Atik Mohammed has taken a swipe at Sam George for pronouncing Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia a "religious prostitute" for regularly interacting with Christians and visiting churches.
To the Ningo-Prampram Parliamentarian, the Vice President's conduct is at variance with Islamic practices, hence saying Dr. Bawumia is not "a proper Muslim”.
He argued that "no true Muslim in the world believes that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. He is not a proper Muslim”.
But Atik Mohammed has shot back a reply at the lawmaker cautioning him against making such "reckless" comments.
"When you haven't seen war before, you take peace for granted...People tend to think, in politics, anything and everything goes; you can say anything and go scot free but it just took one reckless comment on radio and Rwanda was up the creek. Look, the only thing that has held Ghana together is our religious pluralism.
"The tolerance that our religious faiths have for one another, that is the reason why Ghana continues to be stable and continues to be an example for other African countries but it appears people are working so hard to destroy that magnet that keeps all of us together which is the religious tolerance," Atik responded on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo".
He asked Sam George, "what if someone who was a traditionalist and all of sudden, the person has found Christ and has become a Christian, others even go on and become even Pastors, will you also refer to them in the same manner?"
Atik warned Sam George and his likes to refrain from making those "reckless comments; they are becoming one too many".
"Whether somebody is a devout Muslim or not...it doesn't lie in your mouth to say", he emphasized.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Political hypocrisy...
When Bawuliar made antireligious statement that Mahama should convert to Islam that one was on fair grounds. A station run by Atik and Allottey de3 what should we expect. Comedy.
Politics has been thrown to dogs, had it not been African politics this hog wouldn't even be fit to be an aide to the vice president, let alone an MP...it seems most politicians,esp, NDCs talk before reasoning!
Hahahaaaa, Atik has said it all. Ayawaso west wuogon was not a war but we saw him running away after receiving some dirty slaps like a antelope . In a war situation he will run like a Cheetah. Democracy has come to make some " nobody's " somebody's. But for politics where will this boy meet the Vice President to shake hands with him much more passing judgment on that personality. Before Bawumia entered politics he had risen to an enviable position of deputy governor of the bank of Ghana by qualification . Sam George should tell us the work he was doing before becoming an MP and his position on that job if any.