Pa Gen Fè Moun Mal Nan Relijyon Vodou a

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Nan Vodou a, menm jan ak tout lòt relijyon ki ekziste sou tè a, gen moun ki gen bon kè e gen moun ki mechan. Sa pa vle di ke moun nan k ap fè sa k mal la se relijyon Vodou a ki fè l ap fè l.

Se menm jan avèk denominasyon Katolik la, ki te ankouraje e esponnsorize lesklavaj, yon sistèm malveyan, mechan, malfektè, elatriye. Èske m ka di ke se relijyon Kretyèn nan ki fè moun yo t ap pratike l? Non, m pa ka di sa. Fò k m ta yon inyoran sèlman pou m ta di yon bagay konsa. Alòske te gen Katolik nan tan lesklavaj ki te kont lesklavaj. Se sa ki fè ke ou pa ka kondane relijyon Kretyèn nan. Si w ap kondane, se pou w kondane moun mechan sa yo ki t ap pratike lesklavaj la nan relijyon an.

Al Qaeda [Bin Laden avèk gwoup Mizilman parèy li yo], ki fè anpil mal nan non Allah ak Islam. Èske poutèt sa m ka kanpe pou m di ke Islam se yon relijyon malfektè, teworis li ye? Non, m pa ka di sa. Pandan ke Al Qaeda ap teworize moun nan non Allah ak Islam, w ap jwenn Mizilman parèy li k ap kondane zak teworis yo, k ap di ke pa gen jan de zak sa yo nan Islam, ki se yon relijyon k ap preche lanmou, amoni ak lavi.

Ku Klux Klan, yon òganizasyon Kretyèn ki fè moun Nwa yo anpil mal isit Ozetazini [li gen anpil malfektè Blan ladan l], èske m ka chita pou m di ke se relijyon Kretyèn nan ki pa bon pou sa? Non, m pa ka di yon bagay konsa. Fò k m ta yon inyoran gwo zago sèlman pou m ta repete yon betiz parèy.

Hitler, ki touye apeprè 6 milyon Jwif nan peyi Almay, se yon Kretyen misye te ye. Èske m ka baze m sou zak malfektè, zak kriminèl li a pou m di ke relijyon Kretyèn nan se yon relijyon k ap fè mal, yon relijyon k ap touye moun li ye? Non, m pa ka di sa. Fò ke m ta yon inyoran gwo zago sèlman pou m ta repete yon betiz parèy.

Vodou a pa gen fè moun mal ladan l. Se yon relijyon –menm jan ak tout relijyon ki ekziste –k ap simaye lanmou, laverite, Vodou Blanlajistis, linyon, lapè, demokrasi, amoni ak lavi, ke nou jwenn nan pawòl Granmèt la. Sèl diferans ki genyen ant Vodou a ak lòt relijyon yo sè ke Vodou a se relijyon pa noumenm Ayisyen li ye, lòt yo se relijyon pèpè ke Blan Koumann pote bay nou pou yo fè nou rayi pwòp tèt nou, pou yo fè nou kwè ke nou enferyè, e pou yo ka kenbe nou nan lesklavaj mantal.

Alòs, nan tout relijyon, relijyon Vodou a se youn ladan yo, w ap jwenn bon ak move moun. Se noumenm lèzòm ki konsa. Lè malfektè a fè zak mechanste li a, sa pa vle di ke se relijyon li ladan li a ki pa bon. Pou m ta di sa, fò ke tout moun alawonnbadè ki nan relijyon an ta malfektè. Se sa ki fè ou pa ka defini yon relijyon an fonksyon de zak kèlke moun mechan, kèlke malfektè ki nan relijyon an ap komèt. Se pa relijyon an ki pa bon, se pito kè noumenm lèzòm ki nan relijyon an ki pa bon, e se sa ki pòte nou a fè frè ak sè nou yo mal.

Anpi pawòl degrenngòch, pawol tèt anba ke nou te konn abitye tande e nou kontinye ap tande sou Vodou a pa chita sou anyen. Pawòl sa yo fè pati de yon kanpay pwopagann kont Vodou a, ke moun Pwotestan yo ak moun Legliz Katolik yo, nan tèt kole avèk gouvènman restavèk Blan ke nou te konn abitye genyen yo, t ap fè mache andedan peyi a pou te ratibwaze relijyon Vodou a, relijyon pèp Ayisyen an, sou bout tè sa a ke zansèt nou yo te mouri kite pou nou an.

SANTORUM: STOP THE POLITICAL PANDERING

Rick Santorum speaking at a town hall meeting in Lady Lake, Florida on Monday.

