₦airaland Forum

WizardOfNG:
Xenophobic attacks is a crime for policing authority to deal with. How do you not understand this simple concept?

Russia and Ukraine are at War. Nigeria and South Africa are not. Murderous xenophobes killed two of our fellow Nigerians. They should be brought to justice. We must insist on that.

DavidMm:
While I do not know how we will undo the constitutional anomaly of having a "country within a country", that the extension of Sharia law beyond civil into criminal matters created; The Presidency, through the ONSA should immediately order the disbandment of all HISBAH Corps in all the 12 Northern States that have adopted Sharia Law for the reasons below.


1. Enforcement of Shari'a on Non-Muslims

While Shari'a penal codes in Nigeria are theoretically only applicable to Muslims, Hisbah brigades have been documented attempting to enforce aspects of the law on non-Muslims, including Christians.

Morality and Dress Codes: Christians, particularly women, have reported being harassed and stopped by Hisbah officers for allegedly not conforming to Islamic dress or moral codes while in public spaces. In some cases, they are reportedly told to dress like Muslims.

Alcohol Ban: The Hisbah often strictly enforces the state-wide ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol, which disproportionately affects Christians and other non-Muslim communities who consume it. They have carried out raids in non-Muslim areas.

Public Activities: Hisbah has attempted to disrupt or ban public gatherings or rallies organized by non-Muslim groups, viewing them as "un-Islamic."

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2. Creating an Environment of Fear and Secondary Citizenship

The presence and activities of the Hisbah contribute to an overall sense of being treated as second-class citizens among Christians in the region.

Informal Authority: While the Hisbah's legal jurisdiction is often limited, their presence as a state-sanctioned morality police creates a chilling effect, where Christians and other minorities feel compelled to comply with Islamic precepts out of fear of harassment, arrest, or detention, even when such actions are beyond the Hisbah's legal authority.

The Hisbah have become a persecutory force for both Christians and non muslims in these states. And as such, the Federal Government ought to show the world that they are capable of stepping in to right a wrong, if state and local policies becomes discriminatory, and or, prosecutory for a segment of the population.

DomPerignon:
If it is irrelevant , then how is it infringing on the rights of others to practice their religion ?

And if there's no discrimination alongside religion , how then does it infringe on constitutional rights of any citizen ?

The real bigot and intolerant being here is you who for some reason hate Islam and Muslims.

Why not stay out of their states and affairs?

DomPerignon:
When has alcohol consumption being integral to practicing Christianity ?

Pls educate me.

DomPerignon:
I have asked you severally here to outline which law in sharia code that discriminates against Christians .

Mention just one.

FYI, I am a southerner and a christian and I see your misplaced cho cho over what is going on in the Muslim majority north as undue interference and total intolerance.

Mention to me also why sharia is barbaric but your voodoo shrines you all troop to is better.

DomPerignon:
Alcohol is banned irrespective of religion .

Which part of this do you not understand ?

And outside alcohol and drug use , which other sharia law discriminates against Christians ?

Or has alcohol consumption a part of christian custom ?

DomPerignon:
Let me educate you now that Emirs in the north have remand powers and also act as judges.

The Emirs also have limited powers in granting pardons depending on the crime.

Northern Nigeria no be your mate.

They have had a well structured educated and literate civilization longer than you can phantom.

They had indigenous architecture, built cities and had all the institutions of what a modern state have including a standing army.

I don't know where you guys who stopped swinging from trees in just a hundred years can assume you can dictate to the north.

How nah?

DomPerignon:
Are you dense?

Sharia law and courts are embedded in our constitution and existed in northern Nigeria prior to the Ibo coup that dismantled regional governments.

Even a British colonial officer had to seek a permit on '' health '' grounds to get licence to consume alcohol in the fundamentalist islamist north.

Sharia law has existed in the north for centuries prior to colonialism and the British respected the system . At independence, there was still sharia laws and courts until military rule .

It was in 1978 during the drafting of a new - the 1979 constitution, that sharia was then included again.

Military rule which preferred military tribunals and marshal laws saw sharia take a back seat.

Then in 1998, the revised 1979 constitution was passed which we know today as the 1999 constitution.

Your ignorance is you see military juntas suspending the constitution and courts as excuse of sharia being a new thing when it goes back centuries in the north.

Now explain how you that suddenly began wearing clothes as late as 1960, can dictate to northern Muslims?

BeardedMeat:
Let them keep their Sharia if only they will limit it to Muslims only.

DomPerignon:
My friend go and protest in front of the NASS in Abuja to have sharia expunged from our constitution.

Or you can take it up to the supreme court to declare sharia as illegal.

But while you are at it, remember your people prefer voodoo justice .

DomPerignon:
Saudi Arabia practices the most strict form.of sharia law.

Beheadings are the standard method of executions .

As I said, If no one is stopping you from trooping to your shrines why are you foaming in the mouth over sharia law in the north?

DomPerignon:
Where has sharia law been against Christians?

Prohibition of alcohol was once a thing in the US driven by fundamentalist Christians.

Is drunkenness a hallmark of christian identity ?

Outside , alcohol prohibition , which other sharia law is targeting Christians ?

Public decency laws were once enforced in the now degenerate west up till the 1950s.

So explain to me how Sharia discriminates against Christians ?

DomPerignon:
Are voodoo customs and shrines not treated as supreme in your SE?

Why should Sharia law be abolished but your voodoo courts allowed to remain?

The fact remains is if the people who the law was passed for are against it.

Just as you revere your voodoo shrines and courts and see them as more potent which most of your surface Christian population troop to and patronise, so also are northern Muslims willing to abide by sharia law.

In Saudi Arabia, sharia law exist and is enforced. Tell your drumpf to get them to end sharia there first.

DomPerignon:
There are provisions for the establishment of Sharia law and courts in the constitution.

Hisbah is the policing arm of Sharia law.

Why is this even your headache?

Have northern Muslims demanded you stop using juju shrines to bind oaths like in Okirja shrine ?

Have they in anyway interfered with your voodoo customs of going to shrines to settle scores or prove innocence?

If you guys can practice your own voodoo courts that always passes down barbaric instant sentences , why is sharia law among majority Muslim states your problem?

muyico:
enemy of sharial laws