The Migrant Crisis: An Indictment on Rich Arab States.

by Eze Eluchie

The greatest indictment on the practice of the Shari’a by some Arab countries, as a way of life, is the fact that pushed to a point of hopelessness and destitution, millions of Arabs {overwhelmingly Muslims} who have become refugees have shunned looking up to incredulously wealthy Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf Emirates (despite their proximity to these countries) and would rather risk all in their quest to traverse continents and oceans to get to Europe and the US.

These mega-rich Arab countries have remained wickedly mute to the plight of millions of fellow Arabs (overwhelmingly fellow Muslims}, pretending that the unfolding carnage is of no moment. In a bid to rationalize the inhumane posture of these Arab States, some have posited that the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council are not signatories to the International Convention on Refugees and so are not obligated to take in refugees. This excuse is hurtful to these Arab States – you do not need any agreements, domestic or international, to do good, to save lives, to be human!

It is hoped that the stance of these rich Arab states who are quite ‘generous’ in dishing out funds to ‘support’ Islamization causes across the world, particularly in emerging countries, and yet refuse to as much as open their doors to Muslims in extreme distress will not be lost on the several peoples and countries of sub-Sahara Africa where such largesse’s have served to foster and fuel internal ethno-religious conflict and disturbances – the lesson learnt ought to be: If they cannot step in when it mattered most to their immediate neighbors who also happen to share same faith, the motive for their ‘generosity’ is clearly not pure.



Picture: Some Arab refugees trying to enter European Union territory

Release Kim Davis: U.S. PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE

by Eze Eluchie

When the United States Supreme Court accepted to delve into strictly personal affairs that bother on religious doctrine and personal beliefs and conscience, it was clear that the United States was descending into a realm that will, sooner than later, find it in the sorry state where it will have to use the instrumentality of the State and Justice processes to try to influence personal conscience, religion and beliefs.

Ms. Kim Davis, an elected official of Rowan County, Kentucky State, charged with issuing Certificates of Marriage has repeatedly stated that her faith does not permit her to sign Marriage certificates for marriages that are not between a man and a woman.  The Kentucky State Court Clerk refused to issue marriage certificate to homosexual couples purely on grounds that her conscience and religious believes negates such marriages becomes a prisoner of conscience!

By ordering that Kim Davis be sent to prison for merely abiding and sticking to her conscience and the dictates of her faith, US District Judge David Bunning has elevated Kim Davis to the status of a Prisoner of Conscience.

In his words at the sentencing, Justice Bunning asserted that "Her good faith belief is simply not a viable defense".

Is there any difference with what transpired against Ms. Kim Davis and the persecution of Christians and other ethno-religious minorities in those jurisdictions notorious for having ‘prisoners of conscience’? Whether it be in China, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, or wheresoever, the presence of Prisoners of Conscience in any jurisdiction is an afront against humanity.

The United States authorities are enjoined to release Kim Davis, a Prisoner of Conscience, IMMEDIATELY!



Picture: Kim Davis, Rowan County, Kentucky. 

The Dragon Bares Its Fangs.

by Eze Eluchie

Dating back to over a century-and-a-half ago when the British Navy, and its present day ally, France, forced China, upon threat of bombardment, to open its borders under terms which were quite unfair to Chinese interests and amongst other things allowed licit trade in Opium, a heinous crime which devastated thousands in China rendering many to be zombies operating under the influence of opiates, to the Nanjing holocaust when the Imperial Japanese army slaughtered over 300,000 Chinese nationals during World War II, the Chinese have been the butt of jokes in international circles as the ever under-performing giant. A giant that has been routinely battered by countries far less endowed than it in terms of population, size of territory, historic pedigree or otherwise, a giant whose populations have been routinely raped, pillaged and enslaved over the decades.

However, in the course of over half a century, starting from the end of World War II and expedited during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the Chinese have successfully redefined, rebuilt, reenergized and recalibrated the Chinese concept. From a mainly agrarian, rural and uneducated population, China has in the course of the past half century, by dint of hard work, sheer patriotic fervor and focused leadership, transformed not only her peoples, her landscape and her economic potentials, but also how the global community perceives her.

Gone are the days when the world looked down on China and her peoples and referred to them by all manners of derogatory epithets; those who still do, do so to their own detriment and merely reflect deep-rooted ignorance. Gone also is the era when the Chinese existed as recluses, keeping to their history and themselves and requiring foreign armies to force them to open up their territories to international trade; now, the Chinese brand is global, with virtually everthing, everywhere having some Chinese component. Chinese firms now dominate global trade, going where others shy from threading under self-imposed human right considerations and using their unique numerical and low-cost-of-production advantage to drive market leaders underground.

Beginning to feel some sense of stability and sustainability in its global economic clout and the need to reinforce its presence at the world stage, the Chinese are now beginning to flex its muscles in the one area where it had, for decades, played the global underdog – the military sphere.

The decades of playing second fiddle militarily had come at great costs, in terms of loss of territory and prestige. It is thus only natural that when the tide changes, as it surely appears to have, efforts will be made to recover lost territory and regain lost prestige. Desirous of a peacetime opportunity to let the rest of the world know that it had come of age, and its rediscovered capabilities to take a stand at the global stage and defend such stance by whatever means, Chinese authorities opted to use the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japan during World War II, a victory China knows it was only able to achieve after the twin devastating atomic bomb annihilations the United States had visited Japan with, to let the world know its capabilities.

And what a show the Chinese unveiled.

As China makes greater territorial claims in the South China seas and gets more assertive with its neighbors, assertions which have served to put several of its neighbors on edge, and the United States enters into more Bilateral Defense Treaties with these countries with whom China is increasingly having border skirmishes, it can validly be contended that it is more a matter of when, and not if, before there will be lethal exchanges between China and the United States.

Considering the resources at the disposal of these two giants and the renewed patriotism and desire never to return to a past of subservience imbued into the Chinese psyche, such a confrontation will if not prevented prior to its onset, descend into mankind’s worst case scenario.



Picture: Chinese President Xi Jinping review the military parade at the 70th anniversary celebrations of China's 'victory' in the war of resistance against Japan.