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Saturday 4 October 2014
Boko Haram members are no Muslims, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday dismissed
Boko Haram members and other terrorists as no
Muslims.
He said that their violent activities such as
murder, arson and bombing have no basis in
Islam.
“Boko Haram killing innocent children and women
in market places, in mosques, schools definitely
has nothing to do with religion…What is
happening globally now has no religious basis,” he
said while receiving a delegation of the Muslim
community during a courtesy call on him on the
occasion of the Eid-el-Kabir, in Abuja.
“A number of things that has to do with our belief
system suppose to encourage us to see our
neighbours as ourselves. Only yesterday (Friday),
a British Aid worker was slaughtered by ISIS and
that is not Islamic,” he told the delegation led by
Vice President Namadi Sambo.
He added:” For us as a nation, this period we
should use it to charge ourselves, call on
ourselves, encourage ourselves to continue to
pray for the forgiveness of those who are doing
things that are not religious and for Allah to see
us through.
“I believe in this country, I believe that Nigeria has
a lot to offer not only to Nigerians but to the
world and that surely we will get to where we
want to go.”
He said that whatever problems confronting
Nigeria now are “very ephemeral and part of
history of nation building” that will disappear in
due course.
“If you read the history of all nations, there is no
nation that does not pass through some
challenges but they got over them and move
ahead. I think we are getting over our problems.”
Speaking on the significance of the festival,
President Jonathan said:”The hajj is quite unique,
we just watched the people who are performing
on television. You see that everybody wears the
same thing. It shows that the kind of ranks we
give to ourselves here are for the earthly journey.
“There, no president, no messenger. That should
teach us that we should be humble and be kind to
ourselves in the spirit of the moment, giving gifts
and that reminds us about the significance of the
moment when Abraham was to sacrifice his son,
the only one he had, of course, the angel replaced
it with a ram. That is the essence of this period.
“This year is quite significant in terms of
celebrating Sallah, the Arafat day came on a
Friday and from what I was told it takes a long
time to have that coincidence and remembering
the fact that 2014 is our centenary year, that
shows that something good is happening to this
country.
“We may have our challenges as other nations but
when things begin to happen in a particular way, I
begin to see light at the end of the tunnel.”
Vice President Namadi Sambo thanked Jonathan
for his continued support to Muslims in Nigeria to
enable them perform one of the cardinal pillars
of Islam.
He prayed for continued peace in Nigeria and for
God to continue to give President Jonathan the
wisdom and the strength to lead the nation and
to achieve the transformation agenda.
“We will continue to pray so that in the shortest
time we will be able to overcome insurgency and
other challenges,” he said.
In the Vice President’s entourage were Police
Inspector General Suleiman Abba; Primate of the
Anglican Communion, the Most Rev. Nicholas
Okoh; National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo
Dasuki; Senator Phillip Aduda, former Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Umar Ghali
Na’Abba, ministers and other top government officials.
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