* His statement is a blatantly racist comment that implies that it was others who imposed this service on native Fijians;
* Or is it that the Christian fundamentalists refuse to be railroaded into a multi-faith service?
* Look at the emotion at that event from ordinary people. And it was mostly native Fijians.
* And look at the comment of the British High Commissioner to Fiji, Melanie Hopkins, about how great it was: "Today’s commemoration was entirely appropriate and a solemn event as would be expected for the scale of the disaster that hit Fiji."
* Sitiveni Rabuka hasn’t changed at all. He just doesn’t accept the notion of a multi-cultural, multi-faith Fiji or the notion that we can develop new and more inclusive national commemorations at which everyone feels welcome;
* If the Methodist talatalas aren’t up the front and the prayers don’t end with “in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ”, Rabuka isn’t interested;
* You would think the Methodists and Rabuka would learn their lesson but it seems that the more things change in Fiji, the more they stay the same.
RABUKA (and Ro Kepa and the Opposition) refused to turn up at Albert Park for the prayer with the Winston victims, and yet the SODELPA leader had travelled all the way to Donald Trump's White House to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, formally known as the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. Through the years, many of the attendees mistakenly believe the event has been sponsored by the White House. In reality, the breakfast is organized by the shadowy and powerful Fellowship Foundation, an organization that was founded by pro-Nazis before World War II.
Rabuka couldn't pull himself up and join President Konrote in the prayer - not because he was not well but because it was a multi-cultural event
The Aussie senator was at the prayer event
Fijian people resilient, says Aussie Minister – The Multi-Faith National Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving was not only an event to commemorate the death and destruction brought about Tropical Cyclone Winston but to celebrate the resilience of Fijian people. Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells made the remarks yesterday. She was among diplomats, Government ministers, victims of Tropical Cyclone Winston, relatives of those killed and others present at the event at
Albert Park. Source: Fiji Times; The Australian media would have branded the Opposition as "mugs"
Their Excellencies met with the families of those that died
