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...Today, Muslim schools number hundreds. Muslims opened the first private university in Uganda, the Islamic University in Uganda in 1988. Muslims are still a marginalised community in Uganda but have become more assertive over the years. They are financially weak, politically insignificant and critically deficient in civil society organisation. Wrangles in the apex body, Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), have persisted, with no end in sight. But they thank Allah, their God, for one man – Idi Amin Dada. It was during the eight years of Amin’s rule 1971-79 that the Muslims as a community made their lasting achievements. For the first time Muslims had come nearer to the corridors of power, finance and education. Although Muslims did not, in any way, participate in bringing Idi Amin into power (as he had done so through a classic military coup), Muslims not only in Uganda but elsewhere provided critical support to Amin. For doing so, they were later to pay a price when Idi Amin was overthrown on April 11, 1979. In reprisal killings, hundreds of Muslims were massacred especially in Kampala, Bombo, West Nile and Westen Uganda. The lucky ones escaped into exile, mainly in Congo (then called Zaire), the Sudan and Kenya. The Kakwa (Amin’s tribe) and Nubians, a purely Muslim cultural group, were without doubt, the most affected. https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vis Добавить комментарий: |
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