*Muslims cannot be subjected to Christain common law-Prof Isiaq Akintola*
The founder of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Prof Ishaq Akintola, says the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, is right on his call for constitutional amendment to accommodate some peculiarities of Sharia law “which have been ignored for so long”.
In this piece, Akintola expresses support for Muhammad, saying the current Constitution is a child of British colonial Christianisation of the country which had failed to take into consideration the multi-religious nature of the Nigerian nation.
Excerpts:
The CJN has our full backing on this. The British colonial government bequeathed a legacy of Christianisation to the Nigerian nation.
Muslims were not comfortable with it but the British did not listen. The British did not give a damn.
Northern Muslims resisted and the British invaded the North.
Muslim resistance was brutally broken by the ruthless massacre of thousands of Muslim freedom fighters in Hausaland, particularly in Burmi (1903), Satiru (1906) and Zinder (1917).
Even those who surrounded were not spared as they were mowed down with machine guns. Thereafter, the British victors curtailed Islamic landmarks.
Islam had arrived in Karnem Borno in the year 1085 (818 years before the invasion of the North by the British) during the reign of King Humi Jilmi while Christianity was first preached in 1842 (757 years after the advent of Islam) under the Agacia tree in Badagry.
As far as we are concerned, therefore, the British who brought Christianity to Nigeria spread their religion by force after invading the North, after intimidating the South West and after subduing the Muslims who had been practicing their faith for more than 800 years.
They used excessive force against Muslims and carried out barbaric and extra-judicial killings.
The bombardment of Lagos in 1851 by Commodore Captain R. W. Bruce during the ‘Boiling Battle’ (Ogun Ahoyaya) and the subsequent surrender of the city was the first operation ‘shock and awe’ designed to cow southerners.
It was equally intended to send a strong message to the North. The booming of cannon shells and other bombs was hitherto unknown to the city.
Lagos quickly put its tail between its legs like a frightened dog and other cities in the South-West took the cue.
It was a fait accompli.
The Muslim population cautioned its membership against courting the ire of the colonial masters.
This surrender paved the way for the creation of the Lagos Colony ten years later (1861).
From then onwards, the city of Lagos which, by 1775 had more than fifty Islamic schools, opened the floodgate to the intimidation and coercion of Muslim children in colonial schools.
This persecution has lasted to date.
Ruthless conversion
We have gone down the lanes of history because today was born from the wombs of yesterday. Muslims in Yorubaland put up no armed resistance to colonial invasion and forceful conversion whereas northern Muslims died in their thousands resisting colonial invasion.
This resulted in the bold and ruthless conversion of Muslims to Christianity in the South-West whereas the colonialists exercised caution in their dealing with Northern Muslims.
This situation also informed British adoption of indirect rule in the North. Nobody should ask us to forget the history of Nigerian Muslims.
Brutalisation of Muslims by the British marauders is part of our history just as the forceful abandonment of Islamic landmarks as ordered by the British Christian evangelists.
It was after the British had killed all Muslims who resisted their occupation of northern Nigeria and after they had imposed restrictions on the Shariah that they established a Christian-oriented administration.
Western education through which thousands of Muslims were forcefully converted was also introduced to replace Islamic education which was already popular before the arrival of the British.
This was the situation until Nigeria obtained independence in 1960 and Muslims continued to bear the brunt of subjection to a Christian-oriented system. Unfortunately successive regimes in post-independence Nigeria have failed to review the system after the exit of the British in spite of repeated demands.
As a result of this, the Muslims remain unintegrated, unaccommodated and displeased.
Without attempting to justify violent uprisings, it is our contention that this lop-sidedness is partly responsible for the interreligious clashes which Nigeria has experienced to date, including, of course, Boko Haram insurgency.
The system we run in this country is not only alien to Muslim culture, it has also marginalised the Muslim population.
Our democracy is deceptive in as much as Muslims who form the largest segment of the population are not integrated into the system.
Participatory democracy is the global best practice. But not in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s democracy excludes Muslims. Our weekends shut Muslims out.
It is the entire monopoly of Christians.
Saturday and Sunday are free but Friday is not.
The Muslim girl-child goes to school with tears in her eyes because she must not enter the school with hijab on her head.
There is no single Sharia Appeal Court in the entire South-West and Muslims in that sub-region are subjected to Christian common law in all civil matters. Muslim marriages conducted inside mosques are not recognised but those held in churches are sacrosanct. This democracy is fraudulent.
Monopoly
Christian women enjoy the monopoly of recruitment into the army, navy, police, civil defense, traffic wardens, immigration, customs, etc but Muslim women cannot because those uniformed agencies will not recruit users of hijab.
Yet Muslim police women and soldiers use hijab in Britain, United States, Ireland, etc.
Female Muslim graduates therefore remain jobless and impoverished while their Christian counterparts smile to the banks.
Yet it was not so ab initio. It was the British Christian colonialists who changed the system to favour Christians only.
This is not good enough and we need to sit down like neighbours to renegotiate our nationhood. It is always better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.
If we all condemn the Boko Haram style, what alternative have we put forward?
MURIC therefore embraces the CJN’s idea of the need for constitutional amendment.
It is even belated.
It is part of restructuring. We hope the restructuring camp will welcome the CJN’s idea because it is not going to be about Muslim demands alone but a comprehensive one.
We call for objectivity in this matter.
Those who always oppose anything which is likely to benefit Muslims are urged to consider this initiative with an open mind.
Constitutional amendment has all the potentials to usher in peace and tranquillity if we approach it with sincerity.

