Not by God, it is by Allah naomba usituchanganye. Haya endelea
Kwakuwa article ni ndefu na inaweza kuwasumbua watumiaji wa simu, ukiweza bofya hapa Mwalimu Nyerere - Articles, Transcripts and Legacies | Nyerere Against Islam in Zanzibar and Tanganyika
Lakini inshort, yaliyopo kwenye article hiyo baadhi yake ni haya
When the former Tanzanian President Julius Kambarage Nyerere made the above address to his National Assembly that "the union between Zanzibar and Tanganyika is the most misunderstood aspects of Tanzanian's political development" proved that he is the only Tanzanian who knows "the manner and the implications of the union" after British colonialism in East Africa.
During the British colonialism, Zanzibar was the only intellectual center for Islamization of East African countries under the Zanzibar Sultanate. The Gofu and the Barza Mosques allowed students from the East African countries for the Islamic education. The Zanzibar Muslim Academy also offered the greatest hope for the vibrancy of Islam in East Africa.
Nyerere, a devout Catholic saw that the Islamic Zanzibar state, a threat to Christianity. He masterminded a clandestine movement for the so called Zanzibar Revolution under the leadership of John Okello, a radical Christian from Uganda. It was not only a prelude to the creation of Tanzania, but a continuation of crusade against Islam and extension of Christian colonialism.
When Zanzibar gained independence on December 10, 1963 from the British government, it became a member of the Commonwealth nations. It joined the United Nations on December 16, 1963 and was represented by Hilal bin Muhammed bin Hilal. But when the new Zanzibar Government declared to form the model of the Islamic State, it was orchestrated by Afro-Christian Crusaders as reincarnation of Arabisation and revivalism of Islamization.
They invaded Zanzibar in the midnight of January 11, 1964 under the self-appointed "Field Mashal" John Okello, a militant Christian from Uganda. The objective of the Zanzibar revolution was a Crusade against Islam as Okello stated in his book entitled Revolution in Zanzibar that God appointed him to make revolution for the sake of Christianity. He then quoted the following Biblical passage for his justifications:
Nimekutukana wapi? thibitisha hili kwanza. Pili sikumbuki kuomba mjadala na mtu yeyote, maana niko bize kukimbiza shilingi, sipo hapa kupiga propaganda ili mkono uende kinywani. Tuelewane ktk hili kwanza.Kwa kawaida mtu mwenye kutukana huwa sijadilinae chochote.
Huo ni muono wako, I would care less if u do or don't see it that way.Lakini hii post ya pili imekuja na adabu.
Narejea tena, thibitisha nimekutukana wapi? Hakika muungwana husubiri wengine wathibitishe sifa zake, lakini kwa mtu aso busara huona anachelewa. Huu ni mtazamo wangu.Kuhusu niache wengine wanisemee hili halitowezekana kwa kuwa uleinitukana kuwa mimi ni...ni wewe kwa hiyo siwezi kusubiri mtu mwingine anijibie.
Kama nilivosema awali, muungwana husubiri watu wathibitishe sifa zake. Suala la wewe kutumia jina lako 'halisi' it is your personal choice, has nothing to do with facts and ultimate truth of your claims.Ndiyo nikakujibu uongo si sifa yangu na ndiyo maana hata hapa JF natumia jina langu halisi sijajificha.
Kama maandishi ya kitabu can be substituted as evidence, nazidi kuelewa zaidi kiwango cha uelewa wako. Nahisi kwako kitu kisichoandikwa basi hakina ukweli na kila kitabu ni ushahidi. Unajianika.Ushahidi ninao kwa kila nilichosema nimeweka ushahidi katika kitabu.
Narejea tena kukusihi, utuletee response ya Mwalimu Nyerere baada ya kukisoma hicho kitabu chako. Huenda ikatoa mwanga kwa sisi wengine.Ikiwa wewe unataka ushahidi wa kimahakama katika tafiti ya kisomi hilo sijui tutalifanyaje lakini kama unaweza kuniongoza kwa kunifunza tufanyeje ili upatikane ushahidi kama wa mahakamani kama unavyoainishwa na ''law of evedence'' mimi Insha Allah niko tayari kutoa ushirikiano.
