…Condemn the act of desecrating symbols of other faithful in the name of jubilation as irresponsible, immoral, irreligious but prone to instigating violent…
The Periscope Global
Kachia is a metaphor for unity, love, peace patience, perseverance and mutual coexistence as defined by the spirit of sacrifice associated with the Eid-El-Mubarak, where “Christian faithfuls, in their good numbers joined the Muslims to clear the weeds at prayer ground in preparation for the Eid prayer on Wednesday.
The show of love, confidence, unity in diversity, recognition of the other rather than living in mutual suspension and antagonism have been going on since in Kachia such that it is intolerable for the merchants of ethno-religious divide with conflict as dividends to pitch their tents.
Liberty TV Kaduna has earlier spectacularly captured the metaphoric unity, where those participating in the trimming of grasses preparatory to Eid prayer said it has been the practice since.
Similarly, responding to the Periscope Global, the youths in Kachia, rather than being reduced to militia for disintegration, acknowledged that the Muslim youth do give protection to worship places other than Mosques and the Christians do the same in times of perceived violence. “We’re being our brothers’ keepers devoid of hypocrisy”.
Some of the youths disclosed that the spirit of love and mutual coexistence extended even to intermarriage between the professed faiths, without considering the other as cockroaches for kill, typical of pre Kagame’s Rwanda.
The youth said it is intolerable for any person professing a different faith to desecrate the symbols of other faith intended to mock or to cause violence in Kachia.
The Adamawa state example in which Muslims prayer carpets, kettle for ablution, himar = the Muslim women veil – and prayer beads were burned to ashes in the name of jubilation, was disgusting. There was nothing beauty in the land that would not tolerate mutual coexistence and the politics would be played ugly along religious divide.
According to Wikipedia, “Kachia is a Local Government Area in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kachia. It has an area of 4,570 km² and a population of 252,568 in the 2006 census”.