Jasusi,
Mimi sikuingia humu ndani kuja kufanya maskhara.
Mambo niandikayo ni mambo ninayoyafahamu na kufanya utafiti wa kina.
Watu ninaowashutumu kwa dhulma ni watu wakubwa wenye heshima zao.
kwa hiyo basi niandikapo kwanza natunguliza ''Bismilliah Rahman Rahim.''
Sitanii.
Chini ya kumtanguliza Allah siwezi kulinajisi jina lake kwa uongo.
Angalia hii na kwa kweli hiyo nukuu inatoka katika ''The Life and Times of Abdulwahid
Sykes...'' na si ngeni:
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On 5 th November, 1985, before he stepped down as president, Nyerere delivered an emotional speech to elders of Dar es Salaam.
Most of them were former members of TANU-the townsman who supported Nyerere during the struggle for independence[1] Nyerere acknowledged the role of Muslims in those difficult days.
Nyerere told his audience that the imbalances between Muslims and Christians which his government had inherited from the British were rectified under his rule:[/TD]
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''And they (Muslims) gave us chance through our education policies, to correct the imbalances which we have done.
I am now in the happy position of sometimes not knowing whether a new member of Parliament, a Minister, or a Principal Secretary in our government ministries, is a Muslim or a Christian or neither unless their first name happens to give it away. And even that is not a sure guide in Tanzania, for we have Christians with Muslim names, Muslims with Christian names. This religious tolerance and freedom is your creation; what I have done is to speak up for those values on your behalf.'' [2][/TD]
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The speech was a farce.
The truth is that three decades after independence Muslim are not better off than they were under colonialism.
Sivalon has revealed that the Church has been able to create its own lobby which controls 75% of the seats in the parliament.
Among these seats 70% are held by Catholics and the rest are divided among Muslims and Christian denominations.[3][/TD]
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[1] See footnote no.19.
[2] Daily News, 6 th November, 1985
[3] Sivalon, op.cit. p. 49.
Kwa kukumbusha tu ni katika hotuba hii Nyerere alisema kuwa alipoingia TAA Dar es Salaam aliwakuta vijana wenzake Dossa na Abdul. Akasema hakumbuki Abdul alikuwa na cheo gani.
Hotuba hii inaogopwa.
Hairudiwi katika radio.