EDITOR – The Berea Mail carried a story last week about a planned vigil to be held for the children who lost their lives in the bombing of Gaza, and the venue was to have been the Essenwood Craft Market.
There is a very large muslim community in the Musgrave area that frequent the Essenwood Craft Market who would have loved to attend, but were deeply disappointed because the vigil did not materialise at their favourite Saturday morning venue.
The vigil was the initiative of a student and academic who, as it happens, does not come from the muslim community, but as any ordinary member of society with a social conscience, she simply wished to highlight the concerns for the senseless loss of lives of innocent children caught up in the bombing of the place called Gaza that they live in.
Unfortunately, due to the extreme pressure brought to bear on her by lawyers acting for the Essenwood Craft Market, she felt too intimidated, and so the vigil did not materialise at that venue. How disappointing!
Ebrahim Moosa
Musgrave
