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PoliticsRe: Diplomat Breaks Traffic Rules In Asokoro, Abuja & Said This.. PICS by adigun86(m): 3:36pm On Oct 03, 2016
this useless guy should be sent out of the country.
SportsRe: Katsuya Takasu Arrives Nigerian Team's Base In Order To Fulfill His Pledge by adigun86(m): 5:33am On Aug 21, 2016
see how cheap Solomon Dalung sold us. A Japanese Haba shame on the sport minister. I think he should resign after the Olympics.
TravelRe: The Modern Emerging Face Of Ibadan City. by adigun86(m): 10:09am On Jul 31, 2016
please where is Beere, Iwo road and co. Also you pictures does not have caption.
PropertiesRe: Cost Of Fence On 1 Plot Of Land by adigun86(m): 6:57am On Feb 02, 2016
I will strongly advice that before erecting fence or any major structure on a land in Ajao estate , kindly undergo a Geotechnical investigation on the land so that you will not over or under estimate. I am a Geologist specialized in Geotechnical investigations. you can reach me on qosimraji@gmail.com for free professional advice. thanks
PropertiesRe: What Is The Best Way To Build A Fence On This Marshy Land? by adigun86(m): 6:57am On Feb 01, 2016
i am a professional soil scientist kindly call me on 08020304004 for the professional advice for Free.
FamilyRe: My Son Caught I And His Mother In The Most Embarassing Way by adigun86(m): 4:43pm On Jan 07, 2016
I think you have to separate room for you and your children . so you can perform your fantasies with your wife.
PoliticsRe: Online Petition Asking Buhari To Resign Gathers Momentum by adigun86(m): 10:27pm On Jan 02, 2016
I think Dasuki is our only means to catch other thieves. so the lawyer should face his business. KANU committed treason offence. QED
Christianity EtcRe: Ban On Hijab -- Victory For Boko Haram by adigun86(op): 7:50pm On Dec 31, 2015
how do we take clothing to be the reason for the insurgency
Christianity EtcBan On Hijab -- Victory For Boko Haram by adigun86(op): 2:06pm On Dec 31, 2015
TMC PRESS RELEASE

The Muslim Congress (TMC)

1 Thanni Olodo Street, Off Ikorodu Road, Jibowu Bus-stop, Lagos

08023462555

December 31, 2015

 

 

CALL FOR RESTRAINT ON MR. PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS ON POSSIBILITY OF BANNING HIJAB

 

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the universe. May His peace and blessings be upon the noble Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), his faithful companions and dutiful followers till the end of time, amin.

 

The Muslim Congress (TMC) like other Islamic Organisations in Nigeria is disturbed, shocked and offended by the comments of Our Dear President, Muhammadu Buhari during the Presidential chat of Wednesday December 30, 2015 that he may ban Hijab if the suicide mission and senseless bombing of the Boko Haram sect continues. Is this the official New Year gift of Mr. President to the Nigerian Muslim Ummah because it came just two days to 2016?

 

While calling for restraint, there is a need to react to the heat the statement has generated. For the educated and matured audience, the comments of Mr. President is very clear because, there is a big difference of space, time and legal capability between “I may ban Hijab” on one hand and “I will ban Hijab” on another. However, for the mischievous individuals looking for loophole to oppress Nigerian Muslims (Women and Girls), the presumption in the social media is that the President had concluded arrangement to ban Hijab; he is onlyHi jab perfecting the modalities. This type of comment thrives in a society where emotion is placed above reasoning and reality. To this group, I say: Hijab predates Nigeria; it is an age old practice which has come to stay. It is our logo, lifestyle and ethical treasure. To the perverted minds it may mean something else.

 

Religion is good counsel, guided by this saying of the Prophet (Peace be upon him), the leadership of The Muslim Congress is humbled to advise Our Beloved President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) through this press release to be weary of the Islamophobes and their Islamophobic agenda which is strategically designed and packaged to stereotype and demonize Islam, its symbols and blame the Muslims as the specie that is the ‘PROBLEM’ of the world. The media at the local and international levels have been vehicles for selling this toxic product - Islamophobia. It is therefore not a surprise that the question was posed to PMB.

