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[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

Who founded ISI ?

[Ainà Dipo 🇳🇬 @dipoaina1]

When Dangote Refinery did not want its workers unionised, the parent union responded with threats of industrial action. But a private organisation is entitled to set its own employment policies within the boundaries of the law.

Likewise, a private school also has the right to establish policies that reflect its vision, values, and institutional objectives. If someone wishes to exercise certain freedoms or rights that conflict with those policies, they’re free to choose another institution rather than compel a private one to abandon its identity.

For example:

A missionary school exists because it is missionary; a private Islamic school exists because it is Islamic. Expecting either to abandon its identity in the name of individual preference is tolerance that becomes intolerance.

“The freedom to choose an institution should not become the freedom to redefine it.” ~DA

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@godsbeloved935 @SasDantata You're so daft

Al-hikmah is private faith based university
UI is public institutions managing with tax payer funds from both Muslims and Christians

[Karounwi Adini @KarounwiAdini]

The Appeal Court ruling in Ibadan, against Hijab,in ISI, is again causing ruckus.

I am surprised anyways, there is another lower court ruling on Hijab, after the Supreme Court affirmation of June 2022 on the matter.

Now, let me say, i am not too bothered. ISI was established in 1963, with funding from International Donors. The land on which it sits was donated by the Western Region.

The University of Ibadan which maintains control of administration, management and board is a Federal University, owned by Federal Government of Nigeria.

The Supreme Court will hopefully lay it to rest, and re-emphasize the primacy of fundamental rights of Muslim girls to Hijab in schools, and work.

Last year when i wrote about the these matters,I was appealed to, that it was colonial-era missionaries who were whites who committed those historical infractions, and no "Yoruba natives" were involved. And that we should move on from the pains of those times and coalesce under the banner of "Yoruba Unity".

Seeing the news and reactions of some over this latest one has reaffirmed my earlier stand.

There are times when some without understanding history tend to burrow into matters left to cool down, to ensure peace.

Due to the early exclusive missionary influence on education, and requirement for conversion into Christianity to get access to literacy and education, the first set of elite produced in Yorubaland, in civil service, public policy , Justice Administration and politics were missionary trained.

Several of them took on public policies that became contentious when Muslims began emerging and requesting their interests be accommodated since they weren't there earlier.

The MSSN was started in 1954,at Ansarudeen Alakoro School Hall, to support Muslim students in Mission Schools being pressured to compromise their faith.

Its first Annual conference adopted the likes of Sir Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Inuwa Wada, Professor Saburi Biobaku, Alhaja Humuani Alaga, Alhaji A.R.A Smith, Mrs H.M Shodeinde, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa as Patrons and Patronesses.

In 1959, the National Government under Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa granted holidays to Muslim students officially allowing them to observe the Eid for the first time in almost 70years.

Obafemi Awolowo's Free Education Programme is hailed today, but many don't know Christian Missionaries fiercely opposed the program initially.

This was because it directly threatened their absolute control of the education system in Yorubaland. They feared losing their religious influence, school autonomy to government control.

Education to missionaries was a tool of evangelisation, and government funded education was going to strip them of that.

Obafemi Awolowo's government together with Stephen Awokoya to correct some historical injustices against Muslims put up a Conscience Clause.

"Any school receiving government grants-in-aid was strictly forbidden from forcing Christian religious instruction on non-Christian pupils".

Awolowo's Free Education programme of 1955, was the first time Muslim children were not required to convert from their religion.

The vast majority of the civil service administrators were still missionary educated as at the 60's and 70's and regularly put up hoops infront of Muslims with their policies, and used government machinery to discomfort Muslims to convert.

One of the most damning examples is Bola Ige, Governor of Old Oyo State in 1979.

Under his government, some Muslim Schools were renamed, New Muslim schools refused accreditation while Missiomary were allowed. Distributed copies of the bible across the state and didn't do so for the Quran, and frustrated IRK teaching.

Those who feel the advantage they earlier had over Muslims, decades ago in public affairs is fast eroding, and needs curtailing, don't need to be appealed to.

They need to be confronted in the public space and defeated intellectual

Muslims are not 2nd class citizens in Yorubaland seeking for permission

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

Al-hikmah is private faith based university

[Hannah Rachel @hannahmuktar]

Christians are mandated to wear hijab in Al-Hikma University and nobody protested or took the management to court.
It’s simple, if you can’t abide by their rules then don’t go there.

Why is it that Muslims always stir chaos???

