Religious alarmists are poor students of history who deliberately refuse to grow in tolerance.

1. In the late 1980s, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) claimed that a TV news reader on NTA, Hauwa Baba Ahmed's covering of her head and chest 'is an attempt' by the FG to 'Islamise Nigeria'. Between that period and now, a lot of women news readers and presenters have worn head and chest covering scarf on national and states-owned TV stations, yet Nigeria has not been Islamised.

2. Also, in 1980s, the same CAN vehemently opposed the idea that public schools close at 1 p.m on every Friday to allow Muslims observe Jumat service. CAN claimed that such closing time for public schools 'is an attempt to Islamise Nigeria.' Between that period and now, public schools have been closing at 1 p.m every Friday, yet Nigeria has not been Islamised.

3. When Nigeria became a member of OIC, the same CAN cried wolf again that it 'is an attempt' by the FG to 'Islamise Nigeria'. Several decades after, Nigeria is still a member of OIC, yet the country is not Islamised.

4. When the CBN was preparing to licence Islamic Banking few years ago, CAN led the media campaign against that policy with the same usual alarm that it 'is an attempt' by the FG to 'Islamise Nigeria'. As at today, in addition to few Islamic finance houses in operation, there are some regular established banks that also have Islamic banking desks. Nigeria is still yet to be Islamised.

5. The current issue about teaching of CRK and IRK in public schools is giving CAN another opportunity to raise its addictive false alarm. The new school curiculum allows every child a freedom to be educated in religion of choice. Again CAN and other Christian leaders are saying it 'is an attemp by the FG to 'Islamise Nigeria'.

Advise:
CAN should be advised to learn religious tolerance from Muslims of the Southwest.
For nearly a century until recently, Muslim students at public schools in the old Western Region, and what later became southwest, including Lagos had no freedom of religious knowledge choice. Christianity was the only religious knowledge taught in public schools. In fact the assembly prayer sessions in the morning was compulsorily in Christian Lord's prayers for all students irrespective of faiths.

In a Western Region of that era and even later decades of the 1970/80 that had Muslims and Christians almost evenly spread, the Islamic leadership of the region were tolearnt of the Christia faith. The Muslim leaders did not raise aalarm over Christinisation of Nigeria.

CAN and other Christian groups should be told in clear language that Nigeria is multi-ethnic-religious nation. And no sIngle group can blackmail the other to submission by raising false alarm.

God Bless Nigeria. Amen.

#FACT: Every Governnent schools in Southwest are christian schools.

On the issue of religion study in public schools, this is one of my submission I submitted that the christian don't allow the muslim to have access to their own religion study in public schools especially in the south west nigeria where there is mixture of religion faith. They pray in christian faith while on the assembly ground and when children were eating. They allow the distribution of bible in public schools while deny muslim to do so. There is a case study of that in one of the secondary school in osun where the school authority deny the muslim opportunity to share the qu'ran brought to their school while after some month the christian were allowed to distribute bible to student in the same school. But the muslim will never fight this or call for attempt to christianize Nigerian. A situation whereby Christians will be moving from one house to another,knocking muslim doors to preach their own nigeria and disturbance in public bus will never seen as an attempt to convert all muslim to christian but let muslim do same, you will hear crying from different angles. Most of the civil servant men have become a pastor in their various churches. They leave office to attend to church interest at their own wishes but let muslim do the same,it become another thing entirely. In those days when Christians were giving muslim marching order to convert to christian in order to be educated is not a crime to them what so ever. There are many fact only that Muslims leaders always don't talk anyhow. When oritsajafor was stealing nigeria money through using CAN name as disguise means nothing to them but if a muslim leader does that is islamization of nigeria. hypocrites up and down.

iamgenius:
#FACT: Every Governnent schools in Southwest are christian schools.

can you see where your brain is hidden? Ansaru deen is a christian school? Most of the schools built by then was from colonial masters but being from a christian country give them opportunity to establish christian schools. When government took over all religion schools in those days, they acquired everything with it but only leave names with it. Had it been they have a focus that it will later cause problem they would have change the name. If I may ask you is it baptist mission that is still paying the teacher of baptist secondary school? Who is managing the affairs of all primary and secondary schools in nigeria? Who is employing the staffs? Who is training all old Christians scholls you mentioned?

omokab:
can you see where your brain is hidden? Ansaru deen is a christian school? Most of the schools built by then was from colonial masters but being from a christian country give them opportunity to establish christian schools. When government took over all religion schools in those days, they acquired everything with it but only leave names with it. Had it been they have a focus that it will later cause problem they would have change the name. If I may ask you is it baptist mission that is still paying the teacher of baptist secondary school? Who is managing the affairs of all primary and secondary schools in nigeria? Who is employing the staffs? Who is training all old Christians scholls you mentioned?

Their names were not changed but their ideology changed to christianity right? To be honest with you, my siblings and I were alumnus of d so called government muslim schools. We were taught christian ideology, even on the assembly ground.