t just ask their all powerful king who was after all omnipresent, omniscient
and omnipotent to make everyone equal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Why
did there have to be rows in his palace segregating people?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Why
didn’t the king create a palace big enough <span style="font-size: large;">to<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>accommodate everyone equally?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Why
must there be villagers who ride with the all loving king and those who cannot?</span></span></div>
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must the villagers thank this omnipotent God in whatever situation they are in?
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">The
villager with the brain wave explained to everyone that equality would mean the
segregating rows would disappear, everyone gets the same treatment and no one
ever has to be demoted because there won’t be anything known as demotion. Accidents,
economic recession and all other factors that could cause demotions could be
erased with just a click of the king’s omniscient finger. So the villager with
this brain wave wondered aloud why they couldn’t just ask their all omniscient
king to make everyone equal. </span></span></div>
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other villagers were taken aback by this suggestion. They wondered if that
would actually be a good idea. The villager with the brain wave took it further
and wanted to know why other villagers thought it was not a good idea to ask
their all loving king to make everyone equal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Is
it because somehow they love being in the first row? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Is
it that they love the privileges they have over others, because even if they
are just in the third or fourth row, there is still someone they are better off
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Does being 'favoured' somehow gives them a sense of privilege and power, <span style="font-size: large;">which</span> makes the<span style="font-size: large;">m</span>
aspire to be even better off than everyone else? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Is
it that asking the king to make everyone equal would mean the loss of power,
privilege and ego?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Would
it mean the loss of pride they feel at being the most loved favorites of the
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these decent, noble feelings or just selfish feelings? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">The
villager with the brain wave suggested that if all the villagers chose to ask
their king to make everyone equal, no one ever needs fear demotion or accidents
which means everyone gets to benefit from the situation. But the villagers
dismissed his logic as blasphemy and the rants of a fool.</span></span></div>
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input this scenario with religious believers who sincerely believe that their
God is all powerful, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, whom they claim love
every of his creature. When believers find themselves in difficult situations,
they often say things like: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“Thank
God, for not making me one of those people that are worse off than me.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“<a href="http://yemmynisting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/thank-god-i-survived-or-god-knows-best.html" target="_blank">ThankGod I survived that accident </a>even though some people died, some were disabled,
but I only got off with a scar, thank you God for loving me that much”. </span></span></div>
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much more selfish could that sound?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Ok,
if you believe that this God is all powerful and answers all prayers, why not
just ask him to remove all accidents? Why not pray to him to remove pains,
diseases, inequality etc. Oh, please don’t tell me this all powerful, all
omnipotent, all loving God who you claim created this magnificent universe in
just 7 days, is still angry because Adam and Eve ate a forbidden fruit that
made them discover knowledge!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Oh,
this all powerful God is still so hurt by that fabled act of disobedience that
even though he slept with the virgin fiancé of another man, to give birth to his son, who actually is
himself, so he could appease himself for the original sin committed by Adam and
Eve, yet somehow he is still so hung up about
the eating of the forbidden fruit that he would continue to allow pain,
suffering, hunger, accidents, diseases, children dying of cancers, children starving
to death all because he still couldn’t find it in his all powerful, omnipotent, omniscient, all loving heart to forgive the
human race for the original sin of Adam and Eve. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">This
omnipresent God will continue to visit the sins of the fathers upon the sons
and on generations unborn because Adam and Eve gave in to the seduction of a talking
snake to eat the forbidden fruit which he had commanded them not to eat? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Thus
he has prepared an everlasting burning hellfire for those who do not worship
him the exact way he wants to be worshiped. He keeps the furnace of hell
burning , so he could finally throw everyone who did not thank him enough into
everlasting hell fire, in the meantime he takes as much time as he wish for his
famed second coming as he is still busy accumulating candidates for his burning hellfire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Do
you think this egoist you are thanking for making you better off than others deserve
to be thanked?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> Ok,
you lost your job, on your way home you passed a homeless person living on the
floor of the train station and you thought well at least you are still not
homeless. So you got home, knelt down and thanked God for making you better off
than the homeless person. Does this God preen and pat himself on the back for being
good to you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Do
you preen and feel like the favored child of this God, at least more favored than
the homeless man? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Is
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Should
a loving Dad, King or God practice favoritism? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Should
a decent person demand favoritism? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Should
a decent person not feel sad that even though they are in a bad situation,
there are actually people who are worse off than they are?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Is
it something to be proud of that we are better off than others, especially when
it is not due to any fault of those worse off?</span></span></div>
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time you seat at your bountiful table, do you thank your omnipresent,
omniscient, omnipotent God for not making you one of the starving children in
Africa?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Should
a decent person who has a magical deity who could make all things right not be
concerned about making this world a better place for all rather than thanking
this God for making them better off than others?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Yes,
it is good to appreciate our positions in life; it is good to be grateful for
what we have and what we can do. I appreciate that I can see and admire the beauty
of nature, that I am in good enough health to walk, skip and run around without
aids. However I do think it would be utterly selfish of me to thank an all powerful
God for making me better off than others, rather than ask my all powerful God
to make others be able to enjoy everything I also enjoy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">"Thank
God I am better off than others" is not a prayer of appreciation, it is simply another
way of saying “Thank you God for making me better than others” AND THIS IS A
VERY SELFISH ATTITUDE. </span></span></div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-87574569733404802382013-02-09T08:54:00.000-08:002013-02-09T08:57:39.973-08:00Support Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora's Advocacy Calendar Project on Indiegogo; Kindly make a Donation. <br />
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<span class="notranslate"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hello Everyone, I am glad to inform you that Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti
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<a href="http://nigerianlgbtindiaspora.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same- Sex Laws">Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same-Sex Laws </a>is
a campaign group that aims to protest the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition
bill currently before Nigerian lawmakers. We stand for
decriminalization of all homophobic laws and we hold firmly that LGBTI
Rights are Human Rights. The group has organized <a href="http://youtu.be/tpyy1HU689s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="protests rallies">protests rallies</a> against the bill outside Nigerian Embassies in London and New York.<br />
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<b>The Background</b><br />
Nigeria's Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition bill criminalizing same sex
marriage and stipulating 14 years imprisonment for anyone who engages in
same-sex relationships was unanimously passed by Senators. It has
passed through the second reading in the Nigerian House of
Representatives. The House Speaker has referred the bill to the
Committee of the Whole House for final consideration. The homophobic
bill is being packaged as a gift to Nigerians.<br />
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<b>Our Advocacy Calendar Project</b><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Nigerianlgbtindiaspora" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same- Sex Laws">Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same sex laws</a>
has packaged a gift of love to our lawmakers to counter their
homophobic gift of hate. We have an advocacy Wall Calendar and Desktop
Calendar gift for Nigerian lawmakers. We want you to help us donate
this gift of equality and love to Nigerian President, all the 469
members of Nigerian National Assembly, the 36 State Governors and as
many Nigerian ambassadors as possible.<br />
Nigerian lawmakers are fond of saying there are no gay Nigerians and
they won't hesitate to send same sex lovers to jail. With this project,
we have put a face on Nigerian LGBTs and also given a voice to Nigerian
LGBTs to pass across our message. We are saying… <a href="http://youtu.be/i5fihih5OE0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enough is Enough, No to ‘Jail the Gays’ bill.</a>
We exist, we are Nigerians, we are gays, lesbians, bisexuals,
transsexuals, intersex, queers and we are proud. Stop the
discrimination, stop trying to send us to jail for our sexual
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The wall calendars and desk top calendars show pictures of our
protest rallies outside Nigerian embassies in London and New York. The
calendar also has a special message for each month, creating awareness
on the negative effect of the ‘Jail the Gays’ bill and bringing
attention to how it violates Nigerian constitution and the many
international treaties Nigeria has ratified.<br />
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a total of 1,000 calendars. With your invaluable support, we can reach
our target and even exceed it. Help us donate a gift of love, packed
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We will publicly present the calendars to our lawmakers in Nigeria at
an organized sensitization event with good media coverage. We shall
also hold press conferences in Nigeria to entertain questions and give
out copies of the calendars to lucky Nigerians including members of the
media.<br />
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This is the third time a Bill prohibiting same sex marriage is
introduced by the Nigerian parliament. The proposed law is titled ”Same
Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill, 2011”, however, it goes well beyond the
title to criminalize every Nigerian person(s), individual and group who
may be suspected of any trace, exhibition, association and/or
characteristic of same sex relationship, friendship, association or
gesture.<br />
LGBT rights are Human Rights. Fundamental Human Rights of sexual
minorities are violated daily because of criminalization of same sex
relationship and societal prejudice. The homophobic bill violates
fundamental human rights that are guaranteed under the Nigerian
constitution and various human rights regional and international laws
and agreements that Nigeria has ratified.<br />
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Also, the bill would lead to political and social harassment of people for their actual or imputed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Sexual orientation">sexual orientation</a>.
