What strategy did West Nile Muslims employ to ameliorate the situation?
The solution came when towards the end of the 1980’s the returning …show more content…
Internally they wielded considerable having acquired education from the source. Secondly, it was through them that Arab donors channeled much of nonstate donations, aid, and grants for constructing schools, mosques and other social services. With this donor support hundreds of schools, mosques were set up on individual basis since there were constant divisions and wrangles at the top leadership of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council. Thus most of the projects were established without regulation from the top Muslim administration resulting in having many power centers with different sets of ideologies.
Perhaps the most significant Muslim movement with regards to inter-religious relations was the rise of youth-led Tabligh jamaat community headquartered at Nakasero and William Street Mosques and the Salaf movement. The leaders of the movement were mainly Muslims students from the Arab countries who sought to propagate Islam further and at the same time cleanse it from the impure forms of Islam that were believed to be practiced by ignorant or less educated