₦airaland Forum

mujahid777:
Muslims wearing hijabs in public schools is what's causing all this one...
Go and run and cry to the courts na...
For a state that's overwhelming a Muslim majority and controlled by them,if you maybe win in court but they choose not to obey,what will you do ?
For your Islam is dying nonsense of an article,I dare you to go search and provide the actual statistics on the religious demographic changes between Islam and Christianity,and not by just word of mouth. If you don't do that then forever shut up!

Thelife:
That's how there imam and islamic cleric use to brainwashed them, and it been it was pastor or a Christian that misquote quran to justify his reason like this, you will see them calling for the head of that person in the name of blasphemy
hopeless terrorist.

omoalaro:
*_Hijāb_* *Controversy* *In* *Ten* *Schools* *In* *Ilorin*

On the 19th February 2021, the Kwara State government ordered the closure of ten schools formerly owned by some Christian bodies. The schools were taken over by the government in 1974. The government, however, allowed them to continue to bear their Christian names, while the government has been responsible for the running cost and maintenance of the schools. The ten public schools were ordered closed by the government to prevent the breakdown of law and order following the refusal of the former owners of the schools to allow Muslim teachers and students of the schools use _hijāb_ within the premises of the schools.

It will be recalled that there had been _hijāb_ controversy in Kwara State since 2012, following the attempt of the former owners of the schools to have full control over the schools that had been taken over by the State government. They demanded that the schools should be returned to them. Consequently the government was sued by the Christian bodies at an Ilorin high court but the Kwara Muslim Community applied to be joined in the suit on behalf of the Muslim students who are not allowed to use _hijāb_ in the schools. The State government won the case on the 17th of May 2016. The judgment was appealed and the Christians lost again in September 2019. It is remarkable to note that the Appeal Court ruled that the appellants lacked the right to make Christianity the only standard in the schools. It also said that "the refusal of the schools to allow the use of _hijāb_ is discriminatory as it is a practice in tune with the Constitution. "
The Court of Appeal judgment of September 2019 has not been challenged by the Christians at the Supreme Court. Consequently Muslim students and staff went to their schools with _hijāb_ but they were sent out by the schools' principals and the heads of the Christian bodies which owned the schools before they were taken over by the government in 1974.

One expects these Christian bodies who were dissatisfied with the judgement of the Court of Appeal to proceed to the Supreme Court. Instead they took law into their hands, which is a flagrant disobedience to the judgement of the Court of Appeal. The leaders of the Christian bodies and the principals of the schools should be tried for contempt of court.

Interestingly, Britain that brought Christianity into Nigeria has allowed wearing of the _hijāb_ in her schools since 1980s. The Nigerian Christian bodies want to be more Catholic than the Pope. Toby Howarth, the Bishop of Bradford, in the Diocese of Leeds, of the Church of England supports the wearing of the _hijāb_ by primary school girls. He says:
"This is a matter of religious identity, not sexualization, and the British policy should be not to make a big deal of it, but simply say that you have to wear the right colour that goes with the school uniform" ( _The_ _Sunday_ _Times_ , 03 September 2017)
A _Sunday_ _Times_ survey also reveals that thousands of state primary schools allow girls to wear the _hijāb_ as part of approved school uniform in UK. Incidentally the country has allowed a Muslim woman, in person of Raffia Arshad, who wears _hijāb_ to become a judge.

Ilorin is generally known as a Muslim town. It has been an Emirate since 1823. Muslims are officially in majority. Sharia Court system operates in Kwara State adjudicating over Muslim matters. No non - Muslim has been forced to appear in the court. Christians established schools to convert Muslim students to their religion. They deny Muslims the practice of Islam in an Islamic town with an Emir and great scholars of Islam. The government in its wisdom took over the schools to protect the interest of all, while it has been financing the running of the schools with taxpayers' money, majority of who are Muslims, and yet the Christians continue to oppress the Muslims by not allowing the Muslims to practise their religion. Do the Christians expect the Muslims to fold their hands and watch their children converted to Christianity before their eyes? That is not possible. Christians attend Muslim schools in the state. They are not forced to wear _hijāb_ in the Muslim schools.

Ironically the Bible enjoins Christian females to cover their head (1 Timothy 2:9-10 & 1 Corinthians 11: 4-7). Catholic Rev. Sisters and Mothers obey the biblical injunction. Mary, the mother of Jesus wore _hijāb_ . The artistic impression of Mary as displayed by Christians confirms that. If some Christians now jettison biblical teaching and celebrate nudity, immorality, indecent mode of dressing, Muslims will never do that. They obey the . teachings of the Qur'an on the female mode of dressing (Q33:59 & 24:31). Muslims must note that the Christians want to make Muslims emulate their disobedience to God. Muslims have been warned by Allah against the antics of the Christians (Q2:120). Let's be on our guard and stand firmly by the ethos of Islamic mode of dressing.

Kwara State government should solve this lingering problem once and for all. The government should exercise full control over all the schools that it has taken over. They are public schools. They should be seen as such. No religious body should have any control over the schools. The schools should cease to bear the names that reflect any religious body. They no longer belong to any religious body. That was done in other northern states in 1974.

Principals and Vice Principals should no longer be appointed by the former owners of the schools. Loyalty and allegiance of the Principals and the Vice Principals will always belong to whoever appoints them because whoever pays the piper dictates the tune. The government should appoint them as they appoint other teachers to demonstrate that it is the owner of the schools, and that the schools are not jointly owned by the government and anyone, or partially owned with anyone else.

