Establishing the Islamic Kingdom of God in Kenya
David J. Jonsson
January 26, 2008
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This is the fourth of a series of articles on The Clash of Ideologies and Leftist/Marxist – Islamist Alliance.
The Clash is not just about counting votes, poverty, tribal warfare and ethnic cleansing as generally reported by the press, the Clash is about establishing the Islamic kingdom of God and Shariah law in Africa and worldwide. The Clash is not limited to the tribal conflict, but involves funding from foreign governments, support of Islamist sympathizers, some of which are not Muslims – at least not openly converts, and the Kenyan Diaspora. Note that point 7 of the Ten Point Vision of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to is: “A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.”
The West is buying into propaganda that the conflict in Kenya is about vote counting, poverty, and tribal conflict in the name of appeasement. Barack Hussein Obama as a member of the Diaspora played a key role in support of rise of Raila Odinga the candidate for President of Kenya who lost the last election.
The Clash of Ideologies may be leading to a potential implosion in Kenya; this has the U.S. especially worrying because the White house saw it as frontline state in the War on Terror and a bulwark against its volatile, jihadi-infested neighbor Somalia. Terrorists have occasionally slipped across Kenya’s border, as in 1998, when al-Qaeda simultaneously bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, another neighbor. In 2007 the Bush Administration gave the government of President Mwai Kibaki about $1 billion in military and other aid. The West largely contents itself with the appearance of democracy in Africa, not the reality, and gives billions of dollars in aid to corrupt governments.
And there are special-operations soldiers based in Kenya at Manda Bay as well, on the coast just south of Somalia. The instability in Kenya has so alarmed the Administration that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reached out for help to an unlikely ally: Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama, whose father was from western Kenya and who has relatives near the city of Kisumu, (the scene of some of the worst violence. Obama recorded a message, aired on the Voice of America, calling for calm. [Raila Odinga claims that he is a cousin of Barack Obama.] On Jan. 3, the day of the Iowa caucuses, he spoke with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who had flown to Nairobi, the capital, to see if he could negotiate a peace.
In the days since his Iowa victory, Obama has had near daily conversations with the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi, Michael Ranneberger, or with Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga. Obama was trying to reach Kibaki as well. Reference: The Demons That Still Haunt Africa, By Alex Perry/Eldoret, Laura Blue/London Jan. 10, 2008, Time Magazine
In foreign affairs, as in domestic policy, Mr. Obama’s words are reinforced by who he is. No other candidate can refer casually to “my Kenyan cousin” or draw on childhood memories of growing up in Indonesia. While President George W. Bush has been easily typecast as a swaggering Texan, born into privilege, a black president from immigrant stock would be a powerful international symbol of the American dream. Reference: Obama’s message to the world, By Gideon Rachman, Financial Times January 8, 2008.
The Growing Link between Religion and Politics
When politics picked up late last year, voters woke up to a new specter of a growing link between religion and politics. Today, religion doesn’t just fire from the sidelines; it is front and center in the politics, destruction and terror in Kenya.
Into the middle of this new specter is Barack Hussein Obama – Democratic candidate for President of the United States with his support of the Hon. Raila Odinga the candidate for President of Kenya who lost the last election. When you look at the political landscape in Kenya, suddenly the politics and religion of Barack Hussein Obama come into focus. This focus leads to consideration of the Leftist/Marxist – Islamist Alliance.
Long ago, Aesop told us that birds of a feather tend to flock together. While one must always be wary of McCarthyite “guilt by association” accusations–e.g. accusing someone of being a Communist because he was once photographed in the incidental company of one–it is reasonable to make certain conclusions about individuals who knowingly and willfully associate with Leftists/Marxist, Islamists, racists, anti-Semites, and America-haters.
“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas,” Benjamin Franklin said.
“Beyond offering a radically different way to understand modern politics, in which fascist is no more a slander than socialist, Goldberg’s extraordinary book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning provides conservatives with the tools to reply to their liberal tormentors and eventually go on the offensive. If liberals can eternally raise the specter of Joseph McCarthy, conservatives can counter with that of Benito Mussolini.”
Barack Obama’s eager association with such entities cannot be written off as merely coincidental. Barack Hussein Obama’s association with Raila Odinga, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. of the Trinity United Church of Christ - Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church, Al Sharpton and the National Action Network, his financial sponsor George Soros hates Israel (and also the United States). Soros has called the United States “a danger to world peace” that needs “de-Nazification,” while blaming Israel for causing anti-Semitism, and Barack Obama’s friends at MoveOn.org.
The election and subsequent devastation in Kenya has been characterized as a battle between tribal factions, in reality, it is a Clash of Ideologies between the Muslim factions and Christianity and the Leftist/Marxists for control of Kenya. This is not simply the ‘ethnic people power’ concept to use as a bludgeon against other ethnicities in Kenya.
