{"id":93267,"date":"2015-02-20T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=93267"},"modified":"2015-02-20T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:24:08","slug":"muslim-leaders-advised-to-seek-religious-freedom-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=93267","title":{"rendered":"Muslim leaders advised to seek &#8216;religious freedom&#8217; in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33518\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33517\">The United Muslim Christian Forum has called on Muslim leaders in Ghana to resort to the courts in its attempt to seek religious freedom for students in schools. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33517\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kr81PE7H5ffXBjxANBXYHR3yMJV3vnjJ&#8221;]The call comes on the heels\u00a0of the peace march in Takoradi in the Western Region ton Friday, organized by the Muslim Community there to protest what they say is discrimination against Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33579\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33578\">Ghana\u2019s constitution grants<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33577\">\u00a0\u201cfreedom to practise any religion and to manifest such practice\u201d, however, <\/span><\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33580\">some Muslims in second cycle institutions especially, are forced to attend church services and join other practices prohibited by their religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33582\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33581\">There have been several appeals to people in Authority, including one to the late President John Evans Attah Mills and current Vice President, Kwesi Amissah Arthur against such practices, but with no success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33584\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33583\">Executive Director of the United Muslim Christian Forum, Alhaji Ahmed Nii Nortey believes \u201cthat Muslim themselves have been romatising this issue for far too long\u201d, adding, \u201cI think it\u2019s about time that the Muslim leadership and any Muslim took it upon himself to go to court and clearly seek an interpretation on the meaning of what the freedom of religion and worship mean.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33598\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33597\">\u201cIf the constitution of the republic of Ghana which is the supreme law is telling me that I can manifest my religion, then It means I have every right as a Muslim lady to wear my hijab, and nobody should cause any impediment in my way\u201d, Alhaji Nortey added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33600\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33599\">He cautioned that the raging matter when not solve in time can escalate because, \u201cthe absence of war doesn\u2019t mean there is peace. There will not be peace when people feel slighted, discriminated against or insulted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1424429544662_33603\" class=\"yiv4316663486MsoNormal\">By: Eugenia Tenkorang\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Muslim Christian Forum has called on Muslim leaders in Ghana to resort to the courts in its attempt to seek religious freedom for students in schools. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kr81PE7H5ffXBjxANBXYHR3yMJV3vnjJ&#8221;]The call comes on the heels\u00a0of the peace march in Takoradi in the Western Region ton Friday, organized by the Muslim Community there to protest what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-93267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}