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By Charles Ogbu

THE #TRUMPLIST AND ISLAM AT A GLANCE

Few days ago, the newly sworn in U.S president, Donald Trump released a list of 7 Muslim countries whose citizens have been temporally banned from visiting the U.S. As expected, the list has generated a lot of controversies from those who believe that the ban contravenes the basic principle of tolerance upon which America was built.

I am of the view that condemning the action of the U.S president without taking a wholistic look at the issues which informed it amounts to playing to the gallery.

During the electioneering campaign, Donald Trump promised he would restrict Muslims coming into his country if he won the election. He campaigned and got elected on the strength of those promises. Which means, the American people who elected him actually wanted him to restrict Muslims coming to America. How can any reasonable person now expect the U.S president to renege on his campaign promises to his own people just to please the world? Is president Trump's first duty no longer to the people who elected him??

Personally, I can never understand why those Muslim refugees would leave Saudi Arabia the headquarters of all Muslims in the world, Behrain, Kuwait, Iran, Lebanon and all the other countries with whom they share the same "peaceful" religion, language, culture and even common boundary and walk thousands of kilometres all the way to Europe and America with whom they have absolutely nothing in common. The same America they kill with their mouths on daily basis? The same America that is peopled by infidels who eat pork and have sex with people of the same sex? I have never been able to understand this! And I really want to understand it.

Rather than joining the pseudo-moralists to lambast Trump for banning certain Muslims from visiting his country, we should look at the reasons that inform Trump's decision which is the fear of those Muslims growing so bold and audacious to force their own Islamic life styles on his American people through violent means.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, granted. But, almost all terrorists that have ever carried out terrorist attack in Europe and America are Muslims and almost all known terrorist groups in the world today are Muslims. This is a statement of fact, verifiable fact! So in all honesty, can we really say that Trump's fears are baseless???

We must do away with political correctness for once and tell ourselves the bitter truth here:

Humanity has always been at war with radical Islam.

Granted that the number of those committing atrocities in the name of Islam is negligible when compared to the so called moderate ones. Now, the question is, what do the so called moderate Muslims do whenever their radical brethren kill innocent people in the name of Islam? The answer is nothing!

When a Christian woman, Mrs Bridget Agbohime was beheaded in kano by Muslims youth, there was no outrage from Nigerian Muslim community. None at all! Even the president indirectly blamed the dead woman for not respecting the religion of her killers. As I type this, all the killer yet roam the earth as free men. The Nigerian govt and the security agencies, all headed by Muslims refused to prosecute those monsters who gruesomely murdered that woman in the name of islam.

What does this portray???

What other proof do I need to conclude that the so called moderate Muslims are no different from their radical brethren when it comes to lack of respect for the sanctity of human lives?????

How many times have the so called moderate Muslims protested against any of the numerous terrorist attack carried out by their fellow Muslims around the world?? But, now, they are all protesting against #TheTrumpList even when it was their conspiracy of silence which connotes complicity in those attacks that birthed the TrumpList.

As long as the larger population of Muslims who claim to be peaceful find it difficult to openly condemn the mindless bloodletting the few radical ones carry out in the name of Islam, those larger Muslim population will always remain irrelevant and the criminal activities of those few extremists will continue to determine how Islam is viewed by the rest of the world!

Instead of wallowing in self pity, the Muslim world need to do more to combat Islamic fundamentalism. So far, they are not doing much in that regard.

Stop trying to convince me that Islam is a religion of peace. Prove it!

If Islam is a religion of peace as some Muslims would have us believe, Islamic extremists should be extremely peaceful! You don't need Charles Ogbu to be the one to tell you this, do you?

President Trump is not to blame. Radical Islam and the silence of the so called moderate Muslims in the face of the senseless killing their brethren have continue to subject humanity to, are to blame for all these.

The earlier the Muslim world admit that something is fundamentally wrong with some teachings of Islam especially the violent verses and work towards genuine reforms to take out those violent sections from where terrorists have continued to draw their inspiration, the better for Islam and the rest of the human race!

