[kictanet] Red Card for the Sheikhs

[S.Murigi Muraya]

Please note Article 24 Subsection 4 of our soon to be new constitution
limits how the Bill of Rights may apply to the one religion the Kenyan state
is funding with the approval of Kenyans who vote YES!

Of course the Kenyan media is too busy slandering Churches to point this
out.


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Wainaina Mungai
<wainaina at madeinkenya.org>wrote:

> The recent move by Muslim Sheikhs to enforce Sharia Law, outlaw DSTV,
> video dens & related activities in Mandera could not have come at a
> more unfortunate time. The support they have received from SUPREM
> (Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims) further complicates the debate on
> the "continued" inclusion of Kadhi Courts in our Constitution.
>
> Now that the SUPKEM has proved to support such apparent 'treason' in
> my secular nation,  President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga must
> also commit to ensuring that religion and religious courts are omitted
> from the new constitution. That is the pact they must sign with the NO
> campaign if a YES vote is to sail through without question. No
> religion, especially fundamentalist Islam, should enjoy the privileges
> of my hard-earned taxes to propagate religious activities that may
> disintegrate into such treasonable actions as by the Sheikhs.
>
> My vote would easily change to a resounding "NO" unless I am assured
> by the Constitution that no Sheikh or Buddist monk, Hindu priest or
> Christian cleric will get away with the absurd audacity of attempting
> to determine where I watch my Supersport matches, what I drink as I do
> so; where and what I can smoke or drink in an independent secular
> KENYA.
>
> No religion should 'get it twisted' on its place in secular Kenya and
> no loopholes should allow Sheikhs or SUPKEM to get away with such
> treasonable actions.
>
> Regards,
> Wainaina
>
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> Wainaina Mungai
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