The principal of the University of Ibadan International School (UIIS), Mrs. Phebean Olowe recently banned the use of hijab by female Muslim students of the school. The ban provoked Muslim parents who protested at the gates of the school yesterday, Monday 12th November, 2018.

In its characteristic intervention, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) described the ban as an invitation to chaos and a threat to girl-child education. MURIC’s intervention was expressed in a press statement issued on Tuesday 13th November, 2018.

According to MURIC, “Mrs. Phebean Olowe is a failure in administration. She is out of touch with reality. She has failed to properly read the barometer. She is reeling out draconian and anachronistic decrees reminiscent of colonial days. This principal is retarding the progress of UIIS. She can only be an agent of destabilization to have behaved this way. This is the 21st century for crying out loud. Where does she think she is?


“We are surprised that at a time when the whole world is struggling to boost girl-child education and reduce the number of out-of-school children, a female school administrator of her status is issuing anti-girl-child education directives. It is such a shame. Britain and America are encouraging the wearing of hijab in their schools but here we find a school administrator constituting herself into a cog in the wheel of progress particularly in the area of girl-child education. Can this be attributed to lack of exposure? This principal is in dire need of a sabbatical leave outside Nigeria.


“She should have known that UIIS is an elitist academic environment where all the parents (Christians or Muslims) know their rights. Many of the Muslim parents are staff of the university. Why must she chew more than she can swallow? Why must she bring an alien, parochial and archaic agenda to an academic setting? This is obviously a failure in administration.

“A good administrator will consult parents before taking such a sensitive decision and there are a lot of opportunities for her to do that. Religion is a sensitive matter. She must have a hidden agenda otherwise she would not have made such an attempt in view of the proliferation of hijab stories in the news. No school administrator worth the salt will issue an anti-hijab instruction in view of recent events around the country unless such a principal is from Mars or Mercury”.

MURIC commended the parents who participated in the peaceful protest at the school gate. According to Professor Ishaq Akintola, the director of MURIC who signed the press statement, “Peaceful protest is an extention of dialogue where there are grievances to address. It is an Allah-given fundamental right of all citizens. Nobody has the right to take it from us.

“We hail the Muslim parents of UIIS for standing up in loco parentis. These parents have refused to abdicate their responsibilities. They have a duty to educate their children and to monitor their progress as prescribed in Qur’an 2:233. They have successfully done that. They also have a duty to protect their children from abuse, stigma and religious discrimination. They have proved that they are capable of doing that. We are proud of them.

“We are particularly happy with these parents for the peaceful manner in which they conducted their protest. They have proved beyond any iota of doubt that they are true ambassadors of Islam. The adherents of the religion of peace cannot afford to eschew the path of peace. We assure them of our full support. MURIC will keenly monitor the progress of this matter.

“We appeal to the management of the University of Ibadan (UI) to intervene in this matter. It should not be allowed to escalate. UI is a center of academic excellence. The authorities should not allow administrative shenanigans and educational charlatans to turn its International School into a center for religious apartheid. It is high time UIIS realized that Nigerian Muslims have come of age.

“We call on the school principal to face reality. Nigeria belongs to all of us. We should learn to coexist. Muslims will no longer accept a situation whereby everything is designed to suit Christians and Muslims are left to choose between accepting the Christian way of life or abandoning education. The Nigerian school uniform was designed by Christian colonial masters. It is therefore a manifestation of neo-imperialism cum totalitarian dictatorship to force Muslim children to wear Christian uniforms. It smacks of lack of religious tolerance. Mrs. Phebean Olowe should resign if she cannot tolerate the sight of female Muslim children in hijab because she is going to be seeing quite a lot of them these days.

“Finally, we appeal to Muslims in the city of Ibadan and Oyo State in particular as well as all over Nigeria to remain calm and law abiding. We should give the UI management the benefit of doubt and the opportunity to wade into the matter. However, all Muslim parents are advised to remain alert because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Aluta continua because it is not yet Uhuru”.

Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).



