{"id":109723,"date":"2019-04-22T22:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109723"},"modified":"2019-04-23T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T23:02:11","slug":"muslims-marginalised-in-security-agencies-supreme-council-for-shariah-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109723","title":{"rendered":"Muslims Marginalised In Security Agencies, Supreme Council for Shari\u2019ah Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2277901%22,%22view_mode%22:%22embedded%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22full%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_caption%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_attribution%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_align%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22center%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22,%22link_text%22:null%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Muslims-Marginalised-In-Security-Agencies-Supreme-Council-for-Shari\u2019ah-Laments.png\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Council for Shari\u2019ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has lamented the marginalisation of Muslims in security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The council also lamented the state of insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Dr. Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, at a pre-Ramadan meeting held in Kaduna during the weekend, the council emphasised the need for the Nigerian government to address insecurity challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by Muslim leaders from states across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A communiqu\u00e9 signed by its Nafiu Baba Ahmad, the SCSN Secretary-General, read: \u201cWe call on all Muslims to continue to pray for peace to reign in this country and both the Imams of Jumma\u2019ah and other mosques to start saying the Qunut for the improvement of the security situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Council equally frowned on what it called continuous marginalisation of Muslims in the armed forces, intelligence and other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice demands that this prolonged marginalisation must be urgently addressed.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Council for Shari\u2019ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has lamented the marginalisation of Muslims in security agencies. The council also lamented the state of insecurity in the country. Led by Dr. Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, at a pre-Ramadan meeting held in Kaduna during the weekend, the council emphasised the need for the Nigerian government to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-109723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-muslims"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}