نيجيريا: غضب لدمج الطلاب المسلمين بمدارس الإرساليات النصرانية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أثارت الاتفاقية التي عقدتها الحكومة مع الجمعية النصرانية النيجيرية - غضب المجتمع الإسلامي بولاية "أوسنا" ذات الغالبية النصرانية في "نيجيريا".

وذلك لأنه - بناءً على مقتضيات الاتفاقية - سوف تدرج طلاب المدارس المسلمين والمدارس الإسلامية غير المختلطة في مدارس الإرساليات النصرانية، وذلك بعد تصنيف المدارس إلى نصرانية وغير نصرانية؛ حيث تُعد مدارس الإرسالية مدارس عامة بموجب قانون عام 1975.

وقد حذر المسلمون من عواقب ذلك الإصلاح التعليمي الذي أدى لحالة شديدة من التوتر بين الجانبين، ووقوع عدد من حوادث العنف وانتهاك الحقوق الدينية للطلاب والطالبات المسلمين؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Violence as Nigeria Merges Muslim Students into Missionary Schools

While the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) previously opposed the merger of Muslims in Christian schools as an attempt to Islamize the state, it later reached a truce with the government. Meanwhile, traditional worshippers in Nigeria warn CAN against protests of the education reforms, but the primarily Christian country of Angola continues to ban Islam.]

(MSN) Educational reforms in Nigeria's Osun state have created religious tensions in schools, resulting in Islamist youths beating a Christian principal unconscious last month, Christian leaders said.

The state in southwestern Nigeria reclassified schools in September, thus merging those originally founded by Christian missionaries with other schools. The mergers, including the blending of single-sex schools with co-ed schools, require Muslims to attend the institutions of Christian heritage, the Christian leaders said. The Christian "missionary" schools, taken over by the state in 1975, have been considered public schools since then.

[Editor's Note: CT previously reported on how the fees charged by Christian missionary schools in Nigeria were sparking conflict.]

Among tensions created under the September changes, Islamist youths armed with axes and cutlasses on Nov. 25 attacked staff members and students at the Baptist High School-Ejigbo after administrators enforced a ban on the hijab, a covering for head or body used by Muslim women. Injured teachers and students received treatment at Baptist Medical Centre in Ejigbo, and principal Layi Oguntola regained consciousness only after hospitalization, the Christian leaders said.

The attackers, who also tried to burn down a Baptist church on Nov. 25, said they were upset that school officials had stopped Muslim students from wearing the covering, church leaders said. After school authorities on Nov. 22 sent a Muslim female student home for violating the school ban on the covering, the Islamists on Nov. 25 stormed the premises at about 8 a.m., heading first for the office of the principal.