Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria accuses UK, US, Canada and others of bias against Nigerian Muslims

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The Supreme Council for Sharia’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has accused the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and some other countries of bias against Nigerian Muslims.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, the leadership of the council claimed that those countries often take positions without interrogating all sides of claims.

“We are deeply concerned about the one-sided positions often taken by Nigerian allies, such as the UK, US, Canada etc, without recourse to verifiable evidence.”

Muhammad Bin-Uthman who read the text of the press conference on behalf of the group’s secretary general, Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, called for “restraint, impartiality and commitment to truth and fairness in taking positions on issues affecting Nigeria.”

The three countries mentioned by the council have issued statements condemning shootings of protesters at Lekki toll gate in Lagos on Tuesday. They also called for an end to the violence that has resulted from the crackdown on protesters nationwide.

The group alleged that the #EndSARS protests changed from “a patriotic undertaking into a religious and regional conflict” due to “unguarded utterances” of some Christian clerics. Mr Bin-Uthman did not mention any names.

The group said Muslims and their property came under attack by violent mobs in the wake of the #EndSARS protests due to the alleged inciting comments.

“It is unfortunate and disheartening that some individuals, including notable Christian clerics, rather than cautioning their followers and help contain the escalating violence, they instead aggravated it through their unguarded utterances.

We strongly believe that those utterances, sometimes from the pulpit, helped in turning what was presented as a patriotic undertaking into a religious and regional conflict as we are witnessing now.”….

 

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By now, it is obvious (at least to anyone who is paying attention) how Islamic supremacists manipulate the word “Islamophobia” to subvert free societies. The word is employed skillfully by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and particularly promulgated by Pakistan and Turkey.

Those who would call out the human rights abuses that are committed in the name of Islam are smeared throughout the West now, via Muslim Brotherhood operatives, as “Islamophobic”; the French cartoons depicting Muhammad are deemed “Islamophobic” by the multitudes of Muslims that are protesting around the world, justifying violence against those who display them.

Particularly disturbing now is the news that despite the pervasive persecution of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria, and the genocide of Christians that taking place in other areas of Africa as well, along with parts of the Middle East, Christian clerics in Nigeria are being called “Islamophobic” for their “End SARS” (SARS–Special Anti-Robbery Squad) protests against police brutality. They are being accused of inciting attacks against Muslims.

The reality is exactly the opposite. Less than three months ago, Nigeria was reportedly “becoming the world’s biggest killing ground of Christians.” And nine months ago, Christians marched “all across Nigeria” to protest persecution.

Nonetheless, Christian clerics are getting blamed for the End SARS protests. The Supreme Council for Sharia’ah in Nigeria has also accused “the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and some other countries of bias against Nigerian Muslims.” No valid reasons were provided. Nor was there any acknowledgement of extreme Sharia-justified human rights abuses that have been committed against Christians in Nigeria. Nothing was said about sectarian police brutality or corruption. There were only irrational, unfounded accusations of “Islamophobia.”

This accusation of “Islamophobia,” in Nigeria of all places, should prove to the West that nothing Westerners do, other than completely surrender, will be enough. Any protest anywhere, or any defense of freedomsanywhere (even on Western soil) that does not exalt Islam to be peaceful or which violates Sharia norms will be deemed “Islamophobic.”

Islamophobia is the catch-all term to protect Islam from scrutiny and criticism.