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NoSentiment:
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NoSentiment:
By Farooq A. Kperogi


Amid the grief of the heartrendingly tragic collapse of the 21-storey luxury apartment building in Ikoyi, Lagos, a sadly familiar, barely acknowledged but nonetheless insidiously widespread anti-Muslim bigotry in Yoruba land came to light.

A Yoruba Muslim by the name of Adebowale Sikiru revealed in an interview with a YouTube news channel called AN 24 that he was rejected for a job at the Ikoyi construction site because of his Muslim faith. He applied for the position of a site engineer and was found qualified enough to deserve being invited for an interview by Femi Osibona, the MD of Fourscore Homes, the firm that managed the construction of the ill-fated multi-storey building.


After the interview, Sikiru said Osibona asked him what church he attended, and he responded that he was a Muslim. “Ah, I can’t work with a Muslim,” Sikiru quoted Osibona to have said. Osibona reportedly said in Yoruba that he couldn’t work with someone whose response to his chant of “Praise God!” would be “Alhamdulillah!”

When Sikiru told him of his struggles with getting gainfully employed after graduation, Osibona also reportedly said it was probably because of his Muslim faith that he was not “able to make a headway” in life. “He said that in front of even the bricklayers” and many others at the site, Sikiru said.

Sikiru left the site sad, humiliated, and deflated, but a friend of his who brought his attention to the job he had interviewed for called him while he was on his way back home. The friend wanted to find out if he was trapped in the building that had collapsed a few hours earlier. That was the time it dawned on Sikiru that his rejection and humiliation on account of his faith ironically saved him from death.

Unfortunately, Osibona died in the collapsed building, so we have no way of getting his own side of the story. Nonetheless, it doesn’t seem plausible that Sikiru, who didn’t even come across as a devout Muslim during his interview with AN 24, would just wake up and invent the encounter with Osibona. Plus, videos that have emerged of Osibona’s meretriciously outward displays of his Christianity and evangelical exhibitionism are consistent with Sikiru’s account of his encounter with him.



More than that, though, it merely instantiates the casual bigotry that Yoruba Muslims routinely contend with in their own natal region on account of their faith, which I’ve known for years.

I followed the social media conversations that Sikiru’s encounter with Osibona triggered among Yoruba Muslims and came away with the distinct impression that many Yoruba Muslims are seething with frustration and deep-seated inferiority complex on account of their faith-based systematic exclusion and demonization, but they are grinning and bearing their fate in smoldering silence out of social pressure, out of anxieties about social ostracism. We call this the spectacle of the spiral of silence in communication theory.

A Facebook friend of mine by the name of Ganiyu Oludare Lasisi who now lives and works in Scotland narrated how he was denied a job to teach high school geography in his hometown of Abeokuta because of his Muslim faith. He has an Upper Second-Class honors degree in Geography and a distinction in the subject in his “O” level. But “on the day of the interview,” Lasisi said, “the school owner/founder (also a pastor) rejected me because of my Muslim name (Ganiyu). I was so sad and angry then. He even suggested that I can convert to Christianity and change Ganiyu to Gabriel.”

In their safe spaces, multiple Yoruba Muslims shared similar such anecdotal encounters of causal bigotry. They say they are habitually ridiculed for their faith, sneered at for their Muslim sartorial choices, alienated and rhetorically marginalized, and outright denied opportunities by people with whom they share the same ethnicity. Several of them are forced to convert to Christianity or hide their faith to fit in.



Just the other day, on November 3, Premium Times published a story of the appointment of a 45-year-old professor of geo-technical engineering by the name of Afeez Bello as acting Vice Chancellor of the Osun State University in Osogbo. The photo of Bello that the paper used to illustrate the story was of a heavily bearded man with a Muslim felt hat.

Apparently, that sartorial symbol of male Muslim identity was like a red rag to a bull among Christian Facebook commenters, most of whom were Yoruba. The man was called “Boko Haram,” “Shekau’s reincarnation,” a “fanatic,” and all sorts of other cruel slanders and unwarrantedly unmentionable vituperations. I was emotionally distraught after reading a sample of the comments. I inflicted self-torture on myself.

