Khalid S. Mtwangi’s angle in the weekly
Islamic newspaper namely AN-NUUR, dated Friday of June 29-July 5,2012 pg 14, has, once
again, emerged with the so called adversary between Islam and
Christianity. Khalid is among the prominent fundamentalists Muslim who always stand against Christians and Christianity in Tanzania.
Indeed, there is a long-time yearning of Muslims in Tanzania to
re-instate shariah law in the land, so does Khalid. To them, as Khalid sees, any
obstacle be it in the name of constitution, the supreme law, or any Christian intransigence that shall set back
the movement, is considered a threat towards Islamic state, hence, cause fracas in the Islamic realm.
On the
other hand to achieve this goal, they exhort the secular government to adopt
the Islamic tenets and rituals that must be forced to Non-Muslims to exercise them coercively. If this is not done, Khalid writes: surely
there is limit to human endurance.
When the Non-Muslim
media is creating the awareness to the community of Tanzanians about the
dangerous of the current Islamic agenda, it is reckoned as denigrating Islam.
In countries where the majorities are
Muslims, but where an Islamic State has not yet been formed, an Islamic
reformation may occur, aiming to root out all reminders of Christianity and
Western colonialism from the laws of the land.
Indeed, there is potential for a revolution to overthrow the existing
government with one that will implement the shariah. In the Democratic Republic
of the Sudan many Muslims demand that the sharia should again become the sole
legal code of the country.
Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria and Tanzania
are examples showing the long-term political strife and trials involved in
forming Islamic States.
The majority of the populations in these countries are not Muslims.
Despite this ratio, Christian leaders are removed from their positions of
influence, one by one, and newspapers and other media increasingly, transmit
Islamic propaganda. The atmosphere in these
countries is often tense and explosive.”
In fact the
Rubicon of fundamentalists Muslims and the Islamic propaganda media, is
conspicuously tied up with their common interest: Islamic Hegemony.
Should then
Christian clergy ignore these sentiments of their flock? Certainly not. Otherwise it will be a kind of nit-wits.
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