• Ramarumo Tshikosi

  Extract from the book: THE STATE OF AFRICA BY MARTIN MEREDITH

  CHAPTER 8 PAGE 158

  EVENTS LEADING TO THE RWANDAN & BURUNDIAN GENOCIDE

  “Under colonial rule, first by the Germans then by the Belgians, more rigid definitions were imposed. Germans officials in the early 1900s identified Hutu and Tutsi as distinct and separate ethnic groups. With few staff of their own on the ground, they relied on the Tutsi as the ruling aristocracy to enforce control, enabling them to extend their hegemony over the Hutu.

  The Belgians went further. In the 1920s they introduced a system of identity cards specifying the tribe to which a holder belonged. In case where appearance was indecisive or proof of ancestory was lacking, a simple formula was applied:those with ten cows or more were classified as Tutsi, those with ten cows or more were classified as Tutsi, those with fewer were Hutu. The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutu to become Tutsi.

  Belgian officials established a Tutsi bureaucracy and favoured Tutsi education. The catholic church was especially influential in promoting Tutsi cause. Its bishop, Monsigbor Leon Classe who had arrived in Rwanda as a simple priest in 1907, was regarded as a leading expert and consulted regularly by the Belgian authorities. What Classe enviseged, as he made it clear,was medieval-style Rwanda, with a ruling Tutsi aristocracy and a Hutu peasantry, working hand -in-hand with the colonial administration and with the catholic church guiding the enterprise. When the catholic church was given responsibility for the entire educational system in the early 1930s, government and church were in full agreement on what was required.

  The first violence erupted in November 1959, after a Hutu sub-chief, a prominent political activist, was beaten up by the band of Tutsi militants in what become known the’wind of destruction’ roving bands of Hutu went on a rampage, attacking Tutsi authourites, burning Tutsi homes and looting Tutsi property. The terminology used by Hutu extremists for killing was ‘work’.”

  The extract clearly indicates that the colonialists are not entirely clean on the question of the genocide as they would like us to believe. The short-sighted politicians also fueled the tensions between the Tutsi and Hutu. In each an every colony the colonialists used the same strategy of divide and rule – tribalism

By Bill O Muhammad

Pornified: How Porn Is Transforming Our Lives: Our Relationships, And Our Families, is a book written by journalist Pamela Paul where she argues that the rise of the internet has given pornography easy access by men, women, and children. And she says that this proliferation has led to a kind of “dysfunctional socialization” of men, women, and children that makes intimacy impossible, and is a factor that leads to the breakup of many marriages. It feeds what she terms as a “rape culture.” In this subculture, “sex,” is the ultimate objective, with or without the woman’s consent. Ms Paul , who lives in New York, commissioned a series of interviews, and studies where she says she was surprised at the amount of pornographic materials view in the lives of so call “normal” people.

She said this is what’s fueling the “erosion of intimacy, and the explosion of implants; and she says that pornography is emerging .This indulgent is “selfish” and leads to noting but “loneliness.” This is added reasons why there are so many “single people” in society today. The viewing of these sexual explicit programs are not only leading to social alienation, but is having a darkening affect upon our children’s future. They are being exposed to it in record numbers. It is also what is feeding “child porn.” Internet has made porn “more accessible, anonymous, and more affordable.” Many social scientists are calling our world a “cyber-sexual society.” She says it is just as prevalent, or more so, because people think it is harmless, in religious societies. And she is quoted as saying we find ourselves at a disadvantage in coping, because we need new ways of dealing with it. She says that it is making our youth dysfunctional, and leads to a cascade of “sexual pathos.” One thing we can say is that it is affecting the rate of marriages in society.

This is the influence of Shatian himself. What she does say is that it has become much more acceptable in society, and we need new ways of dealing with this “pornofied society.” She says that it is even more prevalent in religious societies. She said that 60-70% of evangelical Christians watched porn on regular bases. Imam WD Mohammed taught early on that the “human being “ is a creature of “habit.” If you start to indulge yourself in small amounts of viewing; it is going to lead to an addiction where you are viewing porno on a daily bases. It will eventually kill in you, your moral integrity. This affects your rational and intellectual life; because the moral life is intimately intertwined with the intellectual nature of the human being. What is the answer to this problem; Taqwah. Obeying what Allah says in Quran, and in the Sunnah of Allah’s Messenger. Rasoolullah says, “Leave that which makes you doubt, for that which does not make you doubt.” We know in our human excellence that viewing porno is Harram (forbidden by G’d). We should fight the schemes of Shatian by giving ourselves to the remembrance of Allah.

problem with the people in America can be found in their literal and misunderstanding of scripture. The more they learn about the real, and true interpretations in revelation, this will give them the moral, spiritual, and intellectual strength to see, and understand Shatians efforts to enslave the publics. As Muslims, we must study our religion, and follow what it dictates.

