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Uganda: 'Gadaffi is Obstacle to African Unity'
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New Vision (Kampala)
23 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Eddie Ssejjoba
Kampala
COL. Muammar Gadaffi's insults against Christians will hinder the realisation of a United States of Africa, a senior pastor has said. Pastor Martin Ssempa of the Makerere Community Church said Gadaffi's recent remark that the Bible was fake, was against the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
Gadaffi, who is at the forefront of forming a single African state, told a prayer gathering in Nakivubo Stadium recently that the Bible was altered to omit events on Prophet Muhammad's life.
"The gross Christian-phobia exhibited by the Libyan leader is a total disgrace to African Pan-Africanism," Ssempa told journalists at his office last week.
He asked the Libyan leader to apologise to Christians.
"How can a mere man say that the Bible, the book written by prophets and other people of God, is wrong because it does not talk about Muhammad, who was born hundreds of years after the death and resurrection of Jesus?
"For Christians, the rule of the law is the Bible. We have been insulted and we are angered by Gadaffi's claim that the Bible is inaccurate."
Sempa warned that if Gadaffi failed to apologise, Christians would consider boycotting Libyan businesses in Uganda.
He said Gadaffi was taking Uganda 140 years back when religious wars were common.
"He came as a president not as a religious leader. He should have avoided making religious comments."
Sempa asked President Museveni, who has united all religious sects in Uganda, to rebuke Gadaffi's comments.
"We have been standing together with our Muslim brothers to fight injustices and immorality in society but such comments might bring back the past religious biases which we do not need now."
Ssempa said Gadaffi was also quoted in the press last year for claiming that Jesus never rose from the dead and that another man was crucified instead of Jesus.
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"It was a big insult for him to water down the Holy Bible at the time of fasting and when we are waiting for the resurrection of Jesus. He has to overcome that tendency of promoting one religion by attacking another."
Sempa said it was okay for Muslims to count on Muhammad as a prophet but without attacking other faiths.
Ssempa also asked the city council to revoke the naming of Makerere Road after Gadaffi until he apologised.
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