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MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by ISLAMBAD: 12:05pm On May 29, 2021
29th May, 2021

PRESS RELEASE:

MURIC TO PFN : MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Islamic human rights group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) to mind its own business. This followed a warning issued by the PFN on Thursday, 27th May, 2021 against any move by any group to introduce Sharia law to the South-West zone of the country through the ongoing constitutional review being carried out by the Senate.

MURIC’s reaction came via a statement issued by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Saturday, 29th May 2021.

According to MURIC, “Our Christian neighbours have come again. They are always the ones who fire the first shot. They are always heating up the polity. The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) warned on Thursday, 27th May, 2021 against any move by any group to introduce Shariah law to the South-West zone of the country through the ongoing constitutional review being carried out by the Senate.

“This is a well-known pattern. Our Christian neighbours know very well that Shariah is the Allah-given fundamental human right of Muslims. But they are determined to deprive us of it using unorthodox methods. They believe they are at war with Muslims and to them, everything is fair in war. They are using both fair and foul means to achieve their objective

“It is the gospel according to Niccolo Machiavelli : the end justifies the means, no matter what they do to achieve it. Like the German Otto Von Bismarck, they do not just wait to strike when the iron is hot, our Christian neighbours believe in striking to make the cold iron hot. This is why they heat up the polity all year round.

“PFN and other Christian groups are fully aware that Shariah was in the South West decades before the arrival of Christianity in 1842. Shariah was practiced in Ede under Oba Abibu Olagunju (Habeeb, a Muslim name) and the Ede Shariah Court operated up till 1913 at Agbeni area of the town. It was moved to Agbongbon area in 1914. Shariah was applied in Iwo under Oba Momodu Lamuye (Muhammad Lamuye) who died in 1906. Even the seventh Akirun of Ikirun, Oba Aliyu Oyewole (died 1912), instituted Shariah in Ikirun in 1910. These are just examples of the existence and spread of Shariah in Yorubaland and the Christian leaders are not oblivious of the fact that it was the British Christian colonialists who stopped Shariah in Yorubaland and imposed Christian common law.

“However, they are equally aware of the rising tide of Islamic awareness in the same South West. They have seen the hitherto passive Muslim community being transformed into an active, articulate and politically conscious populace. They are afraid that the sleeping giant is waking up to take back what belongs to it.

“We call on Nigerians to understand the siege mentality of our Christian neighbours. Like all aggressors, they believe that attack is the best form of defence. As the benefactors and inheritors of colonial rampage that lasted more than a century, they are determined to keep all the loot which their principal bequeathed to them. They are determined to keep the Muslims in a concentration camp into which the colonial masters drove them.

“They have forgotten that the only thing that is constant in life is change. We are worried about the voyeuristic disorder which has again manifested in the PFN. It is a Peeping Tom syndrome that propels our Christian neighbours to crane their necks in order to see what is in the pot of soup of the Muslims. It is called ‘giraffing’ in examination hall parlance.

“The Constitution Review Panel asked Nigerians to forward their views regarding what they want in the constitution. Each group is supposed to submit its needs. But instead of telling the panel what the Christians want, PFN has gone ahead to say what they do not want Muslims to ask for. It is an attempt to gag Muslims in the South West and it will not work.

“The issue is what do the Christians want? It is clear that they have been overpampered by the colonial master who handed over our common patrimony to them on a platter of gold. So now they want nothing because they already have all they need. But they want to sustain the status quo because it favours them.

“Decorum, courtesy and protocol demand that Christians should ask for what they lack and what they want. But instead of doing that they are asking the committee not to tolerate the demands of Muslims. Yet Christians already have their own common law and the shariah has nothing to do with them. It is Muslims who need Shariah.

“This attitude can be compared to that of the dog in the manger whose master gave it its own meat and bone. The dog ate and was filled up. But when the master gave hay to the horse, the dog came barking ferociously in order to prevent the horse from accessing the grass. But do dogs eat grass? How uncharitable can our neighbours be?

“MURIC warns the PFN and its co-travellers to steer clear of the path of Muslims in the South West. The demand for Shariah is a civil rights matter. It is a demand for change, a demand for the status quo ante. Britain compelled the whole South West to don the toga of Christian ways of life and agents of neo-imperialism are pushing this diabolical scheme. It will not work. We say capital ‘NO’ to neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism and modern slavery.

