Christian pupils should study Islamic Religious Knowledge and vice versa — Reno Omokri.
November 22, 2023
Fausiat Salako-Sanni
Nigerian Christian pupils have been urged to study Islamic Religious Knowledge, among other subjects, to understand the concept and practice of Islam for peaceful co-existence.
A Nigerian Christian author, social media influencer and TV host, Reno Omokri, posted this on his verified social media handle.
“I will suggest that every Christian pupil compulsorily study Islamic Religious Knowledge in school and vice versa.
No Muslim will kill you if you say Yeshua, whom you erroneously call Jesus, is the way to God. They believe that He is a Prophet. They believe that He is the Messiah. The Quran calls Yeshua al-Masih eleven times, including in Quran 4.157 and 4.171. Al-Quran also uses Ruhullah and Kalimat to describe Him, meaning that He is a Word from God and was infused with the Spirit.”
He continued that “the only significant difference between the pure following of Yeshua and Islam is that Muslims believe He is a Prophet and not a Son of God and that He was not killed and resurrected but instead was rescued by God. They even believe in the second coming of Yeshua, like you”. He wrote.
“They believe that Yeshua was sent to only the children of Israel, which agrees with Matthew 15:24, where Yeshua said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
Those of us who follow Yeshua believe that His mission was expanded to include all humanity. They do not. But we can agree to disagree with our Muslim brothers. But they will never kill you on account of that difference. Only extremists will, and we have them in every Abrahamic faith.
The only reason for which a true Muslim could kill you is if you blaspheme the Name of Allah (SWT), or prophet Muhammad, Salla Allahu Alayhi Wasalaam, or engage in homosexuality, murder, etc.
Muslim Ottomans ruled Jerusalem for 400 years, between 1517 and 1917. Ask yourself how many Christians they killed. Zero. During their rule, they allowed the building of churches in Jerusalem, they ensured peaceful religious coexistence, and when Catholic Europe expelled all Jews, the Ottomans and the Moors gave the Jews asylum in Istanbul and Morocco.
The Ottomans also ruled modern-day Greece and much of Balkan Europe. How many of them did they forcefully convert to Islam? Compare their behaviour to the Catholics who defeated Muslims in Spain and almost wiped all traces of them from Europe.
And since Christian Europeans took over Jerusalem and Palestine in 1917, has there been peace? Are Muslims safe there? Is there peaceful coexistence”? He queried.
He challenged his followers to “research and investigate. Don’t just swallow everything Oyiblo(literally meaning the colonial white man) tells you!”