President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Tuesday in New York, the United States warned against religious intolerance and castigation of another's religion, saying both were recipes for disaster and chaos.
Addressing the 67th General Assembly of the United Nations against the background of recent protests in Nigeria and other parts of the world over the publication of a video which allegedly denigrated Prophet Mohammed, President Jonathan said freedom of expression and religious tolerance should be complimentary to each other for the peaceful coexistence of people of varying faiths and religious beliefs.
According to him, "events of recent weeks have demonstrated how interconnected our world is and the extent to which one incident can spark off general mayhem and conflagration. Freedom of expression should not be a licence to incitement. The freedom that we all hold dear and true should be exercised wisely and cautiously. Freedom of expression and religious tolerance must not be mutually exclusive but should be complimentary to each other."
"Much as we eschew violence and deplore the needless losses of lives and destruction of property, we also condemn the deliberate denigration of religious beliefs and sensitivities which in turn lead to counter reactions," he said.
Speaking through a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, President Jonathan also told the global assembly that his administration had adopted a mul
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No, Mr. President.A religion that inspired 11th September,2001 bombing in New York;Bali,Dar-Es-Salam, London,Madrid,Mumbay and Nairobi bombardmments,deserves all denigrations in this world.A religion,whose members are making our country ungovernable for our President because he happens to be a Christian doesn't deserve any respect whatsoever from our President. The President should rather reach out to the muslims by appealing to them to reform their crack pot religion of peace. Come to think about it,there is absolutely nothing appalling about the video in question.It is but an innocuous and homely satire about the so called prophet .The outrage shown by the muslims through out the world belies the fact that Islam is a religion of peace because by their behaviour they are indeed disturbing the peace of the world.It is like they are trying to impose their evil and wicked religion on human kind. A religion is indeed what the people who practice it do.The barbaric acts and heinous crimes of muslims against innocent people proffer damning indictmments against Islam as a world religion.The muslims must reform their religion or face being banned in the free and secular world. Humankind can live in peace in this world without the muslims,their fucking allah and prophet.
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