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Christian Proposals and Solutions 1 Appendix 35: Christian Proposals and Solutions Boer—Need to go through this chapter to straighten out the most outstanding irregularities. NOTE: NOTES BELOW TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT FILES. EACH FILE SECTION BEGINS AT *****. HAVE COMPLETED THROUGH <2003 NOTES> HAVE NOT YET DONE FILES FOR 2004-2007 Appendix 27 is mixed. Hence, perhaps make ref to it in this chapter under Majority/Census issues. This subject has a heading at +++++ but nothing else. Check on all the files under Misc Arts/Sharia…. Recommendations (from end of Turaki chapter in vol. 7) Note from Boer : The recommendations that Turaki lists here are included in Volume 8, the one dealing particularly with that subject. FINAL OUTLINE 8-3 NOTE: The order of the outline and of the text are not the same right now. However, the flow of my life at this point in this project has prevented me from finalizing the small points. Nevertheless, I offer both the outline and the chapter, divergent as they may be, so that you can get an idea as to what this rather significant chapter is all about. INTRODUCTION xxxx iiii NO NEED FOR SHARIA nnsnns SECULARISM xxxx ssss 2 SPIRITUAL RESOURCES xxxx spsp CHRISTIAN MOOD xxxx cmcm PACIFISM pppp ROLE OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS xxxx rgrg POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENTAL MEASURES pgpg Political Issues and Solutions xxxx pspsps Citizenship and Indigeneity ciscis Census Issues cencen Reports, White Papers and Punishment xxxx rwprwp Security and Compensation Issues SISISI xxxx Proposals for and Role of Government gggg SOCIO-ECONOMIC MEASURES SESE NATIONAL UNITY cucucu EDUCATION eduedu WOMEN ISSUES WIWIWI YOUTH ISSUES yiyi LEGAL ISSUES lili RELATIONS WITH MUSLIMS rmrm Advice to Muslims atmatm Dialogue and Cooperation dcddcd BZ Developments -- bzdbzd Haruna Dandaura hdhd AZ Developments dddd Dialogue and Co-operation during the AZ Era dadada 3 NIREC nirnir Dialogue in Joint Action dadada Southern Political Scenarios spssps Population Control pcpc HIV/AIDS Campaign hachac Northern Christians Opposed to “The Phantom Crescent” phantom PHILOSOPHICAL AND WORLDVIEW ISSUES pwipwi RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROPOSALS xxxx rprprp INSETS Inset 1--Emman Usman Shehu eush Inset 2—John Onaiyekan jonjon xxxx Inset 3—Yusufu Turaki turtur xxxx Inset 4: Alli’s Recipe for Peace xxxx arparp 4 +++++ Christian Proposals and Solutions xxxx It creates severe religious distortions when religion is used as a tool of subjugation, subordination, domination, discrimination, differential and preferential treatment of fellow human beings, no matter what creeds they believe. Y. Turaki1 Introduction xxxx iiii This chapter is about Christian solutions. However, sometimes recommendations and solutions come from inter-religious bodies and thus represent both religions. Where this is the case, I am forced to choose the chapter in which I place the materials. I cannot promise faultless judgement. Furthermore, Christian solutions are not always easy to identify, at least, not for sure. Sometimes the name is the main clue. Often Christian writers do not overtly so identify themselves, for they are employed to write “objectively,” a task few of them manage fully. A solution may be offered by a Christian, but it may be heavily influenced by the secularism that has afflicted Christians. Is it then a Christian solution? But at least it will have been offered by a writer who has sympathy for the “Christian side.” The Muslim community sometimes feels burdened by people who claim to be Muslims but whose thinking or actions have non-Muslim motivation. The same is true for the Christian community. The solutions offered by Christians are thus not always inspired by the Christian faith; they not infrequently receive their inspiration from other sources, especially ethnocentrism and secularism. Though certain newspapers in Nigeria may identify themselves as overtly pro-Muslim, most newspapers do not identify themselves that clearly, preferring to go under the flag of neutrality, objectivity or even secularism, even if their sympathies are on the “Christian side.” Not many newspapers identify themselves openly as Christian as does The Guardian. An article by its Religious Affairs Correspondent began thus: “The efforts of The Guardian at propagating the Gospel and its commitment to religious harmony….” This policy was confirmed by the paper’s editor, Debo Adesina, who “expressed the commitment of the publisher to the cause of the Christian faith.” The paper donated free space “to propagate the Christian faith every Sunday.”2 1 Y. Turaki, 29 Mar/2000; 10-12 July/2003. See J. Boer, 2008, vol. 7, pp. 314-315. 2D. Adeyanju, 21 Oct/2004. 