Some time ago I wrote on my blog after the bombings the finals of 2010 FIFA world cup and the article caused an out cry from people visiting my blog site. People who know me and have lived with me in some parts of the East Africa can bear witness to this I have such a huge connection to both Somalis and Muslims in fact my family shared an apartment building with one of the high profiled Muslim in that town for years we become one single family and some of their practices rubbed off to me I do not drink, smoke or eat pork all thanks to their influence on our family even one of my cousin would attend Eid prayers with his age mates such was the connection the family shared owing to that I guess I own them an apology for the defamatory and emotional approach I took when engaging with the issue at hand
Up on reflection and after reading my very blog I took a conscious decision to post an apology on the some of the lines in that post or the whole post depending who the reader is this I do in honor of that family whose trust, love and care I broke, To my girlfriend whose religious ideology I trashed both in part and to some extent in totality and to my Somali friends it was wrong of me to describe your body shapes and attempting to find solutions that continued to offend your personalities as a whole and failure of my part to understand that extremism is never a cross cutting issue when it comes to the Somali community and that millions of the very same Somalia’s have been affected by such acts on daily basis for the last twenty years. On that part I take full responsibility and would in future read more on religious extremism as means of understanding the broader issue of religious extreme.
On the Gay issue I might have come out radically charged but I was seeking to raise debate about their taking part in an election which in the end could decide their fate once again it came off as an attack on their rights I’m not entirely homophobic as the post seeks to reflect on me and I would not understand what it means to be gay but I know for sure my experience as a black person in the capitalist white run economy I know what it means if some one is excluded or exposed to judgment and I withdraw all my statements about the gay community in Uganda I shall not do any reading about what inspires them or try to understand their feelings but i will stay off the subject matter out of respect for every humanity. This is a free world and sadist expression do not have a place in the global village