The truth is that the famed religious ecumenicalism and tolerance of the Yoruba people is often achieved at the expense of Yoruba Muslims. It is they, and not their Christian brothers and sisters, who must always perform religious tolerance. (In his interview with the YouTube news channel, even Sikiru felt compelled to say that 95 percent of his friends are Christians and that he hadn’t closed off the possibility that he could convert to Christianity at some point in his life.)


It is Yoruba Muslims who are required to downplay or hide their religious identity in the interest of an overarching Yoruba identity because, over the last few decades, Christianity has been rhetorically constituted in the popular imagination as a core constituent in the construction of Yoruba identity. That’s why prominent Yoruba Muslims almost always have to invoke their connection to Christianity to fit in.

The late Gani Fawehinmi always had a need to show that his wife was a Christian. Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a need to strategically let it be known that his wife isn’t only a Christian but a deacon. House of Representatives Speaker Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila concealed his Muslim identity until he needed the support of the Muslim North to become Speaker. After the fact, his handlers played up the fact that his wife and his mother are Christians.

Prince Bola Ajibola, one of Africa’s finest jurists who happens to be a devout Muslim, doesn’t openly bear Abduljabar, his Muslim name—unlike his father who bore Abdulsalam as his first name—perhaps, not being married to a Christian, it was his only way to reassure his Christian Yoruba brothers and sisters that he is Yoruba. Yet, he is so strong in his Muslim faith that he established the Crescent University, one of Nigeria’s first private Islamic universities, in his hometown of Abeokuta.

Although Muslims constitute a numerical majority in Yoruba land, they are a symbolic minority and are perpetually put in a position to prove their “Yorubaness.” For instance, in the heat of the debate over the formation of Amotekun to ward off “Fulani bandits,” Bolaji Aluko, who was a professor here in the United States and who is now a prominent Ekiti State government official, used the moment to stealthily alienate Yoruba Muslims in his state.

In a January 25, 2021 article titled “Sunday Musings: On the Matter of Farmer-Herdsmen Clashes in Ekiti State,” he wrote, among other things, “Our Muslim Yoruba citizens must decide whether the Umma principle of brotherhood is greater that [sic] the collective security of our Yoruba citizenry." As I told him then, there are at least four ways in which he was wrong.

First, he exoticized, needlessly put Yoruba Muslims on the spot, and created a false binary between being Muslim and being Yoruba, even though (nominal) Muslims constitute the majority in Oyo, Osun, Ogun, and Lagos states. Islam has been in Yorubaland since at least the 1400s. The first mosque was built in Oyo-Ile, the ancient capital of the Oyo Empire, in 1550, that is, centuries before colonialism.

Second, Yoruba Muslims are themselves victims of the homicidal fury of Fulani brigands. If being Muslim hasn't immunized Yoruba Muslims against sanguinary clashes with Fulani people, why should they be singled out as people who are suspect, as people who might betray non-Muslim Yoruba people to the Fulani out of "the Umma principle of brotherhood," which, by the way, is nonsensical, meaningless verbiage?

Third, Aluko’s claim assumes that all Fulani brigands are Muslims (they are NOT) and that they are committing their crimes on behalf of Islam, which would predispose them spare Yoruba Muslims in the spirit of "the Umma principle of brotherhood." But nothing can be more ignorant and bigoted than that.

If "Umma principle of brotherhood" (whatever the heck that means) were a thing, Muslims in Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger, and elsewhere (who are also incidentally Fulani, Hausa, or "Hausa-Fulani" wouldn't be killed, kidnapped, and overawed by criminally bloodthirsty Fulani brigands. Mosques wouldn’t be invaded, and imams and worshipers kidnapped and murdered. That should tell anyone that this isn't about religion or even ethnicity.