It would also stifle freedom of expression and association through the
proposed ban on organizations that support Lesbians and gay rights.<br />
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other Nigerian, irrespective of class, sex, race, gender identity or
sexual orientation. Consensual adults do not deserve to have their love
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</section>Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-10703883966269655262013-01-24T17:47:00.001-08:002013-01-25T17:45:42.478-08:00Twenty Reasons I am Distressed by Religion and its Believers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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distressed when I share confined space with believers and their every sentence is
filled with God delusion. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">2-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed when <span style="font-size: large;">religious leaders accuse a<span style="font-size: large;"> child of <span style="font-size: large;">witchcraft</span> and</span></span> th<span style="font-size: large;">o</span>se self-styled prophets are allowed to freely abuse children and vulnerable
people under the pretense of casting out demons. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">3- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed when the opinions of religious leaders are deemed more important
than scientific evidence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">4- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed when a child is forced-fed <a href="http://yemmynisting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-cancer-called-religion.html" target="_blank">the cancer called religion </a></span></span><br />
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'<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">5-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed when creationism is taught in public schools <span style="font-size: large;">but</span> evolution never
made it to a biology class curriculum. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">6-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed when I get a group mail message from a feminist group, asking for
prayers for a sister who is seriously ill in hospital and members start sending
prayers to different Gods. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">7-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed because I know sending a response suggesting more practical ways we
can help the sister in hospital e.g. financial assistance, volunteering to take
or pick up her children from school or just writing her encouraging letters and
asking her how we can be of practical assistance might actually help more than
praying to our different skydaddies, but I know such suggestions is most likely to be
viewed as antagonistic and might even caused me to be blocked from the
group. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">8- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed when religion makes me lose intellectual respect for those I used to
like because in all honesty, I cannot have any intellectual respect for someone
who believes there was a talking snake, a Noah's ark and gladly quotes the
commandments of a war mongering, pedophile prophet.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">9-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I<span style="font-size: large;"> am distressed</span> that I almost choke with disbelief whenever I am forced to share
space with Nigerian<span style="font-size: large;"> religious bel<span style="font-size: large;">i</span>evers</span>, even in a London red bus, as they narrate loudly on their
phone to their captive audience about how God just saved them from the plotting
of the evil village people, who somehow from the remote part of a Nigerian
village, managed to use 'juju' to send UK immigration to come after them in
London.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">10- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am distressed by the ignorance and bigotry of religious believers. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">11- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed at how vindictive many believers are in the name of religion<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">. The faithfuls</span> are <span style="font-size: large;">always praying to</span> their Skydaddy and his warrior angels to destroy and kill their <span style="font-size: large;">enemies by 'fire by for<span style="font-size: large;">ce'. Never a word of love, always an orgy of vengeful vendetta. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">12- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed that I can hardly hold a conversation with Nigerians including
members of my family without them mentioning God in every sentence. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">13- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am distressed that the God delusion has
broken families and driven a wedge between many family members with the many
accusations and counter accusations of witchcraft. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">14- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed that quotes from the Bible and Quran are deemed perfectly good
reasons to oppress women and even stone to death gays, lesbians, bisexuals,
Trans and women accused of committing adultery.</span></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">15-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed every time I see a picture of a blue eyed, blonde Jew on a cross
hanging on the wall of a public school, a village church or from my mother’s
bedroom because it is another reminder of colonization and mental
slavery. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">16-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed because the gods now embraced by Nigerians have no physical or
cultural resemblance to them; it is another reminder that Nigerians import
everything, including Gods. Africa can’t even export its own Gods. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">17- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed <span style="font-size: large;">when</span> the sculpture of a white, pale woman a<span style="font-size: large;">ka</span> ‘Holy Mary’ occupies a place of pride in the center of a
remote village in Nigeria. <span style="font-size: large;">E</span>ven though <span style="font-size: large;">the <span style="font-size: large;">foreign</span> sculpture</span> has no resemblance to the village
inhabitants, it is somehow deemed the most sacred sculpture in the village. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">18-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed when an African quotes from the Bible or Quran to justify the
oppression of another. I wondered if they did not read the parts in their
precious holy books that clearly state that they are not the chosen race , it
is OK for the chosen race to enslave them, rape their wives, kill their
children and animals and of course the bible and the Quran w<span style="font-size: large;">ere</span> used to do just
that to their ancestors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">19-</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
distressed when it is increasingly difficult to have adult friends who do not
have imaginary friends; they all talk about having a friend in Jesus, angels
and skydaddy. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">20- </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I am
distressed that even though I am the one who does not believe in a talking
snake, a talking donkey, a virgin mother, a Noah’s ark that ferried all living
things on earth, yet somehow I am the one the believers call crazy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Even
though I am distressed by all these absurdities, I am happy I am not one of the
believers. To be called crazy by ignorant people is<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> a</span></span> compliment. </span></span>
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<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/doZoJ2Z0SBM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> There
are ongoing legislative attempts in Nigeria and Uganda to further restrict
sexuality rights. There is a clamour for the removal and also the strengthening
of sodomy laws inherited by Commonwealth countries in Africa. However, the call
for sexuality rights in Africa by the international community is seen as
another colonial invasion by many Africans. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Research
on sexuality rights is a relatively new developing area in Africa. There is a
strong coalition spreading across Africa by Africans advocating for sexuality
rights and claiming it as not just any right but as fundamental human rights. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sexuality rights remain a silent but controversial
issue in many parts of Africa; it is not just a controversial issue but also a
taboo subject</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> One of the most efficient ways that patriarchy uses sexuality as a tool
to create and sustain gender hierarchy in African societies is by enshrouding
it in secrecy and taboos.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Many countries in Africa still criminalize
homosexuality; sodomy laws are still part of the criminal laws thereby making
it ‘legally’ possible to persecute people with different sexual orientation,
for example Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">,</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Tanzania and
Ghana all have laws under which homosexuality can be prosecuted. In South
Africa, where the constitution recognizes same sex relationships, gays and
lesbians are often attacked, molested and persecuted for their sexual
orientation.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Many African societies do not provide enabling
environments to discuss sexual orientation issues. Homosexuality has been
condemned by many African leaders as immoral, unafrican and a ‘white man’s
disease’.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Africa is a
large continent with diverse cultures and ethnicities, however homophobia
fuelled by religious intolerance and oppressive laws are remarkably similar
issues many have in common. It seems however that black homophobia has replaced
white racism as the newest form of intolerance to sweep across the African
continent. This is not to imply that homophobia is a ‘black African’
phenomenon. In conservative societies including western societies, any
challenge to heterosexual norms always provokes moral condemnation, exclusion
and violence. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Should women have equal rights as men? Should
blacks have equal rights as whites? Are Israelites and Palestinians equal? Some
of these questions have been settled through wars, protests and various human
rights treaties, in fact it is considered politically incorrect to ask such
questions! I wonder why it is not considered politically incorrect to ask
if Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals or Transsexuals have equal rights as
heterosexuals. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If we are agreed that no one should be
discriminated against, why are we still debating if Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals
and Transsexuals are entitled to Human Rights? Last time I checked LGBTs are
people too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Well, debate is good because in some countries like
Nigeria, many are yet to be convinced that Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals
are actually human beings!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Following failed attempts in 2006 and 2008,
Nigerian lawmakers are resurrecting a version of a widely condemned
anti-homosexuality bill. Nigerian<span class="commentbody"> Lawmakers in a bid
to rally popular support needed a scapegoat and the LGBT community provides an
easy target!</span></span><br />
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<span class="commentbody"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lawmakers decided once again to come in a
‘Straight’ mass orgy of corruption to bully the gay minority; a cause always
guaranteed to provide the otherwise unpopular lawmakers, cheap, majority
support! When will they stop discussing who is sleeping with whom and start
making laws to move this underdeveloped, oil rich nation forward?</span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The bill aims to further criminalize same sex
relationship and marriage. Under Nigeria’s criminal code and penal code,
consensual same sex conduct between adults is already a criminal offence.
Homosexuality carries a sentence of fourteen years imprisonment under the
criminal code while Sharia law, widely practiced in Northern Nigeria,
prescribed death penalty for homosexual conducts. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="commentbody"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Some of Nigerian lawmakers’
arguments against same sex relationship are outright ridiculous if not
pathetic! I still can’t believe Senator Yerima, an old, polygamous man who imported from
Egypt to Nigeria, the 14 year old daughter of his Egyptian gardener for
marriage, actually voted to send SAME SEX ADULTS who engage in CONSENSUAL
relationships to prison for 14 years! Senator Yerima who has a known
history of marrying child brides, along with other lawmakers claimed that
homosexuality leads to pedophilia! It is indeed like a badly written Nollywood
script; no surprise. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The sponsor of the bill, Senator Domingo Obende,
argued that “Same sex marriage is spreading and spreading round the whole world
just like pornography and terrorism which has become the order of the day if
not arrested on time.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Senator Victor Lar in his argument stated:
“The essence of marriage is for procreation and if we allow same sex
there will be no procreation and continuity and we may become the last set of
senators and no others to take over from us.” Even with 7 billion world
population? Gimme a break!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Honourable
Abike Dabiri, a member of the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives said "You
have a right to your sexual preference but by trying to turn it into marriage
do you realise you could be infringing on the human rights of the other person
who finds it repulsive?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Hmm,
I find that funny considering that Abike Dabiri divorced her first husband to
marry her current husband; did she not know that many Nigerians find divorce
repulsive? Should we then criminalized divorce? Going by her argument, she has
infringed on the human rights of majority of Nigerians who think divorce is
repulsive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Seriously,
how do people come up with such bollocks! </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In a statement signed by the chief</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> press secretary to the senate president, Paul Mumeh, Mr Mark
noted that besides banning same sex marriage, it is now a criminal offence
punishable by imprisonment of not less than 14 years. The senate president said
that in spite of pressures from some quarters, the law has come to stay.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">He further said the government has to prove to the
rest of the world, who are advocates of same sex marriage that Nigerians
promote and respect sanity, morality and humanity."</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Wait a minute, Nigerians promote and respect
Sanity, Morality and Humanity? Sounds like news to me, more like Nigerians
promote insanity, immorality and inhumanity and excel at ignorance, now that
wouldn't be news.</span></span></div>
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statement! Really how could the Senate President David Mark use the words,
Sanity, Morality and Humanity in the same sentence in public without peeing
himself? </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Abeg, David Mark you've looted enough money
to get a brain transplant, go book a surgery or grow a brain!</span></span></div>
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UnAfrican and a western imposition? How so? Foreign impositions include
Christianity, Islam, Christmas, Ileya, Easter, Sodomy law and Homophobia,
certainly not Homosexuality.</span></span></div>
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Britain! Britain has repealed the law in its homeland,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but some of its ex colonies in Africa still
cling to this barbaric law and use it to persecute LGBTs. Britain also has
a moral obligation to clean up its leftover mess and start accepting LGBT
asylum seekers without whining!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">LGBTI rights are human
rights.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span class="hascaption">Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals are humans and are
therefore entitled to ALL Human Rights; let no politician, religious leader or
any bigot tell us otherwise!</span></span></div>
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<span class="fbphotocaptiontext"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Why support this draconian bill against Nigerian Lesbians, Gays,
Bisexuals and Transsexuals? Why take away another person's right when you do
not want your right trampled upon?</span></span></div>
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<span class="hascaption"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The fact that majority stands on the same
side of an issue does not mean majority is always right. Sometimes it is just a
case of fools standing on the same popular side as in the case of
criminalisation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals on the basis of
sexual orientation and gender identity.</span></span></div>
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infringe or take away rights from you; it just makes it illegal to enforce your
prejudice and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hate. It is that simple!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Those of us who believe in
EQUAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE FOR ALL will keep on fighting for HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL;
it does not matter whether we are a majority or a minority because LGBT RIGHTS
ARE HUMAN RIGHTS and that is the beauty of democracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Watch out for my soon to be published book titled 'Freedom To Love For ALL: Homosexuality is not UnAfrican', get ready to grab a copy! </span><br />
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-74015080075418027752012-12-20T07:58:00.000-08:002012-12-20T09:03:01.315-08:00THE DRUM <div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Brown skin, taut hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It stands erect in its glory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Strong and firm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Glistening, it beckons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Its beauty invigorating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Its touch intoxicating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In my bare hands it nestled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I took it close to my heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It feels so good, so alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It tells of tales of pleasures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A dance in the jungle, a night
filled with stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Promise of unending tomorrows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This is no place for sorrows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I traced its contours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">My fingers followed its smooth
lead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tapping gently on its creamy head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">With a masterstroke I beat on it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From its depth came the sound of
time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As I pound on it harder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The echoes reach farther</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I was soon lost in the throes of
sounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">With every rhythm my heart beat
faster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Racing through jungles, oceans
and rivers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sweating, I burst out in a starry
glaze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For the drumbeat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ever since my lover went away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And left behind the majestic drum.</span></div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-72824896849314057962012-12-17T13:52:00.000-08:002012-12-17T14:06:17.008-08:00Sex workers need Rights not Rescue!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dec 17th is International Day to End
Violence Against Sex Workers. From a feminist and also a trade unionist
perspective, I know supporting Sex Workers Rights is the logical thing
to do.<br />
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Not all Sex Workers hate their jobs, not all Sex
Workers are forced to be Sex Workers, Sex workers want RIGHTS not
RESCUE. People should stop acting like knights in shining armor rushing
to save ‘scarlet’ queens!<br />
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EVERY WORKER, whether a banker, micro
biologist, intern, salesperson, street hawker, housewife, surrogate or
sex worker should be protected from FORCED LABOUR.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinphQHQqHUZrFfXFw6wTcllJlscggpS1-1HIH1SB_7pFUFCUuJJd-ceMA3aby7dNPmAlTJvif8bAm40xPe4UQ_YfgRqkwDZFA0H3T6IsO_uMnCBjg-IsqglW9VvvzP80wabl5pghFumqU/s1600/rights1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinphQHQqHUZrFfXFw6wTcllJlscggpS1-1HIH1SB_7pFUFCUuJJd-ceMA3aby7dNPmAlTJvif8bAm40xPe4UQ_YfgRqkwDZFA0H3T6IsO_uMnCBjg-IsqglW9VvvzP80wabl5pghFumqU/s1600/rights1.jpg" /></a> Yes,
everyone’s body is being purchased for labour and sometimes for marriage
too. I just wish people would know the difference between forced labour
and one made out of choice. And the fact is that not many workers are
100% happy with their jobs and if they had a choice, many would gladly
change jobs. I then wonder at those who scream that Sex workers do not
like their job. I mean, can you truly say you love your job and wouldn't
give it up even if you won a jackpot lottery? <br />
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It is not just
people in low paying jobs that are not happy with their present jobs,
this also include people in high, medium and low paying jobs i.e.
bankers, doctors, lawyers, receptionists, nurses, soldiers etc. I just
get pissed when the whole attention of "BUT THEY HATE THEIR JOB" is
directed at sex workers.<br />
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There are many people especially
immigrants with Masters Degrees and PhDs who now work in supermarket
chain stores like Walmart, Sainsbury or Tesco as security men and
cashiers. No they aren’t happy they went through the rigours and
expenses of graduate school to end up with certificates that don’t pay
their bills, they are therefore FORCED by economic, political and social
situations to settle for jobs that would at least pay their bills and
some settle for MARRIAGE to keep a roof over their heads, while some
settle for commercial sex work. <br />
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Many people are choosing to be
Interns and Volunteers because it fills the void before they finally
find employment. Gone are the days when people do volunteer and
internship work just to help out, now it is because they can't get a job
and it also looks good on the CV, it is basically like doing good to
earn ‘Paradise’ points on your card so you can make it to Heaven and
live happily ever after with Sky daddy! <br />
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If some people decided
that they'd rather jerk off in front of a webcam and be paid for it
rather than take up a job as a Walmart assistant, or volunteer for a
job they really should be paid for doing, RESPECT THEIR CHOICE. For
all you know, some could still win the lottery and decide they’d still
rather be sex workers. <br />
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It is really none of our business what
consenting adults do with their bodies, I still fail to see how my
being a feminist means i have to hate sex work or try to save sex
workers. I think it is about choice, respect and rights. And just like
I’d say with my sexuality, your approval is not needed, and I think that
is what sex workers are saying, they do not need feminists approval,
what they want is RIGHTS like every other worker. </div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-81523978708510805842012-12-06T06:29:00.001-08:002012-12-06T06:40:41.959-08:00TREE OF LIFE<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">BY © YEMISI ILESANMI</span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">As I have always maintained, I do not care if believers worship a blue-eyed blonde semi naked Jew on a cross, a bearded dessert
dwelling prophet, a fat cow, a golden snake or a thunder God, as long as they
do not force their beliefs down my throat, teach it to children as FACT in
public schools, preach it to me in public space or seek to make their religion
my state law, I do not care. But when they do any of these, of course they are
going to have their religion put under intellectual scrutiny and if found
wanting, it shall be exposed and If funny, it shall be ridiculed. When people
preach to me about a talking snake, talking donkey and a Noah’s ark, I reserve
every right to ridicule such funny tales and be indignant that anyone should be allowed to
teach such absurdities as facts in public schools.</span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Anyone is free to believe in a cow, snake, a
blue eyed blonde who turned into a Zombie, a long bearded pedophile prophet or
a golden snake; it is none of my business so far they keep their beliefs to
themselves. However it immediately becomes my business when I am forced to
adhere to and pay for some ridiculous beliefs of others. I pay my tax as a
dutiful citizen, yet those religious establishments are exempted from paying
tax, they are sponsored on some ridiculous pilgrimages with tax payers’ money!
