Dual Karnayn said:Sekhemu
Hmmm.....
This is a case of "Which comes first...the chicken or the egg?"
You are proposing that the Muslims/Christians stop seeing Africans who practice other religions as inferior and accept them as equals.
I agree with this, we are equals and shouldn't oppress one another.
BUT!
In reality, in order for Muslim/Christians, whites, Arabs, Chinese or anyone else to see you as an equal you have to be able to defend yourself and not be easily oppressed and taken advantage of.
You can't just say "I'm a man just like you...I'm equal...don't talk to me like that".
That's not enough to keep your woman from getting raped and your village burned down.
Chinese don't even profess to believe in God but both Christians AND Muslims hesitate to step to China.
Wonder why?
First you need to get the POWER...then you'll automatically get the RESPECT of being seen as an equal.
But few will automatically respect you on the strength.
First of all this is not about simply politics, this is about religion, and religious dialogue between religious leaders.
Your assessement of the article is a gross over-simplification of the problem.
and I repeat:
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Before any Muslim or Christian conquest of African states there was the common belief that ATR's were backwards and superstitious.
Moreover, how do you account for the fact that the same attitudes were held by Christians and Muslims toward ATR's, irrespective of their political and socio-economical status?
Christians and Muslims were constantly sparring with each other over who possessed the higher moral ground. Indeed both religions were often pre-occupied with missionary work to further a religious/economical agenda.