{"id":9638,"date":"2019-05-05T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2019-05-05T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:44:20","slug":"christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Christian Elders reply Muslim group, say Sharia is programmed to Islamise Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Nigerian Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has reacted to Muslim Rights Concern\u2019s criticism of \u00a0its position on Chief Justice Onnoghen, saying that the experimentation of Sharia and its tenets of apostasy, Islamic, supremacy, jihad, Taqiyya, among others, in a democratic Nigeria and in competition with democracy, have been responsible for the difficulty in peaceful co-existence with other religions and ethnic nationalities that do not believe in and are not willing to be bound by these tenets.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0 reaction entitled, \u2018 MURIC to Christian Elders on Onnoghen, Gowon: Your position is pedestrian,\u2019 and\u00a0 signed by NCEF Chairman, Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN, on behalf of several other eminent members, the Forum, while agreeing with MURIC \u201cthat what Nigerians need now is peaceful environment\u201d said, \u201cthis cannot be achieved when one section of the populace (Christians) is marginalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCEF said it would have ignored the MURIC article but for two fundamental mistakes: \u201c That you chose to use former CJN Onnoghen and our respected former Head of State as subjects of attack; and your use of the word\u00a0 \u2018 pedestrian\u2019 , which the\u00a0 Oxford Advanced Learner\u2019s Dictionarydefines as\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018without any imagination or excitement, dull.\u2019<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want to make it clear that General Yakubu Gowon is not a member of NCEF. Having got the membership of NCEF wrong, MURIC also got its facts wrong.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want to re-state once again that the attack on Onnoghen, a Christian, is the determination of the Muslim executive to have a dominant position, unchallenged by either the legislature or judiciary. Throughout military rule, the legislature was non-existent and at the return to democracy in 1999, a\u00a0 legislative arm at\u00a0 federal and state levels was programmed to be dominated by the executive.<\/div>\n
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\u201cNCEF is suggesting that\u00a0 the contradictory ideology of democracy and Sharia at play in Nigeria is responsible for her instability.\u00a0 Nigeria has to choose one of the two and\u00a0 not both.\u00a0 It is hoped that the \u2018super\u2019 executive that wants to swallow the legislature and the judiciary will find time to read papers prepared by NCEF.\u00a0 They may learn a thing or two and not see jihad as the final solution rather than as separation of powers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE Nigerian Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has reacted to Muslim Rights Concern\u2019s criticism of \u00a0its position on Chief Justice Onnoghen, saying that the experimentation of Sharia and its tenets of apostasy, Islamic, supremacy, jihad, Taqiyya, among others, in a democratic Nigeria and in competition with democracy, have been responsible for the difficulty in peaceful co-existence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[207,353,192,253],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-christianity","tag-islam","tag-muslim-groups","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"\nChristian Elders reply Muslim group, say Sharia is programmed to Islamise Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian Elders reply Muslim group, say Sharia is programmed to Islamise Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Nigerian Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has reacted to Muslim Rights Concern\u2019s criticism of \u00a0its position on Chief Justice Onnoghen, saying that the experimentation of Sharia and its tenets of apostasy, Islamic, supremacy, jihad, Taqiyya, among others, in a democratic Nigeria and in competition with democracy, have been responsible for the difficulty in peaceful co-existence […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-05-05T15:44:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/sharia-law-e1545326470764.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Christian Elders reply Muslim group, say Sharia is programmed to Islamise Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-05-05T15:44:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":371,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/sharia-law-e1545326470764.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Christianity\",\"Islam\",\"Muslim groups\",\"Religion\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/christian-elders-reply-muslim-group-say-sharia-is-programmed-to-islamise-nigeria\",\"name\":\"Christian Elders reply Muslim group, say Sharia is programmed to Islamise Nigeria - 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