Who is killing Muslim clerics?

Jul 08, 2015

In the spirit of patriotism and respect for sanctity of human life created and breathed by God, I am profoundly saddened by the death of my contemporary, Sheikh Hassan Kirya who became victim of mysterious killing.

By Charles Okecha

In the spirit of patriotism and respect for sanctity of human life created and breathed by God, I am profoundly saddened by the death of my contemporary, Sheikh Hassan Kirya who became victim of mysterious killing.

Let me vet myself against sectarian extrapolation and hatred of Muslims. My current business partners at Icon Computers, Kampala Road are Muslims. In 2001, I learnt static-website designing technology through my Muslims friends of the Faculty of Computer Science at Islamic University in Uganda, Mbale Campus one a Somali national.

My erstwhile neighbour Aisha, a Tanzanian born IUIU lecturer gave us lots of household items upon her transfer. Space permits me to say that I can’t be that diabolical to hate them!

Security agencies in Uganda are blamed for providing selective security and Muslim clerics wish that the UPDF troops in Somalia and Sudan are brought back to help them.

That is their legal constitutional right as citizens of Uganda. But when a man strangles his wife inside his sound-proof house, how will those guarding from outside know? We have many Muslim professionals and elders who can decide and settle matters among the Muslims. If they have failed they need to speak out and invite psychotherapists to help them.

By God’s grace, I have guarded myself against obsession with the hatred of Abraham descendants. The Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs among others are descendants of Abraham. Besides Ishmael whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, Abraham married Keturah and bore other sons.

Bible readers can find in Genesis Chapters 12-25 that Terah the father of Abraham was actually a Syrian, before the circumcision covenant and conversion to a Hebrew. Abraham’s descendants have interpreted their own versions of the Law such as the Samaritan Torah, the Qur’an etc to worship the God of their father and receive his blessings. During Iddi Adhuha, all Muslims perform sacrifices in memory of the Mount Moriah ,where Abraham sacrificed a lamb instead of his son.

Jesus said a prophet is honoured except in his own family. All truth is parallel. We can verify whether Jesus’ words are true or hypothetical by examining the presidential aspirants for Uganda’s 2016 elections. Where do they hail from? What and how do they talk about a sitting president?

This answers the question whether they really qualify for leadership or not otherwise Ugandans could acquire their highly contagious ‘acute disappointment virus’ (ADIV), whose symptoms are similar to the Middle East terrorism virus (METEV). The scripture says “He who is faithful in little things, is also faithful in much. So let’s test the conditions at Makerere University, the OPM, UPDF and the Doctors clinic where he diagnoses abandoned Mulago patients and promises to treat them after they elect him.

He requests them to be patient enough and allow him use the available resources for campaigns. Let us reason with our heads not our stomachs. Our eyes are in our heads and without vision our nation shall perish. Who hampers service delivery? A local government department has not paid me for the ICT related service I offered, has the central government released funds? Should I join the riot chariot when in the actual sense the rodent is right down here?

The Israelis rejected Jesus, crucified Him but He rose from the dead.

They believe in the Torah (Law of Moses) which states tit for tat thus bullet for bullet, bomb for bomb, rocket for rocket. The Sunnis, Shiites, Palestinians, Bedioun Arabs, Syrians, Yemenis, Alawites use the same law to justify revenge. The Jews suffered severely at the hands of the Romans and Hitler. What do the rest say about Him? What does their holy book say about Jesus? Could the others be facing similar repercussions?

All the respective translations of the Torah agree on revenge killing except the Holy Bible where Jesus says forgive your enemies (Matthew 5:38). The gentile world fails to understand the acts of revenge in the Middle East. The believers love Israel and Jerusalem which is a command from God to love, pray and support them. However, this does not justify treating the Arabs as demons because they are also gentiles like us. The spread of Islam carries along the similar connotations all over the world. The world now knows America is a secular and not a ‘Christian’ country and that democracy represents the will of the people not God.

According to analysts, Britain and France who colonised the Middle East after the fall of the Turkish Ottoman Empire split these communities across different territorial boundaries. They now resist political and socio-economic domination and exclusion by others. Thus Sunnis fight to create a separate ISIS Caliphate. The UN should have acted beforehand and created separate entities like Kurdistan, Houthistan, Sunnistan, Shiitestan respectively. Muslims are leaving Europe, America and Australia to fight alongside ISIS because they would rather live in the caliphate. Why the zeal about Islam? Are there referendums and Supreme Court decrees that violate and grieve their conscience in the home countries? If democracy fails to work in the factory, why export a faulty product? If it works, why not adjust it to suit the conditions in the importing countries?

The UN is at crossroads about Iran’s nuclear programme because vendetta against Israel has multiplied quintillion times ever since their restoration in 1948. Having failed to annihilate them during the subsequent wars, Israelis fear that nuclear freedom could hoodwink the world and create a single doze remedy against them -the nuclear bomb.

The prevailing utterances and proxy wars suggest so.

The world is more hostile in fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy comparing the end times to the days of Noah (Genesis 6, Luke 17:26-29). The renowned London based journalist and New Vision writer Gwynne Dyer says modern day nations have nuclear shrines! Americans are carrying out the Sodom and Gomorrah experiment stand the risk of igniting the fire underneath them. There are also fears that nuclear accidents and computer viruses can initialise processes that launch warheads and spark off World War III.

In conclusion, the murders of Muslim clerics in Uganda is similar to bombings in the Middle East. I pray to God that it may not degenerate into suicide bombings where the Egyptian prosecutor, the Lebanese prime minister and many others were targeted indiscriminately. I pray that my foregoing friends Musa Waliggo, Faik, Amin, Bashir and many others observing the fasting month of Ramadhan may not perish in rabid fanaticism.

For God and my country

For the good will and peace of all human kind

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