The Uganda we missed: 8 Million Maximum population.

A commenter to this blog disagreed with my sustainable population figure of 8 million for Uganda when he read my previous articles on populations’ growth. But he failed to suggest another number.  I will stick with my 8 million figures. 

 

The concept of human population so often is focused on area and how many humans can occupy that area.  When I think in terms of overpopulation, I think in terms of forests and wildlife that we depend upon, as well as water resources.  I also think about *Why* should we have more than 8 million humans in Uganda? Uganda has approximately 31 million people today. 

Consider this: The population of the United States is about 310 million now in this 2010.  In 1940, the population was 131,669,275.  The next year (1941), the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour which lead the USA into wars against Europe and Japan.  They mobilised effectively, producing all the materiel needed to defeat their enemies.   Now the USA has more than doubled in population.  Are they twice as powerful?  No, they are not.  Many would argue that they are actually weaker. (For another day, we can argue that the USA is weaker because of their foreign wars, plus their incredibly suicidal drug war, with locking up 2.5 million people currently, most of whom are in prison just for experimenting with drugs--but I don't want to digress here.) 

EDUCATION:  Then consider this: The Jewish population of the USA is about 1%, and yet, because of their culture emphasising education, they wield considerable political power.  

If everyone in the United States had a four-year college education, or an equivalent in technical training, the United States would be a supremely powerful Nation with a 1940 population.  If just the amount they spend on their drug war were, instead, funneled into education, this would be quite possible to achieve.  

Likewise with Uganda.  If we had a population of eight million educated people--people with college degrees--we would have an ideal democracy (which requires an educated populace) and would not need to accept foreign charity. (call it AID) 

 This brings me to the issue of accepting money from compassionate donor nations.  If Uganda had achieved population stability at the 8 million level, we could then support ourselves.  But our population continues to grow at an appalling rate of 4%, which is further exacerbated by government corruption.  

Donor nations see this corruption, and cut back until we end government corruption.  But donor nations should ALSO see our population growth rate--and END donations until the religious leaders’ stops encouraging people to have children. This can be done--if donor nations acquire the guts to demand this. 

I keep reading conflicting reports.  On the one hand, donor nations are threatening to cut off funding (and some already have cut back), and yet I read this article of four years ago: 

"The Ugandan government is receiving so much foreign aid that the economy is unable to absorb it. Treasury bills have to be used to suck the money out of the system. As a result, the Central Bank is holding $700m in treasury bills, and the interest on that per annum is $120m - which is incurred by the tax payer." -- BBC news, 7 July, 2005. 

One thing I can tell the readers of this blog: none of this money has trickled down to me! Nothing has changed in my villages. Many people are becoming more desperate and unable to live better lives as the result sky-rocketing prices steming from the alarming populations growth.  Instead of giving us money as "foreign aid" why not spend US$1 billion by building classrooms and paying college instructors to teach us things we need to know to qualify for an accredited bachelor's degree.  Residents of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) can enroll at the Univ. of DC and pay much lower tuition than students going to your average university in the United States. 

  

Because of stomach-turning corruption in the Ugandan government under NRM (National Resistance Movement), there must be a way to build those college buildings and pay scholars to teach without having one shilling go to our government. Why hasn't this been done? 

 

I would love to have a college education, but since I was a kid, I've been struggling just to stay alive. I never had the money to finish my education to get an Advanced level certificate and then go to University.  My life is being wasted because of religion and government corruption.  So let me ask this question: What's the purpose of living in the first place if I am prevented from developing skills commensurate to my abilities?  

I tell you, 8 million people in Uganda with a University education would make for a powerful nation.  A nation where people would have the intellectual wherewithal to work and live together with far fewer conflicts, such as tribalism, Nepotism and the scourge of religion.  

WATER:  Uganda is stressed by its inadequate fresh water supply for people, wildlife, farming and hydroelectric power.  Even though Uganda borders Lake Victoria--the largest fresh-water lake in Africa--people in Kampala, right next to the lake, must store water in jerry cans because of limited supply of clean water. all this is so because of the overwhelming population growth which Ugandan President is embracing.  

FORESTS AND FARMS:  The commenter mentioned that most of Israel is desert.  12% of Uganda is defined as mountainous.  But between "mountainous" and "flat" is a large area of Uganda that is "hilly."  As we have been seeing for the past several years, more people are cutting down forests on hills for farming and living space.  

Here is an example of the problem which is not uncommon.  Henry Wanambwa, the LC I chairman of Kubehwo village that was partly swept by the Bududa landslide, has three wives with whom he sired 24 children. With only one acre of land, he is not able to cultivate enough food for them. He has married off two girls but still has problems feeding the others. 

