{"product_id":"9789987997657","title":"THE AUDACITY OF LOVE: I Married a Muslim \u0026 Discovered True Mohammedans: What Donald Trump Would Know Had he Married a Muslim","description":"It all began like a rising flower bud, nonetheless, a ROSE I would forever consider to be injurious rather than a blessing, had it not been for my audacity: THE AUDACITY OF LOVE!\u003cp\u003eHailing from, and raised in a third generation Christian family in Ngara and Karagwe, Tanzania, in the neighborhood where Muslims were few and far apart, I considered them-Muslims, their faith and traditions-as strange and unconventional!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy father, raised and educated at Rubya Seminary, a Christian school during the colonial Tanganyika, believed there was only one true religion-Christianity-and he passed the same mentality down. I believed him!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I went to a boarding secondary school, a school far from home, near the shores of the Lake Victoria at Kahororo, and later at Ihungo, in a cosmopolitan town of Bukoba! That's where my first shock registered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulticulturalism among tribes and religions was the standard-notwithstanding the fact that Christians still outnumbered Traditionalists, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindu, all put together, the latter of whom I had met for the first time!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrouble began when I went to the university-the University of Dar es salaam, located just a few miles from the shores separating Arabia and the rest of the country-the area wherein Muslims were majority! It didn't click in my mind that it was an important revelation yet-the lesson they ought to teach at the university!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI began working and made new friends among whom were Muslims. It still didn't change me much, or call my attention to such important details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, I met a beautiful girl, a girl who deserved nothing less than a hand in marriage! Trouble had begun!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy? This girl who had descended into my life was Muslim!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was shocked out of my mind! I regretted to have met her! I regretted to have fallen in love. Nothing could upgrade her Muslim background. I mournfully turned and fled, promising myself to stay away from her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI couldn't! The scandalous tragedy I had dreaded had materialized!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was not only because of her beauty that this nagging feeling persisted though? Nay! It was her character! That was truly a serious shock! How possible was that? May be she falsified her usual conduct to persuade me into marrying her? Not her character! No! I refused to believe it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI took the case to one of my most trusted friends-and he shocked me more than anyone else! He didn't laugh at me having fallen in love with a Muslim girl-a girl I had confessed I wanted to marry! Ordinarily, he should have ridiculed me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead: \"Who are you?\" he simply asked; well aware that I was-and still am-named Michael, and yes a Christian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's how I began wondering, like Jackie Chan, asking myself: \"Who am I?\" I also began questioning the meaning of religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, my eyes opened, and lo! I perceived that not all good people were Christians. I had so many well-cultured and kind Muslim friends too!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid I subsequently marry this lady? Oh dear! What would my parents say or do? Her family? How did all this inner revolution alter my attitude?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimply put, for first time in my mature life, I questioned my old-school-Christian mentality (the mentality every simple-minded believer of any religion upholds, i.e.):\"Anyone who doesn't believe in my religion is a pagan-or kafir,\"-call it anything! I was wrong!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen years down the line, I've finally stumbled upon the truth that, yes, all religions had problems native to the human nature-narcissism (ego or vanity), rashness, and arrogance-but in this case, I learned that Mohammedans, i.e. True Followers of Prophet Mohammed PBUH, (I repeat: True Followers of Prophet Mohammed PBUH) were indeed True Men of God, the same Maker who created the earth and heaven and all in between; the disposer of all affairs, the same God who crafted all of us-Christians, Muslims, Chwezi, Hindu, Buddhists, etc., White, Africans, Mexicans and Latino.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the point Donald Trump misses, the lesson he would have learnt, had he married a Muslim!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kambarangwe Institute of Leadership \u0026 Innovation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065801949424,"sku":"9789987997657","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789987997657_p0.jpg?v=1763696429","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789987997657","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}