Sadly, Yoruba Muslims have no voice and seem to have accepted their fate with listless resignation. Not being a Yoruba myself, I know I will be viciously attacked by the people who lubricate and enjoy the current hegemonic high ground that puts Yoruba Muslims at the lower end of the totem pole, but I am not one to shy away from telling the truth because of fear of attacks. I resist injustice no matter who the victims or the perpetrators are.


Anny
November 6, 2021 at 9:29 AM
Prof Kperogi, i applaud your unbiased and purely professional insightful write-ups!
Must say i read a lot of social commentaries on FB but most times. I see a group of commentators struggling to push narratives either in favour or out of favour with the govt depending on thier affiliations to the govt of Nigeria, ethnicity,party or even business interest and NEVER to set out the facts out there and let the people decide based on the info presented!
Nigeria needs just 2 more of you,may be one in europe and 1 in Asia to keep throwing out the facts out there and we will be fine!
Please continue in your stride and do not relent----those that cannot stand you are those averse to the truth !kudos

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Unknown
November 6, 2021 at 11:43 AM
Well,Prof. Kperogi, there is no doubt, the problems of this country are our elites, from both divide, North and South. This reminds me of you good friend,late Professor Adesanmi(hope I remember the name correctly),who was always referring these elites, in his columns,as "the 2percenters."I always enjoyed reading his columns because of his candour, like you. But how do we challenge and defeat the 2percenters without people like you and the late Prof. Adesanmi, when illiteracy and poverty were deliberately created to be cloud our sense of reasoning? Each section of the country has its "weapon of mass dis-atraction". As for the North, we have the 'political Islamists', and the South West, we have the 'ethnic supremacist', while in the South East we have the 'secessionist,' who always cried against marginalisation.

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Ade
November 6, 2021 at 1:02 PM
While I agree with your position on widespread bigotry among Yorubas, your analogy is conveniently one-sided.

The derogatory term used for Christians in the southwest is 'Kiriyo'. A typical devout Muslim family in Ibadan will literally disown their children for associating with Kiriyo, some to the point of threatening fatal consequences.

How many born again Christians get employed in schools owned by Imams? In fact you won't bother to apply because you'll already know they're not looking for 'your type'

The subject of bigotry among Yorubas have to addressed holistically because it goes many ways.

Lasly, I think it is the height of unfairness to selectively site cases of bigotry against muslims, while subtly rejoicing that a supposed bigot got what they deserved in death (it's even crazy thinking about it). Your post showed zero respect for the souls of the departed

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Unknown
November 7, 2021 at 6:07 AM
With all due respect Ade, you sound to be guilty of what the Prof is saying here. Kariyo has never been used as derogatory term to describe Christians. Rather it is a common way the uneducated among us including my grand parents and probably yours too pronounce Christian. I am sure that you have heard the same people called Yoruba of Muslims faith 'Imale' and later twisted as 'Awon Elesin Lile.'

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ogupla
November 6, 2021 at 4:31 PM
This is a good literary write up though he could have given it some religious societal and moral balancing.

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Adetayo Hakeem
November 6, 2021 at 4:57 PM
It's a lie. Please don't bring division between us. We accept religious tolerance in this part of Nigeria

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Unknown
November 7, 2021 at 6:25 AM
That is not true Mr Adetayo as you may prefer to be called. Religious tolerance has disappeared into thin air in Yoruba land. It is true that Yoruba Muslims have been gradually facing persecution and extinction in Yoruba. It is fine if you never witnessed it but is just the reality. I witnessed it too first when I went for interview at NNPC JVD on Adetokunbo Ademola. Despite all the noise about Northerners occupying everywhere. A Yoruba NNPC Coordinator, who was head of that division at that time in 1990 or 1991, and who happens to be of Ijebu decent like me but a Christian and I believe, a Deacon told me to my face that I cannot work their because every one around him were Muslims. Only to discover he reserved the position for his son who just came back from England.