There has come to my attention from sisters a growing and ugly practice by Muslim women. There is a growing practice in the Muslim community, among sisters to watch pornography. I was informed that Muslim women are watching pornography in growing and alarming numbers. We know that Shatian in the Ummah works hard to in talking Muslim women out of getting married. They encourage young Muslims not to marry, but they do not encourage them not to engage in fornication. There is no sex out side of marriage for Believing Muslims. Allah instructs us to marry.

The way many Muslim women are addressing their natural need for physical satisfaction, sex, is by watching pornography and masturbation. If they would obey Allah, they would be getting married. Allah orders marriage. Many of the older sisters in these Maasjid around the country are advising young Muslim sisters not to marry. And the Imams are not addressing this in their khuthbas. Rasoolullah has instructed us; he said “marriage is my Sunnah.”We are to obey Allah’s Messenger. We are instructed in Quran and Sunnah that we are suppose to get married. We are not to watch people with their clothes off, naked involved in having sex.

That is harram (against what Allah orders). As Muslims we are much too dignified to indulge ourselves in sinful ignorance like that. We should spend our time praying, studying Arabic, volunteering in the community to help the needy, teaching our children; but watching pornographic movies. No indeed! And we as vigilant Muslims are not going to ignore something that Allah brings to our attention. We must address this growing concern in our community. All of our needs are addressed in the marriage bond.If we could get marriage all of these physical needs will be addressed. Let us consol, and counsel all of the Muslim women, in discouraging these corrupt practices in addressing the moral nature by participating in the viewing and purchasing of pornographic movies.

We are obey the Shatian if we do this. Seek Refuge in Allah. It means to call Allah to mind when Shatian whispers into our mind and spirit these ugly, immoral, and sinful deeds. We may be able to hide from others, but we know that Allah sees and knows everything. Let us love Allah and strive to obey Him is every way. Shatian wants us weak, easily corrupted, and single. Allah wants us strong, and married. Let us marry. And I am sure the Lesbian mind is very active in discouraging Muslim women not to engage in “Holy Matrimony.” We know these are lesbian. Imam WD Mohammad said there are “many homosexuals among us.” We know that when we hear the attitudes and thinking of some Muslims. We hear the homosexual attitudes and psychology. We are to marry. You cannot rationalize our way out of that thinking.

From time to time we all make mistakes based on misunderstanding,misinformation,miscalculation, reading too much into things that don’t exist or by thinking highly of ourselves. More often that not, such mistakes turn out to be very expensive, damaging or so different from what we had anticipated. How sure are you? “Are you the only one in Jerusalem who doesn’t know or heard?” Listen, haven’t you heard of people who thought that they were hurting others only to learn that it was the other way round. Explain please. A few examples will suffice:

1).Many have walked away from a solid marriage relationship because they were promised of the sky only to be dumped and destroyed for ever

2).Many have been deceived to walk away from a good paying job only to end up jobless for a long time

3).Many have ruined their political careers because they over valued themselves 4).Many have sold their piece of land, a car and name it so as to invest on a deal gone bad

5).Many have run away from one church to another only to find out that people are people and that you can only change yourself and not others

6).People have left one job cursing and promising never to work for such a boss only to meet him or her later on another job. This is usually the case in health department.

So, once you realize that you made a mistake, simply swallow your pride,humble yourself and return. Life is such that you need to be flexible,humble yourself, be willing to work with and under others and stop thinking highly of yourself.

Just remember that the world has seen millions of men and women with greater talents than yours, more beautiful/handsome than you and greatly feared or respected because of power and too much money. But with time, they also become no ones.So, just humble yourself my dear friend and respect others for who they are.

“This is what the LORD says:“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth,for in these I delight,”  declares the LORD.(Jeremiah 9:23-24)

” There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:

1.  haughty eyes,a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,  a heart that
2. devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,  a false
3.  witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community

(Proverbs 6:16-19)  ”Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.” (James 4:10)

· The Core i3 has multi-threading capability which lets it run two processes on one core versus one process per core in the Intel Core 2 duo. Bottom Line: Intel Core i3 is much faster.

· The new Core i3 line of processors have two cores with many other technological enhancements including an integrated GPU (Graphic Processing Unit).

· The clocking frequency of the Core i3 series of processors ranges from 2.13 GHz to 3.06 GHz.

· Each processor is endowed with the new line of advanced technologies including Intel developed hyperthreading, Intel virtualization and smart cache technology which makes these chips faster than Core 2 Duo processors,this is the most important point in the Core i3 vs Core 2 Duo comparison.

