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Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by sCun: 9:22pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
KANO, Nigeria— In a room next to the open-air student mosque at Bayero University, Abubakar Imam Ali-Agan nudged his red felt cap up off his forehead. A Koran, the edges of its pages blackened from use, lay on the table before him. ''We ought to be a Moslem state,'' he declared. ''Inshallah,'' murmured the two dozen students crowding around Mr. Ali-Agan. ''God willing.'' Here in the northern heartland of Nigeria, agitated demands for the gradual Islamization of the country are impassioned and growing louder. Calls to impose Islamic sharia courts in the largely Christian and animist south have been increasing. And the same voices are urging the Government to accept membership in the Islamic Conference Organization, a 45-member group of predominantly Islamic countries. Islam binds this section of the country together, crossing ethnic and linguistic boundaries, defining the soul of the north. But across the south, from the eastern Ibo to the preserve of the Yorubas around Lagos, Islam is seen as a shadow spilling across Nigeria's shaky secularism. 'Potential to Destabilize' ''This really does have the potential to destabilize the country,'' said a banker here who is to move to Lagos soon. ''I think it is fair to say there is tension. It has always been there, but it's been on a more subdued level. It's always been there, but it's never been the real issue it is now in Nigeria.'' Most experts on Nigeria agree that Moslems constitute close to half of the total population of more than 80 million and that Christians make up roughly one third. Most of the rest are animists. The experts acknowledge that census information is not reliable and is out of date. In Lagos, anxiety over the burst of Islamic fervor is acute. ''It's a dangerous, explosive trend,'' said Dele Giwa, editor of the influential weekly magazine News Watch. ''In the worst case, I see a situation where die-hard Christians and die-hard Moslems are fighting in the streets.'' For more than a month, northern religious leaders and traditional rulers, editorial writers and students have been campaigning for the establishment of sharia courts - religious courts for settling disputes between Moslems according to the dictates of the Koran - in the country's south. Already, sharia courts in the north hear some civil and domestic matters. Criminal cases remain the province of government courts. 'Part and Parcel of Our Life' ''Sharia is part and parcel of our life,'' said Mr. Ali- Agan, who is the secretary of the Moslem Students of Nigeria at Bayero University. ''If you tell me there is no sharia, then I have no right to live here. If you are telling me sharia has no right to come to Nigeria, I cannot live in Nigeria as a Moslem.'' When Arab traders first started journeying by camel across the Sahara, one of the desert's tracks ended in what is now Kano. With them, the traders brought architectural styles and a flare for commerce. They also brought Islam. Today the small modern portion of the city is jigsawed by sweeping boulevards intersecting in huge ''roundabouts'' echoing British colonial road design. Vespa drivers, the sleeves of their white robes billowing in the wind, dart between battered taxicabs. City workers in long pink cotton shirts sweep the gutters. But it is behind 10-foot-high ocher-colored mud walls that the old city lies, the center of Kano life. Inside the old city, the ancient Kano market is still the scene of trading, a place where craftsmen embroider the multicolored pillbox hats, or fula, typical of this area, where money-changers squatting on mats will accept Swiss francs, Japanese yen or Canadian dollars, where metal workers under low mud arcades hammer silver stirrups and bridles. The Call to Prayer Every day at 1 P.M., the call of the muezzin summoning Moslems to prayer strains faintly from the mosques scattered about. Trading slows. Women with jugs of water balanced on their heads trundle through the alleys that channel among the shops. Plastic prayer mats, made at a factory in town owned by an Indian, are rolled out in darkened shops, next to piles of vegetables. In narrow side streets, thousands of faithful turn eastward and touch their foreheads to the ground. ''If you are looking for a perfect typical Hausa city, a Moslem city, it's Kano,'' said Abba Dabo, the managing director of The Triumph, the only daily newspaper published here. ''Here is a more traditional town, an older town.'' There is a widespread feeling here that the south has somehow sprinted ahead of the north in education, business and industry, that the south has made greater strides in escaping the restraints of tradition and that it is, as a consequence, unfairly prospering. ''Historically, the Hausa have not embraced Western education,'' Mr. Dabo said, referring to the ethnic group that dominates the north. ''Even here, so many people have come from villages to urban areas. They see that the reality is you have to speak English to get decent work. You have to have your education to get a job. They come from their villages and hate it. There was a tendency not to follow the rest of the country.'' Leaders Are From the North Despite this, nearly all of Nigeria's leaders have come from the north, and nearly all have been Moslems. Under the Government of the previous President, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari, many Christian schools were taken over by the state, and permits to build churches were held up while the construction of mosques was stepped up. Nonetheless, Mr. Dabo said, there is still a sense of insecurity and inadequacy here. www.nytimes.com/1986/02/21/world/a-burst-of-moslem-fervor-in-nigeria-the-north-stirs-and-the-south-frets.html 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by sam4(m): 9:30pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Islamization of Naija keee? I go com dey use turban? |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by jamace(m): 9:37pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Buhari is a religious fanatic: https://www.nairaland.com/2109252/general-buhari-calls-total-sharia https://www.nairaland.com/2109211/buhari-voted-niger-republic-over https://www.nairaland.com/2095243/stop-killing-boko-haram-members 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by olaboy001(m): 9:38pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
