President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Revd Samson Ayokunle, has said that killings across the country were as a result of moves to spread Sharia across the country.
The killings, the assaults, the maimings and the whole range of human rights violations are all manifestations of the jihad to spread the Sharia. It has been unchanged for 1400 years. Islamic theology divides the world into two camps: the House of War and the House of Islam. As such, the jihad killings in the way of Allah and martyrdom are glorified as the Muslim’s highest calling. Jihadists proclaim this ubiquitously. Now the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, is merely reiterating it in describing the motives of one jihadi group, Boko Haram.
“Benue, Taraba killings caused by spread of sharia –Can president” , The Sun, May 26, 2018:
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Revd Samson Ayokunle, has said that killings across the country were as a result of moves to spread Sharia across the country as declared earlier by the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau.
Ayokunle who spoke exclusively with Saturday Sun in Abuja on the sideline of the celebration of Europe Day, declared absolute support to John Cardinal Onaiyekan’s recent statement that the way Christians mobilized against corruption in the 2015 presidential election, the Christendom is going to mobilize against continued corruption and insecurity in the 2019 election.
According to Ayokunle, “The problem is people taking laws into their hands; people becoming sick about religious ideas, mentally sick, thinking that they will by force, sweep over every place and convert everybody to their religion because Abubakar Shekau didn’t mince words about his intention. He said it loud and clear that his intention was to establish Sharia from the north to the south, to the Atlantic Ocean.”
Taking a swipe at the security agencies, Ayokunle said “The security agencies were not helpless, but they didn’t do their work as they ought to do. Why should they be helpless? Is it because they were not given weapons? Was it because they were not trained? They were trained, they were given weapons. But what we see which we have been talking about is complicity.”
Ayokunle spoke on this and plans by CAN to ensure that the right person is voted into the presidency in 2019, which he said, will be “somebody in the mind of God.” AIDOGHIE PAULINUS conducted the interview.
During the 2018 first plenary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in Abuja, you hinted that the Catholic Church would be returning to CAN. Have they returned fully?
Partially. Because they have joined us in the review of the constitution and that they didn’t do before. So, we are reviewing the new constitution together. Their promise was that they will be back fully when we finish with the constitution review because they believe that the new constitution will set the tone for the CAN of their dream…..
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Boko Haram’s leader “said his intention was to establish Sharia from north to south, to the Atlantic Ocean”
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And remember–there is *already* Shari’ah law in Nigeria in most of the Muslim-majority northern states. But it is never enough…
J D S says
Of course it is never enough….on and on they go establishing sharia wherever there is weakness.
boakai ngombu says
someone “in the mind of God” would be one who is grateful for all that God has done, does, and will do. that someone would love God and serve only Him, for God is Love.
he would be someone who allows God to be first in line, midst many concerns friends and enemies and frienemies would bring. he would think beyond family and tribe and persuasions and seek the common good
he would take no bribes and give favor sparingly, seeking to curtail corruption, although transparency would be difficult to attain in the nation
and there is more to do
May the Lord of All Living present that prepare and present that person.
boakai ngombu says
excuse … strike : “present that”
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Christine Williams, you always report false and imaginary evangelical propagandas .primitive mithraist Nigerian christians just imagine things and pass It to you and you take it. Boko haram rascals are just miscreants like IsIs not representing the mindsets of muslim population in Nigeria. How can they take sharia upto Atlantic ocean ? sharia has been in Nigeria, including South West among Yorubas where At Atlantic ocean is located before the arrival of British colonialists Who limited It to personal law. Dirty wild Igbo mithraist christians made the same allegation against sardauna that he vowed to dip the Quran into Atlantic ocean and that is why they killed him in a bloody coup,while the Quran was already in the hands of yoruba muslims living at the shoes of Atlantic ocean even before Sardauna’s grandfathers were born. Is that excuse not a madness ?
Idiot mithraist christian Association of Nigeria are now passing propagandas that the clashes between nomadic fulani cattle rearers and farmers are attempts to Islamise Nigeria as if mithraist christians are the only farmers in Nigeria. Their real grievance is that Président Buhari refuses to loot public treasury and dash the money to them like what the most corrupt Nigerian leader Jonathan did when they accumulated a lot of wealths flying private jets. Fools !!
boakai ngombu says
itace, you are cranky and still dead in soul. (how many kebobs of goat meat have you eaten today in secret?)
yoruba and fula have this problem with the oil money; greedy and envious are they. sheku wants to reform them because they are not true muslim (slaves to the allah god of islam) and you are right, most slaves (muslims) in Nigeria aren’t like Boko Haram because they are too much of the world, even though they are constrained to fast and pray these days..
some thank God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; three persons in ONE Divine BEING) for the work of CAN. to my knowledge they are not of those imaginary mithraist Christians you are so fond of. CAN is actually progressing in work despite the efforts of the porous mosques in country.
do greet your wives and bless them with a dash from what you are stealing when you are on seat
(some people actually pray for you, asking God to find you and bless your soul with life)
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Christine Williams, you always report false and imaginary evangelical propagandas .primitive mithraist Nigerian christians just imagine things and pass It to you and you take it.
