11th January, 2021
PRESS RELEASE:
PLACE TRAVEL BAN ON TRUMP, CRONIES -
MURIC
The Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria
has been urged to place a travel ban on Donald Trump, the outgoing president of
the United States of America. Also to be sanctioned with him are his key allies
for their ignoble roles in the US 2020 presidential elections particularly the
storming of the Capitol.
This advice was given in a press
statement issued by an Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC), on Monday, 11th January, 2021. The press release
was signed by the group’s director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The group said:
“We
strongly denounce the role played by President Donald Trump in the last US
general elections. Trump’s refusal to acknowledge defeat shows acute
desertification of the spirit of sportsmanship. His insistence on electoral
fraud despite several court declarations to the contrary is a manifestation of
selfishness, overambition and inordinate lust for power. Above all, his
incitement which led to the storming of the Capitol is despicable, repulsive
and preposterous. Trump has stained America’s reputation as a great democracy.
“MURIC calls on the Federal Government
(FG) to speak up on the American debacle. America’s condemnation of African and
other third world countries has been deafening enough to attract a tornado of backlashes
at this moment. We are not happy that FG has remained silent. China, Turkey and
Iran have spoken up. The voice of Africa must also be heard and the continent
is looking unto Nigeria to lead the way.
“We must
tell America to its face that tyranny is colour blind and dictators can emerge
from the least expected places on earth. There is no country which is occupied
by angels only, least of all America. We call on FG to place travel ban on
outgoing President Donald Trump and his key allies. It is hoped that other
African countries will key into the idea. It just has to be on record that once
upon a time, America produced a tyrant, a bully and an insurrectionist.
“The American tragedy has exposed the
weakness in all man-made political and economic theories. Trumpism is the
Archile’s heel of Western democracy just as perestroika and glastnost spelled
doom for communism. In the same vein, socialism isnot different from a fake
drug administered by a quack doctor.
“The only enduring system is the one
made by Allah, the Supreme Creator, who knows the nature of man and how best he
should be governed. This is why Islamic political thought posits at-taohiid,
al-khilafah, ash-shurah and al-akhirah. At-Taohiid
is the principle of oneness of all existence: all are a miniature
representation of a whole and a microcosm in a macro, which is Islam, a
complete way of life.
“Al-khilafah affirms the
representative nature of man. The leader holds his position in lieu of the
divine physical presence. He is a shadow of Allah on earth. Just as the shadow
cannot afford to live in isolation of its substance, a leader must always be
conscious of Allah.
“Ash-shurah is consultation with
the people. It is a reflection of Islamic democracy. But whereas Western
democracy (government of the people, by the people, for the people) lays
emphasis on people only, the focus of Shurah is Allah, the Creator of
the people. Islamic democracy is therefore government of Allah, by the people
created by Allah, for Allah’s own creatures. The leader in Islam must relate
both vertically (with Allah) and horizontally (with the people). Whereas the
leader only relates horizontally with the people in Western democracy, he
interfaces both vertically and horizontally in Islamic political thought.
“The concept of al-akhirah evokes
the fear of Allah in the heart of politicians as they weigh the consequences of
their actions on the Last Day before taking them. Al-akhirah is about leaders
being held accountable on the Day of Judgement. This is what is lacking in
Western democracy, including communism and socialism. This is why Donald Trump
made a mess of the American written constitution which is based on George
Washington’s Boston Tea Party, and Mikhail Gorbachev swept the rug off the feet
of Lenin, man of steel and Stalin in a single sweep.”
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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