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they shouldn't succumb to pressure, let the ban continue till infinity... if they want to lift the ban let there be a law that every hijab wearing girl would be searched and frisked before entering the school premises, u never can tell what's beneath the hijab.. an hijab wearing girl was caught today by the JTF carrying bomb under her hijab....u can't trust these mofos, not even a bit.. the next u will hear is"allah Akbar " then poof you are gone

Muric seems to be the Vehicle to Bring Bombs Officially to the SOUTH WEST!!!

Must every response be chaos? Take em to court. Let there be chaos and you shall be held responsible. Rubbish!! You can be going about threatening violence anarchy or chaos.

UIIS is an international school, therefore, it should meet international standards. Parents that thinks is a must for their children to wear hijab, should take their children to Islamic schools like Ansarudeen, there, nobody will ask them not to put on hijab. We are just too religious in Nigeria. The developed countries like Germany, Canada and the likes are not as religious as we are in Nigeria and things are working for them.

Since it's fundermental human rights to wear hijabs, am still looking forward for a day when our millitary, Police and others para-millitary agencies will be wearing hijab, when a police woman who completely cover her face will be arresting criminals. When a Muslim road-safety-officer who wants to dress decently would cover her face and start directing motorists and when female custom officers with full face covered would be given hot chase for smugglers in order to arrest them

This muric is crazy. When the Christians decided to advance the cause of christianity through education they started planting schools aggresively rather than fighting useless fight round the country.
Today those churches decide the ground rules for everyone who school with them and there is no wahala.
If muric wants schools where muslim girls would be covered head to toe under blazing hot sun then muric should go and establish them instead of ranting all over the place.
If winners chapel can plan to build 5,000 primary schools in a decade span then what stops the entirety of muslims to build theirs and run it the way they like.

This Terrorist-extremist group again?!

HigherEd:
This muric is crazy. When the Christians decided to advance the cause of christianity through education they started planting schools aggresively rather than fighting useless fight round the country.
Today those churches decide the ground rules for everyone who school with them and there is no wahala.
If muric wants schools where muslim girls would be covered head to toe under blazing hot sun then muric should go and establish them instead of ranting all over the place.
If winners chapel can plan to build 5,000 primary schools in a decade span then what stops the entirety of muslims to build theirs and run it the way they like.

Lalasticlala

Nigeria is a multi religious society, with predominantly muslim population. Even in advanced countries, muslims girls are not denied their Allah-given right to wear hijab. Christians must and cannot dictate how we dress or look. We all know this Islamaphobia is orchastrated by CAN in order to morally corrupt our muslim ummah. We will resist this. Time to hide and bide is over. Like it or not, the new norms governing how schools in Nigeria treat muslims are being established now.

Shina500:
UIIS is an international school, therefore, it should meet international standards. Parents that thinks is a must for their children to wear hijab, should take their children to Islamic schools like Ansarudeen, there, nobody will ask them not to put on hijab. We are just too religious in Nigeria. The developed countries like Germany, Canada and the likes are not as religious as we are in Nigeria and things are working for them.

What do you mean by "international school?" Wasn't it built with task payers' money? Mind you, it was not paid by the tithe or offerings from the church. Therefore it should respects our Allah-given and also fundamental human rights. The church cannot dictate to us which school is best suited for us to enrol our children.

Righteousness89:
Muric seems to be the Vehicle to Bring Bombs Officially to the WEST!!!

SW Muslims are modest and will always be..
it's intact the Christians that appears to be intolerant in the south.

HigherEd:
This muric is crazy. When the Christians decided to advance the cause of christianity through education they started planting schools aggresively rather than fighting useless fight round the country.
Today those churches decide the ground rules for everyone who school with them and there is no wahala.
If muric wants schools where muslim girls would be covered head to toe under blazing hot sun then muric should go and establish them instead of ranting all over the place.
If winners chapel can plan to build 5,000 primary schools in a decade span then what stops the entirety of muslims to build theirs and run it the way they like.

Lalasticlala

of course Muric is crazy and that's the absolute truth..
but you Christians are absolutely intolerant.. strange for adherents of religion that preaches love.

