Shari’ah states seek constitutional amendment for rights of Muslims

Adamu Suleiman, 26/03/2011 01:50:00




The 5th National Conference for Shari’ah implementing states ended yesterday in Sokoto with a call for the amendment of the constitution to address the rights of the muslim population, just as it immediately established a National Council on Shari’ah Implementing States.

It also viewed with utmost concern, the need to extend necessary support to the South-western part of Nigeria in their quest for the actualisation of the Shari’ah legal system in the region.

In its 8-point communiqué signed by Dr.Abubakar Nababa Umar, Permanent Secretary in the state Religious Affairs ministry at the end of the 3- day conference held at the Shukurah-Coral Hotel, Sokoto, it also urged Muslims to unite for a common goal, particularly on Shari’ah implementation in order to achieve the desired peace and unity in the country.

Similarly, the Sharia implementing states in the communiqué made it mandatory for Muslims to actualise the economic foundation of Sharia in addition to criminal issues. They were also called upon to take advantage of the Internet and ICT facilities to ensure the management of information and facilitation of the course of Shari,ah

The open air conference venue which witnessed attendance from 12 official Sharia implementing states of Bauchi, Borno, Niger, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi , Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, Gombe and Yobe also attracted representatives from Oyo and Lagos states including numerous others yet to officially implement the Sharia system.

However, the conference urged Nigerians to avoid political thuggery and money politics in order to achieve a smooth political dispensation in the country.


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This is good news!! We need Sharia in the south West!! That is the exact reason we should vote in Buhari so he can hasten the implementation of Sharia. We really need Sharia in the south West!!

PapaBrowne:

This is good news!! We need Sharia in the south West!! That is the exact reason we should vote in Buhari so he can hasten the implementation of Sharia. We really need Sharia in the south West!!

Supported. Please make haste and bring sharia to the SW. They desire it badly.

Nigeria doesn't need religious tenets,it needs law based on common sense,fairness and reasoning with no delusional and superstitious interpretations.

redsun:

Nigeria doesn't need religious tenets,it needs law based on common sense,fairness and reasoning with no delusional and superstitious interpretations.

Agreed.

Adelaide2:

The 5th National Conference for Shari’ah implementing states ended yesterday in Sokoto with a call for the amendment of the constitution to address the rights of the muslim population, just as it immediately established a National Council on Shari’ah Implementing States.

It also viewed with utmost concern, the need to extend necessary support to the South-western part of Nigeria in their quest for the actualisation of the Shari’ah legal system in the region.

In its 8-point communiqué signed by Dr.Abubakar Nababa Umar, Permanent Secretary in the state Religious Affairs ministry at the end of the 3- day conference held at the Shukurah-Coral Hotel, Sokoto, it also urged Muslims to unite for a common goal, particularly on Shari’ah implementation in order to achieve the desired peace and unity in the country.

It seems like Koran will finally be dipped into the ocean after SW is overran.

I dey laugh oh!

1st, they invite fulani to settle in ekiti,,,,,,,

now they are inviting sharia to their region! HMMMMMM! ole gan ni o!

alex101:

I dey laugh oh!

1st, they invite fulani to settle in ekiti,,,,,,,

now they are inviting sharia to their region! HMMMMMM! ole gan ni o!

. . . and tomorrow they'll blame the Igbos for the sharia.

Obiagu1:

. . . and tomorrow they'll blame the Igbos for the sharia.

I know my brother. Igbos are always to be blamed for everything.

I once knew a guy of SW extraction who was denied visa to China. This guy blamed Ndigbo for his rejection by lamenting on how "omo Igbo" spoilt China and her embassy in Lagos

My friends of SW enclave have forgotten Ilorin and Afonja History 101

This is scary! Yorubas resist this my SW brothers. I know I mock you all at times, but please resist Sharia. Sharia is not for a civilized people, it is a barbaric interpretation that has not been updated since the Medieval Ages.

EzeUche_:

This is scary! Yorubas resist this my SW brothers. I know I mock you all at times, but please resist Sharia. Sharia is not for a civilized people, it is a barbaric interpretation that has not been updated since the Medieval Ages.

you must be crazy

who are the barbaric people us or eastern people

^^^

It is worldwide consensus that Sharia law is a relic of the Middle Ages. What was good back then, it is not good now. The West and Asia have seen that Sharia should be resisted.

Well at least the East does not have to resist Sharia law.

fstranger3:

^^^

Is that you in your profile pic?

no but he is my relative

EzeUche_:

^^^

It is worldwide consensus that Sharia law is a relic of the Middle Ages. What was good back then, it is not good now. The West and Asia have seen that Sharia should be resisted.

Well at least the East does not have to resist Sharia law.

can you stop this rubbish

how is sharia middle ages

Alj Uche:



you must be crazy

who are the barbaric people us or eastern people

My friend some part of Nigeria dont need this.
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A woman been beaten 100 strokes for putting on long pants.
So you will flog your numerous babes for wearing pants.

henry101:

My friend some part of Nigeria dont need this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xef384fWFs&oref[/flash]

A woman been beaten 100 strokes for putting on long pants.
So you will flog your numerous babes for wearing pants.

what and yet you call youself educated

if you are in a society where the practise a certain law, would u disobey the law

or as u are in UK or USA do you disobey their laws

henry101:

My friend some part of Nigeria dont need this.
A woman been beaten 100 strokes for putting on long pants.
So you will flog your numerous babes for wearing pants.