As the boys grow up, he sends them uphill to find more land to cultivate. "I advised them to cultivate on the steep slopes where there is still some land," he explains.  

When Bududa was made a district about two years ago, its population was about 146,000, according to district statistics. However, this has grown to over 300,000 people. 

As that article notes, Uganda is suffering from overpopulation.  Not just this particular area, but the country as a whole.   For Bududa, which has doubled in population in just two years, how do we go back to 146,000?  Any reduction would bring instant howls of protest from Catholic priests.  George Bush's idea of promoting "abstinence" only guarantees that the problem of overpopulation will continue.  I'm grateful to Pres. Obama for re-funding the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  The US Congress should write this into law so that future Republican presidents cannot reverse it.   

  

Overpopulation creates and expands poverty, and poverty drives people to war over limited resources.  Overpopulation decreases the security of all of us.  Yes, that includes the United States of America.  

Further, overpopulation increasingly limits the space for wildlife.  Soils at the equator are not rich in humus (black organic material needed for good crops) because of the constant heat and bacterial activity.  Once forests are destroyed to make way for farm land, that area runs the risk of desertification which leads to high erosion.  Then where does the wildlife go?  Well, they don't really go anywhere. They are also forced to compete for limited supplies of food in a decreasing living space--and they simply die out.  In temperate regions, farm land can easily be turned back into forests.  In tropical areas, that is extremely difficult to do--as we are seeing in Brazil and Indonesia.  

WILDLIFE:   When I think of Uganda, I think of our place in the world of nations. Israel does not have the rich wildlife that we have--which is being depleted by way too many hungry people who raid our forests for "bush meat."  It pains me greatly that our monkeys, gorillas, chimps are killed for human consumption.  This is happening all over Africa--because of overpopulation.   Overpopulation is destroying the once-rich biodiversity that we had a generation ago.  The United Nations has warned: "Despite about two decades of conferences, conventions and commitments, the earth's biological diversity -- or biodiversity for short -- steadily erodes as ecosystems suffer and species die out."

In other words, as the Roman Catholic Church and other religions seek to protect life by opposing sex education, birth control methods and abortion, the High Priests of Superstition are killing all of us.   They're killing all of us the way the white settlers in America killed the Indians: not so much by killing Indians, but by killing the buffalo the Indians depended upon for food.   Yes, two and a half years ago, the pope said, "Our earth speaks to us, and we must listen if we want to survive"--Pope Benedict XVI, July 24, 2007.  Okay, is the pope listening to an overpopulated earth and the groans of dying wildlife and humans?  Absolutely not and no pope ever will.   How do the victims of Catholic theology die? (see photo of an African child below.) 

WASTE:  And then there is the problem of waste.  A few years ago I was visiting a friend's friend who collected old West African magazines.  I was paging through one of them, dated 1985 or 86, and came across an article about an Italian waste-dumping company that paid a poor Nigerian landowner to *store* a number of barrels of something toxic in exchange for a sum of money. They didn't tell the farmer what was in the barrels which, at the time, looked okay.  Eventually, the barrels rusted enough to allow a foul substance to started leaking out of them.  So I tried to find an article on the Internet about this--since I no longer have access to those magazines--and I came across this article

In this New York Times article of 3rd Sept 1988, I found both situations--waste being picked up from Nigeria, and this paragraph:

''There's an awful lot of waste floating around Europe,'' said Anthony Brenton, a senior adviser to the European Community's Environment Minister. ''There's rising public concern about it. A number of channels that existed in the past, like dumping in Nigeria, will be closed in the future.''    And: "The ship, the Karin B, picked up the waste in Nigeria on July 30 [1988] and has been searching for a place to unload it ever since."  Twenty-two years later, the problem is even bigger and more desperate.  

Note: European countries have achieved something close to population stabilisation, and they STILL have tonnes of trash they don't know what to do with.   And that's because Europe is overpopulated.  

When you think about the number of people dumping trash in Uganda, 8 million people dumping trash is still an awful lot of trash.  And yes, we do have recycling programmes.  But with a 33m population, even the best recycling programmes are overwhelmed.   Also, recycling programmes work best amongst educated people.  Our literacy rate hovers around 50%, according to a United Nations report of 6 May 2007.

MARRIED WITH NO CHILDREN:  And isn't it so tragically ironic that the very people who produce no children (outside of artificial means)--gay men and women--are to be condemned to death, driven to suicide, or life imprisonment by David Bahati--the German Nazi of our place and time.  Gay people are the very ones who can show us how to lead a productive and enjoyable life without children.  One does not have to invest their identity in children.  