 

We seek to inform the public that prior to the Boko Haram insurgency and till date, the Muslim Women and girls have been harassed in schools, offices, embassies, Passport Offices, NYSC camps, hospitals and public institutions for wearing Hijab. The comments of the President during the Presidential chat may open a floodgate to further harassment of a segment of the electorates who voted religiously and passionately for the APC-led government for the purpose of silencing Boko Haram. Why should the hunters be the hunted so soon?

 

In the Middle-East where terrorism has assumed endemic dimension, the ruling political class never contemplated banning Hijab, because Hijab is not the cause but extremism, hopelessness and bad governance. Islam and Hijab predate what is called Nigeria; our parents have been using Hijab before colonialism; they continued its usage under colonialism and after independence in the modern Nigeria. It is therefore a mirage for an individual no matter how powerful to contemplate banning a fundamental religious symbol of worship in Islam. Even the erstwhile ruling part PDP never attempted such misguided strategy.

 

The Muslims are not fools. We voted for change, is this how we shall be paid back! During campaign, APC never told us that one of its strategies for fighting Boko Haram and engendering an atmosphere of peace and development was banning hijab. If you ban Hijab, you deny our mums, daughters and sisters their fundamental human right clearly articulated by the Nigerian constitution, which you swore to protect.

 

Mr., President just imagine the lopsidedness of the implementation. Do you intend to ask policemen, army or task forces to enforce the proposed Hijab ban? Do you seek to issue circular on banning hijab to the Ministries, Agencies and Parastatals to force the Muslim women in government offices to remove their Hijabs including the wife of Mr. President, wives of the Muslim Governors and obviously the wife of the Communication Minister? Mr. President, do you want to direct the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education to strip our girls and women naked?

 

His Excellency, when our women and girls refused to heed such illegal directives will they be arrested and imprisoned? These ugly pictures are just few of the crisis-ridden scenarios such ban of Hijab will engender in Nigeria. I am not an oracle, there obviously serious crisis ahead if the ban is enforced.

 

For those who do not know or are poorly informed about Islam vis-à-vis the use of Hijab, the directive to wear Hijab is divine and sacrosanct. No man, no matter how well-positioned in the society can upturn Allah’s instruction. Allah instructs:

 

“O you Children of Adam! We have bestowed on you raiment to cover your shame as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, that is the best. Such are among the Signs of Allah, that they may receive admonition.” (Quran 7:26)


“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex…(Quran 24:31).


“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)


The Hijab directive from Allah is decisive. The fact that the Boko Haram Sect members use Hijab as a cover for their heinous crime is not enough justification to ban it. Rather, the security methods, tactics and technologies should be upgraded to stem the antics of this evil group.

 

In as much as the constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria does not give the president the powers to ban eating, drinking, marriage and religion, he cannot ban Hijab. Hijab is part of the dressing of a Muslim woman including the president’s wife and daughters. There was a time in Nigeria when HIV/AID reached an epidemic and pandemic dimension, yet the Presidency did not ban sex. Nigerians suffer untold hardship on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when a popular religious group organizes its programme, yet there was no ban, rather the untold hardship is being managed. Armed robbers are presently using military uniforms to purse their cause, yet there was no ban on military uniform. The message we seek to pass to those with sound intellect is that you manage your head ache, you don’t cut off or blow up you head.

 

Finally, we urge the Our Beloved President to be focused in the battle against Boko Haram sect, militants, corrupt Nigerians, bigots, arsonists and refuse to be distracted and misguided into taking a decision that will pitch the Muslims against him, his party and his government under the pretext that Hijab is a kind of dress that will not allow security personnel to be sure of people identities.” PMB invest in modern security equipment and body scanners. Muslims are not terrorists; evil-minder people only exploit our symbols. Are we to be blamed?