This is not even enough for them, as they are always trying to influence state
policies and Laws based on their ludicrous beliefs, they even attempt to stop
scientific progress especially in the area of Stem cell research all because of
their religious belief in the existence of a soul!</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I often get bombarded with protest messages on my facebook wall and
social media inbox about my anti<span style="font-size: large;">-</span>religio<span style="font-size: large;">n</span> posts, I am using this post to
answer 10 questions that keep popping up, an<span style="font-size: large;">d</span> also clarify why I speak out against religion<span style="font-size: large;">.<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Now,</span></span></span> I have a handy link <span style="font-size: large;">for</span> <span style="font-size: large;">th<span style="font-size: large;">e next<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span>aggrieved person! Problem solved! </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: purple;">Anti-Religion
posts are disrespectful, as an LGBT activist, you should preach tolerance!</span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: purple;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></i></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">About respect and tolerance, RESPECT is not
given, but EARNED. ALL beliefs must earn their PLACE OF RESPECT. Being a LGBT advocate / HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
does not just depend on a belief system but a FACT that LGBT rights are HUMAN
RIGHTS and all human beings are born equal in rights and dignity. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I would definitely defend the right of anyone
to practice their religion so far it is not harmful, does not violate my space,
does not seek to impose state policy and have no SPECIAL STATUS in governance
and they PAY THEIR TAXES like every other corporation! </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">The holy books are public books that are
shoved in my face everywhere I turned, I have a right to review these books and
give my two cents, irrespective of whose OX is gored. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">
<span class="uficommentbody"><span id=".reactRoot[36].[1][2][1]{comment10150407491276873_6950937}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[6]">Anyone
who is so qualified is free to dispute the scientific fact about sexual
orientation, evolution or the principled beliefs, laws and various treaties on
human rights. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">RESPECT is earned not demanded, if I
genuinely believed that a particular belief is ludicrous, of course I am not
going to respect it because to respect something, you have to VALUE IT. I do
not value irrationality. I don't believe a woman should be treated as a
property, a child should have a knife put on his neck by his own father who
heard a voice from heavens that he should sacrifice his son as a test of his
faith or that all human beings are born with an ORIGINAL SIN allegedly
committed by a white couple known as Adam and Eve, therefore all humans are
condemned to burn in hell forever unless they become born again by believing in
a man named Jesus who came to die for a sin we never even committed and woke up
again after 3 days to roam the earth like a Zombie! Well, these are simply ridiculous, I do not
RESPECT these and I do not have to keep shut about it ESPECIALLY when the
believers of these myths keep telling me to give my life to their ZOMBIE CHRIST
or die in hell. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></i></span><span class="uficommentbody"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Atheists are
antagonistic; they are as bad as religious fanatics! </span></i></span></span></span></b></h3>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Atheists didn't start the antagonism; atheists have never stoned anyone to death for believing in a god! </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> The
believers are the ones who have been fighting wars and blowing people and
buildings up in the name of their God. They
are the ones who come knocking on my door to preach to me, they call me a fool
for not believing a white bearded tyrant they call God created the world in
seven days and in white he created my ancestors, and this tyrant loving father magnanimously sent his handsome blue eyed blonde of a sexy son to come to earth
and save me from a sin allegedly committed by a white couple who they say I
descended from! And yeah, he turned his
own son into a ZOMBIE all because he loved me even before I was born although
he already sadistically created an eternally burning hell for those of us who
refused to be fooled, what a sadist and btw, I don't like dictators, whether
spiritual or physical.</span> On a side note, I do think Jesus makes ZOMBIES
look sexy, especially in that loin cloth on the cross, which really could
qualify as porno!!! </span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Abeg, COMRADE JESUS, save me from your
followers, they rant in public places including inside a bank, and that was
right here in London and of course it was a fanatic black man ranting about the
good gospel, by the look of him, it seems the good gospel didn't do him much
good! And just few days ago, another wouldn’t let me catch a wink of sleep in
an interstate bus with his praise worship and preaching all through the entire
journey, hahaha, talk about tolerance!</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Atheists do not go to people to convert them,
it is usually the other way round, most importantly, ATHEISM is not a religion,
you cannot convert people to atheism, people can voluntarily use their brain to
come to a rational conclusion about their beliefs, embrace rationality or cling
to faith, sorry BUT blind faith is not good enough for some of us, however you
are welcome to your faith, belief or philosophy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVI4twByxKj-UOAfFnba-WwnN1tHflPhyphenhyphenob0Rcnv85Qg8M8xSree0BrDBCALMtVK32dVECZ0gQLSbKGpVognQmFIqb0IBPB6eFpJTBfog6BYd68Ks9AjgS6vZxYW7lYnQ8Vxftf7E4wzI/s1600/543437_380293982045093_826645048_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVI4twByxKj-UOAfFnba-WwnN1tHflPhyphenhyphenob0Rcnv85Qg8M8xSree0BrDBCALMtVK32dVECZ0gQLSbKGpVognQmFIqb0IBPB6eFpJTBfog6BYd68Ks9AjgS6vZxYW7lYnQ8Vxftf7E4wzI/s200/543437_380293982045093_826645048_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> AS LONG AS these "HOLY BOOKS" remain
in the NON FICTION SECTION and are sold, peddled and preached to us as
NON FICTION and the TRUTH, every interested person has a right to openly
analyze and criticize these so called holy books. I really do not care if
religious believers are offended by my rational criticism because it is not my
problem that they cannot tolerate criticism of their religious
beliefs. Their religious sensitivity is not a valid reason to CENSOR the
expression of rational thoughts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Christians often refer to other deities,
especially African carved deities as DEAF and DUMB, they call the idols
handmade gods that cannot hear, speak, see or act, as if their Rosary and
crucifix are not handmade! I wonder how many of the Christians complaining
about my anti religion posts ever stood up during one of such VERY COMMON
sermons condemning traditional Gods, to advise their PASTOR to be tolerant of
other deities, or do they all just look the other way and pat themselves on the
back for choosing the MOST POWERFUL OF ALL GODS? How bigoted! </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">People have a right to belief and people also
have a right not to believe, since your precious bible and many of its
believers call us non believers A FOOL, we have the right to point out how
stupid the various myths in your precious holy books appear to rational mind.
And as difficult as this is for ‘faithers’ to belief, for some of us, A BRAIN, NOT FAITH IS ALL WE
NEED!</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“The
Christians have not written long paragraphs on fb trying to convince us to buy
their beliefs. Yet the so called non-believers go on and on trying to sell us
their ideology”.</span></i></b></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></h3>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> REALLY? There are many religious posts and
groups on Facebook and many other social networks. I have friends who talk
about their God, love for Allah, their precious prophet Mohammed or how Jesus
just saved them from an accident (never mind that the others that died were
not considered worthy to be saved by their darling God, what egoism!). Such
posts appear on my Newsfeeds everyday but I do not feel a need to go to their
page to ask them why they sprout such nonsense. Their beliefs or who they give
thanks to is simply none of my business. If you don't like what I post, do not
read it, Facebook is like a restaurant, if you don’t like what I am serving, go
eat somewhere else! </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> When
people hold beliefs that are irrational and stupid and they preach it to the
world as the TRUTH, other rational beings will continue to point out how
ridiculous and stupid these beliefs are especially when believers are quick to
judge non believers! </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Why must I respect the sensitivity of others
who believe a gay person should be stoned to death because their holy books say
so, or that women should be submissive and be treated as properties, or glorify
a deity that encourages slavery and sanctioned that his so called chosen people
should commit genocide in his name?</span></span></div>
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</span></span></i></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“Live and
Lets Live!”</span></i></b></span></span></span></h3>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">“Live and Lets Live”, my sentiments exactly.
However, I have realized that many Religious people don't do the "Live and
Lets Live" thing; in fact, they want to legalize their religious dogmas!
