Loyalty in that part of the world must be suspect; first it was the late Indira Gandhi of India that was killed by the man assigned to protect her, a Sikh bodyguard, worried-sick over the Amritsa Temple raid in 1984. Twenty-seven years later, another high ranking government official, the governor of Punjabi Province in Pakistan was similarly assassinated by his Muslim bodyguard, concerned over his stand against Pakistani blasphemy law. Icheoku asks, what is wrong with these fanatics inhabiting that region of the world.
One thing certain however is that an idea is immortal, death-defying and murderers can kill a messenger but never the message once it has gotten out. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ was similarly killed (Judas Iscariot is his inside man) to silence him; but he became greater in death which was climaxed by his resurrection. Martin Luther King was killed for his ideas that every man deserves some dignity irrespective of the color of his skin and today, he has grown larger than life and is celebrated around the world; especially his speeches. Icheoku therefore says, the coward of the country, the Pakistani dog that pulled the trigger that snuffed the life out of the governor of Punjabi for speaking out against an unjust law of blasphemy, a very subjective and selectively applied law against Christians by their Muslim overlords does not deserve the air of 'infamous fame' he is currently receiving in Pakistan. He deserves to be thrown to the jackals or a pack of hyenas, to properly mete out to him an appropriate punishment, for his sins of the mind and for betraying the trust of a man who entrusted his life to his hands.
One thing certain however is that an idea is immortal, death-defying and murderers can kill a messenger but never the message once it has gotten out. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ was similarly killed (Judas Iscariot is his inside man) to silence him; but he became greater in death which was climaxed by his resurrection. Martin Luther King was killed for his ideas that every man deserves some dignity irrespective of the color of his skin and today, he has grown larger than life and is celebrated around the world; especially his speeches. Icheoku therefore says, the coward of the country, the Pakistani dog that pulled the trigger that snuffed the life out of the governor of Punjabi for speaking out against an unjust law of blasphemy, a very subjective and selectively applied law against Christians by their Muslim overlords does not deserve the air of 'infamous fame' he is currently receiving in Pakistan. He deserves to be thrown to the jackals or a pack of hyenas, to properly mete out to him an appropriate punishment, for his sins of the mind and for betraying the trust of a man who entrusted his life to his hands.
The killing of Governor Taseer in a Kohsar public shopping center Islamabad now becomes the second high profile public assassination in Pakistan following the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination in her vehicle at a political campaign rally. A gentleman and a scholar whose liberal views is ofter times in dagger-drawn conflict with conservative Islamists, Governor Taseer was opposed to the Pakistani blasphemy law which zealots have wrongfully exploited over the years for vendetta. A blasphemy law which sprang back to the center stage last November when a court sentenced a Christian mother of four, Asia Bibi, to death by stoning; following a community dispute wherein her traducers accused her of uttering words considered unedifying and blasphemous of their Prophet Mohammed. It is instructive that a Christian is here being accused by Muslims of blaspheming their Islamic prophet Mohammed and you wonder why the law should be applied to a none-believer? Icheoku says this law was unreasonably applied to a Christian not minding what her believes were and whether or not she recognized her words to mean much as to be blasphemous of Prophet Mohammed. Icheoku asks, when shall Christians all over the world stop turning the other cheek for a 70 by 70 slap by these Muslims? When are Christians going to honor their manhood by standing up and defending what they too believe in, instead of the current turning of tail, whenever faced with Muslim extremism? When shall enough really become enough or must there be a war of religions in this world first, before these extremists learn to co-habit with people of other faith or different mindsets?
Icheoku hopes that the late governor's prophesy of being 'the last man standing over the blasphemous law' shall not come to pass and that other brave men and women of Pakistan shall stand up and be counted as they face down these cowards who terrorize them. They must not let the animal, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, succeed as his ranting seem to suggest that "Salman Taseer is a blasphemer and this is the punishment for a blasphemer". The people of Pakistan must let Qadri and his co-extremists know that they do not represent the popular views in Pakistan and that they do not have the right or power to dictate who is what in Pakistan. This assassination has added to the political instability and volatility that has become part of life in Pakistan as well as the general Himalayan neighborhood; but life must go on. Governor Salman Taseer must not be allowed to die in vain; his idea for a more liberal Muslim Pakistan must endure which he has now paid for and purchased with his blood. Icheoku says, Governor Taseer is a hero and did not die in vain; he lives on in the minds of all men and women of good intentions; men and women who would rather see a just and fair world enthroned; and who would always speak up and out against evil in order to engineer it. Adieu Taseer!
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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