Off with their heads! How French politics went topsy-turvy in 100 days

© AFP | "Au revoir" to François Hollande (left), Manuel Valls and Nicolas Sarkozy (right), just three of the prominent casualties of these rollercoaster three months.

Text by Benjamin DODMAN

Latest update : 2017-01-31
With François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy already out of the picture, Manuel Valls’s crushing primary defeat on Sunday capped an astonishing one hundred days that turned the race for the Élysée Palace into a quagmire.

In hindsight, one could say of Valls’s doomed presidential run that he got everything wrong except his opening plea: he asked not to be handed the favourite’s tag, knowing it must cursed. In an age of electoral upsets, it certainly was. The former prime minister endured a wretched campaign. He was flour-bombed, slapped in the face and derided for his spectacular policy U-turns, before eventually settling for continuity – when everyone wanted change. He was duly trounced by leftist rebel Benoît Hamon, the man pundits had written off as an also-ran with a wacky manifesto.

Valls was merely the latest casualty of France’s rollercoaster pre-presidential campaign. Le Monde, the respected daily newspaper, has likened it to a Quentin Tarantino film, “a pastiche of a B-movie in which every new character destined to be the hero ends up zapped with a single bullet”. The cast – featuring the likes of François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppé, Cécile Duflot, Arnaud Montebourg and Valls – reads like a who’s who of French politics. Now every one of them has been zapped.

Casse-toi pauv’ Sarko

One hundred days ago, a dreary repeat of 2012’s three-way contest between Sarkozy, Hollande and far-right leader Marine Le Pen was still a distinct possibility. At the time, only the keenest observers took notice of the first presidential primary, an intimate affair organised by the smallish green party, Europe Écologie-Les Verts. On October 17, its former leader Duflot – a minister under Hollande and arguably the only Green with a national profile – was unceremoniously dumped out in the first round of voting. Though largely anecdotal, her drubbing was a sign of things to come.

How Sarkozy misread France's mood

Next up were Sarkozy’s rebranded Les Républicains, whose primary had been billed as a showdown between the former president and his foreign minister, Alain Juppé. In a year of electoral shocks that brought pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic into unprecedented disrepute, the first round of France’s conservative primary largely confirmed the trend – but with an important caveat: in France the loudmouthed agitator, who had dominated headlines by playing on voters’ fears, was humiliatingly beaten into third place. With Sarkozy out of the picture, Juppé was in turn trounced in the run-off by “third man” François Fillon, who surged from outsider to hot favourite for the presidency in a matter of days.

Hollande throws in the towel

The incumbent Hollande, whose approval rate sunk to an unprecedented low of 4% in October, had little time to revel in Sarkozy’s demise. The release of a tell-all book of interviews with journalists – which included classified information and candid remarks on the sensitive issue of Islam and Hollande’s troubled private life – proved the last straw for many of his remaining supporters. Alone and discredited, the Socialist president surprised the nation on December 1 by announcing he would not run for re-election, becoming the first sitting president of the Fifth Republic not to seek a second term in office.

Just three days after Hollande’s momentous “renoncement”, Socialist “rebel” Hamon got a phone call from TV channel France 2 inviting him to its prime-time talk show. The hosts had been scrambling to find a replacement for Hollande, who cancelled his appearance, and then Valls, who politely declined. All they could find was the Socialist primary’s dark horse with his supposedly far-out platform. Hamon proved to be a hit, convincingly pushing his radical agenda for social change, and crushing another guest – a member of Le Pen’s National Front – in the process. It was the turning point in a remarkable campaign that propelled him to the Socialist nomination.

Macron’s Ark

While Hamon has succeeded in breathing new life into France’s moribund ruling party, he will have a hard time holding it together in the coming days and weeks. The former Frondeur (rebel) in chief is now poised to face his own Fronde, with a string of embittered centrist Socialists already pledging to jump ship and join the new “Noah’s Ark” of French politics: Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche ! movement (loosely translated as On The Move!).

The former “maverick” economy minister has continued his steady rise in the polls, campaigning under his own banner and with the enthusiastic support of an army of young volunteers. A one-time investment banker with a rather sketchily defined liberal agenda, Macron promised nothing short of a “revolution” to “pull France into the 21st Century”. Experts warn that he will struggle without the support of a mainstream party. But with polling institutes in disarray and the Macron media bubble showing no sign of bursting, the 39-year-old’s campaign is causing anxiety among his rivals on both sides of the political divide.