Or, is it the several battles I had fight with a private school I put my children only to remove their Muslims names from my children report card after several complaints, and to be asked why did I give my children such 'satanic' name.

Moderators: OAM4J, Mynd44 over to you. Or is the article unworthy of front page since it is about the plight of those who don't share your religion?

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TheSaint
November 6, 2021 at 5:14 PM
Prof I think you 'misfired' this one.
While bigotry of any nature is deplorable, I don't think what happened between late Osibona, if true, is worth the colouration of generalisation. And the premise of your argument; a few yoruba politicians unwilling to confidently bear their religious name does not emanate from fear of discrimition but political gimmickry. May the Almighty comfort the bereaved and grant eternal rest to the victims.

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Sulaak
November 7, 2021 at 3:49 AM
The SW has many problems, corruption,poverty and underdevelopment, let not allow religion to be another issues in the SW. We have seen how religion has turned the North into a basketcase.

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babajide
November 7, 2021 at 3:50 AM
Does it wonder any Christian what Jesus was trying to convey when he said he shall reject them that day? "many shall come to me and said lord, we have done many things in your name, and Jesus shall tell them that get ye away from me you workers of iniquity'. I had to say this with the mindset that every christian claimed to follow Jesus in act and saying, if Osibono, the owner of the ikoyi collapsed building and a representation of an average christian, then for sure, based on the above quote from Jesus, no christian will make heaven.

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This Prof is only igniting fire where it is not necessary. This write up is one sided and uncalled for. During the hijab saga in kwara, his write up was in support of his religion. Anyone can decide on who works in his organization based on what should be the yardstick. Bringing religious sentiment is Petty and selfish. He should have been general in his observation rather than limiting himself to Christianity. Afterall things like this common in Northern Nigeria where Christian's are in the minority.

leksite120:
You're not making any sense at all, because he spoke the truth now or because he gave an opinion different from yours means he's a propagandist.

The truth is this is very common among christians especially those that called themselves devoted christians, only if we'll turn a blind eye to it. They won't offer you anything if you're not from their church denomination talk less of being a Muslim.
Even the so called christians schools, they close on Fridays three o'clock, some 2 o'clock when they clearly know that the reason Friday is made a half-day is for the Muslims to go to mosque, the Muslims are deprived of this and they don't even care. Can anyone do this to any christian on Sundays? Even in Yoruba Muslim towns like Ilorin and co, Sundays are always empty like every other Sundays for the christians to go to church.

This isn't a bigotry, it's the truth. The meaning of bigotry should not only come from one party but called propaganda when it favors another.

Sorry, Prof Kperogi did not make much sense. In Yoruba land, their culture supercedes their religious slant.

That is why you find many couples of different faiths, getting married. The husband may be a Muslim, while the wife is a Christian. e.g. Fashola the Minister of Works is a Muslim, while his wife is a Christian. Ajimobi former governor of Oyo state was a Muslim while his wife was a Christian. Amosun the former governor of Ogun State is a Muslim, while his wife is a Christian.

Many families have such a similar setup in the Southwest. So what is Kperogi talking about?

In the North, do Northern Christians have any clout or any say in politics, business or governance? They are heavily disenfranchised in many areas. So why is Kperogi not highlighting their plight? Why is he focused on Southwestern Muslims?

Didn't Aregbesola who is a Muslim become Governor of Osun State and was later made a Minister of Interior? Wasn't Tinubu a former governor? Did their religion stop any of them from attaining high office?

Most families in the Southwest have a combination of Muslim and Christian relatives. So what is he talking about??

This is a list of people who worked at Osibona's construction site. Can't you see Muslim names among them? So why is Prof Kperogi spreading false claims?

They are Yunusa Abubakar, Ajiboye Habib, and Ndajor Ahmed. One of the ladies that died on the construction site was a youth corper called Zainab Sanni. Wasn't she a Muslim? So what is Prof Kperogi talking about?

