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Education › Re: Christian Parents, Ifa Priest Protest Against UI School’s Hijab Crisis by herkeem: 4:44pm On Nov 22, 2018
EXPLAINING THE HIJAB TO NON-MUSLIMS
By Nojeem Jimoh

Last Sunday (18/11/2018), I attended the Grand Finale of the 10 years' anniversary of the pre-eminent Muslim organisation in the South-Western part of Nigeria (Muslims of South West Nigeria - better known as MUSWEN). In attendance was - among others - His Excellency, Governor Abiola Ajimobi. Not known publicly as the most devoted of Muslims - it is fair to say His Excellency doesn't carry his Muslim badge on the forehead - Professor Dawud Noibi, Executive Secretary of MUSWEN stepped forward just ahead of the Governor's speech to intimate the audience of how forward-looking His Excellency had been in terms of relations with Muslims of Oyo State.

This Governor who is not 'in your face' with his Islam would appear one of the best-ever in the history of the State as far as creating enabling environment for Muslims (and Muslim pupils) to practice their faith is concerned. Among the many encomiums poured on him (and Professor Dawud Olatokunbo Noibi does not praise people cheaply) is the fiat with which he pronounced the permissibility of the hijab on school uniforms in Oyo State. A settled matter as far as Oyo State is concerned.

But here we are! The hijab is in the news again - and, ironically, from Oyo State. The gates of the International School, Ibadan (ISI) are currently closed as parents of Muslim children insist their children should be allowed to wear their hijabs. I am aware that ISI is an 'independent' school which does not come under the purview of the Oyo State Government. I will address this 'independence' very soon. My mission here is to explain to our non-Muslim friends why this hijab issue keeps coming up.

Among the many comments I have read from non-Muslim (and some Muslim) commentators is that allowing Muslim children to wear the hijab would invariably lead to agitation by people of other faiths to be allowed to wear similar outfits that are consistent with their faiths. This is where (Christians especially) get it wrong.

Hijab is compulsory for all Muslim girls once they attain the age of puberty - which I understand can be from as young as the age of 11 years. The argument from non-Muslims is that those who go to Celestial Church of Christ, for instance, would equally ask to be allowed to wear their Sultana. Apologies to my Christian friends, but this is a faulty comparison or analogy. Hijab is compulsory for Muslim girls once they are in an environment in which they can be seen by non-family; the Sultana is not compulsory - at least not outside the church. You can extend this argument to all other faiths - including those who follow the African Traditional Religion.

The one simple fact that non-Muslims refuse to embrace is that our girls (other than in situations of lack of understanding or weakness of faith) do not have a choice on the hijab. It is a must-wear once they are in a public space. If there are similar items of clothing (compulsory) for non-Muslim children to wear in a public space as a mark of believe, Muslims world-wide would support the struggle to ensure such are respected and honoured. For the sake of emphasis, the hijab is compulsory and is not comparable to white church garments, Eku that masquerades wear or other pieces of clothing that non-Muslims have a choice about.

What about the argument that Muslims who wish for their children to wear the hijab should take them to Muslim schools. This cannot be tenable in schools funded by the government. Effectively, Muslim children would be denied access to very good schools which are neither privately owned nor solely funded by non-Muslims. How can this be fair? I have heard the argument that ISI is an independent school. This independence needs to be defined because ISI is an integral part of the University of Ibadan - which is a Federal Government institution - owned equally by Nigerian Muslims, Christians and Atheists. How can you leave a critical section of the community out of this institution on the basis of their religion?

So, how come no one demanded to wear the hijab in the 55 years or so of the existence of ISI? We (as Muslims) accept the blame for this, but can people be wrong for gaining increased awareness of their faith and striving to be better Muslims?

Can Christian children come to a Muslim school and ask to wear their Christian outfits? No. For as long as it is a Muslim school, privately funded and established as a school for Muslim children. By the same token, Muslim children cannot go to a private school, privately-funded and clearly marked as a school set up for Christian children, and demand to wear the hijab. ISI is not a Christian school. It belongs as much to Muslims as it does to Christians.

BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLES FROM THE UK

FACT 1. My daughter (my own biological daughter) did part of her secondary school in London. She wore her hijab for every day that she was in that London school and no one saw it as an issue. The same girl had previously completed her primary school in another part of London where Muslim girls wore their hijabs free of harassment or questions. Neither of these schools was a Muslim school.

Christianity came to Nigeria from the UK. If the very people who brought Christianity to us do not have an issue about girls wearing their hijabs in state-funded schools, why is it an issue for us in Nigeria?