Best thriller since 1974

“Not since 1974 had we seen such a gripping campaign,” said writer and political analyst Thomas Guénolé, noting that Macron’s centrist pitch was reminiscent of Valéry Giscard D’Estaing’s successful run to the presidency four decades ago. It is no surprise the old guard is being junked, he argued, adding: “With mass unemployment and half of all young workers confined to insecure jobs, anyone associated with the status quo is effectively doomed.”

“Sortez les sortants” (“Out with the outgoing”) has indeed been the campaign’s mantra so far, which of course plays into the hands of Le Pen’s far right. The National Front leader has opted to stay out of the fray, biding her time as her opponents are swallowed up one by one in the shifting sands of French politics. Le Pen has her own sword of Damocles in the shape of a €340,000 lump sum she is meant to return to the European Parliament by midnight on Tuesday – part on of an ongoing investigation into possible embezzlement of EU funds. But the next casualty of this absorbing obstacle race could well be her most formidable foe, Fillon.

PenelopeGate

Fillon and the anti-gay marriage vote

When he routed Juppé and Sarkozy back in November, Fillon must have believed he had more than a foot in the Élysée Palace. With the Socialists all but written off, opinion polls suggested the winner of the right-wing primary would go on to beat Le Pen in the May 7 run-off. But by the end of these extraordinary 100 days, the former prime minister was left dangling on the edge of a cliff, his squeaky-clean reputation jeopardised by suspicions his wife Penelope had been paid €500,000 from state funds for a “fake job” as his parliamentary assistant.

Fillon, who was questioned by investigators on Monday, may yet be cleared of wrongdoing, but the damage is done. Surveys carried out during the conservative primary showed that “integrity” was the main factor behind the Fillon vote. It was the contrast between his austere, un-divorced, father-of-five persona and the scandal-plagued Sarkozy that swayed so many social conservatives. “His candidacy rests on three pillars: probity, a strong work ethic and an aversion to state handouts – all three of which are blown away by PenelopeGate,” said Guénolé. “It’s as if the candidate of moral order was caught at a BDSM play party.” The rollercoaster goes on.

Date created : 2017-01-31

Monday, January 30, 2017
Nuclear Weapons: US Congress Proposes Bill For "Pre-Emptive Attack Against Iran"


A new bill being proposed by Congress will allow the U.S. to pre-emptively attack Iran in order to prevent them obtaining nuclear weapons.

H.J.Res.10, introduced in the House at the beginning of January, gives the US Armed Forces the ability to launch airstrikes against Iran without any Congressional oversight or input.

Ronpaullibertyreport.com reports:

The title of the bill tells the tale: a bill “To authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces to achieve the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.”

This legislation, introduced by Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), is as it appears: an authorization for the President to use military force against Iran. But it is much worse than that.

Why so? Because it specifically authorizes the president to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran at any time of his choosing and without any further Congressional oversight or input.

The operative sentence in the resolution reads, “The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as the President determines necessary and appropriate in order to achieve the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.” (Emphasis added).

President Trump — and, importantly, his entire national security team — has been extraordinarily aggressive toward Iran, repeatedly threatening that country both at the negotiating table and on the battlefield. H.J.Res 10 would be just the blank check the Administration craves to realize such threats.

And thanks to ongoing US and allied sabre-rattling in the Persian Gulf, tensions continue to escalate.

At the end of this month, the UK, US and allied military forces will take part in operation “Unified Trident,” a joint exercise in the Persian Gulf that will simulate a military confrontation with Iran.

Monday, January 30, 2017
Nigerian Pastor - May The Spirit That Killed Abacha, Yar'adua Kill Buhari

A Facebook user, Mmadukolu Christain Ejike, has wished for the death of Nigeria's President, Mohammadu Buhari. According to him, Buhari can die just like former Nigerian presidents, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Sani Abacha, who died in power.

