Muslim Not Mentioned In ‘This Is Nigeria’ Video – Muslim Group Defends Falz

Following the statement released by the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) asking Nigerian music star Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana to withdraw his ‘This is Nigeria’ video, a group known as Muslim Against Terror has defended the artiste.

MURIC had expressed its grievance, saying that the video ‘’is an assault on the self-dignity of every Muslim.’’

However, in a statement in response to MURIC, the Islamic group (Muslim Against Terror) urged MURIC to focus on the issues raised in the video instead of threatening Falz with legal action.

According to the group, MURIC does not have an understanding of veil usage.

The video which features girls wearing hijab while dancing ‘shaku shaku’, triggered the controversy.

But Falz, in his explanation said the girls were a representation of the abducted Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity.

Muslim Against Terror asked if Ishaq Akintola, director of MURIC, would “prefer watching the ladies in the video dressed in body-hugging miniskirts and shaking their bountiful parts??

The statement read: “In clear contradiction to what MURIC’s Professor Ishaq Akintola claimed, Islam or Muslim was NEVER mentioned in the video and the veil is not owned by Islam but worn by anyone who so feels, hopefully to the pleasure of Muslims and worn by nuns and sometimes forcibly doused by terrorists on their captors as happened in the Chibok case.

“Where did Ishaq see Islam or Muslim in this video?

“Was this subvert threat of a possible repeat of radical and meaningless, unjustified violence by misguided Islamists in the past, a means of merely defending the Buhari administration possibly negatively affected by the viral video and defending Fulani herder-related terrorism by attempting to present the video as religiously provocative? The video was not.

“If at all the video provoked any religion it was the Christian faith, by ridiculing pastors casting out demons via grabbing female breasts, and also laying direct attacks at pastors involved in the establishment of universities which their congregations cannot attend.”

Instead of threatening Falz with legal action, the group urged MURIC to focus on the issues raised in the video.

“As regards truths of value in the video, there were very many that seemed not to be digested by Professor Ishaq, including: that the people are extremely poor, medical facilities are poor, that we operate a predatory neocolonial-capitalist system fueled on fraud and exploitation, bedeviled with institutionalized corruption, that criminal cases are settled in police stations and not courts, police station closing by six, no electricity, youth work multiple jobs and yet are called lazy by the president.”

The group urged that MURIC be careful of the propagation of sensitive messages.