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 A response to Dida Halake.....Muhammed A Jawara-Associate Editor!
A response to Dida Halake.....Muhammed A Jawara-Associate Editor!

Do not start a debate if you cannot stand the heat....
 
Part of the beauty of democracy is for people to agree and disagree with each other. That is what makes democracy unique to all forms of political ideolodies. There maybe people out there who are blaming Yahya Jammeh for everything that has gone wrong in the Gambia for the past 12 years without providing reasons for doing so. That is not the case with me, and is not enough to categorise everyone under the same banner as blindly anti-Jammeh. Clearly, i have legitimate questions for you that many Gambians are asking. It is up to you to continue the debate by answering the questions or stop low and continue with your generalization of the anti-jammeh Gambians. What you cannot do however, is to deviate our attentions from the issues that we the Gambians see as pathetic in our country. That is why we are going to continue to ask these question until a time when Yahya Jammeh and his ardent supporters like you realise that the world is not square, and Gambians are never going to shirk their responsibilites as citizens.
You wrote, "Bush is responsible for over 650,000 fellow muslims deaths in Iraq and what did you write recently Pa?" It was not Pa Nderry who wrote the questions to you, so why hold him responsible for the content? Besides what does exposing Jammeh brutality and incompetence have to do with treating George Bush in a like manner? The New York Times and CBS are giving George Bush a heck of a time, as he would like to call it. It is our prerogative to take part in that debate if we choose to, but for now we have our plates full with events in the Gambia. As for objectivity,i am no slave to it.
   It is still not late for you to come up with a reasonable argument rather than resort to making cheap shots. It is up to you to defend what you claim to be true, just as it is the role of Gambians to ask our president legitimate questions for crimes and corrupt acts committed while he is at the helm of power.
A wiseman once said, "In a democracy every man is entitled to say what he wants to say, and every other man is entitled not to listen."

Posted on Sunday, December 17, 2006 (Archive on Friday, December 29, 2006)
Posted by PNMBAI  Contributed by PNMBAI
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