Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 26-03-2019
In the wake of the New Zealand mosque attacks, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation says South Africans should never believe they are immune from acts of terrorism.
The foundation was speaking during the Night of Solidarity against Islamophobia and hate in Mayfair on Monday.
Interfaith community leaders, civic leaders, activists and political leaders proclaimed messages of peace and in unity condemned the growing global trend of hate an Islamophobia.
Attacks at two mosques in Christ Church in New Zealand last Friday left 50 Muslim worshippers dead and sparked global revulsion.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the attack as one of New Zealand’s darkest days saying what happened is an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.
Speaking on behalf of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi says that while South Africans should appreciate the cultural and religious freedom and tolerance in the country, they should not take it for granted.
“We are not safe from white supremacists and far-right organisations and we must be aware in the recent times, supremacists who are not wanted in Europe, they are not allowed to live in their own countries, are living today in South Africa and providing paramilitary training to white South Africans against what they call white genocide. It’s happening in our own country.”
Vadi says the New Zealand mosque shooting by Brenton Tarrant should not be seen as an isolated terrorist tack by a lone wolf as he an essential cog in the global rise of the white supremacist and white nationalist’s movements that are growing across the world.
Watch the YouTube video of the Interfaith Meeting
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