Undoubtedly, the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast Nigeria has contributed to the problem that is tantamount to a catastrophy in a multireligious society. In general, nowadays Islamophobia is a growing trend all over the world.

Numerous terrorist organizations like ISIS, Al-Qaeda and others are doing their best in instigating violence among the Muslim communities and ruining the goodwill of Islam. One cannot disagree that the issue of Islamophobia needs to be urgently addressed.


Yusuf Jimoh Aweda has compaired two approaches to tackling the problem – Nigerian and American, and here is what he has found out. The recent inspiringly pitiful story of Ahmad Muhammad of MacArthur High School in Irving, USA, has sparked an outrage towards the school officials and the police’s actions, and generated a huge crowd of supporters of the boy, whose alluring technological clock invention was mistook for a bomb, and who was thereafter handcuffed and taken to juvenile detention. Islamophobia has always been a dreaded tool used not only to dent the goodwill of the Muslims, but also to horrifyingly violate their fundamental human rights. This is something every upright Muslim experiences on a daily basis. But the case of Nigeria is quite different.
Outrageous barbarism Tuesday,
February 5, 2013.
The people of Lagos in Nigeria were jolted off their feet over a disturbing story of Aisha Alabi, a secondary school pupil, who was allegedly flogged 40 times by Mrs E.C Ukpaka, the principal of Kadara Junior School in Ebute Metta, Lagos state, for wearing hijab during the school hours. Such disrespectful violation of the right to freedom of expression and religion was also reported a few weeks later, when Elizabeth Omidele, the Mafoluku Senior Grammar School principal, was accused of harassing a girl named Barira by telling her to pull off her hijab outside the school premises. The embarrassing and the most disturbing part of the above “human annihilation” stories above was the disposition of the Lagos state government, headed by Babatunde Fashola at the time. His reaction to the issues was more than worrisome. The case was frustrated through systematic delay tactics by not only prolonging the judgment, but also by massacring the genuine justice when the judgment was finally announced in court.


And how it was in the USA?

President Barack Obama has invited the wrongly violated victim of the “bomb” clock, Ahmad Muhammad, to bring his invention to the White House in order to show disapproval of the injustice and Islamophobia. At the same time, no apology was rendered neither to the Lagos Muslims, nor to the pupils by the Lagos state government for a deliberate “violation of integrity” by the school principals, though the innocent pupils were just trying to express their faith. This is the right guaranteed by the Nigerian Constituion. No reversal of the unfair judgment by Mr Raji Fashola’s Lagos State led Government that was proclaimed to ultimately ban Muslim girls from wearing hijabs, which is a core part of their moral and spiritual rites during the school hours in the Lagos State Secondary Schools that is being funded by tax payer’s money. The Center For Human Rectitude, along with other well meaning Nigerians hereby humbly plead to the current Lagos State Governor, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. We have always known him as an intelligent and a gentle man who would not jeopardize an atom of integrity of the people of Lagos that has been preserved by Law for any cost. We hope passionately that he would help pass oxygen to the “dying truth” concerning the usage of hijab in secondary schools in Lagos State by reversing the diabolical judgment that was passed to ban the wearing of hijab in secondary schools during the last “controversial” administration by his predecessor. We hope this would be done soon so that our young Muslim girls can exude their religious rights within the auspices of the Law in their various Lagos State Secondary Schools.

Imagine, being a 9yrs-old kid and wondering why your teacher decided to call on you and ask you why your faith advocates for bombing. - halimah Ello

Macelliot:

IdisuleOurOwn:
You should have moved this thread to the religion section.

Loool dem go soon come.OP you better quickly move this thread away from here to the religion section before people who are high on hatermycine destroy it

Aareonakakanfo:



Huh! My brother na so we see am ooo. okay we already agree the people from the red mud region are anti-islamic so there's no big deal about that but the ones that baffle me the most are the Yoruba ones.Were it not for God's intervention, Osun state today would have been in ruins. For example,i have so many christians in my family, sometimes i imagine if a violence were to break out will i fall out with them too? Yoruba land is too multi-religious. i really don't give a rat arse about what's happening in other regions.Sometimes i read comments from some yorubas here and i'm like.

Macelliot:

If I may ask, Why is it that Sunni Muslims and Shiite/Shia Muslims are bombing themselves in the middle-east over being more Islamic that the other?
I mean, Why are Muslims bombing themselves?

Macelliot:

If I may ask, Why is it that Sunni Muslims and Shiite/Shia Muslims are bombing themselves in the middle-east over being more Islamic that the other?
I mean, Why are Muslims bombing themselves?

Aaaaah! after going through your post history, e be like say you sef na hatermycine drunkard ooo and mumu me is responding to you like you're a muslim .no wonder even this your comment gan e get as e be. it takes being very smart to detect the bigotry .Goodbye!

Aareonakakanfo:



Aaaaah! after going through your post history, e be like say you sef na hatermycine drunkard ooo and mumu me is responding to you like you're a muslim .no wonder even this your comment gan e get as e be. it takes being very smart to detect the bigotry .Goodbye!

gists:
Religion intolerance has always been in Nigeria.
But PDP and the drunkard fisherman that wanted to hang on to power by all means (even though he had nothing to show) thought the best thing to do to hammer on the fragile religious fault-line in the country. GEJ and PDP really took Nigeria back to the stone ages (forget the BH terrorists - there have always been ragheads like that in the country without things getting to that level).

That 1d!ot called FFK came and said 80% of APC governors are muslims - I mean what was he trying to achieve? Is it not to instigate islamophobia? Southwest that has never really cared about the religion of the governors suddenly started asking choosing governors based on religion. Imagine someone asking what faith does Gov. Ambode belong to when he won the APC primaries in election. T

The religious divide/intollerance (and by extension islamophobia) has never that pronounced in the country until the last set of PDP executhieves came to power. This is the greatest disservice in opinion and I can't thank God enough that PDP/GEJ were voted out. The "mind-reconditioning" and reconsiliation will begin after a while.