Ikiwa maneno ni hayo basi mjadala umekwisha.
Wengine wanataka Mohamed akamatwe,na wengine wamekimbia bila kuonesha huo uchochezi.Wengi wetu tumejifunza historia ya ukweli kuhusu wazee wa kiislamu waliopigania Uhuru na harakati za Nyerere aliyegeuka kutetea imani yake baada ya uhuru kupatikana kupitia ikulu.
Mimi nipo nipo nasubiri kuona iwapo Mzee Mwanakijiji na Yerico wataweza kuchechemea kurudi ulingoni.
Ami,
Tuendelee na darsa kuhusu mwalimu wangu Sheikh Malik (Allah amuwie radhi):
Since the demise of the EAMWS which published EAMWS Newsletter Muslims did not have a mouth-piece of their own. For the first time Muslims were able to have their own mouth-piece. Warsha helped BAKWATA to register a newspaperMuislam with Warsha forming the editorial board.
Warsha's stand was that if Christians had two papers, Lengoand Kiongozi there was no reason for the government to bar Muslims from owning their own paper. Warsha also took over the weekly radio programme on state radio and the programmes which were broadcasted by them carried a special message to Muslims.
Warsha also wrote books which were published in Kenya by Islamic Foundation; these books were very popular and came to be taken by Muslims as reference books for understanding Islam in the Christian surroundings and hostile political system which existed in Tanzania. Warsha began to implement education programmes initiated by the EAMWS but were left to die after its demise.
Warsha turned four schools built by the EAMWS which were under BAKWATA into Muslim seminaries that from there on the schools would only accept Muslims.
Within a short period of time, discipline was restored into the schools and it was compulsory for students to observe prayers and for girls to dress in hijab.Mussa Mdidi and Burhani Mtengwa were fully involved in this project.
Warsha conducted a social research project which no Muslim organisation had attempted before. It commissioned its educationists to write a research paper to show why Muslim students were lagging behind in education. It is important to get a glimpse of those findings:[1]
Table 1Selection of Std. VII Pupils to Form I in Dar es Salaam Region 1978 to 1981 [TABLE="class: MsoNormalTable"]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Year[/TD]
[TD="width: 143, bgcolor: transparent"]Total Selected[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Muslims[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]% of Muslims Selected[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]1978[/TD]
[TD="width: 143, bgcolor: transparent"]956[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]216[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]23%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]1979[/TD]
[TD="width: 143, bgcolor: transparent"]903[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]194[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]22%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]1980[/TD]
[TD="width: 143, bgcolor: transparent"]1071[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]247[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]23%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Dar es Salaam City Council Department of Education
NB: In 1967 census Muslims in Dar es Salaam Region were 67% therefore the number of Muslim students in Dar es Salaam primary schools is greater than that of Christians. This should have reflected in the selection.
Table 2Religious Distribution University of Dar es Salaam 1971/72 and 1973/74 [TABLE="class: MsoNormalTable"]
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[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1971/72
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1973/74
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
*1974/1975
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1975/76
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1976/77
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1977/78
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1978/79
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
**1980/81
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
**1981/82
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
* Official Statistics not available** Students selected for Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Science and medicine not included.Source: 1969/70-1978/79 University of Dar es Salaam Students Directory. 1979/80-1981/82 Daily News June 1979/1981.
Table 3Religious Distribution of University of Dar es Salaam 1971/72/73 [TABLE="class: MsoNormalTable"]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
Year[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
% Muslim[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
%Christian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
Others[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
Total[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1971/72[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
13[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
86[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
100[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1972/73[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
14[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
84[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
2[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
100[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
1973/74[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
13[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
79[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
8[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]
100[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: University of Dar es Salaam DirectoryTable 4
Christian Seminary Secondary Schools 1980
[TABLE="class: MsoNormalTable"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 159, bgcolor: transparent"]
No.[/TD]
[TD="width: 204, bgcolor: transparent"]
School[/TD]
[TD="width: 204, bgcolor: transparent"]
Level[/TD]
[TD="width: 204, bgcolor: transparent"]
Region[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 159, bgcolor: transparent"]
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. [/TD]
[TD="width: 204, bgcolor: transparent"]
MafingaUjijiKilemaMauaUruNanupaMakokoKasitaLutheran JuniorSaint Peter'sNyegeziKaengesaLikondeMwaduiDungunyiItagaSoniKatokeRubiya [/TD]
[TD="width: 204, bgcolor: transparent"]
"O"""A""O""""""""""A""O"""A""O"""[/TD]
[TD="width: 204, bgcolor: transparent"]
IringaKigomaKilimanjaroKilimanjaroKilimanjaroLindiMaraMorogoroMorogoroMorogoroMwanzaRukwaRuvumaShinyangaSingidaTaboraTangaKageraKagera [/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Ministry of National Education, Dar es Salaam. When these s findings were made public and distributed to throughout the country it came as a shock to Muslims and the government.
For the first time it was revealed that there was a system in the Ministry of Education supported by Christian functionaries which was discriminatory to Muslim youths, purposely barring them from institutions of higher learning and the president of the country Julius Nyerere and the Catholic Church was not unconnected in this plot.
Such accusations and disclosure, particularly coming from Muslims, threatened national unity.
The government did not want to find out whether those findings on education were correct or not. Its interest was to know the brains behind Warsha isolate them from Muslims and then persecute them.
The government was unprepared for such revelations and was worried by the direction which BAKWATA was taking. BAKWATA was now serving the cause of Islam.
This was not what Nyerere had bargained for when he subverted the EAMWS and helped to found BAKWATA.
Sheikh Mohamed Ali as secretary of BAKWATA was taken to task for allowing the organisations to be hijacked by were perceived to be hot headed youths. Warsha were accused of being anti-government, anti Christian and perpetrating animosity between Muslims and Christians through their writings. President Nyerere ordered Aboud Jumbe the Vice President to close down the Muslim seminaries. A meeting between Aboud Jumbe and BAKWATA was held at Jumbe's official residence at Laibon Road.
In attendance were Rashid Mfaume Kawawa, Adam Nasibu, Sheikh Mohamed Ali and Sheikh Abbas Makbul a representative of Darul Iftar. The stand of Sheikh Mohamed Ali was that if those Muslim seminaries have to be closed then the decision to take that step should be laid upon the government. This was a difficult step to be taken by the government as such an act would provoke Muslims. The meeting left the decision to close the seminaries upon BAKWATA. [2]
BAWATA took a unilateral decision and reverted the schools back to its original state. Warsha not agreeing to BAKWATA's decision called a meeting of all Muslims to discuss the problem.
What Warsha was strategising was to draw Nyerere and his government into direct conflict with Muslims. The government saw through Warsha's plot and the Christian lobby used its powers and a crisis was fomented.
The government issued a directive to reinstate the schools taken over by Warsha to their former secular status, that is, any Tanzania irrespective of faith should have access to them.
The Christian lobby through the state- radio issued a warning that the meeting called by Warsha was illegal and any Muslim attending that meeting would be arrested. For effectiveness this announcement was read by the Director of Radio Tanzania, [3] David Wakati.
The government accused Warsha of trying to divide the country along religious lines. The government saw the two Muslim seminaries which were established less than a year as divisive but turned a blind eye to 19 Christian seminaries which were in existence for almost a hundred years.