*Let’s Islamize Nigeria too!* Ebulition of an Ultra-Conservative ‘Salafist’

(Being a rejoinder to Pastor Femi Emmanuel’s hostile vituperations on alleged islamization of Nigeria)

*BashirArowojobe*

At 36, he has never voted in his entire life nor does he possess a Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) due to doctrinal dichotomy. However, the hullabaloo of Muslim/Muslim ticket that rended the air recently has provoked his thought.

Despite my unapologetic disgust for man-made democracy, it has become expedient for me to set the record straight and analyze our existential realities as a Nigerian Muslim.

I was fortunate to come across an article by Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni (Chairman, Oyo state Muslim Community) titled: NIGERIA IS ALREADY CHRISTIANISED, LET US ISLAMISE IT A LITTLE. Though I have some dissimilarities with the writer, nevertheless, the piece is one of the best I have seen on this subject matter. In the mean time, my report will center mainly on his submissions.


The Christians in Nigeria  when  they have an agenda to marginalize the Muslims  on a higher pedestal, they start screaming that  the Muslims  want to Islamise Nigeria. Ironically, what  is empirically  provable  is that Nigeria since the colonial  era had been terribly and unabashedly Christianised unapologetically; and if any Muslim  attempts  to point out this marginalisation  and Christianisation,  the propaganda  machinery  of Christendom  is put on the red alert, thus, branding such muslim as a fanatic and an Islamic bigot. This is just pure and inordinate islamophobia at work!

For example, when General  Gowon,  for economic  reasons,  took Nigeria  to OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) on observer status with the hope of becoming  a permanent  member, Christians cried foul that Gowon, their  man, was being  railroaded to an islamisation  agenda of Nigeria  through  the back door. The permanent  status of Nigeria  was scuttled  when  countries  with bigger Christian  population,  who had seen the economic  advantage  of OIC, such as Gabon and Cameroon became  permanent  members; those who love to hate anything  with islamic connotation were shouting indiscriminately all over the place.

When Nigeria ran into economic doldrums during  Babangida's military  interregnum, the government,  a drowning one, toyed with the OIC permanent  membership. Christians demonstrated in many parts of Nigeria  to corroborate their disdain  for the economic cartel. They had no basis for this spiteful demonstration except  the Islamic  appellation. Eventually,it was a Christian  President, Olusegun Obasanjowho was  stampeded by another Christian Finance Minister, OkonjoEweala for Nigeria  to benefit  from  the interest-free Sukuk of the Islamic Development  Bank.

Ultimately, Islamic Bank  was introduced  in Nigeria with Jaiz Bank  being the pioneer. 
Interestingly, most of the customers  ofJaiz Bank are Ibos who are interested  more in the elevation of their business and economic status  than any primordial  religious sentiments. 

SUKUK Islamic  loan had been used  to construct  roads across  the country  being traversed by both Muslims  and Christians. So, what did the Christians lose by our membership   of OIC and establishment  of Islamic Banks? Conversely, they have gained a lot and their unmasqueraded animosity for anything  Islam  would  not make them acknowledge  it.

Young men now are oblivious of periods in our nation  when Islamic  festivals  were not granted  holidays in Nigeria .The colonial  carry over are legion.
Our school calendar are tailored towards christian festivals  to allow our christian overlords  have plenty  of time to celebrate  their festivals.
 
We have Easter break not less than two weeks.  We have christmas  break  not less than three weeks. This allows the christian children socialize and enjoy family affinity with their families, a privilege unavailable  to their  muslim  counterparts. 

Most muslim children  cannot travel home to celebrate  with their parents  because  only two days are magnanimously allocated by the Federal  Government  for the Muslim  Festivals  of EidulFitri and EidulAdha.
*HAVE MUSLIMS BECAUSE OF THIS, SCREAMED CHRISTIANISATION?*

Every Sunday since the colonial era, all Government establishments  used to close  to allow christians  go with their families to church. In 1972 during  Gowon  era, the Seventh  Day Adventists  who were, and still in microscopic  minority  persuaded General  Gowon  to allow them a free Saturday  so that they can have a whole day to go to church  with their families. Muslims didn't demonstrate against  this or accuse Yakubu  Gowon of christianising Nigeria

We Muslims have been made second class citizens in a country in which we have numerical superiority. Yet some  bloody, shameless and ungodly  Christian leaders would  go abroad  to vomit gibberish  that Christianity, through  government  officialdom, is on the path of  being completely  annihilated in Nigeria. 

All the nomenclature or our academic identification in Nigeria is borrowed from the church;
CHANCELLOR, PRO CHANCELLOR, RECTOR, AND PROVOSTS ARE  ALL FROM CHRISTIAN  Lexicon. Woe betide a university that names his vice chancellor *MUDIR* (Arabic word for Director/Proprietor/Head of an Organization). There would be outcry of  Islamisation  from our traditional traducers  who love to antagonize anything Islam.

When lecturers spend seven years of uninterrupted lecturing, they don't  go on jumat leave; they proceed on Sabbatical  leave  coined after  Christian sabbath  day.

The academic  gown forced on graduands in our tertiary  institutions is styled after the chorister uniform  of  christendom  and only some rebellious Muslims  reject it on the day of graduation and wear traditional  outfits and they look like outcasts. Ditto for the lawyer and judges official uniform . It took the sacrifice  of a courageous Amasa Firdaous,  who refused  to remove  her  Hijab at the law school  and lost  one year of graduation,  before our women  are allowed  to wear Hijab with their  Christian  oriented  law uniform  at our law schools.

What of the symbol  of our hospitals?  Is it not the Christian cross and the red crosswhich is the blood of Jesus allegedly shed at calvary?

