BY:
MUDASSIR ALIYU YUNUSA
mudaysh@yahoo.co.uk
The unprofessional caption is taken by Sahara Reporters in which they erroneously compare the action of one coward person who is cheaply lacking courage and strength in justifying his ill interest against the government and good people of Nigeria, the so-called Sunday Igboho with Prophet Muhammad (SAW). This caption is really annoying, irritating, and condemnable.
The statement credited to the so-called Yoruba Tribal Pressure group (The Afenifere) is highly uncalled-for and deserves total withdrawal and apologies. Good people of Yoruba land should as a matter of urgency debunk and distance themselves very far away from this blasphemous caption and call the Afenifere to order for these blunders.
For Sahara Reporters as a Media outfit with quite a number of readers/followers, this surely has exposed their unprofessionalism and unethical way of handling sensitive National issues such as this. I believe, any media organization must be cautious on what to be taken as far as public issues are concerned particularly matters related to religion and ethnic groups in a heterogeneous country like Nigeria.
Professionally, base on good media ethic and the principle of journalism, stories, and captions, advert jingles, quotes, programs, etc must undergo series of editorial vetting and preview by a chain of professional editors, producers, or directors who go through it, view it from all angles and make sure it is not harmful, unfavorable and not disparaging any group of people, religion, ideology as well as cultural norms and values.
Any destructive story or caption would never be carried for the benefit of peace, unity, and for the goodness of that particular media outfit. I want to ask the bunch of proletarian editors of Sahara Reporters who also lacked proficiency, skills, and expertise, whose action has exposed their typical unprofessionalism, scandalous and indigent journalism, Who is Sunday Igboho even among the famous Yoruba Community?? To me he is nothing, he is a feeble-minded, ill-famed person only known as a political aggressor who is hired to destabilize the peace and harmony of the society and is also working against the wishes of many of his kinsmen as well as bringing chaos, confusion, and political commotion to the entire polity all in search of popular recognition.
I was never minding knowing who the man Sunday Igboho and his likes are, neither don’t mind going through his profile because to me he is not worthy enough to waste my time on. Well-known Yoruba People like Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Akintola, MKO Abiola, Olu Falae, Abdulaziz Kolawole Adeyemo, and others are really hard-working and unbiased people that history of Nigeria will be incomplete without mentioning their names.
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Those are people of greater caliber, people that one can take time in viewing, reading, and imbibing upon their lifestyle not a Rascal like Sunday Igboho who has been on the red light and declared wanted for becoming a traitor and rebel who is going always in parallel and against the will of the state.
In CONTRAST, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is a Holy Person who is the MOST PROMINENT among Highly respected in this world, even Western Researches rated PROPHET MUHAMMAD (S A W) as the most PROMINENT PERSON THE WORLD EVER PRODUCED.
Prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, the Almighty and surely he is an exceptional human being who possessed exceptional and extraordinary qualities extremely different from any other mankind created on this earth. His qualities are numerous but to mention a few are piousness, truthfulness, righteousness, faithfulness, accurateness, uprightness, devoutness, saintliness.
He also possessed foresight, prudence, rectitude, discretion, and peace-loving attitudes. These are among the few excellent qualities that Allah created him with. Allah (God) the Almighty has never bestowed such qualities to anybody. More importantly, however, Prophet Muhammad was/is the only Mankind that God the Master of the universe agreed to merge the name attached with, in Islam the pronouncement of Testimony of faith ( Kalimatush Shahadat) is invalid without mentioning the name of Prophet Muhammad in the sequel because He (Prophet Muhammad) is the most treasured person in the sight of Allah SWT.
His personality, prominence, status, reputation are fully manifested in his lifestyle, while his eminence feature of knowledge, wisdom, perseverance, endurance, simplicity, and his intellectual capability remained intact and untouchable. With the above Prophet Muhammad deserve justifiable, unquantifiable, and practical respect in all spheres. It is an obligation to all Muslim communities to protect the honor, esteem, dignity, and nobility of Our Prophet SAW so that whosoever assault or molest his personality and dignity should not be allowed to go unpunished.
However, the stupid act of blasphemy and insult by anyone should never be condoned at all cost and therefore Federal Government and other concerned authorities should call The Afenifere and the Sahara Reporters to order just for the peace to reign among the different beliefs across the country. It is really uncalled-for to insult or molest religious belief and their Prophet. I am calling upon all Muslims to unfollow Sahara Reporters Pages on social media and stop buying the printout of the newspaper as a deterrent to them before legal action will be taken against them
WE WHOLEHEARTEDLY LOVE OUR PROPHET AND WE WILL NOT FOLD OUR ARMS WATCHING IRRESPONSIBLE NEWSPAPERS LIKE SAHARA REPORTERS INSULTING HIS NOBILITY. INDEED PROPHET MUHAMMAD (SAW) IS THE MOST EXALTED MAN EVER CREATED. His qualities, judgment, and lifestyle are worthy of emulation to good people irrespective of Religious differences.
