Army Besiege Friday mosque in Katsina: Another attack on Islam

By Abdulmumin Giwa

It would be very stupid for anyone to think the Nigerian Army is after the Shi'ite or members of the Islamic Movement in Katsina despite the fact that that is what they announce.

This is an outright war against Islam and Muslims. How could the Army besiege a public place of worship on its holy day without any form of security breech?

This is outright intimidation of innocent Muslims. They are turning the mosque into a testing ground before they begging to replicate the same thing in other places across the country.

They started by attacking Shi'ites and their facilities and now they are moving to a public mosque that does not belong to Shi'ites simply because Shi'ites pray there.

When they where their animal face and begging to kill indiscriminately as usual their victims will certainly not be Shi'ites alone, a lot of other innocent Muslims will be butchered.

More so, it is a violation of religious rights for them to besiege the mosque under any pretext because the mosque is a place of solace and spiritual peace. contrary to this they are intimidating innocent worshipers and denying them that peace and solace.

This is an issue of concern to the entire Muslims and not just the Shi'ites.

When the government operated Boko Haram it started with bombing Churches and public gatherings and later resumed bombing mosques on Fridays.

Now they have started with mass murder of Shi'ites and will now extend to the generality of Muslims. They want to intimidate the Muslims and kill the spirit of the religion.

It is a sponsored program by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia with each one playing a role and having an interest and they have found in Nigeria a leader that is willing to cooperate with them due to his naivety.

MUSLIMS SHOULD BE WARNED

Every Mus---s is a potential terrorist both by word and by action

kill them all abeg. potential terrorist

Lol. You think say na everybody get tribal mark abi? No be muslim full nigeria Army?
So why wld nigeria army just attack a mosque without buhari's knowledge if not to take a watch of protection against other factions of same religion.

rubbish ! my friend get out

ERODEDEAST:
Yeye News.

yeye news abi? Because it's not a church...then it would have been islamization agenda by buhari...see how pathetic/selfish most self-acclaimed christians are? Since you guys love propagandas and rumour, let every1 begin to overheat the polity

The whip that was used on the first wife will definitely be used on the second wife. When El zakzy and his followers we're dealt with in zaria izala'as, darika's and other sects all hailed the NIgerian military establishment for going all out against troublesome shites non of us ever cautioned them to respect the rule of law or speak for the shiites. Now the chicken has finally come home to roast and we all have to live with it.

The government must have declared state of emergency in Religion when power, Road and economy suffer neglect.
Thank God the President and Senate President are Muslims including the COMS and most of you Muslim voted for him, so why cry now?
But it is your fault if this story is true for you are harbouring members of the sect that have declared war on the government just the way you harboured BH.
if I were the President I would arrested all of you for aiding and abating those that vowed to fight the government.

@Op, Your writeup is like a sphere - an endless circle of accusation without end or beginning, head or tail, right or left.
The most ridiculous part is how your eventually and baselessly hang the fault on Us, Israel, even Saudi Arabia! I give up!!!

ProfessorPeter:
Every Mus---s is a potential terrorist both by word and by action

nd every christians are potential rapist coz most of dia pastors are rapist

AbdulHussein:
Army Besiege Friday mosque in Katsina: Another attack on Islam

By Abdulmumin Giwa

It would be very stupid for anyone to think the Nigerian Army is after the Shi'ite or members of the Islamic Movement in Katsina despite the fact that that is what they announce.

This is an outright war against Islam and Muslims. How could the Army besiege a public place of worship on its holy day without any form of security breech?

This is outright intimidation of innocent Muslims. They are turning the mosque into a testing ground before they begging to replicate the same thing in other places across the country.

They started by attacking Shi'ites and their facilities and now they are moving to a public mosque that does not belong to Shi'ites simply because Shi'ites pray there.

When they where their animal face and begging to kill indiscriminately as usual their victims will certainly not be Shi'ites alone, a lot of other innocent Muslims will be butchered.

More so, it is a violation of religious rights for them to besiege the mosque under any pretext because the mosque is a place of solace and spiritual peace. contrary to this they are intimidating innocent worshipers and denying them that peace and solace.

This is an issue of concern to the entire Muslims and not just the Shi'ites.

When the government operated Boko Haram it started with bombing Churches and public gatherings and later resumed bombing mosques on Fridays.

Now they have started with mass murder of Shi'ites and will now extend to the generality of Muslims. They want to intimidate the Muslims and kill the spirit of the religion.

It is a sponsored program by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia with each one playing a role and having an interest and they have found in Nigeria a leader that is willing to cooperate with them due to his naivety.

MUSLIMS SHOULD BE WARNED

Bleep shia, Bleep ayatollah

PRESS RELEASE - Nigeria: Army removes people from Katsina mosque

Nigerian soldiers have removed worshippers from a mosque in Katsina, northern Nigeria, in what appears to be an escalating campaign against the country's Islamic Movement (IMN).

Eye-witnesses reported that the soldiers, who were armed, first surrounded the Juma'at Mosque before entering the building and forcing out worshippers.

IMN members deliberately stayed away from the mosque today in order to avoid any confrontation.

Today's army action against the IMN came despite calls from IHRC on Wednesday 30 March for the British Foreign and the Commonwealth Secretariat to intervene and pressure Nigeria to stop its armed forces persecuting the IMN.

The calls followed reports that Nigerian soldiers were massing in Katsina to attack followers of the movement. The army had setup roadblocks on almost all the major roads leading into Katsina and soldiers were heard chanting that this is “the end of the Shia in Katsina”. A similar chant was used before and during attacks on the movement in Zaria last December in which at least 1000 civilians were killed.

Last week IHRC referred the events in Zaria to the International Criminal Court asking it to open a preliminary war crimes investigation into the massacre. IHRC believes that the army's assault was a systematic and pre-planned attempt to snuff out the IMN whose growing popularity has made it a thorn in the side of Nigerian governments. A similar army assault in July 2014 during a religious procession led to the deaths of 34 IMN members including three sons of Sheikh Zakzaky who were apparently singled out for execution.

Notes to editors:

The IHRC submission to the ICC can be read in full at http://ihrc.org.uk/publications/reports/11646-investigating-the-attack-against-the-islamic-movement-of-nigeria-on-12-13-december-2015-in-zaria

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