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Thursday, 5 January 2012

Photo of the day: Christians on guard as Muslims pray

During yesterday's #OccupyNigeriaKano protest. This is the kind of Nigeria we want. United!

69 comments:

Anonymous said...

United we stand divided we fall

Anonymous said...

Now let's #OccupyNigeria to the max!

Anonymous said...

you guys need to go to sierra leone those guys are the most religious tolerant people christians and muslims coexist with no problems, intermarry etc Gadaffi tried to destabilise them and failed

Anonymous said...

What's united here? How many moslem women are praying next to the men?

SMH

Anonymous said...

UNITED WE STAND DIVIDE WE FALL!!! THIS IS THE WAY WAY FOWARD!!!

Anonymous said...

Nigeria's NEW NATIONAL PLEDGE!!!
I pledge to Nigeria my country, 2b trekking, running and jogging. To bring Jonathan down with all my strength. To check his sanity and oppose his useless subsidy story, and uphold our honor and glory. so help me God!

Anonymous said...

When the people are UNITED: they'll never be DEFEATED! #occupyNigeria

Unknown said...

This is the true picture of things...all those religious this & that we get on TV & other forms of media are all political propaganda, be it in Naija or all over the world. Selfish politicians....politrickcians!!!!

Anonymous said...

All dt glitters are not gold.

Anonymous said...

No one should be deceived by this .It has always been like this since.Christians don't have any problem with Muslims praying to whatever God in whatever manner they want. But Muslims does not view issues like that. Once you are not a Moslem, you are not worthy of life, to a true muslim,a church is like a shrine,and all Christians are called infidels. There can't be peace, until Islam begin to recognise " living and letting others" To all Muslims, serve your god and allow others to serve theirs.

miss B! said...

@anon 8.51, u're such an idiot!
*SMH for Ʊ instead.
Pple like Ʊ nid their heads checkd. U're such a̶̲̥̅̊ killjoy!
There's @ least peace smwhere and u're still hating,
U're such a̶̲̥̅̊ fckin' sadist! Fool oshi!
Do Τ̲̅ђe women av to fcuk d men b4 they can show peace n harmony????? U're such a̶̲̥̅̊ motherfucker!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I don't really know how sincere this is, but I think Muslim leaders should be more proactive in their leadership role especially as regards this boko haram threats and disturbances and links with Islam, if someone denonates a bomb in this kind of gathering or during a jumat on friday....u can't imagine the remaining story!! Let's be wise!!

Anonymous said...

@anon 8:51, are u dat dumb 2 no dat men n women dnt pray on dsame mat?#Islam!

Anonymous said...

@ Miss B, youre just on point.*thumb up*

How to Remove Pimples said...

After all is said and done, this is the way forward.

Anonymous said...

so we can live in peace lyk dis,thank god

Anonymous said...

If only d xtrimist in muslims would act like dis how wonder it will b.

Anonymous said...

You guys should know what ur promoting here. Mob action and chaos know no friend linda.
Christians on guard protecting from who or from what is i may ask?
We are such a copy cat people. No originality at all.No wonder we are such a backward set of beings

Anonymous said...

United ko...Arsenal Ni, Bloody Back stabbing piece of animals, small thing now a Journalist will write about sharia or a Teacher will flog an Almajiri and they will go all out to destroy and kill.

The Manny Enajeroh Blog said...

Everywhere in Nigeria is so tense right now. Ya'll need to loosen up. Check out my Top 5 Hoochie Mamas in Nigerian Music @ http://www.urhoborant.blogspot.com/?m=1 .....#occupymyhouse!!

onari said...

Removal of fuel should be a move supported by all patriots , though the timing was wrong, I strongly feel it will be to the good of all, believe it or not a chunk of that money went to a few individuals , political settlements, as well as vandalisation of the country's drive to self sufficiency on internal refining of fussel fuel for the benefit of these individuals.
I expect labour and the populace to be agitating a http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-276078.0.html#msg3918895 rationalisation of salaries and allowances of political office holders, total check of corruption , nepotism and inclusion of consumer representatives in all government process to ensure transparency in all sectors with monitoring of the gains of subsidy removal, this should be the crux of the
matter at stake.
Onari

Anonymous said...

Y'all don't get it do u...don't be ignorant...Muslim women don't pray beside em...we stand behind...
Also islam doesn't preach evil, or the killings of oda people..we value everyone's life...so y'all should know that watever the Boko haram peeps are doing is left to them and its so not inside our holy Book...so pls pls pls y'all should respect yourselves as muslims respect your religion....
We all have extremists in all religions....

Anonymous said...

