The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rejected in very strong terms the purported ban on Hijab in the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, orientation camps.

The Director-General of the NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of “long hijab” by female corps members, citing security concerns.

But MURIC, in a statement by its director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said the ban is unacceptable to Muslims and accused the NYSC DG of Islamophobia.
“The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) rejects the purported ban. It is reckless, baseless and preposterous. No public officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should speak in such manner.
“The pronouncement smacks of power drunkenness. It is a hate statement. The Director General needs to purge himself of Islamophobia.
“On what ground is he banning the use of hijab? Security reason is not enough because we have examples of armed robbers using police uniforms to rob.
“Has anyone thought of banning police uniform? About forty armed robbers dressed in army uniform attacked six banks in Agbara, Ogun State last week. They killed a policeman and a pregnant woman. Should we ban army uniform because of that?
“Brigadier General Johnson and his ilk are hiding under the security challenge facing Nigeria to implement a hidden agenda, namely, to stigmatise Muslims and to embarrass our daughters and wives who wear hijab.
“Is General Johnson aware that female Muslims in the British police use hijab on top of their uniform? Can he tell us how the hijab disturbs a corper’s uniform?
“Does the DG know that hijab is an integral, nay, the most vital part of a female Muslim’s dress? Does he know that female Muslim corpers feel as if they are unclad when disallowed from using the hijab? Is he aware of the psychological trauma such female Muslim corpers go through?
“How can we spend a lifetime training our daughters to dress decently and you dehumanize them in your camp within 24 hours? How dare you?
“We affirm that we will use every constitutional means to stop this religious apartheid against Muslims in the name of discipline and regimentation.
“Why must Muslims face persecution everywhere in Nigeria? Why can’t the Nigerian system accommodate and integrate the Islamic culture? Why can’t Nigerian officials allow Islamic landmarks to stand pari passu with British colonial and Christian culture?
“Is Nigeria truly independent or is it a banana republic created to serve only the interest of the British imperial masters? Must Muslims be forced to accept British Christian mode of dressing?
“We must ask who designed Nigeria’s school uniform? Who designed the army and police uniforms? Was it not the British? What is the religion of the British? Is every Nigerian in the same faith? So why can’t we allow the Muslims to retain their identity? Why can’t the Muslims enjoy religious freedom in this country?
“Why must Muslims be forced to dress like Christians? Why must Muslims be denied the dividends of democracy? Any policy that fails to carry us along is exclusive. Nigeria is for all of us. We reject an NYSC that promulgates anti-Muslim decrees.
“We remind the DG that he cannot turn Muslims in NYSC camps into slaves. This is not military rule. NYSC officials, including the DG will be acting ultra vires if they take actions which violate the laws of the land.
“Section 38 (i) & (ii) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees religious freedom. We seek the enforcement of this right.
“Yet the hypocrisy of the system has been exposed. Can the NYSC Director General explain why the NYSC allows female Muslim corpers in places like Kano and Sokoto to use the hijab while their counterparts in the South are harassed and intimidated?
“Why this double standard? Is the ban only meant for the South? Or is it further proof of the mythological ‘Northern-Muslim and Southern-Christian dichotomy’? It had better not be.
“We hope it will not get to a point when Nigerian Muslims will decide to opt out of the NYSC service year. Yes, we may have no other option than to ask our daughters to ignore an institution which targets them for ridicule, torment and persecution.
“MURIC charges the NYSC to revisit its rules. Any aspect of those rules which fails to respect the faith of Christians, Muslims or traditionalists should be expunged. Such rules are draconian and counter-productive. They only serve the interest of neo-imperialists.
“We appeal to the National Assembly to save Nigerian Muslims from annual embarrassment in NYSC camps. Our daughters are being derobed in public courtesy of a system that is blind to sociological realities, a system that has allowed itself to be enslaved by the culture of the colonial master.
“We call on the Director General of the NYSC to desist from precipitating a religious crisis of monumental proportion over the hijab saga. Nigeria has enough on its hands already. The DG should stop stirring the hornet’s nest.
“We insist that Nigerian Muslims cannot be intimidated. Nobody should test our will. Nigerian Muslims have the capacity to mobilize for peaceful protests in all NYSC camps across the country if the molestation of our daughters continue. Enough is enough.
“We did not bargain for an NYSC that has been hijacked by religious bigots and Muslim-haters!
“MURIC has a duty in loco parentis to cry out against the persecution of female Muslim corpers. They are our daughters and also our members. We charge all Islamic organizations in the country to rise to the occasion.
“We cry out to our mothers-in-Islam in the Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN), the Criterion and all other female Muslim organizations. It is taboo for a woman to ignore her child’s cry! Muslim women arise, the slave masters are dragging our daughters in the mud.
“We advise female Muslim corpers to continue to use their hijab. It is their Allah-given fundamental human right.
“We are keeping a tab on those unscrupulous elements who will snatch the hijab from the heads of our daughters or those power drunk officials who will expel them from NYSC camps.
“Perhaps the time has come to revisit the whole gamut of this NYSC affair”, Mr. Akintola said.