As I said previously, abortion is good.  It is not "a necessary evil" as some have said.  Very limited abortions are permitted in Uganda--and even they are condemned by the Catholic Church.    In a Guttmacher Report, we find this: "Under Ugandan law, induced abortion is permitted only when pregnancy endangers a woman's life. Legal abortions are very rare, given the restricted grounds, the demanding process for obtaining approval (for example, providers typically require certification from three doctors, even though the law does not require this)."

The Catholic Church is quick to point to a passage in their holy book: "Thou shalt not kill" to explain their vigorous anti-Choice propaganda and political actions.  But the Pope is completely silent on David Buhati's Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 which advocates the execution of some gays and the imprisonment of all others who reveal their sexual orientation--and even heterosexual human rights activists who advocate public discussions on this issue.  

The Catholic Church says that life is so precious.  In fact, it is not precious at all if each and every individual born does not have a healthy diet on a daily basis.  Without a healthy diet, the child risks growing up mentally retarded.  In addition, education, including college, must be made available to African children and teenagers--just like European and American children have.  

Life become precious only with education.  And this cannot be realised in an overpopulated country like Uganda.  When these and many other factors are taken into account, 8 million was about right.

From African in Africa :The hypocrisy of black Americans.

This isn't just about one man who happens to be a raving hypocrite.  This article reflects the attitude of most black Americans. Most  black Americans voted for George Bush in 2000 and 2004 because Bush promised a Constitutional Amendment "protecting traditional marriage."

  And here you have it right in this article. Bernice King is an active anti-gay bigot.  The three closest aides of Dr. Martin Luther King were also anti-gay bigots: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and Rev. Walter Fauntroy.  So what would that tell the average person about Dr. Martin Luther King himself?  I would say more hypocrisy.  It's common for black heterosexual males to wax self-righteous when it comes to discrimination against black heterosexual males.  They not only condemn gay people, they also preach that women are to submit to their man.  So when Dr. King preached "All God's Children" he came across as a hypocrite as Eddie Long does today.

Why can't we live, work and love one another as equals?  And answer is -- in the Bible.  Instead of the Bible, people should be reading just as assiduously the works of Abraham Maslow.  They should be reading George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, both which explain double-speak and hypocrisy. 

If you can't practice what you preach, then what you preach is meaningless and self-discrediting.

As for Coretta Scott King, she was a wonderful person. I commend her for standing up to the bigots in her family, in her church, and the anti-gay bigots in the nation as a whole.   But her advocacy for human rights for gay people was pushed aside--after all, she was "just" a woman--and "you know how women are . . .?" say the male chauvinists.

And let me not fail to include Rev. Jerry McAfee who is viewed as the black American community's spokesman and representative   in Minneapolis--an ugly bigot who shamed my best friend  in public (Tuesday, 17th February 1998 at Lucille's Kitchen) because he is atheist and gay. And being white didn't help him either. Shamed him on KMOJ-FM radio when he wanted to volunteer to be a tutor in the black community.   That was more than 12 years ago, and since then  he have contributed nothing to the black American community because of their bigotry, hypocrisy and violence.  In Washington, D.C. he was beaten up badly by black heterosexual males--1968, 1969 and 1985 resulting in hospitalisation (1968) and out-patient treatment for the other two.  Physically, he healed, but the psychological impact remains intact with him.

Black Americans lament: "White America is insensitive to the needs of her black citizens."  And when a white American steps forward to contribute his time and experience to black members of "The Village" he's slapped down with derision and public shaming.  And when you're on the other end of such hatefulness, it has an enormous emotional impact.  Lessons are learned: for a white man: "Stay away from black Americans.  They're very punishing people."

Yes there's bigotry in white America too, but one have a much better chance of being viewed as an equal human being by whites than  by black Americans.

USA Pastor has right to burn Quran!

When an American follower of my blog sent me these photos of a Confederate Flag below, I knew I had some advice for the world.

Some guy in Hinckley, Minnesota, at a business not far from a Subway Sandwich Shop, put up various blankets for sale, one of them was of this racist flag. 

Hinckley, a squat little town in the middle of essentially nowhere is about 250 km south of the Canadian border.  The American--who wished to remain unidentified--was sitting in a car taking photos of this blanket. Yes, the American was annoyed with this.  But in America there is freedom of expression and he realised that this white man was using the emotions attached to this flag as an advertising gimmick.  For those who aren't familiar with this controversial flag, go to Wikipedia, under "Confederate Flag".