Linda well done for this picture. I have never seen a better "photo of the day" on this blog. Well done.

Anonymous said...

Is our God no more one

grace said...

i am a christain and i really donot care if anyone is a christain or not, mehn everybody carry your cross oo, on judgement day, ild give account of my life to God not account of someone else's life to God! So whoever is intolerant about someone else's religion is just drinking serious panadol for nothing and i heard too much panadol causes heart attack!:P

Orobosa elizabeth oriakhi said...

Christians on guard as moslems pray,i agree.why dont u wait and see whether moslems will be on guard as christians pray

Anonymous said...

Miss B true talk. The idiots speaking above can't even speak proper English pls ignore them!

Mumus. No be one day good things they start. Foolish idiots. They will be opening their stupid mouths to yarn dust in public #sadists#

Anonymous said...

anon 8:47 PM .... Gaddaffi in sierra leone? I must comment by force.

Aisha JR عائشة said...

thanks miss b, asin share hatred. anyway back to being positive, Alhamdullilahi, may God continue to strengthen our bond in Nigeria. People should be able to live with different views peacefully.

Unknown said...

I'm in love with this pix. Cool

NK said...

If you consider this peaceful then u must be either highly uneducated or just too young to care. Like anon 9:23pm pointed out, this is how it has always been. If the roles were to be reversed, there will be blood shedding here. Christians never disturb muslim when they pray and most could careless to whom they pray to, but for muslims, Christians should not be allowed to worship their God. This is just the usual, so do not be fooled.

Anonymous said...

yes oh! all this na for show. why are they not protecting the Christians that are being killed inside the churches. they cannot and will neva accept any other religion especially christians as they are still called 'ARNE'

Fearless! said...

@ Miss B, u are foul mouthed!if u feel the need to disagree with the view of another person, please do it in an intellectual way as I want to believe ure literate, at least u can use the internet.

There is something called freedom of speech and we don't have to follow eachother like sheep.

Like anon 8.51 rightly pointed out, I don't see what is united here.
In the first place,christians did not attack muslims,they are the ones attacking christians. Christians are not retaliating, so I don't understand why christians should be on guard, what are the guarding them from?

It is always good to see things from another point of view, no one is all knowing, except God.

And as for this picture, I don't think any Christian in their right frame of mind will be on guard for muslims praying, after the recent happenings.

I don't support violence but I will never support guarding them either. And how do we know that those standing there are christians sef?
As for me, I think they are the ones guarding themselves because an evil mind will always conceive evil.

Ms. Estella said...

This pic is epic!
Love it!!

It is beginning to look like BadLuck Jonny made a Holy Mistake!

The subsidy wahala is now uniting ALL NIGERIANS irrespective of religion, tribe or class! The Naira and Oil has turned out to be the one thing that got all Naijans crying and talking at the same time!

Where is Boko Haram in all these sef? The fuel hike affected their operations? smh

Anonymous said...

the only thing i can use to be remembering that name that called nigeria,is a movie that called living in the bondage,,,and very soon we all must understand the meanings of that movie,,

mcMil3z said...

Dont jugde a book by its cover!!!
Guys check out
http://naijatalkon.blogspot.com

Emmanuel said...

Truetalk #GOD would surely answer Jonathan

Anonymous said...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16436112

Anonymous said...

Thus says the Lord to you: 'Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude (Boko Haram) for the battle is not yours but the Lord's.
Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you. AMEN. 2 Chronicles 20: 15,17

Free mtn browsing said...

This is good, i wish they'll also continuing doing this till the end.

Mr paul said...

Peace is the most enjoyable thing i ever desire, lets come 2gether n shun violence, lets live in peace n stop killing our brothers. We re one Nigerian. 2gether we stand, divided we fall. Linda, the Boko Haram strike again ReadBOKO HARAM KILL 6 PEOPLE IN GOMBE STATE

Nigeria daily news said...

Nigeriar should respect and expect better things, haters should stop their character and negative minded people should change their character.

Anonymous said...

Mmmmmmmmmmh

Anonymous said...

I'm looking at this pic and not really seeing the point of this article! All u can see is muslims praying!! Linda u are more than this.

Anonymous said...

you can joins protest against oil subsidy removal.Friday6/​Jan2012(12:30) Nigeria House 9 Northumberland Avenue,London WC2N 5BX.

Anonymous said...

To anon 9.23pm. I'm sure you lack knowledge that is why you will write such rubbish. A true Muslim will never call a xtian an infidel. Why don't you seek for knowledge before you start writing nonsense. The xtians are called the people of the book not infidels! U are just as dumb as ur post is.