NoSentiment:
I will see if this will be moved to the front page or it will also suffer the same fate as Engineer Sikiru

That Sikiru was not telling the whole truth. There were Muslims on that site, who were among those working there. How come they were employed by the same man to work on his site??

laudate:
That Sikiru was not telling the whole truth. There were Muslims on that site, who were among those working there. How come they were employed by the same man to work on his site??

If Sikiru were a Christian who was discriminated against, you would have sang a different song, selfish soul.

Trying hard to divide omoluwabi. No way man

Munamu:
This Prof is only igniting fire where it is not necessary. This write up is one sided and uncalled for. During the hijab saga in kwara, his write up was in support of his religion. Anyone can decide on who works in his organization based on what should be the yardstick. Bringing religious sentiment is Petty and selfish. He should have been general in his observation rather than limiting himself to Christianity. Afterall things like this common in Northern Nigeria where Christian's are in the minority.

Chief, this is not the first time he has directed his attack against SW political and social, one of his past recent articles was about the secret financial funder of Boko Haram and he was implying that SW political elites might be involved.

The subject was supposed to be about the corruption within the Yoruba elite that supported Femi Osibona how it turned into the division between Yoruba Muslims vs Christain is beyond me. There is no doubt that Farooq and his backers have ulterior motives.

laudate:
Sorry, Prof Kperogi did not make much sense. In Yoruba land, their culture supercedes their religious slant.

That is why you find many couples of different faiths, getting married. The husband may be a Muslim, while the wife is a Christian. e.g. Fashola the Minister of Works is a Muslim, while his wife is a Christian. Ajimobi former governor of Oyo state was a Muslim while his wife was a Christian. Amosun the former governor of Ogun State is a Muslim, while his wife is a Christian.

Many families have such a similar setup in the Southwest. So what is Kperogi talking about?

In the North, do Northern Christians have any clout or any say in politics, business or governance? They are heavily disenfranchised in many areas. So why is Kperogi not highlighting their plight? Why is he focused on Southwestern Muslims?

Didn't Aregbesola who is a Muslim become Governor of Osun State and was later made a Minister of Interior? Wasn't Tinubu a former governor? Did their religion stop any of them from attaining high office?

Most families in the Southwest have a combination of Muslim and Christian relatives. So what is he talking about??

SW that's dominated with equal Muslim and christians is what you're saying that is their religion stopping them from attaining high office. Now, u made an example of Norther Christians, how can u compare Northern christians with SW Muslims, Northern christians are minority, or y are u not using SE Muslims or SS Muslims too as an example, I didn't cite any of them too cos , it's normal for majority to always supercede the minority in fighting for positions.

Well, to be fair, this is a general problem to both the Muslims and christians side but it's more rampant in the Christians side than the Muslims. Majority of SW Muslims can still tolerate the Christians than the Christians do t Muslims.

NoSentiment:
By Farooq A. Kperogi


It is Yoruba Muslims who are required to downplay or hide their religious identity in the interest of an overarching Yoruba identity because, over the last few decades, Christianity has been rhetorically constituted in the popular imagination as a core constituent in the construction of Yoruba identity. That’s why prominent Yoruba Muslims almost always have to invoke their connection to Christianity to fit in.

The late Gani Fawehinmi always had a need to show that his wife was a Christian. Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a need to strategically let it be known that his wife isn’t only a Christian but a deacon. House of Representatives Speaker Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila concealed his Muslim identity until he needed the support of the Muslim North to become Speaker. After the fact, his handlers played up the fact that his wife and his mother are Christians.

Prince Bola Ajibola, one of Africa’s finest jurists who happens to be a devout Muslim, doesn’t openly bear Abduljabar, his Muslim name—unlike his father who bore Abdulsalam as his first name—perhaps, not being married to a Christian, it was his only way to reassure his Christian Yoruba brothers and sisters that he is Yoruba. Yet, he is so strong in his Muslim faith that he established the Crescent University, one of Nigeria’s first private Islamic universities, in his hometown of Abeokuta.

