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Tanzania: There mustn't be much going on at the moment, as the Sunday Observer has had to go out and ask a few people what they think of astrology to fill space. Having already dismissed those who think it superstious as extremists
, Patrick Kisembo seeks out some more reasonable views:
Hashim Madege of Kunduchi-Mtongani doubted whether astrology was acceptable in religious circles. In his view, astrology was a form of devil worship.
He also noted that the problem is that the practice is much carried in towns and cities but not in the villages.
He said the practice was bad because itkilledthe creative spirit of the believers, who surrendered their whole lives to stars.
But what do the astrologers think?
A popular astrologer, Sheikh Yahya Hussein, was reluctant to comment much on the subject when contacted by this reporter, arguing that it was an old debate dating back to the 1960s.
On why predictions differed from one astrology to another, he said thatThose (other astrologers) are small kidswith whom it was beneath his integrity to enter into an argument.
Astrology is controversial—Sunday Observer, 19th October 2003.
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