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News ID: 42187
Publish Date : 26 July 2017 - 21:41

Nigeria Should Release Sheikh Zakzaky



By Kayhan Int’l Staff Reporter

The government of Nigeria, under the influence of the Wahhabis and the Zionists, has adopted a suicidal policy against its own citizens.
As it continues to detain without trial, in violation of the Federal Court’s order, the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, his wife and scores of his followers, it again used brutal force on Tuesday to disrupt a peaceful rally commemorating the martyrdom of three of the revered Sheikh’s sons and 31 IMN members on July 25, 2014.
According to reports, the 3rd anniversary requiem for the martyrs held at Dar-ar-Rahma in Zaria was besieged by military forces and finally disrupted. The participants, who numbered 10,000 and were carrying placards demanding the release of Sheikh Zakzaky, decided to disperse peacefully so as to avoid any untoward incident, in view of the brutality of the Nigerian Army.
December 15, 2015 was one of the darkest days in the history of Nigeria, when the army suddenly burst upon the huge gathering on the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet of Islam, at Baqiatollah Hussainiyah in Zaria, indiscriminately killing some 2,000 men, women and children.
The holy place was razed to the ground, copies of the holy Qur’an were desecrated and Sheikh Zakzaky, his wife, and over a hundred IMN members kidnapped. Since then repeated calls for the release of the detainees have been turned down on one pretext or another, while the health of the venerable Sheikh continues to deteriorate in the absence of proper medical treatment.
Recently a plot to assassinate Sheikh Zakzaky by agents of the regime was uncovered, and has led to sharp criticism of the government by all sections of the society including Sunni Muslims and Christians.     
Analysts point out that the government of President Mohammad Buhari is in secret league with the Boko Haram terrorists, and the reason it has adopted a hostile attitude towards Nigerian Muslims following the school of the Ahl al-Bayt (Blessed Household) of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA), is the IMN’s criticism of the Takfiri seditionists.
The crime of ten million Nigerians in the eyes of the sectarian and blighted regime is that they are Shi’a Muslims. Unlike the Wahhabis and the Boko Haram Takfiris, the Shi’a Muslims neither indulge in threats, terror, kidnapping, and killing, nor do they attack the beliefs of their compatriots, whether Sunnis or Christians. Yet they are discriminated against and deprived of their basic birthrights.
This is gross violation of justice, and does not bode well for the unity of Nigeria, which despite its abundance of oil remains a poverty-stricken under-developed country.
The regime and the military should understand that brutal suppression, coupled with poisonous propaganda, can neither wipe out a community that is rapidly growing, nor prevent many educated and enlightened Nigerian from embracing the Shi’a Muslim School of Jurisprudence.
Buhari and his uniformed buddy, General Tukar Yousuf Buratai, are advised to read Islamic history and to open their eyes to events in the Muslim World, where Saudi policies, despite the backing of the US and the Zionist entity, are facing defeat on all fronts, whether in Syria or Iraq, and whether in Yemen, which Riyadh thought could be bombed into submission with a few weeks.
It is still not late for the Nigerian government to make amends for its follies and release Sheikh Zakzaky. By doing so, it would gain the support of ten million of its own citizens, which is not an insignificant number, since IMN does not pose any political threat to the country.
We hope saner minds will prevail and peace and justice return to Nigeria.