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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria's Islamic Leader to Host Day of Prayer over Boko Haram |
| 2014-05-24 |
| [An Nahar] The leader of Nigeria's Mohammedans on Friday announced plans to host a national day of prayer in the capital as part of an effort to overcome Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 's brutal Islamist insurgency. The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, has invited Nigeria's prominent Mohammedan leaders to the National Mosque in Abuja on Sunday. The "National Mohammedans Prayers for Peace and Security in Nigeria" aims to help the country in "overcoming the current security challenges facing the country" a statement printed in several national newspapers said. The call follows an open letter to the Sultan written by Shehu Sani, a prominent northern rights activist and author who has been part of several past efforts to end Boko Haram's five-year deadly uprising through dialogue. Sani said Nigeria's top holy man needed to do more to help secure the release of more than 200 schoolgirls held hostage by Boko Haram, whose mass April 14 abduction from a school in Chibok in the northeast has drawn worldwide condemnation. "Religious holy mans particularly in the north should move beyond prayers and independently move further to reach out to the faceless myrmidons and amicably retrieve these girls via means that will guarantee their safe return," Sani wrote this week. "The Chibok girls have guns on their heads and chains on their hands and we have a dangling sword of posterity hanging over our heads," he added. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... on Thursday imposed sanctions on Boko Haram, blacklisting it as an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization, following similar moves by Nigeria, the United States and Britannia. Boko Haram has made repeated threats against Nigeria's ancient Islamic monarchies, including the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano and the Shehu of Borno, who is based in the bully boy's northeastern stronghold. The entourages of the Kano and Borno holy mans have both been hit by deadly Islamist attacks. Boko Haram accuses these leaders of betraying Islam by submitting to the authority of Nigeria's secular government. |
| Posted by:Fred |