نيجيريا: حكم بأحقية الطلاب المسلمين في مسجد بالجامعة

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعرب "ديسو كامور" - رئيس مركز الشؤون الإسلامية العامة في "نيجيريا" - عن سعادته وسعادة الطلاب المسلمين بتأييد القضاء لحقهم في الحصول على مسجد داخل "جامعة ريفرز" للعلوم والتكنولوجيا، بعد قيام الجامعة بهدم المسجد المؤقت مؤخرًا واعتباره غير قانوني.

وأكد القاضي "لامبو أكنبي" أن هدم المسجد غير قانوني وغير عادل، مطالبًا الجامعة بإعادة بناء المسجد، مُشددًا على ضرورة عدم التعرض للطلاب المسلمين، وعدم تسوية النزاعات بين الأطراف بعيدًا عن الأطر القانونية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim Activism Wins Nigeria School Mosque

Thanks to Muslim activism, a court has ordered a university in Nigeria’s oil-rich city of Port Harcourt to allow the building of a mosque for Muslim students to fulfil their religious duties.

“If you need another reason that civic activism and pursuit of right through legal means work, this is a good one,” Disu Kamor, head of the Muslim Public Affairs Center in Lagos, told OnIslam.net.

“MPAC supported and campaigned for the Muslim students of the RSUST when they suffered the tyranny of the school authority, and we are pleased that God has rewarded them with victory.”

A court has ordered the Rivers State University of Science of Technology to reinstate a mosque demolished by the institution last year.

Judge Lambo Akanbi described the demolition of the mosque erected by Muslim students as “utterly illegal and unlawful”.

He ordered the university to grant a land for the students “to erect their mosque and a perpetual injunction against the authorities from harassing, intimidating or disturbing the peaceful atmosphere of the Muslim students to worship.”

He also directed “that all parties should find an out-of-court settlement to whatever issues that needed to be addressed without prejudice to the right of the students to freely worship.”

Barrister Abdulmajeed Oloriegbe hailed the court ruling as “watershed”.

He lamented that the university decision to demolish the mosque was “reprehensible” and amounted to sheer bigotry, unlawful intimidation and discrimination.

Umaru Wazuru, leader of Muslim students at the school, said they are encouraged by the ruling to always seek peaceful resolution of “whatever grievances one may have with the authorities anywhere and anytime”.

The mosque demolition had sparked a storm of condemnations from Muslim leaders, amid warnings that the destruction deepens Muslim-Christian divide in the West African country.

The same school houses at least six churches, some of them constructed after the failed bid of Muslim students to secure land to build their own mosque.