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| Boko Haram insurgent |
Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, the top
religious authority in the birthplace of Islam, yesterday condemned
Boko Haram as a group “set up to smear the image of Islam” and deplored
its kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls.
Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh dismissed
the movement, which says it wants to establish a “pure” Islamic state
in Nigeria, as...
“misguided” and should be “shown their wrong path and be
made to reject it.”
His remarks came as religious leaders in
the Muslim world, who often do not comment on militant violence, joined
in denouncing Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau for saying Allah had
told him to sell off the kidnapped girls as forced brides.
“This is a group that has been set up to
smear the image of Islam and must be offered advice, shown their wrong
path and be made to reject it,” he told the Arabic-language newspaper
al-Hayat in an interview published yesterday.
“These groups are not on the right path
because Islam is against kidnapping, killing and aggression,” he said.
“Marrying kidnapped girls is not permitted.”
On Thursday, Islamic scholars and human
rights officials of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the world’s
largest Muslim body representing 57 countries, denounced the kidnapping
as “a gross misinterpretation of Islam”.
This week, Al-Azhar, the prestigious
Cairo-based seat of Sunni learning, also said that the kidnapping “has
nothing to do with the tolerant and noble teachings of Islam.”
source: thenationonlineng.net
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