The Ferret

I stumbled across this very disturbing piece of news on Saharareporters.com

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THE GRUESOME MURDER OF A FOREIGN STUDENT IN MALAYSIA

Posted by Admin Sahara

23rd September 2008

The Prime Minister,
Malaysia.

Sallam Alaykum Waramotulah Wabarakatuh

Introduction

“O you who believe! Let not a group scoff at another group, it may be that the latter are better than the former; nor let (some) women scoff at other women…..” Qur’an 49, vs 11

the 21st of September, 2008 of a Chadian student at Wangsa Maju, Selangor, Malaysia.

Facts relevant to our complaint

A 22 year old Abdel Aziz Hassan Abdraman from

Chad republic was gruesomely murdered in the full gare of the public and reportedly under the supervision of some police personnel. The incident which happened at Wangsa Maju, Selangor, Malaysia took place at around 9pm as widely reported in news especially the “The Malay Mail” of Tuesday, September 22nd 2008. According to the reports, the victims of the attack were on their way to the International Islamic University Malaysia to join the Tarawih prayer. While within the vicinity of the Wangsa Maju LRT station, some Malaysian youths numbering about twenty, and armed with weapons, swarmed at the deceased and his friends, inflicted them with severe injuries which ultimately led to the death of one of them – Late Abdel Aziz Hassan Abdraman (the other victims are still suffering from the pains of the attacks).

The Wangsa Maju incident is only one in a series of attacks that foreigners have suffered in this country. The locals’ sense of tolerance for guests is almost zero. The most disturbing dimension to these developments is the feelings that unprovoked attacks on foreigners enjoy government’s support. It was frightening to read, in the media reports, the statement credited to a top Malaysian Police officer – Chief Assistant Commissioner,  Zakaria Pagan – that the attack by the youths was meant to teach the foreigners how to behave in public. It should not be a surprise therefore that police men actually witnessed the incident and saw the attackers but made no arrest.

Signed,

Malaysia.
cc: All Human Right Groups
cc: All Heads of Tertiary institutions in Malaysia
cc: All Major International Press outfits
cc: The Chadian Government

http://www.mmail.com.my/Victims_of_hate.aspx

http://www.mmail.com.my/Cops_nab_hate_crime_suspect.aspx

http://www.saharareporters.com/www/letters/detail/?id=517 

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I’ll be back later with my comments.

Just when you think you’ve heard it all something new comes along that takes the zinger. We’ve all heard about the case of the man with 86 wives making the rounds. He was brought to the fore last month when a popular dialy published his story. He claimed to have recieved divine order from Allah to marry those women, many of whom have children for him. He calls himself a religious man, and at the same time insists that there is nothing in the Qur’an that forbids a man from marrying as many women as he wishes.

The man is obviously unwell. If someone tells me God positively told him to marry that many women, I won’t even break my neck arguing with him.

Rather than proffer psychiatric solutions to his predicament our religious leaders publicly denounced his multiple marriages with unnecessary pomp and peagantry. Why is it that they hurriedly stride into action when it suits them? While it is unquestionably against the religion (as even non-Muslims know the maximum number of wives is four) one has to wonder what crime the man has committed to warrant him banished from the Nupe kingdom? To the best of my knowledge no where in the Qur’an or Hadeeth (sayings of the Prophet) does it say that if a man marries more than four wives such and such is the punishment for his offence. As far as the Shari’ah is concerned, there is no prescribed punishment. So the committe of Islamic scholars who came up with the wonderful idea to banish the man themselves have to be inspected thoroughly beause I’m certain all is not well with them.

They must really be unwell because these very same leaders keep mum, and by their silence are complicit in the looting and plundering of state treasury. The so called Shari’ah states are no better than the rest of the country. The only thing they are good at is shouting their holier than thouness down at the rest of the world and intimidating the masses with harsh punishment while they’ve failed woefully at fulfilling their own end of the bargain. Didn’t we hear recently tonnes of grains that was released to the Northern states as a way to subsidize the rising cost of food and alleviate starvation was reportedly shared amongst their various leaders. Bloody hypocrites!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Nigerian is too corrupt for any meaningful system of governing to work, be it religious or wordly. We would first have to totally uproot ourselves from the status quo and lay down a brand new foundation for there to be a semblance of synchronimity as per our national psyche. As long as our leaders are pooled form the same populace, any attempt at reformation is just plain talk shop!

In Jos, Plateau state, 1,000 people were duped by a fake finance company. The Cash-Splash Network promised to double all monies invested. One idiot man initially invested N30, 000. One month later, he was given back N60, 000. Overcome with greed, he sold off his car and emptied his bank accounts and handed over N600,000 to the so called bank which is nowhere to be found. After realizing they’ve been duped, other victims have resorted to looting the now emptied premise in order to recover some of their savings.

Call me cruel hearted, but when I hear stories like this, I don’t have an iota of pity for the people involved. There’s a saying by con artists that you can never dupe an honest man. The principle holds true here. It is difficult to defraud someone unless they intended to reap where they did not sow. One must have the opinion that there is free money languishing away somewhere just waiting for the picking.

Personally, when someone makes an offer that appears too good to be true, alarms go off in my head prompting me to ask, ‘what’s the catch? If you’re offering me ridiculous returns on an investment, I’m thinking you’re either planning to defraud me or the business is illegal. Either way, there must be something in it for you.

In this case the name alone speaks volumes. A name like Cash Splash Network is like a sticky patch, it’ll attract certain kinds of insects, mainly greedy, gullible suckers and Nigerians whose sense of entitlement douses their intellect.

When raw greed meets refined greed it results in a thousand disgruntled, miserable citizens.

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14 African immigrants died on a boat enroute to Spain (LEADERSHIP, Friday July 11^th). They fled the misery in their countries into the open arms of death just moments away from the Promised Land. Last year, nearly a thousand died trying to get into Spain. Even if the streets of Spain were literally paved with gold, is it worth their life getting there?

Things like this make me sick because it an affirmation of why African’s are developmentally challenged. We see no problem in dying to go and live in another man’s country, whose forefathers died in order to make it what it is today, yet we cringe at the prospect of dying for the liberation of our own countries so our own children can have a place to proudly call home.

Unless and until we rid ourselves of this slave mentality, of trying to reap where we didn’t sow, and cultivate the greener pastures in our own backyard, we will continue to be derided by the rest of the world (especially by the likes of Kevin Myers). 

Look at Zimbabweans. They fled to South Africa in their droves only to be massacred. Now most of them are returning home to where was previously inhospitable.

Why do Africans keep running away from their problems? We run and hope someone else solves it and makes it better so that we can return again. Even when the situation is not so bad as to warrant fleeing one’s country, the typical African still believes life in US or UK is next to Paradise.

If they collectively pursued improving their situation the same way they did fleeing the continent, I’m confident we’ll have a lot to be proud about. We have it in us. Along with our natural resources, the human potential is limitless. I’m confident we can turn ourselves around with sound introspection, dedication and cooperation.

Today I saw an image of Tibetans fighting for what they believed in. They were out there, screaming, kicking, shouting, demanding, defying. They didn’t cower, they didn’t run, they stood and asserted their rights despite being harassed and arrested by the army.

When will Africans realize their destinies lie in their own hands?