How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
Sadly, there are many Christians in this country who tend to blame the Muslim community collectively for what a handful of persons are doing, yet their actions are not Islamic or Quran-based. Why do these Christians keep on forgetting that Muslims suffer equally like Christians from terrorist bombs and bullets? Do terrorist grenades thrown into a matatu select Christian targets only and spare Muslims? What religion is Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan who survived a terrorist grenade attack on December 7, 2012, but a small child who was nearby – also a Muslim – was blown to pieces. We as Muslims never blamed Kenyan Christians when 80 Somalis were massacred at Wagalla in Wajir County by the Moi regime in 1980. Was the burning of 35 worshippers at Kiambaa Church in Eldoret seen in a Christian context? The Alshabaab that has killed a few hundred Kenyans in Kenya killed thousands of Somalis in their country Somalia. More Muslims have been killed by Christians globally than Christians were killed by Muslims. According to the British Guardian newspaper, as many as 20,000 Afghan civilians were killed in 2001 by US airstrikes and ground invasion. In December, 2006, a tearful Afghan President Hamid Karzai lamented that Afghan children were being maimed and killed by NATO, US and terrorism. According to the Iraqi Body Count Project, there were 112,667-123,284 civilian deaths, and 174,000 civilian and combatant deaths in Iraq between March, 2003-March, 2013. A report released February 27, this year by Amnesty International titled “Trigger-happy Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank,” said Israeli forces displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians including children in the occupied West Bank in the past three years with impunity.” When Christians therefore blame the whole Muslim community in Kenya for the murderous actions of a few misguided elements, should we then blame the Christian world for the slaughter of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel? By the way, MUHURI in Mombasa is still waiting for the police to disclose the names of the two persons police claimed were killed by them for the Likoni church attack. MUHURI has said the information they have is one of them has a Christian name and the other is yet to be established. So why is this important detail being withheld from the public domain? By Mohamed Warsame (Canadian Citizen)
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