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The Sun is a reputable source–this isn’t something Christine Douglass-Williams made up, as Ibrahim itace muhammed pretends.
If he has a problem with this, why doesn’t he take it up with his coreliginist Abubakar Shekau?
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Boko haram rascals are just miscreants like IsIs not representing the mindsets of muslim population in Nigeria.
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Ibrahim itace muhammed has said this before–and yet, he actually supports everything that Boko Haram and ISIS do–including kidnapping and slaughtering Infidels. Boko Haram and ISIS likely just represent rival gangs to his own.
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How can they take sharia upto Atlantic ocean ? sharia has been in Nigeria, including South West among Yorubas where At Atlantic ocean is located before the arrival of British colonialists Who limited It to personal law.
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Shari’ah in Nigeria is mostly limited to the northern, Muslim-majority states–and then it is not full Shari’ah. Muslims have been trying to stone women to death there for years, but the sentences keep getting blocked by the central government. Pious Muslims want to see Shari’ah–*full* Shari’ah–extend over the entire nation.
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Dirty wild Igbo mithraist christians made the same allegation against sardauna that he vowed to dip the Quran into Atlantic ocean and that is why they killed him in a bloody coup,while the Quran was already in the hands of yoruba muslims living at the shoes of Atlantic ocean even before Sardauna’s grandfathers were born. Is that excuse not a madness ?
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I see that Ibrahim itace muhammed is also demanding brutal Shari’ah law be imposed over all of Nigeria–just like Boko Haram.
And Ahmadu Bello–the Sardauna of Sokoto–was killed in the 1966 Nigerian coup. This was a general power grab–coups were rife in post-independence Africa–and had nothing to do with opposing the imposition of Shari’ah law.
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Idiot mithraist christian Association of Nigeria are now passing propagandas that the clashes between nomadic fulani cattle rearers and farmers are attempts to Islamise Nigeria as if mithraist christians are the only farmers in Nigeria. Their real grievance is that Président Buhari refuses to loot public treasury and dash the money to them like what the most corrupt Nigerian leader Jonathan did when they accumulated a lot of wealths flying private jets. Fools !!
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Ibrahim itace muhammed wants to convince us that Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria is just a disagreement over grazing rights. Try again…
J D S says
It is my understanding that Muslims always have worshipers a false god…Christians have always worshiped the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob…..
The reason The Muslims have always had problems Is this…God did promise that he would make a great nation of the wild ass Ishmael but God gave a blessing on the Jews….There is a great difference between a “blessing” from God and just being a “great nation” and they are not even a nation anymore just a bunch of small countries who fight amongst themselves. can’t even be called Ismaelites anymore.
Lydia Church says
Today’s headlines could be summed up as…
“ramadan: around the world” as each country is hit by bomb blasts.
gravenimage says
I have a whole series of “Christmas around the world” books–they are very sweet, and have customs, decorations, and recipes.
“Ramadan around the world” is a lot different…
J D S says
So right Graven…SO RIGHT!
Terra Nova says
I hope citizens of Western countries that you wake up, it is amazing to me how little you know what is happening in your countries. Your spineless governments have sold you out and you don’t even know it?
Do you realise what the future of your children and grandchildren is? That is a totalitarian regime and Sharia, your children will have to concert and paying the muslim taxes because they are not muslim by origine, they will have to dress, eat, do only what Islam tells them, if they don’t, they will be killed, because they are white or Jews, and you did nothing about that? You did not even open your mouth to protest, we did, and our freedom of speech was taken away immediately, or is it cowardly, or if it does not hit you personally, it will stay away and hope it will not hit you personally.. But this will hit you all one day, and your children and grandchildren, they are putting muslims in the highest positions and soon you will have lost your whole country, your children will protest, but it will be too late. In fact, you sold out your own children and let them fight your battle. We have never written anything bad or were instigating a war or anything like that, we want a world of peace, but with this conquering , violent religion , it does not seem to be possible, actionably debate is not possible any more, because they are not able to debate anything. I wish you much luck on your praying carpets in the streets, but I am really ashamed of the people/citizens of the Western countries for their silence and fears. You made your beds and have to lay in it !!!
Infidel says
Nigeria is a country of terror, crime, and massive fraud…