5 There is a general consensus that a solution to the Christian-Muslim friction is imperative, but not everyone is hopeful that this imperative can be reached. One senior friend of mine of Fulani background, wrote to me, “I am a skeptic as far as any meaningful Christian- Islam relations are concerned with the present generation of Muslims in Nigeria.” His personal experiences with Northern leaders of the Sardauna generation had been positive. They were men of high honour, integrity and the fear of God. You could play ball with them. But with the present bunch, no way. Look at the sharia issue. That a man like Shehu Shagari, who ought to be a neutral statesman above politics, could take the stand he now takes, means there is no hope. He knows it is unconstitutional, that it has nothing seriously religious about it; it is dishonest; it is first and foremost a political instrument to topple Obasanjo’s government and probably to disintegrate the country in the spirit of “What I cannot have, no one else should have it.”3 As much love and respect as I have for this friend, and as much insider’s knowledge to which he has access, my heart does not allow me to rest in his skepticism and abandon all hope. As Anglican Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon of Kaduna put it, “Whether we like it or not, Islam in Africa has come to stay, just as Christianity has come to stay. This is the only continent we have. Because the African is incurably religious, we must find ways and means of living together.” “We need to begin to learn more about each other so as to respect each other.”4 This is a chapter on Christian proposals and recommendations. These have been forthcoming for decades, ever since the 1977 CA. There are enough of them to fill a volume. The sad part is that no one seems to have listened or acted upon them. They are basically the same, year after year, organization after organization, from BZ to AZ. Due to lack of space I am forced to place most of the BZ materials in appendices and, thus, on the Companion CD. Once again, sorry for the inconvenience, but, you must admit, that is better than none at all. But do get hold of that CD, 5 for it contains priceless materials on the subject of proposals, including the extensive proposals of the “Apostle of Unity,” a title I have bestowed on Tanko Yusuf. Since female authors are rather scarce on this subject, BZ women writers or speakers are featured in the book itself. 3Anonymous, personal letter, 23 Aug/2000. 4S. Obassa, 29 Jan/2005, p. 24. 5If you need help locating the CD, feel free to contact me at <[email protected]>. 6 The two most prominent persons in this chapter are Dr. Yusufu Turaki of ECWA fame and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan. You have met Turaki in full force if you read Volume 7, Chapter 7. You can find even more from him on the Companion CD.6 Turaki is unique among writers in that he and his people have not only experienced Muslim internal colonialism7 in Southern Kaduna, but he has dug deeply into the roots of his own people and discovered how they have been distorted in the depth of their psyche. He courageously exposed them not only but even reprimanded and challenged them to rise up and take their future in their own hands. He has dug deeper than anyone I know, at least among Christians. And apparently has never heard of political correctness! I fault him for too many generalizations without supporting them with concrete examples. To fully appreciate his materials, you can flesh out the details by reading this series! Turaki is a challenging read indeed. Thank you, brother Yusufu. NO NEED FOR SHARIA xxxx nnsnns There are those who, without expressing strong opposition to sharia, simply see no need for its expanded version. John Gangwari, A Catholic scholar, asked what seemed a rhetorical question: “Is it really true that the Nigerian Penal Code… is inadequate?” Much of his article is devoted to a negative answer. “The Nigerian Penal Code has incorporated a large corpus of Islamic criminal law.” “Islamic Civil Law and Sharia Court of Appeal are adequately provided for in the Constitution.”8 Isaac Odeh of NN voiced the idea popular among Christians that everything important in sharia is already covered in the Penal Code, which was designed to do just that. According to Odeh, instead of clamouring for sharia, it is more important for all Nigerians to embrace the crusade against corruption introduced by the FG. Once that crusade has achieved its purpose, “nobody would be tempted to do bad things and, therefore, there would be no basis for sharia.”9 The CCC Report stated that the 1979 Constitution “has worked fairly well for the past 20 years.”10 President Obasanjo himself declared the two to be almost the same, except that the 6Companion CD <Misc Arts/Turaki Arts/….> 7See J. Boer, 2004, vol. 3, pp. 86-88; 205, vol. 4, p. 102; 2008. Y. Turaki in J.
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