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Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - two young people were arrested by police in connection with the murder of Father Anastasius Nsherenguzi, a 43-year-old Catholic priest in the diocese of Kayanga (Tanzania), who was seriously injured on Friday, and died on Saturday, April 7, after several hours of agony without revealing any details about what had happened.
According to reports on behalf of the Daily News, Fr. Nsherenguzi, while returning from Bushangaro, the area of the parish where he had gone for a religious service, along the road he had come across some young men who were fighting. The priest immediately intervened to prevent the dispute from degenerating. But Fr. Nsherenguzi was hit in turn by a youth with a large rock, causing him fatal injuries. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 14/4/2012)
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Under the peach arches of Al-Noor charitable agency for the needy just outside Stone Town in Zanzibar, a 24-hour Islamic radio station broadcasts religious guidance.
Female tourists should wear headscarves and cover their knees, says Mohamed Suleiman Ali, director of Radio Al-Noor, echoing the opinions voiced on radio. "It's too early to fight for an Islamic state because there are several stages to that, but a lot of things are being done contrary to the teachings of Islam," he says. "There's no social responsibility; the government keeps producing more [social] freedom."

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Famed for its beaches, more than 170,000 holiday makers come to Zanzibar every year to swim with dolphins and lie beneath coconut trees. But the relaxed way of life that lures tourists to the mainly Muslim islands off the east coast of Africa is coming under threat from a rise in less tolerant forms of Islam. This is tapping into festering discontent over the island's sovereignty and beginning to influence social mores.
The islands – which make much of their money from tourism – are home to 1m people and more than 2,000 Muslim religious schools. Most of these draw on a long tradition of moderate and Sufi forms of Islam. But these are underfunded and staffed by volunteer teachers. Increasingly, parents are sending their children to better financed alternatives in a process that is beginning to parallel that taking place across a swath of sub-Saharan Africa from Somalia to Mali, where the growing influence of more radical forms of Islam can be felt.

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[Nyenyere]

ukiisoma hii kwa undani inaonekana kama kikundi fulani cha watu wachache wanafanya matukio ya namna hii kwa ajili ya kuoandikiza migogoro kwa manufaa yao binafsi......

Dirty politics

 

[Islander Warrior]

DIGITAL JOURNAL NEWS

By KJ Mullins Dec 7, 2012 in Crime

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Susan Wells wanted to help young people in Tanzania obtain their education. The Toronto social worker had made several trips to the African nation before her last one on November 25. It would be her last.

Susan Wells, 41, lived in Collington. She left her home with suitcases filled with educational materials traveling alone to Arusha. It was her sixth trip to the area. Wells had an extensive network of friends in the area.
Wells was picked up at the Tanzania airport by Joseph Kimaro. It is believed that Kimaro is a person that Wells had helped in the past. A day later her body was found in Arusha. It's unclear how she died, various reports say that she was shot or slain by a machete. Her death was confirmed on November 28.
Kimaro has been arrested in connection to Wells death. It is unclear as to if he has been charged or what the charges are.
While the CBC quotes Robert Levine, director at Projects Abroad, saying that violent crime is rare against volunteers in Tanzania. However many sites for travelers warn about violent crimes in the area. Arusha is considered the most dangerous city of the country.
Funeral services are planned for next week in Collingwood. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Susan's memory to Youth Haven Barrie, Collingwood General and Marine Hospital Foundation, My Friend's House or the Susan Wells Trust Fund. Donations can be made at the Collingwood branch of the TD Canada Trust, account number 2078 6614192.



Read more: Ontario woman killed in Tanzania

 

[Islander Warrior]

I think tunapokwenda Zbar kitakua kisiwa cha Magaidi

huku Tanganyika tayari naona ilishakuwa nchi ya magaidi na inazidi kuwa nchi ya ufisadi na magaidi

 

[Islander Warrior]

Mfumo kristo ni nini? Mfumo wa damu umeitwa mfumo kwa sababu damu imeenea kote mwilini. Watu wa dini ya kikristo imehodhi asassi zote za nyeti za uongozi na mamlaka katika nchi hii, sehemu zote za nguvu/maamuzi ya dola zimeshikwa na wakristo tangu uongozi wa juu ikulu mpaka kiongozi wa mtaa uongozi wote umeshikwa na mfumo kristo. Na hao walioshika hizo nyadhifa wanazitumia kuuendeleza ukristo na kukandamiza uislamu.

