News:

Kenya’s deputy President last Sunday issued a stern warning to ‘terrorists’ and their accomplices adding that the Government would hunt them down. Addressing security personnel in Mombasa, Ruto said, “We will hunt you down, torment you on earth and when you die you will burn.” The deputy said police would not hesitate to storm any Mosque or church used by religious fundamentalists to incite and sow terrorism and hatred. National Assembly Majority leader Adan Duale said, “Muslim leaders should not bury their heads in the sand and pretend that radicalization was absent in some Mosques, yet claim to support the Government’s efforts at rooting out elements soiling the name of Islam.” (Source: The Standard, 31 March 2014)

Comment:

This is not the first time Ruto threatens Muslims. Towards the end of last year, he issued a warning that his government will wipe out Muslim youths involved in radicalization and joining terrorist groups. These words by Ruto not only show a person full of pride and drunk with power but show him as full of hatred and enmity against Islam and Muslims. What Ruto and his like forget is that they think their words will extinguish the light of Islam which has started to shine after failure of the Capitalist ideology which Ruto and his comrades believe in. Allah Ta’ala says:

يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ

“They intend to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths. But Allah will bring His light to perfection even though the disbelievers hate it.”

(61:8)

These statements expose the bad intentions of the government in the continuous pursuit of Muslim killings for trivial benefit. This was openly revealed when President Uhuru Kenyatta requested America to offer money to enhance the fight against terrorism and maintain security. Likely, it is a way to escape blame for failure to look after the affairs of the public who within one year are now tired with a mired of problems like lack of employment and stagnation of the economy. The government without any mercy has loaded upon the public a huge tax load on many items including chicken and dogs! How can it not be in such a state when Kenya is bound by the fake Capitalist ideology which spreads evil and oppression to mankind? It is not surprising if the attack on churches like the one at Likoni (Mombasa) on Sunday 23rd March 2014 was a plan to create fear among non-Muslims and look upon Muslims with enmity. Up to now, none of the perpetrators have been arrested.

It is clear that the government is determined and is using the media to maintain public opinion that it is Muslims who are endangering the security and that it will raid mosques to hunt for ‘terrorists’. Already the media is siding with the government on this dirty campaign to incite enmity against Muslims and tarnish Islam. As an example, the Daily Nation newspaper printed a lengthy report on so-called radicals and their danger in wanting to kill non-Muslims.

These terms of ‘radicalization’, ‘fundamentalism’ and ‘extremism’ are certainly meant to train the public including Muslims. The government is targeting two issue i.e. to divide Muslims along the lines of ‘Extremist’ and ‘Moderate’ Muslims. The objective is to make Muslims start a blame game and betray each other. Second is to instill fear among them so that they abstain from propagating Islam in its pure form whereby whoever is seen to be calling to it in its comprehensive form, he should be viewed as endangering the security of Muslims and non-Muslims! The reality is that these terms are part of a world campaign led by America in its war against Islam under the pretext of ‘war on terror’. During war, it is always evident how client states are dragged by Western states and pushed into wars whereby only those countries know the loss. Question is: Who qualifies to be branded all these terms (terrorists, extremists, fundamentalists) if not the Capitalist countries that use force to spread their dirty Democratic politics? Evidence is quite open that America invades Muslim countries and forces its evil thoughts like same-sex marriage. Is this not fundamentalism? How then do you judge?

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Shabani Mwalimu

Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in East Africa