Gumi, EL-Zakzaky in war of words
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By Our Reporter on December 11, 2014 National




FROM ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, KADUNA

A war of words yes­terday broke out between two fiery Kaduna-bas e d Islamic scholars, Sheik Abubakar Mahmud Gumi and Sheik Ibra­heem El-Zakzaky, with both sides calling each other unprintable names.

Gumi, Daily Sun gath­ered, fired the first shot, when in a condolence letter, which later found its way to the media, on Tuesday, de­scribed El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, as a bad influence on Nigerian Muslims.

While insisting that El- Zakzaky’s teachings about Islam and his mannerisms and those of his follow­ers represent anything, but Islam, Gumi further said: “My Brother, you have al­ready lost three children on this path to perdition, so please repent and don’t capitalise on the ignorance of our gullible youths to mislead them. If you don’t correct them now, when you die, Allah will not forgive you for whatever deviation they may add to yours.”

Responding on behalf of El-Zakzaky yester­day, Ibrahim Usman, a member of the group’s media team said the letter did not take the group by surprise.

He further said “the choice of the time to write the letter gave Dr. Gumi away, he was all out to at­tack Sheikh Zakzaky and the Arba’een symbolic trek currently taking place across the country. We are used to his constant attacks on Sheikh Zakzaky and Shi’a.

“This is not the first time Dr. Gumi is com­plaining that members of the Islamic Movement led by Sheikh Zakzaky are blocking public roads in the name of procession. In 2009, Gumi registered the same complaint during his Tafsir in Sultan Bello Mosque. He went ahead dangerously to call on the government to shoot those he called ‘Shi’ites’ block­ing public roads.

“According to him, Al­lah has given the govern­ment the ‘license to shoot them.’ And the government heeded to the call.

A week after, armed combined security opera­tives shot two people dur­ing the Quds Day proces­sion in Zaria. The series of machinations by the gov­ernment against the Islam­ic Movement in Nigeria had always been with the tacit support of Dr. Gumi and his adherents.

“We believe that the letter was written with in­sidious intent to pave way for a greater onslaught on the Islamic Movement and Sheikh Zakzaky. It was also meant to incite Muslims against those he referred to as ‘Shi’tes.’ The world arrogant pow­ers, U.S. and Israel, are now all out to assassinate Sheikh Zakzaky and un­leash terrorist attacks on all public gatherings of the Movement, especially the Arba’een symbolic trek.

“This is exactly what Dr. Gumi is doing through the letter. He is doing their dirty work. For Dr. Gumi who has lost credibility even among his circle to claim that the Shi’ites are chanting ‘hate songs,’ is the pot calling the kettle black.

Very soon they will add Shi'a and Sunni nonsense to the rubbish already going on in that region.
Why can't they copy good things?

Collynzo9:
Very soon they will add Shi'a and Sunni nonsense to the rubbish already going on in that region.

it is ongoing as we speaks.
we are at war!
Wahabbist vs the rest of the world