Ginny 

"An eye for an eye" is biblical and godly!

"And if you punish, punish with an equivalent of that which you 
were harmed". Chapter 16, verse 126 of the Holy Quran 

Drammeh must be made to taste the taste of his own medicine!


Yanks



> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:59:47 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [>-<] OLD Donkolong's Nursery rhyme
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> It's just interesting to me that people who claim to be so Islamicly (and
> otherwise) religious and defy their own religions and come on here and
> insult people and for what?  I think henceforth anyone who engages in
> personal attacks on any of the opposition political leaders in The Gambia
> are not really serious about seeing a united opposition at this juncture,
> and that they'd rather see Jammeh in power ad infinitum, rather than the
> person they don't like and thus are insulting.  So for me they might as well
> go home and campaign for the APRC, as far as I'm concerned and I at this
> point don't care who it is that's doing the insulting!  I'm frankly tired of
> it.  Don't tell me you want a united opposition one minute and then the next
> start insulting the opposition leaders who frankly (coward though you may
> think they are) are probably doing more for the struggle than you ever will.
> And don't come here insulting everyone including people's parents, and then
> the next day act all pious and religious, like you just got back from Hajj
> or something.  This kind of hypocrisy is maddening, and don't tell us you
> had your reasons, that you meant well, that the ends justify the means, or
> that someone made you mad or something.  Come on, you're grown up ere, not a
> little boy/girl.  Surely, if someone makes you angry, you can take a step
> back from the computer, count to ten, maybe pray some nafila prayers,
> whatever it is you need to do, to come yoursllf down enough to coherently
> engage people in a constructive dialogue/criticism.
> 
> Because if some if us here on these lists were truly interested in a united
> opposition, we'd not be posting so-called nursery rhymes attacking other
> people, we'd not be calling people cowards, we'd not be bringing up supposed
> statements by certain opposition memebers supposedly condoning the coup, and
> pretty much by our deeds, words, and actions, doing all we could to stymy
> attempts at an opposition unity.  Instead, we'd be doing what we could to
> bring people together, to highlight our common goals, perhaps try to
> compromise in areas we may disagree, etc.  Maybe we'd be calling our friends
> and families back home and encouraging them to vote, maybe we'd actually
> take some time off work and actually go back home to assist in campaigning
> or getting people to the polls.  Maybe we'd be giving money to facilitate
> the opposition's ability to campaign.
> 
> I'd like to know how many people currently engaged (and who seemingly are
> always the same ones engaged) in the mud slinging would be willing to do any
> of the above?  Or something else constructive that I've not thought of?  And
> my guess is probably not many.  Because my feeling is that the ones actually
> doing the dirty work, who are out there in the trenches, aren't the ones who
> would have the time to come on here and engage in the kinds of divisive and
> insulting things I continue to see on these lists time and time again.
> 
> So please let's just be honest with everyone and just come out now and say
> that you only want a united opposition if it's your guy that's the head of
> it.  Or that you'd rather Jammeh be in power if it's not your guy who ends
> up bieng the head of a heretofore nonexistent united opposition.  But don't
> come on here and talk about you want a united opposition one minute and then
> insult certain memebers of that opposition the next.
> *sigh*
> 
> OK, rant over.
> 
> Ginny
> 
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