True, there are many other images that can attract attention, such as the face of Marilyn Monroe or Shaquille O'Neal, but somebody decided to make a blanket of this racist flag, and the man you see decided to buy it and put it up for sale--along with his other blankets.  Even if the Confederate blanket doesn't sell, if it attracts attention and customers to buy his OTHER blankets--the purchase and display of the Confederate blanket was a good investment. 

Now that this white man's face is on my blogsite, will anyone make a big issue of this?  My advice, as a black African, is to simply ignore the white man and silently boycott his business.  Likewise with Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center, of a state in the southeast corner of the USA.  Americans have in their constitution a First Amendment which guarantees freedom of expression (free press, free speech, free Internet, and even the right for an American to burn an American flag).

Until just recently, I didn't even know who Pr Jones was.  But now every one in the world does.  My advice is to just let him burn copies of this paper holy book and ignore him.  Further advice: boycott all religions.

What puzzles me is this: "The top US commander in Afghanistan has warned that troops' lives will be in danger if an American church sticks to its plan to burn copies of the Koran.  Gen David Petraeus said the action could cause problems "not just in Kabul, but everywhere in the world". BBC, 7 Sept 2010.

What is America trying to do with its many wars in the world? Are they trying to protect something?  Maybe spread some sort of ideology by force onto other countries? From their many contradictory explanations, I read that one of the reasons is to protect democracy.   Democracy must include freedom of unpopular expression.  The US Supreme Court has upheld the right to burn an American Flag, and even though conservative congressional representatives tried to make a law against burning the American flag (which their Supreme Court would strike down anyway as unconstitutional), the law was never passed.   So if an American can legally burn their flag, then they can legally burn the Judeochristian bible and they can legally burn the Qur'an.   And that's the way it should be.

But various bleeding heart christian liberals in the United States are crying out for all of us to respect people's religious beliefs.  They are nuts!  ALL religions promote violence. I'm sorry, as long as I have any remnant of sanity left in me, I will never respect any religion and the human division, hatred and violence that all of them promote.   I am an atheist, I am a humanist.

People in East Africa are sick and tired of Christian fanatics like Joseph Kony, the white American fundamentalists who come to East Africa to teach Africans to hate and kill one another, and here in Uganda and Kenya, we still haven't recovered from the Islamic-led bombings of people watching TV football.  More than 80 people have died here in Kampala because of the 11th July 2010 bombings.  And we're suppose to respect the moslem religion?  Truely, all those who call for respect of people's religions are silly and should be dismissed as lunatics.

When I tell xtians that I don't respect their religion or the moslem religion, they instinctively say: "Well, then there's no reason to respect your religion."  One problem: I don't have religion.   I don't have a soul to be saved, I am not going before any god on "Judgment Day", I won't be going to "heaven" or "hell".  In short, religion is nonsense.  Worse, religion is hateful and violent.  I respect human rights, democracy, and peace--and religionists don't.

So don't be telling Pastor Terry Jones to not burn the Qur'an.  It's his constitutional right to do so in America.  If moslems don't like it, they should burn copies of the Judeochristian bible.  It should be their right to do so.  As an atheist, I do NOT approve of destruction of property and people's lives as an act of protest. 

Some guy in Hinckley, Minnesota, at a business not far from a Subway Sandwich Shop, put up various blankets for sale, one of them was of this racist flag.

Africa is facing the worst Political segmentations in most Countries,but Can this help to create Justice,deep democracy and good Governance?

Nigeria has a lot in common with Uganda,not only in natural resources but also in political mindset. They have continue to have inland political segmentation to create more political zones but will this help to strengthen democracy in Africa?

I Met a Nigerian from Lagos state during my evening walk yesterday, and we had a discussion on Ibadan, Oyo State.  The people of this state capital want to form a state of their own and separate themselves from the rural people.  This, because the heads of state (of Oyo) are so corrupt that they can never bring themselves to share the resources that pour into Ibadan with the rural people.

Nigeria already has 36 states.  For that size country, they don't need any more states.

Okay, so what's going to happen is that Ibadan will become a state, and the rural people of Oyo will then create a new capital which will attract more corrupt politicians who will be doing the same thing as the Ibadan politicians.

What they need is to get to the core of corruption throughout the country.  And that will only happen when Nigeria has 100% literacy which is needed for a healthy democracy.  But education of the masses is bad for the class of corrupt politicians and ministers of religion.  Poorly educated people are more likely to listen to, submit and obey corrupt religious and political leaders rather than reason among themselves to determine which leaders will act to benefit of everyone.