“We are being deceived daily by those who claim that there is religious tolerance in the South West. Why is the Muslim girl child in hijab always targeted for persecution if it is true that there is religious tolerance in the South West? Why are Muslims always marginalised in political appointments if there is tolerance in Yorubaland? Why is the South West civil service totally dominated by Christians? Why is the ministry of education in particular and the teaching service authorities in the hands of Christians in all Yoruba states? The claim of religious tolerance is a sham, a phantom. It is a mantra designed to keep Yoruba Muslims in perpetual slavery.

“Muslims in the region are waking up and asking for freedom. We demand a halt to the forceful use of Christian school uniform, Christian education, Christian law, etc. We demand civil Shariah, not criminal Shariah that involves the cutting of hands but civil Shariah to regulate Muslim marriages, inheritance, family affairs, etc. It has nothing to do with Christians. We will use every peaceful and constitutional means available to attain this objective. We declare a caveat emptor in Shariah-related matters. PFN should mind its own business. No retreat, no surrender.

Professor Ishaq Akintola,

Director,

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)

http://muslimrightsmuric..com/2021/05/muric-to-pfn-mind-your-own-business.html?m=1

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Fahdiga1: 12:06pm On May 29, 2021
The terrorist head slammers will never disappoint when it comes to stupidity. So they mean Christians in that region has no say

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Arewa1stSon: 12:07pm On May 29, 2021
Ok
Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Peace2allmen: 12:08pm On May 29, 2021
Islamic republic of Oduduwaestan ���. Chai, so this Yoruba Muslim thing is real, I thought it was just a joke by people on this site o. Chai Yoruba, how did you people get to this point? I know in those days, there was nothing like Islam , Christianity etc , you could see a Muslim father with Christian wife and kids going to church but now the case is different .

Sharia law in Nigeria ? Hisbah police in the north lol and and now they are pushing this agenda to the south. When will Southern christians wake up from their slumber, is it when you become endangered like the ones in the middle belt and southern Kaduna that you wake up from this deep sleep?

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by okosodo: 12:09pm On May 29, 2021
It is going to be very easy to Islamize Nigeria

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Imsoblessed: 12:09pm On May 29, 2021
Yoruba land as been infiltrated..... Things are gradually falling apart and the center Will soon not hold.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by hammerDK: 12:09pm On May 29, 2021
YORUBA MUSLIM ARE A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM IN THE SW REGION AND ENTIRE SOUTH.


QUOTE ME ANYDAY AND TIME.



YORUBA MUSLIMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE IN THE SW, THE PROBLEMS WE ARE SEEING IN THE NORTH.



WHO GAVE ILLORIN AWAY? YORUBA MUSLIMS.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Nobody: 12:11pm On May 29, 2021
Muric just dey make mouth,no way sharia law is going to work in the southwest

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by muykem: 12:12pm On May 29, 2021
Don't give credence to foolish Akintola statement. Yoruba can not be divided by religion.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by paramakina202: 12:12pm On May 29, 2021
Wahala dey o.
Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by bigFOOTcaveMAN(m): 12:19pm On May 29, 2021
muykem:
Don't give credence to foolish Akintola statement. Yoruba can be divided by religion.
Can't

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by KoshCAD: 12:22pm On May 29, 2021
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ISLAMBAD:
Published on May 29, 2021By Wale Odunsi




The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed support for the introduction of Sharia in the South-West.


The Islamic group told the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and other Christianity adherents to mind their business.

The comment followed a warning by the PFN against any move to introduce Sharia law in Yoruba States through the ongoing constitutional review by the Senate.

MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, accused Christians of always being the first to fire shots and heat up the polity.


He said Christians know very well that Shariah is the Allah-given fundamental human right of Muslims but are determined to deprive them using unorthodox methods.

“PFN and other Christian groups are fully aware that Shariah was in the South West decades before the arrival of Christianity in 1842. Shariah was practiced in Ede under Oba Abibu Olagunju (Habeeb, a Muslim name) and the Ede Shariah Court operated up till 1913 at Agbeni area of the town. It was moved to Agbongbon area in 1914.


“Shariah was applied in Iwo under Oba Momodu Lamuye (Muhammad Lamuye) who died in 1906. Even the seventh Akirun of Ikirun, Oba Aliyu Oyewole (died 1912), instituted Shariah in Ikirun in 1910. These are just examples of the existence and spread of Shariah in Yorubaland and the Christian leaders are not oblivious of the fact that it was the British Christian colonialists who stopped Shariah in Yorubaland and imposed Christian common law.


“However, they are equally aware of the rising tide of Islamic awareness in the same South West. They have seen the hitherto passive Muslim community being transformed into an active, articulate and politically conscious populace. They are afraid that the sleeping giant is waking up to take back what belongs to it.”

MURIC called on Nigerians to understand the siege mentality of Christians who, like “all aggressors”, believe that attack is the best form of defence.