Mzee Said,
Baada ya hoja yako ya ZNZ kuleta utata kama si kukosa mashiko sasa umerejea katika eneo lako.
Unachokieleza hapa kuhusu dini ndicho ulichokusudia ili kuleta mitafaruku.
Unapozungumzia Nyerere kuwa na mikakati ya kuukandamiza Uislam, hili nalo pia ni kama la ZNZ kwa undani wake.
Unachokifanya hapa ni kutafuta namna ya kumhusisha Nyerere na tuhuma zako. Hilo halina tatizo kwasababu ni mtazamo wakio. Tatizo linaloonekana ni kukwepa ukweli.
1. Baada ya kuonekana Nyerere ni Mkristo wapo walioanzisha AMNUT. Tumekuuliza mara mia moja ni kwanini waislam hawakuunga mkono AMNUT bali kushirikiana na Nyerere katika kuikomboa nchi? Sidhani kama una jibu kwasababu hujawahi kuwa na jibu
2. Baada ya Uhuru, kamati kuu na Halmashauri kuu ya TANU asilimia 99 iliundwa na Waislam. Baada ya kugundua njama zake kwanini hawakumuondoa kwasababu uwezo huo walikuwa nao.
3. Hivi inawezekanje na inaingiaje kwa akili ya mtu timamu kuamini kuwa Nyerere alifanikisha mipango yake bila ushauri wa watu wengine!Mohamed,
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa Kawawa kwa kushirikiana na Nyerere katika dhulma
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa Fundikira kwa kushirikiana na Nyerere katika dhulma
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa Tewa Said kwa kushirikiana na Nyerere katika dhulma
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa (Ali Hassan Mwinyi) waziri katika serikali ya Nyerere katika dhulma
4. Historia haiandikwi wala kufutwa inajidhiri yenyewe. Mchango wa Wapigania uhuru wa nchi hii hauna kipimo katika nafasi yetu ya sasa. Abdul Wahid Sykes kupewa tuzo ni haki yake na taifa linajivunia hilo bila kujali itikadi za kidini.
Familia ya Sykes inapaswa kujisikia fahari kwa kutoa mtu mwenye mchango kwa nchi yetu.
Unapojitokeza na kusema kitabu chako ndicho kimetambulisha na kumpa tuzo, kwanza ni kudharau mchango wa Sykes ambao hauhitaji andiko lako ili utimie. Pili ni kuidhalilisha familia ya Sykes kwasababu unachukua credit kwa kazi usioifanya wewe.
Tatu, ni kuanza kujenga chuki na hisia kuwa kama mtu hajaandikwa katika kitabu basi mchango wake kwa taifa hili ni mdogo.
Tarehe 26 Dec 2012 Mwalim John Keto alitutoka. Huyu ni Mwalimu kama wengine ambaye ametoa viongozi wa ngazi ya kitaifa wasiopungua 50( I mean PM, majaji n.k.), je tunahitaji kuandika kitabu ili mchango wake uwe halali!
Nakushauri ukijenga hoja basi zijenge kama wewe Mohamed na si Waislam.
Udhaifu au nguvu za hoja zako zibaki kwako na si kwa Waislam wote.
Hili litasaidia hasa nyakati hoja zako zinapokuwa dhaifu sana.
Na mwisho maoni yako yabaki kuwa maoni na si kuayafanya ni facts ili kuinusuru jamii na hoja za mtu mmoja.
Nimeona umenitukana.
Hata hivyo nitakujibu.
Mimi kila nilichoandika kuhusu Nyerere nina ushahidi.
Kitabu changu "The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes..." kimechapwa London mwaka 1998.
Nyerere yu hai na alikisoma.
Sikusuburi afe ndiyo nizungumze habari zake.
