Terrorism relies on fear to get people to do the things that the terrorist wants done. Healthy approaches to people lie in striving to free them from fear rather than increase and or manipulate their fears. To the extent that people are freed from the fear that holds them down they live up to their potential. Those who keep people in fear prevent people from living fully hence retard human civilization and therefore ought to be removed from human society. We must get rid of terrorists, religious or other types. Islamic Terrorism Is Not The Answer To Human Problems  My…

Let us not forget that we celebrate the Black History Month in February of every year. African Spirituality and Emancipation is an article posted in Otedo.com of which I have read and learnt some historical backgrounds about how slaves in the west were given a religious belief for a new life in cultural history. Though contrary to theirs (religious lives) at home and at exportation, the slaves were to cope with the realities of their time. I guess any reader will appreciate what I saw in this article too. It can make you cry, agree or disagree with the slave owners and missionaries…

There are three religious systems in Africa. Traditional African religions, Islam and Christianity. Before the arrival of Islam and Christianity, majority of Africans practiced traditional African religions, while Christians and Muslims were in the minority. Africa was the first continent into which Islam expanded from Arabia. In 639 AD, seven years after the death of Prophet Mohammed, the Arabs advanced towards Africa and reached the Horn of Africa, North Africa and the Maghreb region. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that a massive Christian and Muslim expansion began, at the expense of traditional African beliefs. North Africa…

While acknowledging the good job done by Western psychology and psychiatry in delineating the various mental disorders, the paper says that Western psychotherapy cannot heal them because its methodology strengthens the ego self. It says that the ego, normal or abnormal, is the problem and that healing it inheres in jettisoning the ego and becoming egoless. It says that traditional religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity tried to enable people to either let go of their egos or use them to love people and in the process gave people relative peaceful and happier lives than the secular-scientific therapies that…

Abstract:  Our ancestors examined their world and concluded that there was more to their existence than met the eyes. They posited what they called God as the cause of their world and worshipped him. They hoped that placating him would make him banish the natural forces that made a mess of their existence and eventually killed them. Every group of human beings posited their own religion. Thus, we have African religions, Asian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism) and European religions (Europeans let go of their ancestral religions and appropriated the Semitic religion of Christianity; since they embraced a foreign religion…

At a joint meeting between the Special Task Force (STF) and representatives of Muslim communities of Jos and Barikin Ladi in Plateau State, the Muslims yielded to the appeal by the STF not to pray at their usual Eid praying ground at Barikin Ladi. A day earlier, the Izala group has also acquiesced to pressure from the STF not to pray at their Eid ground at Unguwar Rukuba, Jos, where many of its followers were killed and cannibalized last year. Muslim prayer is becoming impossible in Plateau State. The impossibility is aided by a federal government outfit, the STF, which…

1. A Libation to Foreign gods A society that imports her gods, has offered to live under the caprice of foreign pestilences. She has mortgaged her destiny to the insular enclaves of alien theologies. Her doctrines and dogma are overthrown by derivatives of alien thought patterns, rendered canonical by capricious and absentee conclaves. In such a theatre, foreign metaphysics rises to displace local values. Irreverent incoherence isolates and devastates local cosmologies. Local mores are alienated to make way for the import to march to supremacy. Such is the trajectory of the contact between an occupying power and native reality. This inheres…

For clarity, Hajj is not a religious tourism to Makkah and Madinah. Hajj is a fundamental time-specific, spot-specific, manner/condition-specific and financially tasking Islamic obligation which, instituted by a divine injunction of the Holy Qur’an and practically exemplified by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), is to be fulfilled by the Muslims despite whatever challenges that may be associated with it in terms of funding, political interference, national/natural infringement or even global conspiracy. This piece is in response to Mr. Idang Alibi’s postulations in his Daily Trust column of Thursday, June 21, 2012, where he mentioned three out of ten things…