FACT 2. Before my very eyes, the Metropolitan Police in London introduced the hijab as part of the uniform to be worn by female police officers who wish to do so. You do not even have to be a Muslim to wear it; it is free for all. As I write, female Muslim police officers (who wish to do so) wear the hijab in the UK. Christian officers have not, as a result, asked for a special uniform for Christians. Why? Because they understand the simple argument that the hijab is compulsory for mature girls and women in Islam. This is maturity.

FACT 3. Two or three years ago (and I shared the post here with a link to the original story), the UK Education Authority voluntarily changed the dates of the GCSE Mathematics and English examinations because the original dates fell in Ramadan. The dates were changed, not because the Muslims asked for it, but because the education authority does not want the Muslim children disadvantaged. This is the height of religious tolerance from the home of Christianity and you wouldn't find a better example elsewhere.

FACT 4. Two years or so ago when the argument raged over the refusal of the Council of Legal Education to allow Firdaws Amasa her right to be called to the Nigerian bar, the then president of the Nigerian Bar Association published photographs of her daughter as she was called to the American Bar donning her hijab. Trump's America. Most senior lawyers took the view that the Council of Legal Education could not successfully defend their position in Court. Today, Firdaws has been called to bar - and she was called wearing her hijab.

FACT 5. Muslim girls wear their hijab freely to school in northern Nigeria without it being a subject of discussion. Is Southwest Nigeria not part of the country?

If this hijab is so compulsory, how come so many Muslim ladies do not wear it? As I wrote earlier, this merely shows either a lack of understanding, but most likely a weakness of faith. This does not make it the standard. And you would be surprised that the same lady who does not herself wear the hijab, is the one fighting for her daughter to be allowed to do so. There you go! Most of us (Muslims and Christians alike) are more religious than our parents - just as our children are likely to be more religious than us. Isn't this our prayer?

In conclusion therefore, the most important of all the points that I have made here - and the one that I want non-Muslim friends and associates to take home - is that the hijab is not optional. It is not something you choose to do or not do. It is compulsory - be it in school, hospital, bus stop, motor park and even at parties. If we understand this point - and I believe I have made it clear enough to understand, then no non-Muslim can legitimately advance the argument that it would lead to agitation by adherents of other faiths to also wear symbols of their faith. And this includes the Cross.
Education › Re: Christian Parents, Ifa Priest Protest Against UI School’s Hijab Crisis by herkeem: 1:32pm On Nov 22, 2018
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HIJAB PALAVER IN ISI: MATTERS ARISING

As a parent of students of ISI who believe in the call for the use of hijab in the school, I consider it appropriate to put forth some points. I also realised that I need to state the following in order to place my submission in the right context;

1. The call for use of hijab in ISI is solely because it is an inalienable right that of the Muslim girls. Islam requires that all Muslim women use the hijab; the constitution of Nigeria guarantees the right to use it.

2. Not all Muslims conform to the codes of Islam in the same manner; hence the call is for the Muslim girls who are willing to use it.

3. I found it difficult to understand why someone would say my child is not entitled to such a right because (s)he feels so. Why play ‘the dog in the manger’? I was stunned beyond imagination when a parent, at the PTA meeting, said his child cannot be in the same class with a hijab-wearing girl! How would my girl’s hijab disturb his child in the same class? How did we get to this level of hatred for one another because we express different religions? This is a time bomb!

4. When someone, at the PTA meeting, encouraged the ISI school management to go to court on the matter, the Christians shouted thunderous No! In essence, they are opposed to civil way of resolution and rely on their ability/capacity to force their ways of life on the Muslims.

5. It was the ISI management that disrupted school activities and not the Muslim parents. At the PTA meeting, we were told that the school administration decided to withhold their services because some girls used hijab.

6. The colonial missionaries deprived our fathers access to education; they gave them the option of either changing their faith or get educated. The next generation that ventured into education were oppressed by imposing Christian doctrines on them, vestiges of which still remain till today. The Muslims have been subjected to generational oppression. I assert the way the ISI administration’s intent is to perpetuate the generational oppression on our children. This has to stop at a point in time.

7. ISI is not a secular school; it is a multi-religion community, which is why Christian Religious Knowledge and Islamic Studies are taught in the school. A secular system does not recognise any religion.

8. ISI allowed the teaching of Islamic Studies after 43 years of its existence, whereas Bible knowledge has been taught from inception. Even at that, the University of Ibadan Muslim community paid the salaries of the Islamic Studies teachers for two years. Where is fairness here?

