Samson’s Take: When religion threatens peace, sanity must prevail

But in a country where religious tensions can easily be ignited by the actions of a few, it took the swift, mature and statesmanlike leadership of the Chief Imam, together with Muslim and Christian leaders, to pull us back from the brink and preserve our cherished tradition of peaceful coexistence.

How did we arrive at a point where a police facility — a place where a person is held in custody, and which should be a sanctuary of law and order — becomes the scene of a physical assault, and where religious zeal so quickly threatens to fracture our national peace?” We must pause, take a deep breath and offer unreserved praise to the National Chief Imam, his leadership, and members of the clergy for intervening to douse what was fast becoming a dangerous fire.