If Arabic is Islam, then English is Christianity.

The Nigerian Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has described the suit challenging the Arabic inscription on the Nigerian currency (naira) as acrobatic religiousity. MURIC made the assertion on Monday, 16th November, 2020 while responding to a suit filed by a Lagos-based lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo. MURIC’s statement was issued by its director and founder, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

Omirhobo argued that the Arabic inscription on naira notes portray Nigeria as an Islamic state contrary to the country’s constitutional status of a secular state. The lawyer also filed a similar suit against the Nigerian Army seeking the removal of Arabic inscriptions from its logo. The cases are being heard before Justice Mohammed Liman at the Lagos High Court. (https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/11/10/cbn-opposes-suit-to-remove-arabic-inscriptions-from-banknotes/)

But according to MURIC, “Omirhobo’s approach is not only naïve, it is pedestrian and kindergarten. This suit against Arabic on naira manifests acute desertification of religious tolerance, exhibition of undiluted acrobatic religiousity, NAFDAC-registered gymnastic spirituality and Oxford cum Harvard-certificated ignorance.

“How many times do we need to tell our Christian neighbours that Nigeria is not a secular but a multi-religious state. A secular state is one that does not recognize religion as in communist states. But Nigeria recognizes all the religions in the country and the Constitution also begins with the words ‘under God’. Secular states do not recognize the existence of God.

“The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 says inter alia at its very beginning, ‘We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria: having firmly and solemnly resolved : to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign Nation under God…’ So how can Nigeria be a secular state when we are ‘under God’? In addition, nowhere in the whole constitution was the word ‘secular’ ever used and we challenge anyone who can find that word from the constitution to mention the chapter, section and sub-section.

“Seeking to remove Arabic from the naira is the height of ignorance because Arabic is just a language like English or French, not a religion. By the way, what is on the naira is not even Arabic. It is ‘Ajami’ using Arabic letters as a form of transliteration. Even if Omirhobo single-handedly succeeds in removing Arabic from the naira, is he going to remove the numerals 5, 10, 100, 1000 indicating the denominations as well? If he cannot, then he still has a long way to go because even those numbers are Arabic.

“The numerical system (1, 2, 3, 4, etc) were invented by a Muslim mathematician by name Alkhawarizmi (died 850) in the 9th century. Nay and more than that. Whereas ancient Greeks had men like Plato, Aristotle, Euclide, Thales, Theodocius, etc whose scientific theories only managed to survive their times and Europe boasts today of scholars like Nicholas Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton with their moribund and Godless postulates, the list of renowned Muslim scientists is endless.

“The truth is that religious fanatics have grown paranoia about Islam and they arrogate the Arabic language to the religion alone whereas this is not true. Their hatred for Islam and the Muslims is transferred to the Arabic language. This transferred aggression beclouded their perspicacity to the extent that they fail to realize that Islam is not synonymous with Arabic language.

“For instance, Israel’s currency has Arabic inscription on it. Nigerian Christians who go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem every year spend Israel’s money and see Arabic on it. Did they tear it into pieces in anger? They did not ask the Israeli authorities to remove the Arabic on their currency but when they return to Nigeria they maintain their hardline opposition to Arabic on naira. Where is objectivity? Is this not articulated religiousity?

“Again, hardly would any imported electronic gadget enter Nigeria without its manual containing an Arabic section. That is business sense, not religion. But Muslim-haters are swayed by emotion and they cannot separate the wheat from the chaff. Common sense is not so common. Of course there are still Christians who are moderate, liberal and realistic. They are the few exceptions who will not allow themselves to be led by the nose.

“One major argument against the removal of Arabic from the naira is that a large percentage of the Nigerian population will be cut off from our monetary system if Arabic is removed from the naira because Arabic is one of the local languages in Nigeria. It is used by the Shuwa Arabs in Borno State. Therefore Arabic cannot be a foreign language.

“Furthermore, the Bible used by Christians in Israel, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Syria and other Arab countries are printed in Arabic language only because that is the only language they understand. Does that make the Bible an Islamic Bible? Their church services are conducted in Arabic. Have those churches become mosques?

“Interestingly enough, God is called Allah in the Arabic Bible. If Arab Christians want to say ‘God is great’, they also say ‘Allahu Akbar’. To thank God they say ‘alhamdulilah’ just like Muslims. The population of Palestine is 12 million and 7% (about 840,000) of this number are Christians. Yet the language of this 7% is Arabic. Perhaps Omirhobo will like to apply to the International Court at the Hagues to reject them as Christians because they speak Arabic?

“Omirhobo’s argument that Arabic on naira notes portrays Nigeria as an Islamic state holds no water because if Arabic is Islam, then English is Christianity. Hence if Arabic on the naira note is Islamisation, non-Arabic letters on the same naira is Christianisation. By extension, if the use of Arabic is Islamisation, the use of English language in Nigeria, particularly as a lingua franca, is the mother of all christianisation.