Every Nigerian has been guaranteed religious freedom by Section 38(1) of the Constitution. Everyone must therefore be allowed to enjoy that freedom wherever he or she may be in Nigeria.

_Jumu'atun_ _Mubārakah_

Prof Yasir Anjola Quadri
14th Rajab, 1442 / 26th February 2021

Nwodosis:
It baffles me that the Moslems are fighting to attend Chritain schools instead of Islamic schools? You want to adhere to your religious code of dressing and you left your own religious school?

Those quoting me that the schools have been reclaimed by the government, what stops the government from reclaiming Islamic schools too?

Numerouno94:
B frank to urself, will A muslim school like Al--Hassan allow non-Muslims to attend there skul witout puttin on an hijab?

I lecture in Kogi nd i knw alot of muslims skuls dat won't allow a Christian student into the premises of their skuls witout putting on hijab,so wat kinda of hypocrisy is this?

Those are private schools, I'm sure Christians are not forced to wear hijab in government Muslim schools

My last comment of d day, gat a 9am lecture wit my students. Enjoy ur religious of piece.

Nwodosis:
It baffles me that the Moslems are fighting to attend Chritain schools instead of Islamic schools? You want to adhere to your religious code of dressing and you left your own religious school?

Those quoting me that the schools have been reclaimed by the government, what stops the government from reclaiming Islamic schools too?

koolib:
Please how does hijab disturb normal academic activities? Our major mode of dressing ( school uniforms inclusive) was foisted on us by our colonial masters. It is sad that despite over sixty years of independence, many so called educated Nigerians cannot have rational thinking. All I see is brazen hatred and Islamaphobia on the part of the overzealous school managements. Kwara is a Muslim dominated state and their public lives should reflect such.

oloyedewaris:
And have you been to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar

capitalzero:
If only humanity and tolerance that can save humanity , why muslims carry religion for heads.
Also , most Europeans see hijab as Arabic culture. They also allow other students from middle east to use their religious attires.
Do you think muslims can allow shrines in their schools?

ALISMILE:
You need to leave ur village for once bro and stop being a local champion in Nkalagu village

I leave on same street in Lagos where there is a very big popular Muslim named public secondary, and guess what? Both Muslims and alot of Christians attend it

I don't wanna waste precious time on some bigottted village champ

Thelife:
smile, who care if your dumb sister wear hijab in public schools or not. I only care about the hypocrisy you moslom are showing online. sure we are going to court just like the way you run to court several time just because we didn't allow your dumb sister to wear hijab in our schools, ask aregbeshola how is goes in osun state.

we even pray that they should not accept so we can have excuse to chance them out of our schools, as if we are begging them to come before.

werey, did you even read the post I share you, it was your fellow head slammer in Ilorin that even open the tread to talk about how you people are loosing followers not only in Ilorin but the whole South west. and I don't share you an article, I gave you a news post, I don't know when naira land become a site for journal. why don't you ask for the videographic change. werey, I'm so sure you haven't been to Ilorin before self, go there and see how Christianity have take over the place, even your MUMURIC cry over it sometimes ago. oponu.

1Sharon:
Are the Christians allowed to wear crosses and become prefects?

capitalzero:
Whatever!!! If governments have not taken over mission schools, do you think missions would abandon them to become desolate ?
Governments should build their own schools. They should return mission schools for their owners.
Grants do not make governments owners of those schools. Missions are the owners. Public-funded school is different from schools being supported with public funds in the name of grants or aids.

shadeyinka:
Where did you get your statistics?
Even 6/10 is not enough to claim that a state is Christian or Muslim.
ECWA Church Taiwo road is among the small churches in Ilorin yet bigger than the central mosque at oja oba! SMH!

Except your claim is that Christians build churches that are empty of people.

MUTERIKA:
IF YOU ARE NOT FROM ILORIN OR KWARA, i have nothing more to say to you.

Thelife:
you dey mind the idiot that claim that the first crusade was created to attack moslom territory yet no record that Christian ever attack there mecca but they have been using any opportunity they have to attack Jerusalem.

BeLookingIDIOT:
The factories were you can't wear hijabs are purely for safety reasons.
Anyways,if in case you travel abroad to those countries you can tell them how they're getting secularism all wrong.
You're yapping about secularism and unity,but I can bet you were among the ones who were praising Wike for declaring Rivers a xtian state.

1Sharon:
Have you been to Somalia, Afghanistan and Syria?

Nwodosis:
It baffles me that the Moslems are fighting to attend Chritain schools instead of Islamic schools? You want to adhere to your religious code of dressing and you left your own religious school?

Those quoting me that the schools have been reclaimed by the government, what stops the government from reclaiming Islamic schools too?

Yankee101:
1. Deny them admissions 2. Deny them admissions 3. Deny them admissions

oloyedewaris:
Ohh, you think they are Muslim countries, you didn't mention Isreal, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine,

One thing you don't know is religion is not the cause of chaos in these countries rather disagreement

1Sharon:
Lol funny how the common denominator is islam

shadeyinka:
I am certainly from Kwara and I lived and schooled all my life in Ilorin.
It is you who have a warped idea of your yourself

Nwodosis:
It baffles me that the Moslems are fighting to attend Chritain schools instead of Islamic schools? You want to adhere to your religious code of dressing and you left your own religious school?

Those quoting me that the schools have been reclaimed by the government, what stops the government from reclaiming Islamic schools too?

oloyedewaris:
Really, proof

Note, Arab doesn't implies Muslims