National Christian Association
With the recent killing of a Christian mother that was preaching in a province in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria.
The elders noted that, Democracy and Sharia is likely not compatible.
"What the nation is witnessing today can be attributed to three immediate factors: The doctrine of hatred that was used to indoctrinate Almajiris in the various Islamic Madrassas in the North where Muslims were deliberately taught to hate Christians and people of other faiths.
In order to get more facts and answers, the Christian elders have extended a message of invitation to Muslim leaders, the meeting is going to be under the National Christian Elder's Forum, so the Muslims can breakdown the doctrine of hate which they say is responsible for the attack on Christians.
Democracy versus Sharia is the root of the country’s problem and insists both systems cannot be married together in a country, said the group.
Solomon Asemota, the group leader charged the Muslims to look into the issues and solve the problem, Vanguard reports.
"What the nation is witnessing today can be attributed to three immediate factors: The doctrine of hatred that was used to indoctrinate Almajiris in the various Islamic Madrassas in the North where Muslims were deliberately taught to hate Christians and people of other faiths.
"Secondly, the concept of "sacred space" in which Islamist's believe, for example, that the road leading to their mosque belongs exclusively to them.
"The "sacred space" concept is applied to every area in which Islamism has traveled.
Muslim belief, is that the earth has been given to them by Allah and it is their right to retake it through Jihad fight.
"Thirdly, the result of one Nation operating two political systems of Democracy and Sharia.
"Nigeria is witnessing a recurring decimal of violence as a result of narrow minded religious indoctrination and the onus is on Muslim leaders in the country to take steps to reverse this anomaly in the best interest of everyone.
"No country can make progress and live in peace when a section of the population is consumed with hatred for other citizens.
"No country can make progress and live in peace when a section of the population is consumed with hatred for other citizens.
"The National Christian Elders’ Forum wishes to emphasize, once again, that the main cause of the crisis in Nigeria is rooted in the conflict of ideology, Democracy versus Sharia in which one nation has two systems of government.
Having 'Democracy and Sharia' in the same community is not possible research so far has claimed.
"Nigeria was established by our founding fathers, British and Nigerians, as a Democratic country to accommodate all the divergent groups within the nation.
Those agitating for the Nation to be practicing Sharia law are the course of the present horrible happenings in the country.
"The National Christian Elders’ Forum is calling on all Christian leaders to meet urgently and appraise the situation in the Nation with the Vice President, Pastor Yemi Osibanjo SAN as Chairman.
"There is the need for a holistic response to the relentless attacks by Islamists on Christians and Christian communities. Thereafter, there should be a meeting with Muslim leaders. This is the only way out of this agony, because while the Islamist Jihadists are few, the majority of Muslims must lead in the fight against Islamist extremism.
"If Nigeria is to remain a nation that all the citizens will call their home, Islamic leaders must champion the cause of dismantling the "doctrine of hatred" and promote Democracy which guarantees freedom of choice for all the citizens.
"If Nigeria is to remain a nation that all the citizens will call their home, Islamic leaders must champion the cause of dismantling the "doctrine of hatred" and promote Democracy which guarantees freedom of choice for all the citizens.
"Those pushing for Sharia ideology should be persuaded by their Muslim counterparts that in a multi-cultural and multi-religious society like Nigeria, Sharia as a national ideology cannot stand.
"If this is not done, and done quickly, then the nation that is tottering on the edge of the precipice will be pushed beyond the brink.
As history has it, Christians has the majority in the country, so there is no way Christianity is going to wiped out.
"Meanwhile, Christians have been asked to protect themselves in the wake of the murder of a Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor’s wife.
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria described the recent killing of Christians as brutal and unacceptable, adding: "authority’s inaction is becoming unbearable and may not be tolerated anymore," the Nation reports.
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