So I have decided to SPEAK OUT for myself and other voiceless people who want
to be heard. I peddle Logic, they peddle Faith, let’s see which one would save
the world from Malaria, Cancer, Climate change, Rapists, Genocides, Animal cruelty,
Discrimination and a whole lots of other evils!</span></span></div>
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course if people chose to be lied to, that is their prerogative, although from
a legal point, it also becomes the business of the law when the LIAR uses their
lies to exploit or harm vulnerable people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">EXPOSING
the lies people choose to believe becomes my prerogative when these lies
encroach on my rights, personal life and state laws. Religion is
like a penis, it is OK to have one, it is even OK to be proud of it, BUT it is
not OK to bring it out and flaunt it in public AND it is definitely not OK to
try to force it down my throat or down my child’s throat! </span></div>
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the mere fact that religious believers feel the need to come on my page to
demand I RESPECT their religious beliefs even though I think these beliefs are
ridiculous, also confirms that they are under the false impression that
RELIGION is above critical analysis and objective criticism, thereby trying to
CENSOR my speech because of their belief that RELIGION MUST BE RESPECTED. This
is a false premise that no logical, civilized society should accept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Religion
can hardly be considered a sleeping dog; it is more of a barking bull than a sleeping dog, always
eager to bite. I care about the ill effects of religion on my life and how
people try to justify discrimination based on religious beliefs, so I won’t let
this barking dog have a field day, I refuse to be a passive
victim. ALSO, I only respect ideas that
are worth respecting therefore religion as an instrument of oppression does not
pass the respect quotient. </span></div>
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</span></span></i></b></span><span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Atheists are
arrogant and think they are intellectually superior!</span></i></b></span></span></span></h3>
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do not claim intellectual superiority, however if a person comes to me and say
the earth is flat and less than 6,000 years old, that snakes and donkeys used
to talk, a man walked on water and Noah floated an Ark with all species aboard…
of course I am going to laugh out loud and point out the IRRATIONALITIES
inherent in these claims. If by so doing, the person feels stupid or thinks I
am claiming intellectual superiority, well maybe the person should feel stupid
and acknowledge that these ideas are ridiculous and irrational! You can’t blame
me for being intelligent enough to point out ignorant claims. I cannot be held
responsible for another person's feeling of ignorance or inadequacies and I
cannot, because I do not want anyone to feel intellectually inadequate, refuse
to criticize ignorant claims that have been proved to be baseless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">However,
I am intelligent enough to understand that REASON is lost on many believers,
especially since if one could REASON with Religious believers, THERE WOULDN'T
be any religious believers!</span></div>
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point but you are too harsh on believers!</span></i></b></span></span></span></h3>
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could also read as "Yemisi is
honest and direct but she is not diplomatic and does not show enough warmth nor
hug the haters enough, in fact she needs to show more love to the haters." </span></div>
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Ok, let me put this straight, I think this is the same reasoning that leads the
society to blame the victims of criminals. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Maybe if that woman had covered up and not wear that short dress,
the rapist wouldn't have been tempted to rape her.</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Maybe if that housewife had not raised her voice against her
husband, the husband wouldn't have beaten her black and blue.</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Maybe if Atheists keep their
godless mouth shut, no one would be offended enough to leave threat
messages on their walls. </span></li>
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maybes, maybes… leading to </span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Maybe if Homosexuals do not flaunt their lovelife in public, they
wouldn't be attacked on the street.</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Maybe if Transsexuals stopped being who they are, they wouldn't be murdered .</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Maybe if atheist don’t proclaim their non belief,, they wouldn’t be called fools and jailed for blasphemy. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">And on and on it goes. I CANNOT
SUGAR COAT INJUSTICE, ALWAYS SPEAK OUT AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS NO MATTER WHOSE OX IS GORED. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">The
truth is bitter but it must be told, I do not need to hug ignorance or haters
so as to get them to respect my right and space. I presume first and foremost that people who
comment on my posts are ADULTS; therefore I do not need to treat them with kids’
gloves or buy them candies. Also, there
are established social ethics, people should not expect a hug after leaving homophobic, ignorant statements on my wall, of course I would
give them an EDUCATION, if that education hurts their ego, well that is their
problem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: purple;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">7-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">For a human
right activist, you have so much hate fuelled by your atheism!</span></i></b></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzWUc70jwme2atPJfVFQfz5s_PlYAA17BbYP0BF2ezV0u9UdFpcrIpps8AVi3MV-LSUnyw_6SU0EnmtuMBHjIS5qf7JllU1jqN02AF8SeZCqf_WzFolWABYaaq19aPRY5_IDyDZPP0f0/s1600/183566_188040371235828_106356742737525_459468_7032241_n-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzWUc70jwme2atPJfVFQfz5s_PlYAA17BbYP0BF2ezV0u9UdFpcrIpps8AVi3MV-LSUnyw_6SU0EnmtuMBHjIS5qf7JllU1jqN02AF8SeZCqf_WzFolWABYaaq19aPRY5_IDyDZPP0f0/s200/183566_188040371235828_106356742737525_459468_7032241_n-1.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">My
Human Rights activism is borne out of my belief in humanity, not out of hatred
of human rights violators. I can only do what I do so passionately because I
believe in humanity and understand the meaning of love. I feel ‘Love’ enough to
want a positive change, enough to speak out and enough to tell the haters just
where to go chuck their ignorance and hate. Without love, I wouldn't be a
passionate human rights activist; I would simply be a human rights careerist
going through the motions of defending rights learned at school. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">My
fierce attitude comes from my passion for the causes I undertake and I am happy
that in the 15 years I have actively being defending human rights
professionally and personally, I am yet to reach that stage where I would
say" I USED TO BE FIERCE", in all sincerity, I hope I never do get to
that stage because all causes I am fierce about are worth dying for till the
last of the injustice is erased. </span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Ever heard of CENSORSHIP? Ever heard of that
right we fought for called 'Freedom of Expression'? Do you understand
that Freedom of Religion also means Freedom from Religion? Asserting my atheism
means talking about my NON BELIEF in GOD(s).</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;"> I am
not going to believers’ space to demand that they stop talking about their
precious God, why should they demand that I must not talk about how improbable and ridiculous
their God is or about the atrocities committed in their God's name in my own space? </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Religion is one of many ideologies in the
market place of ideas, it is not a copyright belonging to Christians, Muslims or other
religious believers. Once this idea is peddled in a public place, and 'Holy' books
published and distributed to members of the public, it becomes open to review like every other public ideas
and ideologies. If you don't want your God critically analyzed, learn to
keep your God private. Simple!</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">I will ignore this nonexistent being when his
Adherents stop influencing state policies and Law in His name, when they stop
trying to put me in jail for 14 years because of my sexual orientation in His
name, when they stop teaching their fictional tales to children in schools as
NON Fiction, when they stop trying to convert me to their religion, when they
stop telling me I will burn in hell… maybe then I will consider leaving them
alone to enjoy their imaginary Sky Daddy, until then… they have got mail!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Blaspheme
is a word that should not exist, and the fact that it exists at all is what
sickens me, the fact that people go to jail for criticizing a religion makes me
want to puke, the fact that 25,000 Muslims took to the streets in India and
burned down Buddhists temples because as they claimed, a Buddhist mocked Islam
on his facebook page is sickening!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">If believers want something to get sickened about, no, it is not the number of
atheists, freethinkers, secularists and skeptics satirizing religion or
ridiculing so called prophets and imaginary beings on Blasphemy Rights Day, the real sickness is the fact that some people
think they are justified to harass, torture and go on a violent spree because
their feelings was hurt when someone drew a picture of their beloved prophet or
when I proclaim that I do not believe in
their God. The vitriol of hate comes
from the men who shot a girl for wanting to go to school and get an education!
No, atheists are not the ones filled with hate! </span></div>
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I hate is the fact that whether I believe in God or not, part of my tax payers
money goes to sponsoring annual holy pilgrimages, my country which claims to be
a democratic secular state is in fact a member of the Organization of Islamic
Countries (OIC) even though the numbers of Christians and closeted pagans probably
outnumbered Muslims in the country. I hate that every opportunity, believers
try to influence state laws and policies quoting from their idiotic religious
beliefs. Now, this is a daily nightmare I face in a religious society. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Well,
it is worth pointing out that I am not the one going on other people's wall to
tell them not to talk about their beliefs,</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> I do not get offended when
people post on their wall that God just saved them from a disaster.</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">I do not foam in the mouth
when believers post on their wall that atheists are fools.</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">I do not come running like
a maniac to another person's wall just because a friend commented on a
religious post and the post appeared on my news feed. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: purple;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">9-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">You must
have suffered hurt to turn into an atheist! </span></i></b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> What hurt? Yeah, another all assuming person
concluding that something terrible must have happened for one to turn one into
an atheist! Another ignoramus telling an atheist that all it takes to become an
atheist is for religious minded folks to hurt you and bang, you turn into an
atheist! This is such a ridiculous
assumption which I am tired of hearing. It is the same as assuming that a woman
is a lesbian because she had been hurt or raped by men! </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">MY ATHEISM
IS NOT A RESULT OF HURT CAUSED ME BY RELIGIOUS MINDED FOLKS, IT IS BECAUSE I
READ THE BIBLE AND THE BIBLE TURNED ME INTO AN ATHEIST. THE VARIOUS HOLY BOOKS
MADE ME REALISED THAT HUMANS FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, HAVE BEEN CREATING GODS IN
THEIR OWN VINDICTIC, BIGOTED, EGOISTIC, JEALOUS AND SELFISH IMAGE!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: purple;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">10-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Atheists are
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">As
an Atheist I do not believe in the existence of a God, as a secularist, I am for the separation of State and religion
and as an Anti-Theist, I am actively against THEISM for its lack of evidence
and the way it encourages the growth of
what I refer to as '<a href="http://yemmynisting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-cancer-called-religion.html" target="_blank">The Cancer Called Religion</a>' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">I
should be free to express myself and the religious people should be free to
express themselves. Freedom of expression is one of the tenets of democracy, I
can carry placards saying I do not believe your God exist, and you can carry
placards calling me a fool. So far it is all about PEACEFUL demonstration, we are OK. Hate
speech is what we are against, never confuse freedom of speech with Hate
speech, Free speech liberates, Hate Speech Kills, unfortunately many suicides
victims of BULLING are not alive to testify to this fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> Anyway,
why would I want to respect a God or belief that preaches about a Talking
Snake, an Original Sin passed down to generation unborn, a vindictive God who
sanction genocide and order the wiping out of whole communities including
children and animals simply because of a jealousy fit he had when these members
of the communities refused to worship him and carved for themselves other Gods
in golden image? Why would I not laugh at a book that claims the planet earth
is flat and stands on four corners of the universe?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">And
why won’t I laugh at these believers who still come knocking on my door to
preach these ridiculous beliefs to me even after we have strong evidence
that the planet is not flat, the first human was not white, Noah’s Ark could
never have sailed and that not all living things lived within few miles of
Noah’s house! It is funny, ridiculous and so pathetic that some people still go
around preaching this shit! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Of
course it is comedy gold and I shall laugh, but I shall also fight back when
these ridiculous beliefs are the basis of my oppression. I shall speak out because their book claims that as a
woman, I am inferior and should not have same rights, I should
be stoned to death for being bisexual and because of their religious beliefs, they want to pass a 14 years
imprisonment law for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transsexuals and LGBT rights advocates in my country.
Yes, it is ridiculous, ignorant and wicked, so i shall speak out while laughing at their folly. That is
the freedom of democracy; every idea is open to scrutiny in the market place of
ideas. I criticize Capitalism and Disney films that promote gender stereotypes,
why should I not criticize Religion? Is it not just another idea peddled in the
market place of ideas therefore open to public scrutiny? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">RELIGION
has no criticism pass! And why would any believer wants an immunity pass for
their religion, after all if you truly believe in something, defend it with
LOGIC, not with Fatwas, bombs and Guns!</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Faith
is not Knowledge that is why it is called FAITH. Some of us prefer KNOWLEDGE
because Knowledge is what gets things done; Knowledge is responsible for many
development and our civilization not faith.</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">My position on religion was well stated by one <span style="font-size: large;">of </span>my
favourite Atheist blogger, <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta" target="_blank">Greta Christina</a> in her blog post<span style="font-size: large;"> '<a href="http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/11/armor-of-god.html" target="_blank">The Armour </a><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/11/armor-of-god.html" target="_blank">of God , or The Top One Reason Religion Is Harmful</a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large;">“I'm not
saying that religion is the root of all evil. I'm not arguing that a world without
religion would be a blissful Utopia where everyone holds hands and chocolate
flows in the streets. (And then we all die, because the chocolate is drowning
us and we can't swim because we're holding hands.) I don't know of any atheist
who'd argue that. I know that the impulses driving evil are deeply rooted in
human nature, and religion is far from the only thing to inspire it.</span></div>
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I'm saying that religion provides a uniquely stubborn justification for evil.
I'm saying that religion is uniquely armored against criticism, questioning,
and self-correction... and that this armor protects it against the reality
checks that act, to a limited degree and in the long run, to keep evil in
check. I'm saying that religion takes the human impulses to evil, and cuts the
brake line, and sends them careening down a hill and into the center of town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large;">Yes -- even
moderate religion. Not to nearly the same degree as extreme religion, of
course. If all religion were moderate, ecumenical, separate from government,
supportive of science, and accepting of non-belief... well, atheists would
still disagree with it, but most of us wouldn't much care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: large;">But moderate
religion still does harm. It still encourages people to believe in invisible
beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events
and judgments that happen after we die. And therefore, it still disables
reality checks... making people more vulnerable to oppression, fraud, and
abuse.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Dear
theist, I must also inform you that contrary to your frequent rant on how <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>theists hate God</span>, I DO NOT HATE GOD, I CANNOT HATE THAT WHICH DOES NOT EXIST!
I hate to break it to you but you've only succeeded in creating a lousy
character you named God, it still does not mean this character actually exist.
Grow up theists, Superman, Batman, Let Luthor, Darkseid might elicit love and hate, it still
does not mean they actually exist! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">This
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Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora against Anti Same Sex Laws </h1>
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<a href="http://nigerianlgbtindiaspora.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/press-statement-on-the-nigerian-homophobic-bill/" target="_blank">PRESS STATEMENT </a></h1>
The anti same sex marriage bill criminalizing same sex marriage and
stipulating 14 years imprisonment for Nigerians who engage in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_relationship" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Same-sex relationship">same sex relationship</a>
has passed through the second reading in the House of Representatives.
The House Speaker Aminu Tambuwal has referred the bill to the Committee
of the Whole House for consideration. LGBT rights are <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Human rights">Human Rights</a>.<br />
<br />
As stated in our <a href="http://nigerianlgbtindiaspora.wordpress.com/position-paper-on-anti-same-sex-bill/" target="_blank" title="Position Paper">position paper</a>
on the Anti Same Sex marriage bill, Fundamental Human Rights of sexual
minorities are violated daily because of criminalization of same sex
relationship and societal prejudice.The homophobic bill violates
fundamental human rights that are guaranteed under the Nigerian
constitution and various human rights regional and international laws
and agreements that Nigeria has ratified. Thus this Bill would nullify
some parts of the Constitution.<br />
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Also, the bill would lead to political and social harassment of people for their actual or imputed <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sexual orientation">sexual orientation</a>.