Naomba nikuulize hivi:
1. Nitajie nchi moja tu duniani ya Kiislamu ambayo ni nchi ya amani na haina umwagaji damu (machafuko) ya kidini au kisiasa.
2. Je, nchi za Kiislamu zenye machafuko na Nyerere alitawala huko au kuna Mkristo anayetawala huko?
3. Kama dini yenu ni ya amani mbona nchi ambazo waumini wake walio wengi ni Waislamu ndizo pia zinaongoza kwa vurugu?
4. Jana nilikuwa nasikiliza mhadhara fulani kwenye CD kati ya Waislamu na Wakristo na kwenye mhadhara huo kila mara mwenyekiti alikuwa akiwatuliza Waislamu waache vurugu (watoe nafasi ili Wakristo nao waseme kama wao wanavyosema na kusikilizwa bila kufanyiwa fujo) na kila mara ilikuwa inachukua muda mrefu kuwatuliza na hivyo dakta zilizokuwa zimepewa Wakristo kufidiwa tena. Mbona kila mara kwenye mihadhara ya namna hii inaonekana waumini wenu wanakosa uvumilivu? Ni sehemu ya mafundisho yenu?
Mzee Said,
Baada ya hoja yako ya ZNZ kuleta utata kama si kukosa mashiko sasa umerejea katika eneo lako.
Unachokieleza hapa kuhusu dini ndicho ulichokusudia ili kuleta mitafaruku.
Unapozungumzia Nyerere kuwa na mikakati ya kuukandamiza Uislam, hili nalo pia ni kama la ZNZ kwa undani wake.
Unachokifanya hapa ni kutafuta namna ya kumhusisha Nyerere na tuhuma zako. Hilo halina tatizo kwasababu ni mtazamo wakio. Tatizo linaloonekana ni kukwepa ukweli.
1. Baada ya kuonekana Nyerere ni Mkristo wapo walioanzisha AMNUT. Tumekuuliza mara mia moja ni kwanini waislam hawakuunga mkono AMNUT bali kushirikiana na Nyerere katika kuikomboa nchi? Sidhani kama una jibu kwasababu hujawahi kuwa na jibu
2. Baada ya Uhuru, kamati kuu na Halmashauri kuu ya TANU asilimia 99 iliundwa na Waislam. Baada ya kugundua njama zake kwanini hawakumuondoa kwasababu uwezo huo walikuwa nao.
3. Hivi inawezekanje na inaingiaje kwa akili ya mtu timamu kuamini kuwa Nyerere alifanikisha mipango yake bila ushauri wa watu wengine!Mohamed,
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa Kawawa kwa kushirikiana na Nyerere katika dhulma
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa Fundikira kwa kushirikiana na Nyerere katika dhulma
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa Tewa Said kwa kushirikiana na Nyerere katika dhulma
Nini ulikuwa mchango wa (Ali Hassan Mwinyi) waziri katika serikali ya Nyerere katika dhulma
4. Historia haiandikwi wala kufutwa inajidhiri yenyewe. Mchango wa Wapigania uhuru wa nchi hii hauna kipimo katika nafasi yetu ya sasa. Abdul Wahid Sykes kupewa tuzo ni haki yake na taifa linajivunia hilo bila kujali itikadi za kidini.
Familia ya Sykes inapaswa kujisikia fahari kwa kutoa mtu mwenye mchango kwa nchi yetu.
Unapojitokeza na kusema kitabu chako ndicho kimetambulisha na kumpa tuzo, kwanza ni kudharau mchango wa Sykes ambao hauhitaji andiko lako ili utimie. Pili ni kuidhalilisha familia ya Sykes kwasababu unachukua credit kwa kazi usioifanya wewe.
Tatu, ni kuanza kujenga chuki na hisia kuwa kama mtu hajaandikwa katika kitabu basi mchango wake kwa taifa hili ni mdogo.
Tarehe 26 Dec 2012 Mwalim John Keto alitutoka. Huyu ni Mwalimu kama wengine ambaye ametoa viongozi wa ngazi ya kitaifa wasiopungua 50( I mean PM, majaji n.k.), je tunahitaji kuandika kitabu ili mchango wake uwe halali!