I know Nigerians and they are extremely religious people--as are Liberians and most other people in Africa. Although Christians and Muslims project an image that without religion there would be great corruption; in truth, it is because they have religion that there is so much corruption and violence.

Take, for example, the series of bloody riots between Christians and Muslims in Jos, Plateau State.  This is because they have been taught to pour their love into a nonexistent god instead of learning to love their fellow man.  Secularists (Humanists) are more likely to find non-violent solutions to issues that arise amongst them than religious people who are more likely to engage in bloody violence, confident that their god is on their side.

Besides, since religion appeals to poorly educated people, they lack the ability to reason. Deadly violence is their only way to win the argument.

Christian propaganda says that we can only love our fellow man "through the blood and suffering of Our Lord Jesus Christ--Amen."  (The piety of Christians always turns my stomach).

And yet the Christians are themselves responsible for the corruption in their country.  But the sheep are taught that if you suffer enough here on Earth, you will get a front seat in Heaven.  This must be the reason Christians/Muslims rarely rise up against corruption.  It reminds me of the white slave masters in America who taught their slaves that if you work real hard here on Earth, you will be allowed to sit in God's kitchen.

 The garbage that people believe in is very sad.  There is little hope for Africa, for as long as there is religion, there will be wars and rumours of wars always.

The power of Joseph.

It's kind of amazing that all the world's governments cannot stop Joseph Kony and his religious murderous cult.  What power this man has!  20+ years and the world cannot stop him!. My friend once wrote to me and said "Joseph Kony is  worse than Osama bin Laden--not much worse", but still worse than. Uganda LRA rebels 'on massive forced recruitment drive' Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been accused of going on a massive forced recruitment campaign in remote areas of central Africa.

Dear Mother and Fan of my Blog,

On 14th Aug 2010, I received a comment in one of my articles from a mother. She wrote this.

Micheal, am not sure what to say. Am ma mother and would die if i saw my son go thru that. Why do human do that?You can always go back to school, or do online courses.Am speechless may be my next comment i will be more calm. Am so mad at every relative of yours and your father doesent deserve to called a father ....

I wanted to reply her using a full article.I have replied her as if am replying my own. I have done this in a form of a letter below.

Dear Mother:
When I found myself on the streets, every day--every single day--was a struggle just to stay alive.  I didn't have time for school for approximately the same reasons many kids drop out of school to work on the farm.  Except in my case, I didn't have family, farm, or other industry to help me.  I was lucky, however.  I was born male. We find thousands of kids every year in Uganda who simply die of starvation, or were abducted for the international sex industry and who end up dead.  We don't hear the details from these kids.  But I'm alive and learned the English language and became computer literate--so that with me, you can hear from one who managed to survive.

Having been there, like so many others, I pay attention to what happens to kids in other countries.  In India, a kid or adult can die in the streets of Calcutta and people just step over them.  Eventually, someone comes along and picks up the rotting carcass.

There are many reasons why I'm an atheist.  And one of them is the utter irresponsibility of ministers of religion (imams, priests, preachers) who condemn birth control and abortions and who bully their uneducated flock into having as many children as a woman can produce--regardless whether they can support all those children for a full 18 years.

People who give ANY money to any mosque or church have contributed to my difficult struggle just to stay alive. For the kids who died--FIRST blame the religious leaders.  And they do lead--to the path of abject poverty and death--all in the name of their nonexistent god.  But the uneducated don't know that there is no god.

The religious organisations are tax free which gives them tremendous advantages over commercial businesses. They get away with this through their propaganda of "aiding poor people."  First, the religious leaders promote overpopulation (which creates greater demand for diminishing supplies of goods), so the poor turn to their oppressors for help.   Hey, this is a fantastic trick that works as long as people believe in the god idea and contribute money to these horrible organisations.

In fact, churches do NOT aid poor people.  They create them and keep them in a state of poverty and ignorance in order to milk them of money from their hard-earned wages.  Businesses adore religion because multitudes of poor people competing for limited jobs keeps them in slavery.  America isn't the only country who thrived on slaves. 

Slavery made by religions are an everyday reality here in Africa.  This exists here in Africa because we've adopted religions (foreign or local) instead of taking a scientific approach to life.  By taking a scientific approach to this problem created by religions, we look at a given area--like the nation of Uganda.  We look at wildlife and how much room animals need to survive and sustain their populations.  We look at how much water is available to the people of this area and how many hectors of farm land is needed to sustain a given population.  We look at the human population to see how many fish will be removed from lakes and streams, and how much wildlife will be removed from the forests.  We look at the rate of natural recovery of what humans take.  We then look at the garbage generated by humans and what we can do with it.  Scientific investigation is difficult--religious explanations are so simple.