 

[masopakyindi]

Mzee mwanakijiji, this is the western propaganda which is always against Islam and Muslims. The radio presenter was addressing his views and he was not in no way urging people to take any steps against those who act contrary to islamic teachings. Wewe mwenyewe kwa vile ni mkristo ndio maana unashabikia hizo article. ZNZ haijafikia hiyo stage you kusema kuna extremism. Punguza chuki zako na wazanzibar Mzee au tatizo ni nini?

Hata kumpiga padri risasi ni western propaganda?

Zanzibar ni nchi kwishney!
You are succsessfully kililing your own golden goose, halafu mje Tanganyika na kopo la omba omba!
hao waarabu wanao finance fujo wawape na hela ya kula na kusomesha watoto wenu.

 

[Islander Warrior]

HATIMA YA TANZANIA NA MFUMO KRISTO!

MFUMO KRISTO!
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Ni muda mrefu zimekuwa zikiibuliwa propaganda za kuchora zilizojaa chuki, njama na hila chafu zinazolenga kuigawanya jamii kwa misingi ya kiimani.Yote haya yamekuwa yaki buniwa, kukumbatiwa na kurithishwa na baadhi ya makundi yenye fikira finyu na muono wa karibu juu ya makundi mengine katika jamii. Kutokana na sura hii ni vizuri tukiangalia sehemu ya historia na propaganda zinazopigiwa chapuo juu ya Uislamu katika jamii ya kitanzania na dunia kwa ujumla.​

Katika jamii ya kitanzania ya leo kumekuwa na migogoro mingi na ya aina tofauti ambayo imekuwa ikiumiza vichwa vya watu kutokana na kufichwa kwa historia ya kweli na kuibuliwa kwa historia feki ya kuungaunga ambayo imelenga kuwalazimishia watu fulani umaarufu usiokuwa wao. Nasema ni historia ya kuungaunga kwasababu imeshindwa kujibu maswalimengi ya jamii ya kitanzania haswa pale watanzania tunapotaka kufahamu ukweli halisi wa mambo juu ya tulipotoka mpaka hapa tulipo. Kwa mfano tumekuwa tukisomeshwa mambo mengi ya kihistoria juu ya ukombozi wa nchi yetu na kutajiwa baadhi ya watu kana kwamba wao ndio pekee walioshiriki kuihami na kuitetea nchi yetu dhidi ya wakoloni.Kutokana na kufichwa huku kwa historia watanzania tumeishia kuamini vitu ambavyo naweza kuviita hewa ukilinganisha na uhalisia wake. Tukiangalia vita vya majimaji vilivyoongozwa na Abdallah Kinjekitile Ngwale, wajerumani baada ya mkutano wa Berlin ambao ulikuwa na maangalizo tofauti yakiwemo ya kuusambaratisha uislamu kwa hali na mali na kupandikiza ukristo kwa nchi yoyote itakayopewa koloni sehemu yoyote,Wajerumani hawa waliingia kwa kasi upande wa kusini mashariki mwa Tanganyika mwaka 1905 baada ya kuadabishwa na Mkwawa mwaka 1888.Kinjekitile akiwa amiri jeshi wa kundi lake aliamrisha waislamu wachukue maji watie udhu kabla ya vita kama alivyofanya nabii Muhammad(s.a.w) na maswahaba zake(r.a).Hiki ndicho kilichofanya haswa vita hivi kuitwa vita vya majimaji.Tofauti na tunavyolazimishiwa kwamba kulikuwa na maji yenye dawa zenye nguvu za kishirikiana kutoka kijiji cha kibata ambazo zingeweza kubadilisha risasi za wajerumani kuwa maji.Hata hivyo inasemekana kuwa wale mateka wa vita hivyo walilazimishwa kubatizwa na hatimaye kuuawa na waliokataa pia waliuawa.Kwa wale waliokubali kubatizwa makaburi yao yaliwekwa majina mawili mawili kama vile Ali (Josephat)Salum n.k.
Pia wapo watu ambao historia ya kweli juu ya harakati zao imefichwa Kama Bwana Kheri, Hassan bin Oman Makunganya, Bushiri bin Salim n.k cha muhimu ni kuitafuta historia ya kweli ili kuweza kupunguza maswali ambayo yamekuwa ni chanzo cha migogoro baina ya wanajamii wa kitanzania.
Pamoja na kufichwa kwa historia ya kabla ya uhuru pia hata historia ya kweli juu ya harakati za uhuru na baada yake imeishia kapuni na kutengenezwa kwa historia ya watu wachache ambao wameonekana ndio chimbuko la historia ya nchi yetu.Imefikia hatua watu hao wanapotajwa basi haina haja ya kuelezea historia ya nchi kwani wao ndio historia kamili.Na yote haya ni kudhihirisha ni jinsi gani watu hawa walifanya jitihada kubwa za kuandaa mazingira mazuri ya upande mmoja wa shilingi.
Tukiangalia historia halisi ya mapinduzi ya Zanzibar na Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar kwa kweli tutafahamu kwamba kuna kila sababu ya kutafuta historia ya kweli katika mazingira yetu.
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere akiwa mkatoliki mwenye msimamo mkali aliona ukuaji wa uislamu katika visiwa vya Zanzibar ni tishio la ustawi wa Ukristo Afrika Mashariki na Afrika kwa ujumla, hivyo basi akaona kuna kila sababu ya kuandaa kivitendo kitu kinachoitwa “Zanzibar Revolution”yaani mapinduzi ya Zanzibar mwaka 1964.
Kabla ya uhuru waislamu walitumia vituo mbalimabali kufundisha na kueneza dini ya uislamu Afrika mashariki ambapo miskiti ya Barza na Gofu ilichukua wanafunzi kutoka nchi zote za Afrika mashariki kwa ajili ya kusomaa maarifa ya uislamu kama mfumo sahihi wa maisha ya mwanadamu.Hata hivyo chuo cha “Zanzibar Muslim Academy”kilifanya jitihada kubwa juu ya ukuaji wa uislamu Afrika mashariki jambo ambalo lilikuwa ni mwiba kwa Nyerere.
Mwaka 1964 John Okello mkristo mwenye siasa kali kutoka Uganda chini ya mkakati kabambe ulioandaliwa na kanisa katoliki kupitia wakala wake J.K.Nyerere alivamia Jamuhuri ya watu wa Zanzibar akiwa na makruseda 600 usiku wa manane na kuua waislamu wengi.Yote hayo yalifanyika yakiwa ni harakati za kutekeleza “crusade agreement”makubaliano ya vita vya msalaba Afrika mashariki. Tufahamu kwamba kongamano la pili la makanisa WCC mwaka 1910 lilijadili tishio la ukuaji wa uislamu Afrika Mashariki na ikapitishwa hoja kwa kishindo kwamba “Mwafrika mkristo ni bora kwa uongozi kuliko Mwafrika muislamu”.Kutokana na maazimio hayo ya umoja wa makanisa (WCC). J.K.Nyerere alipewa jukumu “duty” na msaada wa kupambana na tishio hili la ukuaji wa uislamu Zanzibar na Afrika Mashariki kwa ujumla. Mnamo tarehe 5 juni, 1963J.K.Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta na Militon Obote walifanya kikao mjini Nairobi Kenya ambapo Zanzibar haikushirikishwa kama miongoni mwa nchi za Afrika Mashariki. Mabwana hawa walijitangazia muungano wa kikanda chini ya kilichosemekana kuwa ni msukumo wa uafrika “Pan-Africanism”.