Nakushauri ukijenga hoja basi zijenge kama wewe Mohamed na si Waislam.
Udhaifu au nguvu za hoja zako zibaki kwako na si kwa Waislam wote.
Hili litasaidia hasa nyakati hoja zako zinapokuwa dhaifu sana.
Na mwisho maoni yako yabaki kuwa maoni na si kuayafanya ni facts ili kuinusuru jamii na hoja za mtu mmoja.
Unakusudia vipi kusema kuwa nchi ya uislam? Je umekusudia dola ya kiislam? Kama ni dola ya kiislam basi hakuna duniani nzima ndio mana kila kona kuna fujo tu, sio nchi za syria tu na kwengine hata nchi za wazungu nao zinavurugu, tena wao ndo wakubwa hasa, hebu chungulia world war 1 na 2 walioshiriki ni kina nani? Naomba unijibu
Naendelea na kipengele chako sasa cha kwanza, kama umekusidia nchi ya waislam kwa maana ya kuwa na waislam wengi, basi mfano mzuri kuliko yote ni nchi ya oman, hakuna vurugu, lakini sio oman peke ake, UAE nayo iko salama sana tu..... Tatizo sio uislam, tatizo ni hii mifumo ya utawala ya kikafiri, eti demokrasia, dictatorship, monarchy, totalitarian, anarchy (kama somali) hii mifumo ni ya kikafiri ndio maana kutwa ugomvi na vurugu! HUWEZI KABISAAAAAA KUULAUMU UISLAM, huwezi kusema eti Syria mbona waislam lakini vuruguso it means uislam vurugu la hasha ndugu, kwanza tizama tatizo lao ni nini hao wasyria? Ni Assad, haya Assad amewekwa kwa mfumo gani? Hili nakuachia ujijibu mwenyeo!
Mfumo wa uongozi katika uislam ni wa Ukhalifa, huo ndio mfumo ambao ingeweza ukaleta lawama za kuulaumu uislam.....
Lakini uongozi wa kikafiri ndo huzalisha yote! Au wewe unaona mifumo nlokutajia ni ya uislam? Ni kina nani wameileta? Ebu nijibu basi ili nijue uelewa wako umefikia wapi kati ya kutenganisha uislam na matukio yanayotokea.
Mana kama unakumbula juzi UK kulikua na fujo kubwa sana, sasa tukisema ukiristo dini ya fujo tutakua tumefanya haki kweli?
Kidogo chuki zako weka pembeni japo kidogo tu ili ukweli uujue, wewe hujiulizi mbona katika tawala za makhalifa wawili wa mwanzo wa uislam ulikua stable na hakukua na resistance?
Muslims are now organising nationwide mass rallies which openly and in live broadcasts denounce the church, criticise the government and church agents within the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and the Parliament for oppressing Muslims.
Seemingly derogatory words like pandikizi (singular) and mapandikizi (plural) meaning turncoats; or the new coined word Mfumo Kristo roughly meaning Christian dominance are now part of the Muslim and Swahili vocabulary. These analogies are used freely in the Muslim media and among Muslims in every day conversation.
But what usually thrills Muslims and utterly significant showing that times have changed is when in the rallies and in normal discussion Muslims refer to Nyerere hitherto known respectfully as Baba wa Taifa as Baba wa Kanisa, meaning Church Elder.[1]
The move by the Catholic Church to make him a saint has not helped matters. More so it proves all the allegations levelled against Nyerere that he never was a nationalist but a Catholic zealot.