It would also stifle freedom of expression and association through the
proposed ban on organizations that support Lesbians and gay rights.<br />
<br />
The bill would further affect Nigeria’s Human rights records.
Individuals, general society and institutions including the police would
use it as a license to intimidate and harass citizens based on their
actual or suspected sexual orientation. The passing of the bill would
give official validation to the harassment of sexual minorities and many
homophobic persons would use it as a license to discriminate against
lesbians and gays.<br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_law" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sodomy law">Sodomy law</a>
is a relic from British colonization. The British parliament and many
of its former colonies e.g. Canada, Australia, South Africa and India
have since repealed the law. Why is Nigeria clinging and seeking to
strengthen this antiquated and erroneous law through the proposed
Anti-same sex relationship bill? The argument that any sexual act or
relationship that deviates from the standard heterosexual norm is
against African culture is using “culture” to sanction the erasure of
dialogue about alternative sexualities and to condone homophobia,
therefore constituting a form of cultural violence. A society that
stifles sexual and gender identities discourages the recognition of
human dignity. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="LGBT">LGBTI</a> rights are human rights.<br />
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If two people of the same sex want to make their relationship more
stable and commit themselves more deeply to each other, this can only be
good for Nigeria. It makes no difference whether the couple is gay or
straight. We ask that the lawmakers reconsider their decision to pass
this bill as it infringes on the Human Rights of Nigerian LGBT people.<br />
<h5>
Nigeria LGBTIs in Diaspora against Anti Same Sex Laws call on all
Nigerians to oppose the Anti Same Sex Marriage bill. If passed,
President Goodluck Jonathan must not sign this homophobic bill into law.</h5>
<h5>
Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora against Anti Same Sex Laws affirms that
LGBT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS and every Nigerian deserve the same right
every other Nigerian enjoys irrespective of class, sex, gender or sexual
orientation.</h5>
Signed on behalf of Nigerian LGBTI in Diaspora against Anti Same Sex Laws<br />
Yemisi Ilesanmi- <a href="mailto:nanfs2001@yahoo.com">nanfs2001@yahoo.com</a><br />
Davis Mac-Iyalla – <a href="mailto:dmaciyalla@gmail.com">dmaciyalla@gmail.com</a><br />
John Adewoye- <a href="mailto:teju9999@yahoo.com">teju9999@yahoo.com</a><br />
Mojisola Adebayo- <a href="mailto:mojisolaadebayo@hotmail.com">mojisolaadebayo@hotmail.com</a><br />
Toyin Ajao- <a href="mailto:teeajao@yahoo.com">teeajao@yahoo.com</a><br />
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WEBSITE LINK- <a href="http://nigerianlgbtindiaspora.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/press-statement-on-the-nigerian-homophobic-bill/" target="_blank">Nigerian LGBTIs in diaspora against Anti Same Sex Laws-Press statement</a><br />
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-54862657011028284412012-11-01T15:34:00.000-07:002012-11-01T16:23:13.303-07:00STORMY SANDY <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Sandy,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">A
vixen so broody</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">As
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Oh
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">In
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Who
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Tempestuous
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The controversy of whether “sex work”
can be defined and treated as real work or not is one that evokes a lot of
emotion and sentiments. This is not surprising because the answer to this will
determine whether this area of “Work” deserves to be acknowledged and given as
much legal and social protection and recognition as any other type of work recognized
under the auspice of labour laws. It cannot be denied that “sex workers”, like
them or hate them, provide a service. Since prostitution is commonly referred
to as the oldest profession, sex work is a service as old as humankind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With the advent of globalization, internet
dating, chat rooms, cyber-sex etc, the world’s touted oldest profession has not
been left behind in modernizing its trade and services to keep up with the ever
changing technology; dynamism is indeed the name of the game. In today’s world,
a sex worker is no longer just the woman in skimpy red dress and high heels,
lurking at the corner of the street in the middle of the night looking for a
customer. A sex worker now include prostitutes, pornography actors and
actresses, chat room /telephone sex providers, escorts, gigolos etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However, like all work, especially in this era
of neo–globalization and privatisation of anything that generate profits, prostitutes in many cases do not own their bodies anymore, many are not really in a position to negotiate the prices for their services. The big lords, hotel
owners, club owners, chat room owners, internet warlords are now the real
employer of sex workers' labour. The money bags have the money to run the business,
employ women and in a growing number of cases men too, to render sexual
services, they act as the sub contractors, in fact, it is just an advanced
stage of pimping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>‘IF YOU HAVE A BOSS, YOU NEED A UNION”</i> is a
popular slogan in Labor movement. It is increasingly obvious that sex workers
are in most cases employed by other big time business operators, who like many
employers, are basically concerned about profit and not necessarily the welfare
of their employees. Even in cases where sex workers are their own bosses, instances
of police brutality and harassment abound. Policemen have been known to extort sex workers,
demand for cuts from their earnings, deny them protection, rape and torture them;
in fact, sex workers are subjected to all sorts of indignities and degrading treatment
when arrested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Nigeria, it is a common occurrence for policemen to raid a brothel, clubs or local joints to arrest young
women, especially female students on the suspicion of prostitution.
To the policemen, the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evidence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the prostitution charge lies in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>way the women are dressed, their physical appearance, if they were smoking, drinking alcohol, the company they keep, or just the
mere fact that they were in that environment at an 'ungodly' hour serves as evidence of
prostitution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many women arrested in
such circumstances are often tortured, extorted, blackmailed, raped and
assaulted. In an effort to protect their identity and secure their freedom,
these young women would do anything to please their torturers. Sometimes they are forced to confess to crimes they never committed and
in many cases, are forced to perform sexual favours to gain their freedom. Of
course, this action of the police is sexist, a violation of so many fundamental
human rights and a restriction on the right of women to move freely in the
country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is however interesting to note
that the over-zealousness of the police is never extended to elitist clubs.
Sex workers, who work for and provide services to the elites, enjoy a sort of
coded protection. However the protection is only valid for as long as the boss
is pleased, any disagreement or rancor could lead to withdrawal of that
protection. Therefore the power to negotiate the terms and conditions of
service is tacitly taken away from the vulnerable sex workers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Also, sex workers are often looked at
as disease carriers, a mobile carrier of HIV/AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases. While there is no gainsaying that exposure to many sexual
partners without protection increases the risk of contacting a sexually
transmitted disease, it is also important to note that the client could be as
guilty if not more guilty than the service provider therefore it is important to
involve and educate the clients too on the need to practice safer sex. It is
important to have a holistic approach to this subject in order to curb sexually
transmitted diseases. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sex workers must be accorded the respect they deserve and
seen as stakeholders who can contribute meaningfully to creating awareness
about HIV/AIDS and help curb its spread. We must also recognize that sexual
health and well being of sex workers is also important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The stigmatization and consequent
exploitation of sex workers would be minimized if sex work is accorded its
recognition as a bonafide job, a real job which has its challenges like every other
job but which also has its rights and protections under the law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Criminalization of sex-work in many
countries and jurisdictions makes it difficult to create a safe, enabling
environment and workplace for sex workers. The continued criminalization of sex-work,
rather than serves as a deterrent has only succeeded in exposing sex workers to
violence, intimidation, harassment, exploitation etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As was said in the Wolfenden
Committee report of 1957, what two adults do in the privacy of their rooms is
no business of the law. Decriminalization of sex work would make it easier to
organize sex workers, improve their working conditions, curb exploitation and
protect their rights and accord them the dignity in labour every worker
deserves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Recognizing sex work and organising
sex workers within mainstream labour movement is a task not just for the unions
but one that must jointly be carried out by both the trade unions and sex workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sex workers must be ready to organise themselves
from within, they must be prepared to approach unions that are capable of
meeting their needs and willing to accept them as full members with all the
rights accorded members. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trade unions on their part must be
ready to live up to its primary duties, which is organising workers and
protecting their rights. In this time when the labour movement is concerned
about dwindling membership mainly due to global economy down turn, trade unions
should look towards organising this untapped membership. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sex workers have bosses in many
cases, they work under hazardous conditions, and sometimes under very demeaning
circumstances, they need protection from dangerous clients, overzealous
policemen, and even the larger society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Organising sex workers would also
give them the opportunity to build their capacity to negotiate their own
services and contracts, educate and empower them enough for them to make a true
choice or at least give them a chance to really have a choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No one should be forced to be a sex worker;
it should be voluntarily chosen. Unfortunately, our economy reality has
restricted the power to freely choose our profession, however it is still
imperative that conditions of work in this profession is subjected to
international labour standards. Sex workers should not be abandoned to their
fate just because they happened to be on the wrong side of a questionable law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The key word is CHOICE and an
ENABLING/EMPOWERING environment to make a CHOICE. Many choose 'prostitution' or
what I'd rather refer to as 'Commercial Sex Work' to survive the brutal
economy. Just the same way many women and men choose to enter into Marriage unions or
relationships for economy reasons and same way many migrants are forced to
marry or enter into contractual sexual relationships for a green card or entry visa. Mutual Adult choices that harm no one should be respected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We should all stand up against FORCED
commercial sex work, FORCED LABOUR anywhere, anyhow should be condemned.
Persons that have chosen sex work whether out of economic circumstances or just
because they love it, should be accorded all respect and protection, not pity.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYeAxAM6r8JIzl8D7ESMz3zwdRV4qh6k_QqcElR5f-Md5Prvt_6ZkDrElNELLqj8dfhKzCAPyWN5-5Zydk8d802dtfIIYYynSxwVpLAhs6ibd8pOA__wCBo1SqhwvVKw-BkAzKTWvm7ZA/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYeAxAM6r8JIzl8D7ESMz3zwdRV4qh6k_QqcElR5f-Md5Prvt_6ZkDrElNELLqj8dfhKzCAPyWN5-5Zydk8d802dtfIIYYynSxwVpLAhs6ibd8pOA__wCBo1SqhwvVKw-BkAzKTWvm7ZA/s320/4.jpg" width="226" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Commercial sex workers should not be
denied workers’ rights because of societal stigmatization and moral
judgments. They are adults, have made their choices and need not explain to a
third party why they made their choice. Decriminalization can help minimize
violence, sex trafficking and exploitation of sex workers and a UNION would
give them the representation many other workers enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Employment CHOICES, whether made out
of economic frustration, lack of choice or real passion for the profession MUST
BE RESPECTED.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sex workers do not have to be viewed as people who need help,
especially when they are in the profession voluntarily. Not everyone loves their jobs, including commercial sex workers. In almost all profession, you will find people who truly loathe their jobs but are constraint to stay in the jobs because it pays the bills. So next time someone says "<i>but prostitutes don't love their jobs</i>", well ask the person if they truly love their jobs? Also, not loving your job is not a reason for the society to criminalize or stigmatize your chosen profession. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some sex workers are in the
profession because, believe it or not, they have a passion for it, many are
there because of limited choice but for whatever reasons they are in the
profession, RESPECT is the key word, not PITY and certainly not moral judgment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sex workers while building their
alliances with labour movements, must also build links with social movements
that will protect their rights and interests. They should build alliances with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>liberal women organisations, human rights
organisations which in some cases also help to provide legal services to allies
and of course the World Social Forum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Social movements on their part must
continue to demand for a better world, where the oppressed in the society can
rise above their oppression, where poverty will not be the motivating factor
behind sex work, where people can truly decide what type of work they want to
do, be it providing medical service or providing sex service and have their
choice equally respected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is indeed interesting that some
unions have already started organising sex workers and admitting them into
their unions while some sex workers have also started organising themselves. In
Europe, America, Asia , tentative steps have been taken by unions like the
Karnataka Sex workers union Bangalore, International union of sex workers,
London, AMMAR, an organisation of sex workers in Argentina, CTA, an Argentine
trade union, FNV union confederation in Netherlands UNITE, New Zealand, etc. It
is important to build on these developments in order to reach out to many
vulnerable and oppressed people in this work who otherwise would not have any
valid spokesperson or means of channeling their grievances or opportunity of
having their voices heard in the society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trade unions in Africa should also try
to represent this group of workers, who most often, work in the most demeaning
conditions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discrimination has no place
in trade unionism, the interests of the sex workers must be protected, their
voices must be heard and their concerns taken on board. Unions should not just
be speaking for sex workers but must also let sex workers speak for themselves
from within the unions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In conclusion, we must bear in mind
that organising sex workers itself is not about promoting the sex trade or sex
services, it is about PROTECTING the rights of those who either out of
choice or no choice find themselves working as sex workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trade unions cannot and should not
discriminate on which category of workers they offer their services to. Workers of the world have always tried to unite against any form of slavery, freely
chosen sex work is not slavery and where stifling environment encourages
exploitation of this vulnerable group, union machinery should start working to
defend the rights of these workers irrespective of status, class, color or
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-60683220147458279282012-10-10T19:40:00.000-07:002012-12-01T18:20:46.369-08:00If the ALUU 4 victims were gays caught in the act, would the percentage of Nigerians condemning Jungle justice drop drastically? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When I read the story of the
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19895281" target="_blank">4 students of University of Port Harcourt that were lynched</a> on allegation of
theft, I wept for my country one more time. I have not watched the video and I do
not ever intend to watch it. It is very difficult getting an online report of
the story without graphic images of the victims burnt alive, Nigerian
bloggers and news reporters need to understand that such violent graphics
should come with a trigger warning! I am already tormented at the thought of a
human being burnt alive by a sick mob; I can do without the pictures and
violent video. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Following the breaking of
this horrible news, many Nigerians expressed shock that such barbaric acts
could still so wantonly be carried out in Nigeria and with the tacit
cooperation of members of the police force, state security men were
said to be present at the scene of the lynching but chose not to intervene. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Also, there were a few Nigerians who actually tried to justify the murders,
they felt if these students actually stole phones and laptops as alleged, they
deserved to be lynched, and some even cited their religious books to justify
this atrocity. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This ghastly incident also brought
to my mind the hideous views many Nigerians hold on homosexuality,
and what many Nigerians think should happen to homosexuals. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many Nigerians threaten Gays,
Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transsexuals with public stoning. I have lost counts of
the many times I have received messages and comments on social networks
threatening just that.</span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many Nigerians obviously think it is OK to threaten
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans with jungle justice and also think it is
their civic duty to send threat messages, sometimes graphic violence messages to
LGBT Rights advocates. My public advocacy for decriminalization of homosexual
acts and the call for recognition of LGBT rights as human rights have indeed exposed me to
this primitive side of Nigerians. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I wonder how many people
that are indignantly condemning the lynching of the 4 UNIPORT students would also
condemn this action if the accusation was not that of robbery but that of sodomy.