 

[Mkereketwa_Huyu]

Kwa kawaida sehemu yeyote iliyo na watu wasio na cha kufanya lazima watatafuta sababu za kutaka kusikilizwa. Zanzibar hakuna chochote cha maana cha kukufanya ukae pale zaidi ya kupunga upepo (utalii). Sasa utapunga upepo huku umevaa kitambaa kichwani? Yaani uko beach halafu unaambiwa uvae kitambaa ufunike kichwa ili iweje? Wazanzibari jamani tafuteni cha kufanya msiwe mnaropoka ropoka tu na kupotoshana.

 

[Islander Warrior]

Kwa kawaida sehemu yeyote iliyo na watu wasio na cha kufanya lazima watatafuta sababu za kutaka kusikilizwa. Zanzibar hakuna chochote cha maana cha kukufanya ukae pale zaidi ya kupunga upepo (utalii). Sasa utapunga upepo huku umevaa kitambaa kichwani? Yaani uko beach halafu unaambiwa uvae kitambaa ufunike kichwa ili iweje? Wazanzibari jamani tafuteni cha kufanya msiwe mnaropoka ropoka tu na kupotoshana.

Sasa wale wa Tanganyika waliojazana kule Zanzibar na kufanya biashara ya kuuza njugu, pombe na ngono na kuosha mashuka ya kitandaa mahotelini, kwa nini wako kule wanafanya hizo kazi? au ndio wameletwa kuendeleza mfumo kristo?

