MwanaFalsafa1
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- Feb 26, 2008
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Rutashubanyuma,
With a number of killings and threats posed by gangs of Islamic radicals in Zanzibar, and knowing my government is long on lip-service but short on tangible commitment, I will think twice now to even contemplate setting my foot in zenji because I no longer consider myself welcomed there. And I believe this perception is shared by many a Christian.
May I outline a couple of reasons which leads me to consider Kikwete & his CCM government are liable and complicit to the religious intolerance now conspiring to tear this nation into many a part:-
1.0 WHERE DID KIKWETE GO WRONG ON RELIGIOUS HARMONY?
a) Over-ambition did it all!
The real costs of this nation accommodating JK's quest to presidency is beginning to be felt across the entire national spectrum. In 2005, Kikwete made it a personal crusade that led to his election as our president which though was anybody's constitutional right, the path that he chose roused, facilitated and precipitated religious frictions never experienced before!
Part of his strategy was to remind his fellow Muslims that it was their turn to eat as Christians had eaten through Mkapa's presidency! What Kikwete forgot was that fanning religious insecurity as a tool to acquire power was a double-edged sword: It benefited him then but now Kikwete had unleashed a monster that is threatening even his presidency. On religious conflicts, many Tanzanians prefer to bury their heads on the sand hypocritically claiming to be above the shore but in reality they are part and parcel of the crisis, and it is only when they are personally victimized that they begin to moan about insecurity!
In 2010, faced with a mammoth challenge from Dr. Slaa, a Christian, Kikwete exploited "udini" to evade confronting gargantuan policy implementation failures on his part. I am still patiently waiting for Kikwete to dilate to the nation what was all about this "udini" beyond scaring voters and balkanizing the nation along religious fissures!
b) Kikwete presidential appointments tilted in favour of his fellow Muslims!
JK considered there were religious injustices inflicted against Muslim by both colonial and post-colonial governments; and ensuing from this, he perceives himself as burdened with redress onus. From this cockeyed attitude, JK has skewed his presidential appointments in favour of his fellow Muslims compromising meritocracy in the process. JK feels that education system and access to government largesse have all been recruited to leave Muslims behind and he has to deploy at least government senior jobs to address the coined imbalances!
In central committee of ccm, number of Christians representation has continue to dwindle rendering it almost impossible for his successor to be a Christian! There are no mechanisms in place in the election of ccm central committee membership to ensure the demographic realities are being captured there. Under-representation of Christians is deliberate to ensure policy directions are geared towards their marginalization despite being the majority in the nation. The Augusta House; to much consolation and relief, captures demographic realities on the ground.
Because JK has shown less sensitivity towards the assault of Christians when on podiums, radical Islam has erroneously intepreted the state is on their side and have been more audacious and vocal to claim what is in many ways unconstitutional rights.
Mwasisi wa Mahakama ya Kadhi hapa nchini ni Mrema.....mbona huyu hamkuomuona kwamba ni mdini? NI aibu kuhusisha Mahakama ya Kadhi na Islamic Government! Kuna nchi kibao ambazo zina Mahakama ya Kadhi kwa muda mrefu sasa na wala sio serikali za Kiislamu! Mahakama za Kadh zinatumia just a small portion za Sharia Law ingawaje wapotoshaji mnataka kuwaaminisha watu kwamba Mahakama za Kadh is all about kukata watu mikono!!
c) Institutionalization of Mahakama za kadhi!
Under Mwinyi; a Muslim, there was no clamouring of Mahakama za kadhi but because of JK's personal intiatives, this is now a national carthasis ready to burst at any moment something a presidential statement to the contrary was sufficient to quell that improper quest for an islamic government.
Hapa ndipo ulipotoa picha yako halisi kwamba analysis zako zime-base ama kwenye personal hatred au kitu kingine kinachofanana na hicho! Yaani Saidi Mwema alikuwa Junior Police Officer wakati anateuliwa kuwa IGP?! Unatia aibu mkuu wangu!
e) Overlooking the incompetence of the IGP Saidi Mwema!
