MUSLIM RIGHTS
CONCERN (MURIC)
هيئة حقوق المسلمين
Motto: Dialogue,
Not Violence
DATE: 27th November, 2025
PRESS RELEASE:
MUSLIM IDENTITY OF KIDNAPPED MAGA GIRLS SHATTERS THE MYTH OF
CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE
A Nigerian human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern
(MURIC), has declared that the myth of Christian genocide has been shattered by
the disclosure of the Muslim identity of the 24 girls who were kidnapped
from a school in Maga, Kebbi State.
MURIC made the claim in a statement issued on Thursday, 27th
November, 2025 by the group's Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The full statement reads:
"The myth of a Christian genocide in Nigeria was finally
shattered yesterday when pictures of the kidnapped Maga girls surfaced online
and on various television stations. All the girls were clad in hijab thereby
revealing their Islamic faith.
"It
will be recalled that a United States Congressman, Rep. Riley M. Moore,
had prematurely declared that the incident occurred in a Christian enclave
of Kebbi State. Of course he was trying to persuade the world that the victims
were Christians (https://saharareporters.com/2025/11/18/us-lawmaker-we-know-terrorists-abducted-nigerian-schoolgirls-christian-enclave-kebbi).
"It later turned out that the school was situated
in a community entirely dominated by Muslims. This cements the fact that those
describing killings in Nigeria as Christian genocide are acting on negative
mindset and an arrogant commitment to stereotype Muslims and their religion. At
the same time, it amplifies the fact that even the US which has threatened to invade
Nigeria is either acting on the basis of wrong information or a predetermined
and hidden agenda.
Besides, the girl's names as released by the Federal Government
(FG) belied the claim of Christian genocide and the so called 'targeted
Christian attacks' as no single Christian name featured on the list (https://businessday-ng.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/businessday.ng/news/article/kebbi-governor-says-manga-not-a-christian-enclave-as-fg-releases-names-of-abducted-schoolgirls/).
"We therefore assert clearly, categorically and
unequivocally that the use of the term 'Christian genocide' as far as what is
presently going on in Nigeria is concerned is a myth, a mirage, a phantom and a
sham. It does not exist. The scenario gravitates only in the imagination of its
fabricators while the phrase surfaces only in the vocabulary of Islamophobes
and Muslim haters.
“As we prepare to dot our ‘i’s and cross our ‘t’s in this episode, we
assure our Christian neighbours that the generality of Nigerian Muslims nurse
no sinister thoughts towards them. Muslims are also being killed as they are
being killed. It is just that we have been quiet about our own victims. We are
enveloped in agony on two sides: Muslims who were killed or kidnapped as well
as the false accusation that we are killing Christians. It has been salt upon
injury.
"Nigerians
must deduce one or two lessons from this stereotype scenario. America would
have committed a grievous mistake if it had ordered a strike or an invasion of
Nigeria on the basis of a false alarm by Rep Moore the same way it
invaded Iraq over a false 'weapons of mass destruction' (WMD) claim.
"The interesting part is that the US would still not have
apologised for mistakenly killing innocent Nigerians the same way it is yet to
own up decades after its invasion of Iraq.
"Our hypothesis is this: if America can be wrong about
Iraq's WMD (and it was), if it can be wrong about the faith of Nigeria's Maga
girls (and it is), it can also be absolutely misled about this Christian
genocide narrative in Nigeria.
"The honourable path for the US to toe, therefore, is to
check, cross-check and double-check this Christian genocide contraption so that
it would not be misled into a Nigerian gunboat campaign that may end up with
the War Secretary screaming like Paul Warfield Tibbets and Charles W. Sweeney
did after dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 'My God! What
have we done?'"
#KidnappedMagaGirlsAreMuslims
#ChristianGenocideIsAMyth
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Founder/Executive
Director,
Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC)
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