Nigeria is far from America both culturally and geographically, but in a very familiar scenario seen across the Western world, a Muslim lobby is making demands for accommodation at National Open University (NOUN), provoked by the school holding Friday exams. It’s always about “hurt feelings” and “insult” to Islamic supremacists. Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) asked: “Why do you hate Muslims so much? What have we done to deserve this?” It described the Friday exam schedule as an infringement “upon Allah-given fundamental human rights of Muslim students and staff,” which is creating “psychological trauma” for Muslims. Sounds like a routine accusation of “Islamophobia.”
Nigeria is officially a secular state with two dominant religions: Christianity and Islam. The latter is growing via dawah and the most violent persecution of Christians. Nonetheless, MURIC has accused NOUN of “Christianizing” the organization, because Islam must have full dominance.
Unrelenting demands to shift any secular society’s status quo to accommodate Muslims is the hallmark of Islamic supremacy. And screaming victimhood is a stratagem to subjugate. Yet in Sharia-adherent territories, no challenge to their status quo will ever be tolerated. And any outward criticism of their systemic intolerance would be met with swift state punishment.
While MURIC makes outrageous demands, Christians are being wantonly murdered in Nigeria in the Islamic pursuit of conquest and establishment of the Sharia.
“Islamic Group, MURIC Lambasts Nigeria’s Open University, NOUN For Holding Exams On Fridays, Demands Apology,” Sahara Reporters, May 5, 2022:
According to the group, Muslim candidates were thereby forced to sit examinations under duress while Muslim invigilators were compelled to work in a dehumanising condition. The group described the examination timetable as anti-Muslim and neo-imperialist, according to a press statement sent to SaharaReporters on Thursday by the director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The statement reads, “The timetable of the 2022 POP Final Examination Timetable released by the National Open University (NOUN) has revealed that Muslim students and Muslim staff of the institution were forced to take the aforementioned examination and invigilate the same respectively during the period of the Jumu‘ah prayer from Tuesday 19th April to Tuesday, 17th May, 2022.
“The infringements on Allah-given fundamental rights of the Muslim students and staff occurred on Friday 22nd and 29th April, 2022. Unless adequate steps are taken by the authorities of NOUN to correct the anomaly, it is most likely to continue on Friday, 6th and 13th May, 2022.(https://eu.docworkspace.com/d/sINKanrWRAajrupMG).
“For those who may be wondering what is wrong if Muslim students and staff are made to take and invigilate examinations during the Jumu‘ah period on Friday, it is akin to compelling Christian students and staff to write examinations and to invigilate on Sunday mornings.
“This cannot be acceptable to Nigerian Christians and it is for the same reason that it is a taboo among Muslims and anybody who forces them to do it is regarded as standing between them and their freedom to worship Almighty Allah, their Supreme Creator. It is not only outrageous, repulsive and detestable, it is also anti-Muslim and neo-imperialist. It smacks of articulated religious fanaticism.
“Already, the NOUN authorities have infringed upon Allah-given fundamental human rights of Muslim students and staff involved in the examination exercise on two different Jumu‘ah service days, namely, Friday 22nd April and Friday 29th April, 2022.”
Demanding an apology from the open university, the Islamic group said, “Why do you hate Muslims so much? What have we done to deserve this?
“We demand an unreserved apology from NOUN for the infringement which occurred on those two days and for subjecting Muslim candidates and staff to immeasurable psychological trauma which affected their performance during the examinations.
“Furthermore, we demand the cancellation of all examination papers scheduled for the Jumu‘ah period this coming Friday, 6th May and Friday 13th May, 2022….
somehistory says
boohoo. When the mozlum terrorists in nigeria stop slaughtering Christians and burning their homes and churches and kidnapping and raping their children, and burning old men and blind old women to death…and then apologize over and over for all of this they have already done…then the university can say, maybe, sorry we put you in a position to stay awake and work.
gravenimage says
+1
JOHN L SCHARF says
[SARCASM ON}
Okay, so let’s have no soccer on Saturday sabboth for Jews or football on Sunday Sabbath for Christians. What about Wednesday for Odinists? I think we should have Moon Day off, too.