I doubt Farooq Kperogi is aware that every Yoruba family have a healthy mix of Muslims and Christians. Hence marriage between Muslims and Christain will always be a common occurrence.

leksite120:
You're not making any sense at all, because he spoke the truth now or because he gave an opinion different from yours means he's a propagandist.

The truth is this is very common among christians especially those that called themselves devoted christians, only if we'll turn a blind eye to it. They won't offer you anything if you're not from their church denomination talk less of being a Muslim.
Even the so called christians schools, they close on Fridays three o'clock, some 2 o'clock when they clearly know that the reason Friday is made a half-day is for the Muslims to go to mosque, the Muslims are deprived of this and they don't even care. Can anyone do this to any christian on Sundays? Even in Yoruba Muslim towns like Ilorin and co, Sundays are always empty like every other Sundays for the christians to go to church.

This isn't a bigotry, it's the truth. The meaning of bigotry should not only come from one party but called propaganda when it favors another.

if you want to pray 6 times in day you can relocate to Yemen Pakistan or Afghanistan and pray as you want, Islam did not uplift yorubas in anyway,inshort if not for Christianity yorubas will be behaving like northerners,if you go to kwara state the way they yoruba Muslims there re behaving nobody will tell you that they are semi abokki,every school in South west was built by Christian missionaries,from King's college,Queens collage ,inshort all the schools in South west to kwara state were built by Christian missionaries,while Muslim student a
We're busy attending ansrudeen and ile keun ,today Muslims wants to convert our schools to jihad wearing madrasas

WesternOligarch:
If Kperogi isn't talking about how yorubas are related to fulanis he's either talking about some other stuff about Yoruba Muslims all in the name to push political division.....for a non Yoruba man it's strange. Anybody that believes this phile of garbage is simply deluded. Yoruba Muslims hold influence and power in the region..... what's funny is that it's muslims like them up north that sabotage them. Last time I checked IBB wasn't a Christian who annulled abiolas election, nor is the individuals within APC trying to sabotage tinubu. And speaking of Yoruba muslims downplaying their religion.....I don't know where that's coming from, but I as a Yoruba christain wouldn't even want that cus yoruba Muslims are the only politically conservative group we still have in Yorubaland (you hardly see them marrying igbos like some other bastard Yoruba's) and they also tend to be more politically organized, the last thing anyone wants is downplaying one's religion and becoming a liberal cvck. Nevertheless legislation should be pushed in the region that ensures religious bigots that discriminate both Muslims and christains pay the price.

Your whole problem for this world na Igbo
E go choke you ooo

Very stupid write up! What about the Muslims who died in the tragedy? Were they not Yoruba or Muslim enough?
This kperogi fellow is not to be taken seriously. We don't roll like that in Yorubaland and we will never roll like that.
This is one thing we have going for us, from which the rest of the world can learn from. We will resist whoever wants to bring religious bigotry and fanaticism to Yorubaland.
To all the kperogis and Ishtak Akintolas, you are doomed to fail.

As a Yoruba Muslim that can't recite the unholy kwuru-an, this thread is completely disturbing my coneheaded structure.

SlyDev:
Me as I dey so, I know some state where dem no rate Muslim at all even yoruba Muslim, Ekiti is one of them and maybe ondo state.

I will rather stick to my Yoruba brother than outsiders no matter what.

Yoruba > Muslim > hausa >fulani > ss>borno >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>no body >>>>>>igbo

Mine is Igbo > SS > Christians from both sides > beer > dead Afonja Muslim > ashawo > dead Boko Haram > goat meat > mad people .......................................................>nobody > dead Muslims worldwide.

leksite120:
SW that's dominated with equal Muslim and christians is what you're saying that is their religion stopping them from attaining high office. Now, u made an example of Norther Christians, how can u compare Northern christians with SW Muslims, Northern christians are minority, or y are u not using SE Muslims or SS Muslims too as an example, I didn't cite any of them too cos , it's normal for majority to always supercede the minority in fighting for positions.