Yes, that's right. But Christians too can't be subjected to Shariah law

Do Christians have Christian court?
Do they force or kill people to join them?

Which one be Christain law?

If you want a religious restructure then all religion Muslims, Christians, traditionalists and others should be on the discussion table. This is how useful religion think.

In the meantime strictly keep your wanton religion to your Muslim fellows, sharia them.

Some of us are not never interested in Sha, ria shit.

Referendum now...

How about the Christians being subjected to Sharia law in North?

Akintola, professor of recklessness

You always prove me wrong, i was worried what happen to you:cos of late we have not seen your islamic write up.
Continue with your nonsense gibberish.

90% of this write up are lies after lies to cause friction.
Those British war or expeditions as they are called were all commercial in intent and never religious.
Again no church wedding is sacrosanct, same as nikkah, we must all go to court/registry to legalise whatever union you have done in a religious house.
The constitution left by the British was as Secular as it could be, putting all christian, islam and african-traditional religions in check as much as possible

Prof ishaq Akintola is a liar, a quasi-terrorist and a fermenter of religious violence and misunderstanding.
Dont ever listen to him. We are all Nigerians first with no Islamic, Christian or African-traditional religion bias.

If religion is more important to you people than one Nigeria, then stay the fvck alone and call for a referendum.

Ishiaki Akintola needs to be stripped off his Professor title and make to start primary school.

He's a disgrace to everything he represents

Akintola again.
What do these guys really want..
They should come out open.

macIB:
90% of this write up are lies after lies to cause friction.
Those British war or expeditions as they are called were all commercial in intent and never religious.
Again no church wedding is sacrosanct, same as nikkah, we must all go to court/registry to legalise whatever union you have done in a religious house.
The constitution left by the British was as Secular as it could be, putting all christian, islam and african-traditional religions in check as much as possible

Prof ishaq Akintola is a liar, a quasi-terrorist and a fermenter of religious violence and misunderstanding.
Dont ever listen to him. We are all Nigerians first with no Islamic, Christian or African-traditional religion bias.

on a good day under a good govt this idiot should have been arrested

Every time this professor Akintola speaks, you begin to imagine how her got the title in the first place.
Muric is filled with bigotry and highly violent.
Always looking for trouble, always talking trash.

What a period to be Nigerian....I hope the sharia thing flies tru.....so I can submit it as a valid reason to apply for asylum in the US or Canada




...... this country just tire me....

Skkkoo

Mr mumuric akintola, why not support peaceful division of Nigeria so that Muslims in the north and west can practice their religion undisturbed



Or at worst tell your CJN and Cowardly Tyrant to restructure Nigeria into regional government with each region; Southeast, Southwest, Southsouth, Northeast, Northwest, Northcentral having their own unique constitution that suits majority of their regional citizens or people


We know that you Ishak Akintola will breed the next generation of Yoruba Muslim terrorists, but before you do, let us peacefully divide Nigeria so that we can from across the border be watching you and your Yoruba Muslim terrorists you are training blow Yoruba land to ashes since Yorubas have remained silent as you train your new generation Yoruba Muslim terrorists

Western education through which thousands of Muslims were forcefully converted...why does this sound like "western education is haram"?

