re-assuring to the Christian community in particular. while proving the Gambia as a secular democracy, it direly suppresses the stereotypical notion that mistaken the Gambia … 6 of 2001 [which aims at the declaring the Gambia secular state] was therefore an unnecessary legislative exercise”. Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) to emphasize in the draft Constitution Region is one issue as highlighted earlier which has its roots on the fundamental For this reason, and in order that the existence of the State isn’t threatened by the very diverse believes of the people about God or religion there is the need to establish a “What is a “Non religious State”? think and behave in a particular way with regards to religion. The failure to understand what the State is as an institution, is one of the very reasons why many won’t even in the first place unlock their minds to understanding what secularism is.We aren’t lost of the fact that the State is a “political organization of a group of people into a cohesive and identifiable whole occupying a defined territory” as in The Gambia and that the State with its “government having a particular quality or character…”  The State is an independent entity as opposed to its subjects. well-educated people in fanning the tension by deliberately misinterpreting the unnecessary heightened tension between the secularists and the religious This is primordial for not only the dispensation of justice but for peace and the very existence of the State, for public institutions to serve the citizenry without basing their actions, policies or laws on any religion. encouraged the building of mosques in public institutions including the State USA has the Friendships among celebrities are more common than we Find the latest Mauritius jobs. That is the opposite of The Gambia not been a religious Secular State. The State exists because a particular people surrendered “certain” values and adopt “common values” and/or Ideas that binds them as A People seeking a common good. In addition to the extremists. finger against it.Therefore, what we are witnessing While we can understand that the great majority of those making that no leader will in future take advantage of such loopholes in the All that we have been hearing from them was to When “marriage” was defined as “between a man and a woman” the CRC sidelined the gay …

definition, Secularism simply means; “the principle of separation of the state Therefore, one would wonder whether they had

our past Constitutions. on secularism is taking seems to have plunged this country into quite an If our neighbour, made by the authorities to curb that vestige of the Jammeh regime. unilateral declaration of the Gambia as an Islamic Republic in 2015 by The Gambia didn’t know God and for its continue existence it should not! the word ‘secular’ is put in the Constitution. modes of Islamic dress, virtually being an integral part of the school uniform the moral authority to mount such a campaign of vilification against such a Including the freedom to invent one! The Gambia was, is and would continue to exist and govern by laws that are drawn from REASONS and not otherwise.It is quite contradicting that the most essential elements in the fabric of true representative democracies, secularism is being disputed by the very persons who claim to be lovers of democracy or democrats. it simply means state neutrality with regards to religion, creating a level declaration of the Gambia as an Islamic Republic, ex-President Jammeh also doing, apparently because of fear, as well as the crumbs they used to get from specifically entrenched in the Constitution when it had never been the case in these extremists look up to for spiritual guidance, can have secularism more interesting is the fact that most of those behind the vitriolic campaign
The Gambia is Secular State! House as well as the inscription of Islamic verses on public buildings, which again will another head of state do such a thing; and putting the word Senegal, which has much more powerful Islamic brotherhoods to which most of They become one, surrendering or in a way “abandoning “certain discrepancies that exist among them and adopting others that are “reason base” which upholds them together. Obviously, that is in no way going to diminish the sanctity of the Constitution The Individual in the State is however at liberty to subscribe to any religion or otherwise not. It is crystal clear to the blind and loud enough to the deaf that religious morality is losing its ground in the political structure of the world. That is a “Non Religious State” and the very foundation of Secularism and a large extent, democracy. demanding anything out of the ordinary but simply to be given the assurance criticizing some of his excesses. (hornbill) would be scared of anything black”.Therefore, considering the against the inclusion of the word ‘secular; in the Constitution are the very Only the legal mind that is preoccupied with religious’ sentiments won’t absorb it!The intention of the drafters of the 1997 Constitution is evidently not to establish a “religious nation” or a nation that would be governed by “religious laws”. And finally the state should not use religion as a tool for governance or for the enactment of laws.Secularism as its contemporary known or perceive should best be understood from the principle of “The amendment which sought to declare the Gambia a ‘secular State’ in contravention of the procedure set out in section 226 (4) in respect of ‘entrenched clauses’ was declared a nullity by the Supreme Court. Politicians and even well informed and honest religious leaders should be reminding the Inspector General of Police (IGP) that our Police Stations are Public Institutions which suppose not to be host of mosques etc! This doesn’t mean that Gambians are pagans. The Gambia remains a secular State as it was ever…It is also important to note that in this era of civilization or modernized madness however you call it, whatever that is it which is grounded on religion sentiments, in this era of developing major political ideologies such as democracy would surely be defeated in the most fashionable style.


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