The network, whose text read by Director of MURIC and university don, Prof. Is-haq Lakin Akintola in Lagos Thursday, also questioned the rationale behind the Lagos State government banning the use of hijab in public schools in the centre of excellence.
It chided the state Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, over a comment credited to her speech communicating the government's decision where she remarked that Muslim parents desiring the use of hijab in schools should take their daughters to Muslim private schools, adding that by so doing, the commissioner had declared war on Muslims in Lagos State.
On the state of the nation, Akintola, condemning the spate of terrorism and violence in parts of the country, insisted that military force alone could not solve the Nigerian security problem.
His words: "While the Network of Islamic organizations condemn terrorism and violence, we insist that military force alone cannot solve Nigeria's security problem. What Nigeria needs for enduring peace is good governance and transparency. We are of the opinion that the remaining 33 states of the federation have been under emergency for long.
"With hunger and starvation, with homelessness and joblessness among our army of graduates, what further declaration of a state of emergency do we need? Where is electricity? Where is water? Where are the roads? Corruption remains Nigeria's middle name and it has worsened under the present administration," he said.
On the ban of hijab, Akintola lashed at the government of Lagos State querying why the Nigerian Constitution would guarantee people freedom of religious practice but, under a SAN-led administration, such constitutional and natural rights were being denied the people.
He said, "Instead of allowing free dialogue, the Lagos State Government is pushing Muslims in the state to the wall. We reject the claim made by the Commissioner for Education that the issue was discussed at length and that "We reached certain agreements". Concerned and well-informed Muslims and Islamic organizations were either deliberately ignored or edged out of purported discussions while handpicked surrogates of the commissioner/the state government and uninformed few were picked."
Vanguard's investigation revealed that Governor Babatunde Fashola had taken what many Muslims considered anti-Islamic decisions in the last few months. He was said to have destroyed places of worship within the Lagos Secretariat, destroyed mosques in Lekki and recently that he activated a plan to cause division within the state Muslim community by giving the Muslim Council in Lagos State an assignment to open centres across the state as the Fashola administration had chosen the "less Islamically informed" council to be related with in matter affecting Muslims.
This action of the governor was viewed by the network of Islamic organizations as "evil a Muslim can do to Islam" as they said it was wrong for the government to choose a people who were not well-informed about Islam to represent the entire Muslims in Lagos State. This was said because, the group was sure that there was no Muslim anywhere in the world that would compromise the fundamental basis of Islam like the government had programmed the Muslim Council to do.
(Vanguard)
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muslims, na wa o ...so just now, una say na war? teachers want to see faces of people they are teaching, so also pupils want to know their mates....na wa o..una too worry us jor...ok make una go moon
ReplyDeleteMadness of the highest order.
ReplyDeleteMuslims and war. God will deliver us from this religion that is always looking for war in all things.
ReplyDeleteISLAM = VIOLENCE.
Muslims don know wat dey are doing,dey set of foot
ReplyDeleteI.Dun knw wat u guys r sayin' if u want. 2 Critized be object nt insultin a particular regiou' if u fink u r gud xtans'all of above. U bastard' dat. Lack brains 2 fink well
ReplyDeleteYou are misunderstanding the concept of Islamic religion, Female hair needs to be covered not matter the age of the female, exposing female hair in public is a calamity & very dangerous to our society because all female body if exposed is nakedness. Both religion did not preach female exposing there body in public. The solution to all Nigerian problem is just that we are not fair in our submission to certain problem in our environs, let us all deals with problem holistically you will see that if we truthful in our dealings our problem is solve in this country rather than been
ReplyDeleteShowing your hair as a women is not a sin in Islam, neither is it mandatory that a woman cover her hair. It is all down to interpretation and culture. Exposing your hair is not akin to "nakedness" in Islam, unless you are reading an interpretation from a particular Imam of a particular school of Islamic teaching.
Delete....but the commissioner lied. I dont like that a bit.
ReplyDeleteThey can tie scarfs,why should it be hijabs?plus why declare war at d drop of a hat?its hard to claim u are for peace when every opportunity gotten is declared war?????. Celibate sisters attend seminaries and no one comes out to declare war on anybody,y do we av to make life hard when in reality it isn't? Fashola is even a muslim to start with and he should have his reasons for taking such decisions or backing. In the course of him creating a new lagos,he has also demolished illegal structures used as places of worship for christians so wats d fake tears all about like u can tie a simple scarf over ur head. Dnt even get me started on the hair coverers being far from holy***** safe dat for another day.
ReplyDeleteCan we say muslims in southwest are not becoming fanatical.nobody stop scaff wearing.or covering hair.the govt arriving at such decision to stop ijab which covers even face must be for sake of posterity.if tomorrow a bomber comes into the school you will blame govt again.
ReplyDeleteReading through the comments, its clear many people are emotional and hardly respect the rights of others. I urge them to look round the world and see that even in the advanced democracies of the world, peoples' religious rights and dressings are respected. God save Nigeria. Jimoh Adewale.
ReplyDeleteAll your contributions are ok: but one thing is that; we demote the fact that, there is a different between being educated and being fanatical.
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