What if these students were accused of being gay, would it be OK to lynch
them? </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzWUc70jwme2atPJfVFQfz5s_PlYAA17BbYP0BF2ezV0u9UdFpcrIpps8AVi3MV-LSUnyw_6SU0EnmtuMBHjIS5qf7JllU1jqN02AF8SeZCqf_WzFolWABYaaq19aPRY5_IDyDZPP0f0/s1600/183566_188040371235828_106356742737525_459468_7032241_n-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzWUc70jwme2atPJfVFQfz5s_PlYAA17BbYP0BF2ezV0u9UdFpcrIpps8AVi3MV-LSUnyw_6SU0EnmtuMBHjIS5qf7JllU1jqN02AF8SeZCqf_WzFolWABYaaq19aPRY5_IDyDZPP0f0/s1600/183566_188040371235828_106356742737525_459468_7032241_n-1.jpg" /></a><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I ask this question because
many Nigerians often very casually mention that gays should be publicly
ridiculed, mobbed and stoned to death. Many Nigerians make it a duty to leave
threatening messages on social networks where any gay person, lesbian, bisexual
or transsexual is featured.</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> When I granted a National
newspaper an <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/our-senators-are-hypocrites/104344/" target="_blank">interview</a> where I condemned the anti same sex marriage bill and
called for the recognition of LGBT rights as human rights, many Nigerians left
comments calling for gay Nigerians to be lynched. Very few Nigerians ever
bothered to condemn such comments. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When Sir Richard Branson on his <a href="http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/nigerias-cruel-anti-gay-law?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150504246559402_21417674_10150506813634402#f3038f99a48f334" target="_blank">blog</a>, condemned the anti same sex marriage
bill as cruel, many Nigerians posted vitriolic comments on the blog, many went
as far as calling for gays to be publicly stoned to death, they gleefully cited
the case of Sodom and Gomorrah to justify this atrocity. As Voltaire said “Those
who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Same hate-filled comments were posted under the <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/our-senators-are-hypocrites/104344/" target="_blank">interview</a> I
granted. In fact many Nigerians gossip blogs reposted the
interview on their various naija gossips sites with malicious captions encouraging
very violent comments. Some bloggers even go as far as publishing
pictures unlawfully taken from LGBT Rights advocates’ facebook pages and post these
online with malicious comments encouraging jungle justice to be carried out on
these activists.
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Why do Nigerians think it is
OK to threaten anyone with jungle justice, yet shed crocodile tears when
jungle justice was carried out on the Aluu4? Is it that jungle justice is not
acceptable when the victims are heterosexuals but acceptable if they are gays?
Why the double standard? </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jungle justice is of course
barbaric in every sense of the word, no right thinking human being should ever
advocate for such an evil action, it is certainly not something we should wish
on our worst enemies, yet many Nigerians wish this on gays, lesbians, bisexuals
and transsexuals even though these people cannot cause harm to anyone with
their sexual orientation.</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Does anyone deserve to live
in fear of Jungle justice?</span></span></h3>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals face the
threat of jungle justice every day in Nigeria; they know that getting to court
alive would be a luxury. They could be mobbed to death
instantly if ever caught in the act or even on mere suspicion. Would the
percentage of Nigerians condemning jungle justice drastically drops if it
involved gays and lesbians? </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Not too long ago, a video
was posted online of </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">three female students who were allegedly
‘Lesbians’. They were forced to perform sexual act on themselves by a group of barbaric
guys, they were flogged, tortured, humiliated and raped. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/yemisi-ilesanmi/do-not-help-spread-the-video-of-naked-girls-beaten-tortured-and-forced-to-perfor/10150786942666873" target="_blank">I wrote an appeal</a> calling
for justice and urged people to stop sharing the video. I was indeed surprised by
the number of ‘likes’ on the horrendous, violent rape video, and some of these who
clicked like on the video were my facebook friends, needless to say I had them
deleted shortly after sending them a short message on exactly why I was
deleting them from my friendship list.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/yemisi-ilesanmi/do-not-help-spread-the-video-of-naked-girls-beaten-tortured-and-forced-to-perfor/10150786942666873"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This horribly violent video did not receive a wide
condemnation, the police never acted on it, the National Human rights commission
was informed, various Human rights NGOs in Nigeria were contacted, and none
felt it would be productive to demand for justice for the ladies. The fact that
the tortured students were allegedly lesbians did not earn them much public sympathy,
the allegation of Lesbianism already made them sub-humans in the eyes of
Nigerians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So I ask again, how many Nigerians would really stand up
and speak against jungle justice if the Aluu 4 victims were gays caught in the
act? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> State sanctioned Jungle Justice? </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There have been many documented cases of public bullying
and torture of gays and lesbians in Nigeria, yet we never heard a public
condemnation of such barbaric threats and acts against LGBTs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Under Shari’a law which has
been adopted by 12 Northern states in Nigeria, Sodomy is a criminal offence
which is penalize with death by stoning. Hate crimes are not uncommon in
Nigeria as can be seen in the following cases and remarks: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
Jigawa State, a Muslim state, in April 2002, a 22 year-old student at the
Birnin Kudu College, was beaten to death by fellow students because" they
suspected him as gay." </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Anietie and Joy, lesbian Christian couple,
were attacked with acid by some people through their bedroom window. Joy died
as a result of the attack and Anietie was hospitalised.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <i><a href="http://www.yawningbread.org/guest_2006/guw-107.htm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Source (http://www.yawningbread.org/guest_2006/guw-107.htm) </span></a></i>
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
12 September 2008, four newspapers published the names, addresses, and
photographs of the twelve members of the House of Rainbow, a LGBT-friendly
church in Lagos. As a result, some members were threatened, stoned, and beaten.
One woman was attacked by 11 men. As of the end of 2011, no action had been
taken against the perpetrators. <i>Source (<a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/160138.pdf"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/160138.pdf </span></a></i></span><i><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/160138.pdf"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices: Nigeria</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State, page 58</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> In the international arena, Nigeria has continued its
campaign, openly calling for killing people who engage in homosexual conduct.
At the UN Human Rights Council in September 2006, Nigeria ridiculed the notion
that executions for offences such as homosexuality and lesbianism are
excessive. Its diplomat said: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What may
be seen by some as disproportional penalty in such serious offences and odious
conduct may be seen by others as appropriate and just punishment</i>.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Source- <span style="color: #42210b;">"</span></span><b>Recognizing Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at the Human Rights Council Session 2," ARC International (2006); also available on Human Rights Council Website, <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/">www.unhchr.ch</a>, cited in This Alien Legacy, Human Rights Watch Report, December 2008, p.62) </b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Also, recently at the United Nations, Nigeria was one of
the countries that voted in support of removing ‘sexual orientation’ as one of
the grounds which extra judicial, summary and arbitrary execution would not be
tolerated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need I point out that extra
Judicial, summary and arbitrary execution include JUNGLE JUSTICE? Well, Nigeria
actually voted that jungle justice be mete out to Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and
Transsexuals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> When Nigerians have so much hate for LGBT persons who have not caused them harm in anyway, how can they even have an iota of human feeling for those
who actually harm them? </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Law enforcement agents are not
sympathetic to sexual
minority cases, the government seeks to further criminalize homosexuals and the majority of the citizens want to stone gays to death, what a country! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When leaders of our country, our security agents and the generality of our citizens
have such
mindsets, how can we begin to talk of a social justice conscience and
sanity in
our nation?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nigerians must rid themselves of mental slavery, self righteousness
and religious stupidity before they can truly empathize with another human
being or other earthlings, without a need to justify their actions with quotes
from some imported ‘holy books’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Selective justice is bad and jungle justice has no place
in a civilized, sane society. Of course Nigeria is not yet a civilized, sane
society, but this is not a reason for us to flaunt our primitiveness. Let us at
least make an effort to rid ourselves of these primitive urges, and try to
understand that every life matters. </span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To maintain sanity, law and
order in our society, we must learn to rise above primitive urges, and give
everyone a fair chance to be heard in a democratic court of law. Some would say it is
easy to say this if one had never been attacked by armed robbers. Well, some of us had experienced armed robbery at gun
point, we have had horrible people do despicable things to us and our loved
ones, but what makes us above these despicable people is because we have
refused to drag ourselves down to their evil level. An eye for an eye is never
a good thing; it would leave everyone blind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A nation is as good as the conscience of its citizens; a
nation is also as bad as the conscience of its citizens. On the issue of Rights
of Sexual minorities, many Nigerians lack a social conscience and no
encompassing social justice can come from such a nation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We can only fairly fight against that which we totally condemn, we cannot on one hand condemn jungle justice and on the other hand advocate or passively accept that it is OK for gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, or Trans to be
mobbed and stoned to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Where do you stand
on the issue of jungle justice; are you totally against Jungle Justice or is it
No to Jungle Justice, but…? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a cancer in town; it is not a new disease, in fact
it has been around ever since humans started creating Gods. It has always been dangerous;
however with inducements and profits to be made, it gets more dangerous! Its
most potent strategy of invasion is through indoctrination. Infected persons
indoctrinate children and are commanded to infect others. People who are not
infected or already cured are still affected by this cancer. Distance is not a barrier as this cancer takes
control of its victims and influences them to act in ways that have far
reaching consequences. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQUUmax87urK-Ovd1kvbzbuT8kbI6vvSPOS9KXeataM8v2h7B_MWm9j0_pxRVeTkSjV9z1rTEiGhIVW4HyyWk_VxvCXNOxngzUBRSdxCRbBce3b1F2NWr83FlA0UZnVnSkvSG2q9XYL4/s1600/409263_194632337300826_100002621825953_318303_1770217189_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQUUmax87urK-Ovd1kvbzbuT8kbI6vvSPOS9KXeataM8v2h7B_MWm9j0_pxRVeTkSjV9z1rTEiGhIVW4HyyWk_VxvCXNOxngzUBRSdxCRbBce3b1F2NWr83FlA0UZnVnSkvSG2q9XYL4/s320/409263_194632337300826_100002621825953_318303_1770217189_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As an infected child grows, the cancer also grows and it suppresses
normal brain activity. When left untreated, the cancer grows larger than the
brain and keeps the brain in a state of mental slavery, thereby rendering the
brain useless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Religion is indeed a cancer; it is a cancer that is implanted
in the brain of almost every child. Children get infected through already
infected family members and guardians. Infected authority figures like school teachers
and State agents also transfer the malignant disease.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Religion is the main cancer; however this cancer also comes
in different shapes and sizes. The type of cancer most often depends on where a
child was born and how deeply infected the child’s parents/guardians are. Geographical
location also plays a key part in determining the severity of the cancer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The cure for this cancer lies in liberating the brain; a sharp
dose of reason, followed by daily therapy of logical thinking would shrink the
cancer. Unfortunately the victims are prevented from using their brain by the well
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Infected children learn to accept the cancer as normal. The cancer penetrates the brain and eats out
the thinking part of the brain. Adults embrace
and accept the cancer as a necessary part of life. People who suffer from belligerent ‘Religion Cancer’
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A willingness to fly into buildings and kill non
sufferers who they call infidels</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hearing voices and seeing demons </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Slapping young girls in church, attempting to cast out evil spirits from
women, old people and the mentally ill. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Speaking in tongues and rolling on the floor in
a state of holy ghost frenzy </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Murdering albinos and hunchbacks for money making rituals</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Offering animals as sacrifice to Gods </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Quoting Sodom and Gomorrah as a reason to stone
gays to death and deny sexual minorities equal rights </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Screaming from mountain tops that sky
daddy must strike down perceived enemies by fire by force. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Demanding that everyone be forcefully infected with 'Religion cancer'. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Yelling at non sufferers that they will burn in
hell for eternity. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ARE YOU INFECTED? Stay Calm, Be Calm, although ‘Religion
Cancer’ is a very powerful cancer it can still be defeated.</span></span></div>
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fast, save your brain from the grip of the deadly ‘Religion Cancer’. Start your
medication now, take doses of reason and logic, engage in rational thinking ,
search for facts , demand evidence, this would surely scare the cancer away and
with time it would shrink considerably and in some cases, full recovery is
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Surround yourself with people who still have their brains intact and do not to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">EMANCIPATE YOURSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY, FLUSH OUT RELIGION,
CLEANSE YOUR BRAIN AND EMBRACE LOGIC, NOT CANCER! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Would people object to an atheist
group showing up at pride with a banner “Atheist for LGBT rights”? Would this
confuse onlookers and make them assume that all atheists are for LGBT rights? I was at the
2012 World Pride in London and right behind my group ‘<a href="http://nigerianlgbtindiaspora.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same Sex Laws</a>’ was another group with the banner Lawyers for
Equality. I am a lawyer and I also happen to know many lawyers who are
against equality rights for LGT people. Should the anti-LGBT equality lawyers
protest the use of the name Lawyers in such context? Well, that would be silly! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just like Lawyers, Socialists and Humanists, I can also
use my Atheist self-identity to complement other causes I identify
with. No other atheist get to tell me, “hey do not add plus to Atheism, you are
redefining it”. I am not redefining it, I am only using what I already am to
promote other causes I believe in, if you don’t like it, sue me for copyright infringement,
if you can’t, just learn to live with it! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do not necessarily discuss socialism in an atheists forum
but if the issue came up, I won’t shy away from engaging in critical debates.