Linda, I think there are some posts you should not permit on your blog.

ibo boy said...

Then who is Boko Haram??

Anonymous said...

Poor people dey suffer and the rich people they complain.......just imagine how much money they all share thinking is 5 cents. God will Judge people wey make poor people dey suffer. LI keep it up!

Anonymous said...

i don't know why we can't appreciate good things,it has never happen before since is happening now we all need to encourage it.

Anonymous said...

This Picture should be on every news station and national daily home and abroad... Whoever the big fool is heading the ministry of communication should take this Joker and use it to unite us a again

Gbam!

Anonymous said...

abeg where re d christians here??

Anonymous said...

NK thank you jor,some commenters here are just dumb! you think muslims will be smiling when Christians are praying? why is there boko haram in nigeria then?

Anonymous said...

united gini?hisss

Anonymous said...

This is laughable.These guys are protected in the first place.Don't those idle christians have something better to do? They might even be new converts to Islam.

Anonymous said...

anon 11:51pm yep he did built a huge mosque islamic schools, gave the government buses etc all in the name of trying to make Sierra Leone an islamic country with islamic laws

Anonymous said...

So those are actually Muslim women standing behind the Muslim men and not Christians on guard while Muslims pray?

Linda, you fall my hand for this misrepresentation.

Anonymous said...

Christian guard muslims while praying??? Where were the Muslims on Christmas day when Christians wwere being slaughtered like chickens on their way from church?? Sometimes the gullibility and foolishness of so-called Christians sickens and astonishes me. You think you are doing a good deed, those who you guard will eventually turn on you. If you think this is false, take a look at Egypt... During the 'revolution' everyone thought is was for common good... Christians stood guard over the muslims while praying. What is happening now? Coptics are being bombed, burnt, stabbed and killed EVERYDAY! who is protecting them now?
Although I am not in support of the immediate hardship subsidy removal is bringing to the masses, one thing we should realize is we leave fight for its retainment and were fighting to keep us enslaved becos Govt will keep giving excuses as to why our economy cannot be developed... our problem is we are too used to freebies so when our padded existence is threatened we take up arms. We forget so soon the govt of Abacha, when even when the subsidy was fully in place, fuel was unaffordable AND unavailable. we resorted to using 'abacha stoves' to cook bottom line is WE ADAPTED!. Now at least, even if it is expensive, it is relatively available. Noone is sleeping at the filling station. Yes it is expensive, so was mobile telecoms. the sooner we realise that if we keep giving the govt excuses to give us excuses for poor perforfance, we will not go anywhere! its terrible that the first govt ever to deregulate the oil sector, to make oil a commodity rather than the ONLY means of subsistence. Is met with rabid resistance.. can't we sit down and reason logically for once?? Christians are being killed left and right and you guard muslims thinking foolishly that you're doing a great good. Well God will help us all.
My two cents said

Anonymous said...

This picture is just laughable...common ask yourself,who are the Christians guiding the Muslims from??? Is it not their from their fellow book haramic Muslims??

Anonymous said...

Islam pretends to preach peace, yet it's followers would not allow " the unbelievers" to worship their own god in peace. Fighting for god is their tactic, atimes I use to wonder of their god is so weak that it depend on its followers to fight its course

Anonymous said...

Even if I choose to worship stone,the hassle should be between me and my maker....not a set of Arabian Allah followers...Muslims take note!!!!

Anonymous said...

@anon 10:09, my point exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

And what proof do u have datt d people standing there are christians,Even if dey are,do u thing d muslims'll do same for dem?.......Rubbish

Anonymous said...

Right people, I absolutely detest what Boko Haram is doing, and I am totally against it. However, some of the people commenting on this blog are rather ignorant. Boko Haram are a minority, and yes, the fools are causing large scale problems. But, I cannot stand the fact that the Christians commenting on this blog are blaming ALL Muslims. We are all not bombers and evil. And if you do your research properly, you will find that this sickening act of theirs is not even Islamic. For you to categorize the millions of innocent Muslims with these muppets is totally wrong. This is more of cultural problem than a religious problem, I mean there are Yoruba Christians too; plus the Yoruba Muslims do not have any involvement - they are NOT bombing Christians.
Look people, as a Muslim myself I really do hope idiots like boko haram will stop painting bad images of Muslims. But as a NIGERIAN, I really do hope Nigeria will become a country where we can all live in peace, without having to look over our shoulders every time in the fear. If we work together hand in hand, then surely we will this battle.

Theresa said...

If only Nigerians can choose to remain united irrespective of tribe, religions, class, etc, we will defeat bad leadership and corruption. The govt. knows this thats why they always employ "divide and conquer" tactics.

