Our country is a funny country, full of hypocrites and caricaturists.
Sometimes I don't get it at all. Sometimes I feel like shredding off my identity as a Nigerian. Sometimes I wonder if this could be called ignorance. Sometimes I feel taht we are brainless.
That a man has Swastika sign on his property, his gate, is now a concern to people who live on the same street as he! Bloody hypocrites! I have to use harsh words to get across my point because within me I'm so wounded. This is shameful and thanks to goodness that newspapers like NEXT are there to report such abuse of human rights and freedom of expression to religion and whatnot.
Does one have to live your life? Must I agree with you all the time? Don't I have the right to even follow the Nazi ideologies? Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but as an anthropologist and a black man living in Nigeria, I have no business with anything Hitler ever did. If this concerns the human race, still it has nothing to do with me. Does having a swastika sign on the front gate mean that Mr. Indian wants to come and kill all blacks in Nigeria or the Jews? Or does it mean that he doesn't want people at ease, even after staying here for 40 years!
I don't get it.
I personally detest everything about the crucifix, but that doesn't mean I have the right to tell anyone wearing it to remove it. I hate the Bible. I don't ask people who use it to preach to me all the time on buses to please throw them away. We have rights to these things. And we should always respect people's beliefs. No matter how they want to see it, it is wrong to tell Mr. Khurana to remove the sign on his gate.
I hate it when we tend to disgrace ourselves in this manner.
Myself and my publisher were discussing this swastika sign recently while walking the lanes of Delhi and he sent me this link as soon as he got back to Nigeria.
Cultures vary, sick Nigerians!
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/5521189-147/story.csp?CSPCHD=0000000100003ra3icIf000000iZfux7gYMo5wZT0_MLvs4A--
2 COMMENTS:
well reasoned. and while i am yet to get the detailed report of the effect, i still affirm that any form of fundametalism, any mode of in-your-face profession of belief or ideology, any form of dogma for that matter, insults all democratic sensibility. swastika on your gate, depending on who is walking past, is an affirmation of a most base, most atrociously insensitive expression of historical reality.
Hypocrisy has always been a Nigerian. Every nook and cranny of the country has a church but the atrocities we commit are mind boggling that you actually wonder what we learn from those bibles anyway.
I must confess that if I saw a Swastika on someone's gate today, I'd be alarmed oh but not to the extent of making noise over something that might just be nothing. What ever happened to walking up to the owner of the house and asking what message he/she is trying to convey with the sign of the Swastika on his gate.
Religion is really the opium of the people and Nigeria is a distorted testament of that.
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