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In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful

Press Release: EASTER MESSAGE: RELIGION IS LOVE & UNITY 20th March ‏2008

    

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) felicitates with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and all Christians within and outside the country on the occasion of Good Friday and Easter Monday festivities.  

MURIC notes that the Muslim Id al-Kabir and the Christian Christmas were marked within days of each other in December 2007. The same thing has happened now in March 2008 when Muslims celebrated Id al-Maulud on Wednesday 19th March 2008 while Christians are set to mark Good Friday tomorrow 21st March 2008 and observe Easter Monday on 24th March 2008.

We observe with pleasure that the closeness of Christian and Muslim festivals is by divine design. It is meant to impart to homo sapiens lessons in love, oneness, forgiveness, kindness, good neighbourliness and humanity. The world is replete with one religious crisis or the other. Palestinians are at loggerheads with Israelis. There is no love lost between Muslims and Bhuddists in India. Religious strife tore Bosnia-Herzegovina apart. Nigeria is still counting its losses from religious riots.

MURIC believes that the world is large enough for all faiths to coexist. We affirm the indisputable love of the Supreme Maker whom we all worship. We further assert the teachings of all religions: love, tolerance, forgiveness and good neighbourliness. Religion, indeed, is love.

We therefore call on Nigerians in particular, and all creatures of the Adamic chromosome to come together in love as God has loved them, to sink their differences as God is One and we all call this same God, to forgive one another as God forgives, to give freely as God gave freely and to live together in peace and harmony.
In particular, we charge Christian and Muslim preachers to give true and responsible messages to their followers. There will be love if they all preach love. There will be peace if they preach peace.

God bless Nigeria.

Dr. Is-haq Akintola                                               Abdul Yakeen Williams

     DIRECTOR                                                                  PRO
 
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