“For equity, therefore, Nigeria should have two official languages: Arabic and English with priority and emphasis in that alphabetical order. But in their magnanimity, tolerance and wisdom, Nigerian Muslims have not come forward to demand that Arabic should be Nigeria’s second official language. For that reason alone, the plaintiff’s request for the removal of Arabic from the naira is frivolous, petty, selfish, myopic and parochial.

[b]“Perhaps the plaintiff thinks Nigerian Muslims were the ones who initiated the inscription of Arabic on both the army badge and the naira notes. Omirhobo needs to be told that even the colonial masters inscribed Arabic on the currency printed by Britain and used in Nigeria.[/b]The words: ‘pound daya’, i.e. one pound was inscribed on colonial currency. Omirhobo may therefore need to sue the Queen of England.

“To continue along the lanes of history, [i]it was not even Nigerian Muslim leaders who brought the idea of Arabic in the Nigerian currency in post-independence Nigeria. The man who initiated it was a Christian, a Urhobo officer by name General David Akpode Ejoor (rtd). He was the one who introduced the Arabic inscription and the Star emblem into the Nigeria Army crest. He was given the assignment and research led him to pick the Arabic words ‘nasrun minallahi’ (meaning ‘victory is from God’) and a committee made up of three ministers of the First Republic : [/b]Muhammadu Ribadu (Defence), Festus Okotie-Eboh (Finance) and Yar'adua (Works and Housing) approved his choice. Ejoor confirmed this in his book ‘Reminiscences’ (page 16).

“The Christian who took the Central Bank of Nigeria to court claiming the country has been Islamized because of the Arabic inscription on the naira note failed to see how heavily Nigeria has been Christianized by observing Saturday as a public holiday because of the Seventh Day Adventists and Sunday because of other Christians. But the Muslims are not given any day at all.

“MURIC appeals to Nigerians not to allow the fear mongers and merchants of hate continue to spread fear and sow discord among us. Many of those saddled with the task of uniting us have become instruments of division. Ex-President Jonathan is an example. He removed Arabic from the naira because he listened to hate preachers whom he took along on his futile but numerous trips to Jerusalem. They indoctrinated him into believing that Arabic on the naira implies Islamisation. Although he saw Arabic on Israeli currency on his trips to Jerusalem, yet he swallowed the lie hook, line and sinker. Of course it cost him his much-coveted second term because his action had been rightly interpreted as anti-Muslim.

“We charge Nigerians to open up their minds in order to avoid becoming victims of accidental civilisation or, worse still, educated illiterates. Arabic is not Islam and Islam is not Arabic. One is a language, the other is a religion. Let us learn to understand, to tolerate, to give, to forgive and to love.”

Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)


http://muslimrightsmuric..com/2020/11/suit-against-arabic-sign-of-acrobatic.html?m=1

Don't worry, when a CHRISTIAN President come in, that useless inscription will be remove shap !
Obj and GEJ did it !
The next CHRISTIAN president will start from where they stop !

Yoruba muslims sef.

since this person says that the arabic inscription on the naira is not religious, it means that it's exactly religious, we know what this person represent, if it's THERE just like English language what has arabic got to do with nigeria since its not nigeria's official language, and worst is the arabic on their army uniform, anyways we know who owns the army

Is Arabic our lingual franca Mr MURIC fanatic?

I read every word, but with utmost disgust!

The passage sounded like the sound of a loud blast as those heard in dambo and Chibok.

Is it true that Arabic is inscribed on the Israelis currency,if true why?






^_^

November1857:
Don't worry, when a CHRISTIAN President come in, that useless inscription will be remove shap !
Obj and GEJ did it !
The next CHRISTIAN president will start from where they stop !

Keep dreaming.some xtian leaders including GEJ who ruled could'nt remove it,but u are here deceiving urself.we have so many electronics,products,etc with their instruction manuals written in arabic.Does that mean these things are islamic?..arabic numerals,roman numerals are being taught in our schools for long decades,does that mean the schools are arabic?.Some arab countries e.g lebanon,egypt,palastinia, with few christians have their bibles written in arabic. Arabic is just a language for God's sake..EVEN THE CURRENCY OF ISREAL(ur self acclaimed God's own country) HAS ARABIC WRITTINGS ON IT..See below;

Christians in Nigeria have long had something of an inferiority complex. The view that Arabic is Islam is as short-sighted as it is cynical. The above gave justified our statement that Islam and Christianity do not share a common interest. One (Islam) preaches peace and tolerance, while the other breeds hatred and violence.

Nothing will change MURIC's view: Christians are bent on blocking the rise of Islam.

He is right. Arabic is just a language like English. As he said their Palestinian Christian that speak Arabic as original language. Majority of northern Muslims can only speak Arabic and Hausa maybe that was the idea behind it.

OfficialMURIC:
Christians in Nigeria have long had something of an inferiority complex. The view that Arabic is Islam is as short-sighted as it is cynical. The above gave justified our statement that Islam and Christianity do not share a common interest. One (Islam) preaches peace and tolerance, while the other breeds hatred and violence.

Nothing will change MURIC's view: Christians are bent on blocking the rise of Islam.

