My OperaSunday, July 28, 2013 12:52:21 PM
On Gimba Kakanda
LETTER TO THE WOMEN FOLK.
(A Rejoinder to Kakanda’s Letter to his unborn Daughter.)
Dear Mothers,
Sequel to the hypocritical letter of a misinformed blogger who writes in contrary to the ideology of his professed belief, I forward this rejoinder that every mother may put their creed into their deeds and in unison, condemn the uncouth criticism of a would-be creative writer. The essence of this blogger’s hypocrisy sprouts from his attempt to make an exception of himself from the infallible teachings of Islam while wearing the paraphernalia of a moderate Muslim. The most disheartening thing about this blogger is that he writes without reference, yet confronts us with creatively coined inanities. Alas! He is avidly followed by faithless and faint-hearted atheists.
Without visceral emotion, Kakanda’s claim that the inferiority of women springs fromthe belief that they were ‘merely created from our(men’s) ribs to be chained to marital slavery’, shows that he is only but a dilettante who delves into an issue on which he is not well versed. This writer can not differentiate between the true Islamic teachings and those of allien cultures which have incorrect and bad attitudes towards women. What a shame!
The truism about women in Islam is that marriage contract compels the husband to take up the codgelof responsibilty by protecting and taking care of his wife. It does notmean that they are relegated as ‘weak’. Why pervert the differencebetween ‘weakness’ and ‘warm-heartedness’? Is this protection what Kakanda calls collapse of decency? The problem with Kakanda is that he fails to bring the stance of Islam about marriage from the periphery into the contemporary challenge poised by the Nigerian constitution.
This self-acclaimed repentant father freakishly affirmed in his polemical and tendentious letter that women are subjugated due to religious conspiracies. This claim goes further to expose Kakanda’s facile fabulosity. That he trivializes divine injunctions at will, unveils his barefaced arrogance against God, as a resultof his gift of the gab, civilization and cultural nuances.
If Yerima uses religion to gain control of political ends as Kakanda opines; he needs not cry more than the bereaved. It is the responsibility of the Muslim community to call him to caution in the best of manner as taught inthe Qur’an, for we know that the rat should be careful when the catbegins to perform ablution. Let somebody caution Kakanda from shedding crocodile tears under the guise of writing a letter to his unknown daughter. This so called letter is replete with proves that the writer is ignorant of the rightsof wives and the rights of slaves in Islam.
How seldom Kakanda conceives isfollies in the same manner as he perceives Yerima’s? But Kakanda is completely blinded by his deceptions. I expect a good mother to urge him to stop poking a nose in the affairs of a man who has chosen to live in tune with the teachings of a religion that he profess. Only a bad Muslim like Kakanda would feing ignorance of the high statusthat women have in the society, as well as the highly rewarding role of maintaining a warm and loving family atmosphere in the home.
Another babarity which Kakanda associated with Islam is that little Nigerian girls are ‘constitutionally dehumanized’ (through child marriage). I ask, where was Kakanda when a Lagos female pupil was given 43 lashes of the cane by a heartless school principal? Where was Kakanda when Millions of Muslim women were disallowed from registering for votes in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and other states in the South just because they wore hijab during the 2007 and 2011 general elections? What has Kakanda written to condemn alcohol and Drug abuse, fashion-crazy nakedness civilization, high levels of rape, prostitution and childtrafficking in Nigeria?
I call on righteous women to caution Kakanda from his shallow-mindedness and attemptsto stereotype and stigmatize Muslims. There can be no harmony unless we learn to accept Muslims as Muslims and respect their pristine principles in order to foster peaceful coexistence.
Uncouth Kakanda also questions the necessity of Arabic names, he seems oblivious of the fact that Islam does not consider it compulsory for Muslims to have Arabic names. Rather, it is only highly recommended for one to do so. Especially, when the meaning of one’s name is something offensive or overly presumptuous in sound, like K-a-k-a-n-d-a. Even Prophet Muhammad (SAW) changed the names of a number of his followers since they indicated servitude and bondage to createdbeings or people.