Is  Nigeria  not already terribly Christianised?
It took decades of persuasion, demonstrations and at the end of the day court cases that went to a sweet victory  at the supreme Court  before our Muslim  students are allowed  to put on  their Hijab. 

Whatever is Islamic, no matter how great and fantastic it may be, Nigerian  Christians  must shoot it down  through  the realm of well orchestrated unintelligible antagonism.

CHRISTIAN  HYPOCRISY  ON THE SO CALLED  MUSLIM/MUSLIM  TICKET 

The christians know that at best *Tinubu* is a nonchalant  muslim who has no pedigree  of  antagonizing christianity. 

Most unfortunately, some of his pro-christian  antecedents  smacks of being stampeded  to aid christianity at the inglorious  expense  of Islam.

He danced to the tune of christians  by returning  back schools  taken away  from them by a christian  Head of State, *Obasanjo*,  in 1975 after they were adequately  compensated.

Can you point to a prominent  christian  in Nigeria  who would  marry  a muslim  woman  and be magnanimous enough  to allow  her practise  her religion.? 

Tinubu not only allowed the wife to practice  christianity, he  was part of those  who witnessed  her investiture as a pastor  of Redeem church. Today, Redeem  Church  is the most   vociferous  in making sure that Tinubu's  ambition  to become  the President  of Nigeria  is truncated irrespective  of his wife's loyalty to christendom.

*HOW CAN SOMEONE  WHO CANNOT  ISLAMISE HIS WIFE , ISLAMISE  THE WHOLE OF NIGERIA?*

The Christians are experts when  it comes to exploring  propaganda  to achieve  an aim or shout the muslims  to a position  of surrender.

Most of the hysteria against  Muslim/Muslim ticket  is from  Yorubaland.  Yet in Ekiti and Ondo state with though minority  muslim  population  but substantial  enough to be given recognition, it is always  a Christian/ Christian  ticket and the muslims have always  maintained  a peace driven taciturnity. 

In Benue and Plateau, it is always a Christian/ Christian  ticket without  qualms  or feeling of guilt.

The new Governor  in waiting  in Osun,  Ademola  Adeleke  went to the archives for his Muslim  name-Nurudeen  and even used it to coin his political  slogan  "Imole" which  is NUR in Arabic. This was to bamboozle  the Muslims  who are in numerical  superiority  in Osun  state in general  and Ede, his home town  in particular. But the next day after he won the election, his first port of call was the church.  Certainly, and  I say without  any  fear  of  being  contradicted  that *the Christians  are suffering  from  collective  amnesia.*

  When Yakubu Gowon  was in power,  the naval chief, a christian Vice Admiral Joseph Akinwale Wey was  the number  two in that Government. Later, chief  Obafemi  Awolowo was released  from  prison  and made the vice chairman  of the Federal  Executive  Council. He was also a Christian.  No Muslim  cried foul!

*ISLAMISATION  NOW!*

It is time we abandon Saturday and Sunday as our free days of the week. If adopting Friday and Saturday which actually was the biblical day recommended for resting which Christians have practically abandoned for Sunday to be in absolute conformity with the roman worship  of the sun god  through  Emperor Caesar's imposition; let the Islamisation  commences tomorrow.

If the president  who looks  tired and would have wished tomorrow  is 29th of May 2023 does not have the courage  to do it, then,let Muslim  States in the North  like Jigawa, kano, Bauchi and Borno to mention but  a few go ahead  and give us free Friday to go for jumah  with  our family  as christians do on Saturdays and Sundays. 
Let us  scrap  all christian  vestiges in our national  life which  christians take for granted.

Muslims  should  no longer  be second  class citizens  in this country. Our school  holidays  should no longer be Easter  break or Christmas  break or we choose Eid el Fitri break and EidelAdha break as well. What is sauce for  the goose is sauce for the gander.

Our sea port that is always closed  only on Christmas day should also be çlosed on Eid el kabir days for equity.

Cross should  be removed  as symbol  of health  from  our hospitals.  Let it be replaced  with  crescent. Let us get neutral  appellations  for the heads of our tertiary  institutions  or *change VC to Mudir.*

There should   be nothing  like Sabbatical  leave.  It could be changed to research  or working leave.
The so called  *common law is christian  law* and that is within its legislative  confine. Polygamy is an anathema in our  so called  common  law, that is in all intense and purposes Christian.

Lord Campbell, a British  jurist attested to this truism  when she said common law is mostly  christian  biblical  laws.

So, we should  have  Shariah  Supreme  Court  where  Allah's  divine law would  be adjudicated at the highest  level.

*Let the Islamisation  be done with those at the corridors  of  power  closing their ears to the cacophonic  shouting  of those who think  muslims should  play the second fiddle in a country  in which  we have an overwhelming  and incontrovertible  majority.*

Bashir, an educator and serial entrepreneur writes in from Ibadan, he can be reached through; bashirarowojobe@gmail.com

I knew most of these before to be true. Most Christians chanting islamisation or fulanisation are without brain.

I asked one how many Christians has been fulanised in the last 7years of Buhari?

Why is it that Christians don't christianise? It's only Muslims that Islamise? There's nothing like christianophobia like islamophobia?

Islam will win surely!

AntiChristian:
I knew most of these before to be true. Most Christians chanting islamisation or fulanisation are without brain.

I asked one how many Christians has been fulanised in the last 7years of Buhari?

Why is it that Christians don't christianise? It's only Muslims that Islamise? There's nothing like christianophobia like islamophobia?

Islam will win surely!

Do you want to win with the use of weapons by the Islamic terrorists that are agitating for Islamic world?