The area of Uganda can comfortably support no more than Eight million people.  No more than that. With 8 million people held at zero population growth, EVERY child could sleep in a bed--not on the ground.  Every child and young adult could have a full education--including four years of college, free of charge.  Everyone would have a job.  We could more easily control pollution of the land, water and air.  But Uganda does not have 8 million college-educated and working people.   Ironically--because of severe overpopulation.

But do you hear one single imam or preacher instructing their uneducated flock to limit their families to no more than two children?  Do you hear them describe a good life without any children?  No.  What you hear is condemnation of abortions, birth control, and homosexuality (for those born with this orientation). 

The one piece of garbage that is growing in our society is the Bible and the Qur'an.  These holy books are murderously harmful to society.  Maybe they served some usefulness 2,000-3,000 years ago, but they sure are hell in today's society.

And to answer the question of the mother: Yes, I would like to get an education.  I have a sponsor waiting for me in America, but the U.S. Embassy takes my money ($390 per application) and denies me a visa.  The American Embassy in Nairobi and Kampala  needs to be investigated for this foul practice. I can also take Education in Uganda if the situation enables me.

USA--dealing with voter fraud

In this case, the voter fraud was committed by the Republic Party--and particularly, George Bush.  And on top of that, Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices gave George Bush the 2000 election, when all of us (the whole World)  know perfectly well that Al Gore won the election by at least a million votes!  (Al Gore was the Vice President under Bill Clinton)

This action under the Obama Administration is smart.  Finally, poor people, whether they decide to vote Democratic, Green, Independent, Libertarian or Republican--get a chance to vote.   All parties are controlled by the rich, but the Republican Party is the party for the Christians and Big Businesses.

This move is smart also because it may ensure one more liberal on the U.S. Supreme Court.  Right now, it's tilted toward the conservatives. Decisions, favouring the conservatives is 5-4.  With one more liberal in the next eight years, the Supreme Court will finally vote in favour of issues that benefit the workers, civil rights, and Separation of State from Church.  I wish if this can happen in Uganda too.

'China executed "several thousand" people in 2009'

'China executed "several thousand" people in 2009'

 Note the young officer wearing white gloves--as though properly positioning the young man to be executed is a clean act.  In this photo, I count about 10 young men lined up to be executed. The word "several" means three or more.  So "several thousand" would make for busy days, five days a week, every week, every year.  And if you look in the background of the attached photo, there are spectators hearing reports from guns and watching bodies slump to the ground. For them, this is exciting entertainment.

The young men in uniforms and white gloves--how do they sleep at night after killing some humans? What is their relationship to their wives, children, neighbours?  Yes, some of the condemned have committed brutal crimes.  But I suspect the vast majority--like in the United States--have done nothing more than transport heroin, cocaine or marijuana to willing customers.  For this business transaction, they were murdered by the State. 

And what justifies this horror against fellow humans?  In China it's the ideology of Communism.  In the United States and throughout Africa and the Arab world, it's the ideology of Christianity and Islam.

How to solve religious fundamentalism.

I did attend the first freethinkers' night in Kampala since the 11/7/2010 bombings in Kampala.I was reluctant to go because I thought,many people will not attend. To my surprised,the number even went up,new faces cropped up and all of them said that they liked the debate which was "Religious Fundamentalism & Terrorism" was very captivating.

The reason religious fundamentalism is dangerous is that once an edict in a religious document has been labeled “the will of God” or “God’s command”, in the mind of the believer that edict is immutable, unchallengeable, and unquestionable.

The fundamentalist believer acting on that edict cannot be persuaded through reason or logic to reconsider his actions or prejudices because to do so would, in his mind, constitute heresy and/or disobedience to the supreme ‘God’.

But I am trying to think of solutions to terrorism. When you are troubled with all the atrocities committed by religions, you can easily run out of options. I have been thinking about the rewards which these terrorists envisions and all the imaginational life styles in the skies. The good life in heaven and the virgins. Now the solution can be, empowering them to work harder here and establish that good life other than imagining it in the skies. We can also find virgins for them to marry! Can this solve the problem?

I personally don't think supplying virgins to these killers would solve the problem.  It would only make more problems for the women who are supposed to submit their bodies to these self-hating individuals.  If they hate life and themselves so much that they're willing to commit suicide by killing others, one can only imagine the woman they come in contact with would be grossly mistreated.

