''Walking through a Muslim versus a Christian infested environment''

Hello everyone,
              Being a believer of a religion does not make you more superior than members of opposing views. It only makes you identify with a religion. I believe, the only thing that can make you a true Christian is you living just like Christ lived. Did he go around castigating and slandering one religion over the other. When he was asked questions he answered them strictly without introducing contradictions. For no message preached by Christ contradicts the other.

I took a walk through a Muslim market and I found no other place were peace and harmony exists more......no one struggled to outshine the other...at a point I noticed brethrens praying so closely to one another. Contrary to this is the market infested with Christians...I refer to them as ''pagan Christians" who do not understand what real Christianity adheres to. So much quarrel and disharmony. Many make use of charms to attract high purchase''. At the end of the day this same people claim superiority by slandering others because of what they believe in.  Even the bible says ''remove the pluck in your own eyes''.

''Britain is torn within the decision to leave the European Union''

 





I foresee that Britain would leave the European union. This I got from high statistics and looking at it from the perspective that a greater part of Britain wants to back out. In the light of study Britain has a lot to decide in the light of their economic policy.

Nearly all economists and people with a stake in the markets want Britain to remain, especially in the multinational, multicultural financial capital of London. Above, a view of the financial district from the Shard, one of the skyscrapers that mark the London skyline. 

I also think that Britons are looking at it from their personal standing in Britain.

A large influx of young Polish workers into Britain began in 2004, when Poland joined the European Union. Many work in construction, catering and health care, and they tend to demand lower salaries than natives, which has stirred resentment. In case Britain leaves the bloc, they worry about whether they could remain in the country. Above, a young Polish couple, Magdalena Mikla, 27, and her boyfriend, Bartosz Siegmiler, 33, in their London bedroom. She is a domestic helper, and he works in construction.
                   
                ''''Peoples decisions may be based on what they stand to loose and gain'' 
What's your own take on the matter?

''He claims killing her but not murdering her'' case closed.

 
 Oscar Pistorius has admitted he deserves a long jail sentence for killing Reeva Steenkamp but vehemently denied he murdered her, insisting that the 2013 shooting was not premeditated. In his first TV interview since Reeva's death, Pistorius said he "couldn’t disagree" with those who felt he should be punished.

"At times I don’t feel like I should have the right to live for taking someone else’s life. What’s difficult is dealing with the charge of murder," he said.

 But Pistorius said he did not want to "waste my life" behind bars.

 "If I was afforded the opportunity of redemption I would like to help the less fortunate like I had in my past," he said. "I would like to believe that if Reeva could look down upon me that she would want me to live that life."

Pistorius made the comments during an interview with ITV, to be broadcast at 9pm on Friday. The interview – at times frank, at other points self-exculpatory, and with moments of prolonged sobbing and even howling – comes days before a South African judge will sentence Pistorius for murder.

He was convicted in 2014 of manslaughter, but last year the conviction was upgraded to murder following an appeal by state prosecutors. The minimum sentence for murder in South Africa is 15 years. However, legal experts say judge Thokozile Masipa has considerable powers of discretion.

In the interview, Pistorius – who made his name as an Olympic and Paralympic athlete, reaching the 400m semi-finals of London 2012 – stuck to the same account he has given of the shooting of Steenkamp on 14 February 2013, Valentine’s Day, inside his gated home in Pretoria. He said Steenkamp’s death was a tragic accident caused by his sincere belief that an intruder was breaking into the apartment.

Pistorius said he arrived home just after 6pm to find Reeva “smiling and giddy and just bubbly”. She had cooked a romantic meal and laid the table with a candle. After, they lay down on the bed and chatted, he said, adding that “when I came in the room I placed my firearm on the left hand side of the bed”.

The athlete said he took his prosthetic legs off and fell asleep. It was “pitch dark”. At 3am he woke.

"I heard this noise coming from the bathroom," he said. “It was a sliding noise of the window frame hitting the frame."

He claimed he immediately got panicked and believed that “someone was actually in the process of breaking in, possibly with a ladder.
The athlete said he scooped up his firearm and, believing Steenkamp was still in the room, whispered to her to get down and ring the police. He said he was terrified as he walked toward the bathroom on his stumps, gun in hand.

"All of a sudden I heard a noise, at the toilet. I presumed it was the toilet door opening and before I know it I’d fired four shots."

