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Political maturity required in freedom of expression
Sunday, 09 January 2011 15:57
Another Rejoinder for Mr Democrat (Reactionary)By Sulayman Bah
I will begin by advising this person to stop using the word DEMOCRAT, because this is an insult to democrats around the world, maybe his/her narrow mind does not understand the meaning of a democrat. Please send your address to the editors of JollofNews and I will send you a dictionary.
However I do not want to engage you a lot in political debates hence your writings does not proof any sign of political maturity. Thank you for all the negative adjectives you have used to describe me, it is clearly evident you are angry as a result you associated me with doe’s fools who disobeyed Gods Prophets; this is directly relating me to paganism.
According to a hadeeth narrated by Abuhuraira, a man came to the Holy Prophet Mohammad SAW, and asked him for an advice the messenger of Allah replied three times and said to him do not be angry. Yes, Mr. Democrat you proof to be a person who writes with his heart and not his mind. It is religiously and morally wrong to relate a person you don’t know to paganism.
Also for your information I am not looking for any popularity, if I needed popularity I would have stay with GRTS as radio presenter or continue with my famous Hour of Higher Education radio programme with West Coast Radio, this would have earn me enough popularity like Sarjo Barrow, Musa Camara, Peter Gomez etc.
Now lets look at political maturity which I believe could be an interesting area for you, the right to freedom of expression does not necessitate disrespecting elderly political leaders, besides I told you this before democrats does not engage in destroying a coalition talk which is to the interest of all desperate and hopeless Gambians. For your information again PDOIS has trained its respectful members not insult leaders of other political parties.
I have a very interesting topic which is UDP`s SANCTUARY OF POLITICAL MESS, I can divide this into different parts, but I am holding on, because of my love for the Gambia which is bigger than you and I. I have no problem with your political opinion but do it with respect and maturity, I think its people like you who makes it difficult for president Jammeh to accept freedom of expression, finally I will advise you to be flexible with the words you use in your writing because this generation is a speedy generation, people don’t have the time to get a dictionary closed to them for reading a single article.
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The Lord giveth
and the government taketh away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
ISamuel 8:9-19
You've touched on a topic that I have pointed out for more than a decade as one that societies need to possess in order to sustain any kind of political stability. The subject in question being "Political Maturity". In some parts of the world, it has taken an iron fisted ruler to instill this quality in a nation and in others it has had to happen through the anarchy or the threat of it. Respectfully, don't you think political maturity also includes the need for political leaders to be able to understand and accept the fact that a lot of unpleasantries also come with the territory? I totally see the gist of your argument with regards to what "Democrat" had to say, just that I differ in the approach you're advocatiing in dealing with his kind of dissent. We come from a culture where elders are honored and held in higher esteem and rightly so. My approach is to let society condennm and admoish such approach while defending his right to make the choice of going that route.
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