He said this in a post he published on Facebook, he said the best and quickest way to be Nigeria's president is to be a vice president under an Hausa man. According to him, Hausa presidents mostly die, making their vices become the next president. Mmadukolu Ejike's Facebook profile reads that, he is a pastor at Believers Assembly International Gospel Center.


He wrote:

"FACT FINDING.

"The best way to be the Nigeria president is to be a vise president under and hausa man,WHY? He will surely die and you will take over, if you doubt me,ask GEN SANI ABACHA,UMARU MUSA YARADUA AND MUMUMADU BUHARI, may the same spirit that kill Abach and Yaradua, kill president mumumadu Buhari."

Monday, January 30, 2017
EXPLOSIVE: Why I Placed Ban On Muslim Immigrants Without Notice - Trump Makes Shocking Revelation

President Donald Trump has given reasons why he expedited action on the immigration ban imposed on some countries.

He stated this in a serious of tweets Monday afternoon.

He said: “If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A lot of .

“There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country. This was a big part of my campaign. Study the world!”

Monday, January 30, 2017
"If You Refuse To Convert To Islam, Then The Only Thing Between Us Is The Sword" - Muslim Leader Tells Christians

A major Muslim leader in Trinidad, Abu Sa’d at-Trinidadi, reportedly made this message to all Christians: “If you refuse [to convert to Islam], then the only thing between you and us is the sword.”

Below is the full statement from at-Trinidadi:

"To the Christians I say, you know that you have strayed far away from the true teachings of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus . Your book was corrupted long ago by your leaders. I call on you to remember the first two commandments, for they are what led me to Islam and to the true teachings of all the prophets. Submit to the one who created you and do not differentiate between the prophets, for they all came with the same message. Follow the final messenger, Muhammad, for in doing so you will be following all of the prophets . If you refuse, then we offer you the option to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation. If you refuse, then the only thing between you and us is the sword".

Trinidadian Abu Sa’d at Trinidadi is among ISIS spokesmen from several countries who have urged sympathisers, including among T&T Muslims, to launch home turf attacks against Christians.

at-Trinidadi ’s story is featured in the July edition of Dabiq, ISIS’ online magazine being published since 2014. It is aimed at recruitment, unitarianism, truth-seeking, migration and holy war among matters.

The July edition, issued last weekend and obtained by T&T Guardian last Sunday, is based on the theme “Break the Cross.” It features Christian converts, including at-Trinidadi , from the US, Canada, Finland and Jamaica who have called for supporters to destroy “Christian disbelievers.” Following last week’s issue of the magazine, news broke of nine suspected T&T nationals detained in Turkey en route to join Isis.

T&T National Security Minister Edmund Dillon said yesterday Government was probing both that issue as well as the Dabiq report. Dillon spoke to the T&T Guardian after a meeting with law enforcement heads as well as international officials. Intelligence agencies are tracking the descriptions in the article against information on those individuals known to have gone to Syria over 2011-2016.

Monday, January 30, 2017
"If You Refuse To Convert To Islam, Then The Only Thing Between Us Is The Sword" - Muslim Leader Tells Christians

A major Muslim leader in Trinidad, Abu Sa’d at-Trinidadi, reportedly made this message to all Christians: “If you refuse [to convert to Islam], then the only thing between you and us is the sword.”

Below is the full statement from at-Trinidadi:

"To the Christians I say, you know that you have strayed far away from the true teachings of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus . Your book was corrupted long ago by your leaders. I call on you to remember the first two commandments, for they are what led me to Islam and to the true teachings of all the prophets. Submit to the one who created you and do not differentiate between the prophets, for they all came with the same message. Follow the final messenger, Muhammad, for in doing so you will be following all of the prophets . If you refuse, then we offer you the option to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation. If you refuse, then the only thing between you and us is the sword".

Trinidadian Abu Sa’d at Trinidadi is among ISIS spokesmen from several countries who have urged sympathisers, including among T&T Muslims, to launch home turf attacks against Christians.

at-Trinidadi ’s story is featured in the July edition of Dabiq, ISIS’ online magazine being published since 2014. It is aimed at recruitment, unitarianism, truth-seeking, migration and holy war among matters.