At one of Rick Santorum’s town hall meetings held in Lady Lake, Florida on Monday, a woman stood up and asked him this question: “I never refer to Obama as President Obama because legally he is not. [Applause] And well he constantly says that our Constitution is passé and he totally ignores it as you know. He is an avowed Muslim and my question is: why isn’t something being done to get him out of our government? He has no legal right to be calling himself president.” In return, Santorum answered: “I am doing my best to try to get him out of the government.”

When asked by NBC political embed Andrew Rafferty why he did not use his platform to correct the lady, with such a disgusting attitude, Santorum responded: “Why do you guys ask these ‘gotcha’ questions like it’s my job to go out and correct everybody who says something I don’t agree with? I don’t think it’s my responsibility. Why don’t you go out and correct her? It’s not my responsibility as a candidate to correct everybody who makes a statement I disagree with.”

I am not really bothered by the woman’s question, though, because obviously she is confused; that’s her right to ask such question. However, you have a candidate, who knows (I am assuming now) the truth about President Obama’s faith, who knows damn well that he is not a Muslim, yet is not using his leadership attribute to refute the question and make an on-the-spot correction. That’s troubling. And he said it is not his responsibility to correct the lady? Whose town hall meeting was it? Keep reading to see what John McCain did a few years back when he was asked the same question.

In 2008, during the general election campaign, I remember vividly just like it was yesterday that Candidate John McCain was asked this similar question while he was on the trail in Minnesota; before the White lady who stood up to ask him the question could even finish, he stopped and corrected her on the spot. By doing so, he acted like a leader in charge and stood for what was right.

So basically, if Santorum failed to correct the misinformation from the lady, isn’t it fair to argue that he too strongly believes that President Obama is, indeed, a Muslim? I think it is. Well, Mr. Santorum, for your information, the actual president of the United States, President Barack Hussein Obama, is a Christian; he is not a Muslim. I know you know it, so please stop the political pandering.

The difference between John McCain and Rick Santorum is that John McCain is a leader, Santorum is not. Leaders don’t do what is popular to score political points; they do what is right even when it is not popular. So America, is this the guy you want to be your next president, someone who cannot assume his responsibility and does not have the courage to stand for what is right? If so, frankly, you need to think again.

HATRED FROM THE RIGHT IS CHAOTIC TO AMERICA

America is heading in a very dangerous direction with the right-wingers –NEWT GINGRICH, SARAH PALIN, RUSH LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK, SEAN HANNITY, ANN COULTER, etc… -polluting the minds of the people. Here are some facts:

Just a year ago, GLENN BECK called President Obama a racist. He said on Fox & Friends on Fox News: “This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for White people, for the White culture… this guy is, I believe, a racist.”

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RUSH LIMBAUGH, the voice of the American Right, is among the 25 – 30% Republicans who strongly and wrongly believe that President Obama is a Muslim. On his show on Wednesday, August 25, 2010, he said: “How can America be Islamophobic? We elected Obama, didn’t we? If this is a nation that is Islamophobic, how do we elect a man whose name is Barack Hussein Obama?” Click here to listen to the sound bite

NEWT GINGRICH, one of the Republican presidential candidates, had associated Muslims to Nazis. On Fox News, just a year ago, reacting to the controversy surrounding the building of the Islamic Center in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site, he stated: “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a sign next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.”

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Their agenda is twofold: 1. Use the attacks on September the 11th to demonize ISLAM and push for a WAR on the religion; 2. link the president to Islam by spreading misguided information about his faith. The logic behind the strategy is that if they can get the American people to have a negative view of Islam, calling President Obama a Muslim will automatically get the people to have a negative view of him. This is what you call incrimination by association.

On Tuesday, August 24, 2010, Michael Enright, a 21-year-old American film student, asked 43-year-old Bangladeshi cab driver Ahmed Sharif if he was a Muslim before slashing and stabbing him in the face, throat and arm in broad daylight in New York. You should ask yourself how this young student got to espouse such bitterness against Muslims.

On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, an intoxicated man, identified as Omar Rivera, entered a mosque in Queens, New York, urinated on prayer rugs, stuck up his middle finger at everybody happened to be inside and called them terrorists and all types of names.

Now, folks, this is America we are now talking about -the country that values freedom of religion and free speech. How did we get to where we are today? Since when being a Muslim was a crime? How did we get to hate people of the Islamic faith? Are we going to be walking around identifying Muslims and slashing and stabbing them?

Mr. Enright, Mr. Rivera and others got their Islamophobia from the anti-Islamic sentiment coming from these aforementioned right-wringers. You don’t walk around hurting people and expect yourself not to be stopped BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. You find peace of mind by making peace with yourself and others, not by bullying and clinging to violence.