.... Here is the nub of the matter. Yasin is appealing to Muslims' dream of a benevolent, tolerant Islam from a golden past era when non-Muslims were afforded 'dignity, protection', 'tolerance', and 'religious rights' under Islamic rule, which is to say, after Muslim conquest.
(In fact he is referring to the sharia system of dhimmitude, in which non-Muslims as conquered people are granted the right to practice their faith as long so they submit to discriminatory laws laid down in a dhimma or pact of surrender. It is on this basis that sharia law affords the right to non-Muslims to keep their heads in an Islamic state.)
Yasin opines that Nigerian Muslims are 'trying to get back to that model'. [markdurie.com] Read more