9. Preventing hijab use in ISI hitherto is a tradition. There is no mention of “No to use of head cover” in ISI’s School Rules and Regulations.

10. An international school should be accommodating of the expected diversity in humanity than is displayed in this scenario. Some parents expressed that it is of Christian orientation and should remain so; this is localising the international school. It is not good for the institution.

11. Peace should be based on justice and not a situation where some people lord their desires over others while the oppressed go to silence grudgingly. That is peace of the graveyard!

I was surprised when I saw the write up of a sociology scholar of University of Ibadan on this matter. The basis of my apprehension is that when the government decides to do things right, they would consult the scholars in order to provide evidence-based policies. If her submissions in the write-up represent the mind of a sociology scholar in Nigeria, this truly calls for concern.

To be specific, I found the following submission of hers quite disturbing;

1. My understanding of her statement _“If the foreign Christians who established the school had said strictly no other person of other religion except from Christianity should attend, maybe this problem would not have emerged”_ is that Muslims should consider it a privilege to be allowed any stake in that school. If this is what she meant, I am quite dazed and wondered if her career is sufficient to tame her bigotry. This probably informed her misplaced ‘advice’ of where Muslim parents should have taken their children. I expect her to know that segregating our children in such tender ages will not lead to any good for our society in the nearest future. Children of different religious affiliations should relate and appreciate the differences so that they can learn to tolerate one another in the larger society. It is surprising that a sociology scholar was actually speaking against what she should be speaking for!

2. The submission that _“the Muslim parents who are supporting this cause some of them actually got educated through their attendance of mission schools owned by Catholics, Methodist, Baptist and Anglican”_ suggests that she expects the Muslims to have been attenuated enough not to see the need to ask for the right of their children. Yes, we were forced to join the Christian fellowship sessions at schools; some of us still have Songs of Praise rhymes in our memories till now, but oppression will have to come to an end at a point in time. Her knowledge of society should have taught her that at a point in time, a people will become conscious of their identity and would want to express it.

3. Her reference to the call for hijab use as madness revealed her bigotry. A competent sociologist should appreciate a potent voice of disagreement and should advice the powers that be to address it. To disregard genuine complaints, and call it madness is to wait for implosion that may lead to social disharmony. By attempting to muffle voices of disagreement or treating genuine complaints with dismissal is to call for societal upheaval. This is basically because those who have come to the consciousness of their rights cannot be repressed all the time.

4. When the sociology scholar ventured to state that _“Permit me to say that the wearing of Hijab is not on religious bases but cultural (way of life). The region where the mode of dressing emanated from was in the Middle East which is a desert and thus the need to protect their eyes from blindness due to the sand dust”_, I marvelled at the display of ignorance. How can such a scholar arrogate to herself the authority to guide people of other religion in which she knows nothing about? Qur’aan 24 verse 31 gave specific instruction about the use of hijab.

I hereby submit that we found ourselves in this multi-religious society, not by our choice but by divine design; what we make of it is up to us. Let us live and allow others to live. Tolerance is the watch word; I my right does not infringe on yours there is no need for you to try to stop me from having right.

Akande Lasisi is a Muslim Parent
Education › Re: Christian Parents, Ifa Priest Protest Against UI School’s Hijab Crisis by herkeem: 9:21am On Nov 22, 2018
Our father who championed this cause since when he was the Chairman of UI Muslim Community bare his mind;

*HIJAB PALAVER IN ISI*

*Response to Dr Olufunke Adegoke*

Dear Dr Olufunke Adegoke,

My name is Lateef A Hussain. I used to work as a lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of Ibadan.

I am a Muslim, though it is only Almighty Allah that would determine on the great of judgment who a muslim was.

I used to be the Chairman, University of Ibadan Muslim Community, and, arising from this small role of mine, wrote , in 1991, the Director, Institute of Education and, then, the Chairman, Board of Governors, International School, Ibadan, Professor Obemeata, that Arabic and Islamic Studies be included in the subjects to be taught at the school. Doctor, please, note that ISI was established in 1963 while this humble writer was requesting for those two subjects to be taught in 1991, twenty eight years after.

