Jabou wrote among other things:

 

". . . If this is the case, then let us cease to make any  criticisms of colonialism, nor should we have
fought for independence from the same since our colonizers built schools and
hospitals. The real problem is that our so-called leaders are pitiful and
have been so since independence, and this has resulted in poverty, lack of
jobs and  basic facilities that should have been our first priority all
along. Consequently, we have developed this beggar mentality, such that
anyone who comes along and builds these facilities that we should have
provided for ourselves in the first place, is viewed as a saviour  of some
sort, no matter what the package comes with. . . ."

 

 

Sister Jabou,

 

With all due respect, I don't think you can juxtapose colonialism and the fight against it (with all the suffering, told and untold) with the Ahmadiyya Mission. Africans fought against colonialism because of all the evils that that system represented.

 

The main object of colonialism was first and foremost to rob the African. Colonialism sought to dehumanise the African so as to justify his exploitation. Building schools and hospitals (from a meagre percentage of what was stolen from us) was just a part of the design. They needed "educated" Africans to carry out some of the administrative work. Remember they also built churches too to "save our Pagan Souls" as part of their grand design.

 

The Ahmadiyya Mission is not out to commit armed robbery as was the case with the colonialist who not only stole material resources but kidnapped humans to trade in them. 

 

Imam Fatty is quoted as having said "Allah has promised in the Muslim holy book, Qur'an, to feed every mouth He created". Allah is definitely feeding the Imam's mouth through the hand of Yahya Jammeh but may have decided to feed some other more unfortunate mouths throuigh the work of the Ahmadiyya.

 

Yes I think this question is quite a political one for Gambia is not inhabited by only Muslims. There are other faiths too and we cannot impose the teachings of the Quran on them.

 

Regards.

 

A. Kabir Njie.