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| Hijab-insisting law graduate Firdaus Amasa barred from call to the Nigerian Bar |
Joseph Odok|20 December 2017
Catholic Nuns and priest wear their wig and gown not hood for call to bar, can a Muslim change any of its religious practice because of any national interest?
This hijab hijab shows how intolerable Islam is becoming in Nigeria. Abegi, maybe I will meet my traditional Chief priest of our local deity to prepare dressing code for the next call to bar for those from my home town, I will tell a nudist to go naked to the bar to show his religious freedom, I will tell the priest to dress clerical to the bar, I will tell a farmer to wear his farming cloths for call to bar.
How will the codified dressing code of law school be desecrated because a particular fundamentalist wants to wear hijab? And the NBA President is speaking in defense of such madness? If this NBA boss speaks in support of the madness and is left to still preside over the most noble profession, then I think Nigeria like most Islamic fundamentalists are sick.
I just think the Islamization of most Nigerian laws to the exclusion of other religions is gradually making some Islamic fundamentalist intolerant and unconscious of the secular character of Nigeria.
With the endorsement of Hijab misnomer by a National NBA boss, we are truly in danger. How can personal religious interest of some Islamic fundamentalist become a norm in a secular society? Why should established culture be changed because of the whims and caprices of particular individuals? Can a norms of a particular religion be made the national norm in a secular society? Our Islamic fundamentalist are truly beginning to bit more than they can chew?
Joseph Odok
Social Change Agent