[1]The late Prof. Haroub Othman after reading Sheikh Ali Muhsins book Conflict and Harmony in Zanzibar and the writers book The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes 1924 -1968 The Untold Story of the Muslim Struggle Against British Colonialism in Tanganyika, Minerva Press, London 1998 and having come across hitherto unknown information on Nyerere was devastated because he was a great admirer of Nyerere as a patriot and a nationalist. The two books had painted him differently. Prof. Haroub confronted Nyerere and told him that the allegations in those two works have tarnished his image and he advised him to respond to them. Nyerere never did. Christian lecturers at Dar es Salaam University are discouraging students from making references to those two books. Dr. Harith Ghassanys book Kwaheri Ukoloni Kwaheri Uhuru, has also come up with more information on Nyerere hitherto unknown in the Zanzibar Revolution and the bloodbath which followed.
The new generation of Muslims no longer believe in the official history of TANU and the propaganda that it was Nyerere who single handed defeated the British.
Muslims instead are honouring the forgotten heroes of independence movement and in so doing invoking emotions particularly in the new generation to stand up against oppression as their forefathers had done against Germans and the British.
Muslim heroes of the Maji Maji War like Suleiman Mamba, Ali Songea Mbano,[1] and Muslim nationalists like Abdulwahid [2] and Ally Sykes,[3] Dossa Aziz, Sheikh Hassan bin Amir,[4] Sheikh Suleiman Takadir, Sheikh Yusuf Badi, Bibi Titi Mohamed,[5] Bibi Tatu bint Mzee, Bilali Rehani Waikela,[6] Ali Migeyo[7] and others are now part of nationalist history which was suppressed for many years.[8]
[1]In all historical references to Maji Maji War hero and Chief of Wangoni Ali Songea Mbano, his Muslim name Ali would be omitted and he would be referred to as Songea Mbano.
[2] Mohamed Said, The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924 1968), The Untold Story of the Muslim Struggle Against British Colonialism in Tanganyika Minerva Publishers, London, 1998.
[3]Mohamed Said, Broken Dreams, The Life of Ally Kleist Sykes, Phoenix Publishers, Nairobi 2011 (Forthcoming).
[4]Issa Ziddy, Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir (1880-1979). Also See Mohamed Said, Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir - The Moving Spirit of Muslim Emancipation in Tanganyika (1950 1968) (Paper presented at Youth Camp Organised by Zanzibar University, World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and Tanzania Muslim Students Association (TAMSA) 27[SUP]th[/SUP] February 4[SUP]th[/SUP] March 2004.
[5]Bibi Titi was recruited into TANU by Schneider Abdillah Plantan and began to mobilize people particularly women to join the party even before he came to know Nyerere.
[6]Bilali Rehani Waikela one of the TANU founder members in Western Province in 1955 and Regional Secretary of the East African Muslim Welfare Society (EAMWS) was detained by Nyerere in 1964 for mixing religion and politics. His personal papers were of great help in understanding the EAMWS crisis of 1968 and the reasons why Nyerere detained prominent sheikhs banned and the society in 1968. A documentary of his political life has been made and although not officially recognized as a patriot Muslims now consider him as one of the heroes of the independence movement. For more information see Mohamed Said, In Praise of Ancestors, Africa Events (London) March/April 1988.
[7] G. Mutahaba, Portrait of a Nationalist: The Life of Ali Migeyo, East African Publishing House, 1969.
[8] Maji Maji Museum in Songea which has been greatly desecrated removing all signs of Muslim symbols during the Maji Maji War with Germans. The Maji Maji Museum at Peramiho under the Catholic Church has closed its doors to young Muslims for fear of criticism for distorting history. All Muslim symbols in Maji Maji War against Germans have been obliterated in the Maji Maji Museum.
can you prove which quranic verse proves that ALI is an islamic name? una akili ndogo sana dogo kama JK, names has nothing to do with religion but tribes, we ni mjinga dunia haijapa kushuhudia mpaka utakapo kufa. so huyo mungu wenu angeshusha huo upuuzi kwa mtu wa kabila ingine let say m.k.w.e.r.e kwa hiyo yule mpenzi wangu m.k.w.e.r.e anaekwenda kwa jina la HATUJUANI, mimi huwa nalifupisha namuita HATUJU, kwa hiyo HATUJU lingekuwa jina la kiislamu? very stupid.