Even more serious are the doubts raised by Mr. Obama’s attitude toward Islam, which has so far received much less scrutiny than might be expected in a post-September 11 presidential election. See: Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam by Daniel Pipes writing for FrontPageMagazine.com on January 7, 2008
Raila Odinga’s Links to Foreign Governments and Companies
The Standard, a leading Kenya newspaper published an article on July 31, 2007: Globe-trotting Raila assembles a powerful arsenal detailing the history of Raila Odinga’s rise to power. These facts should have been known prior to Barack Hussein Obama’s visit to Kenya in August 2006 where he spoke in support of Raila Odinga’s at rallies in Nairobi.
As an example of the foreign influence in the Raila Odinga’s campaign to sell his candidacy and boost his coffers, Raila visited more than 10 countries in a span of eight months, sustaining the momentum of a crowd-puller glitz that he began in November 2005. This venture provided him the opportunity to engage closely with Kenyans abroad, scholars and friends of Kenya. Raila’s whistle-stop tour also took him to Australia, Germany, South Korea and Canada. He also visited Nigeria, Namibia and Uganda.
It is not a secret that Raila is fabulously wealthy and has the capacity to self finance his presidential campaign with little information on the true source of his wealth besides the family inheritance and generous donations from his local and foreign friends.
Apart from meeting high profile personalities during the whirlwind trips that have taken him to powerful countries of the G-8, Raila also visited aircraft manufacturer Boeing, software giant Microsoft in the United States and the construction firm Strabag (Austria) in June last year, where he had tea with top executives.
“Raila’s list of local and foreign political friends — thought to be immensely wealthy — remains a closely guarded secret, for strategic reasons.”
“While still Energy minister, Raila re-established and nurtured his links with the Libyan Government of Col Muammar Gaddafi, where again he not only did good business in oil importation, but also got substantial material support during the 2002 General Election.”
“Besides supporting Raila’s political cause, the Libyans also played a key role in stabilizing Raila in the oil business. Reliable sources say that Libyans bankrolled the Narc campaign with some $3 million (about Sh210 million), thanks to Raila’s good contacts in the oil-rich land of Gaddafi.”
“There is no doubt, therefore, that if Raila becomes the ODM-Kenya president, even in a shared government, he can once more count on massive financial support from the North African country.”
“Besides Libya, Raila enjoys good links with the South African Government of Mr. Thabo Mbeki while in Nigeria; he is known to have strong links with Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, who was a long time close friend of Raila’s father, the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.”
Diaspora is an increasingly influential constituency
“Earlier, Raila had been to Saudi Arabia and South Korea, the world’s 10th largest economy and one of the most technologically advanced. While in Seoul, Raila attended the International Peace Federation Conference and later used the opportunity to meet an influential religious leader of a church known to have millions of followers across the globe.”
“In May, Raila left for Germany, where he visited his former university, Magdeburg in East Germany, on invitation. In June, Raila flew to the U.S., where he held talks with Senator Barack Obama, one of the candidates seeking the Democratic Party ticket to vie for the American presidency.”
“In July, Raila was in Australia for 10 days where he met businessmen and Kenyans living abroad. The visit also took him to Sydney, where he met more business executives and addressed Kenyans living in the city. The Diaspora is an increasingly influential constituency that observers argue the national political class can ignore at its own peril.”
“He served as a translator when Louis Armstrong visited the country on an Iron Curtain tour in 1965. And yet a speech by Fidel Castro impressed Odinga so much that years later he would name his firstborn son after the Cuban dictator. “I’ve lived in both sides of the world,” says Odinga. “I’m better placed than most people who only hear about these things in books.” (Today he owns five cars, including a pearl gray Jaguar and a ruby red Hummer.)”
Is Obama a Stooge For Odinga?
As reported by ccbs2Chicago.com on August 28, 2008, in their story: Obama’s Criticism Irks Kenyan Government, “Government Says Obama Is A Stooge For Political Opposition”. “A potential presidential candidate himself, Odinga’s been at Obama’s elbow here fairly often and is a member of the Obama family’s Luo tribe.” It should be noted that this may fit with the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ commitment to a 10-point Vision item 7: “A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.”
“At the time of his visit in 2006, President Kibaki’s spokesman complained that Mr. Obama was behaving like a “stooge” of Mr. Odinga — which was at best undignified for a visiting American senator, and at worst unwarranted interference in the internal politics of another country.”
More recently, Mr. Odinga says that Mr. Obama interrupted his campaigning in New Hampshire to have a telephone conversation with his African cousin about the constitutional crisis in Kenya.
