WHY MUSLIMS HAVE A RIGHT TO ISLAMIZE NIGERIA – CATHOLIC BISHOP, BADEJO
WHY MUSLIMS HAVE A RIGHT TO ISLAMIZE NIGERIA – CATHOLIC
BISHOP, BADEJO
Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Oyo,
Most Reverend (Dr) Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, has stated that Muslims have a
right to Islamise Nigeria because one of them is in power.
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He lambasted Christians crying foul,
noting that they had the opportunity to ‘christainize’ Nigeria but failed to do
so.
Badejo said Christians in high
offices only know how to engage in bickering and fight for positions, leaving
out policies that would favour them.
“I’ve always shared the view of one
of our leaders, John Cardinal Onaiyekan. I believe that Muslims have an
Islamisation agenda, and they have a right to have it”, he told Tribune.
“Do Christians have a
Christianisation agenda? Yes, I hope so and we have a right to have it. The
Muslims are pursuing an agenda; why are we not pursuing ours?
“Nigeria, for many many years, had a
larger number of Christians in power. We failed when we should have worked, and
that even now, instead of trying to catch up on our lapses, we’re busy pointing
fingers.
“It’s part of Islam to Islamise; is
it not part of our own programme too to evangelise? How much of it are we
doing? The education curriculum, which caused so much row recently, was
approved when a Christian was chair of the body.
“Christians are not an insignificant
population in Nigeria. The next question to ask is: what kind of Christians? A
large part of Christians today are Christians in name, who pursue power,
position, privileges. That’s not Christianity.
“And that’s where I come to the issue
of the prosperity gospel. We have not yet done research on how much damage
prosperity gospel has done to the psyche of Christianity in our country.
“Prosperity gospel provides cheap
solutions to complex realities of life and so many people have heard it. They
believe that it is actually possible to have cancer and pray it away, when
doctors are actually available; that it is possible to fail exams, and still
become the director of a bank, if you pray enough.”