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

What's this 😐

[Opeloyeru Zainab Morenikeji🌷 @keji_social]

I enjoy fried Coaster biscuit 😋

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

Al-hikmah is private faith based university

[Desiree_04🫢🇰🇷 @Sweeeeeeeet_04]

Why do Christians in Al-Hikmah have to wear hijab?
That's just wrong.

[Ōu🔻 @ashita_valdez]

The private school argument being made is not actually about any meaningful difference between a school environment and a workplace. It is purely a technicality, that private institutions can set their own rules. If that is the entire basis, then it is not really an argument about why hijab specifically should be restricted. It is just an argument about institutional autonomy. And on that basis alone, it does not justify the restriction.

Just to clarify, I have zero issues with a faith-based school stopping the use of Hijab, and vice versa. If you're referring to simply private schools however, then as for this CRK issue, you are actually strengthening the case against the "go elsewhere" position. Most non-faith private schools in Nigeria already allow students to choose between IRS and CRK. That is precisely the precedent that undermines the private school argument. If a private, non-faith institution can and routinely does accommodate religious difference in its curriculum, on what principled basis does the same institution get to say the hijab is a step too far?

As for ISI, the school cannot functionally separate itself from the University of Ibadan when it benefits from that association in reputation, resources and access, and then invoke private institution status the moment Muslim students assert their rights.

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

Al-hikmah is private faith based university

Your analogy is flawed

[Ainà Dipo 🇳🇬 @dipoaina1]

This is Al-Hikmah University, a private faith-based institution where students, regardless of their personal religion, are expected to comply with the school’s dress code, which includes the hijab for female students. Lady in question is Christian that enrolled in the university.

People enroll knowing the institution’s values and policies. The same principle should apply to every private institution: if you voluntarily choose to attend, you should respect its rules or choose another school that aligns with your preferences.

Freedom should not become a license to erase another institution’s identity.

A private Islamic university can require a dress code that reflects its values, just as a private Christian or secular institution can uphold its own traditions. The freedom to choose a school should not become the freedom to redefine it.

Please let’s all be guided and focus on more important issues of the nation.

Thank you 🙏🏽

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@Iceugwa @AladejanaDeji Re-read what you wrote down

[Ayọ̀dèjì Aládéjánà @AladejanaDeji]

Learned counsel,

I share your view on the general principle, and as a Muslim myself, I am neither playing victim nor seeking sympathy. I am only going to engage with the facts of this specific case, which I believe deserve more scrutiny than the private/public binary you rested your argument on.

The majority judgment of the Court of Appeal declared the International School, University of Ibadan, a private school and proceeded accordingly. But that characterization is wrong. ISI was established in 1963 with funding from international donors, but the Western Regional Government of Nigeria donated the land on which it sits. The University of Ibadan itself, which owns and administers ISI, is a federal university, funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria. It is not a private institution by any reasonable definition. That ISI may be described as having a “private” character relative to state schools does not make it a private school in the same sense as Hillcrest or Atlantic Hall. The minority judgment that upheld the High Court ruling was correct on this fundamental point. Yes, the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on hijab in truly private schools, but the ISI is not the right vehicle for that argument.

Let me also share my personal experience, because this debate sometimes feels very abstract to those who have not lived it. I attended a Federal Government College, and during one Eid al-Adha celebration while school was in session, we were not allowed to go home to celebrate with our families, even though the Federal Government had declared a public holiday and we would not be missing any academic activities. Our parents, who travelled to the school with food, were not permitted through the gate. Can we cover that under the school policy?

The issue with the ISI is not a case of dress code applied evenhandedly to everyone. It is an active suppression of Islamic religious observance in a federally funded institution, in a country whose Constitution guarantees freedom of religion under Section 38 and protection from discrimination under Section 42. The constitutional protection of Muslim students in public institutions is not a theoretical debate. For many of us, it was lived, and the lived experience was not of parents making poor school choices because you cannot say my parents made a poor choice by enrolling me in a school owned and operated by the Federal Government. This is a clear case of institutions treating the religious observance of Muslim children as an inconvenience to be managed rather than a right to be protected, and it is very common in the Southwest.

Let me also add our experience as Muslims in Ekiti State. In Ekiti State, Governor Kayode Fayemi issued a formal circular in December 2013 permitting female Muslim students in public schools to wear the hijab as part of their school uniform. These were government schools that had no religious identity of their own, the same type of schools that you agree that the rights of the Muslim students should be fully protected. Despite the clear directive from the state Governor, several principals and headteachers refused to comply. The government had to issue disciplinary action before compliance was achieved.

