Post by kamalet on Jan 24, 2010 11:18:26 GMT 3
For the last couple of days, the saga of some Jamaican muslim scholar called Al Faisal dominated the news. 2 Fridays ago, the city centre was a no go zone for the simple reason some muslim activist called on his religious brothers to protest the deportation of Al Faisal under the guise that it was an affront on the Muslim faith by the Kenya government. Many people were surprised that this could actually be an issue any muslim would raise especially when the scholar was accused of terrorist links and was personal non grata in UK and US, and even a deportation attempt had Nigeria refusing him to transit through Murtala Mohammed Airport (I use the full name of Lagos airport to emphasise the muslim name of the airport). The point I am made in the Al Faisal thread was that Islam stands for peace and it that when people commit crimes, it should not be linked to religion!
Why this analogy? Sadik made some comments that would seem rebuke Miguna and also those attacking Wafula. He perhaps pointed out at the way Jukwaa (well most of them!) think. Wafula attacked Miguna and even questioned his own patriotism. The response was a lot of vitriol on Wafule.
Good old Adongo in a very intiguing way suggested that Wafula and Miguna (as trench soldiers!) should not be dressing one another in public. But if you put things in perspective, Miguna wrote a rather unnecessary attack on William Ruto. William Ruto is a senior minister in government on the ODM side. William Ruto is deputer leader of ODM. But Miguna, who advises the PM on coalition matters, and must then represent the interests of ODM attacked his boss's deputy in the media. When this article was published here, many people came out in support of Miguna going for Ruto's jugular. Phil questioned the wisdom of Miguna writing these articles as it appeared to reduce Miguna to the level of the PM's propaganda secretary - a view I seconded. Many of the folk in Jukwaa ignored this.
Wafula Buke whom we have come to learn is the PA to William Ruto did an article criticising Miguna and even questioning his credentials. He even drew hi own parallels on his contributions to the struggle whilst Miguna earned his keep losing cases in Canada. What has happened is that many people came out criticising Wafula for the nerve to attack Miguna with some even writing long articles on the virtues of Miguna. Rough Rider in his return, suggests that Wafula being a political PA does the work of organising hecklers etc in response to Sadik. Surely if Wafula in writing this article attacking Miguna under advice from his boss is as described by RR, how different is Miguna and is this not what Phil was questioning?
Finally Sadik brings out a rather important fact when he suggests tribal alignments in Jukwaa as well as the reasoning behind the way some people write in Jukwaa. The Miguna saga has done Jukwaa very little justice and you cannot help see where Sadik came from when he alluded to Jukwaa going the way of Jaluo.com. There is a lot of dishonesty in this forum. There are those who see no problem with Miguna being Raila's adviser even when they come from the same tribe and see nothing big in the fact that Ruto's PA is not a Kalenjin! But these people peddling this kind of defence have written so many articles accusing Kibaki of loading his government with gikuyu advisors and workers - forget the fact the the PM has loaded his office with Luos!
The fact that no one of these commentators have actually seen nothing wrong in Miguna's arrogance and criticised it as they have done Wafula is easy to say he is one of our own and we should not attack him.
So did we need Wafula Buke to come to jukwaa to expose this closeted tribalism amongst many of the senior Jukwaa commentators? When we joined Jukwaa at the very beggining, Oloo was very hopeful that there would be balanced debate in this forum - sadly many of us can smell the "luo" thing in much of the debate here.
Kamale
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Why this analogy? Sadik made some comments that would seem rebuke Miguna and also those attacking Wafula. He perhaps pointed out at the way Jukwaa (well most of them!) think. Wafula attacked Miguna and even questioned his own patriotism. The response was a lot of vitriol on Wafule.
Good old Adongo in a very intiguing way suggested that Wafula and Miguna (as trench soldiers!) should not be dressing one another in public. But if you put things in perspective, Miguna wrote a rather unnecessary attack on William Ruto. William Ruto is a senior minister in government on the ODM side. William Ruto is deputer leader of ODM. But Miguna, who advises the PM on coalition matters, and must then represent the interests of ODM attacked his boss's deputy in the media. When this article was published here, many people came out in support of Miguna going for Ruto's jugular. Phil questioned the wisdom of Miguna writing these articles as it appeared to reduce Miguna to the level of the PM's propaganda secretary - a view I seconded. Many of the folk in Jukwaa ignored this.
Wafula Buke whom we have come to learn is the PA to William Ruto did an article criticising Miguna and even questioning his credentials. He even drew hi own parallels on his contributions to the struggle whilst Miguna earned his keep losing cases in Canada. What has happened is that many people came out criticising Wafula for the nerve to attack Miguna with some even writing long articles on the virtues of Miguna. Rough Rider in his return, suggests that Wafula being a political PA does the work of organising hecklers etc in response to Sadik. Surely if Wafula in writing this article attacking Miguna under advice from his boss is as described by RR, how different is Miguna and is this not what Phil was questioning?
Finally Sadik brings out a rather important fact when he suggests tribal alignments in Jukwaa as well as the reasoning behind the way some people write in Jukwaa. The Miguna saga has done Jukwaa very little justice and you cannot help see where Sadik came from when he alluded to Jukwaa going the way of Jaluo.com. There is a lot of dishonesty in this forum. There are those who see no problem with Miguna being Raila's adviser even when they come from the same tribe and see nothing big in the fact that Ruto's PA is not a Kalenjin! But these people peddling this kind of defence have written so many articles accusing Kibaki of loading his government with gikuyu advisors and workers - forget the fact the the PM has loaded his office with Luos!
The fact that no one of these commentators have actually seen nothing wrong in Miguna's arrogance and criticised it as they have done Wafula is easy to say he is one of our own and we should not attack him.
So did we need Wafula Buke to come to jukwaa to expose this closeted tribalism amongst many of the senior Jukwaa commentators? When we joined Jukwaa at the very beggining, Oloo was very hopeful that there would be balanced debate in this forum - sadly many of us can smell the "luo" thing in much of the debate here.
Kamale
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