PDP please give us the locations of the 250 Almajiri schools you claiming GEJ built, they all went mute. Awon opuro oshi." |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by Aderupoko2: 10:12pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
PDP lie effortlessly |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by saintikechi(m): 10:15pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
We already know buhari has a hidden agenda. 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by sCun: 10:20pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Aderupoko2:That is a 1986 article by an American paper. PDP wasn't in existence then. |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by KINGTELLER: 10:38pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
ISLAMIZATION OF THE NORTH |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by 4Play(m): 11:00pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Aderupoko2: This means PDP have mastered time travel as they were able to go back to 1986 and get the New York Times to write an article that doesn't paint Buhari in a positive light. 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by sammyj: 11:04pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Na wash wash, Nigerians should open their eyes and vote wise rather than voting for a clueless propagandist administration. PDP should focus more on issue based campaign rather than propaganda!! |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by olaboy001(m): 6:16am On Jan 28, 2015 |
PDP has done everything to discredit Buhari but they have all turned out in favour of Buhari...GEJ out!!!!!!! |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by PassingShot(m): 6:17am On Jan 28, 2015 |
Liars! GEJout 2015. 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by OtunbaJega: 6:20am On Jan 28, 2015 |
Sai Buhari |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by jorlons(m): 6:37am On Jan 28, 2015 |
what a waste |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by nobilis: 7:29am On Jan 28, 2015 |
To be frank with you, I couldn't see, in that whole article, where it was said that Buhari was master-minding Islamization of Nigeria. So I wonder why this thread has a misleading title. |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by sCun: 7:40am On Jan 28, 2015 |
nobilis:You didn't see the part in bold too? |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by nobilis: 7:48am On Jan 28, 2015 |
sCun: That Christian schools were taken over by the government; permits to build churches were held up while there was zealous building of mosques?? Does that equate to Islamization of Nigeria? Is that definition of Islamization? Na wa oo. |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by sCun: 7:53am On Jan 28, 2015 |
nobilis:If that is not Islamization, what is? You think it is by coming to flog you to convert to Islam? You are so dull. It is a gradual and tactical process. How do I begin to explain the significance of slowing down the growth of churches and speeding up the proliferation of mosques to you? |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by eaglechild: 7:59am On Jan 28, 2015 |
Under the Government of the previous President, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari, many Christian schools were taken over by the state, and permits to build churches were held up while the construction of mosques was stepped up. Need anyone say more? Those shouting Sai have never gone through their history books. |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by nellyjohn: 11:12am On Jan 28, 2015 |
You said that this man is clueless, weak, confused, corrupt, religious bigot, etc.Ok, I agree with you, let’s see how he got to this level of character. These are part of projects started and completed by President Goodluck. 1. 125 Almajiri Schools in 13 Northern States. 2. 27 Special girls school. 3. 12 New Federal Universities. 4. 34 new NCE awarding institutions. 5. 101 Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and development. 6. 10 Million increase in Basic education enrollment (UBEC) 7. 75% Increase in O'Level credit pass in Math and English. 8. 100 Innovation Enterprise Institutions licensed. 9. 7000 lecturers sponsored for post graduate studies home and abroad. 10. 51 Polytechnic laboratories rehabilitated. 11. Doubled increase on Education allocation. 12. 104 candidates scaled the final hurdle (First Class Graduates) for Presidential scholarship award and were asked to apply to study in any of the top 25 universities in the world approved for the scheme for their Phd. LIST OF GEJ Universities: 1] Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. - North Central. 2] Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. - North Central. 3] Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State. - North East. 4] Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. - North East. 5] Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State. - North West. 6] Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. - North West. 7] Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. - South South. 8] Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State. - South East. 9] Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State. - South West. Roads: The following roads are either reconstructed of nearing completion: 1. Apapa - Oshodi Expressway 2. Benin-Ore-Sgaga mu Highway 3.Enugu-Port harcourt Dual carriage way The following roads are undergoing dualisation: 1. Kano - Maiduguri Road 2. Abuja-Abaji-Lok oja Road 3. Oweto Bridge across River Benue The Following Roads are fully done: 1. Onitsha-Owerri Road 2. Vom-Manchok Road 3. Onitsha Head Bridge - Flyover (Ojukwu Gateway) which Gov Obi did and got federal refund The following roads are under construction or reconstruction: 1. Onitsha - Enugu Road 2. Lokoja - Benin Road 3. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway 4. Mokwa-Bida Road 5. Akure-Ilesha Road 6. East-West Road 7. Sokoto-Tambuwal -Jega Road 8. Enugu- Abakaliki- Cross River Road 9. Ogoja - Ikom Road 10. Vandekiya-Obudu Road Bridge The following bridge was concessioned to Juluis Berger and early works have commenced: Second Niger Bridge Aviation: 1. National Aviation Master plan and Road map was developed and is being implemented 2. Air Safety - INSTALLATION of cutting age navigational aids and Instruments Landing Systems, including runway lights and Total Radar Coverage (TRACON) 3. Airport Infrastructure - For the first time in three decades, ALL 22 federally owned airports are being remodelled and renovated. 4. Cargo Airport - 16 airports close to nation's food baskets designed to transport perishables. 5. New Terminal for 5 International Airports at Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu. 6. Certification - US Category 1 Certification attained. Industries: 1. Under GEJ, Nigeria has two automobile industries manufacturing vehicles, Innoson in Nnewi and Nissan in Lagos. 2. Nigeria exports cement Housing: 1. Mortgage - The Nigerian Mortgage Refinancing Corporation was set up to enable 200,000 affordable mortgages within 5 years at affordable interest rate. 2. Over 61,000 housing units have been built in six geographical zones. Sports: 1. African Nations Cup (last won in 1994) 2. Fifa U-17 (Last won in 2007) 3. Word Athletic Championship 4 medals (No medal since 2000) Rail Transport: Over 15 years, Rail transport has been deserted, it took GEJ less than 2 years to put it back on track and commissioned. 6 New Air-condition Trains in Lagos. The following root came alive. 1. Lagos-Kano Rail 2. Kano-Maiduguri, under construction 3. Lagos-Portharcourt Under construction: 1. Kaduna-Abuja 2. Abuja axis Power: Privatised PHCN and Power Generating Plants undergoing constructions in different states. Economy: Nigeria became biggest economy in African overtaken South Africa. Sentiment Apart and don't be bias, Which past Nigeria President/Head of state has recorded these in 3 years. 2. POLITICS: a)He promised Nigerians credible election where the peoples votes will count. He demonstrated this in Edo, Anambara, Ekiti and Osun states, where international and local observers gave him pass mark. b) He made sure that PDP’s candidate for various position emerged through party primaries, which was why Fayose and Omisore made it in Ekiti and Osun respectively despite the fact that pundits think otherwise. 3. Finally those criticizing and discrediting Jonathan, are mostly born out of jealousy and outright mischief, because what they could not achieve or do not have the opportunity to try, he has done with relative ease. 4. OBJ it was alleged went on his knees begging Atiku to allow him second term, and failed woefully in an attempt to try a third term from the back yard. 5. IBB made two attempts to come back the second time but failed, 6. El-Rufai, after all the noise and bragadosio, ended up as one of the contestant at for Kano Governorship. 7. Governor Kwankwanso’s name has suddenly disappeared from APC Presidential candidates hopeful. 8. Rotimi Amaechi is gradually becoming history. 9. Ribadu repented and was forgiven, now is just one of PDP new comers. 9.Atiku is not finding it funny after he ported to APC, 10. Buhari is having a sleepless night because forces in the APC have adjudged him not marketable. 11. Rochas Okoracha does not know if he is still in APC, because his name is not on the list to be considered. 12. Lamido endorsed Jonathan from the comfort of his house. 13. PDP Governors endorsed Jonathan without a single request. 14. PDP BOT unanimously endorsed Jonathan. 15. PDP’s Central working Committee endorsed Jonathan. 16. Endorsement in view: Northern Elders forum, Ohaneze ndi Igbo, Afenifere, Yoruba Elders council. In short MOSSAB, OPC, AYC. NANS, NUPENG, CAN, MUSLIM COUNCIL OF NIGERIA, ETC. This clueless and weak man, achieved all this without violence, abeg, if you can’t beat Oga Jona a bloody civilian that beat retired Generals, better stop and ask yourself what is wrong with you. See you in FEBRUARY 14 to crown him the king of Nigeria Politics. GEJ till 2019 |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by nobilis: 8:37pm On Jan 28, 2015 |
sCun: I am so dull. I agree. |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by olaboy001(m): 11:57pm On Jan 30, 2015 |
nellyjohn:You just wasted the whole space wey I for booked down with your nonsense post... |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by leke12(m): 12:03am On Jan 31, 2015 |
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Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by dulaman: 12:04am On Jan 31, 2015 |
I bet this thread will make FP. but the one on how he defeated matstine sect is lying hidden https://www.nairaland.com/2109811/buhari-defeated-maitatsine-islamic-sect |
Re: Buhari's Islamization Policies Before He Was Ousted (1986 Article) by iamrealdeji(m): 11:55am On Jun 25, 2015 |
Ali Agan never tried to support imposition of Sharia on christians |
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