Malanding,
I see your point but I dont think it has anything to do with what Yaya said
or did not say,the debate is beyound that,I believed it has more to do with
human phycology.The debate has all the time been dominated by those who
favoured it,should we not start mobilising in this debate before it is too
late,before the issue become obvious.
In Nigeria the debate was on for long,until it fits the interest of
politicians(I mean so-called religious leaders) and now no protest when the
freedom of the people is being rolled back.I love Juwaras involvement in
this and the way he is going on with it,he need our voices.He is a person
with authority and there is no doubt that many will hear him speak and it
will be difficult to use the argument that only anti ismlam eliments are
against it.
When ever Yaya finds it necessary to maintain political power he will
introduce it,as it is in Iran,Sudan etc.Mobilising opinion now is
necessay,at least he will know that there would be resistence,it will be
left to him to dicide if he will take the risk or not to attemp to break the
resistent ,for political power.If we dont speak aginst some of these
religious hypocrits now,it might be already late before we react.I hate to
think this thought.
For Freedom
Saiks
----- Original Message -----
From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Wa Speaks again on Sharia
> I hope all these exchanges between Wa and "the religious leaders" is not
> playing into Yahya's hand. Afterall, this thing about introducing Sharia
> in the Gambia is still "Yahya said this....", "...no he meant to say
> that....". Or am I missing something?
>
> I do not think such remarks should be fodder for perpectual, meaningless
> debate between a major political party spokesperson and a supposedly
> "non-political group".
>
> Malanding Jaiteh
>
>
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Juwara on shariah
> > Meanwhile, at a separate press briefing in his Brikama
> > residence
> > yesterday, the UDP propaganda secretary renewed his
attack
> > on
> > the introduction of Islamic law in The Gambia. Mr Lamin
Waa
> > Juwara said the religious leaders "hyper-ventilating"
in
> > their
> > advocacy for the introduction of shariah, should rather
> > debate the
> > rejection by government of all the recommendations made
by
> > the
> > commission into the events of April 10, 11.
> >
> > De facto shariah
> > Mr Juwara said the inclination towards the introduction
of
> > shariah
> > "was manifested since the military takeover in 1994
when
> > Yahya
> > Jammeh built a mosque in State House at the expense of
the
> > state
> > even though The Gambia is a secular state. That mosque
was
> > built
> > for a political purpose because President Jammeh was
trying
> > to
> > portray himself as a good Muslim, so that, he can sell
his
> > image to
> > the majority of Gambians who are Muslims."
> >
> > The pulpit of State House mosque, he claimed, "is being
> > used to
> > castigate opponents of Jammeh... The State House imam,
> > Alhaji
> > Abdoulie Fatty, is on record for praying evil for the
> > opponents of
> > Jammeh in Mecca." Mr Juwara accused the Supreme Islamic
> > Council (SIC) of "transforming itself into an organ of
the
> > ruling
> > party.
> >
> > Some prominent members of the council before the 1996
> > election,
> > were engaged in distributing cola-nuts to sell Jammeh's
> > candidature to the Gambian people. It was not in accord
for
> > the
> > leadership of the SIC to attend political rallies of
APRC.
> > When
> > Jammeh floated the idea of introducing shariah,
religious
> > leaders
> > continue to debate the issue despite the denial by the
> > State House
> > spokeswoman. It was the same scenario in pre-election
1996
> > when
> > Jammeh described politics as dirty, and said he would
not
> > contest.
> > The same people behind the scenario including
headchiefs
> > were
> > used to prevail on him to stand as a presidential
> > candidate.
> >
> > This is the reason why I personally took up the issue
with
> > these
> > so-called religious leaders who are engaged in trying
to
> > use Islam
> > for political purposes. They want to use the religious
> > sentiment of
> > the people and mobilise them to prevail on Jammeh as if
> > they are
> > speaking for the majority of Muslims in The Gambia to
> > declare
> > shariah and entrench this dictatorship as the sole
leader
> > of this
> > country." Juwara said a "Jamahiriyya system will not
work
> > here."
> >
>
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