In the case of racism, sexism or homophobia, I do not jump into atheists
forum and scream, "hey everyone; I wanna lecture you about sexism, racism, or
homophobia"! In most instances, the words used by group members trigger the need
to engage on ‘rights based’ discussion. You might be perfectly happy to make
posts bashing religion but when you use words like cunts, slut, and faggots
in your group forum, it becomes incumbent upon me as a group member to bring to
your attention the logical implication of your language use. When you further
dismiss my concerns as “girls talk” or “rants”, then it becomes necessary for me
to call you out on your irrational behavior. When you
come on social network sites to call out religious believers on their
lack of thinking capacity in the area of religion; it is only fair that same be
applied to you in areas where you have also displayed a lack of thinking
capacity, no exceptions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I appreciate that not
all atheists are concerned about social justice issues, and I probably wouldn’t
start a social justice debate with a random atheist I met in a bar who just
want to have a drink. However atheists who come on social network sites and
spend time bashing religions are basically saying, “I do not belief in your
religion, your Jesus story is fraught with irrationalities, your God sounds
like a bigot”, well you are basically telling the world that you are someone
who lacks a belief in a deity because you are a rational thinker, as the slogan
says, “I think, therefore I am an Atheist”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you present yourself not just as an atheist but claim
your atheism is as a result of rational thinking, don’t be surprised when people
engage you in rational debates because they think you are a rational thinker ,
who by definition, should be open to rational debates and ready to succumb to superior facts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the reason I bother to engage in rational
discussions with atheists and expect same from them. This is why the way I would
engage with a random atheist I met in a private space would be different from
the way I engage an atheist I met on an atheist social network group. Therefore
when rape jokes, gay or racial slurs are made on an atheists' forum, it is only
logical to engage in rational discussions about the genesis of such slurs that have
led to irrational conclusions about a group of people. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When some atheists cringe away from such discussions and
instead chose to label me or other dissenters as divisive, feminazis or
confrontational, well, what they are simply signaling is that they are rational
only around the issue of religion, that they lack the capacity to be rational
about other issues that demands rationality or just that they do not wish or
have chosen not to engage in rational discussion or reach a rational conclusion
about certain issues. In most cases, these certain issues just happened to be issues
feminists, lgbts advocate and human rights activists are concerned about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I do understand that
it could be difficult for someone with power or privilege to relinquish or even
admit that they have power and privilege. Engaging in Rights discussion with
some atheists is basically like trying to take away their prized toys, it is
not easy to pry away old toys from some adults, it is not easy breezy to let go
of privileges, but you can’t eat your cake and have it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to come online and laugh at religious believers
for their irrational belief in a god, well everyone has also got the right to
laugh at your irrational belief or in
most cases attitudes that reinforce the irrational beliefs that women are
inferior and can be called sluts, that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans are somehow
fit only to be called faggots, that blacks are subhuman and therefore should be
tactically silenced in a group, that persons with physical disability or mental
health issues can be ignored in a forum.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you use words and act in ways that support these
irrational beliefs, you are not any
better than the irrational religious believers you are so eager to laugh at! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you do not want people to laugh at your funny beliefs,
do not hold funny beliefs, if you do not want me to be called out on your
bigotry, do not display bigotry, if you do not want me to get angry at your
irrational thoughts, do not express such thoughts towards me. Being an
atheist does not give you a free pass from scrutiny, being a member of an atheist
group does not give you a license to be an asshole. It really is that simple. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">BTW, you still have a right not to identify with Atheism+,
it does not automatically make you an asshole, just same way identifying as an
atheist does not automatically make you a decent person. We can still hang out on atheist forums but
I’ll surely be an irritating fly buzzing around parochial atheists who use atheists’
forums to perpetrate misogyny, homophobia and racism. Atheists who aren’t assholes
need not find me irritating for standing up for equal rights for all, anywhere
and everywhere I can. So I guess we should get along very well on Atheist minus
the Plus forum. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, it is great to know that when I need a break from
all the misogynist fights and ism schisms bullshits, I can always have an
Atheists+ forum to retreat to. A safe place is always welcome, even the
toughest of activists needs a sanctuary. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do not know what the hullabaloo is about Atheism+, why all
the hate and tantrums? I understand that people fear change, people with power
fear anything that would or could threaten their power base, and because atheists
are people, they are not exempted from this fear of change. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">People who enjoy power hardly want their privileged
positions questioned. They fight the change makers, they cast aspersion on the oppositions’
characters, they fight tooth and nail to discredit the change and this is mostly
what the fight against Atheism+ is all about. The sad thing is, many of those
fighting the Atheism+ concept would hardly agree that they fight because they
are afraid of change, nope; they would hide under so many notions to justify
their stance against atheism+. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">People love to have power over others; the insignificant minorities
are always the victims. Many so called progressives still use their residual patriarchal
power, sometimes unconsciously, to lord it over others and they loathe it when
they are confronted with this fact. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why am I in support of Atheism+? I am a black African woman
who also identify as atheist, bisexual, feminist, socialist and humanist. Sometimes I join groups that promote all my
identities or at least acknowledge some of the things I identify as and with.
For example, I identify with Black feminists groups, African labour groups, Labor
women organizations, LGBT Atheists, African bisexuals, Black Atheists groups,
Working class Atheists, Secular humanists and female workers groups. When
attached to my birth identity, these self identity tags afford me the
opportunity to understand at a glance, the demography of the groups.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am conscious that
not every organization that I identify with shares my values or identities,
however when joining or identifying with a group, I consider it important that
I network with groups and persons who do not only share a birth or self
identity with me but also share core
values. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">While I might not think it is important to bring up my
socialist notions in a black bisexual group or an African atheist group, I would
definitely think it is important that whenever a discrimination is made in a
group I identify with, it would be my duty and responsibility to point this out
and if the group failed to change, those of us with same values can organize to
change the group or form a better one. And yes, any group can be improved upon
including Atheist groups. It is not about changing the meaning of Atheism, it
is about using my Atheist identity to promote rational values. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> For example, I
identify as a member of many Nigerian progressive groups and some of these
groups are unfortunately not in support of sexual minority rights. The
homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Nigerian and African human rights communities
would not stop me from identifying as a Nigerian or African human right
activist, but it sure could stop me from identifying with a group that is continuously
homophobic, it could also cause me to organise a revolution within the group to
force it to acknowledge its defects and yes, also mobilize a subgroup to signal
that we stand for much more than the default group. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I have identified as
a freethinker and atheist for more than a decade and it is only natural that I
seek out people who also identify as same. Of course, I am also eager to find
people who not only share birth identities with me but who also share self
identities with me. I would eagerly join an African Atheist group, a black
women’s group, a women atheist group, LGBT atheist group, Nigerian atheists/
freethinkers groups, <a href="http://nigerianlgbtindiaspora.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Nigerian LGBT groups</a> and LGBT Nigerian Atheist groups. It is only natural that I try to bond along
and across boundaries, however , experience have shown that while we might
share birth identity and a few self identities, our self identities and values
are not always all the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For example, I eagerly joined an African Atheists group on facebook
and was happy to network with other Africans who share my disbelief in theism
and are also ready to speak out about the reasons for their disbelief. In the
process of networking, other issues common to our shared human race came up,
especially in the mode of communication; language. Some of the group members’ posts were
homophobic, racist and demeaning to women and of course when there are conscious
feminists, lgbt advocates and humanists in the group, there is a sense of duty to
call out such posts and comments and explain to the group at large why such
language should not be encouraged. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, as my experience in some Atheists groups have
shown, most people, no matter how rational they claim to be, do not like to be
called out . The African atheist group I joined on facebook was very homophobic
and racist. There were posts and comments deriding mixed blood members as not
African enough and slur words like ‘mulattos’ were often used. When I made a
post on the group page about the role of religion in the persecution of sexual
minorities in Africa, the homophobes, who happened to be in the majority in the
group, let out the most horrible homophobic rants I ever encountered in a self
identified rationalist group! Of course when the admin failed to bring the
situation under control through tacit silence, I left the group, so did a few others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> My <a href="http://yemmynisting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/nigerian-atheists-genesis-and.html" target="_blank">experience with the Nigerian Atheist group </a>was worse, bigotry, sexism, and
irrationality was the order of the day in the group. It got so bad that female
members were threatened with rape and told that dicks would be rammed down
their mothers’ throats. A gay group member who live in the sharia part of
Nigeria had his home address posted online therefore seriously endangering his
life since he could be killed not just for his sexual orientation but also for
being an Atheist. All these irrational
actions came from dear Atheists who love bashing religious believers for their
lack of rationality. Would it be any
wonder if I decided not to hang out online or wherever with such people under
whatever label they come under?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Should I stop identifying as an African or Nigerian atheist
because some members of a group with the name is homophobic, sexist and
racist? Nope, I could very well organize
another group named African Atheist+
and/or Nigerian Atheists, with the + tag signifying that this is an Atheist
group of Africans / Nigerians whom along with their non belief in theism also
share some rational values like equality
for all, are anti- racism, pro-sexual minorities , gender positive and non-abliest. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having a clear tag would aid my decision on which group to
join and network with. It would save precious time I use online arguing with
bigoted, racist homophobic atheists on why they have no rational reason to be
racist, homophobic or a chauvinist. It would save me and many others the agony
of joining atheists groups that do not care that some of their members are
being subjected to degrading attitudes from other group members. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Atheism+ appeals to me because it promises a place to hang
out with atheists, who just like me, believe that bigotry, racism or homophobia
is irrational and are willing to critically examine social justice issues alongside
our non belief in the existence of God.