Well, to be fair, this is a general problem to both the Muslims and christians side but it's more rampant in the Christians side than the Muslims. Majority of SW Muslims can still tolerate the Christians than the Christians do t Muslims.

Did you bother to read my post at all, before responding? Because if you had done so, you would not have replied with this post.

Where did you see my saying that religion "has stopped any Muslim from attaining high office??"

Where?

And how many SW Muslims can still tolerate Christians than SW Christians can tolerate Muslims?? How many Christians do you know?? Did you ever do a census or a survey among all the Christians in the Southwest, from Ila Orangun to Ajure, Ado-Ekiti, Ilesha, Itawure, Osogbo, Epe, Ife, Ibadan, Oyo, Ìjèbú-Ode, Shagamu, Abéòkúta, Ondo, Lagos, Ọwọ, Ikire etc, before you arrived at this conclusion?

NoSentiment:
If Sikiru were a Christian who was discriminated against, you would have sang a different song, selfish soul.

What was selfish in my comment?? Why does the truth upset you so much? Muslims were employed at that construction site, just like Christians. FACT!! You cannot twist the truth, no matter how upset you are.

Should I recommend that you should be blocked for this false remark you made here?

sulaak:
I doubt Farooq Kperogi is aware that every Yoruba family have a healthy mix of Muslims and Christians. Hence marriage between Muslims and Christain will always be a common occurrence.

Remember what Bishop Oyedepo did to his own blood sister? Stop trying pretend there aren't bigots who are Christians who do worst things in the name of religion. What you can say is they are a tiny minority who cannot be used to define the generality of Christians who are Yoruba.

vedaxcool:
Remember what Bishop Oyedepo did to his own blood sister? Stop trying pretend there aren't bigots who are Christians who do worst things in the name of religion. What you can say is they are a tiny minority who cannot be used to define the generality of Christians who are Yoruba.

Do you think the so-called Bishop Oyedepo and the many fake Christain leaders in the SW represent Yoruba interest? We are not interested in your religious alliance as long as you are a Yoruba you are my brother.

laudate:
What was selfish in my comment?? Why does the truth upset you so much? Muslims were employed at that construction site, just lik Christians. FACT!! You cannot twist the truth, no matter how upset you are.

Should I recommend that you should be blocked for this false remark you made here?

Recommend since nairaland is an extention or the media wing of the satanic RCCG

Guestlander:
Very stupid write up! What about the Muslims who died in the tragedy? Were they not Yoruba or Muslim enough?
This kperogi fellow is not to be taken seriously. We don't roll like that in Yorubaland and we will never roll like that.
This is one thing we have going for us, from which the rest of the world can learn from. We will resist whoever wants to bring religious bigotry and fanaticism to Yorubaland.
To all the kperogis and Ishtak Akintolas, you are doomed to fail.

They will not rest until SW become another basket case like Northern Nigeria.

With extremist kidnapping minority and backward sharia law undermining liberal progressive law. They want to transform the SW into the subservient middle belt, such as Kwara and Kogi where the Non-Fulani Muslim majority are subjugated by the Fulani overlord, education becomes an afterthought and poverty and ignorant become prevalent.

Keep your faith in your homes, Nigeria is still a secular democracy.

sulaak:
Do you think the so-called Bishop Oyedepo and the many fake Christain leaders in the SW represent Yoruba interest? We are not interested in your religious alliance as long as you are a Yoruba you are my brother.

That is the point I made in the first page, I only replied you because you acted like these things don't happen. But the majority of Yorubas don't subscribe to such agenda.

laudate:
This is a list of people who worked at Osibona's construction site. Can't you see Muslim names among them? So why is Prof Kperogi spreading false claims?

They are Yunusa Abubakar, Ajiboye Habib, and Ndajor Ahmed. One of the ladies that died on the construction site was a youth corper called Zainab Sanni. Wasn't she a Muslim? So what is Prof Kperogi talking about?