^^^ when women were being violated in public for wearing trousers out in Aba, Abia, and also in Cross river states, only some years ago, did you provide that too as reason against Sharia? Just mentioning  . . .

The reason we have such archiac practices is not because of Sharia but the fact that we have leaders who continue to short change the Nigerian people -- allowing  the few to take the law into their hands in the process.

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

Kobojunkie:

^^^ when women were being violated in public for wearing trousers out in Aba, Abia State only some years ago, did you provide that too as reason against Sharia? Just mentioning  . . .

Provide proof for your assertion. And it is widespread consensus that Sharia has no place in this country. Religion shouldn't never mix with politics.

Kobojunkie:

^^^ when women were being violated in public for wearing trousers out in Aba, Abia, and also in Cross river states, only some years ago, did you provide that too as reason against Sharia? Just mentioning  . . .

The reason we have such archiac practices is not because of Sharia but the fact that we have leaders who continue to short change the Nigerian people -- allowing  the few to take the law into their hands in the process.

Nice one!!!

EzeUche_:

Provide proof for your assertion. And it is widespread consensus that Sharia has no place in this country. Religion shouldn't never mix with politics.

for where

Controversy: Punishment and Equality under Sharia

Marriage and divorce are the most significant aspects of sharia, but criminal law is the most controversial. In sharia, there are categories of offenses: those that are prescribed a specific punishment in the Quran, known as hadd punishments, those that fall under a judge's discretion, and those resolved through a tit-for-tat measure (ie., blood money paid to the family of a murder victim). There are five hadd crimes: unlawful sexual intercourse (sex outside of marriage and adultery), false accusation of unlawful sexual intercourse, wine drinking (sometimes extended to include all alcohol drinking), theft, and highway robbery. Punishments for hadd offenses--flogging, stoning, amputation, exile, or execution--get a significant amount of media attention when they occur. These sentences are not often prescribed, however. "In reality, most Muslim countries do not use traditional classical Islamic punishments," says Ali Mazrui of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies in a Voice of America interview. These punishments remain on the books in some countries but lesser penalties are often considered sufficient.

Despite official reluctance to use hadd punishments, vigilante justice still takes place. Honor killings, murders committed in retaliation for bringing dishonor on one's family, are a worldwide problem. While precise statistics are scarce, the UN estimates thousands of women are killed annually in the name of family honor (National Geographic). Other practices that are woven into the sharia debate, such as female genital mutilation, adolescent marriages, polygamy, and gender-biased inheritance rules, elicit as much controversy. There is significant debate over what the Quran sanctions and what practices were pulled from local customs and predate Islam. Those that seek to eliminate or at least modify these controversial practices cite the religious tenet of tajdid. The concept is one of renewal, where Islamic society must be reformed constantly to keep it in its purest form. "With the passage of time and changing circumstances since traditional classical jurisprudence was founded, people's problems have changed and conversely, there must be new thought to address these changes and events," says Dr. Abdul Fatah Idris, head of the comparative jurisprudence department at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Though many scholars share this line of thought, there are those who consider the purest form of Islam to be the one practiced in the seventh century.

Alj Uche:

what and yet you call youself educated

if you are in a society where the practise a certain law, would u disobey the law

or as u are in UK or USA do you disobey their laws

What law are you talking about?
In a secular country like Nigeria, you want to impose a law that doesnt and can never fit into a section of the country.
There's a law that must be followed or you simply go form your own islamic country.

Kobojunkie:

^^^ when women were being violated in public for wearing trousers out in Aba, Abia State only some years ago, did you provide that too as reason against Sharia? Just mentioning  . . .

The topic says sharia law is to be supported in the SW.
If anything of that sort happened in Aba, that's a violation of their fundamental human right.

henry101:

If anything of that sort happened in Aba, that's a violation of their fundamental human right.

If they were to bring the talk of sharia in the East, it means we Igbos get to kill which ever muslim extemist dares come to our land with it and burn down or blow up and sharia court that is being built.

Chyz*:

If they were to bring the talk of sharia in the East, it means we Igbos get to kill which ever muslim extemist dares come to our land with it and burn down or blow up and sharia court that is being built.

you always post like a senseless person

henry101:

What law are you talking about?
In a secular country like Nigeria, you want to impose a law that doesnt and can never fit into a section of the country.
There's a law that must be followed or you simply go form your own islamic country.The topic says sharia law is to be supported in the SW.

no one is imposing at all

it is up to SW people

henry101:

The topic says sharia law is to be supported in the SW.
If anything of that sort happened in Aba, that's a violation of their fundamental human right.

I agree that the topic says Sharia law but you posted a video on woman being whipped in public for wearing a trouser in public, and possibly you are referring to other barbaric acts committed, which are in no way unique to sharia.

Sharia, as I already explained was allowed in under the rule of a Christian President and the many other Christian leaders have allowed it's continuance in much the same way they have allowed other barbaric treatments of people in other parts of the country to continue. There is no need to turn this into yet another useless/bigoted attack on another religion and focus instead on discussing the real issue which remains the leaders that continue to allow the rights of citizens be taken for granted by the minority.

Alj Uche:

you always post like a senseless person

I'm just saying reality.

Alj Uche:

no one is imposing at all

it is up to SW people

Not true. The constitution effects all of us.

Chyz*:

I'm just saying reality.

Not true. The constitution effects all of us.

how does it affect  u

is it imposed or implemented in the SE ?