 

[masopakyindi]

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December 28, 2012 1:30 pm
Extremism on the rise in Zanzibar

By Katrina Manson in Stone Town

Under the peach arches of Al-Noor charitable agency for the needy just outside Stone Town in Zanzibar, a 24-hour Islamic radio station broadcasts religious guidance.
Female tourists should wear headscarves and cover their knees, says Mohamed Suleiman Ali, director of Radio Al-Noor, echoing the opinions voiced on radio. "It's too early to fight for an Islamic state because there are several stages to that, but a lot of things are being done contrary to the teachings of Islam," he says. "There's no social responsibility; the government keeps producing more [social] freedom."

Famed for its beaches, more than 170,000 holiday makers come to Zanzibar every year to swim with dolphins and lie beneath coconut trees. But the relaxed way of life that lures tourists to the mainly Muslim islands off the east coast of Africa is coming under threat from a rise in less tolerant forms of Islam. This is tapping into festering discontent over the island's sovereignty and beginning to influence social mores.

The islands – which make much of their money from tourism – are home to 1m people and more than 2,000 Muslim religious schools. Most of these draw on a long tradition of moderate and Sufi forms of Islam. But these are underfunded and staffed by volunteer teachers. Increasingly, parents are sending their children to better financed alternatives in a process that is beginning to parallel that taking place across a swath of sub-Saharan Africa from Somalia to Mali, where the growing influence of more radical forms of Islam can be felt.

Al-Noor charity, set up four years ago with money from private donors in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, is among a clutch of new foreign-funded religious institutions to increase its investment on the island. As well as the radio, it has established a mosque, internet rooms and a nationwide network of madrassas. It plans to build more, and every year pays for students and teachers alike to study in Sudan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.

Academics estimate that Saudi Arabia – where Wahhabi Islam is practised – alone spends $1m a year on Islamic institutions in Zanzibar.

"Wahhabi madrasas are just starting – they are now many and Saudi funds are spreading their work – they have nice buildings, they are well off and well organised; they preach and convince the parents to come there, so the effect of the madrassa is very powerful," says Idrissa Ahmad Khamis, a teacher who is from the Sufi tradition, a mystical form of Islam opposed by more literalist Wahhabis or Salafists.

Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations draw their thinking from Wahhabism. "We're not happy with other sects like [Sunni hardline] Wahhabi – people who go to countries like Saudi Arabia; when they come back they want to change everything," he says.

Past attempts to introduce Wahhabism have not been successful, says Jussa Ismail, a parliamentarian. "But it's very difficult for the traditional madrassas that are in really poor shape to rival the influence of those who are being funded by foreigners and Wahhabi-based institutions," he says.

Few Zanzibaris admit to hardline views but now "some parents are sending their children to the new Wahhabi madrassas on the pretext of needing extra lessons", says Shakra Hassan, an unpaid instructor at an underfunded madrassa.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, in which two Zanzibar-born men were involved, the US is among those worried by the potential for Islamic militancy on the islands.

Washington has helped build pre-school madrassas throughout Zanzibar and last year spent part of its $76m counterterrorism budget for Muslim communities in Africa on textbooks and teacher training in Zanzibar.

Saudi funding for conservative religious institutions comes amid a government crackdown on Uamsho, a group advocating greater observance of Islam and for independence for the semi-autonomous islands, part of Tanzania.
Mr Ali denies any links to Wahhabism or Uamsho although before a government ban, the station had given Uamsho preachers airtime.

Uamsho supporters deny charges of religious extremism and claim the group is standing up for Zanzibaris whose rights have been suppressed since political union with the mainland in 1964.

"Zanzibar cannot afford to have its neighbours looking at it as an enemy or as a centre of subversive activities," says Mr Ismail. "There was always this [western] concern that Zanzibar should not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands that can be used against western interests – communism may not be a problem now, but now you've got terrorism."

 

[masopakyindi]

Sasa wale wa Tanganyika waliojazana kule Zanzibar na kufanya biashara ya kuuza njugu, pombe na ngono na kuosha mashuka ya kitandaa mahotelini, kwa nini wako kule wanafanya hizo kazi? au ndio wameletwa kuendeleza mfuko kristo?

Hata kuandika hujui, laanakum!

 

[frank cain]

Mzee mwanakijiji, this is the western propaganda which is always against Islam and Muslims. The radio presenter was addressing his views and he was not in no way urging people to take any steps against those who act contrary to islamic teachings. Wewe mwenyewe kwa vile ni mkristo ndio maana unashabikia hizo article. ZNZ haijafikia hiyo stage you kusema kuna extremism. Punguza chuki zako na wazanzibar Mzee au tatizo ni nini?

tatizo ni EXTREMISM aka SIASA KALI.