Professor Obemeata replied giving the conditions under which the two subjects would be taught :

*The UI Muslim Community must pay, in advance , the salaries of the two teachers to teach those subjects for two years*

Humiliation, you would say, doctor?
The UI Muslim Community issued a cheque for N 48,000 to ISI, bearing the humiliation. That, Dr Olufunke Adegoke, was how Arabic and Islamic Studies came to be taught at ISI, but, doctor, you could correct this humble Lateef Hussain if he is wrong.
Furthermore, Ma , for your information, the same struggle was going in the Staff School, University of Ibadan where this same Chairman of the Muslim Community was also requesting for the teaching of the same two subjects and Professor Obemeata, the Director of the Institute, was also Chairman, Board of Governors. This time, the director brought the matter to the board, the reason, which I guess, with hindsight, would become obvious in this narrative.

For as Professor Obemeata brought up the subject, a member of the board and, then, I think, the Head, Department of Adult Education, Professor Akinpelu, as quick as a snake, spoke to support the muslim request and, surprisingly, mentioned that he had warned the director, Professor Obemeata, just before the meeting not to sneer at the request of the muslim community. The director was taken aback and sought indirectly the support of Lateef Hussain who was also at the meeting representing Senate. Lateef Hussain refused to back the director trying to take cover from the stinging words of Professor Akinpelu, and , indeed, Hussain told the meeting he was there to represent Senate, not Muslims. So, without the muslim community paying any amount this time, the teaching of Arabic and Islamic Studies began at the Staff School.

Should Dr Adegoke wish to correct Lateef Hussain here too, the doctor would be welcome. Now to one or two things before conclusion.

*One:* At that meeting of the Staff School Board of Governors that day, Hussain distributed freely the letter of Professor Obemeata asking for the Muslim Community to pay before Arabic and Islamic Studies could be taught in ISI, as an aside, and many asked if Christian parents were asked to pay before Christian Religious Studies was taught at ISI.

*Two:* Hussain would not know if any of Professors Obemeata and Akinpelu are still alive, but, if not, may God Almighty visit Hussain with His wrath in its worst form if Hussain, in this narrative, had lied against any of the two Professors.

Finally, Dr Olufunke Adegoke, I hope you will agree with me if I state that may God Almighty reward all of us adequately according to our deeds.

I am, humbly,
Lateef A Hussain
Professor of Physics (Rtd), University of Ibadan
Chairman Parents Teachers Association, ISI (1991 -2001 )
*posted as copied*
Education › Re: Christian Parents, Ifa Priest Protest Against UI School’s Hijab Crisis by herkeem: 7:51am On Nov 22, 2018
[quote author=nawtyme post=73192689]Go to a muslim school. Simple [/quote
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Education › Re: Christian Parents, Ifa Priest Protest Against UI School’s Hijab Crisis by herkeem: 7:30am On Nov 22, 2018
For two days last week, students of the International School, Ibadan, did not take classes; and it was not down to an industrial action. Well, students of the parent institution — the University of Ibadan (UI) — are at home as well. The plight of UI students is understandable: the Academic ‘Strike’ Union of Universities (ASUU) is on one of its trademark industrial actions as part of its never-ending funding feud with the government. But ISI students experienced a disruption in academic activity due to a needless, in fact irritating, bickering over the propriety of hijabs in a school environment.

For a while, some parents of Muslim pupils of ISI had been trying to convince the management to allow hijab wearing in the school but the management was unwilling to discuss. Frustrated by the continuous snob, the parents took laws into their hands. On November 9, writing under the name International School Muslim Parents’ Forum (ISMPF), they notified the school of their decision to enforce their desire. Three days later, on Monday November 12, some of these parents called their wards to the ISI car park and distributed hijabs to them. The Principal, Mrs Phibean Olowe, sighted them, and instantly ended the ongoing school assembly. The school was shut, technically, for two days, but since resuming, the hijab-donning pupils have not tasted classes. On Wednesday, they were allowed in but locked in the library; on Thursday and Friday, they were turned back altogether.

The Muslim parents argue that their right to hijab comes from the Nigerian Constitution’s recognition of the freedom of association and religion. But the position of the ISI Court of Governors, chaired by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) of UI, Professor Abideen Aderinto, is clear. The current dress code will be maintained; ISI is a private school with its own rules; a 55-year-old dress culture will not be upended. The real issues, though, are deeper.

I have read yes and no arguments on the use of hijabs in ISI, but I still haven’t heard — perhaps I haven’t been voracious enough exactly why this apparel is important to the Muslim. What does the hijab represent? Does it harm a Christian, pagan or traditionalist? Does it unsettle the learning environment?

I have been fascinated by the 31st verse of the 24th chapter of the Quran, known as Surah An-Nur (the light), which justifies the use of the hijab:

And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their private parts; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their khimār over their breasts and not display their beauty except to their husband, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments.

