Kila kiongozi amechaguliwa kwa elimu yake na Si dini .
Mnaotaka kuanzisha ugomvi huu wa kidini hauta ka uishe.
Afrodenzi,
Hakuna anaetaka kusababisha machafuko kinachotakiwa hapa ni uadilifu
katika mgawo wa madaraka na fursa nchini.
Ikiwa nchi itawekwa katika hali ya kuwa Waislam toka hatujapata uhuru
ni watwana na Wakristo ni mabwana hii ni sababu tosha ya kuleta farka
katika jamii.
Soma historia ya uhuru wa Tanganyika uone vipi wazee wetu walijitolea
ili Tanganyika iwe huru na kila mwananchi apate haki bila ya ubaguzi.
Hebu soma utangulizi huu wa
Hamza Njozi katika kitabu chake maarufu
Mwembechai Killings...'' kilichopigwa marufuku Tanzania:
''I have satisfied myself that
President Mkapa’s speech to the National Assembly in Dodoma on 4 November 1998 was such a monument of eloquence in Kiswahili language that its majesty can rarely be captured in a foreign tongue. I am keenly conscious therefore that the following brief quotation in translation in which
President Mkapa provided a breath-taking description of our beautiful country is but a faint shadow of that awe-inspiring address: Mr. Speaker, after three years of my presidency, I can dare to modify the words of a famous Zanzibari maestro,
Siti binti Saad by saying: Tanzania is a good country, let one who wishes to come, do so. God has showered blessings on our country. It is a country of unity, peace, love, rejoicing, and exceeding generosity. It is a country of people who love equality and justice. Our national unity springs from our firm belief in the equality of human beings before God and before the law. A unity reinforced by correct policies of nation building -- policies based on the principles of social justice, peace, harmony and development for all. A unity which is extra-sensitive to policies, statements, behaviour, and actions which may sow seeds of discord, hatred and suspicion among Tanzanians. With the possible exception of Tanzania, I do not know a country in the contemporary world which has been able to combine all the commendable qualities listed above. I suggest in this book that the supposed outstanding merits of Tanzania may resemble the presumed unblemished qualities of that woman in a folktale who secretly kept a human skeleton in her cupboard. According to one version of that popular story, a long and intensive search was mounted to find an individual in this world who did not have a single source of shame, trouble or anxiety. At long last, when almost everyone had lost hope of ever finding any such person, a graceful woman was discovered. She scored all the points in the check-list. When they were about to declare her the undisputed winner, she took them upstairs and showed them her secret closet which contained a human skeleton. She said, “This is a skeleton of my lover who was killed by my husband. Every night my husband forces me to kiss it.” This book is about one old skeleton in our national cabinet; the burden of religious discrimination which we have always carried in our hearts but which we have carefully managed to conceal to the rest of the world.
President Reagan of the United States once boasted about the global reach of his country by saying: You can run but you cannot hide. But as far as our religious skeleton is concerned, we have managed to fool even the arrogantly boastful America. All the official reports published by the US Department of State from 1994 to 1999 have failed to detect religious discrimination in Tanzania. The focus of this book is on the discrimination which Muslims suffer in their country. This does not mean that no one has suffered in Tanzania except the Muslims. To be sure, in their numerous writings,
Issa G. Shivji and
Chris Peter Maina have unearthed several sickening skeletons as far as our general record in respecting human rights is concerned. But it is the suffering of Muslims in Tanzania which has rarely been acknowledged even in our own country. Who can imagine, for example, that
President Mkapa’s speech quoted above was delivered nine months after his government had ordered policemen to shoot and kill Muslims at Mwembechai? This book is offered as a modest attempt to understand the intricate weave of social and political factors which threaten our national unity. Since my preoccupation has largely been on the wider implications of the Mwembechai killings, I have appended at the end of this book the long open letter which
Abu Aziz submitted to the Attorney General on the government’s mishandling of the Mwembechai crisis.
Abu Aziz’s submission offers a very insightful account of that sad episode in our national history.''
Hayo hapo juu ndiyo maneno ambayo Waislam wamekuwa wakieeleza serikali kwa muda mrefu.
Yaliyokuja baadae ya kutahadharisha kuhusu ''Mfumokristo,'' ni kilele chake.
Ukweli huu hautakwisha kwa watuhumiwa wa udini kujiaminisha kuwa tatizo litajiondoa wenyewe
au hakutakuja kuwa na madhara kwa hiyo na tuache tu.
Dhuma ikiachiwa iendelee huangamiza.