Fearless! said...

Yes please, where are the CHRISTIANS??????????????

Why are u allowing these Muslims give us a lecture about how they run their religion?
Personally, I don't want to know, I'm not being awkward but the truth is that its besides the point.
If they like, men and women should not
Talk to eachother, the point is, some muslims unleashed terror on Christians and its not acceptable.
If it is truly a religion of peace, why are they killing innocent people?

Actions speak louder than words, if it is truly a religion of peace, why do they always say it in their defence?
Personally, I don't have a problem with whatever religion a person decides to practice, I just feel its personal and its not fair to impose it on other people.

And to the Muslims that are commenting and not being realistic,shame on you!

If it was the other way round and it was ur father, mother, brother , sister or aunty that were killed in these baseless bombings, you won't be chatting shit!

If the religion is what they say it is,why do they keep repeating it?
It smacks of suspicion!

Please keep your religion to yourselves and we'll keep to ours!

Let Christians start killing muslims and you will see a different view from these "religion of peace people".

Christians please start talking, they are taking your silence as consent.

I bet some mumu's will start mouthing off, I dey wait!

Want to Get your Ex bf/gf back said...

This is a nice pix. We should tolerate one another as our messenger(Jesus and Muhammad-peace unto them) taught us through their life experiences.

Anonymous said...

Can they do that for christians? Foolish retarded beings that call themselves muslims,that are too illiterate to know that there are other human beings that don't share the same religion as them.

Anonymous said...

@"Fearless", By the way that you are expressing yourself here, it seems that you hated Muslims before this whole boko haram rubbish. Yes, it is a sensitive issue, and yes many Southern Christians are getting killed. My condolences for those who were affected by these evil acts. But can you not see that this is not a religious war, but a tribal one. You really need to open your eyes and see people as individuals, not all Muslims are evil!
It is ignorant people like you that will add more fuel to the fire that has already been created.
I am not against any religion whatsoever, I believe that every individual has their own religious path to choose.
However as I have believed from the start, the boko haram fools are nothing but puppets to the evil Nigerian politicians. For southern Nigerians to go and attack other innocent individuals in the name of justice, are creating the reaction that these people are looking for. No offence they are putting themselves on the same level as these morons. whether they want to think of it this way or not, they too are sinning by attacking the innocent.
The solution is to deal with the leaders, the Northern ones specifically.

Just a thought, think of the many Nigerian Muslims that are against this so much, that are innocent. Yet you categorize them with these demon murderers.
Please note that I am not painting the innocent Muslims as the victims; however rare sense we all are, the innocent, (Christian, Muslims, Jewish, etc).

Fearless! said...

At anon 10.15,
I can't remember employing u as my publicist!
That said,ure nt in a position to say or analyse how I feel,if u don't know, ask!!!stop jumping into conclusions.

FYI, my best friend was a muslim before marriage,I share a flat with another close friend of mine that was also born a muslim,my best pal at work is a muslim, asian too and she's one of the nicest people I have ever met, so don't preach to me about hating muslims cos I can go on talking about the people close to my heart that are muslims.

If u understand English (which I doubt u do!!!) u will understand from my comments that I don't hate muslims and it will be very stupid to think that I think all muslims will be like boko haram.

English language class and" Fearless" dictionary for anon 10.51.
1.When I say "muslims" and or "hausas", I am referring to those commiting these crimes and those supporting them.
2.If I do not use the word "all", that means there are exceptions. (I don't recall using all Muslims or all Hausas,so ur theory is ur imagination.
3.Do not call others Ignorant when u are infact ignorant!

U called me ignorant and I take particular exception to that!
Ignorant means "knowing very little".
trust me,u do not only not know very little but u know absolutely nothing about how I reason.
I celebrate ileya with my friends and its genuine, so why will I hate muslims.

I also need to mention that if it was the Pope that is linked to killing of muslims or herbalist,I will not be in support.

Lastly,i will like to state emphatically that if it were Christians that are killing muslims,I will still have the same point of view as a Christian.
I will not leave the issue and start chasing shadows like u and some other people are.
We need to learn to treat eachother like human beings.

For example,someone said something nasty about Allah and Mohammed and I didn't like it,Becos that is not the issue,people can worship whatever they like and we do not need to start making mockery of the god others believe in.

The issue is that,a group identified to Muslims~Hausas and against western civilisation are killing christians, so let's not lose focus by being pro-religion, Let we the sane ones (muslims,christains, herbalists etc)collectively fight this evil that is destroying Nigeria!!!

So anon 10.15, always look before u leap!!!

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