₦airaland Forum

Amitez:
He omitted to tell you that there is an appeal before the Supreme Court. Why is govt jumping the guns?
Is hijab in your Quoran Hijab is a Saudi dress, and predates Quoran, but you guys want to impose it on Nigerians in this era of insecurity.

urbobo20:
but am suprise at my christain brothers dont they have choir robe to balance the equation , u dont have to fight over every thing . ask your children to wear even white garment cloth to school

Amitez:
HIJAB IS UNISLAMIC
Head-covering was introduced into Arabia long before Muhammad, primarily through Arab contacts with Syria and Iran, where the hijab was a sign of social status. After all, only a woman who need not work in the fields could afford to remain secluded and veiled.
Read your Quoran and stop caysubf trouble!!!

360degreess:
..Kwara State is a Muslim state,CAN should go to Rivers state and raise shoulders there..
Christianity is the most confused religion on earth.. Didn't the Bible say women should cover their heads and dress modestly?..Read 1timothy 2:9,1corinthians 11:5-6, Deuteronomy 22:5..Look at the pictures of mother Mary mother of Jesus,she was covered as well.So why are they always disobeying their scriptures just because Islam is having the same rules?..

Amitez:
Please are there no muslim schools in Kwara? Let the muslim girls transfer to muslims school and wear hijab as they wish. Christian children should be allowed to mix with people they see their heads, shoulder and trunks and be sure they are not wearing bombs.
Is hijab even in the Quoran This is just over-zealousness!

aremuforlife:
The state government should have rescued himself, he is a Muslim and he shouldn't have given the straight orders in favour of his religion, he should have waited for the outcome of the court. He is the state governor to all and not to his faith alone.
The school authorities are standing on their ground, there are rules and conditions that guide every institutes. Those that are not in favour or cannot abide by the set rules should move to another schools, that will accept their terms.

cyprex:
You may well be right by advising we wait for outcome of suit already in court.
However, since the schools are government schools, their rules must be subject to the general rule of the state.
Hence any rule made by the school that is at variance with that of the state must be classified as nullity.

This being said, apart from supremacy contest, what wrong does wearing head cover (Hijab) bring in a Christian School?

JaffyJoe:
Have you ever seen Mary the Mother of Jesus before with your eyes? Do Rev Sisters do so in the schools or in their church? Is a school the same as a church? Also, the Bible admonished women to cover up. Are teenagers and pupils in the schools women? What age does womanhood begins? Use your head.

ibnlawal:
READ THE BELOW ARTICLE FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS SAGA

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

P1PrinceKT:
If you read your Bible well you will come across the word Hijab.!

CAN and PFN knew this.
but I don't know the type of Christianity you guys are practicing.

Those who brought upon you a Christianity in Nigeria won't oppose it(Hijab) with extreme hatred like you do.

dannyjesutofunmi:
Your documentary does not give account of the part where Gov Bamgboye agreed with the mission school owners that the takeover is partial and not total. That is why the churches that owns the schools still decides who will be the principal, vp and also appoint board members. This is why the schools are called Government aid-granted schools.

ibnlawal:
READ THE BELOW ARTICLE FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS SAGA

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

omoalaro:
https://twitter.com/followKWSG/status/1368806071075233793?s=19[/quote]Muslims are not tolerant when it comes to their religion but wants others to tolerate them. How can you expect to lord it over in a school that is not based on your faith. If you want to wear Hijab, then go to a Muslim school like Ansarudeen or Anwaruislam!

tamdun:
Who told u ijab is not in the Quran, why don't u condemn ur Catholic sisters wearing hijab?

bootycapon:
Intolerance at its peak. Kwara is predominantly a Muslim State. Missionary Schools were not prevented from operating neither are Churches stopped from doing their activities. Why has the issue of Muslim kids wearing the Hijab to Schools become so problematic that the whole Christians and Christianity feel threatened? The Governor of Rivers has repeatedly declared his state a Christian state and it was cool. If the indigenes of a state that allows you to run Schools in their domain cannot benefit from your services, you can as well move your selfish and bigotted school elsewhere. Bunch of mischief-makers.

tamdun:
Gbam, that's how CAN pushed El rufai in Kaduna and he jejely chose a muslim as his running mate and he won, CAN should continue pushing their luck in kwara state, all my days in kwara I've never seen Muslims oppress xtians, Ondo state govn demolished ansarudeen sch, wike declared rivers a xtian state, no noise but when a muslim fight for his right the media will explode, hypocrites

toyinjimoh:
have you ever seen marry mother of God and holy sister open their head? or are they Muslim

P1PrinceKT:
If you read your Bible well you will come across the word Hijab.!

CAN and PFN knew this.
but I don't know the type of Christianity you guys are practicing.

Those who brought upon you a Christianity in Nigeria won't oppose it(Hijab) with extreme hatred like you do.

toyinjimoh:
have you ever seen marry mother of God and holy sister open their head? or are they Muslim

tamdun:
“O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allaah is Ever Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful”

[al-Ahzaab 33:59]

CountDracula:
Oh brainless one; we are also fighting for our right. You're not the only one with rights. Also can you fidiots stop referring to wike... Is that ur only argument?

BRATISLAVA:
So all the way in Rome, all they could come up with is cultural garments made for the desert heat and sand in the middle East?

Stop lying to yourselves, Catholic nuns don't wear anything called the hijab. If you don't know the name of the garment they wear, find out and stop misinforming yourselves.

Do all Catholics wear what you think is the hijab? No.

Descendant of Ismael, repent.

kudumopol:
"O you Children of Adam! We have bestowed on you raiment to cover your shame as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, that is the best. Such are among the Signs of Allah, that they may receive admonition.” (Quran 7:26)

“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear therof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons, or their women or the servants 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. And O you Believers, turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain Bliss.” (Quran 24:31).

“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59).

360degreess:
..Kwara State is a Muslim state,CAN should go to Rivers state and raise shoulders there..
Christianity is the most confused religion on earth.. Didn't the Bible say women should cover their heads and dress modestly?..Read 1timothy 2:9,1corinthians 11:5-6, Deuteronomy 22:5..Look at the pictures of mother Mary mother of Jesus,she was covered as well.So why are they always disobeying their scriptures just because Islam is having the same rules?..

tamdun:
They are hypocrites