When a juniour police officer was elevated to IGP post from Interpol in Nairobi, some of us had doubts but politicians hailed the appointment as keen to root our criminality but now time has proved skeptics to be on the right side of history.
Where forensic science is now a leading technological breakthrough in criminal investigations, IGP Mwema still rely on coerced hearsay, tampering of evidence and witnesses to run the police force! It is of little wonder why no progress is ever recorded to arrest and punish those who are hiring assassins to create havoc and insecurity atmosphere around us.
In comparison to Kenya, our police force remains the least professionalized, under-equipped, under-resourced and unfit to do the job they are being paid for. You will be surprised to learn Kenyan politicians; on campaign trail, still talk of furthering their police reforms to the betterment while we keep on cavorting with underachievers!
With the state house connections IGP Mwema has, one had expected him to have done more than less but it is incompetence well captured by his growing obesity demonstrates better. When he was at Interpol he was trimmed and flaunted a lanky figure ready for police work but now he has sired a pot-belly sending a wrong signal for the whole police force he runs. All over the world, police force is known for discipline and physical exercise, but here overweight seems to be one of the mediocre qualifications one needs to have and survive in the police force!
Ingawaje title yako ime-include hadi drugs trafficking, lakini kwenye maelezo yako hukutaka kugusia hata chembe kuhusu drugs trafficking simply because linahusu both religious communities. Badala yake ukaamua kuzungumzia sana suala la Money Laundering na terrorism kwa ile tu kutaka ku-connects dots btn terrorism+money laundering with muslim community,
f) Money launderers, drug barons and Islamic radicals have formed an axis of evil.
Though we have painstakingly patched up money laundering laws but enforcement has been the weakest link there. Laundered money is now being used to pay up hired assassins now terrorizing prelates in Zanzibar and nudging Muslims elsewhere to use violent disobedience as a tool to secure a better religious deal for themselves. Now we see even criminal suspects like Sheikh Ponda do enjoy popular support among Muslims despite being linked with terrorist organizations such as Al-Shabab!
In a summary, Kikwete ought to end his vacation of doling out an intemperate greenlight to his fellow muslims and take them to task, and salvage whatever is left of our national unity.
g) Surrounding himself with questionable characters.
Those who are being mentioned adversely in national scams seem to have encapsulated and regimented themselves with State house and CCM as their last standing fortress! Kikwete ought to know better that evil company corrupts even good manners.
We still need to know what had happened to the lists of drug barons and criminal suspects Kikwete had collated with his sidekicks if we are to take him serious enough as a committed leader to end a culture of impunity now threatening to drive a wedge among us!
Niseme wazi kwamba hujazifahamu vizuri siasa za ZNZ......yaani Mzanzibari aue nafasi ya Uzanzibari wake kwa ajili ya Uislamu wa mtu wa Bara?! You missed the point somewhere!! Kwa Mzanzibari, mtu wa bara ni wa bara na katu hawezi kuuza Uzanzibari wake simply because huyu wa bara ni Mwislamu mwenzake!! Kitu ambacho kilimwangusha Salimu Ahmed Salimu wala sio hicho unachotaka kutuaminisha....!!! Kilichomuanginisha SAS ni Political History ya Zanzibar.....hapa tunazungumzia ASP VS HIZBU!! Hadi sasa, wanazi wa ASP ambao wenyewe wanajiita wanamapinduzi wanamuona SAS kama Mwarabu wa HIZBU. Na hawa ndio ambao hadi leo wanasambaza propaganda dhidi ya CUF kwamba wana lengo la ku kurudisha utawala wa Sultan. Wanazi hawa hadi leo hawapo tayari kumuona SAS akishika uongozi, uwe upande wa bara au visiwani!! Na kama utakumbuka, back 2005 ilikuwa ni kipindi ambacho wanaojiita wana-mapinduzi walikuwa wameshika kasi sana Zanzibar.....!! Kwahiyo ni uongo mtupu kudai kwamba ambacho kilimwangusha SAS ni character assassination kutoka kwa wana-mtandao!! Hata kama kulikuwa na character assassination kutoka kwa wana-mtandao, bado assassination hiyo ilkuwa na madhara madogo sana kwa SAS ukizingatia madhara ya Wazanzibari wenyewe waliyokuwa nayo dhidi ya SAS! Na hii, Wazanzibari hawakuhitaji kuambiwa na yeyote kwani ndivyo wanavyoamini huku hadi leo wakiendelea kuamini kuwa ni SAS huyu huyu ambae ndie alihusika katika mauaji ya Mzee Karume!!
