Kader Asmal attacks Christians

Rev K Meshoe MP (ACDP President)

Tuesday, 13 November 2001

Notice of Motion by African Christian Democratic Party President, Rev. Kenneth Meshoe in Parliament today:

1. Congratulates the Concerned Communities for Education for organising the peaceful march to Parliament this morning.
2. Commends all those Christian parents, leaders and young people who chose to use their constitutional right to demonstrate, to picket and to present petitions.
3. Notes with great concern another unjustified attack by the Education Minister, Prof. Kader Asmal on Concerned Christian parents he called fundamentalists.
4. Further notes that the same Professor Asmal viciously attacked an interdenominational gathering of Christians when they gathered at the Newlands Stadium for prayer and celebration and called them a ‘sectarian body’.
5. Notes that it was only after he was rebuked by Dr Allan Boesak in a letter from prison that he expressed regret for the intolerant remarks he made about people who chose to celebrate Human Rights Day differently.

Therefore:

Calls on Professor Asmal to stop his unnecessary and unjustified attacks on Christians who differ with him
Advises all Bible-believing Christians not to allow Professor Kader Asmal to intimidate them into silence.

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