BREAKING NEWS: Stop witch-hunting the Christians, they are not the source of your problems – CAN Secretary tells Muslim leader
The Secretary General of the
Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Musa Asake, has lambasted the
Director of Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, Ishaq Akintola, who called for ‘fair
treatment’ between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria.
The
Reverend called out to Akintola for saying Nigeria was not a secular state as
it did not recognize religion.
It
would be recalled that in a chat with the Punch, Akintola had said “Christians
are free to do whatever they like on Sundays but Muslims are chained to their
workplaces on Fridays. That chain must break. Freedom is our cry. Nigerian
Christians have been enjoying everything they need since the British took over
the country and colonised it. They have the Christian common law while they
object to Muslims having Shariah. They enjoy Christo-Western education while
they restrict Muslim children’s access to Islamic education.
“I still insist Nigeria is not a secular state.
It does not recognise any religion at all. An example is the Sallah holidays.
Although Christians used to enjoy Christmas and other holidays, there was no
Sallah holiday for Muslims on Eid el-Fitr and Eid el-Kabir days during the
colonial days. We wrenched that from our oppressors’ hands after a long
struggle.”
But reacting to the claim and opinion of the
professor of Islamic Eschatology, the Secretary General, CAN told the Punch
that he (Akintola) knows little or nothing about the constitution of Nigeria
and as such, should not speak.
Asake said, “So, Akintola actually stated that
there were discriminations against Muslims in Nigeria, that Christians are
against the practice of Shariah and that Muslims are deprived of having Friday
as a work-free day just as Christians enjoy Sunday. Did you say the man is a
professor? May God have mercy on Nigeria, if that is the kind of professors
that we produce. I have to question his professorship.
“Doesn’t he know the constitution of this
country? It is the kind of elementary reasoning that slows us (Nigerians) down.
I really don’t want to go into that now; that is not the issue facing the
country at the moment. The issues facing us in this country are hunger,
poverty, poor national economy, and insecurity. But here you have a professor
talking about the government favouring only one religion – that is
uncalled-for.
“Islamic groups should
put their house in order; they are the ones that are imprisoning themselves.
Christians aren’t responsible for their woes or marginalization. Nobody is
stopping them from realizing their dreams,” Asake stated.
Source: DAILY POST
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