Feb 24 2008
Tell Obama We Want Guns!
Perhaps some of the change Obama will offer is a new theater of war. After all, the current conflict in Kenya features Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, a man currently accused of ethnic cleansing as his Luo tribesmen protest his election day loss. One can only hope that Obama’s American contingent of rabid fans are not quite as excitable as his cousin’s fans in Africa.
As they wave machetes with gleaming blades, rioters in Kenya’s sprawling slums say they have two things on their minds: protesting Kenya’s presidential election and Barack Obama.
The US presidential candidate — whose father is Kenyan — is a favourite son of the nation which erupted into violence after hotly-contested elections in December.
President Mwai Kibaki has claimed victory in the December 27 vote but opposition leader Raila Odinga said the polls were rigged while international observers have cited serious flaws.
About 1,000 people have since died in ethnic clashes, riots and looting.
The ethnic clashes have fueled Obama fever, with members of the Luo ethnic group rallying behind Obama, whose father was a Luo.
“Obama!” a group of Luo men shouted in unison, as they stood guard at a makeshift roadblock near the entrance of Kibera, Kenya’s biggest shantytown outside Nairobi.
“We are supporting him here. We want him to win the election,” said Mohammed Noor, 27. “Did you know that Obama’s father is also Luo?” he added.
Behind Noor, young men yelled: “Tell Obama we want guns!”
What role does Islam play? Reading so far suggests it isn’t the prime militating factor, but, it is definitely in the mix. There certainly are the tell tale signs indicating that the true believers are operative - like a church full of burning Christians - torched by Odinga’s Luo tribe.
A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people — including children — were burned alive or hacked to death with machetes in ethnic violence that followed Kenya’s disputed election.
This article refers to Odinga’s strong muslim support
…most of Kenya’s Muslims and most of Kenya’s poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga. Many of them are angry. Some have vented their spleen against Kikuyus living among them, often chasing them away, burning their houses and shops and sometimes killing them.
And perhaps he earned their support by pledging to implement sharia law when he takes over.
Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets’ successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Muslim fundamentalists… The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya…
It matters little whether individual Kenyans view this as a religious war, the purveyors of Jihad intend to swallow Kenya as well.
Islamic governments have targeted Kenya as a key element in the spread of Islam in Horn of Africa and ultimately the world. The Kenyan Diaspora including Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Hussein Obama has also played a part. The fall of Kenya into Islamist control would be devastating to anti-terrorist activities in the Horn of Africa, not to mention the potential for expansion of a caliphate. One has to ask, how fast will Kenya go Islamic and apply Shariah law?
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…. I believe that the recent events Kenya stand out as a watershed event signaling emerging resurgence of Islam in Kenya and the beginning of the open Clash of Ideologies between the Muslims and Christians.
The events unfolding do not represent a Clash of Civilizations, ethnic issues or a race issue, the conflict is between Ideologies – Muslim vs. Judeo Christian Ideologies and between Leftist/Marxist authoritarian (Liberal Fascism vs. democratic free enterprise.)
There is no doubt Obama will have his hand in Africa…. “In his speech to well-wishers, Obama expressed a deep sense of solidarity with this small community and the Kenyan people…” … and it appears that Bush is paving the way for him.
I am not comfortable with a would-be president whose brother is a Muslim, whose cousin, if not Islamic, shares Obama’s populist/socialist ideology. I’d like him to declare unequivocally his denunciation of sharia law. Fat chance.
But when you consider the ideological similarities between the totalism in socialism and Islam, you can see where, like in England, sharia law easily insinuates itself through the rot multiculturalism has bred.
And that is one of many, many reasons for me to work furiously to see that Obama never steps a foot into the White House - except when McCain has some chores for him to do.
Related Reading…
AFRICA INSIGHT - Obama must tame America for the continent of his ancestors
Obama’s African Hubris
Class and Kinship in Kenya’s Killing Fields
Kenyan Government calls Obama ’stooge’ for Odinga
Barack Obama, Kenya, his cousin Odinga and Islamic jihad
Class and Kinship in Kenya’s Killing Fields
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Suprised to learn they are related. Obama should call Raila to stop using that lin