the American culture of worshipping.
The Americans, so illusioned by their unethical political dominance of the world felt the film was going to be a petard which would explode Christianity into the Muslim world making the Arabs subservient to the American’s free maison.
Before they knew the petard would explode to hurt most the inflictor; hell broke loose throughout the Muslim world. Sadly, lives were lost in Libya where the United States ambassador Chris Stevens and embassy staffs were killed by protesters. President Obama and most of the American people were shell shocked by the killings of their embassy staff. While it is not moral to kill any human being for any reason, the killings of American embassy staff should be a lesson for Americans and their allies to respect other nations and their religions.
In a recently published book titled “American power in the 21st century” it is stated that: “Views ranging from the celebration of the US’ achievement in bringing liberty, democracy and prosperity to every corner of the world to the condemnation of America’s pursuit of empire and its attempt to impose a single economic system and a narrow set of ‘moral beliefs’ on other peoples have emerged”.
The United Nations, like the League of Nations before it, was built as the fulcrum of global collective security system, but it has never been able to perform this function effectively.
The United States, instead of bringing liberty, democracy and prosperity as stated in the first part of the above quotation, has brought turmoil, grief and suffering to every corner of the world. Remember how its influence destroyed Chile and most of the Latin American states, the DRC in 1960s, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Iran and our Zimbabwe just to mention a few. In all these countries, a lot of pain has been inflicted to the bare bones of people in those regions.
These countries suffered and experienced the pain of America’s intransigence. People died while America and its people celebrated the success of its brutal dominance.
In all the years and decades, when people of Africa, Latin America and Asia have suffered, it was merry time for America and its citizens.
However, when the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001, itself an incident that was meant to revenge on the indelible pain caused by Americans, to other nation states and their peoples, there was a loud over cry in the United States.
One wonders why a pain that hurts the inflictor that much, fails the same inflictor from causing the same pain on others. People talk of the United States and the “American Dream” comprising democratic, modern and civil citizens who care for the world to be peaceful and habitable.
The question that arises is when the United States and its military cause regime change in various nation states where would be their conscious of modernity and civility? Does it mean modernity and civility to Americans is practicing undemocratic removal of legitimate and democratically elected governments as was the case in Guatemala and DRC?
Many American ambassadors such as John Gordon in Guatemala (1968), Cleo Noel (Sudan 1973), Davies (Cyprus 1974), Melody Jr (Lebanon 1976), Adolpha Dubs (Afghanistan 1979) and Stevens (Libya 2012) have all died tragically as a result of America’s bulling and interference of other nations’ political processes.
All these unfortunate deaths happened as a result of violation or provocation by the American government or its citizens.
An Islamic tenet “bans” the portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed which American citizens deliberately violated. Analysts say the film at the heart of the row, which appeared on Youtube translated into Arabic, is highly provocative and insulting to Muslims. It seems Westerners do not care about respecting other peoples’ religion as a similar incident happened in 2005 when a Danish newspaper published cartoons featuring the Islamic religion’s key figures in a deplorable manner.
Demonstrating that the pain hurts most to the inflictor, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said the attack on the consulate in Benghazi “should shock the conscience of people of faiths”. Speaking to reporters Mrs Clinton further said, “Many Americans were asking how such an attack could have happened in a country America had helped to liberate.”
The question that arises is why did Mrs Clinton not show concern about America’s lack of conscience in relation to the respect of other people’s religion? Did America help liberate Libya in order to denigrate their religion? Mrs Clinton’s statements seems to suggest that Libyans should not have felt angered by the mischievous film and should have smiled when their culture was wantonly attacked, only for the sack of pleasing the United States. What hypocrisy is this? Is this what democracy entails? If it is then it’s nonsensical.
The same scenario seems to have engulfed Prime M inister Tsvangirai who is happy to father children with various women and dumps them. Like Americans, his funders, the MDC’s benchmark for democracy and liberty, Morgan sees no harm in denigrating our customary law.
He has no respect of the African customary values and ethos. It is taboo as it is unAfrican for a man to go out on holiday with his children in the company of his girlfriends. It is immoral for a man to introduce various women to his children which results in creating a bad culture of sexual behaviour in the siblings.
It is dangerous to glossy a foreign, alien culture for it brings with it turmoil and varying calamities. It was saddening to hear the PM talk about him being denied to marry by a legitimate court. To tell the people that the court does not give a man a wife sounds stupid and naïve. As an executive, the Premier knows that there are laws that govern marriages. True, the court does not give a man a wife, but for a marriage to be legal it is the court that determines that. To declare a marriage unlawful is not denying a man a wife, but is telling the man to live within the confines of the law.
It is the same reason why the Prime Minister had to engage a legion of lawyers to defend his criminality. His lawyers were not there to help him get a wife, but to help him in the interpretation of the law.
Mr PM, get your Marriage Act together and respect our customary law for you will be saved the embarrassment in court. It should be clearly noted that the Premier’s undermining of the law and his demise should never be seen as political. A fair minded person should rise to defend the breach of unhu/ubuntu by a premier who should be safeguarding such national ethos.
There is a long adage that says “mind your words for they become your actions, mind your actions for they become your habit, mind your habits for they become your character, mind your character for it becomes your way of life.”
The United States is happy to inflict pain on others, but it hurts most when the pain is thrown back to it.
Equally the same with our honourable PM who is being mentored by the murderous Americans and is happy to marry and divorce, but when the pain is thrown back at him through the courts, he is hurt to the extent of accusing opponents. Some quotas of the private media were also careless in blaming Zanu-PF and secret services for causing trouble for the PM.
Professor Ncube was right when he said Tsvangirai only takes advice from the last person he speaks to. To vindicate Ncube’s claim, Tsvangirai marries every last woman he courts.
Now after Macheka who is the next? The cheating on women is the same cheating Tsvangirai and the MDC-T are experienced on and known for which they will asymmetrically do to the electorate, be warned.
Hezvo zvabayaka zvanyatsoti dyuu! Hameno ndabuda ini!
- Panganai Kahuni is a political socio economic commentator.