Let divided this union call Nigeria so that akintola can practice his religion fully with the caliphate

It is time this country gets divided. When a Sharia judge becomes the Chief Justice of the Federation, he cannot interpret the Nigerian law,hence he needs Sharia law to carry out his duty. He can do that in a Islamic Republic.

Is it not too early for this bikonu?

The idiocy and stupidity of this caliphate wannabe MURIC terrorist man is now sickening.How on earth did the SW bred such a man.Even the core northern Nigeria muslims elements are not as senseless as this glorified mumu.Can the NASS commence the process to divide this hellhole of a country?

Kingspin:
Do Christians have Christian court? Do they force or kill people to join them? Which one be Christain law?

You want a religious restructure then all religion Muslims, Christians, traditionalists and others should be on the discussion table. This is how useful religion think.
In the meantime strictly keep your wanton religion to your Muslim fellows, sharia them.Some of us are not never interested in Sha, ria shit.[b]Referendum now.

Well said bro.Enough is enough of this idiocy.

Nothing good comes out of mixing religion with running a country, always hatred and division among people.

This man na idiot! LengendHer0 u see people wey dey give yoruba bad name ko?

People like MURIC know the amount of unbaked youths in Nigeria, the idea is to make muslims the victims here. That is the whole idea of terrorism, now the enemy like Bokoharam is western law.

macIB:
90% of this write up are lies after lies to cause friction.
Those British war or expeditions as they are called were all commercial in intent and never religious.
Again no church wedding is sacrosanct, same as nikkah, we must all go to court/registry to legalise whatever union you have done in a religious house.
The constitution left by the British was as Secular as it could be, putting all christian, islam and african-traditional religions in check as much as possible

Prof ishaq Akintola is a liar, a quasi-terrorist and a fermenter of religious violence and misunderstanding.
Dont ever listen to him. We are all Nigerians first with no Islamic, Christian or African-traditional religion bias.

Instead of thinking and debating on how to move the nation forward at this critical time of its life, this so called professor and CJN are rather preoccupied and blinded chasing shadows of religion.

Have you listened to Shiekh Gumi recently, that's someone who understands and thinks wisely for the progress of Nigeria.

Lol, look at them. I keep saying it that this country would never develop even in 100 years time, no matter the resources at its disposal. How can one country have such huge number of imbe.cile.s and id.oits running its affairs and you still expect progress?? We are the world's poverty capital for a reason!! We have two of the world's most deadly terrorist groups for a reason!! We are headed for catastrophy for a reason!!!

His Professor title is subject to questioning.

helinues:
How about the Christians being subjected to Sharia law in North?

Akintola, professor of recklessness

He need to be send to THIS CHINESE MUSLIMS DETAIN CENTER! That's where stubborn Muslims like him are kept!

Christians will also not be yorked under islamic sharia law.
Thank God buhari's regime plan to impose sharia all over Nigeria is beginning to open eyes to the scam of ''One Nigeria.''
Nigerian muslims are free to create their own islamic republic where they can practice total sharia law.

We can divide the country now you can go join then in the North abi no be so. Look at India and Pakistan living better than if they were together

macIB:
90% of this write up are lies after lies to cause friction.
Those British war or expeditions as they are called were all commercial in intent and never religious.
Again no church wedding is sacrosanct, same as nikkah, we must all go to court/registry to legalise whatever union you have done in a religious house.
The constitution left by the British was as Secular as it could be, putting all christian, islam and african-traditional religions in check as much as possible

Prof ishaq Akintola is a liar, a quasi-terrorist and a fermenter of religious violence and misunderstanding.
Dont ever listen to him. We are all Nigerians first with no Islamic, Christian or African-traditional religion bias.

Remember Taqiyya (Deception/Agressor playing victim) is Islamist number one tool of warfare against infidels (non muslims).