I honestly cannot understand the opposition to an apparel that does nothing other than encourage modesty, humility and sexual purity. For context: I’m Christian; so I have been, so will I forever be.

One underlying reason for the anti-hijab sentiment among some Christians is the feeling that Muslims are trying to dominate Christians. They will deny but if you’re looking for them around you, they are the ones who say hijabs can’t be worn so long nuns or priests aren’t allowed to show up in school in their religious attires. Yet it’s an argument that falls flat before it has ever been shot — because they compare a mere apparel with a full-fledged attire. Religion is no competition; Christians and Muslims shouldn’t be in a battle to outdo each other. If you look further, these people will tell you ISI Muslim parents should take their wards to an Ansar-ud-Deen or Nawar-ud-Deen school. But until a Muslim parent has taken his ward to a St. Peter’s College or a Catholic secondary school, he has done no wrong. ISI is a secular school, hence both Christians and Muslims should be welcome.

I have studied the much-vaunted ISI rules and regulations, and I’m still at a loss how hijab wearing violates the document. The document states clearly how students should be dressed. More importantly, it lists the adornments/ornaments that should not be found on a student. These include: attachments, wigs, weave-on, bangles, necklaces, chains, rings, dangling ear-rings, jeans, pencil trousers and slim-fitted shirts/trousers. Nowhere in that document is the hijab mentioned; tellingly, what this means is that the document is dated and in need of some remodelling.

With ISI standing firm on its rejection of hijabs and Muslim parents also unyielding, it appears the matter is destined for a court. My bet is that ISI would lose — the Muslims can indeed lay claim to violation of a fundamental right of theirs. Section 38 (1) of the Constitution states:

Every person shall be entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom (either alone or in community with others, and in public or in private) to manifest and propagate his religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance.

Section 42 adds:

A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group, place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only that he is such a person:- (a) be subjected either expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria or any executive or administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to which citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions are not made subject;

If the ISI Muslim parents get lawyers who are able to substantially argue the violations of these sections by the rejection of hijab-wearing pupils from school, they have a case. In any case, there are encouraging precedents to suggest how such a case would be decided. Firdaus Amasa caused quite a stir in December 2017 when she insisted on wearing the hijab to her Call to Bar ceremony. The University of Ilorin law graduate was denied entry to the venue and, by extension, the legal profession. However, the Body of Benchers — the professional body concerned with the admission of prospective students into the Nigerian Law School — subsequently approved the use of the Islamic apparel. Amasa eventually attended her Call to Bar in July 2018. A similar case in Lagos public primary and secondary schools could potentially end in an Amasa-esque manner. A Lagos High Court had initially held that denying pupils the chance to wear hijab does not infringe on their constitutional rights. However, this judgement was upturned by the Appeal Court in July 2016. Only last week, the state government wrote schools to remind them hijabs remain allowed until the final determination of the matter by the Supreme Court.

What is happening in ISI is a manifestation of the level of ethnic, religious and associational intolerance not only in the wider University of Ibadan campus but in the society itself. The UI that should be championing freedom of speech and association has banned student unionism for close to two years now. Nothing more than management’s intolerance for dissenting student voice! Its Student Union Building is currently lying fallow. Even the non-political associations in that building, including the Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), were chased out of their offices like petty thieves — without the chance to pick up just a piece of paper from their archives. That’s the same UCJ that has produced numerous high-grade journalists who have distinguished themselves nationally and internationally. I worry that without a secretariat to run its activities, without the chance to at least retrieve documents containing its rich history, UI risks inflicting a wedge between past and current generations of campus journalists. Long and short, UI is already writing the obituary of campus journalism. Nigerian journalism will suffer the primary damage, while the larger society won’t escape the knock-on effect.

Back to ISI, Nigeria as a heterogeneous country. With 250 ethnic groups who speak more than 250 languages, plus a multi-religious makeup that includes the highest population of Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa, we must stop expecting to look into any secular gathering and see a homogeneously-dressed audience, for example. Yes, look into an ISI and see clusters of neatly-worn hijabs over school uniforms. This is the reality of our diversity; we cannot run away from it. ISI is trying to, but it will be short-lived; the permanent solution would be for ISI to discuss with Muslim parents on how hijabs can be worn neatly, sizably and uniformly such that our religious diversity is represented without compromising the uniformity expected of pupils’ appearance.

Soyombo, former Editor of the TheCable and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), tweets @fisayosoyombo
Education › Re: Christian Parents, Ifa Priest Protest Against UI School’s Hijab Crisis by herkeem: 7:27am On Nov 22, 2018
The International School Ibadan (ISI) and the Hijab Ban.

