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President Museveni has applauded the Muslim community for achieving remarkable success in the respective fields of their faith and education sector.

Speaking at the inaugural Muslim Women Leaders Conference at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School on October 8, Museveni said he was happy with the simple efforts Muslim leaders have made, leading to long lasting results in communities.

“During Amin’s time, the people who were in charge had got money from Saudi-Arabia to build a mosque but had not done so. [Instead], they built a crooked structure which had a crooked tower. Now, the Muslim leaders kept telling me about the mosque until I talked to Muammar Gaddafi [former Libyan leader assassinated in 2011] and he agreed to build the mosque and the mosque is now here and the other structures that you heard the Mufti speaking about, the shops and so on,” Museveni observed.

“So, I am very happy that our simple efforts result into something permanent like this,” he added.

The idea of building the Gaddafi mosque, also knowns as the Uganda National Mosque, was embarked on [by former Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada] during the 1970s after the realisation that Anglican and Catholic communities had well established prayer homes compared to those in the Islamic faith.

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