HIJAB: Arrest Salihu Shehu Now - YouthCAN tells DSS

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Law school Hijab controversy: Arrest Professor shehu now - YOWICAN tells DSS

December 20, 2017

The last may not have been hard on the controversy surrounding the Nigerian law school hijab of Ms Abdulsalam Fiedaos Amosa, as it has taking another dangerous dimension with the Youth Wing of Christian Association of Nigeria ( YOWICAN) asking the Director- General of Department of Security Service (DSS) to arrest professor  Salihu Shehu , the deputy secretary of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs over his abusive comments  on Christians.

In press statement issued after an emergency meeting of the north east leadership of the group and signed by the national president of the Christians Youth wing group, Engr. Daniel Kadzai, condemned in totality the statement credited to professor shehu, discribing it as not only troubling but an inciting comments Christians , but an inciting one by  tagging Christians as militia group.

" we are stating here without fear of intimidation, harassment by any body or agency that if within seven days security agents charged with the constitutional responsibility of maintaining law and order fails to take action on the abusive comments of professor Shehu on Christians in Nigeria, we will react by issuing the same comments that may not be good for the peace of this country. Nobody has the monopoly of abusing another religion, without reply in a more poisonous words," he stated.

Part of prof Shehu statement reads: " The NSCIA demands that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Justice, call the Council for Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School to order so that they will not stoke religious crisis in the country. Our Council patiently waits for what the Ministry will do as it puts other options on the table including litigation and nation-wide protests."

" Those who think they can ride roughshod on the rights of Muslims just because their co-Christian colonialists did it successfully will have to wake up and realise that Muslims are equal stakeholders in this country." It beggars belief that the Islamophobic posturing of the Nigerian Christian establishment is legendary even if this dates back to the Christian colonial past and its vestiges. The hatred for Muslims and Islam appears to be a virulent cancer that has spread across the body of those who use religion to oppress and deprive others of their religious rights."

 "The mosques in the South are being demolished within and outside institutions of higher learning while Muslim minorities in the North like those of Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi State (just because the name will ring a bell) are banished from their communities by Christian militias. Court of Appeal granted the rights of Muslim students to build a mosque in the River State University of Science and Technilogy (RSUST) but they are denied till today while the vibrant Press remain silent."

The Christians group pointed out that prof Shehu only hide under the law school incident to attack Christian religion, noting that since the school is not a Christians institution , there is nothing to link Christians to the issue.

"Let me re-quote the words of former American president Barak Obama who said that "All terrorists are Muslims,but not all Muslims are terrorists,". " prof Shehu should tell Nigerians whether Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen are Christians terror group or Muslims, since he called Christians as militias,"? He stated.

" The Nigerian law school code of conduct rule 29(a) provides the dressing code for its students, so if the dressing code did not conform with Ms Amosa's religious belief she has the right to opt out of the school or use her legal knowledge to fight her case in court instead of hiding under religion to blackmail the school authority ," he said.

"  The question is those other Muslims female law graduates are not true Muslims? , will Amosa refuse to wear trouser in NYSC camp, in the name of her religion, ? .If she is a good Muslim as she claim she can abandon law school and go into other ventures that cannot affect her religious belief,"he maintained.

"For peace and harmony of the country to continue, especially as we are approaching electioneering period, we urged the Director- General of DSS to take quick action , on Prof. Shehu to avoid our reaction to his abusive comments on Christians." He maintained.