 

Long live Nigeria, Long live the Muslim Ummah, Long live TMC 

SIGNED

Dr. Luqman AbdurRaheem MNIM, FAAE, FCEnt

Amir, The Muslim Congress
CrimeRe: Nigeria Dies After Hard Drugs Bursted In His Stomach by adigun86(m): 2:54pm On Jun 03, 2015
this drugs Nigerians are taking to Indonesia is really worrisome. even if the accident didn't happened he will be killed
PoliticsRe: Photo: Have You Seen This? by adigun86(m): 9:19pm On Apr 10, 2015
kindly visit bariga, somolu, Pedro , Gbagada and so on. I was shocked few months ago I saw it
PoliticsRe: Godday Orubebe (PDP) Accuses Jega Of Bias by adigun86(m): 12:25pm On Mar 31, 2015
pdp agent Orubebe had embarrassed the ruling party and does not worth representing the political party. shame see how the ruling party had turned this man into laughing matter in the public. mind you his children is out of the country so don't cry over his comments and reactions
PoliticsRe: Details From APC Press Conference by adigun86(m): 6:51am On Feb 09, 2015
Nigeria is far bigger than GEJ and millions of genuine
patriots will surely overcome him.
If Nigerians cud overcome "the maximum
dictator",Abacha and a 3rd term seeking
Obasanjo;GEJ's case won't be any different.
No matter his schemes,GEJ would not stay a day longer
than May 29 in Aso rock. Insha Allah
PoliticsRe: APC Reps List 50 "Impeachable Offences" Against Jonathan by adigun86(m): 5:01pm On Nov 26, 2014
please after 2019, what will happen to Nigerians so Jonathan should continue his most win síndrome
NYSCRe: Is It Right For NYSC To Still Be Posting Corpers To The North? by adigun86(m): 4:21pm On Nov 19, 2014
we don't have people friendly law in this country only when it brings to their pockets
PoliticsRe: 2015 Jonathan Rally: Enugu State Government Declares Thursday Work-free Day by adigun86(m): 12:00pm On Sep 25, 2014
I hope GEJ will leave office in 2019 then we all remain normal back after years of making this country
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Remains PDP's Candidate For 2015 Elections - Tukur by adigun86(m): 6:53am On Dec 14, 2013
Dis shows dat the battle line is now drawn, he must contest so that we can test the sincerity and power we nigerians have to remove our bad leaders from office thru election, a test on the electoral body
NYSCRe: Corpers, Have You Been Paid August Allowee? by adigun86(m): 4:42pm On Sep 03, 2013
Jigawa nothing show, e bi like say na PDP convention cause am ooo
PoliticsRe: Bukola Saraki Interrogated By EFCC In Abuja by adigun86(m): 6:22am On Aug 13, 2013
Please can we imagine that this man is keeping a whole state standsteel because of the fraud and plan he laid on ground. Can you believe that his house is built by the kwara state govt. And no job, project carried out by the present governor. I pray he confessed and he release the state from his captivity
PoliticsRe: Pictures Of All Remodelled Airports Across The Country by adigun86(m): 10:38am On Aug 12, 2013
I beg lets face fact, some of the pics does not represent want is on ground, i was in Aminu kano Airport two weeks ago, nothing is inside the renovated place just the structure alone not even a chair
PoliticsRe: Gov. Fashola’s Father Buried In Ikoyi Lagos by adigun86(m): 11:39pm On Aug 06, 2013
oluwadare26: Inna lilahi wa inna ilahi rajihun... what a life well spent! An Alhaji who gave birth to an "Alhaji" son and die in the holy month of Ramadan(last 10 days) what a best way for a muslim to die! May Allah grant him Al-janat firdaus...
amin
CrimeRe: EFCC Arrests Man With 30 ATM Cards, 8 Signed Cheques by adigun86(m): 9:31am On Aug 06, 2013
Pls when will all this stop for God sake. It is even one eye sleep one eye open when u have ur ATM lost
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's 55th Birthday Party (Pictures) by adigun86(m): 5:29am On Aug 06, 2013
Haba where on earth do we celebrate a thief's birthday, Niger Delta pls open your eye and see haaaaaaa even chief in delta are available
SportsRe: Brown Ideye With His Family (Pictures) by adigun86(m): 8:58am On Aug 05, 2013
Mr Ideye why should you shave you son's head like your own do u want him to miss goals or target too
Christianity EtcRe: Oritsejafor Re-elected As CAN President by adigun86(m): 6:02am On Jul 11, 2013
E bi like say CAN don turn to Nigeria cos how can a controversial man like that given a second term. It is a bad omen for 2015

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