Prosecutors have dismissed Pistorius’s account as lies. They say the athlete murdered Steenkamp after a row prompted by his jealousy over an ex-boyfriend. They say she fled to the bathroom and barricaded herself in the toilet, pursued by Pistorius who first tried to smash the door down with a cricket bat and then returned with his 9mm weapon, firing into the door from point-blank range.

Pistorius said he felt a moment of horror when he realised Steenkamp was not in the bed but then experienced a short-lived “sense of calm”, thinking that she was hiding on the floor. He got down on the floor, however, and realised he still couldn’t feel her.

"So I start pulling everything apart and I start saying like, Reeva, Reeva Reeva, and I’m like pulling my hand and I’m on my stumps now still, I was like pulling my hand across the curtain … thinking like ‘lord please tell me she’s hiding behind the curtains’. And I get to the end of the curtains and my heart just sinks."

Pistorius said he looped back to the bathroom, and broke down the door to to the toilet with a cricket bat, ripping out one plank. Inside, he found Steenkamp slumped on the toilet. She was dead. There was blood everywhere, he said.
He said he put her on the bathroom floor, placing a towel under her head. “I just see blood and it’s just blood everywhere ... So much blood! I try and pick her up. I’m trying to pick her up but there’s so much blood I can’t stand up.

"And I thought Reeva had started breathing, so I had my fingers in her mouth and I was trying to give her mouth to mouth, but there was so much blood."

Pistorius told ITV he "saw the pain" he had caused and said that most of his mutual friends with Steenkamp “don’t speak to me any more”. One woman had spotted him shopping in Pretoria and had screamed at the store for allowing him in. He put down his basket and left, he said.

He denied some of the allegations levelled against him, including that he had behaved violently to Steenkamp before he shot her, hitting her with a cricket bat, and that he had taken steroids. Asked whether he was violent towards women, he said: "No, not at all."

The athlete said he owned nine to 11 firearms, and had ordered a semi-automatic assault rifle, but added that he kept only his 9mm gun at home. Asked why he needed such an arsenal, Pistorius said that like all South Africans he had direct and traumatic personal experience of violent crime.

He said when he was growing up his father had been hijacked and beaten, and his brother hijacked, while a cousin who lived nearby was robbed at home in the middle of the day.

"I don’t know anybody in South Africa that hasn’t experienced some form of crime." The dark consequence was "you get this fear … It’s just the reality we live in."

Source: ITV/the guardian
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#Daily health tips# 2 Breast Abscess

 
Description: Acute Inflammation and infection with a collection of pus within the breast tissue.

Persons affected: Women in the child bearing age group who have recently given birth,

Organ and part affected: Breast.

Symptoms and indications: Redness, heat, Inflammation, hardness, and pain in infected part. Also, enlargement of lymph glands in the armpit and sharp pain when the infant sucks. If left untreated the skin darkens and the abscess eventually bursts. The person may be feverish. A woman with symptoms of a breast abscess should seek medical treatment.

Treatment: Involves supporting and bandaging the affected breast, and avoidance of feeding the baby on that side. Also an antibiotic such as Penicillin maybe prescribed to fight the infection. A surgery to open and drain the abscess maybe necessary and if the infection is very severe breast feeding maybe abandoned.

Causes and risk factors: Its a bacterial infection (staphylococcus or streptococcus). It enters the breast through the nipple.

Exremism within a box of Justification.

 
 Hello everyone,,
              While writing my last post on ''Extremism'' I was trying to understand the Justification of these extremists within the basics of my reality. I think I found it out through a little study.

 "proponents of Muslim piety also hold American "corrupting influences'' responsible for the erosion of the assumed authentic mores of Islamic austerity and devotion'' They believe that these influences are associated with the West. They also abhor American popular culture and Life style. I want to ask a simple question ''How does this affect their religious beliefs" Everyone should take to what they believe is truth. What about them facing what they belief is truth and live the rest of the world on their journey to truth.

All these has resulted to the U.S and its western allies to convince the world and especially the Muslim world, that the campaign taken against Bin Laden and all AL Qaeda is not a religious war between Islam and the West but against the ''radical extremists''. Bin laden succeeded in presenting himself to much  of his audience and anyone who cared to know as the perfect image of a Messianic prophet. So, people believed because he kept himself in a position that he was fighting a just cause.....Even If he is killed for his cause, he will in their eyes have died a Martyr death.

 Looking at it from the perspective that the Religion discriminates against promiscuity, Ostentatious wealth, drug use and the ''so called'' corrupting Influence of the West.... what difference does this have with random violence, Death, and Violence on women and children. If the agenda of this ''radical extremists'' was just.... What then is the moral level of these radical extremists. If morality is relative based on cultural background. Are there then Justified?