· The FSB in Core 2 Duo bus is a lot slower in operation than the DMI bus in Core i3 Processors.

· The Core i3 processors have a L2 cache size of 2 x 256 kb and a L3 cache size of 4MB, with hyperthreading and smart cache enabled, core 2 duo processors are indeed slower

· DDR3 RAM compatibility in Core i3 Processors compared to DDR2 compatibility of Core 2 Duo processors makes Intel Core i3 Processors even more faster

· Whereas each individual processor (or core) on models in the Core 2 Duo range could handle just one processing thread at a time, Hyper-Threading allows the Core i3 to run two processing threads simultaneously on each core — allowing it to perform four things at once, instead of the usual two.

This is a real story of a young college girl who passed away last month in Kisumu. Her name was Atieno . She was hit by a truck.

She used to work at a fish stall. She had a boy friend named Odhis & both of them were truly in love. They always used to talk on the phone. You could never see her without her cell phone. In fact she changed her SIM card
from Safcom to Zain, so both of them c ould be on the same network, and save on cost.

She used to spend half the day talking to Odhis. Atieno’s family knew about their relationship. Odhis is still very close with Atieno’s family. (just imagine their love) . Before she passed away she always told her friends. “If I pass away please burry me with my cellphone” she also said the same thing to her parents. After her death, people couldnt carry her body. A lot of them tried to do so but still couldn’ t. Every one had tried the result was still the same.They just could not lift her. Eventually, they called a person who knew one of their neighbours, who could speak with the souls of the dead

He took a stick and started speaking to himself slowly. After a few minutes, he said “this girl misses something here.” Then her friends told him about her intentions to be buried with her phone. He then opened the casket and placed her phone and sim card inside. After that they tried to carry the body. It could be moved and they carried it into the van easily. All of us were shocked.

Atieno’s parents did not inform Odhis of her passing. After 2 weeks Odhis called Atis’s mom…..

….”Aunty, I’m coming home today. Cook something nice for me. Don’t tell Atis that I’m coming home today, I wan t to surprise her.”
Her mother replied….”You come home first, I need to tell you something very important.”

After he came, they told him the truth. He thought they were playing a trick . He was laughing and said “don’t try to fool me – tell Atis to come out, i have a gift for her. And please stop this nonsense”.

Then they showed him the original death certificate. They gave him proof . ( Odhis started to sweat) He said… “Its not true. We spoke yesterday. She still calls me.

Suddenly, Odhis ‘s phone rang.. “see this is from Atis, see this….” he showed the phone to the family. all of them told him to
answer , he switched to speaker mode.

All of them heard his conversation. …..
Loud and clear, no cross lines, no humming. It was the actual voice of Atis & there was no way others could use her sim card since it was nailed inside the casket . They were so shocked and asked for the person who could speak to soul of the dea d.

He tried for 5 hours.

Then he discovered one thing which really shocked them…

Scroll down……

ZAIN has the best coverage.

Wherever you go, the network follows!!!

Don’t be pissed at me , I am also looking for the idiot who sent me this mail…. enjoy it …like i did but still i can’t imagine where such decisive version of marketing came from.

By Kilemi Mwiria Most Kenyans agree that evacuation from the Mau should be done humanely. The solution will, however, not come from politically charged harambee drives which are more about political alignments for 2012 than they are about struggling squatters. Note that the big Harambee raised a mere five million shillings. Could the nine Cabinet ministers not raise this amount and even more from the Government if they were that serious? The Special Programmes ministry alone is spending many times that amount, not to mention well-wishers such as the Red Cross. And why did the objecting politicians not take similar stands on other water tower related evictions or the murderous deportation of some communities from the Rift Valley in 1992, 1997 and 2008? Why did those who are now revealing to us that Raila did not win in 2007 not intervene against revenge murders of innocent Kenyans? By painting him as the bad guy, Raila’s opponents have only made him stronger. Many Kenyans now know that you can count on him to take a decision that could derail his political ambitions for the sake of country. This side of his character is not new. When he was Roads minister he ruffled the rich who had grabbed road reserves by demolishing their big bungalows. By now one hopes that Kenyans can no longer be easily swayed by political fence-sitters and extremists. They will no longer just follow what politicians tell them blindly; not after a chain of poor advice. Raila’s political history has clearly demonstrated that among his competitors he has been the most consistent and has paid the highest price for his beliefs. I doubt that anyone of them has done more to liberate Kenya from an oppressive state. In addition to years of detention, Raila was a key member of the team that stuck their necks out for change in 1991. His “Kibaki Tosha” declaration at Uhuru Park in 2002 was crucial in sending Kanu packing. Just think of what would have been left of this country if Kanu continued its reign or if some of these Kanu characters bounce back to the top job. Unlike Raila, his opponents and the fence-sitters have demonstrated a different kind of consistency; the kind that almost led this country to the dogs in an undemocratic Kanu regime they served rather faithfully. Some of them made a kill from the excesses of the time through corrupt business and land deals. If some had their way, they would have preferred continuation of that plundering regime. There are those who have argued that virtually all our top leaders, Raila included, have at one time or the other been Kanu strongmen. I however believe that Raila joined Kanu out of frustration with an opposition too divided along ethnic lines and a section that sold the propaganda to the effect that a Luo was unfit for the presidency. Changing a system from within is an acceptable political strategy; Raila used insider privilege to destroy Kanu for the national good. In fact, most of those who dumped Kanu in 2001 would not have done so were it not for the power and organisational ability of Raila after Moi overlooked them for the top seat. The Mau has presented us with an ideal opportunity to separate the wheat from the chaff as we head to 2012. We should ask some simple questions: Who among the presidential aspirants has a demonstrated history of fearlessly standing up for what is right irrespective of the possible negative consequences for self and family? Who has been the more national in outlook? It is time we ashamed agents of tribal politics aware that tribal alignments can only lead us back to the Banana and Orange fights of 2005 and 2007. Let’s be mindful of political rolling stones who detest permanent homes because they are a real danger to national stability.

