If you ask Muslim clerics like Sheikh Nooh Muzaata, he would say it is ridiculous not to allow Muslim clerics and businessmen to own guns just because they are Muslims.
The serial killers in Uganda currently are targeting Muslim businessmen and clerics and they have killed many Muslims when victims cannot fight back, which is so wrong in natural justice.
Muzaata says that the government or the inspector general of police, Lt. Gen. Kayihura is giving the criminals/serial killers a monopoly on the means of violence because ordinary citizens in Uganda are not allowed to hold guns.
The suspected serial killers have shot dead several Muslim business persons and sheikhs in Uganda including Sheikh Yunus and Sheikh Sekimpi.
But in Uganda the people the government allows to possess guns are soldiers, policemen and senior government supporters.
Uganda is also one of the countries in the world with real tragedies of gun ownership that the government may be afraid to run amok: they include accidental shootings, cross fires and crimes of passion, but Sheikh Muzaata says that if the government cannot protect Muslim leaders by providing them with enough security then it needs to allow them to protect themselves.
Muzaata says that if criminals are using guns to shoot at the Muslim clerics and businessmen then the attacked persons should be in position to shoot back at them. “No messing a chance if someone is shooting at the clerics, they should be in position to shoot back to protect themselves. Yes, an eye for an eye is not good as it means all of us will end up being blind, but it looks like the clerics have been left in the tigers den on their own- no protection at all,” he says.