Source:www.informationng.com/2015/11/hijab-ban-in-nysc-camps-an-invitation-to-religious-crisis-of-monumental-proportion-muslim-rights-group.html

Okay

violent religion

Libya has banned the use of Hijab why not Nigeria. Moreover its not forever just for 21days

90% of the worlds conflict and unrest is caused by this so called radical islamist. NYSC DG in fact if its possible ban mosque and church in NYSC camp.






End Time Religion.

Y can't some of these pple be reasonable 4 once? Atleast dis is for their own and other corpers safety. Then wen dey are thru and comes back home u can put it back on dem.

Do u even know how some pple feel uncomfortable around pple puting on hijab. They view dem as security risk, rather than co-existing in harmony as one.

These people need to be sensitive to the security situation in the country. Why promote unnecessary security risk by putting on a hijab?? Female suicide bombers have been known to strap dynamite and bombs around their body, while concealing it under a hijab in order to cause havoc. Even in their uniforms, the female corpers still appear decent.

NYSC- is even supposed to offer some kind of para-military man o'war training. Do you know how clumsy it would be to carry out those exercises wearing a hijab?? Afterall, those female corpers and their parents knew that NYSC was compulsory before enrolling in it and they knew what the requirements of the uniform were. So why are they protesting, now??

Impressive arguments raised. Let's see how the DG counters.

This is serious!...you wanna see the true nature of a Nigerian, try messing with his religion.


But to be fair, the man gat quit some strong valid points there...I hate NYSC anyway, only the officials love it cos it enrich them

One Ibo guy bin talk say Ishaq akintola go shout for this matter on behalf of the fulani caliphate. Why are our yoruba muslims like this sef?

cc: revdesmondjuju

neolboy:
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rejected in very strong terms the purported ban on Hijab in the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, orientation camps.

The Director-General of the NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of “long hijab” by female corps members, citing security concerns.
But MURIC, in a statement by its director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said the ban is unacceptable to Muslims and accused the NYSC DG of Islamophobia.
“The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) rejects the purported ban. It is reckless, baseless and preposterous. No public officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should speak in such manner.
“The pronouncement smacks of power drunkenness. It is a hate statement. The Director General needs to purge himself of Islamophobia....

“Is General Johnson aware that female Muslims in the British police use hijab on top of their uniform? Can he tell us how the hijab disturbs a corper’s uniform?

Source:www.informationng.com/2015/11/hijab-ban-in-nysc-camps-an-invitation-to-religious-crisis-of-monumental-proportion-muslim-rights-group.html

What the Director-General of NYSC banned was the long ankle-length hijab. Why are these chaps getting it wrong?? Even in the British Met Police, it is forbidden to wear long, ankle-length hijabs covering the whole body. Only the short ones that cover the sides of the neck, is allowed. It is also the same for the female muslim police officers in the US.

Crocz:
This is serious!...you wanna see the true nature of a Nigerian, try messing with his religion.


