Uganda: Libyan leader inaugurates mosque in Uganda

(SomaliNet) In bid to spread Islam through Africa, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi inaugurated a huge new mosque in Uganda, a predominantly Christian country on Wednesday.

Several African heads of states attended the occasion and scores of Arab journalists flown in Uganda for the same.
Packed in Ugandan capital Kampala\'s soccer stadium, a crowd estimated at 10,000 to 15,000 chanted \"long live Brother Gadhafi\" before the Libyan leader delivered an hour-long lecture on the meaning of Islam.

Gadhafi, who celebrates the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad a day earlier than most Sunni Muslims, had chosen the religious holiday to inaugurate the huge new Gadhafi National Mosque, which is touted by Libyan officials as Africa\'s second-largest.

\"Muhammad is everybody\'s prophet. He was sent to all mankind, unlike the other prophets before him,\" Gadhafi told the rally, which included brass-bands and neatly uniformed schoolchildren, who waived Gadhafi posters along with organizers of the \"World Islamic Call Society\" — all wearing T-shirts of the Libyan leader.

A half dozen African heads of state, including Kenya\'s Mwai Kibaki, Gabon\'s Omar Bongo and Rwanda\'s Paul Kagame, joined Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to greet the Libyan leader, who was the driving force behind creation of the African Union and wields considerable influence both with African .-Associated Press