Why did I state the above? If you guys remember in 2005 there was a lot of noise that it was the turn for a person for Zanzibar to be president. Kikwete happens to be Muslim but not Zanzibari. Since the man who was to be his predecessor was a Christian, the mtandao group figured the best way is to kill the "its a Zanzibaris turn" notion with a "its a Muslim's tun" notion but in order to do so they had to get rid of the thread of a viable Zanzibari muslim candidate and we all know the character assassination of Salim Ahmed Salim that took place.
Tuanze hapo kwenye RED, is General Election RELIGIOUS MATTER?!
2010:
Let as look at who posed the greatest threat to JK's ambitions in 2010, it was Dr. W. Slaa. W. Slaa happens to be a former member of the clergy. Thus what was the strategy this time, to paint Chadema as a Christian party and Dr. W. Slaa as a former clergy with a religious agenda. Sadly but true, most of our Muslim brothers and sisters are more sensitive to religious matters than are Christians and they took it to heart that Chadema was a Christian party and that those who opposed JK only did so out of spite for Islam "udini". If memories serve you all well it was CCM and not any other party which was trumpeting "udini".
HALAFU wasomi wa JF ni wasomi ha ajabu sana!!! Mbona wakati zinaenezwa propaganda kwamba CUF ni chama cha Waislamu hamjawahi kusema kwamba Wakristo wanatumiwa lakini ikisemwa CHADEMA ni chama cha Wakristo; basi Waislamu hapo wanatumiwa!!! Yaani mnataka kuwaona Waislamu hawana akili, au?! Hivi unaposema CUF ni chama cha Waislamu maana yake ni nini? Si kwamba wale wasio Waislamu wakiogope?! MBona hamsemi kwamba nao wanatumiwa?! Au ndo unataka kutuaminisha Wakristo wana akili sana kwahiyo hata ikisemwa kwamba CUF ni chama cha Waislamu bado watatumia akili zao na kubaini kwamba sio kweli?! Kama ndivyo, mikoa ambayo majority ni Wakristo mbona CUF huko haikubaliki?! Nini tafsiri yake kama sio nao wanaamini ya kwamba CUF ni chama cha Waislamu?! Mbona hao huoni kwamba wanatumiwa na badala yake unaona wanaotumiwa ni wale tu ambao wanaambiwa CHADEMA ni Chama cha Wakristo?! Acha unazi......kama ni kutumika, wote Wakristo na Waislamu wanatumika na wamekuwa affected na propaganda za CCM! Wakristo wengi wanaamini kwamba CUF ni chama cha Waislamu!! Pamoja na kwamba umetaka uchambuzi wako uonekane ni wa kisomi, lakini uko completely biased na wala sitashangaa nikigundua kwamba nawe ni miongoni mwa wale wanaoamini kwamba Waislamu hawajasoma, elimu ya ni ya Madrasa na kwamba unaweza kuwatumia utakavyo!!
My advice to our Muslim brothers and sisters in Tanzania is for them to sit down and think and to not let themselves be used as political tokens. No Christian has a problem with a Muslim holding power or else JK would have never won the presidency to begin with.
Let as look at who posed the greatest threat to JK's ambitions in 2010, it was Dr. W. Slaa. W. Slaa happens to be a former member of the clergy. Thus what was the strategy this time, to paint Chadema as a Christian party and Dr. W. Slaa as a former clergy with a religious agenda. Sadly but true, most of our Muslim brothers and sisters are more sensitive to religious matters than are Christians and they took it to heart that Chadema was a Christian party and that those who opposed JK only did so out of spite for Islam "udini". If memories serve you all well it was CCM and not any other party which was trumpeting "udini".