But to be fair, the man gat quit some strong valid points there...I hate NYSC anyway, only the officials love it cos it enrich them

how would u feel if i a traditionist comes to camp with his red regalia, full of beads, and a tortoise because thats his religious identity?. We have a long way to go bro. I pray tribalism and religious intolerance wldnt divide this nation

CCsurplus007:


how would u feel if i a traditionist comes to camp with his red regalia, full of beads, and a tortoise because thats his religious identity?. We have a long way to go bro. I pray tribalism and religious intolerance wldnt divide this nation

Yeah...that's what I said, you gat a valid point too

We trying to finish the bad cake, somebody is still shaking off the crumbles into the plate.

Abeg, ban everything banable, we deal with the complain latter.

Was it not this man who made remarks abt the arabic symbols on naira notes.... Muslims are bunch of trouble makers and terrorists...

Islam always angry ...
. Oga abraham i salute o. . Madam sarah, big mama your advice is giving the world hicus pucus. . . Tuale oga ishmael your children are representing.

ISILAM IS A USELESS RELIGION.

Had to make sure this was in the right section, before one quote 'There is no ......' Is forcefully allocated to my profile.

These rantings are borne out of lack of knowledge of the rule. Like a poster above (laudate) has already explained, its the short hijab that's allowed and not the long one. Pls Muslims should explain this to others clearly, before some fanatics take it as a rallying cry for their usual mayhem, fighting God's battle.

Whoever awarded this Ishaq fellow a Phd not to talk of making him a Professor is a quack.

The NYSC only banned the long hijab and not the wearing of hijab.

My question to that Pseudo intellectual is does wearing a hijab by a woman make her a Muslim or does it invalidate her iman.

Secondly, is Senegal now a Christian country or Cameroun and Chad because they banned the wearing of hijab in its entirety

Thirdly, were did he read that Britain is a Christian country?. Anyway, he needs to write
this gibberish to rally his troops to oppose

WAIT AND SEE HOW BUHARI SACK THIS DG.

neolboy:
Libya has banned the use of Hijab why not Nigeria. Moreover its not forever just for 21days

Abi, o! Just 3 weeks.

indeed! this means that there's more to this hijab thing than really meet d eyes. well muslim corpers should serve in d north and west coz we dont want any bokoharam wanna be in d east. ndi ara

I think this is one of the reasons some people calls this country a zoo,the ban was very success in libya,a country in which islam is over 94% of its population but in nigeria where islam is not more than 54% of the population is finding it hard to ban hijab.

good move by NYSC.

Herald47:
I think this is one of the reasons some people calls this country a zoo,the ban was very success in libya,a country in which islam is over 94% of its population but in nigeria where islam is not more than 54% of the population is finding it hard to ban hijab.

Talking about banning is not even for a long time, its just for 3weeks, don't know y they kept on wailing

This Akintola guy is always shouting from the SW. I wonder why till today he has not moved to Borno or a sharia state. He is the holiest and most devout. Nothing wrong with short Hijab. Long Hijab should be banned everywhere in Nigeria. It is just unsafe for anyone to walk around covering their whole face and body with a sheet.

Can someone pls help us ship this akintola guy to the deserts of zamfara. We don't want animals like him odualand. He will destroy us when we get our independence from the lugardian cage (apologies to Afenifere).

during my service year in Niger state, the camp commandant banned the use of long hijab, after the last boko haram attacks in Niger state, the governor banned it in schools including teachers and visitors. so why are these guys ranting about? shame on them if they don't start the war to declare oduarewanistan before this year is over. useless people.

Bring it on, islamists!
As if they have not started the religious war already. Can it ever get worse than the barbaric acts we hear them commit on daily basis in the name of their Arabian god?

I don't discourse religion again, but any day I catch Muslim trespassing on my religion I will hack him.

How did that Akintoshitt got his Prof?

The idiatu deserves to be shot in the head. The bastard should keep his rotten mouth shot and stop causing confusion.

We are talking about security of lives and properties, the goat is talking about hijab.

Is hijab more important than life?

Some Yoruba people dey fall my hand, some idiots should stop talking.

I'm sick of religion brouhaha in this country, some religions should be scrapped. All they do is causing confusion. Nansense.