In states where the law is clear, where there is a circular or memo from the government to that effect, Muslim students and their parents continue to face discrimination in unambiguously public institutions. So the problem is not simply parents choosing the wrong schools, but a systemic problem that has plagued not just schools but other public institutions and establishments.

The Supreme Court will now have to explain what “private” actually means when a school sits on government-donated land and is administered by a federal university, or they will pronounce that all the constitutional rights of students end when they enter the premises of a private school.

I personally look forward to that clarification.

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@AztecccZ Religious houses are for people of specific religion

I don't need permission to enter Abuja central mosque, I'm a Muslim, have already cleared the criteria

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@unusual_pella @FirdaousIsiaq What's the certainty he'll overlook zina ?

[Jannatān🇯🇵🫧 @FirdaousIsiaq]

The purpose of keeping your virginity till marriage has lost its meaning.

You’re to keep your virginity because “GOD” asked you to, because it is a “SIN” to sleep around with men who aren’t your spouse.

Not because “you want to give it to your husband as a grand prize” in return for better treatment.

Virginity is an act of obedience, not a transactional gift.

[Ōu🔻 @ashita_valdez]

The International School, University of Ibadan (ISI) isn't a "Christian" school. The school writes its name in full and MUST attach University of Ibadan (a federal institution to it in formal settings).

Even if I were to accept the argument that it's a "private" school, it's still absurd to argue that Muslims should simply leave. If that principle is accepted, they'll eventually apply it to every other non-educational institution, ranging from Jobs, Hospitals, NGOs etc. Then what are Muslims supposed to do? Leave and attend only "Muslim" organisations?

Ultimately, the "just leave" argument for private institutions is undoubtedly a northern privilege. For what it's worth, private schools in many parts of the North can hardly impose rules that hinder the religious expression of Muslims. And the schools there do not make life difficult for the non-muslims either especially because there's no "obligation" required of the Christian by virtue of their religion.

In the South, however, many private schools, and even some public ones, actively make it difficult for Muslims to practise their religion. Management often hides behind the claim of being "neutral" as a means of restricting Muslim religious expression. This ranges from not allowing Muslims to pray at the proper times to refusing to provide a place for prayer simply because non-Muslims don't require one.

At the same time, many of these schools conduct morning devotions during assembly and expect Muslim students to participate. From an Islamic perspective, are Muslims even supposed to compromise on such matters?

Now, the usual target is the hijab, a veil that, in many cases, does not even fully meet the Islamic requirements of hijab. Yet some people still want to ban it under the guise of enforcing a uniform policy or claiming, "We don't allow rosaries for Catholics either".

But why is that supposed to matter to Muslims? Are rosaries to Catholics what the hijab is to Muslim women? They are not equivalent, so the comparison does not hold. All of it is lamba under the guise of anti-muslim sentiment.

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

Which Muslim majority nation didn't have church except KSA ?

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

As a Muslim, there's one contradiction I still struggle to understand... 🤔

A Muslim migrates to a Christian-majority country...
👊
He wants to build a mosque.👍

He wants to preach Islam freely.👍

He wants to distribute Qur'ans.

He wants halal food.👊

He wants religious freedom.👍

Excellent! That's exactly how it should be. 👏

But here's where my brain starts overheating... 😂

Why does that same freedom suddenly become "dangerous" when a Christian wants to build a church or preach in some Muslim-majority countries😭

Interesting...😔

So freedom is beautiful...🤌

...until it's someone else's freedom? 🤔

Since Islam is truly from Allah...

Why should it panic because a church was built down the road?

Why should a Bible make the truth nervous?

Why should a Christian preacher be treated like a national security threat?

You can't export religious freedom... and import religious restrictions...🤔

If we demand tolerance abroad... we should have the courage to practice it at home.

Double standards have never strengthened the truth..🤌

"A belief that asks for freedom only for itself isn't asking for freedom... it's asking for privilege."...✊

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@whisperingcards @AnotherAnowa @Harrbidos Which kind lie be this
Show me source you read it

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@haajeth_ @BenYousef_E Wallahu l musta'an

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

@Martha_d_great In government schools funded and managed with tax payer's money from both Muslim and Christian

[أسد الدين @Usamoh4]

But he mentioned in one of his post tagging the boy Nigerian best mathematician for his level which he isn't

[1biyi @biyibjorn]

Alex has repeatedly said his number one and only goal is the South East. You don’t expect him to start looking for maths geniuses in Kano or Osun. He’s a private person who’s dedicated his efforts to STEM in the south east. This is not bigotry. This is putting his people first.