 

[nyabaheta]

Binafsi sikatai kama Zanzibar kuna ubaguzi sana wa kidini,lakini hili la padri kupigwa risasi linaweza tukio lake binafsi sana lakini wanasiasa wanalitumia to their advantage kugawa watu,sikuona umuhimu wa JK kwenda kumjulia hali MOI,hicho kitendo kinachochea hisia kuwa ni kweli kapigwa risasi na waislamu,au la balozi seif kwenda kutoa pole,moja kwa moja inajenga hisia hasi.Mimi nalaumu wanasiasa,in their desperation wako tayari kututoa sadaka.Bob Marley aliuliza "is there a place for the hopeless sinner,who has,hurt all mankind just to serve his own beliefs?"

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[frank cain]

... mapadri ... yanauliwa huko kwenu na haiwi chochote ... kukwaruza ... kuchunana ngozi ...albino

likitokea la kutokea bara pia watu wanasema ikiwamo makanisa kuchomwa etc. chanzo hutafutwa na hata kama kutakuwa na ficha ya hapa na pale etc lakin wa2 wanaongelea chanzo na likely better solution. kakwaruzwa? ilikuwa afe. hata albino, ngoz etc 2naongea vlevle, chanzo nin, tufanyeje etc. hii si special kwa zenj tu. hukumbuk PM alifikia kulia hazaran?

 

[Kyenju]

Kuna mkono wa CUF kwenye matukio haya maana wanatetea uharifu.

 

[Highlander]

Good Do Masopakyindi. Thank you for this bandiko

Haya aliyetaka kusoma Financial Times, soma paste hiyo........

December 28, 2012 1:30 pm
Extremism on the rise in Zanzibar

By Katrina Manson in Stone Town

Under the peach arches of Al-Noor charitable agency for the needy just outside Stone Town in Zanzibar, a 24-hour Islamic radio station broadcasts religious guidance.
Female tourists should wear headscarves and cover their knees, says Mohamed Suleiman Ali, director of Radio Al-Noor, echoing the opinions voiced on radio. “It’s too early to fight for an Islamic state because there are several stages to that, but a lot of things are being done contrary to the teachings of Islam,” he says. “There’s no social responsibility; the government keeps producing more [social] freedom.”

Famed for its beaches, more than 170,000 holiday makers come to Zanzibar every year to swim with dolphins and lie beneath coconut trees. But the relaxed way of life that lures tourists to the mainly Muslim islands off the east coast of Africa is coming under threat from a rise in less tolerant forms of Islam. This is tapping into festering discontent over the island’s sovereignty and beginning to influence social mores.

The islands – which make much of their money from tourism – are home to 1m people and more than 2,000 Muslim religious schools. Most of these draw on a long tradition of moderate and Sufi forms of Islam. But these are underfunded and staffed by volunteer teachers. Increasingly, parents are sending their children to better financed alternatives in a process that is beginning to parallel that taking place across a swath of sub-Saharan Africa from Somalia to Mali, where the growing influence of more radical forms of Islam can be felt.

Al-Noor charity, set up four years ago with money from private donors in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, is among a clutch of new foreign-funded religious institutions to increase its investment on the island. As well as the radio, it has established a mosque, internet rooms and a nationwide network of madrassas. It plans to build more, and every year pays for students and teachers alike to study in Sudan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.

Academics estimate that Saudi Arabia – where Wahhabi Islam is practised – alone spends $1m a year on Islamic institutions in Zanzibar.

“Wahhabi madrasas are just starting – they are now many and Saudi funds are spreading their work – they have nice buildings, they are well off and well organised; they preach and convince the parents to come there, so the effect of the madrassa is very powerful,” says Idrissa Ahmad Khamis, a teacher who is from the Sufi tradition, a mystical form of Islam opposed by more literalist Wahhabis or Salafists.

Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations draw their thinking from Wahhabism. “We’re not happy with other sects like [Sunni hardline] Wahhabi – people who go to countries like Saudi Arabia; when they come back they want to change everything,” he says.

Past attempts to introduce Wahhabism have not been successful, says Jussa Ismail, a parliamentarian. “But it’s very difficult for the traditional madrassas that are in really poor shape to rival the influence of those who are being funded by foreigners and Wahhabi-based institutions,” he says.

Few Zanzibaris admit to hardline views but now “some parents are sending their children to the new Wahhabi madrassas on the pretext of needing extra lessons”, says Shakra Hassan, an unpaid instructor at an underfunded madrassa.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, in which two Zanzibar-born men were involved, the US is among those worried by the potential for Islamic militancy on the islands.

