“UNPOPULAR TRUTH”: Ukristo umeleta madhara mengi zaidi kuliko mema kwa jina la Yesu… wakati Uislamu ulijenga civilizations.
Ukristo haukuishia tu “kusambaza injili.” Kwa jina la Yesu, ulileta karne nyingi za umwagaji damu, conquest na control.
Hii ndiyo ugly list yake:
Crusades (1095–1291): Ma-Pope waliita holy wars zilizochinja mamia ya maelfu ya Waislamu, Wayahudi, na hata Wakristo wenzao wenyewe, yote kwa madai ya “kuikomboa” Holy Land.
Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834): Torture racks, watu kuchomwa moto hadharani, na forced confessions. Maelfu waliuawa kwa “heresy” huku RC Church ikichukua mali zao.
European Witch Hunts (15th–18th century): Zaidi ya watu 50,000 wanawake na wanaume waliteswa na kuchomwa wakiwa hai Ulaya na Marekani kwa sababu “Biblia ilisema hivyo.”
Colonialism & Slave Trade: Mataifa ya Kikristo yaliivamia Afrika, Americas, na Asia wakiwa na msalaba mkononi mmoja na upanga mkononi mwingine. Utumwa ulihalalishwa kwa Bible verses. Mamilioni walikufa au kufungwa minyororo.
Forced Conversions & Cultural Erasure: Indigenous people wa Americas na Australia walinyang’anywa ardhi zao, lugha zao zikapigwa marufuku, na watoto wao kupelekwa kwa lazima kwenye missionary schools.
Religious Wars Ulaya: Thirty Years’ War pekee iliua hadi watu milioni 8, karibu 20% ya population kwa sababu Catholics na Protestants hawakuacha kuuana “kwa ajili ya Yesu.”
Wakati wa utawala wa Leopold II of Belgium juu ya Congo Free State (takriban 1885–1908), historians wanaestimate kwamba mamilioni ya Wakongo walikufa kutokana na forced labor, njaa, magonjwa, executions, na brutal punishments zilizokuwa tied na rubber extraction pamoja na colonial exploitation based on racial and religious supremacy
Atrocities za Congo zinabaki kuwa moja ya colonial systems za kikatili na deadly zaidi katika modern history.
US kwa Christian Evangelism imeharibu civillizations za Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan na sasa wanataka kuipeleka Iran, back to Stone Age as per US pedosdent
Hiyo si ancient history tu. Hiyo ndiyo track record ya Ukristo kwa zaidi ya miaka 1,000.
Wakati Ulaya ilikuwa inazama kwenye Dark Ages, Uislamu ulikuwa unaangaza dunia kupitia Islamic Golden Age (8th–14th century):
Ulileta algebra, algorithms, na modern optics (asante Al-Khwarizmi the father of algorithm na Ibn al-Haytham).
Ibn al-Haytham alifanya experiments kuhusu mwanga na vision kwenye Book of Optics. Alieleza jinsi jicho linavyoona kupitia reflected light badala ya macho “kutoa mwanga,” kitu kilichosaidia foundation ya modern optics na scientific method.
Ulijenga universities na hospitals za kwanza duniani zenye free healthcare.
University of al-Qarawiyyin huko Fez, Morocco (859 CE) mara nyingi hutajwa kama moja ya universities za kwanza duniani zinazofanya kazi mpaka leo.
House of Wisdom Baghdad ilikuwa center kubwa ya translation ambapo kazi za Aristotle, Plato, Indian mathematics na Persian science zilitafsiriwa kwenda Arabic badala ya kupotea.
* Hospitals za Kiislamu kama Bimaristan za Baghdad na Damascus zilikuwa na wards tofauti, pharmacies, na treatment bila kujali uwezo wa kulipa tofauti na sehemu nyingi za medieval Europe ambapo healthcare ilikuwa limited sana.
Ibn Sina au Avicenna aliandika The Canon of Medicine, iliyokuwa standard medical textbook Ulaya kwa karne nyingi hadi Renaissance.
Ulilinda na kutafsiri knowledge ya Greek, Roman na Indian wakati Church ilikuwa inachoma vitabu na kufukuza wana sayansi kina Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Michael Sevatus, Andreas Vaselius etc
Ulifanya Zakat (mandatory charity) kuwa pillar muhimu, ukisaidia kuinua mamilioni kutoka kwenye umaskini kwa karne nyingi. Katika baadhi ya Islamic empires, wealth redistribution kupitia zakat na waqf (charitable endowments) zilifadhili schools, hospitals, roads, fountains na nyumba za maskini kwa karne nyingi. Hii mpaka leo kwa nchi zenye Sharia bado wanatumia. Hata leo hii kila muislam aliyefunga analipa zakat fitr siku ya Idd ili kuwapa maskini nao washerehekee Idd vizuei bila unyonge
Ulijenga breathtaking architecture, Taj Mahal na majengo mengi Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo; medicine pamoja na astronomy iliyosaidia kuanzisha Renaissance.
Uliongoza empires mbalimbali kama Andalus Spain, Ottoman, na Mughal ambapo Wayahudi, Wakristo, na Waislamu mara nyingi waliishi kwa relative peace chini ya dhimmi protections kitu ambacho kilikuwa rare sana kwenye medieval Christian Europe.
Katika historia yote, Ukristo umeleta madhara mengi kuliko mema: conquest, fear, na division. Uislamu umeleta knowledge, charity, na progress.
The numbers don’t lie. History doesn’t lie
Ukweli mpana zaidi hata ya maandiko yenyewe na tafsiri zake ukienda deep zaidi katika chanzo ni kwamba hata muanzilishi mwenyewe wa dini ya Uislamu ni Warlord kwa hiyo haipaswi kuwa hata jambo la ajabu baadhi ya Wafuasi wake wengi kutaka kuishi aina ya maisha yake karne hii. Kwa upande mwingine Waanzilishi wa Ukristo na Ubudha walikuwa Pacifists wanaopinga aina zozote za violence kwa hiyo inapaswa kuwa jambo la kushangaza sana tukiona baadhi ya wanaojiita wafuasi wao wakiwa violent au magaidi.
You are no longer being intellectually fair because emotions zimekushika.
Tumetoka kwenye
Legitimate comparison = kulinganisha kwa kusaidia kuelewa hoja.
Whataboutism = kutumia comparison kukwepa kujibu hoja ya msingi.
Kwa heri!
I am not here to babysit your emotions. If facts offend you more than ignorance embarrasses you, that’s your personal crisis to manage, not mine