We want to network, talk about our atheism, social justice issues or
just hang out in an environment free of isms schisms. Is it really that difficult to understand? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the antagonist of atheists+ have asked, “We already have
secular humanism, why Atheist+? Well, I could also ask, “Why LGBT humanists,
African Humanists, Socialist humanists, Secular humanists, Female humanists or Nigerian
Humanists? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjvjI2qxas&feature=share&list=UUhgSFGlfQCgEXG57E0yU3oA" target="_blank">Is Atheism+ Label confusing?</a> Why so many tags?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, it is because people can self identify and are free to
self identify and create tags just same way people are free to create gods. So
far they are not forcing their tags down other peoples’ throats and touting
their tags as the only real thing or the truth, it is OK to self identify. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why should I be required to identify as a secular humanist
or be confined to secular humanist groups because I am an atheist who actively
advocate for human rights? I should have the right to identify as a secular
humanist and /or as an Atheist+, it is about choice. Secular Humanists have
chosen not to prominently use the word Atheist, it is their choice. I am a
member of a few secular humanists groups, it is my choice. I have chosen to use
my Atheist tag to identify with the social justice causes I care about, it is
my prerogative. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Why can’t I use my
self identified atheist tag to also represent other things I stand for? Is the Atheist
tag restricted? If yes, who made the restriction? When did we agree it should
be restricted? Why is it OK to have Black Atheist, Eastern Atheist, American
Atheist, LGBT Atheist but not OK to have Atheist+? Why and how is it OK to have Secular humanism, another tag over
humanism but not OK to have Atheist+ or humanist atheists? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I think those
fighting the Atheist+ tag should examine their real motive to understand what
they are scared of. Are they scared that
Atheism would be overrun by feminists, human rights activists, Atheists women demanding not to be called
sluts in atheists groups, Africans demanding not to be given the second class
treatment in international Atheist
groups, atheists living with disabilities demanding not to be ignored in an
atheist gathering or young atheists
demanding that their voice be heard? What exactly are the anti-Atheist+ afraid
of?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I care about social justice issues , my activist cap is not
one I wear when I feel like it, it is an
integral part of me, it is me. Even though I care so much about social justice
issues, I do appreciate that going on and on about the abuse of social
justice through language use in an atheist group, might just tick off some
atheists. Yes, I understand that some atheists just wanna bash baby Jesus and
have fun without caring about sexism, bigotry, racism or homophobia in their
language used, I dampen the fun of those atheists by pointing out their
parochial attitudes. I was actually told in a Nigerian atheist forum that I
should go form a women atheist group and leave the group so that they can have
their misogynist fun without any guilt. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do not apologize for my social justice consciousness and
cannot make excuses for anyone who wants to hide under whatever label,
including an atheist label to spew parochial views. I do not even want to hang
out with such persons, irrespective of our shared disbelief in God, It does not
mean I am leaving the label Atheism for you, it only means I am also seeking
cooler friends to hang out with, friends who happen to share same social
justice consciousness with me, not too difficult to understand, is it? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">I am not a Feminist with a BUT and I am
certainly not an Atheist with a BUT, I am simply an Atheist with a PLUS and for
me, the plus is the icing on the cake. Some like icing, some don’t, whatever
float your boat. If you still do not understand why I want my Atheism to be with
a plus, well it is not my problem, it is your problem, hope you get it solved
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<br />Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-16293378332452049082012-08-20T13:51:00.000-07:002012-08-20T13:51:04.770-07:00CHILD ABUSE IS NOT DISCIPLINE OR AFRICAN, IT IS SIMPLY CRUELTY TO CHILDREN!
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188239/Nigerian-couple-beat-children-jailed-Coronation-Street-barmaid-Michelle-Collins-gave-evidence-them.html#ixzz23Y09ChaE" style="color: red;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Nigerian couple who beat their six children jailed after Coronation Street barmaid Michelle Collins gave evidence against them</span></b></a></div>
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wires, claiming they were possessed by evil spirits</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></li>
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birthday</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></li>
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by one of the children</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></li>
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children</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></li>
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Yes, it hurts me personally and in every humane way possible
when children undergoing abuse are not believed when they finally find the
courage to speak out. It also hurts me to no end that in the part of the continent
I come from, people define 'child abuse' in a different way and conveniently
brush it aside by calling it discipline! </div>
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It is indeed sad that some Nigerians consider this case as 'culture clash' and even racial discrimination!</div>
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To many Nigerians, it is considered normal for pastors to
accuse children of <a href="http://youtu.be/sfoIfbZF4JA" target="_blank">witchcraft and slap them</a> in churches, it is considered OK <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for prophets to take children to beach sides
and beat them mercilessly while their parents shout hallelujah, all under the ‘acceptable
disguise’ of casting out evil spirits from the children. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, these are not rare occurrences, as i wrote in a<a href="http://yemmynisting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/slap-some-sense-into-bishop-david.html" target="_blank"> previous post</a>, these
things happen almost every minute of the day, just visit Lagos Bar Beach! </div>
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Parents beat their children with brooms, cut them with sharp
objects and inflict all sorts of injuries on their children and wards, all in
the name of discipline and these are normally the same parents who steal in
their workplaces and brag about their 419 activities in front of their children.
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In public schools, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>teachers think it is OK to beat children in
their care, the bigger the cane/rod, the more feared the teacher, unfortunately
many teachers and even parents in Nigeria do not appreciate that there is a
difference between fear and respect. BTW, I attended a public school in
Nigeria, so I know what I am talking about... and yes, cos of that experience I
never allowed my child to go to a public school, even if it meant working
myself to death to afford private schools where I can very well tell the teachers,
“lay a finger on my child, I’ll get my child out of the school and we will meet
in court!”. </div>
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No, abuse is not the same as discipline, transferred
aggression is all too common in our society, teachers and parents are not
exempted and adults in authority tend to abuse the privilege since it is
considered rude for a child to talk back or contradict an adult. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of this
couple, I would ask, were there injury marks on the bodies of the children? The
article said there were, to quote the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188239/Nigerian-couple-beat-children-jailed-Coronation-Street-barmaid-Michelle-Collins-gave-evidence-them.html#ixzz23Y09ChaE" target="_blank">article-</a></div>
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“Revealing scars the eldest said her mother had hit her with
a cable, a broom, and a hoover and her father had dangled her by her feet down
the stairwell of the house, tied her hands behind her back and her legs
together 'to get the devilish spirits out', prosecutor Emma Smith said.<br />
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Her sister, who was seven at the time, had a stick shaped bruise of her thigh
and after a few months in care, she drew a series of pictures showing her dad
beating her and her being left home alone and including a speech bubble saying
‘I’m hungry”. </div>
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These are PHYSICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL indications of child abuse. </div>
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Should the geographical location, race or skin colour of children
determine whether the children have been abused? No, every child matters! If
such abuses would never be tolerated from white parents, why should it be
tolerated because the parents of the children concerned are black? </div>
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When we look beyond skin colour and race issues
and look at every PERSON, first and foremost, as a HUMAN BEING with rights,
respect and dignity, then we will understand that we ought to stand up for the
vulnerable, without asking the question.. “What is their race?”</div>
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My heart goes out this minute to every child undergoing
child abuse and too scared to speak out and to those children who have spoken
out but are being told to shut up by adults around them.</div>
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NO, CHILD ABUSE IS NOT AFRICAN; IT IS SIMPLY CRUELTY TO CHILDREN!</div>
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Yemisi Ilesanmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016262198283286601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510572090503470407.post-90871227159607620222012-08-17T11:16:00.000-07:002012-08-17T11:37:03.606-07:00RESPECT MY ATHEISM; DO NOT SEND ME BIRTHDAY GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF YOUR SKY DADDY!<br />
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I just completed another full year circle, Facebook as
usual, notified my FB friends, not a bad thing , but on my facebook page, there is a very
bold info that states that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I AM AN
ATHEIST, btw, if you are on my Facebook page as a friend or subscriber and you
do not know that I am PROUDLY BISEXUAL, PROUDLY FEMINIST AND PROUDLY ATHEIST,
wtf are you doing on my page? </div>
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Anyway, why do people feel the need to send me birthday greetings
and PRAYERS in the name of their God, even when they know I do not share their
belief in a Sky daddy? This is simply RUDE!</div>
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Now, imagine you are a religious person, let’s say a
Christian, and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you have it
on your facebook info and other social networks that you are a CHRISTIAN
and you also regularly make posts on your wall about how Jesus is your ONLY
LORD and SAVIOUR, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how every other god is
fake because your scriptures says all other ‘Gods’ are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>deaf, dumb , blind and you should not worship
these <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>carved idol images and then your birthday
comes up, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>and some 'well meaning' friends posts
the message below on your <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>facebook wall:-</div>
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“Happy birthday dear friend, Sango shall strengthen you, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ogun will protect you and your family, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oya shall bless you, Osun will nurture your
children , enjoy your special day in the name of Amadioha.”</div>
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Would you feel angry and /or disrespected? Would you just
smile and say thanks or would you scream “Hey, do not bring your idolatry onto
my page and certainly not into my life, fuck off idol worshiper!” </div>
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Well, that is exactly what I actually would love to say to
those who, knowing that I am an atheist, still insist on sending me birthday prayers in the name of Jesus, Allah, Mohammed or whatever God(s) they worship, instead I said "Thanks" and decided to write this blog post, with the hope that this won't happen again!<br />
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Yes, your prayers are meaningless to me, but when you insist
on praying for me, YOU DISRESPECT ME. You just confirm that you are a religious
bigot who wants to force your beliefs and unsolicited prayers down my throat.
The fact is, such people simply confirm just how bad religion is and
how it could turn a perfectly nice person into a thoughtless Zombie! You might be a well meaning person, but forcing your beliefs and prayers on me is rude and certainly not well meaning!</div>
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Society always advocate tolerance of religion and culture, as long as you
are not tolerating anything that harms another, respect and tolerance is the
key word. BTW, if you hold funny beliefs, do not expect people not to laugh
at your belief, this is not intolerance or disrespect, funny things including funny beliefs automatically generate laughter!</div>
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Now, listen to me, I am an Atheist, I am a human being with
rights to Freedom FROM Religion, I deserve to have my Atheism respected by everyone
including the pope!</div>
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If you invited a Muslim for dinner, it would be unethical to
offer pork and alcohol for dinner, it would be considered religious and
cultural disrespect to extend a handshake to a Muslim woman or an Orthodox <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jew of the opposite sex, it would be bad
ethics to wear your shoes into the house of a Hindu, it would be considered disrespectful
if you entered a church and started pouring libation to your ancestral
gods, now is it so difficult to understand that IT IS RUDE TO SEND AN ATHEIST A
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BIRTHDAY PRAYER? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Or do you think that Atheists do not deserve to have their non belief respected?</span></div>
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As an Atheist, there are many things I am already angry
about, with justified reasons too, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what
with religious people insisting on teaching the Creationist story of Adam, Eve
and the talking snake as fact in PUBLIC SCHOOLS, religious fanatics wanting to
stone gays and women who commit adultery to death because their precious holy
books say so, religious zealots influencing laws and state policies to fit with
their religious beliefs…gawd, I got so many bullshits to put up with from
religion and its shitty practitioners that I certainly do not need someone
adding “forcibly praying for me”, to the unending lists of STUPID THINGS
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE DO TO ME!”. </div>
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So here is my birthday wish and a lesson in ethics:</div>
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- Do not send me a birthday prayer in the name of whatever
god or deity you believe in </div>
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- Do not send me prayer greetings</div>
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- Do not offer to pray for me</div>
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-Do not tell me what your God(s) have in store for me</div>
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-Do not send me a bible or any other religious books as
presents</div>
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However, for a birthday present, you can deposit a huge sum of
money into a Swiss bank account IN MY NAME, send the code to me and tell me GOD DID IT… I promise
not to be angry! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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