{"id":43031,"date":"2023-03-25T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/zambia-insulation-of-politics-from-religion"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:55:18","slug":"zambia-insulation-of-politics-from-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/zambia-insulation-of-politics-from-religion","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Insulation of Politics from Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Upon reading a news article in Lusaka Times about brother Dr. Dan Pule\u2019s official announcement of his candidature for the 2026 Presidential and General Elections on the Christian Democratic Party\u2019s platform, I am prompted to explain the need to keep region out of politics in this article.<\/p>\n

Freedom of worship, as well as the choice of one\u2019s religion, is one of the basic individual rights which every government needs to formally recog\u00adnize and safe\u00adguard. However, there is an apparent need for cou\u00adntries which have a diver\u00adsity of religious denomina\u00adtions particularly to intro\u00adduce laws designed to keep religion out of political and public affairs.<\/p>\n

The religious conflicts currently irking Nigeria, for example, where religion, apart from ethnicity, is the most explosive issue in the country\u2019s political arena, should underscore the necessity of such pieces of legislation. Daniel E. Agbiboa and Andrew E. Okem have succinctly described the predicament facing the country in the following words:<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria is usually characterized as a deeply divided state in which major political issues are vigorously and even violently contested along complex ethnic, religious, and regional lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The laws should, among other things, ban religious activities and programs which have the potential to indoctrinate credu\u00adlous memb\u00aders of society. Obviously, this does not imply that religious denomina\u00adtions in any given country should not free\u00adly advocate their values, be\u00adliefs and causes as interest groups. In a truly democratic society, any and all societal groups should have a right to seek to be heard in governmen\u00adtal decision making, and to articulate their demands on the govern\u00adment and society\u2019s other groups and institutions.<\/p>\n

The rationale for pieces of legislation designed to keep religion out of politics, educa\u00adtion, and other public spheres of society that wholly or partly fall under the auspices of any given country\u2019s gov\u00adern\u00adment is to forestall the potential disruption of public order and socioeconomic activities by cliques of fanatics from any of the country\u2019s reli\u00adgious denomina\u00adtions.<\/p>\n

Such legislation is particular\u00adly criti\u00adcal for countries where efforts by national and local govern\u00adments to break the bondage of the majority of indigenous people to misery, want and destitution has been thwar\u00adted partly by violent clashes among religious sects.<\/p>\n

Specifically, there is a need for a country\u2019s legislative organ of government to seriously consider the prospect of DISCOURAGING or PROSCRIBING the following in a deliberate attempt to forestall the potential disruption of public order and socioeconomic activities by overzealous and chauvinistic religious leaders:<\/p>\n

(a) The use of public funds by a local or the national government to set up a Church, Mosque, a Synagogue, or any other house of worship, and\/or to provide any form of support to any given religious group, institution or activity;<\/p>\n

(b) Official participation by government leaders in the affairs of any given religious group or institution, or official participation by any given religious leader or group in political or governmental affairs;<\/p>\n

(c) The use of a religious platform by any individual or group of individuals to form a political party or alliance;<\/p>\n

(d) The use of a religious platform by any individual to seek a leadership position in any of the three branches of government\u2014that is, the legislature, the judiciary or the executive;<\/p>\n

(e) Inclusion of denominational religious subjects in the curricula of schools funded by the government, except studies relating to world religions without delving into the content of their sacred books;<\/p>\n

(f) Subjection of candidates for election or appointment to public office to a religious test expressly or otherwise requiring them to declare their religious affiliations;<\/p>\n

(g) Desecration of any religious symbols or objects by any member or members of society;<\/p>\n

(h) Religious sermons or statements by any individual or group of individuals belonging to any given religious grouping or denomination which are contemptuous to, or are designed to slight, other religious groupings or denominations, and which can ultimately lead to what may be referred to as \u201creligious chauvinism\u201d; and<\/p>\n

(i) Conducting of religious sermons or ceremonies involving ten or more people in non-religious public arenas without a police permit, or conducting such activities on public modes of transportation which are not chartered by groups involved.<\/p>\n

Some of these safeguards would, of course, need the legislature to prescribe the nature or kinds of punishment that would be meted out to convicted violators.<\/p>\n

With the foregoing kinds of safeguards, a government does not need to place any restrictions on the construction of Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, Temples, or any other houses of worship, or have restraints on the expansion of any religious denomination.<\/p>\n

In countries where government leaders have not provided for these kinds of safe\u00adguards mainly due to lack of foresight, violent clashes among religious groups in their quest to dominate the poli\u00adtical sphere, and to impose their religious laws on the citizenry, have become exceedingly difficult to contain.<\/p>\n

The precarious problem currently facing Algeria, Nigeria, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and a host of other countries around the world which are belea\u00adguered by religi\u00adous conflicts should serve as a clear warning to all peace-loving citizens of any given country to refrain from crea\u00adting a simi\u00adlar situa\u00adtion that is likely to dog their beloved countries in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

These countries are experiencing recurring incidents of religion-based conflicts\u2014conflicts which have occasionally culminated in violent clashes between and\/or among religious groups in their quest to dominate the political sphere and\/or impose their religious laws on the citizenry.<\/p>\n

As it is often said, prevention is better than cure! Malaysia\u2019s Mahathir Mohammad summed up the perilous nat\u00adure of religi\u00adous conf\u00adlicts in his address to the World Evangeli\u00adcal Fellow\u00adship in May 2001 in the following words: \u201cOnce started, reli\u00adgious … [conflicts have] a tenden\u00adcy to go on and on, [and] to become permanent feuds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Registrar of Societies should not have registered the Christian Democratic Party because Article 60 of the Constitution of Zambia (Amendment), Number 2 of 2016, Clauses 2 and 3 prohibits the formation of such parties in the following words: \u201cA Political Party Shall NOT\u2014(a) Be founded on a religious, linguistic, racial, ethnic, tribal, gender, sectoral, or provincial basis, or engage in any kind of propaganda that would be deemed to be based on any of these factors ….\u201d<\/p>\n

At this juncture, one would do well to advise Dr. Pule and his inner circle to seriously consider the prospect of briskly re-registering their political party by removing the \u201cChristian\u201d part of the political party\u2019s name. As a responsible, patriotic and peace-loving citizen of our Motherland, Dr. Pule will do well to promptly take this piece of advice seriously.<\/p>\n

The removal of the \u201cChristian\u201d part of the party\u2019s name should be done briskly in order for our beloved country to circumvent the potential for those who believe in Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Jainism, or the Baha\u2019i faith to use the existence of the Christian Democratic Party as an invitation to establish religion-based political parties.<\/p>\n

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