Professor Akintola and MURIC, it’s not the Star of David!
I paid little attention to the unveiling of the centenary 100 naira note by President Goodluck Jonathan mostly because I couldn’t be bothered, with hundreds of people being slaughtered in the North East and book haram threat hanging like the swords of Damocles I couldn’t even think about a new currency though I seem relatively safe in Lagos.
I heard this morning on my very vibrant bbm group named SOLACE that Professor Ishaq Akintola of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) wrote an article asking why a Zionist symbol should be on our nation’s currency whilst the Arabic words that reads 100naira has been removed.
We launched into a discussion which wasn’t even along religious lines with some saying the question is a valid question. We talked on and asked what national symbol the Star of David could represent and it dragged on to Igbos being descendants of Jews and it could because of them the Jewish symbol was put on the new note. We discussed back and forth and I said the CBN governor should be the one to answer the question; all along I still didn’t bother to check the currency because I already knew what the Star of David looked like, I even said the closest thing in our culture to it would be what is called a banishing pentagram.
Some few minutes ago, I decided to look at the currency in dispute and checked Linda Ikeji blog for the full gist. Only for me to discover that what the furore was all about is not even the Star of David!
The symbol MURIC wants answers to is not the Star of David
The diagrams above shows what the Star of David is, it’s a double triangle.
The star of David has 6 vertices (points)
What is on our new 100naira note is a double square over each other having 8 vertices (points). See the symbol circled below
Note that it has 8 points and not 6.
The banishing pentagram has 5 vertices like a normal star.
Before we crucify the, President who in the first place is the wrong person to ask, that symbol is neither a Christian symbol nor the Star of David.
So what then is it? My guess is it may be a security feature to make counterfeiting a tad more difficult but it’s a question the CBN governor has to answer to calm nerves in this edgy times.
I guess we all just cried wolf when there was none!
November 24, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Good analysis. QED. Case dismissed
November 24, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
Hahhahahha abi o if dem like mek dem no draw anytin ontop…Shebi as Arabic de ontop since na so we been de spend am? much ado about nthing really. There r more pressing issues to tackle abeg.
November 24, 2014 @ 5:18 pm
I'm a Muslim but that Ishaq Akintola is just an attention seeking noisemaker in my opinion. If Jonah like make he put Jewish nose on naira note, na spend we go spend am. Make God give me billions of it, even if na Rabbi bear bear dey on it
Jay