MURIC Condemns Lawsuit Seeking Removal Of Arabic Language From Naira Notes

November 16, 2020

Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director of MURIC
Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director of MURIC

The Muslim Rights Concern has faulted a lawsuit seeking a court order to remove Arabic language on Nigerian naira notes.

Prof Ishaq Akintola, Director of MURIC, described the suit as “acrobatic religiousity” as he urged the court to strike it out.

Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director of MURIC

back link building services=0></a></div><p></span></span><br/> </span></p><p>The suit is filed by a Lagos-based lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo, who 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.</p><p>The lawyer also filed a similar suit against the Nigerian Army seeking the removal of Arabic inscriptions from its logo.</p><p>The cases are being heard before Justice Mohammed Liman at the Lagos High Court.</p><p>Akintola posited that Omirhobo’s approach was not only naive but also pedestrian as it manifests acute desertification of religious tolerance.</p><p>He noted that Nigeria was not a secular but a multi-religious state.</p><p>He said, “A secular state is one that does not recognise 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 recognise the existence of God.</p><p>“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.</p><p>“By the way, what is on the naira is not even Arabic. It is ‘Ajami’ using Arabic letters as a form of transliteration.</p><p>“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.”</p><div class='code-block code-block-5' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <a href=https://www.adhang.com/guest-posting-services/ ><img class=lazy src=

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