I don't know much about this aspect of the Islamic religion, but perhaps only virgins in heaven would do--but virgins on earth would not be acceptable to them.

It's all ignorance and insanity with these Islamic men.

Great News for all of us - Male Dominance is losing its power !!!!

This article is about medication that will be available to women worldwide. It's called misoprostol. It is used for ulcers and can save lives of women with postpartum hemorrhages and now it can be used to induce abortions.


Let's consider the last sentence of the article: "As word spreads among women worldwide about what a few pills can do, it’s hard to see how politicians can stop this gynecological revolution." Very carefully written. If it were my article, I would have written "It's hard to see how politicians, husbands, priests and imams can stop this gynecological revolution."


The world's population will reach Seven Billion by next year--2011. I'm hoping, that with this medication, the world will more quickly start experiencing a decline in population--and the Catholic Bishops won't be able to do a damn thing about it! Women will finally take control of their own bodies--and it can't happen soon enough.

With misoprostol, wives can pretend to want another child as much as her husband, but still, unbeknownst to him, be taking the abortion medication because in fact, she doesn't want any more children or any children at all. African/Ugandan women living in anti-abortion Countries can take misoprostol at home without risking arrest.


However, what I fear is that women may be forced to have their blood tested to see if they have been taking abortion medication, and if discovered that they had, would be severely punished. I don't think this will happen because misoprostol will remain legal.

Nonetheless, I'm am pleased to no end to see that Male Dominance is losing its power and that medical science is continuing to push back the Institution of Religion until it withers away--like Communism.



I hope this also leads to women having children only if they want them and have the resources to raise them properly. Misoprostol isn't the end of the line for effective abortion pills. Medical technology will continue to march on to meet the demand.For those who have written on my blogsite that abortion must not be tolerated--my question with a smile is: Gee, what can you do about this?

From Germany to Radicalism for Young Muslims

These are my comments in reply to this article that appeared in a leading US newspaper. You can read From Germany to Radicalism for Young Muslims and then see my comments. A happy life??  Shariah law is many things--all of them anti-human, especially against women, gays, believers in other religions and non-believers.  Is "happiness" seeing others socially stunted, living in fear of the self-righteous or tortured? This big mistake here is that the parents taught religion to their children--instead of encouraging that they look to science to explain the mysteries of life and the universe. It happens among Christians as well.  Teaching children a "mild", "moderate", for of Christianity can, for some, lead them to seek something more radical--as though the more punishing, oppressive and irrational is living a "truer" form of the religion.

These parents lost their children to religion.  How can we turn that into a lesson and a warning for others?  The lesson: "Even a little religion can go a long way--to death and destruction."   If parents think that by giving their child a faith to live by will make them better citizens--well, learn by observing.  Learn from the shock and loss of those who, in all their glorious ignorance, meant well.

As they say: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

References of Violance from the Quran.

Here are some of the references of scriptures from the Quran itself,which moslems think it came live from Heaven.


--The unbelievers are your inveterate enemy. (4:101)
-- Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve. (8.55)
-- Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another. (48:29).
-- It is unlawful for a believer to kill another believer, accidents excepted. (4:92)
-- Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. (5:51)
-- Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God's religion shall reign supreme. (8:40)
-- Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme. (2:193)
-- The true believers fight for the cause of God, but the infidels fight for the devil. (4:76)
-- We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. (3:151)
-- I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers. (8:12)

Quotes from the sayings of Mohammed:

Muhammad said to the Jews: "If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. “

Sahih Bukhari [4:52:176] Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:

Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' "

Mohammed said, "I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.." (otherwise it will not). Vol. 4:196

Mohammed said, "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him." Vol. 9:57
Mohammed said, " No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir" (infidel). Vol. 9:50

Muhammad said: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war, …(Sahih Muslim 4294)

With those scriptures,no wonder why Islamic terrorist groups out numbers other religious groups as shown below.Those defending Islam should now advocate to either edit the Quran to match the current world view or it stays in the dark ages where it belongs.



Here is a small list of terrorist groups (notice which religion has the biggest number and yourself WHY?

1. Hindu
* Shiv Sena: A violent Hindu political group, Shiv Sena or "The Army of Shiva". Activities involve attacking shops selling valentine's day cards.

* Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) An organisation behind some of the religious violence in India.
* Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) an offshoot of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

2. Muslim

* Abu Sayyaf (1991-present; Islamist separatists; the Philippines)
** Based in the southern islands of Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.
** Branched off of the Moro National Liberation Front.
** Allegedly partnered with Jemaah Islamiyah and Al-Qaeda.
* Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (Yemen)
* Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Late 1970s-present; Islamists; Egypt)
** Seeks to establish Islamist state in Egypt. Usually targets secular establishments, government buildings, police, the military, minorities, tourists, and “morally offensive” buildings.
* Armed Islamic Group (1992-present; Islamists; Algeria)
** Seeks to establish Islamist state in Algeria. Began operations in 1992 after the Algerian government ignored election results that gave victory to Islamist political parties.
* Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
* Ansar al-Islam (December 2001-present; Islamists; Iraq)
** In Arabic, "Supporters of Islam."
** Also known as "Partisans of Islam or Helpers of Islam."
* Al-Qaeda (1988-present; Islamists; Afghanistan, Pakistan, and worldwide)
** In Arabic, "the foundation" or "the base."
** Also known as Qa‘idat al-Jihad, Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places, World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, Islamic Salvation Foundation, and the Osama bin Laden Network.
** Related: Alneda (former web site), As-Sahab (affiliated public relations organization),
** Cells: Buffalo six, Hamburg cell,
* Asbat al-Ansar (early 1990s-present; Lebanese Sunni Islamists; southern Lebanon)
** In Arabic, "the League of the Followers."
** Acronym for "Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya," or Islamic Resistance Movement.
* Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad/Al-Qaeda in Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Sunni network, operating in Iraq
** on U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
* Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Egypt (active since the late 1970s)
* Hamas - Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip. Listed as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Israel, and the United States
* Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) - Pakistan and Kashmir
* Hezbollah - Lebanon; attacks Israel and advocates its destruction
* Hizbul Mujahideen - Pakistan and Kashmir
* Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain - Defunct
* Islamic Movement of Central Asia - Central Asia
* Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan
* Jaish-e-Mohammed - Pakistan
* Jaish Ansar al-Sunna - Iraq
* Jemaah Islamiyah - Southeast Asia
* Jihad Rite - Australia (linked with Al Qaeda. Founded in 2001)
* Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - Pakistan
* Lashkar-e-Toiba - Pakistan
* Lord's Resistance Army Christian/Pagan/Muslim terrorist group that operates in northern Uganda, it seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government and create a country based on the ten commandments.[6]

* Maktab al-Khadamat - Afghanistan - Defunct
* Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group - Morocco and Spain
* Moro Islamic Liberation Front - (Islamic separatists; the Philippines)
* Muslim Brotherhood - international
* Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip
* People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - South Africa
* Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - Algeria
* Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan - Pakistan
* Takfir wal-Hijra - Egypt/Sudan/Algeria
* Kurdish-Hizbullah - Turkey
* Hofstad Network - Netherlands

Islamist Fronts
* Al-Barakaat (Al-Qaida front)
* Al-Wafa Humanitarian Organization (Al-Qaida front)
* Benevolence International Foundation (Al-Qaida front)
* Global Relief Foundation (Al-Qaida front)
* Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (Hamas)
* Konsojaya Trading Company (Jemaah Islamiyah front)

3. Christian
* Army of God
* Freedomites (1902-present) Active in Canada, notable for their longevity
* Nagaland Rebels (1947-present) Active in predominantly Christian state in Hindu majority India. Involved in several bombings in 2004. Goal: Independence from India after annexing parts of neighboring Indian states and Burma if it has Christian majority.

* National Liberation Front of Tripura (1989-present) A group that seeks the independence of Tripura from India to create a Christian Tripura.

* Lord's Resistance Army Christian/Pagan/Muslim terrorist group that operates in northern Uganda, it seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government and create a country based on the ten commandments.[7]

*God's Army A terrorist group in Myanmar.

4. Jewish
* Kach and Kahane Chai - [8]
* Gush Emunim Underground: (1979-1984)
* Jewish Defense League - designated by US FBI [9]
* Irgun: (1931-1948)
* Lehi: (1940-1948)
5. Sikh
*Babbar Khalsa
*Bhinderanwala Tiger Force of Khalistan
*International Sikh Youth Federation [10]
*Khalistan Zindabad Force [11]
*Saheed Khalsa Force
*Khalistan Liberation Force
*Khalistan Commando Force
*Khalistan Liberation Front
*Khalistan National Army
*Dashmesh Regiment

Islam will be a peaceful religion when all Muslims stop preaching hate, stop killing in the name of Allah, and stop remaining indifferent to the violence. Until this happens, we will faithfully document each of the reasons why this is anything but a "Cult and religion of terrorism."
Read more on other Terrorist cults and organaisations here