An Episode from Adnan Adams Mohammed
We one day woke up to a bell of a new Muslim so-called “mouthpiece” birthed in a grand style with much assurance of a new Ghana for Muslims.
A year is gone yet, the new era for Muslims right in Ghana has no new voice in stories, except the old chapping voices, which have been championing the national interest of Muslims.
Much questions are begging for clarification and answers in the “New Era of a New Mouthpiece and Voice for Muslims”:
- Are we for unity for the interest of Muslims in Ghana? Or, we are for an agenda to champion a political and or tribal interest?
- I thought the some of the promoters of the “Mouthpiece and Voice for Muslims in Ghana” know COMOG; in fact, I want to believe that some of them were part of the journey that started and arrived at the destination of the creation of COMOG! Is it that COMOG does not represent the unity of Muslims in Ghana, so much so that Muslims in Ghana stand in need of another group of Muslims to come out with a UNITY PLATFORM for Muslims?
- What happened to the Wesley Girls’ SHS “No Prayer, No Fasting, No Islam on Campus” brouhaha? We all laid low because all Muslims were told to stay off and wait for the intervention of our honorable Muslim Caucus in Parliament. A year is gone past, but nothing has been heard of from the Parliamentary committee meetings that we were told were taking place; if there was any meeting at all!
- Our own school, Islamic SHS in Kumasi had some of their students brutalized, tear-gased and humiliated when all they demanded for was action to be taken on the highway in front of their school to stop the loss of precious young lives of students as passing vehicles impatiently knock and run over them rampantly. This became a national issue and the discussions raged on. Yet, the “burgeoning New Mouthpiece and Voice” for Muslims was not heard. The quiet silence beggars belief! Our very Muslim MPs who are supposed to be our defenders when it comes to Fundamental Human Rights as enshrined in our 1992 Constitution chicken out and left us all looking on sheepishly like orphans with no one to look to for a justice society that respects proper human diversity.
- The “Mouthpiece and Voice of the new era Muslims” have been missing on the LGTBQ+ advocacy. Are the “Mouthpiece and Voice of the new era Muslims” afraid to be heard on this serious national issue which Islam vehemently prohibits?
- Can the affairs of Muslims in Ghana be run like a political party? Whose interest are we seeking and serving? That of Muslims and Islam, or that of some politicians?
- We were assured of financial stability and support for Islamic activities and projects! One year is gone! What is the story?
- Are we as Muslims allowing ourselves (parochial and tribal interest) to be continuously humiliated as if we are foreigners in Ghana?
What is going wrong?
Who else has sharper eyes, wider ears and longer nose to see clearer, hear and smell the unpleasant future drawing nigh on Muslims in Ghana!!!
Had I known, is always at last!!!
Must we always seat, wait for the unpleasant things to happen before we start wailing, lamenting, complaining and blame-gaming?
Proactiveness and tactfulness can win Muslims a lot of the continuous humiliating battles in Ghana.
Thank you.
A Patriotic and Activist Muslim
Adnan Adams Mohammed (+233 24 465 3664)
