People around the world were shocked to discover the deaths
of 147 Kenyan students in Garissa University, where heavily armed Islamic
terrorists entered the Garissa University, located in the outskirts of Garissa
in Kenya near Somalia, firing indiscriminately on unsuspecting university
students. In addition to the scores of dead students, 79 others were also
injured and only 500 students managed to escape unharmed. Al-shabab, a Somalia
based Islamic group, has taken responsibility for this calamitous and abhorrent
attack on innocent Kenyan students. This group was also behind the recent
Westgate shopping mall attack where 67 people were murdered.
Recent history has been fraught with abject horror and
gargantuan human rights violations at the hands of political Islam and
Islamists. Despite local governments, that of Kenya and Somalia, attempting to
ameliorate the growth of terrorism, groups such as Al-shabab have become even more
powerful and ruinous.
In the context of a world where humanity is driven to the
ground by the abject poverty imposed by the capitalism’s draconian standard of
living: groups such as Al-Shabab, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State emerge and are recruiting
from the scores of impoverished and illiterate rural populations. We, the
secular revolutionary humanists must become the spokespersons for the people of
Kenya and not the mullah apologist government of Kenya. We must militate
against Islamists and terrorists by recognizing that Islam, as a religion, is
both dangerous and inhuman. We must, as a civil society, fight against
narratives that occlude the reality of Islam and have us believe that there is
a “good” within a religion pillared on misogyny, child abuse and homophobia. During
such times we must assiduously protect and promote human rights and freedoms
and struggle for a society where only secularism, and not religion, is
hegemonic.
Communist Youth Organization
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