Ikiwa umeingia humu kwa nia ya kutukana na kuonyesha ujuvi utabaki hivyo hivyo na kiburi na matusi.
Lakini ikiwa umeingia humu kwa nia ya kupanua elimu yako nafasi iko tele ya wewe kufaidika.
Juu ya matusi nina wajibu wa kukuelekeza.
Inaelekea hujasoma historia ya Vita Vya Maji Maji.
Ungesoma kuhusu vita ya Maji Maji usingekuja na hoja hiyo ya jina.
Hebu tuanze darsa hapa chini:
Uislam dhidi ya ukoloni na Ukristo una historia ndefu. Ukristo ukawa kama kibaraka ukijikurubisha na kujinasibisha na ukoloni hata Wakristo kupigana vita pamoja na wakoloni dhidi ya majeshi ya wazalendo katika vita vya Maji Maji mwaka 1905. [1]
Kuelewa hali ya Uislam wakati ule, unahitaji kusoma barua iliyoandikwa na Chifu Songea bin Ruuf wakati alipokuwa akikusanya nguvu za raia wake dhidi ya majeshi ya Wajerumani na huku akijaribu kupata ushirika wa machifu wengine katika sehemu za kusini ya Tanganyika na ngíambo ya Mto Ruvuma katika Msumbiji. Barua hii aliyoandikiwa Sheikh, Sultan Mataka bin Hamin Massaninga inasema:
''Sultan Songea bin Ruuf anasema: Kwa Sheikh Sultan Mataka bin Hamin Massaninga. Asalaam Aleikum, Ninakuletea barua kupitia Kazembe. Tumepata amri kutoka kwa Mwenyezi Mungu kuwa Wazungu lazima waondoke nchini. Tupo katika kupigananao hapa. Naamini tumeshapatana muda mrefu, (kwa hiyo) niletee wanao, ili tufanye ushirikiano. Nilitaka kukuletea mifugo kama zawadi, lakini sipo katika hali ya kuweza kufanya hivyo, kwa kuwa vita ambavyo Mwenyezi Mungu amevitaka vinaendelea. Niletee watumiaji bunduki mia moja, na niunge mkono katika kulivamia Boma (Songea).
Ninakuletea chupa ya Mtume Muhammad, ambayo ndani yake ipo nguvu ya kuwashinda Wazungu. Usiwe na shaka nayo, ina uwezo mkubwa. Tutakapoliteka Boma (Songea), tutakwenda kwenye vituo katika Nyasa pamoja, mimi na wewe. Hivi sasa tusahau ugomvi wetu wa zamani.
Chupa hii, na daíwa, imeletwa na Chinyalanyala mwenyewe, kiongozi wa vita. Ameleta vilevile kombe, na anakupa salamu nyingi.
Endapo watu wako watakuja, Chinyalanyala mwenyewe atafika na atakupa vitu vingi vilivyo vitukufu.
Hassan bin Ismaíil anakusalimu.
Salam nyingi,''
Sultan Songea bin Ruuf. [1]
sijakataa kama Songea hakuwa muislamu, nachosema ALI sio jina la kiislamu ni jina la kiarabu, kama wewe una ushahidi kuwa ALI ni jina la kiislamu leta ushahidi wa maandiko kuwa ALI ni jina la kiislamu. Niko na dada yangu naemfuata anaitwa Amina ni mkristo ila wazazi walimpa jina la kiarabu. kuhusiana na hiyo barua nafikiri ungeiscan ukaibandika hapa sio unatunga maneno unapachika kwenye mtandao eti ilikuwa barua ya sheikh wa vita ya majimaji. ni kawaida kwa wakristo kujipendekeza kwa wazungu kama ilivyo kwa waislamu kujipendekeza kwa waarabu, na hili huwa unalithibitisha mwenyewe kuwa mapinduzi ya zanzibar yalifanywa na wakristo wakati waislamu watumwa weusi chini ya sultani wakiwa hawana tatizo na ubwana wa sultan juu yao.