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Read again the argument and, by the way, there is a big difference between the word "while" and "after"; in short, what Prof. Hirji is saying is that this not simply a matter of Muslims as anti-colonialism, there were Muslims who were pro-colonialism.
"Said unreasonably emphasises one type of grievance in the anticolonial struggles. In truth, those struggles derived from many grievances. They included limited educational opportunities, exploitative trade practices, lack of representation in political decision making, denial of civil service jobs and business licenses, unfair pay schemes and taxation, land appropriation, persistent poverty, preferences granted to Asians, and cultural domination. Religion based grievances were a marginal factor in this equation" - Karim Hirji
Pata darsa dogo hapa kijana, alilopewa mwenzako aliyeleta hii mada, labda umekurupuka hujaiona:
KVM,
Hayo hapo chini ni kutoka kitabu changu cha Abdul Sykes.
Hebu soma kisha rejea utoe maoni yako.
Lakini ukitaka kuelewa zaidi hebu jiwekeni nyinyi katika nafasi ya Waislam
kisha mhisi mngejisikiaje endapo mnaposema kuwa watu wanaendesha udini
na kutubagua sisi Wakristo halafu Waislam wakaja na visingizio vya "data,"
na "research methodology," na nini...
Mifano iko mingi ya wenzetu walioangamiza nchi zao kwa kutojali.
Waislam ni nusu ya raia wa Tanzania.
Tusiachie ifike siku Waislam waseme, "Imetosha."
Hapatakuwa na mshindi.
Msomeni Bergen (1981), Sivalon (1992), Njozi (2000).
Hatari kuwapuuza na kuwafanya mzaha kwa mambo yasiyostahili mzaha:
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[TD]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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[TD]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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[TD]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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[TD]Since independence, when the Church felt threatened, it managed to check and keep in control post-independence Muslim drive with relative ease. The government was able to expend political power to slow down a Muslim drive for power sharing in the government. The Church ensured that the overthrow of the colonial state was not a setback to Christianity, although it was to be expected that the Church would have suffered with the fall of colonialism. Throughout its hundred years of existence, the Church was comfortable in its role as a true saviour of not only of the souls but also of the people. It felt secure and did not encounter a situation demanding it to assert its position or flex its muscles against the government because they controlled the source of its power.[/TD]
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[TD]It is important at this juncture to study the actual workings of Christian partisan politics in the government and its negative impact on Islam. The Ministry of Education has been deliberately selected as an example because of its importance to the society and its uniqueness. In this ministry one can, vividly observe the influence of Christianity in the distribution of important appointments, the imbalances between Muslims and Christians in the hierarchy and how religion seem to control those appointments. This is very important, because it was in this ministry, when for the first time a Muslim minister was appointed, that the Church intervened openly to protest against this and other appointments that followed. The government bowed under pressure and a Muslim minister, Professor Kighoma Ali Malima was removed from the ministry.[/TD]
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[TD]In 1987 Professor Malima became the first Muslim Minister of Education. Eight previous ministers were Christians. There were accusations that the ministry was a Christian stronghold, particularly when at one time a pastor was appointed minister to head the ministry. When Professor Malima became minister of education he thought it was imperative that some changes be effected in the ministry to win back the confidence of Muslims. There were accusations that the ministry was discriminating against Muslim youths, barring them from higher institutions of learning and was frustrating the career advancement of Muslims functionaries in the ministry.[/TD]
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[TD]Having seen this imbalance between Muslims and Christians in the ministry, Professor Malima appointed four Muslim directors to head different departments in the ministry and wrote a confidential report to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi [4]on the state of affairs he had found in the ministry. In that report [5] Professor Malima mentioned the stagnation of Muslims in education. This report somehow got leaked to the press and to other Christian personalities including former President Nyerere and then CCM Chairman Julius Nyerere.[/TD]
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[TD]The marginalisation of Muslims is so obvious and glaring in Tanzania that it does not require statistical proof. Any social scientist familiar with Tanzania will not fail to notice this fact. It is noticeable and evident in all spheres of life. The first serious attempt to bring the problem of marginalisation to the attention of Muslims was done by one Muslim youth organisation-Muslim Writers, popularly known as Warsha. In 1981 in a method of interacting with the general Muslim population never seen before, a research was conducted and the findings were published and distributed to all Muslims in Tanzania, showing low figures of Muslim admission into institutions of higher learning.[/TD]
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[TD]Aboud Jumbe, [6] former President of Zanzibar and First Vice-President of Tanzania, has made a statistical analysis of Muslim placement in the government, the parliament and in institutions of higher learning. The figures are shocking. In some institutions Muslims are noticeable by their absence. Jumbe's expose was the second serious documented attempt to put this problem out in the open with the hope that the government would feel compelled and obligated to rectify the anomaly.[/TD]
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[TD]Other attempts have been made in the past by individuals such as Sheikh Abubakar Mwilima, then member of the National Executive of the party to try to put this problem to the government and the ruling party. Unique in this is the fact that all those who have tried to put this problem before the government agenda have not survived. Their political life or career was curtailed-Chief Abdallah Said Fundikira, Tewa Said Tewa, Bibi Titi Mohamed, Mufti Sheikh Hassan bin Amir, Mussa Kwikima, Sheikh Abubakar Mwilima, Professor Kighoma Ali Malima and others. It is from this point that Muslims began to whisper about conspiracy against them. This came to be confirmed later when Christian writers began to research on the effect of Christianity on state administration; and not caring about the repercussions of their findings to Muslims they detailed how Muslims have been sidelined with government connivance.[/TD]
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[1] See footnote no.19.
[2] Daily News, 6 th November, 1985
[3] Sivalon, op.cit. p. 49.
[4] Ali Hassan Mwinyi : President 1985-1995
[5] See Kiongozi, July 15 th-31 th, 1993.
[6] Aboud Jumbe, The Partner-Ship, Amana Publishers, Dar es Salaam, 1995, pp. 125-138.
Mohamed Said
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