LETTER TO THE WOMEN FOLK.
(A Rejoinder to Kakanda’s Letter to his unborn Daughter.)
Dear Mothers,
Sequel to the hypocritical letter of a misinformed blogger who writes in contrary to the ideology of his professed belief, I forward this rejoinder that every mother may put their creed into their deeds and in unison, condemn the uncouth criticism of a would-be creative writer. The essence of this blogger’s hypocrisy sprouts from his attempt to make an exception of himself from the infallible teachings of Islam while wearing the paraphernalia of a moderate Muslim. The most disheartening thing about this blogger is that he writes without reference, yet confronts us with creatively coined inanities. Alas! He is avidly followed by faithless and faint-hearted atheists.
Without visceral emotion, Kakanda’s claim that the inferiority of women springs fromthe belief that they were ‘merely created from our(men’s) ribs to be chained to marital slavery’, shows that he is only but a dilettante who delves into an issue on which he is not well versed. This writer can not differentiate between the true Islamic teachings and those of allien cultures which have incorrect and bad attitudes towards women. What a shame!
The truism about women in Islam is that marriage contract compels the husband to take up the codgelof responsibilty by protecting and taking care of his wife. It does notmean that they are relegated as ‘weak’. Why pervert the differencebetween ‘weakness’ and ‘warm-heartedness’? Is this protection what Kakanda calls collapse of decency? The problem with Kakanda is that he fails to bring the stance of Islam about marriage from the periphery into the contemporary challenge poised by the Nigerian constitution.
This self-acclaimed repentant father freakishly affirmed in his polemical and tendentious letter that women are subjugated due to religious conspiracies. This claim goes further to expose Kakanda’s facile fabulosity. That he trivializes divine injunctions at will, unveils his barefaced arrogance against God, as a resultof his gift of the gab, civilization and cultural nuances.
If Yerima uses religion to gain control of political ends as Kakanda opines; he needs not cry more than the bereaved. It is the responsibility of the Muslim community to call him to caution in the best of manner as taught inthe Qur’an, for we know that the rat should be careful when the catbegins to perform ablution. Let somebody caution Kakanda from shedding crocodile tears under the guise of writing a letter to his unknown daughter. This so called letter is replete with proves that the writer is ignorant of the rightsof wives and the rights of slaves in Islam.
How seldom Kakanda conceives isfollies in the same manner as he perceives Yerima’s? But Kakanda is completely blinded by his deceptions. I expect a good mother to urge him to stop poking a nose in the affairs of a man who has chosen to live in tune with the teachings of a religion that he profess. Only a bad Muslim like Kakanda would feing ignorance of the high statusthat women have in the society, as well as the highly rewarding role of maintaining a warm and loving family atmosphere in the home.
Another babarity which Kakanda associated with Islam is that little Nigerian girls are ‘constitutionally dehumanized’ (through child marriage). I ask, where was Kakanda when a Lagos female pupil was given 43 lashes of the cane by a heartless school principal? Where was Kakanda when Millions of Muslim women were disallowed from registering for votes in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and other states in the South just because they wore hijab during the 2007 and 2011 general elections? What has Kakanda written to condemn alcohol and Drug abuse, fashion-crazy nakedness civilization, high levels of rape, prostitution and childtrafficking in Nigeria?
I call on righteous women to caution Kakanda from his shallow-mindedness and attemptsto stereotype and stigmatize Muslims. There can be no harmony unless we learn to accept Muslims as Muslims and respect their pristine principles in order to foster peaceful coexistence.
Uncouth Kakanda also questions the necessity of Arabic names, he seems oblivious of the fact that Islam does not consider it compulsory for Muslims to have Arabic names. Rather, it is only highly recommended for one to do so. Especially, when the meaning of one’s name is something offensive or overly presumptuous in sound, like K-a-k-a-n-d-a. Even Prophet Muhammad (SAW) changed the names of a number of his followers since they indicated servitude and bondage to createdbeings or people.
