MONROVIA, April 5 (LINA) - Delegates at the second National General Assembly of the National Muslim Students Association of Liberia (NAMSAL) have vowed to secede territories that are predominately Muslim before the creation  of the “so-called Christian principled-state.”

They stated that such would be the last resort in the event that the “Christian state extremists” impose themselves through a referendum on the amendment of the Constitution of Liberia.
 
This was contained in a resolution adopted and signed by 125 delegates at the National General Assembly of NAMSAL held at the Marvin Sonii Public School in Monrovia Saturday.
 
Delegates at the Gbarnga Constitutional Review Conference last Thursday overwhelmingly voted on a proposition to make Liberia a Christian State, but Muslim delegates did not vote because, according to them, the proposition doesn't promote religious freedom which the constitution currently upholds.

The next step is legislative action when the President submits the outcome of the review conference to the National Legislature which will debate the issues and later submit the proposed amendments to a national referendum.
 
In the resolution read by NAMSAL’s Secretary-General, Abdullah Swaray, the association noted that the fact that “this is an attempt to alienate, exclude and make stateless people who don’t believe in Christianity” cannot be ignored.
 
The resolution called on the NAMSAL leadership to begin a mass mobilization and sensitization in those areas and build a consensus of the people in preparation for the secession.

According to them, it is not yet clear what a Christian state is, and neither the Constitutional Review Committee nor the proponent of the Christian state concept has clarified what a Christian State will be like.
 
The resolution also called on the leadership of NAMSAL to pursue a legal means to condemn and defeat any proposition aimed at creating a Christian ‘autocracy’ in Liberia.
 
“We call on the leadership of NAMSAL to lead a secession struggle in areas that were predominately Muslims territories particularly northwestern Liberia prior to the establishment of the so-called Christian state in the 1800s.
LINA