We must learn from history
We are not all the same. I am not referring to religion, culture, ethnicity or caste etc. I am talking about intellectual, emotional and spiritual development. Oddly, many do not know this and also do not care as long as they can live a regular and peaceful life and watch TV and that is also okay.
Some of us are different and yearn for deeper truths. So we research and think about things to comprehend how the world works and how all this fits into the Creators overall plan. God the Creator is not limited to only using good people to do work, sometimes God uses bad people.
Example, for 40yrs Prophet Jeremiah warned the Israelites, if they did nor repent God would punish them. They did not listen and God send Nebuchadnezzar. He later tried to force idolatry on the Israelites and God punished him with 7yrs of madness until he submitted and accepted monotheism.
Fast forward and we find Hitler who set Europe on fire and was liable for the murder of 80 million.
Hitler ruined Europe and sapped their military strength. This limited colonialism and the suffering of non-whites globally. This gave chance to demand some freedom, human rights and dignity etc. that British and European colonialism had no intention of granting. Although most African’s and Arabs remain under the yoke of imperialism and criminal syndicates, it is a little better than colonialism.
Those unfamiliar with colonial practices must educate themselves with the brutal racism, economic exploitation and massive corruption and human rights violations. We may not consider Hitler a tool of God, but how else could the people of Asia, Arabia, Africa and Latin America free themselves from the brutality of racist exploitation without Hitler’s ironic racist madness towards other Europeans?
Moving forward again. Apartheid was a brutal system applied by cruel and willing participants.
After God helped ruin the Apartheid system and its handlers, the black majority was given chance to worship God, develop freedom, safety, security and dignity for all. Who could imagined that we merely exchanged one oppressor for another? Racist tyranny was replaced with criminal tyranny.
South Africans do not have safety or security and people live in fear since government tolerates crime and corruption etc. How else can we explain the annual 22000 murders and few convictions?
Soon God will send these fools to the dustbin of history as God did with all the other fools before.
The point is simple, when God the Creator creates opportunity for change it must lead to better things not worst things. Those in authority must ask themselves how they will explain to the Creator who gave opportunity for change. Authority has accountability and that comes sooner or later.
Cllr Yagyah Adams
Cape Muslim Congress