He is on the payroll to disrupt the peace in the SW. You will think that a professor that is trained to write critical articles based on academic research, citation and analysis would have researched the diversity of employees working in Femi Osibona doomed company before he came up with this nonsense article.

His intention is clear and precise, to create chaos among the Yoruba people, a divided people are easily subjugated.

leksite120:
You're not making any sense at all, because he spoke the truth now or because he gave an opinion different from yours means he's a propagandist.

The truth is this is very common among christians especially those that called themselves devoted christians, only if we'll turn a blind eye to it. They won't offer you anything if you're not from their church denomination talk less of being a Muslim.
Even the so called christians schools, they close on Fridays three o'clock, some 2 o'clock when they clearly know that the reason Friday is made a half-day is for the Muslims to go to mosque, the Muslims are deprived of this and they don't even care. Can anyone do this to any christian on Sundays? Even in Yoruba Muslim towns like Ilorin and co, Sundays are always empty like every other Sundays for the christians to go to church.

This isn't a bigotry, it's the truth. The meaning of bigotry should not only come from one party but called propaganda when it favors another.

point of correction....

Ilorin isn't a yoruba town... Because they have emir


Know this and know peace

Wfaluse:
You can even see it here on Nairaland; they wont push the article to the front page. The bigotry is something else. And they are very quick to point out the failings of others.
Alhamdulillah, the narrative is changing now. We now have crop of new generation of muslims -educated, empowered and well versed in their religion and who are championing the course of putting us to where we belong

one of moderators, and a powerful one at that, is a Muslim, Seun is an atheist! Now, who will move the post to the frontpage, is it that NL evangelist called Rightousness?
You want Muslims to be employed in churches but Christians should never near mosques, you want Pastors to employ Muslims but Alhajis should only consider Pantami and Abubakar when it comes to employments!
People are being separated from others and killed in the north, almost everyday, simply because they are not Muslims but Christians and you do not see anything wrong in that but you only see the Muslims not being employed by the Pastors in other places!

At my first attempt of reading this article, I was quick to dismiss it as one of those articles from outsiders who claim to know the holes in the wall better than a lizard.

On a second and careful read, I suddenly recalled how I was denied a job in an hospital immediately after I finished secondary school because I was a Muslim. I went back home that day not understanding what had happened.

A recent occurrence was last month while I was searching for an apartment, I was furious when I was told the landlady (a yoruba woman ) wanted only chirstians in the house.

Up till now, I only thought the term 'Yoruba Muslim' existed only on the heavily political and ethnically divided nairaland, but it appears there is a tiny but growing fanatical population out there whose myopic actions are doing nothing but damaging the yoruba unity.

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sinkhole:
one of moderators, and a powerful one at that, is a Muslim, Seun is an atheist! Now, who will move the post to the frontpage, is it that NL evangelist called Rightousness?
You want Muslims to be employed in churches but Christians should never near mosques, you want Pastors to employ Muslims but Alhajis should only consider Pantami and Abubakar when it comes to employments!
People are being separated from others and killed in the north, almost everyday, simply because they are not Muslims but Christians and you do not see anything wrong in that but you only see the Muslims not being employed by the Pastors in other places!

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The sad thing about bigoted Christians like yourself is how you cannot string a sentence without lying. Nowhere did anyone demand for Muslims to be hired in churches. In the North, Zamfara for instance can you tell us how many Christians have been killed because they are Christians? Is not bandits criminals killing Muslims because of money? The reason why this thread aches you so much is because of how you bigots always introduce religion in every issue. A bandits kills someone your first instinct is to lie that they are killing Christians. When ife and modakeke were murdering each other what stopped you from introducing religion into it?

A bigot sees bigotry in everything.

iyapont:
I'm a Muslim too (PROUDLY YORUBA)but ogun kill u there

So what If u are Muslim. U are hypocrite muslim that asslick those cronies that is why they made u slave and mouth less in ur own land. If u like Value them like Gold, those bigots will always see u as shit