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Qu’an Didn’t Says Anything about Muslims Celebrating New Year, But Condemned Blood Shed North is Bleeding MURIC
Screenshot 20220109 123646 Facebook WhatsApp Reddit Twitter Shares We have many Islamic cleric and scholar across Nigeria condemning celebration of new years by Muslims, but did they condemned killing going in the North? The recent one was that of MURIC Director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, who says that celebration of New year by Muslims is against Islam. In his statement, Akintola call on Nigerian government to declare Public Holiday on Muharram Hijrah, which is the first day in the Islamic calendar, to favour Muslims. With this point, it is clear that MURIC is a political organization seeking for self value. What he says didn’t represent the interest of all Muslims, because there are no verse of Qur’an that speak about new year. Even the first day of Islamic Calendar which he is so...
#EndSARS: MURIC kicks amid allegation of mosque burning in South East
The Muslim Rights Concern has raised the alarm over the alleged burning of mosques in the South East following the #EndSARS protest. The Islamic human rights body, which raised the alarm in a statement on Monday, said the mosques were burnt on October 31, 2020, with threat to invade the Islamic School, Afikpo, Ebonyi State. The statement said the mosques were burnt in Enugu, Enugu State amid reports that 11 Muslims were killed during the #EndSARS protests in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Orlu in Imo State, while the Orlu Central Mosque was completely destroyed about two weeks ago. The statement equally said markets belonging to Muslims in the region were also attacked and properties worth millions of naira destroyed, including whole trailers with goods. MURIC, in the statement by its Dir...
MURIC urges Nigerian government to deploy security task force in Southern Kaduna
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an NGO, has called for the deployment of joint security task force to stop the incessant killings in Southern Kaduna. The Director of the group, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, gave the advice on Monday in a statement. Akintola said, the measures will go along way in curtailing the ethno-religious killings and other forms of criminality been perpetuated in the area. The group however condemned the recent killings of some youths in Zangon Kataf, which according to him violated the peace agreement initiated by the Agwa Atyap, Sir Dominic Yahaya between the Atyap and Hausa/Fulani. “MURIC strongly condemns these killings and attacks on law-abiding Muslims. We call for stronger presence of security agents. ”It is high time soldiers are drafted to Southern Kaduna to enfo...
