Africa’s King of Kings is Back, no Rabbi Botech in Uganda………………..
“Six months after reluctantly handing over the African Union presidency, Libya's maverick leader Moamer Gathafi has tried once again to stamp his authority and his petrodollars on the body's agenda. The first phase of his attempted reconquest at this week's AU summit in Kampala was the now predictable Gathafi roadshow, comprised of a retinue of traditional kings as well as young supporters plastering the city with posters of the leader and lining the roads with welcome banners. "We came to meet the great leader, a leader who initiated the African Union," Sheikh Harun Ssengooba, a Ugandan representative of the Union of Muslim Councils for Eastern and Southern Africa said. Ushered in with flags whose green colour owed more to the Libyan revolution than AU livery, Gathafi was then flanked at the opening ceremony by some of the colourful tribal leaders who crowned him "King of Kings of Africa" in 2008. The notoriously extravagant leader was alone of the more than 30 heads of state staying at the Speke Munyonyo resort outside Kampala to have a tent set up on the grounds and a private entrance to the hotel…..…”
It is a good thing the good orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Botech of New York doesn't live in Uganda: he’d have an infarct just as he almost did when Qadhafi set up his tent across from Manhattan last year, complete with his female guards.
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