Do you want your prospects to take your business serious? Then you’ve got to stop using free email services to run your business! Come to think of it, how will you feel if you receive an email from Apple Inc. and the email address is mr_apple@gmail.com? You most likely will assume that the email is fake and probably the work of scammers.  Successful Entrepreneurs don’t use such services to run their business!

Why You Should Stop Using Free Email Services

The online community has a peculiar way of evaluating business outfits. You will hardly be taken serious as an entrepreneur if you do not have a unique domain name registered for your business. Online prospects will simply assume you are not a serious entrepreneur if you refuse to pay as little as $10 to have a domain name for your business.

So likewise you will not be considered a serious businessman if you keep on using free email services provided by Yahoo, MSN, Google e.t.c. If you really mean to convince your prospective customers that you have quality product or services to render, then you must be willing to spend a little cash to get an email that bears your business’ domain name. Failure to get one may damage your business profile.

Using your own domain name as email address adds credibility to your small business. It creates the impression that your business is a well organized corporate organization. For example, admin@mydomain.com, sales@mydomain.com and support@mydomain.com looks and sound more businesslike than admin2007@gmail.com, sales2007@yahoo.com and support2007@hotmail.com.

Having your own email accounts that are tailored for different purposes such as Admin, Info, Sales, Support etc, makes it easier for you to organize your emails for quicker response. You will be better positioned to attend to urgent emails while those that are less important can wait till a more convenient time.

If you have your own emails, you can make use of auto-responders to send pre-written emails in response to generic requests. This can save you invaluable time that would have been lost writing the same kind of email each time a similar request is made.

Finally, I will strongly warn you NOT to use Free Email Services for financial transactions. It can be quite risky as crackers can hijack such email and use the information to defraud you or your client.

Please feel free to share your views in the comment session. www.likechappa.com wishes you great success in your business endeavor this year.

A tale of Ndinakukonda!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 12:49 PM

Ndinakukonda am reliably informed is the equivalent of the phrase I love you in Malawian. As usuall, as is my custom to doubt everything, I thought it may not be the “actually meaning”. Every one or at least most people know people often teach others matusi kwanza.

Even so, in this instance, I had no room to doubt because I was not even thinking in the first place. The person who told me this is nothing short of a fair one.  Well endowed and proportioned in “all departments” and still supple…real African woman oh. She is the kind that says “chech” to mean church, a heritage of where she comes from…ie Malawi.

I think this lady must figured out that the beauty of teaching someone “good things” like ndinakukonda means that you inevitable become the first recipient of their goodness…You should see how she blushed…only taking care to inform me that my intonation was perfect…even sweeter than she had expected. And so you can imagine that yours truly has been “practicing on her” with “interesting results”. I mean she even likes eating them peanuts and I know how to prepare them-thanks to mom. And you know you don’t go to java to prepare peanuts…you do it in the house…which in this case is either my house or her house…

This ladies and gentlemen is a suitable rival to professors boring lecture. I see myself dissing many classes just to be with ndinakukonda. I have even resigned myself to a supplementary or a retake. In my books, it’s a far better memoir to know that you did a retake because of a beautiful one than that you passed without a beautiful one.

In any case, like many of my classmates, and we all know this, they are going to have a retake. This makes me look good because I have chosen to do so in style. With such a short life before us, why postpone happiness?