#Daily health tips# Alcoholism

  Dear readers,
             That which we now regard as ''alternative medicine'' may have been the only form of medical treatment available to people in the past. some alternatives therapies have been practiced successfully for centuries and date back to the earliest civilizations. So, I would be giving daily tips on natural healing and some medical conditions with its diagnosis. I choose to start with Alcoholism.

Description: A physical and psychological need, and dependence on alcohol to such an extent that depreciation may result in withdrawal symptoms. The continuous and long term Over consumption of alcoholic drink leads to both physical and mental illness. The person's behaviors may become so disordered and disruptive that he/she looses employment, family, friends, and home unless counseling and medical help is sought and accepted.

persons most commonly accepted: Both sexes and all age group after adolescence. Although more common in males.
 


Organs and body involved: Heart, liver, and Brain.

symptoms and indications: Early indications include the need for an Alcoholic drink first thing in the morning before the person does anything else, and it being noticed  by others that the person is drinking too much. Also disturbance of sleep, irritability, attempts to conceal amount being drank.
In addition, the person may need to take off work because of the effects of drinking and more become sexually impotent. Later on, an Alcoholic person may become unconscious because of drink, or die from respiratory failure. he/she may suffer from withdrawal symptoms (hallucinations, fear and imagined persecution). If drink is withdrawn. The person may develop Cirrhosis of the liver, Inflammation and alteration of the Castro-intestinal tract and pancreatitis. There may be inflammation of Peripheral nerves, causing numbness and tingling sensations in hands and feet and congestive heart failure. A form of Dementia may develop. The physical diseases that results from alcoholism are liable to cause premature death. The unborn child of an alcoholic mother is likely to suffer lasting damage.



Treatment: The treatment its really easy. The success or other wise of treatment depends on a recognition by the alcoholic person that a problem exists and a willingness to overcome it. Treatment  includes detoxification (drying out) counseling and joining a support group. it could also require appropriate medical attention and therapy.


Causes and risk factors: The causes are not entirely clear but some researchers believe that a genetic-element exists and some people are more inclined to alcoholism than others. A personality and the environment in which a person lives. 




 

Understanding Islamic Extremism from its empowerment through violence.

 Hello everyone,
                  My last post on ''Understanding Extremism through Violence" arose questions from the minds of deep readers. Some said I was been sentimental and all. In this post I choose to write my reasons for the previous post.

The rapid rise of what is known as "Islamic Extremism" with its penchant for Defiance, resentment, and violence has its roots in the history of the Muslim sense of decline and its happy encounter with the dominant west.

So it was in September 11. Even before more than 4,000 people died in less than 2hours, there were farewell messages from the sky. In their last minute, doomed passengers used cell phones to reach loved ones. A short time later, office workers trapped high in the burning towers called spouses, children, and parents. Never had so many the means to  say goodbye. During the hours afterward, the survivors scrambled to make contact with family and friends.

Its sobering to remind ourselves how frequently the middle east as one part of the Muslim world has been visited by waves of violence in its recent history. Since the end of the 2nd world war the area extending from Egypt and Turkey in the west to Afghanistan in the north west and Yemen in the south has suffered at least ten major wars and that's not counting the U.s engagement in Afghanistan after September 11. Causalities have run into millions, populations has been uprooted, societies turn up by their roots political structures demolished. I could go on and on about their empowerment through violence. I do not believe that one would ever write a post on Islamic Extremism without being sentimental. Sentimentalism remains relative. How can all this happen without one running mad while writing. This was my major reason to write my previous post.












  

what it means to be Nigerian

       

 
 
 Dear Nigerians,
                     Being Nigerian isn't a choice. Its fate and destiny. you do not have the right to choose where you come from...but you have the right to choose where you are heading to.
I love Nigeria despite everything that's going on politically, economically and in other segments of the country. Being Nigerian means you have to be happy despite all. I believe Nigerians are the happiest people in the world. Not withstanding the poor economic situation coupled with the extreme nature of the weather....Nigerians still have a reason to smile. Medically we do not record disorders relating to depression. Ask any Nigerian 'WHAT DO YOU REALLY DO WHEN YOU ARE SAD". Some would say laugh out my sorrows over a bottle of drink, few would say dance out my sorrow, others would say they go to religious places to put their problems on a supernatural altar. What I mean is that Nigerians do not have a reason to commit suicide or take depressants. what is that a Nigerian would say,. Nigerians can talk eh...They do not see a need to keep quiet over a mosquito bite..we just spill it. We have realized that time is too short to keep in things. Although so many Nigerians do not have the outlet to express what they really have to say...but they would talk sha.