Islam preaches peace with all the bombing and killing in the north and other Muslims countries? Islam today is equal to terror

Mumuric is wilding in this administration

U are a mumu man....

Let them remove it...

When you have someone speaking too much big big grammar, just know that there is something he's hiding.

Imagine his justification, because Borno has people who speak Arabic therefore Nigeria should make its official languages to be Arabic and English.

That a Christian authorized the Army logo doesn't mean that's the final say. Imagine one Christian in the midst of two Muslims, what more can we expect?

And to say Muslims are tolerant of other religions in this country is a slap on the cheeks of thousands of people that have died in the hands of their BOKO Haram messengers.

OfficialMURIC:
Christians in Nigeria have long had something of an inferiority complex. The view that Arabic is Islam is as short-sighted as it is cynical. The above gave justified our statement that Islam and Christianity do not share a common interest. One preaches peace and tolerance, while the other breeds hatred and violence.

Nothing will change MURIC's view: Christians are bent on blocking the rise of Islam.

Mr MURIC, that your bolded eehn, just paste it on the net and ask people to choose which religions fit the first and second description.
You can come back with your answer

Saao:
He is right. Arabic is just a language like English. As he said their Palestinian Christian that speak Arabic as original language. Majority of northern Muslims can only speak Arabic and Hausa maybe that was the idea behind it.

Actually what was written on the Naira Is not Arabic.
it's Ajami

This man is simply Professor Of Troublemaking

Poster above me calling someone else troublemaker.
When he is a demon himself.


But why is d muric concerned about it's removal if it isn't a problem?

But the write up is not Arabic

Arabic is recognised by Israel as one of its languages just as our Constitution recognises Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo as major languages.

A state being secular means that it does not recognise a particular religion as the official religion not that it denies the existence of God. The US and India are also secular but still recognises the existence of religion and God among its people. Secularity is akin to neutrality in matters of religion not necessarily atheism.

Unfortunately, MURIC failed in its comparison of Arabic with English because while English is recognised as our official language by the Constitution, Arabic is neither recognised as a local language or an official language. As a matter of fact, the only time Arabic gains currency in usage in state functions is during Islamic prayers when it is used in recitations. It is thus easy to see why it can be linked to Islam.

The argument of ajami Hausa falls on its face when you realise that Hausa is also written on the notes. So what purpose does Arabic that a very good number of northerners can't read serve if not religious

How can you compare products manuals written in Arabic and a country currency.

Product manuals also come in French and Japanese, why don we add that to the Naira aswell.

Wap

Esseite:
How can you compare products manuals written in Arabic and a country currency.

Product manuals also come in French and Japanese, why don we add that to the Naira aswell.

..we have high % of muslims in nigeria,and they use arabic and nt japanese or french.why cant u ask isreal why they put arabic their currency instead of french or japanese.simple logic u cant even comprehend.

Saao:
[s] Islam preaches peace with all the bombing and killing in the north and other Muslims countries? Islam today is equal to terror[/s]

Agbegbaorogboye:
[s]
Mr MURIC, that your bolded eehn, just paste it on the net and ask people to choose which religions fit the first and second description.
You can come back with your answer[/s]

You mean the countless millions your loving xtian brothers invaded and murdered in those nations

I find it hard to believe nigeria is a secular state with the level of bigotry and religious intolerance i see daily. I spend the naira and never for once have i raised an eyebrow at the inscription of arabic on our legal tender

Is.muric a true Muslim? Can he be allowed to lead prayers in the presence of northern almajiri? I guess you no the answer.
So why does he keep living in fools paradise priding himself as Muslim right ,?

Saao:
He is right. Arabic is just a language like English. As he said their Palestinian Christian that speak Arabic as original language. Majority of northern Muslims can only speak Arabic and Hausa maybe that was the idea behind it.

He may be right but his delivery was replete with bitterness, bile, arrogance and the highest level of imaginable hate. That simply confined his truth to the trash cans.

punisha:


Poster above me calling someone else troublemaker.
When he is a demon himself.


But why is d muric concerned about it's removal if it isn't a problem?

You mean Helinues? He's all over in my mention with his numerous trollers CC me.
Una wan drag dude die on top wetin sef?
Simply because he cried out about his cancellers

Lzaa imhotep nwanyiogwashi Msallison Ebenezer2021

360degreess:
..we have high % of muslims in nigeria,and they use arabic and nt japanese or french.why cant u ask isreal why they put arabic their currency instead of french or japanese.simple logic u cant even comprehend.

We have high % of illiterate Christian's aswell whom cant read english.. how do you accommodate them?

Isreal has Hebrew on its note as its official language and Arabic as semi official, are you actually of the opinion that Arabic is Nigerian semi official language?

Is it all muslims that can read arabic?

Gandollaar:
You mean Helinues? He's all over in my mention with his numerous trollers CC me.
Una wan drag dude die on top wetin sef?
Simply because he cried out about his cancellers

Lzaa imh.otep nwanyiogwashi Msallison Ebenezer2021

Cancellers will stop when helinues rejects sai Babarism.

Cc lzaa