ISI is a secondary school under the control of the management of University of Ibadan. The school has been in the news in the last few days for its refusal to allow willing female Muslim students use Hijab on their uniform. The situation has degenerated to the extent that the Muslim students were shut out of the school among other unwarranted actions of the school as represented by the Principal, one Mrs Phebean Olowe.

I have read and listened to different opinions on the development and I am not sorry for the positions I take on the matter. Before I conclude with my positions however, I have a few questions for the Principal in question as well as anyone with position same as or similar to that of the school management:

1. Does the wearing of Hijab by the willing female Muslim students portend any danger/evil for their colleagues (who don't), the school or anyone for that matter?

2. Is it against the law of the land for the students of such a 'public' school to wear Hijab?

3. Does their observance of that aspect of their constitutional rights rub or deny anyone of his?

If the genuine answers to the above questions are NO, then I am of the opinion that the assertion that the school's reactions are borne out of hatred for Islam and the Muslims must be very true and this has to stop and stop NOW.

And for those who might be asking, does their not wearing Hijab portend any danger? Yes, it does and contrary to the opinions of those that know not, not wearing Hijab makes female muslims less Muslims because it's not a flexible commandment. If your wish is really not to make them non-Muslims, let them use what makes them the Muslims that they are.

I call on all the concerned stakeholders and well meaning people of the society to intervene in good time to allow our female Muslim students join their colleagues without any further victimization, molestation, discrimination or disdainful treatment of any kind.

Leyin aponle, abuku lo Ku o........... Tori a ko le wa sa fun keke lo kolu moto.....

Adesanjo Oyejide.
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Forum Games › Re: Any Comment That Does Not Get A Like In 30 min Gets 1500 Naira Worth Of Recharge by herkeem: 2:27pm On Apr 14, 2018
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Christianity Etc › Re: Mayor Of Nazareth Hosts Prophet T.B Joshua In Israel(photos) by herkeem: 2:38pm On Mar 31, 2018
Nazareth (/ˈnæzərəθ/; Hebrew: נָצְרַת‬, Natzrat; Arabic: النَّاصِرَة‎, an-Nāṣira; Aramaic: ܢܨܪܬ‎, Naṣrath) is the capital and the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel".[2] In 2016 its population was 75,922.[1] The inhabitants are predominantly Arab citizens of Israel, of whom 69% are Muslim and 30.9% Christian.[2][3][4][5] Nazareth Illit (lit. "Upper Nazareth"wink is built alongside old Nazareth, and had a Jewish population of 40,312 in 2014. The Jewish sector was declared a separate city in June 1974.[6]
Forum Games › Re: Any Comment That Does Not Get A Like In 30 min Gets 1500 Naira Worth Of Recharge by herkeem: 4:57pm On Mar 29, 2018
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Education › Re: UTME 2018: NSCDC Arrests Rev’d For Extortion by herkeem: 6:46pm On Mar 13, 2018
BankeSmalls:
This is a step in the right direction, as long as he is a reverend and based in Abia, plus he is in a PDP controlled state, he is guilty, must be arrested and prosecited.

Why not make it a national practice because the number of people aiding exam malpractice is almost 99% of the centres, corruption fight is ONE SIDED in Nigeria.

For those planning to quote me and say rubbish, may Bubu pampers fall on you grin
Everything to you people is marginalization..... because he's Ibo you've believed that he's being victimized.
Education › Re: Northern States, Universities Denying Christians Employment And Admission - ECWA by herkeem: 6:09pm On Jan 13, 2018
The claim may be true but am sure this is happening in other parts of the country. How many Muslim lecturer do we have in eastern universities.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Palestinian Christian Leaders Denounce Trump's Decision by herkeem:
[quote author=Cyynthialove post=63609527]Christian leaders ?
Lolzzz.

If really they are Christians like they claim, then two things are involved... Its either they don't read their Bible or they are yet to understand what is written in the Bible.

Word of God must come to pass no matter the forces fighting against it.
Those Christian countries that want the word of God to be compromised by voting against US decision did that for economic benefit from Arab world. ( That's politicians for you, rotten souls) But one thing is inevitable.... they will never escape the consequences of their action.
You can't fight God and go unpunished.
Ask those that attempted it in the past how they ended up.

JERUSALEM IS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
GOD BLESS USA
See you, do you think you know more than the people on ground who have first hand information about what is happening in their land.
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