Washington has helped build pre-school madrassas throughout Zanzibar and last year spent part of its $76m counterterrorism budget for Muslim communities in Africa on textbooks and teacher training in Zanzibar.

Saudi funding for conservative religious institutions comes amid a government crackdown on Uamsho, a group advocating greater observance of Islam and for independence for the semi-autonomous islands, part of Tanzania.
Mr Ali denies any links to Wahhabism or Uamsho although before a government ban, the station had given Uamsho preachers airtime.

Uamsho supporters deny charges of religious extremism and claim the group is standing up for Zanzibaris whose rights have been suppressed since political union with the mainland in 1964.

“Zanzibar cannot afford to have its neighbours looking at it as an enemy or as a centre of subversive activities,” says Mr Ismail. “There was always this [western] concern that Zanzibar should not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands that can be used against western interests – communism may not be a problem now, but now you’ve got terrorism.”

 

[Mentali]

mimi nilishalina hili tangu zamani kwamba znzb wanataka kujitenga na tz ili kujiunga na ile jumuia ya kiarabu nao japo waitwe waarabu weusi baada ya hapo watangaze taifa la kidini ya kislamu,kwa hiyo ukiangalia hapo the biggest motivation is the ARABISM,no wonder what will hapen if the arab race is disappear or extinct in the earth surface will znzbaris still have affection with islamic religion,after their icons disappear??!!,kwa hiyo hata hao ccm na cuf znz hawataweza kutawala znzb kwa zaidi ya miaka 2 tangu znzb itakapojitenga na mainland,kwa maana nao watapigwa kumbo na waisllam wa msimamo mkali watakaotaka kutawala kwa sharia law,kwa hiyo wale wanasiasa wa sasa hawatakuwa na nafasi tena illa wataonekana wasaliti huko znzbr kipindi hicho,mwisho wa znzbr ni mbaya sana kwani nisawa na ule wa sudan na somalia sasa,znzbr itatengwa kama sudan ilivotengwa baada ya kutangaza taifa la kidini na mbaya zaidi znz kama sudan ambayo udini wake unachochewa zaidi na kuitwa waarabu zaidi ya uislamu kabla haijatengwa na nchi za maghribi itatengwa kwanza na mataifa yote ya kiarabu halafu yatafuatia yale ya maghribi kama vile sudan na libya zilivofanywa na ndio itakayoipata znzbr kipindi hicho,sasa hivi bashir anajuta kwa nini hakutawala kama dictator wa kawaida tu badala ya kutawala kidini anajuta,na ndivyo walivyojuta somalia na kwingineko mana taifa la kiislam lina madheebu mengi na killa moja linamwona mwenzake anakufuru hivyo haiwezekani kutawala kiislamu,enzi za zamani za kina khalifah ali,umar na abubakr iliwezekana kwa sababu kulikuwa na dini yenye dhehebu moja tu lakini alipoanza madheeb mingi basi ilikuwa ngumu kutawala kutumia dini ya kiislamu.znzb haina future nje ya muungano na hili nalishalisema na nitaendelea kulisema sababu nina uhakika nalo.hao waarabu wanaowatumainia kujifananisha nao watawageuka si muda mrefu kama vile wale wasudan walivyogeukwa leo wakienda gulf na kujiita waarabu hukataliwa na huitwa waafrika!!kinacho wawasha waznzbr ni huo uarabu wanaoulilia kwa gharama zote nitashangaa sijui itakuwaje pale waarabu watakuwa hawapo tena duniani je nao mapenzi yao kwa dini ya uislam ataendelea??hili nina uhakiika nalo kwani waznzbr hawataki kujitenga sababu a mapenzi ya kiislam bali ni sababu a ubaguzi wao wa rangi,na hii ina thibitisha kuwa wao kuwabaguwa waislamu wanaotoka bara ingawaje nao ni waislam ni sawa tu na ubaguzi ule wa sudan si kwa mapenzi a dini bali ni ktk kugombania hadhi ya kanzu ya uarabu mana nao huwabagua sana waislamu waafrika wanaotoka s.sudan na darfur ingawa wote ni waislamu lakini!! kwa hiyo tatizo sio uislamu bali ni UARABU hapa.kitendo chao cha kutaka kujitenga sio kwa manufaa yao ya kiuchumi au kisiasa bali ni katika kukimbilia treni hii ya uarabu na kujitofauitisha na wabara kuwa wao wanahesabiwa kama waarabu!! kwa ukweli hii sio ya kisiasa bali ni ya kiutambulisho wa rangi zaidi ya faida yeyote ile,na ndio mana wakiwaona waislamu waafrika wabara wanawadharau na kuwachukia sana lakini wakimwona muislam mhindi au mwarabu au chotara wa bara huwa wanawanyenyekea sana nafikiri HILI NI MOJA KATI YA KOVU LA UTUMWA AMBALO BADO HALIJAPONA. Wassalam.

