We live in a country where the Abrahamic interfaith harmony stands us apart from others where this attribute remains persistently out of reach.
Nigeria is a typical example of a country where mistrust defines the relationship between adherents of the two dominant faiths in Africa’s most populous country.
Guests to Ghana, especially Nigerians, do not fail to show their admiration for how interfaith harmony plays out here, especially at public functions where both Islamic and Christian prayers are said.
A few years ago, the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, celebrated his centenary birthday at Christ The King Church to underscore the interfaith harmony existing in Ghana. His contribution towards this feat is testament to his unwavering support for the prevalence of peace in Mother Ghana.
In some families, members of the two faiths live side by side jointly partaking in religious festivals; in others, intermarriages have sealed the bond already existing between Muslims and Christians. What a beautiful feature we have carved out for ourselves.
Those who seek to destroy this feature should be hooted at and humiliated so they would stop their evil ways.
Muslims who attended missionary schools and vice versa have a better understanding of both faiths and are unlikely to engage in divisive polemics; their comparative religious discussions are hinged upon knowledge and bereft of bigotry. Those who do otherwise are shallow-minded and would not stop at anything to carry on with this unnationalistic enterprise. Fortunately, those who think along this trajectory are few, and we on the other hand outnumber them.
They are driven by evil intentions and continue to fly the flag of religious bigotry and would not mind if that sets the country ablaze. They would fail and interfaith harmony will prevail.
God, the most high, could have created us to belong to the same creed, race and to speak a common language. He, however, decided to create us to belong to different ethnicities and even faiths.
We belong to different ethnicities so that we would know each other.
Victoria Duncan-Williams has entered the unattractive gutter of religious bigotry in a manner which has exposed her to public ridicule.
It was indeed unnecessary to say the things she said when Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was elected the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Victoria Duncan-Williams is not more intelligent than those who chose the man whose contributions to Ghana’s development are verifiable and of which she is a beneficiary.
Political leadership of a country goes beyond the myopic thinking of a person like Victoria Duncan-Williams. Fortunately, those who think like her are considered persons with low intellect and deserving of intemperate language, which we would rather avoid.