So the reverend and the imam are talking together on the phone, linked up in a BBC interview.
They know better than most the enormous gulf that lies between the Muslim and Christian communities in Kaduna.
In their younger days, they led opposing militia groups during the sectarian violence that engulfed the region in the 1990s.
Today they are peacemakers bridging that same divide and are more aware than anyone of the dangers posed by the latest eruption of violence across the north.
Some of us are fully aware of the enormous sentiments that some believers have of their faith, it is rather unfortunate that some vile elements would take undue advantage of this psychology to brew violence in order to make political statements. What! at the expense of human lives. what ever happened to the tenets of peace, love, mutual co-existence and tolerance for our fellow men. i am a Christian and strongly believe that there are a lot of my Muslim brothers out there who would give an arm, a leg even lay down their lives for my sake and likewise i for the sake of love, because both Mohamed (Prophet) and our Lord Jesus Christ preached same doctrines. where is it written in the Bible or Qur'an that blood be shed when our supported candidate do not win an election. Let us act wisely.
ReplyDeleteGreg Chukwueme