Olril18:

of course Muric is crazy and that's the absolute truth..
but you Christians are absolutely intolerant.. strange for adherents of religion that preaches love.

The intolerance in christians is brought about by the fanaticism of muslims. Christians in their own turf are naturally very tolerant. Look at Germany today, a nation of Christians who welcomed 1 million muslims only for them to start doing all sort of nonsense. Now do you blame the far right for asking that immigration from muslim countries be stopped.
Lalasticlala

OfficialMURIC:


Nigeria is a multi religious society, with predominantly muslim population. Even in advanced countries, muslims girls are not denied their Allah-given right to wear hijab. Christians must and cannot dictate how we dress or look. We all know this Islamaphobia is orchastrated by CAN in order to morally corrupt our muslim ummah. We will resist this. Time to hide and bide is over. Like it or not, the new norms governing how schools in Nigeria treat muslims are being established now.

Tell me just ONE thing Islam has done to benefit the society that it wants to dictate for? What has Islam done for Nigeria besides taking thousands of human lives to their early graves.

In the north, everyone is prevented from doing alchohol business by hisbah, a person can rarely be allowed to establish a piggery. So this issue of Hijab goes beyond a piece of clothing issue but another unfortunate pattern of Islam trying to dictate and enforce societal laws.

I said and i repeat, if you want a place where muslims can do all they want then be ready to establish them for yourselves. You cannot tell a private school what its uniform should or shouldn't be.

We know that muslim are only good at

K

Oh, just shut up MURIC! Tribalism and Religious bigotry are some of the reasons that Nigeria is backward.

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Abeg... The parent should take dere children to Islamic school dat allow hijab

Muslims will remain backwards for ever especially in Nigeria and Africa...very ignorant illiterate set of humans.. Spits

I blame those that keep bringing these kind of stories to the front page

MURIC again.ISI that I know since 1993 suddenly becomes engulfed in a hijab controversy of this nature For God's sake the school have a rule.You cant enroll your ward promising to abide by the school regulation only to turn around & start tormenting trouble.If you can't, then get out.

This MURIC as an organization is zero.

This terror network again? Sha na afonja zone. They can continue

First of all, thanks to the Governing Board of the International School Ibadan and the Alumni of the Institution for upholding the 55 year old rule prohibiting the wearing and use of religious articles.


Secondly, there is a judgment of the Oyo State High Court which confirmed that ISI is a private institution owned by staff, but not owned by the University itself. So whatever legal case that the MURIC mumu/baboon/gorilla/chimpanzee is building up is dead on arrival.



Thirdly, the International School Ibadan is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ford Foundation both American institutions.



Fourthly, where the heck is Daddy Freeze? He was a student of ISI back in the early 1990s. If it was Pastors he go find mouth complain. Now that his former secondary school is under siege by religious morons he is as quiet as a stone statue. Why is it that you atheists are bold as lions when confronting Christianity but as timid as mice when islam is in issue? You guys are a disgrace.


Fifthly, tying a rag around your head does not make you a person of virtue and you're an absolute mo-ron if you think it does:

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Finally, Kindly relocate to ISLAMABAD in Pakistan if you are not happy with you just read here

look at the insults coming out of their mouth!! you can only imagine wat they preach

OfficialMURIC:


Nigeria is a multi religious society, with predominantly muslim population. Even in advanced countries, muslims girls are not denied their Allah-given right to wear hijab. Christians must and cannot dictate how we dress or look. We all know this Islamaphobia is orchastrated by CAN in order to morally corrupt our muslim ummah. We will resist this. Time to hide and bide is over. Like it or not, the new norms governing how schools in Nigeria treat muslims are being established now.

There is a school uniform.
It does not involve hijab.
What's the problem with u not involving religion with everything?
Catholics are not allowed to wear rosary in schools cos it not in the uniform so y should hijab be allowed.
Frankly it's madness to always bring religion to everything.
U people should go and enforce Ur law in schools like covenant Na.
Rubbish.
Bigotry.

muric, as expected.

in the next 5 - 15 years, the south west would never be the same, if nothing is done about the high rate of islamic extremism and fundamentalism as propagated by muric.