 

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[h=1][/h]Written by chucky // 30/12/2012 // Habari // 3 Comments


By Katrina Manson in Stone Town
Under the peach arches of Al-Noor charitable agency for the needy just outside Stone Town in Zanzibar, a 24-hour Islamic radio station broadcasts religious guidance.
Female tourists should wear headscarves and cover their knees, says Mohamed Suleiman Ali, director of Radio Al-Noor, echoing the opinions voiced on radio. “It’s too early to fight for an Islamic state because there are several stages to that, but a lot of things are being done contrary to the teachings of Islam,” he says. “There’s no social responsibility; the government keeps producing more [social] freedom.”
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Famed for its beaches, more than 170,000 holiday makers come to Zanzibar every year to swim with dolphins and lie beneath coconut trees. But the relaxed way of life that lures tourists to the mainly Muslim islands off the east coast of Africa is coming under threat from a rise in less tolerant forms of Islam. This is tapping into festering discontent over the island’s sovereignty and beginning to influence social mores.
The islands – which make much of their money from tourism – are home to 1m people and more than 2,000 Muslim religious schools. Most of these draw on a long tradition of moderate and Sufi forms of Islam. But these are underfunded and staffed by volunteer teachers. Increasingly, parents are sending their children to better financed alternatives in a process that is beginning to parallel that taking place across a swath of sub-Saharan Africa from Somalia to Mali, where the growing influence of more radical forms of Islam can be felt.
Al-Noor charity, set up four years ago with money from private donors in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, is among a clutch of new foreign-funded religious institutions to increase its investment on the island. As well as the radio, it has established a mosque, internet rooms and a nationwide network of madrassas. It plans to build more, and every year pays for students and teachers alike to study in Sudan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.
Academics estimate that Saudi Arabia – where Wahhabi Islam is practised – alone spends $1m a year on Islamic institutions in Zanzibar.
“Wahhabi madrasas are just starting – they are now many and Saudi funds are spreading their work – they have nice buildings, they are well off and well organised; they preach and convince the parents to come there, so the effect of the madrassa is very powerful,” says Idrissa Ahmad Khamis, a teacher who is from the Sufi tradition, a mystical form of Islam opposed by more literalist Wahhabis or Salafists.
Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations draw their thinking from Wahhabism. “We’re not happy with other sects like [Sunni hardline] Wahhabi – people who go to countries like Saudi Arabia; when they come back they want to change everything,” he says.
Past attempts to introduce Wahhabism have not been successful, says Jussa Ismail, a parliamentarian. “But it’s very difficult for the traditional madrassas that are in really poor shape to rival the influence of those who are being funded by foreigners and Wahhabi-based institutions,” he says.
Few Zanzibaris admit to hardline views but now “some parents are sending their children to the new Wahhabi madrassas on the pretext of needing extra lessons”, says Shakra Hassan, an unpaid instructor at an underfunded madrassa.
In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, in which two Zanzibar-born men were involved, the US is among those worried by the potential for Islamic militancy on the islands.
Washington has helped build pre-school madrassas throughout Zanzibar and last year spent part of its $76m counterterrorism budget for Muslim communities in Africa on textbooks and teacher training in Zanzibar.
Saudi funding for conservative religious institutions comes amid a government crackdown on Uamsho, a group advocating greater observance of Islam and for independence for the semi-autonomous islands, part of Tanzania.
Mr Ali denies any links to Wahhabism or Uamsho although before a government ban, the station had given Uamsho preachers airtime.
Uamsho supporters deny charges of religious extremism and claim the group is standing up for Zanzibaris whose rights have been suppressed since political union with the mainland in 1964.
“Zanzibar cannot afford to have its neighbours looking at it as an enemy or as a centre of subversive activities,” says Mr Ismail. “There was always this [western] concern that Zanzibar should not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands that can be used against western interests – communism may not be a problem now, but now you’ve got terrorism.”
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[Mentali]

