Fundamentalism - 2 - By the Chessmaster
In my previous article on this issue, I lampooned Honourable Kazaure for defending indiscriminate childbirth in favour of fundamentalism.
I see the APC government as a government of fundamentalists who are taking this country down based on the fundamentalist prism through which they see and approach national issues and put us where we are, but never responsible enough to own up to their errors. This explosive piece by one Ja'afar Ja'afar, looks into another darkness of fundamentalism and its retrogressive tendencies. Science and technology registered rapid success only after the Christian fundamentalism era in Europe (otherwise known as the inquisition era) ended. One will expect Muslims in this 21st century to learn from that experience. I believe Ja'afar Ja'afar writes in aversion to the aborted Kannywood contract as a result of massive condemnation from clerics in Kano.
"When an ultramodern abattoir began operation in 1982 in Challawa, Kano, some Kano clerics started preaching against eating the products, because, they believed, were not halal.
Started by the first military governor of Kano State, Audu Bako and completed by the first civilian governor, Abubakar Rimi, the N10 million abattoir was fitted with a product plant with the capacity to process 100 cattle, dozens of camels, hundreds of sheep, goats and thousands of chicken at a time.
Apart from cold storage facility to store over 3,000 processed animals, large powerhouse equipped with generators, the production plant was fully integrated to process blood, offal waste, bone marrow, bone, horns and hooves for local animal feed production and export.
But Kano clerics were unhappy with this. They switched on their microphones, mounted the pulpit and started ranting. They preached that the cows were stunned and become unconscious at the slaughter slab before killing. The abattoir management debunked the rumor and argued that cows and other animals were processed according to 'halal' process.
Already that created low patronage and aversion to the products. The abattoir closed a couple of years after. As I write, the machines have rotted away, the premises taken over by grass, reptiles and rodents.
What had the puritans benefited from the closure of this mega industry with a capacity to supply processed products to many parts of the country and boost the economy of the state?"
ChessMaster July 2016
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