What, you will be asking by now, what does any of this have to do with Barack Obama? Well, Mr. Obama’s father came from Kenya and his son is proud to call himself a Luo. His Kenyan relations boast that, even if they cannot get a Luo into the Kenyan presidential residence, they can look forward to a Luo in the White House.
If he has been putting tribal or family considerations above America’s national interest by supporting Mr. Odinga’s anti-Western candidacy, it raises serious questions about his judgment.
Indeed, the connection may be even closer than a tribal one. Mr. Odinga even claims that Mr. Obama is his cousin, because the senator’s father was Mr. Odinga’s maternal uncle. Whether or not this true, the two men are friends and political allies.
Mr. Odinga’s rise to power political profile and financial stature has grown almost side by side over the years, according to the Standard article. Mr. Odinga made his presidential intentions clear as early as 2001 when he led his party, NDP, into a merger with Kanu — is believed to be putting together a sizeable war chest.
Increasing Islamic Power
As noted previously, over the last ten years Kenya has seen a rapid expansion and growth of the Islamic community and along with it the rise of Militant Islam. A new wave of proselytism has targeted the younger educated and urbanized generation. As a result of the increasing Islamic Power, the candidates discovered that this West-vs.-Islamism political drama attracts money in a way that rural development, say, never could. Kenya is embroiled in an ideological war – a Clash of Ideologies in the Kenyan bush.
As Joshua Hammer commented on December 23, 2008 in the New York Times article: The African Front:
“At the same time, militant Islam has also found a foothold. A sizable, largely poor Muslim population concentrated along the coast — and proximity to the volatile states in the Horn of Africa, including Somalia and Sudan — have made Kenya especially vulnerable, in the views of counterterrorism experts, to the call for jihad. Since the early 1990s, the mosques of Mombasa and other towns have resonated with militant Islamic rhetoric. Radical imams have preached violence against Westerners, attacked the Kenyan government as the lackey of the United States and Israel and called for the implementation of Shariah. Members of the Qaeda cells that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Aug. 7, 1998, were recruited in mosques near the Indian Ocean beaches where hundreds of thousands of Western tourists flock each year. Kenya is “a good place” for militant Islamists to blend in, I was told by Al Amin Kimathi, the director of the Muslim Human Rights Forum in Nairobi, which accuses the Kenyan government of discrimination against the country’s roughly four million Muslims (in a total population of 37 million). He added, only half in jest: “Even Osama bin Laden could hang around here. He could land at the airport, spread some money around and he’d be walking.”“
“Anti-Western sentiment had begun creeping into the mosques of northern Kenya well before 9/11, Ahmed Kura told me. In the 1990s, the Kuwaiti-backed African Muslim Agency financed the construction of mosques throughout the countryside, including one in Kargi, Harugura’s home village, and in Korr, a trading town near Lake Turkana.”
“The African Muslim Agency’s stated agenda has been to strengthen Islam by spreading the teachings of the Koran, as well as to build hospitals, schools and mosques. But terrorism experts have seen a darker agenda in the group’s good works: according to U.S. investigators, money raised by the charity has gone to finance jihadi groups, including Al Itihaad al Islamiya (A.I.A.I.), a radical Islamic organization, now defunct, that was based in Somalia and led by Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys (who was linked to Al Qaeda and later became a leader of the Islamic Courts Union). A.I.A.I. was declared a terrorist organization by President Bush two weeks after 9/11.”
The Plot Thickens
According to the African Press on December 27, 2007 in the article: Libya signs cooperation agreements with Iran, “The Iranian first Vice President Parviz Davoudi and the Libyan Prime Minister El-Baghdadi Ali El-Mahmoudi Wednesday night attended in Tripoli the signing ceremony of 10 agreements in the fields of investment, marine wealth, customs, trade marine navigation, culture, higher education and tourism.”
“The Iranian Vice President said in the press conference that developing ties with Muslims and revolutionary African countries are among the priorities of Iran’s foreign policy.”
As noted in my article on Canadian Free Press of April 20, 2007: The Followers of ISMAIL, “In recent weeks we have seen resurgence in the followers of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam. Libyan leader Mu’ammar Qaddafi called, in a speech in Niger to Tuareg tribal leaders, for the establishment of a second Shi’ite Fatimid state in North Africa, after the model of the 10th-13th century empire that ruled North Africa, Egypt, and parts of the Fertile Crescent. It is worthwhile to review some of the background and origins of this sect and also to see how it may be impacting current events. The Ismailis are the followers of the seventh caliph Ismail and are known as seveners vs. the followers of the twelfth Imam or twelvers as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
“On March 30, 2007, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said that it was a mistake to believe that Christianity was a universal faith alongside Islam according to the Reuters correspondent Salah Sarrar writing from AGADEZ, Niger. See: Gaddafi says only Islam a universal religion.“
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