The Islamic group said as the benefactors and inheritors of colonial rampage that lasted more than a century, Christians are determined to keep all the loot which their principal bequeathed to them.

“They have forgotten that the only thing that is constant in life is change. We are worried about the voyeuristic disorder which has again manifested in the PFN. It is a Peeping Tom syndrome that propels our Christian neighbours to crane their necks in order to see what is in the pot of soup of the Muslims. It is called ‘giraffing’ in examination hall parlance.”


Akintola recalled that the Constitution Review Panel asked Nigerians to forward their views regarding what they want in the constitution.

The director said instead of telling the panel what the Christians want, PFN was insisting on what they do not want Muslims to ask for.

“The issue is what do the Christians want? It is clear that they have been over-pampered by the colonial master who handed over our common patrimony to them on a platter of gold. So now they want nothing because they already have all they need. But they want to sustain the status quo because it favours them.


“Decorum, courtesy and protocol demand that Christians should ask for what they lack and what they want. But instead of doing that they are asking the committee not to tolerate the demands of Muslims. Yet Christians already have their own common law and the shariah has nothing to do with them. It is Muslims who need Shariah.

“This attitude can be compared to that of the dog in the manger whose master gave it its own meat and bone. The dog ate and was filled up. But when the master gave hay to the horse, the dog came barking ferociously in order to prevent the horse from accessing the grass. But do dogs eat grass? How uncharitable can our neighbours be?”


MURIC warned the PFN and its co-travellers to steer clear of the path of Muslims in the South West, adding that the demand for Shariah is a civil rights matter


https://dailypost.ng/2021/05/29/muric-backs-sharia-in-south-west-tells-christians-to-mind-their-business/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&amp#Echobox=1622277107

Lalasticlala Lalasticlala Lalasticlala


[/s]Sharia law my foot.

Come and make it na. They know it won't work.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by edoairways: 12:27pm On May 29, 2021
Once Sharia is implemented in the South West, it will definitely get to the east and south south. This was what Pastor Bosun warned few years back

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by LikeAking: 12:36pm On May 29, 2021
Nigerian and religion.

If we put our religious efforts and investments into another sector this country will move forward.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by NyamiriSlayer(m): 12:37pm On May 29, 2021
Nah muslim go use am, so no time to worry about this shit, even my muslim guys no go gree with this shit.
I dey laugh ooh, shariah in yoruba land, what a joke

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Veqtor: 12:38pm On May 29, 2021
So yorubas will b fighting for their freedom and also be fighting this Muric man? O ga o

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by theFilmtric: 12:40pm On May 29, 2021
muykem:
Don't give credence to foolish Akintola statement. Yoruba can be divided by religion.
Not possible
Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by theFilmtric: 12:40pm On May 29, 2021
Veqtor:
So yorubas will b fighting for their freedom and also be fighting this Muric man? O ga o
Serious joke

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by SmartPolician: 12:41pm On May 29, 2021
See what religion does to the human society...little wonder some countries ban all sorts of religious practices in their domains.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by goatgoat093: 12:44pm On May 29, 2021
edoairways:
Once Sharia is implemented in the South West, it will definitely get to the east and south south. This was what Pastor Bosun warned few years back
Sharia will never thrive in the East, in fact Buddhism has a better chance of gaining foothold in the East than that Sharia nonsense.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by CaptainAyub: 1:01pm On May 29, 2021
NyamiriSlayer:
Nah muslim go use am, so no time to worry about this shit, even my muslim guys no go gree with this shit.
I dey laugh ooh, shariah in yoruba land, what a joke
In the north, is Sharia restricted to Muslims alone?
Destruction of beer is what?
Killing for blasphemy is what?

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by NyamiriSlayer(m): 1:04pm On May 29, 2021
CaptainAyub:

In the north, is Sharia restricted to Muslims alone?
Destruction of beer is what?
Killing for blasphemy is what?
sharia can never work in yoruba land, 100% sure

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by timibare(m): 1:27pm On May 29, 2021
Future Boko Haram of the Federal Republic of Oduduwa loading grin grin grin from fry pan to fire

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Olatunji1929: 1:31pm On May 29, 2021
Abi kofedafun akintola ni,they want to turn us to zombies in yorubaland but they will fail woefully,they want to be regulating our lifestyle,they want to take our right like aboki have done to their youths which makes them easy to control, I keep saying it nairaland should stop making stupid people popular,we dont know akintola and his miscreants here in southwest,mumuric only exist on nairaland and fb and insallah this akintola will die horrible death if he continue like this

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by InaNla(f): 1:32pm On May 29, 2021
[s]
ISLAMBAD:
Published on May 29, 2021By Wale Odunsi




The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed support for the introduction of Sharia in the South-West.


