Tierno Bokar - Religious Tolerance

Religious Tolerance

Throughout the increasingly violent fighting, Bokar preached a message of religious tolerance and universal love.

I pray God that at the moment I die I have more enemies to whom I’ve done nothing than friends.”

—Tierno Bokar

The only struggle that really concerns me is the one that is aimed at our own weaknesses. This struggle, alas,

has nothing to do with the war that so many of Adam’s sons wage in the name of a God they claim to love deeply…

—Tierno Bokar

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