We may not have all the money and  the connections. We may not be sure about our next meal but we choose to remain excited. The bad roads may claim lives but we travel for our business meetings. we may be regarded as under developed but we are happy. I am not saying we are satisfied..How would we be? but we choose to be hopeful. And If hope chooses to turn its eyes on us. We remain hopeful.
           
          

              

The problem of the university education in Nigeria.

Dear students,
             The moment you sign up to be a student in Nigeria, you become trapped. I do not mean been trapped literally but emotionally, and mentally. when a question like what is the problem of the university education comes up, so many would begin to point accusing fingers at the government. Others would say its the lack of necessary infrastructure. some may even say its the lazy attitude of the students. Few may point accusing fingers at external variables as the weather.....Nigeria is so hot. All these may likely add up to the major problem but that does not make it the major deal. I put it forward to you, The lecturers are the major problem of the university education. Accept it or live it. As Hillary Clinton once said "If you have a different view on an issue, you got to prove it. I would.
  
             Do not forget to ask your parents that your fees ain't gonna be enough to sail you through school. you know why. The lecturers. you got to pay your fees and settle your lecturers also. If you have 12 courses, it all has its baggage. A lecturer comes into class and says "AS YOU SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT MAKE SURE YOU PAY 1000 NAIRA OR YOUR PAPERS WON'T BE MARKED". what nonsense! female students even got so much to pay because they are females. Some lecturers fail some students because of their refusal to sleep with them. Its like been a lecturer gives you some kind of deified powers. It doesn't make any sense that a student would spend 7years in school not because of lack of seriousness but the ability to do right. Alright, I have a way out for you. write to the authorities about molestation. just write. That even gets harder. you would write and write and write......at the end of the day your report may likely land in wrong hands who may not see your report as relevant. So you may end up victimized. 

            At the end of the day, this same group of people would bring up topics about the government in class calling them corrupt. what corruption? who is more corrupt? They are. I would tell you why. The lecturers are transmitting their compromising seeds into a thousand. The students come out thinking that collecting bribes and paying off their problems is right. Students do not get to study to earn their grades. That's why a student in a public university would boldly stand up to a private university saying "I could have been on a 1st class If I was in your school"all lies. The only difference is that being in a private university deals with you earning your grades. I believe If this is looked into more closely things may get better.

I suggest that a hierarchy of boards should be created to see into this matter. This would enable students to report issues into handy boards and not writing to ghost offices.
 
               

         

Poem of the day.

Ticking.....tick, tick, tick, tick.
The clock goes
Slowly but changing
Rapidly but not destructive
Time after time it goes.
When the rain falls
It does tick.
When the mountains rumble and decides to take a stroll
It ticks.
How be it the houses starts speaking
It ticks, it's time.
Not withstanding the water flies. Time.

Some swore that everything that goes up
Must surely come down, so nothing can fly,
The plane flew.....time.
The son of the rich and the son of the poor took a stroll through time
And the seed of the poor grew....time.
How offending great nations fall and tumble...time
It ticks and ticks
Slowly but changing
Rapidly but not saying a word.

The skies look bright but evening would tell.
I pondered once where be it the skies go dim...time
My poor little brother right in the bosom of mother
Grew tall..tall and tall without my eyes a glimpse....time.

Can a hug hold time?
Can a kiss paste stars on time?
Can a gold plated diamond  hands hold time ransom?
Can I have my little cottage where the stream of my childhood
Flows through?
Can my aunts come back to me?
Can that friend I cherished more than life who died in the milk of age
Meet me where three roads meet and move with me back home?
No way, for the root that rottens with time may never heal.

By Minka,

Time....It's 12

Hey,,,
      Good day, I hope you all had a wonderful day. As the day decides to shut its windows for some and open up the doors for a million. How did you spend your day or how are you gonna spend your day? Think about it! Did you spend it doing what you know how to do best or did you spend it in the confines of A job you hate so much. Did you spend it talking and jesting about. How did you spend it?  Times too short to cry over spilled juice.....lol...not milk, I love juice more. Did you loose a friend you treasured so much or did you loose so much money in this failing economy...look at the mirror and scream All is well, All is well.  You know one thing about time..it's dynamic, it changes. So whatever you feel today is definitely not what you gonna feel tomorrow....you know why....Time. As it shuts the windows for others, it opens the doors for a million.