The July edition, issued last weekend and obtained by T&T Guardian last Sunday, is based on the theme “Break the Cross.” It features Christian converts, including at-Trinidadi , from the US, Canada, Finland and Jamaica who have called for supporters to destroy “Christian disbelievers.” Following last week’s issue of the magazine, news broke of nine suspected T&T nationals detained in Turkey en route to join Isis.

T&T National Security Minister Edmund Dillon said yesterday Government was probing both that issue as well as the Dabiq report. Dillon spoke to the T&T Guardian after a meeting with law enforcement heads as well as international officials. Intelligence agencies are tracking the descriptions in the article against information on those individuals known to have gone to Syria over 2011-2016.

Monday, January 30, 2017
Police Arrests "BIAFRA TIMES" Publisher, 9 Others For Alleged Sedition

The police in Lagos on Monday said they had arrested the publisher of Biafra Times and nine others for allegedly publishing and circulating seditious and malicious publication.

Parading the 10 suspects, Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, said 515 copies of the offending newspaper were recovered during a raid on the printing press in Shomolu, Lagos.

“The printing press has been shut and the environment is being monitored.

“This is an offence punishable under the Criminal Law of Lagos State,” Owoseni said.

He added that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as detectives finished interrogating them.

The arrested publisher, however, told journalists that he had no intention to promote disunity and disharmony among Nigerians. “I love my country and I love my president.

My intention is not to fight my country; I just want to pass out information to those who have no access to the Internet.

“I usually go on the Internet to source for information and publish.

I have other papers on sports and social life which I publish,’’ he said.

The prime suspect said he had been publishing for the past eight years but only specialised in Biafra Times three months ago.

“I decided to specialise on Biafra Times when I discovered it is always a sell-out anytime we published stories about eastern parts of the country.

“Sometimes, I go to newspaper vendors and hear people requesting for Biafra Times.

“We usually print about 5000 copies which we sell for N100 nationwide,” he said.

In another development, the CP told journalists that the command was aware of a proposed demonstration which popular artiste, Tuface Idibia planned to lead.

He said that the command was yet to be officially notified and assured that the police would not allow unscrupulous elements to hijack the protest.

- Vanguard

Monday, January 30, 2017
Trump 'Muslim Ban' Illegal Under Human Rights Law, Says UN

Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the US from some Muslim-majority countries has been denounced by the UN's rights chief as “mean-spirited” and illegal under international human rights law.

Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said: “Discrimination on nationality alone is forbidden under human rights law.

“The US ban is also mean-spirited, and wastes resources needed for proper counter-terrorism.”

Mr Trump’s executive order, which also suspended all US refugee programmes for 120 days, would “endanger lives”, the medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières said.

The Paris-based advocacy group said Mr Trump’s order “will effectively keep people trapped in war zones, directly endangering their lives”.

MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, called the refugee ban “an inhumane act against people fleeing war zones”.

It called on the US government to lift the order, end the exclusion from specific countries, and to restart the resettlement of refugees.

The EU vowed not to discriminate against refugees based on nationality, race or religion and said it will never choose isolation and inequality, in an implicit reference to America’s actions.

EU Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said that the 28-nation bloc was carefully studying the US travel ban to see how much it will impact EU citizens.

Mr Schinas also quoted from a Sunday interview of Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in which he said: “We have to make choices about the world we want to live in. We must choose between isolationism, inequality and national egotism on the one hand. And openness, social equality and strength through solidarity on the other.”

In an interview with Germany's Die Welt, Mr Juncker said that “it is by standing for opening, social equality and solidarity that Europe can credibly act on the world stage to find common forward-looking solutions”.

And the world's largest body of Islamic nations told The Associated Press that it has “grave concern” over the travel ban.

The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation issued a statement on Monday warning that “such selective and discriminatory acts will only serve to embolden the radical narratives of extremists and will provide further fuel to the advocates of violence and terrorism”.

It called on the US to “reconsider this blanket statement and maintain its moral obligation to provide leadership and hope at a time of great uncertainty and unrest in the world”.

The 90-day ban, imposed on Friday, affects travel to the US by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. All are members of the OIC.

- The Independent, Uk