The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has stated Shariah is an integral a part of Muslim life in Nigeria and won’t be deserted as a consequence of strain from the USA or any Christian influencer.
Professor Ishaq Akintola, MURIC’s government director, stated calls urging the US to strain President Bola Tinubu to outlaw Shari’ah and the Hisbah cross a “purple line” and forged doubt on the true intentions of Washington in Nigeria’s struggle in opposition to terrorism.
Akintola described Dr. Ebenezer Obadare’s name for such US intervention as “mischievous, reactionary and outlandish” and warned that any try to abolish Shari’ah can be seen as an assault on Islam itself.
He additional stated: “Shari’ah is the Muslims’ lifestyle. It can’t be separated from Islam. We fought exhausting to determine it, and its basis is deeply entrenched in legality, constitutionality and democratic values.
“The second anybody makes an attempt to the touch our Shari’ah, we start to see him in search of to get rid of Islam in its totality. Our recommendation is that this: don’t go there. It’s the purple line.
“This name raises extra questions than solutions and casts doubt on the intention of the USA in its curiosity in Nigeria’s conflict on terror.
“It quantities to surrendering Nigeria’s sovereignty. It constitutes an affront to the Nigerian structure. It’s subsequently a no-go space for both the US or the Nigerian authorities.”
He added, “Nigerian Muslims will proceed to assist President Tinubu in his conflict on terrorist {groups} so long as there are clear strains of demarcation. However Nigerian Muslims aren’t fools.
“The story will certainly change if any authorities, native or international, makes any try to outlaw our hard-earned Shari’ah.”