mimi nilishalina hili tangu zamani kwamba znzb wanataka kujitenga na tz ili kujiunga na ile jumuia ya kiarabu nao japo waitwe waarabu weusi baada ya hapo watangaze taifa la kidini ya kislamu,kwa hiyo ukiangalia hapo the biggest motivation is the ARABISM,no wonder what will hapen if the arab race is disappear or extinct in the earth surface will znzbaris still have affection with islamic religion,after their icons disappear??!!,kwa hiyo hata hao ccm na cuf znz hawataweza kutawala znzb kwa zaidi ya miaka 2 tangu znzb itakapojitenga na mainland,kwa maana nao watapigwa kumbo na waisllam wa msimamo mkali watakaotaka kutawala kwa sharia law,kwa hiyo wale wanasiasa wa sasa hawatakuwa na nafasi tena illa wataonekana wasaliti huko znzbr kipindi hicho,mwisho wa znzbr ni mbaya sana kwani nisawa na ule wa sudan na somalia sasa,znzbr itatengwa kama sudan ilivotengwa baada ya kutangaza taifa la kidini na mbaya zaidi znz kama sudan ambayo udini wake unachochewa zaidi na kuitwa waarabu zaidi ya uislamu kabla haijatengwa na nchi za maghribi itatengwa kwanza na mataifa yote ya kiarabu halafu yatafuatia yale ya maghribi kama vile sudan na libya zilivofanywa na ndio itakayoipata znzbr kipindi hicho,sasa hivi bashir anajuta kwa nini hakutawala kama dictator wa kawaida tu badala ya kutawala kidini anajuta,na ndivyo walivyojuta somalia na kwingineko mana taifa la kiislam lina madheebu mengi na killa moja linamwona mwenzake anakufuru hivyo haiwezekani kutawala kiislamu,enzi za zamani za kina khalifah ali,umar na abubakr iliwezekana kwa sababu kulikuwa na dini yenye dhehebu moja tu lakini alipoanza madheeb mingi basi ilikuwa ngumu kutawala kutumia dini ya kiislamu.znzb haina future nje ya muungano na hili nalishalisema na nitaendelea kulisema sababu nina uhakika nalo.hao waarabu wanaowatumainia kujifananisha nao watawageuka si muda mrefu kama vile wale wasudan walivyogeukwa leo wakienda gulf na kujiita waarabu hukataliwa na huitwa waafrika!!kinacho wawasha waznzbr ni huo uarabu wanaoulilia kwa gharama zote nitashangaa sijui itakuwaje pale waarabu watakuwa hawapo tena duniani je nao mapenzi yao kwa dini ya uislam ataendelea??hili nina uhakiika nalo kwani waznzbr hawataki kujitenga sababu a mapenzi ya kiislam bali ni sababu a ubaguzi wao wa rangi,na hii ina thibitisha kuwa wao kuwabaguwa waislamu wanaotoka bara ingawaje nao ni waislam ni sawa tu na ubaguzi ule wa sudan si kwa mapenzi a dini bali ni ktk kugombania hadhi ya kanzu ya uarabu mana nao huwabagua sana waislamu waafrika wanaotoka s.sudan na darfur ingawa wote ni waislamu lakini!! kwa hiyo tatizo sio uislamu bali ni UARABU hapa.kitendo chao cha kutaka kujitenga sio kwa manufaa yao ya kiuchumi au kisiasa bali ni katika kukimbilia treni hii ya uarabu na kujitofauitisha na wabara kuwa wao wanahesabiwa kama waarabu!! kwa ukweli hii sio ya kisiasa bali ni ya kiutambulisho wa rangi zaidi ya faida yeyote ile,na ndio mana wakiwaona waislamu waafrika wabara wanawadharau na kuwachukia sana lakini wakimwona muislam mhindi au mwarabu au chotara wa bara huwa wanawanyenyekea sana nafikiri HILI NI MOJA KATI YA KOVU LA UTUMWA AMBALO BADO HALIJAPONA. Wassalam.

 

[Thereni]

Mzee mwanakijiji, this is the western propaganda which is always against Islam and Muslims. The radio presenter was addressing his views and he was not in no way urging people to take any steps against those who act contrary to islamic teachings. Wewe mwenyewe kwa vile ni mkristo ndio maana unashabikia hizo article. ZNZ haijafikia hiyo stage you kusema kuna extremism. Punguza chuki zako na wazanzibar Mzee au tatizo ni nini?

Acha ubaguzi ww, MM amenukuu kutoka financial times na sio maneno yake kwann nini unamshambulia kwasababu ni mkristo? waislam acheni ubaguzi tanzania sio ya waislaam ni ya watanzania hivyo mnapaswa kuheshimu wengine. Mkiona mazingira sio mazuri kwa ustawi wa uislam hamieni nchi za kiislam mtuachie tanzania yetu!