Kadhaa au Kadha wa Kadha?

Mtani wangu Marko J Mwipopo (angalia vema jina lake halina 'a', usije fananisha kama wengi wanavyotufananisha)leo amenishitua na mipicha inayonyesha udhalimu unaoendeshwa huko Iran kama unavyoweza kuiona wewe mwenyewe. Ujumbe huu ulikuja na ilani "Kama hautawapelekea wengine picha hizi basi wewe hauna moyo"

Eti kamjaa kakiandaliwa kupewa fundisho

Sijui itauma kama ile njaa?

Uwiiiiii!!!!!!

Aaaaagghhh! isssshhhh!!!!

Kwa mujibu wa maelezo mengine ya picha hizi anayeonekana kuadhibiwa ni kijana wa miaka mi-8 aliyeiba mkate sokoni. Eti kwa sheria za Iran anatakiwa akatwe mkono ili mosi liwe fundisho kwa wengine na pili asiweze kuiba abadani.

Watuma picha wanamalizia kwa kusema "Plead people to stop fighting in the name of religion. To stop doing such deeds, and then justifying them in the name of religion... No religion has ever justified such heneous crime... Pass it on ...let the world know watz happenening in the name of God and religion..."

Baada ya kuziangalia kijuu-juu nikamjibu:

"Thanks for the message at least I am one of the luckiest few to have seen this. I am sorry I am denying others aceess to this story because I have no right to say which religion is good and which is not. It's God Himself. I can see you have been caught by American bandwagon propaganda about Iran. They want to justfy war from all directions. Masuala ya imani yaache tu. Hasn't Christianity, especially Roman Catholicism, done untold and unthinkable harm to the world? Wasn't Bishop Bartolome de las Casas the important figure in history to suggest the yanking Africans to work as slavesin the Americas...

"Imani ziache zilivyo. Mbona walikaa kimya mapadre na maaskofu wa kikatoliki walipokuwa wakichinja watu Rwanda na Burundi. Kama walikuwa bado hawana utu, mbona wako kimya katika vita zinazoendelea Darfur na Congo."

Katika majuma ya hivi karibuni kumekuwa na mkanganyiko hasa Marekani baada ya Iran kutangaza 'kujiunga' katika klabu ya wanaomiliki utundu wa nyuklia duniani, mbali na kuwa ilipembejwa sana hasa na Marekani hiyohiyo hata kutofikiria kujihusisha na teknolojia hii kwani yahatarisha amani ya dunia. Linalofanyika sasa na wamarekani ni kuushawishi uma wa dunia kuwa kuna haja ya kufurumusha Iran, ingawaje wachunguzi wa kivita wanaionya serikali ya Dubya kwenda kimgongo au kitengetenge katika mapigano na Iran. Wanachofanya sasa ni kuiharibu sura nzima ya Iran katika macho ya watazamaji hasa wamarekani maamuma. Pengine mvuvumo huu ndio uliosababisha mimi kumjibu Mwipopo kama hivyo juu.

Wazo lililonijia baada ya kutazama juu-juu picha hizo (kwa undani zinaonekana kama ni danganya toto ya kompyuta tu, mtazamo wangu. Au kwa nini kuna kataulo pale?) nikakumbuka propaganda ambazo Marekani huzipigia baragumu wanapotaka kumuonyesha fulani kuwa ni mbaya. Unakumbuka mwaka 2003 walipotaka kumfurumusha Saddam Hussein walivyotoa msaada mkubwa wa kudhibiti UKIMWE Afrika. Nadhani ilikuwa miongoni mwa juhudi za kuifanya Afrika inyamae na kuiona Marekani na baba bora. Je katika uenezi wa propaganda kama hizi hakuna suala la kadhaa mbali na dini lililojificha hapa?

Mwipopo akanijibu:

"...You have reminded me about the Iran issue now, actually whether we will be affected or not but the middle east is terribly insecure. Anything from now may happen around the region, my worry. Apart from the US's bullying behavior, other countries around theworld are being too extreme to say nothing against the practices of those powers (like Iran)"

Hapa Mwipopo akanipa changamoto mpya tena - kwamba ingawaje Marekani inajipa ukinara ama ukiranja wa kuikemea na kuitisha Irani, kwa nini basi nchi zingine zijajifanya maamuma kabisha kuhusu maendeleo ya nyukilia. Je hatuoni madhara yatakayojitokeza wakati silaha za namna hii zitakapoanza kutumiwa ulimwenguni?

Mwipopo akaendelea kuhusiana na mkanganyiko wa dini, siasa na mauaji ambayo pengine ama dini zinasingiziwa tu ama zinahusika moja-kwa-moja ama si-moja-kwa-moja (indirecly):

Bwana Mwaipopo, mimi nakuunga mkono issue hizi siyo rahisi ku-judge. Lakini nataka nikueleze kuwa tunapotoshwa pia na 'media'. Now I have a real story for example about the killings in Rwanda after, first watching the 'HOTEL RWANDA' movie, and second talking to a catholic student, who is a PhD candidate here, and was a victim of the situation by that time. He says, as a fact of what really happened, there's no priest who by intention or directly caused the killings. And it's a long story about the whole antagonism between the 'white priests' and the government. They were not wanted to be there in other words. Na huyu bwana sasa ni msabato but was raised a catholic from birth to seminary school.

Alamsik Binuur