The Islamic group told the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and other Christianity adherents to mind their business.

The comment followed a warning by the PFN against any move to introduce Sharia law in Yoruba States through the ongoing constitutional review by the Senate.

MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, accused Christians of always being the first to fire shots and heat up the polity.


He said Christians know very well that Shariah is the Allah-given fundamental human right of Muslims but are determined to deprive them using unorthodox methods.

“PFN and other Christian groups are fully aware that Shariah was in the South West decades before the arrival of Christianity in 1842. Shariah was practiced in Ede under Oba Abibu Olagunju (Habeeb, a Muslim name) and the Ede Shariah Court operated up till 1913 at Agbeni area of the town. It was moved to Agbongbon area in 1914.


“Shariah was applied in Iwo under Oba Momodu Lamuye (Muhammad Lamuye) who died in 1906. Even the seventh Akirun of Ikirun, Oba Aliyu Oyewole (died 1912), instituted Shariah in Ikirun in 1910. These are just examples of the existence and spread of Shariah in Yorubaland and the Christian leaders are not oblivious of the fact that it was the British Christian colonialists who stopped Shariah in Yorubaland and imposed Christian common law.


“However, they are equally aware of the rising tide of Islamic awareness in the same South West. They have seen the hitherto passive Muslim community being transformed into an active, articulate and politically conscious populace. They are afraid that the sleeping giant is waking up to take back what belongs to it.”

MURIC called on Nigerians to understand the siege mentality of Christians who, like “all aggressors”, believe that attack is the best form of defence.


The Islamic group said as the benefactors and inheritors of colonial rampage that lasted more than a century, Christians are determined to keep all the loot which their principal bequeathed to them.

“They have forgotten that the only thing that is constant in life is change. We are worried about the voyeuristic disorder which has again manifested in the PFN. It is a Peeping Tom syndrome that propels our Christian neighbours to crane their necks in order to see what is in the pot of soup of the Muslims. It is called ‘giraffing’ in examination hall parlance.”


Akintola recalled that the Constitution Review Panel asked Nigerians to forward their views regarding what they want in the constitution.

The director said instead of telling the panel what the Christians want, PFN was insisting on what they do not want Muslims to ask for.

“The issue is what do the Christians want? It is clear that they have been over-pampered by the colonial master who handed over our common patrimony to them on a platter of gold. So now they want nothing because they already have all they need. But they want to sustain the status quo because it favours them.


“Decorum, courtesy and protocol demand that Christians should ask for what they lack and what they want. But instead of doing that they are asking the committee not to tolerate the demands of Muslims. Yet Christians already have their own common law and the shariah has nothing to do with them. It is Muslims who need Shariah.

“This attitude can be compared to that of the dog in the manger whose master gave it its own meat and bone. The dog ate and was filled up. But when the master gave hay to the horse, the dog came barking ferociously in order to prevent the horse from accessing the grass. But do dogs eat grass? How uncharitable can our neighbours be?”


MURIC warned the PFN and its co-travellers to steer clear of the path of Muslims in the South West, adding that the demand for Shariah is a civil rights matter


https://dailypost.ng/2021/05/29/muric-backs-sharia-in-south-west-tells-christians-to-mind-their-business/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&amp#Echobox=1622277107

Lalasticlala Lalasticlala Lalasticlala


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Ignore the terrorist!

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by InaNla(f): 1:33pm On May 29, 2021
Stop posting nonsense!

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by CaptainAyub: 1:33pm On May 29, 2021
timibare:
Future Boko Haram of the Federal Republic of Oduduwa loading grin grin grin from fry pan to fire
In 20yrs,Yoruba Muslims will be beheading ppl amidst chants of allahuuuuuu akbaaaaarrri cheesy

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by RZArecta(m): 1:34pm On May 29, 2021
MURIC is a terrorist organisation cool

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by Siwisheswereesh: 1:40pm On May 29, 2021
The muric loooonatic is on his own.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by WorldRichest: 2:15pm On May 29, 2021
Are you okay at all?

I a Muslim
I am Yoruba boy
I say Capital NO to Sharia Court in Yorubaland.

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Re: MURIC Backs Sharia In South-West, Tells Christians To ‘Mind Their Business’ by WorldRichest: 2:17pm On May 29, 2021
Fahdiga1:
The terrorist head slammers will never disappoint when it comes to stupidity. So they mean Christians in that region has no say

Your head no correct

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