By Antony Mbandi- AMECEA Justice and Peace Department
In the last few months, darkness has filled the African continent. The latest incident has been the senseless killing of Ethiopian Coptic Christians in Egypt by Islamic extremists. This has been quickly followed by the Xenophobia attacks in South Africa.
We no longer can place logic to the brutal and obsessive nature of the ongoing killings of persons who their gravest mistake is to be meek and humble in the presence of their persecutors, and to be of a different religion, origin, tribe, race etc. Brothers and Sisters, we are equal in the eyes of the Lord and if we do his will we cannot segregate in our hearts.
It is time we rose up as one and acted against such killings. If we do not act now, we are providing a fertile breeding ground for mass religious genocide. We seem to have forgotten only too soon what happened in Bosnia. We seem to forget only too soon what happened with the killing of millions of Jews. We cannot continue burying our heads in the sand and assume this will go away.
Africa has to rise up and speak in one voice on the need to be tolerant with herself.
No man should die through beheading or burning for whatever reason. Let us seek the light and turn away from this darkness engulfing Africa.